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Micron launches new memory chips to keep up with AI processing

Micron announced its first 1y (1-gamma) DDR5 memory chip samples this week, and it says this is part of its contribution to systems that keep up with AI.

2h - Tech

2025 has already brought us the most performant AI ever: What can we do with these supercharged capabilities (and what’s next)?

From OpenAI's 'Deep Research' to DeepMind's 'AI co-scientist,' next-gen AI is smarter and astoundingly capable.

5h - Tech

Weak cyber defenses are exposing critical infrastructure — how enterprises can proactively thwart cunning attackers to protect us all

If businesses fail to up their cybersecurity game, the systems everyone relies on could face serious and devastating disruptions.

1d - Tech

Creepz touts Web3 brand with $400M in NFT backing and two upcoming games

Creepz is officially emerging from stealth to capitalize on the $419 million valuation for its NFTs and become an entertainment brand.

1d - Tech

Social casino game Pebble City launches on Sui blockchain

NHN Corporation announced the launch of Pebble City, its web3 social casino mobile game, on the Sui blockchain.

2d - Tech

Jam City sells Ludia game studio to Canadian institutional investors

Jam City agreed to sell its Montreal-based Ludia mobile game studio (and its games) to a consortium of Canadian institutional investors.

2d - Tech

Strategy games dominated mobile market in late 2024 | Sensor Tower

Sensor Tower's latest report shows that strategy games were among the most successful mobile titles in late 2024.

2d - Tech

GPT-4.5 for enterprise: Do its accuracy and knowledge justify the cost?

The price of GPT-4.5 is very steep. But it doesn't mean that it's a failure (or that it will always be so expensive).

2d - Tech

Could tighter budgets lead to more creativity? | Virtuos CEO Gilles Langourieux interview | The DeanBeat

Virtuos CEO Gilles Langourieux wonders if tighter budgets could lead to more creativity in the shell-shocked game industry.

2d - Tech

Digic Pictures releases documentaries behind Amazon and Blur’s Secret Level game-based film anthology

Digic Pictures released three cool videos documenting how they made their episodes for Amazon's Secret Level game-based films.

2d - Tech

Billions.Network launches universally accessible verification platform for humans and AI

Billions.Network, intended to be a universal human and AI network, is launching to transform digital identity verification.

2d - Tech

Semantic understanding, not just vectors: How Intuit’s data architecture powers agentic AI with measurable ROI

From automation to autonomy: How Intuit's 'done for you' agentic AI architecture drives concrete business outcomes.

2d - Tech

AMD unveils its Radeon RX 9000 Series graphics chips

Advanced Micro Devices is unveiling its Radeon RX 9000 Series graphics chips. It's competing in the midrange with Nvidia.

2d - Tech

Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati unveils Thinking Machines: A startup focused on multimodality, human-AI collaboration

The OpenAI rival will focus on strong infrastructure, multimodality and human-AI collaboration (as opposed to purely agentic systems).

Feb. 18 - Tech

Relic Entertainment unveils DLC for Company of Heroes 3

Relic Entertainment, maker of real-time strategy games, has announced its downloadable content (DLC) and major update for Company of Heroes 3.

Feb. 5 - Tech

Nintendo discontinues Gold Points rewards program

Nintendo has cut off its My Nintendo Gold Points rewards program, with the final day for earning Points being March 24.

Feb. 18 - Tech

Not every AI prompt deserves multiple seconds of thinking: how Meta is teaching models to prioritize

Let models explore different solutions and they will find optimal solutions to properly allocate inference budget to AI reasoning problems.

Feb. 5 - Tech

AI can fix bugs—but can’t find them: OpenAI’s study highlights limits of LLMs in software engineering

A new test from OpenAI researchers found that LLMs were unable to resolve some freelance coding tests, failing to earn full value.

Feb. 18 - Tech

Forget expensive leadership training—CodeSignal’s AI tool brings coaching to everyone

CodeSignal launches AI-powered leadership training platform with voice simulation, expanding beyond technical assessments to democratize soft skills development at scale for middle managers and ...

Feb. 5 - Tech

PowerA teams up with Bandai Namco for licensed Pac-Man gear for 45th anniversary

PowerA has partnered with Bandai Namco Entertainment America to create gaming gear for the 45th anniversary of Pac-Man.

