Halliday raises $20 million to build AI agents that operate safely on blockchain

Nunu.ai raises $6M for AI agents dubbed ‘unembodied minds’ for game testing

Nunu.ai has raised $6 million and unveiled Unembodied Minds, or AI agents designed for game testing and to control any given body as needed.

VentureBeat - 6d

Atlant 3D raises $15M to build materials and devices atom by atom

Atlant 3D has raised $15 million as demand grows for its manufacturing system that builds materials and devices atom by atom.

VentureBeat - Mar. 11

Liminal Experiences raises $5.8M for UGC and AI gaming

Liminal Experiences, a new user-generated content gaming startup dedicated to using AI to assist human creativity, raised $5.8 million.

VentureBeat - Mar. 11

OpenAI’s New Developer Tools Make Building AI Agents Easy

Here’s how one company is already using the tools designed to help businesses create helpful AI agents.

Inc. - 3d

GenLayer offers novel approach for AI agent transactions: getting multiple LLMs to vote on a suitable contract

GenLayer is betting that AI-driven contracts, enforced on the blockchain, will be the foundation for a trillion-dollar marketplace.

VentureBeat - Mar. 10

A standard, open framework for building AI agents is coming from Cisco, LangChain and Galileo

The collective, called AGNTCY, aims to create a standard way for AI agents from different platforms and frameworks to talk to each other.

VentureBeat - Mar. 6

Pragma raises $12.75M for backend game engine for live services games

Pragma, a backend game engine empowering studios to build scalable, live-service games, said it has raised $12.75 million.

VentureBeat - Mar. 11

Opus Major raises $10M to bring people together through music and games

Opus Major has raised $10 million in funding to build a global game studio dedicated to crafting games and entertainment.

VentureBeat - 6d

Peer raises $10.5M for metaverse engine, launches 3D personal planets

Peer announced today it's raised new funding to build its AI-powered metaverse engine and launched its "personal planets" feature.

VentureBeat - Mar. 6

OpenAI unveils Responses API, open source Agents SDK, letting developers build their own Deep Research and Operator

OpenAI is also making its web search, file search and computer use tools available directly through the responses API.

VentureBeat - Mar. 11

Human Computer raises $5.7M in seed funding to build indie portfolio

Indie studio Human Computer raises $5.7M in funding to build its games, which take place in a shared universe.

VentureBeat - 5d

Predicting where 20 second-wave 2025 NFL free agents will sign

Let's predict where these 20 second-wave NFL free agents will sign.

Yahoo Sports - 2d

Aaron Jones to re-sign with Vikings on a two-year, $20 million deal, per report

Jones was one of the NFL's top free agent pickups last year

CBS Sports - Mar. 9

What Saquon Barkley's career year, record raise means for free agent RBs

Barkley became the league's highest-paid RB two years after he was franchise-tagged for $10.1 million.

ESPN - Mar. 9

Saga Origins partners with GFAL to add AI-driven agents into game

Saga Origins is working with Web3 game startup GFAL (Games for a Living) to integrate AI-driven agents into the Diamond Dreams game.

VentureBeat - 4d

What you need to know about Manus, the new AI agentic system from China hailed as a second ‘DeepSeek moment’

Manus AI is designed as a multi-agent system, meaning it combines several AI models to handle tasks independently.

VentureBeat - Mar. 10

ServiceNow expands AI offerings with pre-built agents, targeting broader enterprise adoption

ServiceNow has upgraded its AI agent offerings as it seeks it sto double down on investing in AI for enterprises.

VentureBeat - 5d

Lovelace Studio uses AI to help players build survival craft sandbox worlds

Lovelace Studio is using generative AI to build Nyric, a tool that can help bring gaming worlds to life for player builders who work in harmony.

VentureBeat - 4d

Enhancing AI agents with long-term memory: Insights into LangMem SDK, Memobase and the A-MEM Framework

AI agents can forget instructions. Methods to improve memory retention will make agents more powerful and useful.

VentureBeat - Mar. 5

Operative Games unveils AI-driven interactive storytelling platform

Operative Games, an interactive storytelling company, emerged today from stealth with backing from investors 1AM Gaming, Samsung Next, and LongJourney.vc.

VentureBeat - 13h

OpenAI’s strategic gambit: The Agents SDK and why it changes everything for enterprise AI

OpenAI's new API and Agents SDK consolidate a previously fragmented complex ecosystem into a unified, production-ready framework. For enterprise AI teams, the implications are potentially profound: ...

