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AI or Not raises $5M to stop AI fraud, deepfakes and misinformation

AI or Not, an AI fraud detection platform, has raised $5 million in a seed funding round to accelerate its use of "AI to detect AI" in images.

4d - Tech

How Narvar is using AI and data to enhance post-purchase customer experiences

How Narvar's new tech is using AI to harness the power of 42 billion consumer interactions a year to improve retail operations.

Jan. 9 - Tech

Dizzaract Games launches in Abu Dhabi as Middle East’s largest game studio

Dizzaract Games has officially launched as the largest game development studio in the Middle East.

4d - Tech

Cohere just launched ‘North,’ its biggest AI bet yet for privacy-focused enterprises

Cohere launches North, a secure enterprise AI platform outperforming Microsoft Copilot and Google Vertex AI in testing, with Royal Bank of Canada among early adopters implementing the technology ...

Jan. 9 - Tech

OpenAI’s red teaming innovations define new essentials for security leaders in the AI era

Red teaming has become the go-to technique for iteratively testing AI models to simulate diverse, lethal, unpredictable attacks.

Jan. 6 - Tech

Sony reportedly cancels two more live-service games, one a God of War title

A new report alleges that Sony has canceled two unannounced live-service titles from Bend Studio and Bluepoint Games.

5d - Tech

Infinite Reality raises $3B to increase its immersive tech portfolio

Infinite Reality has raised $3 billion from a private investor, which it plans to put towards expanding its network and product offerings.

Jan. 8 - Tech

Lotte Group taps Arbitrum for Web3 entertainment experiences

Lotte Group, a big five conglomerate in South Korea, said at CES 2025 that it has picked the Arbitrum blockchain for its Lotte Caliverse.

Jan. 7 - Tech

LG rolls out new AI services to help consumers with daily tasks

LG kicked off the AI bandwagon today with a new set of AI services to help consumers in their daily tasks at home, in the car and in the office.

Jan. 6 - Tech

Microsoft AutoGen v0.4: A turning point toward more intelligent AI agents for enterprise developers

AutoGen represents Microsoft’s latest attempt to address the challenges of building multi-agent systems for enterprise applications. This article explores what this means for the state of agentic ...

3d - Tech

Dark and Darker Mobile soft launches in Canada in February

Krafton said it will soft launch Dark and Darker Mobile, under development by Bluehole Studio, in Canada on February 5.

5d - Tech

Smoke, reflections and portals: Adobe’s TransPixar takes AI VFX to the next level

Adobe and HKUST researchers unveil TransPixar, a breakthrough AI system that creates transparent visual effects from text prompts.

Jan. 8 - Tech

Meta proposes new scalable memory layers that improve knowledge, reduce hallucinations

According to Meta, memory layers may be the the answer to LLM hallucinations as they don't require huge compute resources at inference time.

Jan. 7 - Tech

Meta retreats from fact-checking content: what it means for businesses

The changes could make it easier for users to criticize brands or implicate them in conspiracies, and harder for brands to force takedowns.

Jan. 7 - Tech

Qualcomm unveils AI chips for PCs, cars, smart homes and enterprises

Qualcomm unveiled AI technologies and collaborations for PCs, cars, smart homes and enterprises at CES 2025. At the big tech trade show in Las Vegas, Qualcomm Technologies showed how it’s using AI ...

Jan. 6 - Tech

Anthropomorphizing AI: Dire consequences of mistaking human-like for human have already emerged

Anthropomorphizing AI creates dangerous blind spots in business decision-making beyond simple operational inefficiencies.

3d - Tech

Microsoft just built an AI that designs materials for the future: Here’s how it works

Microsoft researchers unveil MatterGen, which accelerates scientific discovery 15X and doubles success rates for stable compounds.

5d - Tech

Stray Kite Studios unveils Wartorn roguelite game

Stray Kite Studios, an indie team composed of veteran developers, announced their first original game called Wartorn.

6d - Tech

Microsoft makes powerful Phi-4 model fully open-source on Hugging Face

Phi-4 demonstrates that smaller, well-designed models can achieve comparable or superior results compared with larger models.

Jan. 8 - Tech

Oshkosh launches EV and other tech for specialty vehicles with safety, quiet and cleanliness in mind

At CES 2025, Oshkosh launched a number of specialty vehicles with better electric power, safety, quiet and cleanliness.

