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Professional gamer Benjamin "DrLupo" Lupo announced an exclusive livestreaming deal with YouTube Gaming. It's a blow for Twitch. https://bit.ly/3t0TxIc

Organizations need to focus on using AI to find solutions to real problems, not on acquiring the newest, shiniest tech. https://bit.ly/2Ye3wyE

Cubios, the creator of the WowCube handheld gaming cube, has raised $1.5 million from the founder of Xsolla, Aleksandr Agapitov. https://bit.ly/3t0TxrG

APIs now drive a new economy, but they introduce what Forrester calls "API insecurity." Learn how zero-trust security addresses this threat. https://bit.ly/3DE8bu7

My team came up with these 5 ethical AI principles while developing our own framework. Your team may find them helpful. https://bit.ly/3Bq7Au0

Keeping players engaged will drive down churn and increase retention past the coveted 30-day mark for your mobile game. https://bit.ly/38lKacN

Even if placed behind a firewall, inadequately secured robots may not be safe. We’ve already seen malware that breaches isolated networks. https://bit.ly/3zsvkNw

Some players want to own their in-game assets. Isn't it time for game developers and publishers to permit them to do so? https://bit.ly/3zquvET

Whether it be Twitch or TikTok, Agora’s study found that Gen Z are increasingly relying on RTE video or audio features in the apps they use. https://bit.ly/3jni9HP

Levi Strauss & Co's Katia Walsh discusses her new machine learning bootcamp and the role upskilling and mentorship can play in humanizing AI. https://bit.ly/2WxNwXb

Despite all of the worries we've had about delayed games, I think it's going to be a good fall season to round out a decent year. https://bit.ly/2WxIvhC

Zynga said that it plans to launch Merge Dragons in China, and it has received some important approvals for doing so. https://bit.ly/3zBzHpH

Zendesk has acquired Cleverly.ai, a service automation startup that develops AI-powered tools to solve common customer problems. https://bit.ly/3yjPpUU

Bright has raised $15 million for its live video conversation platform that helps creators and influencers teach and entertain their fans. https://bit.ly/3gBktJQ

Pyxis One, a customer data platform leveraging AI for analytics, has raised $17 million in a venture funding round. https://bit.ly/3Bf1ahb

Tales of Arise is nearing its September 10 release date, and now we know another entry in the RPG franchise is on the way. https://bit.ly/3sLRpUN

Deadmau5 has teamed up with Manticore Games to build a virtual music experience and social space called Oberhasli. https://bit.ly/3ji5kPl

A new report finds that investments in cybersecurity firms totaled in the billions during the first half of 2021. https://bit.ly/3jg6I4V

Crusader Kings 3 is coming to consoles for the first time, as Paradox Interactive said it's porting it to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. https://bit.ly/3gxBzIl

Xbox cloud gaming is expanding to ... well, the Xbox. Now Series X/S and Xbox One owners can start games without having to download them. https://bit.ly/3ycFGiZ

Electronic Arts is announcing a Patent Pledge where it will give competitors and developers free access to its accessibility patents. https://bit.ly/2WnE35h

Steams' top 20 best-selling new games for July 2021 reveals the store continues to churn out hits from familiar franchises and new IPs. https://bit.ly/38aFgit

A new PlayStation 5 model is beginning to show up in people's homes. It eliminates the need for a screwdriver for initial setup. https://bit.ly/3Bl5AmT

AI-designed chips are producing could lead to 1,000 times better performance for chips in the next decade, says Synopsys CEO Aart de Geus. https://bit.ly/3y9X5sO

Yodeck learned that the absence of safety signs has a meaningful impact on consumers’ opinions of the venue they are shopping at. https://bit.ly/3goKoEk

Despite growing concerns over the Delta variant surge, companies continued to move forward with their return to the office plans in July. https://bit.ly/3j8juSK

It's going to take hundreds of creative professionals years to bring the metaverse from a sci-fi concept to reality. https://bit.ly/3j3wU2y

SailPoint adds no-code tool to make it easier for IT teams to manage workflows based on employee identities. https://bit.ly/3yhWPIl

Abrakam Entertainment loves to tweak game genres, as it did with its first game, Faeria, and now with Roguebook, a riff on Slay the Spire. https://bit.ly/2XMLdjS

One idea that hasn’t gotten enough attention from the AI community is how the brain creates itself, argues Peter Robin Hiesinger. https://bit.ly/3D24U7z

Arezou Soltani Panah is teaming up with social scientists and policy makers to solve complex problems like loneliness and family violence. https://bit.ly/3B1YSC6

BeingAI is creating virtual beings with artificial intelligence. And its first AI being is a virtual character named Zbee. https://bit.ly/3kdZcXm

Responsible leaders looking to navigate the current climate need to adopt measures to keep employees physically and psychologically safe. https://bit.ly/2UzLSnr

Afterparty is launching a nonfungible token (NFT) platform for creators to engage with their fans and generate better revenues. https://bit.ly/3mpzhi2

Balto, a call center automation startup based in St. Louis, has raised $37 million in series B funding for its agent coaching AI. https://bit.ly/3mhZxeu

Facebook is launching its open beta for Horizon Workrooms, a way for people to work together remotely in groups with VR headsets. https://bit.ly/3gehwhO

The Epic Games Store is launching an closed beta for its self-publishing tools today. You can sign up for for it here. https://bit.ly/3m9wCsW

Uizard, an AI-powered mobile app and desktop software design platform, has raised $15 million in venture capital financing. https://bit.ly/3k1R3W8

EdgeQ is sampling a system-on-chip for 5G networks that reduces costs by running AI inference engines at the edge. https://bit.ly/3gdh2Zu

Developer Torn Banner Studios and publishers Tripwire and Deep Silver announced today that Chivalry II has passed 1 million copies sold. https://bit.ly/3yZOdqE

Salesforce announced new features that more tightly integrate Slack, which it recently acquired, with its core products. https://bit.ly/3CWKb4M

Hopper, the AI-powered predictive airfare and hotel rate platform, has raised $170 million in a series G round of funding. https://bit.ly/2UooYiL

Lisa Seacat DeLuca, head of IBM’s digital twin research, talked about how orgs can share expertise by combining digital twins, AI, and IoT. https://bit.ly/3xQfYR5

The future will likely show that the projections of what AI can do were unrealistic, but so were the predictions of robots running amok. https://bit.ly/3xLkHUg

Seismic, a sales enablement platform, acquired Indianapolis, Indiana-based Lessonly and raised $170 million in venture capital. https://bit.ly/3jYd9IV

The unfortunate reality is that businesses rarely find citizen development to be the right model for their organizations. https://bit.ly/3g3FtZ6

Immutable has established an alliance with NRG Esports to create NFTs for the upcoming Guild of the Guardian's mobile role-playing game.  https://bit.ly/2VVwx1g

It's time for us to admit that there's a lot of risk in concentrating all of our data into these ubiquitous cloud services. https://bit.ly/3ALk7rI

By distributing the training of models across devices, federated learning ensures use of machine learning while minimizing data collection. https://bit.ly/37KJLjQ

We talk about July's best-selling games during this week's GamesBeat Decides podcast. People love to buy Zelda games. https://bit.ly/3lZQ7Ef