VentureBeat - 4d

How This Fintech Founder Raised $300 Million and Turned His Customers Into Investors

Capitolis founder and CEO Gil Mandelzis knows how to bide his time when it comes to raising capital.

Inc. - 4d

Welevel raises $5.7M to revolutionize procedural game development

Indie game development studio Welevel today announced that it raised $5.7 million in funding to transform procedural game development.

VentureBeat - Mar. 6

M10 raises $3M for Web3 competitive multiplayer games

M10, a Web3 game developer and publisher creating competitive multiplayer games, has raised $3 million in funding.

VentureBeat - 6d

How a Female-Led AI Startup Achieved a Successful Acquisition

Female founders building AI startups can redefine the space.

Inc. - 2d

Inside Zoom’s AI evolution: From basic meeting tools to agentic productivity platform powered by LLMs and SLMs

Zoom's CTO explains how the web conferencing vendor’s technology has evolved and expanded into agentic AI capabilities.

VentureBeat - 1d

Aid operations in Gaza imperiled as millions of promised USAID dollars do not arrive

The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID have frozen hundreds of millions of dollars in contractual payments to aid groups, leaving them paying out of pocket to preserve the fragile Gaza ceasefire, ...

ABC News - Mar. 7

How to Build a Trust-Driven, Successful CEO/COO Partnership

Visionaries dream, operators execute. And businesses soar.

Inc. - 5d

Jaguars sign free agents to 'raise the floor.' They'll use the draft to raise ceiling of the team

Jacksonville’s approach to free agency was much different than what the floundering franchise tried to accomplish in recent years. The Jaguars signed nine free agents, including four plug-and-play ...

Yahoo Sports - 4d

The ‘secret’ agents of super-prime property

In the rarefied world of the most expensive homes, where discretion is everything and sales can be a magnet to opportunists, a clutch of under-the-radar agents is oh-so-quietly operating

Financial Times - 4d

This cinema stock is a ‘safe bet in a volatile market’ — and it’s not AMC or Cinemark

High-end movie-theater operator IMAX Corp. is well-positioned to shine in a tough macroeconomic environment, according to analyst firm Benchmark.

MarketWatch - 6d

In AI Agent Battle, Meta Seeks Total Dominance as OpenAI Plans to Charge $20K for Some Models

If your company isn’t already using AI, the arrival of “agent” tools may change your mind. Meta wants this to happen, and OpenAI is planning on hefty prices for some advanced systems.

Inc. - Mar. 7

Nous Research just launched an API that gives developers access to AI models that OpenAI and Anthropic won’t build

Nous Research's new API for "unrestricted" Hermes 3 and DeepHermes-3 AI models features toggle-on reasoning and a developer-first approach.

VentureBeat - 6d

In the battle for blockchain leadership, American innovation is the answer

China has been investing heavily in blockchain technology, but the U.S. has the capacity to outcompete them and should continue to develop responsible regulations for blockchain to maintain its ...

The Hill - 4d

Rangers 'running on adrenaline' in Old Firm clash - Halliday

Thursday night's Europa League victory over Fenerbahce won't have any bearing on Sunday's Old Firm, says former Rangers midfielder Andy Halliday. Despite taking a 3-1 league into the second leg at ...

Yahoo Sports - 3d

Elon Musk Seeks to Put $100 Million Into Trump Political Operation

Elon Musk has signaled he wants to make some donations not just to his own super PAC, which is called America PAC and has spent heavily on President Trump in the past, but to an outside entity.

The New York Times - 6d

At least 20 killed in Russian missile strikes on eastern Ukraine

At least 20 people were killed when Russia's military launched a flurry of missile and drone attacks in eastern Ukraine Saturday, damaging multiple apartment buildings in the town of Dobropillya. ...

CBS News - Mar. 8

Colts signing Charvarius Ward to three-year deal worth up to $60 million, per report

Ward will reportedly receive $35 million guaranteed, including $20 million as a signing bonus

CBS Sports - Mar. 10

Alzheimer's Association pairs up with New Mexico in US pilot program to raise awareness

New Mexico has paired up with the Alzheimer’s Association in a pilot U.S. initiative aimed at raising awareness about a disease that affects several million people in the country

ABC News - 5d

Halliday raises $20 million to build AI agents that operate safely on blockchain

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