Jan. 7 - Tech

MeetKai provides AI for smart glasses with embedded OS

MeetKai, a startup with AI and immersive technology, is launching an AI-based OS as software for AI-powered smart glasses.

Jan. 6 - Tech

Game developers expect to get back to growth in 2025 | Metaplay

Throughout the games industry’s rather disastrous 2024, the notion that seemed to bolster everyone along was that it was going to get back to growth in the subsequent year. Gaming backend provider ...

5d - Tech

Enterprises can now run real-time data through Google Cloud’s most advanced VMs

Early adopters like Couchbase are already seeing significant price-performance gains with Google Cloud's new VMs.

5d - Tech

What’s next for agentic AI? LangChain founder looks to ambient agents

LangChain’s founder Harrison Chase is looking to advance agentic AI with the concept of ambient agents, which might well be the next step on the path to generalized intelligence.

6d - Tech

Vay expands its teledriving car service in Las Vegas

Vay is launching is expanding its teledriving car service, an Uber-like service where your car is driven by someone in a remote location.

Jan. 8 - Tech

RadioShack comes back to CES 2025 under new ownership

RadioShack, the iconic American chain of consumer electronics stores, went bankrupt in 2017. But it's back at CES 2025.

Jan. 7 - Tech

Alphabeats and SleepScore Labs team on data for mental performance tech

Alphabeats, which provides mental performance for athletes, has partnered with sleep measurement firm SleepScore Labs.

Jan. 6 - Tech

You can now fine-tune your own version of AI image maker Flux with just 5 images

Whether for brand-consistent marketing visuals or detailed character art, the Flux Pro Finetuning API enhances precision and adaptability.

5d - Tech

How Volvo wants to save the planet with EVs, digital twins | Lars Stenqvist

Volvo is trying to hit ambitious targets for fuel efficiency and EVs by 2040. And it's inventing its path to get there.

6d - Tech

Do new AI reasoning models require new approaches to prompting?

Even when it comes to non-reasoning LLMs such as Claude 3.5 Sonnet, there may be room for regular users to improve their prompting.

Jan. 13 - Tech

Old Glory Studios funds tactical shooter title with equity-based crowdfunding

Old Glory Studios plans to launch a tactical shooter called Victory's Grave: Outflank, with help from its equity-based crowdfunding campaign.

Jan. 13 - Tech

Story uses Web3 to enable creators to capture the value they contribute to the AI ecosystem

Story, an intellectual property blockchain, believes that creators, developers and artists should be able to be rewarded for what they contribute to AI.

Jan. 8 - Tech

Chamelo launches Aura Rx, prescription-ready instant electronic tint-changing smart glasses

Chamelo made a name for itself with its Aura smart glasses that can change the tint of sunglasses with a button push. Now it’s launching the Aura Rx, the world’s first instant electronic ...

Jan. 7 - Tech

Xthings unveils Ulticam home security cameras powered by edge AI

The Ulticam security camera brand has a new model out today: the Ulticam IQ Floodlight, an edge AI-powered home security camera.

Jan. 6 - Tech

Google’s new neural-net LLM architecture separates memory components to control exploding costs of capacity and compute

Titans architecture complements attention layers with neural memory modules that select bits of information worth saving in the long term.

5d - Tech

Colossal raises $200M to “de-extinct” the woolly mammoth, thylacine and dodo

Colossal BioSciences has raised $200 million in a new round of funding to bring back extinct species like the woolly mammoth.

6d - Tech

How to help people affected by the LA fires

I've been compiling a list of relevant information that could be helpful for those affected by the heartbreaking fires in Los Angeles.

Jan. 14 - Tech

Super Evil Megacorp names Ian Fielding as its new CEO

Super Evil Megacorp names studio head Ian Fielding to the role of CEO, succeeding Kristian Segerstrale, who will become executive chair.

Jan. 13 - Tech

LlamaV-o1 is the AI model that explains its thought process—here’s why that matters

LlamaV-o1, a groundbreaking AI model from MBZUAI, revolutionizes multimodal reasoning by providing transparent step-by-step explanations across text and visual tasks, outperforming competitors in ...

Jan. 13 - Tech

Up Network and DreamSmart partner on Web3 AI glasses powered by Google Gemini

Up Network, the user-powered AI agent operating system, has announced its partnership with DreamSmart to create Web3 AI glasses powered by Google Gemini. This product integrates state-of-the-art ...

Jan. 13 - Tech

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