Ted Price, the founder and CEO of Insomniac Games, has announced he will retire after more than 30 years with the company on March 2025.Read More
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Astro Bot wins the top prize at the New York Game Awards 2025
Astro Bot takes home another Game of the Year award at the New York Game Awards, along with two other trophies.Read More
Samsung teases Android XR devices coming later this year
Samsung teased its efforts with multimodal AI and new form factors including smart glasses and extended reality (XR) devices.Read More
DeepMind’s new inference-time scaling technique improves planning accuracy in LLMs
With “Mind Evolution” LLMs can use search and genetic algorithms to generate and combine different solutions and find the optimal one.Read More
OpenAI Stargate is a $500B bet: America’s AI Manhattan Project or costly dead-end?
OpenAI, Oracle, Softbank and MGX are investing a record amount in new AI infrastructure even as China’s DeepSeek outperforms on cost.Read More
Flow Specialty launches the 1st AI insurance broker
Flow Specialty, a specialty commercial brokerage, is announcing the industry’s first AI insurance broker. The brokerage’s platformless AI model has passed RPLU certification exams for the Cyber, Errors & Omissions, and Executive liability modules. It may be critically important as people struggle to get insurance in the wake of various disaster…Read More
Adam Boyes launches Vivrato consultancy to help manage big game problems
Adam Boyes has launched Vivrato, an advisory company dedicated to forging a more collaborative, sustainable, and thriving gaming future.Read More
How Harness is ‘harnessing’ agentic AI to help improve enterprise incident response with automated data collection and playbooks
The software development vendor now offers agentic AI-powered incident response that could dramatically minimize downtime.Read More
Berkeley SkyDeck teams with Mayfield to support AI-focused student entrepreneurs
Berkeley SkyDeck, the global hub for entrepreneurship and accelerator, along with UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), announced a partnership with Mayfield. The aims is to support AI-focused, student entrepreneurs with unparalleled access to venture capital and world-class mentorship. Part of the Mayfield AI Garage i…Read More
Funding for gaming startups dropped off in Q4 2024 | Konvoy
Konvoy’s latest report shows that funding for gaming-related startups was curiously low in Q4 2024, as were VC deals.Read More