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The risks and rewards of generative AI in software development

Developers won’t see a transformation like this again in their careers. Instead of raging against the AI machine, they should ride the wave. https://bit.ly/3TEf7jA

Can generative AI help address the cybersecurity resource gap?

Five ways generative AI can help with the cybersecurity skills shortage — from lowering the bar to entry to improving collaboration. https://bit.ly/4a5QZgJ

Astarion the tiefling: Swen Vincke on iteration in Baldur’s Gate 3 | GDC 2024

One of the talks at GDC was Baldur's Gate 3 director talking about how the game has changed and how the developers accounted for iteration. https://bit.ly/3vxlAVm

Memories from my first Game Developers Conference | Kaser Focus

The Game Developers Conference was a whirlwind this year -- what did GamesBeat's Rachel Kaser take away from the experience? https://bit.ly/3TXnxUr

GDC 2024: The state of the gaming industry, from layoffs to the metaverse and more

VB LAB INSIGHTS: Presented by Xsolla Live on the show floor of GDC 2024, GamesBeat lead writer Dean Takahashi took the temperature of the game industry in a conversation with Xsolla’s president David Stelzer and Chris Hewish, chief strategy officer at Xsolla. Their discussion focused largely on the company’s most recent State of Play report, recapping the last […] https://bit.ly/4aBkQxA

SambaNova announces new AI Samba-CoE v0.2 that already beats Databricks DBRX

What makes this achievement particularly notable is the efficiency of the model—it achieves these speeds without compromising on precision. https://bit.ly/3TFxmoC

SydeLabs raises $2.5M seed to develop an intent-based firewall guard for AI

SydeLabs launched its red teaming solution, SydeBox, on March 1, 2024, and has since seen adoption from 15+ enterprises that have detected over 10,000 vulnerabilities across 50+ applications/models. https://bit.ly/3TV4B8L

Unleashing generative AI’s power: Secure the future of your enterprise at the Atlanta AI Impact Tour (April 10th)

This AI Impact Tour stop will bring together leaders in generative AI and enterprise security, and features case studies from industry giants like Honeywell and Ally Financial, showcasing how they're both leveraging generative AI applications, but also using AI to revolutionize security operations. https://bit.ly/3VGJl87

Shifty Eye Games raises $580K and appoints gaming luminaries as advisers

Shifty Eye Games has raised $580,500 in funding from Canadian government groups and recruited a trio of game industry veterans as advisers. https://bit.ly/3PGdIbc

How SAG-AFTRA union views AI and gaming negotiations | Sarah Elmaleh interview

Voice actor Sarah Elmaleh spoke at the GDC last week, but she also had a side duty, as she is chair of a union committee for SAG-AFTRA. https://bit.ly/3TWF4fJ

AI risk management startup ValidMind raises $8.1M to help banks comply with regulations

ValidMind, a regulatory compliance platform for AI risk management at banks, raises $8.1 million in seed funding to automate model validation and documentation. https://bit.ly/43zPZ22

GDC 2024 draws nearly 30,000 attendees, up about 7%

GDC 2024 drew nearly 30,000 attendees to San Francisco's Moscone Center last week, with the numbers up 7% from 28,000 a year earlier. https://bit.ly/3vrkGKb

Zscaler finds enterprise AI adoption soars 600% in less than a year, putting data at risk

According to Zscaler's report, manufacturing generates the most AI traffic, accounting for 20.9% of all AI/ML transactions, followed by finance and insurance (19.9%) and services (16.8%). https://bit.ly/3PEF6pK

‘ShadowRay’ vulnerability on Ray framework exposes thousands of AI workloads, compute power and data

For months, this flaw has allowed attackers to exploit AI production workloads, computing power, credentials and other sensitive data on Ray. https://bit.ly/4avltZh

Internet Computer blockchain has raised $77M | Dfinity Foundation

The Internet Computer Protocol is an ambitious blockchain project aimed at creating a world computer, and according to a new report from the shepherding nonprofit Dfinity Foundation, it has raised more than $77 million to date. The Internet Computer Protocol (ICP) realizes the vision of a World Computer – an open and secure blockchain-based network […] https://bit.ly/3TUq4Pq

Nintendo and Illumination will partner on Super Mario Bros. movie sequel

Nintendo and Illumination announced they will make a sequel to The Super Mario Bros. Movie, coming in April 2026. https://bit.ly/439wQ6E