4d - Tech

North American Marvel Rivals team laid off by NetEase

Despite massive success, the team-based shooter from NetEase was unable to stave off layoffs on its North American side.

Feb. 18 - Tech

Blind Squirrel acquires game studio in Colombia for external development

Full-service game development studio Blind Squirrel Games has acquired Distributed Development, a service-based studio in Colombia.

Feb. 5 - Tech

Elon Musk just released an AI that’s smarter than ChatGPT — here’s why that matters

Elon Musk's xAI launches Grok 3, outperforming ChatGPT and Google Gemini in benchmarks with 200,000 GPUs and advanced reasoning capabilities, intensifying AI competition days after failed OpenAI bid.

Feb. 18 - Tech

Lightning AI’s AI Hub shows AI app marketplaces are the next enterprise game-changer

AI app marketplaces, like Lightning's new AI Hub, bring app access closer to enterprises and makes deployment faster.

Feb. 5 - Tech

Out-analyzing analysts: OpenAI’s Deep Research pairs reasoning LLMs with agentic RAG to automate work — and replace jobs

OpenAI’s Deep Research pairs advanced reasoning LLMs with agentic RAG, delivering automated reports that rival human analysts — at a fraction of the cost. This breakthrough AI tool could redefine ...

Feb. 18 - Tech

Google drops AI weapons ban—what it means for the future of artificial intelligence

Google removes AI weapons ban from its ethical principles, sparking debate over Silicon Valley's approach to AI safety and raising concerns about responsible technology development in the military ...

Feb. 5 - Tech

How Skydance devs straddled the massive performance gap between Meta Quest and PSVR 2 | Shawn Kittelsen interview

Shawn Kittelsen of Skydance Interactive knows there are a lot of tradeoffs between performance and graphics fidelity in making good virtual reality games. Last December, Skydance released its ...

Feb. 18 - Tech

How App Orchid’s AI and Google Cloud are changing the game for business data analytics

App Orchid partners with Google Cloud to revolutionize enterprise data access using Gemini AI models and knowledge graphs, achieving 99.8% accuracy in natural language queries while reducing data ...

Feb. 5 - Tech

Paperplane Therapeutics raises $1.5M to treat anxiety and pain with medical VR

Paperplane Therapeutics has raised $1.5 million to treat patients for pain and anxiety using virtual reality.

Feb. 18 - Tech

Global chip sales rose 19.1% in 2024 and will hit double digit growth in 2025 thanks to AI | SIA

Global semiconductor chip sales rose 19.1% to $627.6 billion in 2024 and growth is expected to grow double-digit percentages in 2025.

Feb. 7 - Tech

AMD’s Q4 revenue hits $7.66B, up 24% but stock falls

Advanced Micro Devices reported revenue of $7.658 billion for the fourth quarter, up 24% from a year ago.

Feb. 4 - Tech

How test-time scaling unlocks hidden reasoning abilities in small language models (and allows them to outperform LLMs)

A 1B small language model can beat a 405B large language model in reasoning tasks if provided with the right test-time scaling strategy.

Feb. 20 - Tech

Talus integrates Sui to power AI agents

Talus, the next-gen platform for onchain AI agents, is joining forces with Sui, the blockchain which says it's built for mass adoption.

Feb. 18 - Tech

Acer unveils Predator Helios Neo AI laptops at Intel Extreme Masters

Acer unveiled two new Predator gaming laptops today at the Intel Extreme Masters esports event in Katowice, Poland.

Feb. 7 - Tech

EA’s December quarter was weak as Dragon Age and soccer missed forecasts

Electronic Arts reported weak earnings today for the holiday quarter, with results in line with the poor quarter that EA preannounced.

Feb. 4 - Tech

Together AI’s $305M bet: Reasoning models like DeepSeek-R1 are increasing, not decreasing, GPU demand

The demands of DeepSeek's advanced reasoning capabilities are pushing enterprises toward Together AI's optimized infrastructure platform.

Feb. 20 - Tech

Aomni just raised $4M to prove AI can boost sales without replacing humans

Aomni raises $4M to help sales teams close more deals with AI-powered research agents that provide real-time, deep prospect intelligence—boosting close rates by up to 40%.

Feb. 18 - Tech