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Roboto Games announced it's closed its latest round of funding, which it palns to put towards its newest game. https://bit.ly/3GUKIc3

New book, Power and Prediction, says the power of AI is evident now, but widespread AI adoption has yet to come. https://bit.ly/3VzpNPJ

As brands take advantage of the metaverse and NFT 2.0 in Web3, they should make utility and community-building main components. https://bit.ly/3OIC2XV

Adobe's acquisition of web collaboration app Figma shows why collaboration will be the key use case of the metaverse. https://bit.ly/3Ub7M9u

Just as a new report published this week highlighted that enterprises pay on average about $1,200 per employee each year for breach mitigation, Deloitte shared 10 cybersecurity predictions to better secure the enterprise in 2023. https://bit.ly/3VchZUo

Midnight emerged from stealth today to announce $7.5 million in seed funding earmarked to build astudio and platform to create Web3 games. https://bit.ly/3GMCIcU

To be ready for the metaverse, your company might need a chief metaverse officer (CMTO), someone who has both vision and technical expertise. https://bit.ly/3U3N6zV

Leaders like IBM, Microsoft, Google and others are making strides  in quantum hardware such as with quantum error mitigation and dynamic circuits. https://bit.ly/3XweyJw

Piggy has raised $7.7 million for its mobile content creation app that enables users to easily create things directly on mobile. https://bit.ly/3GG5cVU

In the nascent metaverse, women are locked out of leadership roles, according to a new report by consulting firm McKinsey & Co. https://bit.ly/3VfbQ9B

As voice AI advances, voice assistants are becoming a necessity for businesses in many sectors for engaging with customers. https://bit.ly/3V4psEy

This week, news from Nvidia, Microsoft and Intel led our coverage. Here's the latest on AI, DALL-E, and how to secure the enterprise with zero-trust. https://bit.ly/3Av6ChP

Data analytics is a process that requires insightful analysts, curious business users and executives asking strategic questions. https://bit.ly/3ggw6ZI

Heroic Story has raised $6 million to build a Web3 tabletop role-playing game platform. The founders did this after a bunch of pivots. https://bit.ly/3UFXHCp

Intel claims FakeCatcher has a 96% accuracy rate at detecting deepfakes and works by analyzing the subtle ‘blood flow’ in video pixels. https://bit.ly/3V21lGl

Enabling better work-life balance and instituting innovative time-off policies will help retain employees and reduce burnout. https://bit.ly/3X25Pi6

To create safe online communities, companies need better ways to weed out harmful posts. Find out how AI/ML is improving content moderation. https://bit.ly/3TCVW7K

Ubisoft and Riot Games have teamed up to share machine learning data so they can more easily detect harmful chat in multiplayer games. https://bit.ly/3E9Yoge

In a nutshell, ZTNA 2.0 applies least privileged access and implements continuous trust verification, monitoring user and app behavior. https://bit.ly/3txgOmb

Nvidia's Omniverse is extending to support scientific digital twins bridging data silos across different apps, models and instruments. https://bit.ly/3AewX3y

The war in Ukraine emphasizes the importance of active cyber vigilance, proactive hunting and customized threat defense for better security. https://bit.ly/3UUZTpq

As we venture out into the virtual and the metaverse, let’s not forget our humanity. We must design spaces with storytelling at their heart. https://bit.ly/3EseIue

Meta's massive layoff announcement led our coverage this week, but on the other end of the spectrum, biotech company Sanofi announced a billion-dollar deal in AI drug discovery. https://bit.ly/3AblmCl

In 2022, generative AI saw better algorithms and larger models and datasets, which created better images and higher-quality software code. https://bit.ly/3A9iR3o

The "Craziest Ideas for the Future of Gaming and the Metaverse" panel during GamesBeat Summit Next discusses crazy ideas for the future.. https://bit.ly/3fQNnZi

Both Nvidia and Intel’s Habana Labs reported performance gains with the MLPerf 2.1 benchmark in training machine learning models. https://bit.ly/3NX0rcc

The research collaboration comes on the heels of several other high-value AI drug discovery partnership announcements from Sanofi. https://bit.ly/3DPB6w1

Open-source isn't just sharing source code in public repositories. It is also a culture allowing all to learn and contribute, from anywhere. https://bit.ly/3fN8tHP

Low-code and no-code tools with an assist from AI will allow both business users and IT teams to work more effectively and quickly. https://bit.ly/3EfxVPN

Shifting to a predictive mindset will enable you to get real value and insights from your data. Here are five ways to do just that. https://bit.ly/3zKUdWT

This week's top 5 stories on VentureBeat were all about AI, from a Google AI event to Nvidia joining the speech AI race, and more. https://bit.ly/3UropOK

BigCode, launched recently by Hugging Face and Service Now, is looking to address some of code-generating LLMs biggest pain points. https://bit.ly/3fBVc4M

Bain & Company's Andre James pointed to 5 trends driving the firm's predicted 50% growth in games industry revenue by 2027. https://bit.ly/3DZx8SI

Why more companies will be offering customer experience tailored to metaverse retail — which is the way more consumers will be shopping. https://bit.ly/3WvXOlw

Cashierless checkout and inventory management tools powered by AI and computer vision are on the rise, despite economic downturn. https://bit.ly/3Ud8xPG

ForeVR wants to build the Wii Sports of VR. With this goal in mind, the company has secured another $10 million in Series A funding. https://bit.ly/3SVjlkw

The metaverse has been trending for a couple of years as humanity’s answer to the pandemic and remote work. Neal Stephenson, the author of the science fiction novel Snow Crash and cofounder of blockchain tech firm Lamina1, is the high priest of this metaverse religion, as he coined the term “metaverse.” And after 30 years […] https://bit.ly/3NqnCel