Activision Publishing’s 600 QA workers form union

An estimated 600 workers at Activision Publishing’s quality assurance department have formed the biggest union for gaming in the U.S. https://bit.ly/3T8tLzq

Why we need to move away from anthropomorphic naming conventions in AI

While the naming of technologies (notably AI) might seem trivial, it could have unforeseen consequences in today's world. https://bit.ly/3T9fkuS

How Lenovo wants to unlock AI for all at the edge | Kirk Skaugen interview

It makes a lot of sense to put AI as far out on the edge of the network as possible, as it can solve problems for people like first responders and reduce the amount of useless storage sent to the cloud. Lenovo demonstrated a bunch of these solutions at the recent Mobile World Congress 24 […] https://bit.ly/3VdXSrE

Happy International Women’s Day to women in gaming! | Kaser Focus

GamesBeat's Rachel Kaser bids a Happy International Women's Day to the countless women who are changing and elevating the games industry. https://bit.ly/48HfcZn

Apple reverses course, reinstates Epic Games’ developer account

After banning Epic Games E.U. developer account and mounting scrutiny from legislators, Apple has committed to reinstating the publisher. https://bit.ly/4c1JOYt

Insilico Medicine unveils first AI-generated and AI-discovered drug in new paper

Startup Insilico Medicine announced it has created the first drug discovered and generated by AI, which is now in Phase II clinical trials. https://bit.ly/438qC78

Pres. Biden calls upon Congress to ban AI voice impersonation in State of the Union address

Biden himself of course has a direct interest in the technology given his voice was impersonated as part of a robocall effort in New Hampshire https://bit.ly/3PfmdcR

NIST staffers revolt against expected appointment of ‘effective altruist’ AI researcher to US AI Safety Institute

NIST faces turmoil as staff consider quitting over Paul Christiano's expected appointment to a role at the US AI Safety Institute, sources say. https://bit.ly/4c0niiF

Experts call for legal ‘safe harbor’ so researchers, journalists and artists can evaluate AI tools

In a new paper, AI researchers called on tech companies to indemnify public interest research and protect it from account suspensions. https://bit.ly/3V6OWnS

Cognizant launches state-of-the-art San Francisco lab to boost enterprise AI adoption

Cognizant launches Advanced AI Lab in San Francisco to drive innovation and research in AI systems and technologies, as part of its $1 billion investment in generative AI. https://bit.ly/3T5wXvG

Nvidia GTC 2024 preview — AI marches forward | Greg Estes

Nvidia's GTC 2024 event is back in person in San Jose on March 18 to March 20, and it should draw more than 16,000 people in person. https://bit.ly/4c8EIJK

APhone app uses Web3 to create an affordable virtual smartphone

APhone is a new app that uses Web3 to create an affordable virtual smartphone. It’s all in the game of democratizing Web3 applications. Singapore-based APhone has created a device-agnostic web-based virtual phone app that costs $20 a year. It officially launches on the Solana ecosystem with support from Aethir‘s GPU Cloud network. With a vision […] https://bit.ly/3Va3JOU

United Healthcare’s ransomware attack shows why supply chains are under siege

Healthcare supply chains are facing a digital pandemic, with the latest UnitedHealth Group breach showing the power of an orchestrated ransomware attack to shut down supply chains.  https://bit.ly/3IsP2ie

Citi exec: Generative AI is transformative in banking, but risky for customer support

Generative AI has created a profound and positive shift inside of Citi toward data-driven decision-making, but for now Citi has decided against an external-facing chatbot because the risks are still too high. https://bit.ly/3IoTkY3

Solsten: Players are becoming more altruistic in uncertain times

In Solsten's survey of over 500K players measuring psychological traits, gamers are becoming more altruistic and community-oriented. https://bit.ly/3V7BL6q

5 revealing details from OpenAI’s emails with Elon Musk

OpenAI dropped a new blog post that responded to the lawsuit Elon Musk filed last week against the company — and included receipts. https://bit.ly/3TqxVDO

Salesforce aims to blaze new generative AI trail for developers with Einstein 1 Studio

Einstein 1 Studio provides a set of tools that can enable developers to customize the Salesforce Einstein Copilot gen AI assistant. https://bit.ly/49AsmIK

