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Go Bears. Berkeley SkyDeck, the tech accelerator for the UC Berkely, saw a 120% in accelerator applicants this year. https://bit.ly/3zlWMy8

Training data contamination and other factors mean LLMs like GPT-4 succeeding on human exams might not be a good measure of their abilities. https://bit.ly/3lUAnES

In her previous role Gina Joseph introduced innovations including VentureBeat’s branded content studio and VentureBeat Lab (VB Lab). https://bit.ly/3LYhRpA

Warner Bros' new fighting game, MultiVersus, is shutting down its open beta phase so the developers can prepare it for its launch in 2024. https://bit.ly/40mQwC2

With technology ever-advancing, edge AI is within reach. How to build, validate and push new edge AI software into production. https://bit.ly/3LPy4xq

Gordon Moore, the elder statesman of the technology industry, passed away today at the age of 94. https://bit.ly/3JKejob

Ethical hacker and computer science student Alex Albert shares how he discovered security flaws in GPT-4 just one day after launch. https://bit.ly/3lExWWL

Take-Two Interactive's 2K label announced today that it is working on Lego 2K Drive, a brand new open world racing game in the world of Lego. https://bit.ly/3FPbZeq

Valve officially revealed its upgrade to CS:GO, Counter-Strike 2. The new title launches as a free upgrade in summer 2023. https://bit.ly/3z4QVNa

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang focused at GTC on bringing AI to every industry as generative AI creates a sense of "urgency" https://bit.ly/42sY8El

Paradox Interactive today revealed more details about Life by You, an open life simulator coming from Paradox Tectonic. https://bit.ly/3JX9LMN

At GDC 2023, Roblox has announced an open opt-in beta for two new generative AI tools that help users generate materials and assist coding. https://bit.ly/3TuCr2y

With AI managing repetitive and mundane workstreams in app development, humans are free to create, innovate and problem-solve.  https://bit.ly/42hdADs

Thoughts on where the advent of generative AI models like DALL-E 2 and Midjourney will take the art world in the coming years. https://bit.ly/3To5FAp

The Game Developers Conference 2023 event next week could draw as many as 24,000 people in person in San Francisco, about double the number last year. https://bit.ly/3n3ux4l

The partnership will span various gaming events, interviews and online series highlighting games industry insights https://bit.ly/3lg6kY4

Mystic Moose, creator of Planet Mojo and Mojo Melee, is enabling people to convert their non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to real-time 3D models. https://bit.ly/3yLwCV5

StreamElements is looking for 15 streamers from underserved backgrounds to join its 2023 Creator Diversity Program. https://bit.ly/3YO6zah

Jobs in sustainability are on the rise as companies are increasingly taking action to implement environmental, social and governance policies. https://bit.ly/3FpixjW

High-tech and venture capital communities brace in the aftermath of the Silicon Valley Bank failure. Fed authorities come to the rescue. https://bit.ly/3mRFGVJ

Predictive analytics should be a guiding hand that help measure performance, optimally forecast and inform decision-making. https://bit.ly/3TcOn9l

AI researchers must push harder to keep humans in the loop to amplify our wisdom and insights (and predict the Oscars)? https://bit.ly/422MQGF

After 22 years of attending, I was honored to moderate the town hall at the latest Dice Summit a few weeks back in Las Vegas. https://bit.ly/3YGyNUz

Lesser Evil and developer Rockodile Games have launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for a game about Ukraine's war against Russia. https://bit.ly/3yqwji6

The IAB has released a qualitative study that determined five lingering misconceptions were discouraging ad spending on games. https://bit.ly/3YAHOyn

Cybersecurity training and upskilling provider RangeForce announced it has raised $20M in funding for a solution to mitigate human risk. https://bit.ly/3JlDRJh

Databricks today launched serverless real-time inference to make building and deploying real-time ML apps easier for enterprises. https://bit.ly/3mpBKLy

What happened in data this week? Bruno Aziza breaks down the latest news and discusses what data products are and how they can work for you. https://bit.ly/3ZsutJx

By following these five best practices, enterprises can begin their journey towards fully benefitting from the promise of AI. https://bit.ly/3mrGxwe

Dreamscape Learn aims to supplement and radically transform education with 'hands-on' labs conducted in virtual reality. https://bit.ly/3L00SD6

Nick Fajt, CEO of Rec Room, is one of the contenders to run the metaverse, the social virtual world has more than 82 million lifetime users. https://bit.ly/3EY9rdD

VitalXP has raised an additional $3 million in pre-seed financing for its action-packed gameverse platform and its first game, Lowlife Forms. https://bit.ly/41Kcyjk

Blue Isle Studios launched its sci-fi shooter game Leap and it already has a collection of mods via Overwolf. https://bit.ly/3KPfxRf

ChatGPT can be used in many ways to help you get a new job both pre-application and for interview prep. https://bit.ly/3SFrLOh

Pearl Abyss announced today that you can now download Black Desert Mobile from the App Store onto select Macs. https://bit.ly/3ZfJNsX

Legend Has It and publisher North Beach Games said they are working on open world Nordic adventure role-playing game Realms of Alterra. https://bit.ly/3xYeV4a