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SleepScore Labs has unveiled its evidence-based Sleep API Suite, creating a chance for health and wellness apps to benefit from sleep data. https://bit.ly/48DvnXB

In the Hellaswag LLM benchmark evaluating common sense natural language inference, Danube performed with an accuracy of 69.58%, sitting just behind Stability AI’s Stable LM 2 1.6 billion parameter model. https://bit.ly/49ykSGh

Chandrasekar explained that through the OverflowAPI, Google now has continuous access to the APIs that pull public data from Stack Overflow. These APIs enable access to the same data available to the Stack Overflow community via its public APIs. https://bit.ly/49VKooO

Microsoft unveils AI-powered finance assistant Copilot for Finance, promising major efficiency gains through workflow automation but faces data privacy and security challenges. https://bit.ly/3uVBzwb

Data cloud company Snowflake announced today that its SVP of AI and former Neeva co-founder Sridhar Ramaswamy has been named CEO. https://bit.ly/48IvFws

While it remains to be seen how well StarCoder2 models perform in different coding scenarios, the companies did note that the performance of the smallest 3B model alone matched that of the original 15B StarCoder LLM. https://bit.ly/42TecQB

Will users ultimately try AI tools and leave as disappointed as the poor attendees of the miserable world of Wonka Glasgow? https://bit.ly/3wxvkiL

Yes, there is finally a new Barbie game coming, and, no, it's not called Barbenheimer. Zynga's Rollic is making it for Mattel. https://bit.ly/3wtv1oS

Gradial, an AI startup streamlining marketing workflows, raised $5.4M led by Madrona; the generative platform automates content updates so creative teams can focus on strategy rather than tedious tasks. https://bit.ly/3IhrPzr

Pitchbook's analysis shows AI data centers, local large language models (LLMs) and domain-specific foundation models are three of the many growth catalysts VCs need to keep their firms growing and delivering returns.  https://bit.ly/3SY9bS0

Jamix's approach is to allow its AI assistant to be integrated into a firm's existing, commonly used workplace software apps. https://bit.ly/3OWNmkw

For OpenAI head of sales Aliisa Rosenthal, there is no disconnect between the company's lofty AGI mission and go-to-market sales strategies. https://bit.ly/4bUQJ5k

The Pokémon Company announced Pokémon Legends Z-A during today's Pokémon Presents. https://bit.ly/3UW2N0h

Sony joins the list of games companies laying off employees as it plans to reduce its global headcount by 8%, or about 900 people. https://bit.ly/49vMSKH

Supercell reported its 2023 revenues were $1.82 billion, down 4.2% from a year earlier while a key measure of profitability was down 8%. https://bit.ly/49uBYF7

Andrej Karpathy, a former leading researcher and member of the founding team at OpenAI and before that, Tesla, has posted on X that he has left the former company once more. This marks Andrej’s second stint at the company. He first worked at OpenAI in 2016 and 2017, according to his LinkedIn, under co-founders turned […] https://bit.ly/3wcY7sB

XDR is riding a strong wave of support due to its ability to consolidate functions while limiting data movement, two high priorities for CISOs today. https://bit.ly/3I1Ktv7

If a user wants to avoid it, they can switch to a temporary chat that does not appear in history, and won't use or create a memory.  https://bit.ly/3SyscKG

The worlds of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and Dune are coming together, as you can fly an ornithopter through the desert of Arrakis. https://bit.ly/49dxliu

OpenTitan and lowRISC announced OpenTitan has reached commercial availability for its open-source silicon project. https://bit.ly/4byeBvB

Researchers have introduced what they call the first spatial, audio-based LLM that can reason about sounds in a 3-D environment. https://bit.ly/49vs3hP

Microsoft has an opportunity now to capitalize on the public interest generated (pun intended) by its Copilot Super Bowl ad. https://bit.ly/3IhHyi9

