Venture Beat

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LowKick Games says its MMORPG WorldShards has generated millions in partnership with Open Loot.Read More

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The CTA warned today that the tariffs on foreign goods will fuel inflation and hurt U.S. consumer purchasing power by up to $143 billion.Read More

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Insomniac’s VR games are no longer for sale, suggesting that the VR market in particular may not be a welcome technology for older titles to thrive.Read More

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Zoom researchers unveil “chain of draft,” which cuts AI token usage by 92%, transforming the economics of language model deployment.Read More

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With Google data science agent, one scientist estimated that their data processing time dropped from 1 week to five minutes.Read More

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Anthropic secures $3.5 billion in series E funding at a $61.5 billion valuation as the AI company’s revenue grows 1,000% year-over-year, intensifying competition with OpenAI amid massive industry investment.Read More

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Cover Corp. has expanded outside of Japan, bringing virtual creators known as VTubers to U.S. audiences. The market is getting its test now as to whether VTubers — where humans give voice to 3D avatars in concert performances — can catch fire on the global stage. And the big talent agency is hoping that the phenomenon that has taken off…Read More

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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.Read More

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

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