Silicon Valley was arguably more captivated this weekend by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's fundraising efforts for AI chips than the Super Bowl. https://bit.ly/48gG9mq

Mathias Gredal Nørvig, CEO of Sybo, and Jude Ower, CEO of Playmob, have talked a lot about their book Gaming for Good in the past year. Their book is finally out today. https://bit.ly/3UVJqVl

Bugcrowd raises $102 million in new funding to scale its crowdsourced cybersecurity platform, reaching a $1 billion valuation as demand grows for solutions like penetration testing-as-a-service and bug bounty programs. https://bit.ly/3HYxsCm

Paramount kicked off its budding Sonic the Hedgehog cinematic universe during the Super Bowl with its trailer for a Knuckles series spin-off. https://bit.ly/49cNiVY

We must ensure AI serves as a tool for enlightenment, not confusion or deception, lest it alter our perception of history. https://bit.ly/3urJfpP

Bruno Aziza tries the Apple Vision Pro and also talks the five phases of entrepreneurship, IT budgets and how to do AI right. https://bit.ly/3OADQUk

Thanks to AI, one of these days we'll be talking about chips with trillions of transistors on them, according to Accenture. https://bit.ly/3SVPPhQ

Like the Year of the Dragon roaring in today, 2024 will mark the year where AI is applied in real, tangible ways. https://bit.ly/495oxem

Dubai is part of a fast-growing region with young players who spend money on games. It's also a magnet for those seeking to raise money. https://bit.ly/3HVqC0s

Gamefam announced its Super Bowl LVIII event it built in partnership with the NFL last week. Here's how the game works within Roblox. https://bit.ly/49v3npP

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's efforts to boost AI chip capacity would require an 'astronomical' quantity of water and rare earth minerals. https://bit.ly/3Uwtt7L

The move allows Vercel users to integrate Perplexity LLMs into the applications they plan to develop on the platform. https://bit.ly/42ALmnR

Left Fielder Media (LFM) has unveiled Member 16, a new sci-fi Web3 entertainment project that includes diverse storytelling. https://bit.ly/3SQ3oiG

Lightforge Games announced the development of Project O.R.C.S., an online role-playing game with collaborative storytelling. https://bit.ly/3wbjmei

The International Game Developers Association announced a new Incubation SIG to offer opportunities to gaming startups. https://bit.ly/3SPWvOc

Today the Biden administration named a top White House aide to lead the new US AI Safety Institute at NIST, but how it will be funded remains unclear. https://bit.ly/3HNFM89

Sky Mavis is partnering with GMonsters to bring Fight League titles to the Ronin network, with support from publisher Mixi. https://bit.ly/3SAeUxl

The company seems outwardly unconcerned about any criticisms of AI being misused, as well as unbothered by the lawsuit and investigation... https://bit.ly/3uwT7yo

Bazooka Tango has launched a 10-day playtest to preview its Shardbound blockchain game in partnership with Immutable games. https://bit.ly/49sjjJC

The new model is a fine-tuned version of SVD-XT and promises improve AI video generation with better motion and consistency. https://bit.ly/4bntKzX

Nintendo reported quarterly results that beat its previous forecasts and it said it now expects to sell 15.5 million Switch consoles. https://bit.ly/4918kXF

Cisco notes Motific will be previewed at Cisco Live EMEAR and will become generally available by June 2024. However, the company has not shared how much teams will have to shell out to use the product.  https://bit.ly/3ueoEFv

Laralyn McWilliams, a pioneering and influential game designer, has passed away. McWilliams was creative director on games such as Free Realms, and for her work she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Game Developers Choice Awards at the GDC summer event in July 2021, during the pandemic. She had been making games for 30 […] https://bit.ly/3SuoVMz

Tech industry leaders are gearing up for a potential rebound in 2024, according to Deloitte's latest report. https://bit.ly/3HPacql

Roblox is breaking language barriers today as it launches AI-powered real-time chat translation in 16 languages. https://bit.ly/49pfRPS