OpenAI ‘intend[s] to move to dismiss all’ claims of Elon Musk’s lawsuit

OpenAI just fired back at the lawsuit filed last week by former co-founder turned rival Elon Musk over claims the company abandoned its founding principles and identity as a non-profit. “We intend to move to dismiss all of Elon’s claims,” reads a blog post entitled “OpenAI and Elon Musk” authored by OpenAI President and Chairman […] https://bit.ly/3Isq7vf

AI video startup Haiper emerges from stealth, plans to build AGI with full perceptual abilities

In addition to text-to-video, Haiper AI video platform also provides tools to let users upload and animate existing images or repaint a video, changing its style, background color, elements or subject with a text prompt. https://bit.ly/3T4wYjh

Skillz sues Papaya Gaming for defrauding players by using bots in skill-based games

Skillz has sued a second gaming company -- Papaya Gaming -- for using bots in skill-based games that are supposed to be between humans. https://bit.ly/3P7mMp4

31% of U.S. tech workers put in less than 40 hours per week

SPONSORED JOBS: While expensive cars or holidays to Europe might have been seen in the past as the ultimate barometers of career success, today work-life balance and an employer that facilitates well-being, both during and outside of working hours, is the ultimate goal. And although tech has been getting a bad rap of late thanks to mass […] https://bit.ly/3InrhYL

CrowdStrike and Dell unleash an AI-powered, unified security vision

By adding CrowdStrike's Falcon XDR platform to its current Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service, Dell provides its global base of resellers with AI-based technologies their customers need to battle back against attacks. https://bit.ly/3wI4WCP

VentureBeat CSO, Gina Joseph, honored by San Francisco Business Times as 40 under 40 leader

The San Francisco Business Times has announced Gina Joseph, Chief Strategy Officer of VentureBeat, as one of the esteemed individuals selected for the 2024 40 Under 40 cohort. https://bit.ly/4c0BjfY

OpenAI adds ‘Read Aloud’ voiceover to ChatGPT, allowing it to speak its outputs

OpenAI introduced a minor but potentially useful ChatGPT update for users: voiceover narration for the chatbot's responses. https://bit.ly/4agELSj

Nine Dots launches 3rd-party publishing with friendly terms

Nine Dots is bucking the gloomy trend in gaming by expanding from its role as a developer to publishing third-party games as well. https://bit.ly/49DM5qT

Anthropic unveils Claude 3, surpassing GPT-4 and Gemini Ultra in benchmark tests

Anthropic's new Claude 3 AI models topped benchmarks and demonstrated unprecedented enterprise capabilities, but recent issues show eliminating bias remains an ongoing challenge Constitutional AI aims to address. https://bit.ly/3Tkr0MB

Mystic Moose unveils new games for its Planet Mojo Web3 ecosystem

Mystic Moose has unveiled new games and an expansion for Planet Mojo, its interoperable Web3 gaming ecosystem. https://bit.ly/4c36Rlq

Halo music composer Marty O’Donnell is running for Congress in Nevada

Marty O'Donnell, the creator of the music for Bungie games like Halo and Destiny, is running for a seat in Congress in Nevada. https://bit.ly/49yYTyX

4 strategies data-driven CISOs need to take now to defend their budgets

Why CISOs must arm themselves with empirical data and clearly communicate the business value of security investments to their CEOs and boards. https://bit.ly/3wy8ZkS

Dune: Part 2 tries to balance the book’s canon with creative license (spoilers)

When I watched the start of Denis Villaneuve's first Dune movie (2021) with my kid, it was a special moment that took me back decades. https://bit.ly/3V0LZ8w

CEOs don’t know it all (but that’s not a bad thing)

A critical lesson that every executive or employee at all levels should take to heart: It's Ok (good, in fact) to be challenged. https://bit.ly/3ImZ44q

Layoffs in the games industry: When it rains, it pours | Kaser Focus

It's been yet another rough week in the games industry -- GamesBeat's Rachel Kaser questions how many more of those we can stand. https://bit.ly/49PZD2c

Among the Whispers — Provocation is the latest game from D&A Studios

The developers of Conrad Stevenson's Paranormal P.I. have started their new horror series, the first of which is Among the Whispers -- Provocation. https://bit.ly/3uKq1fj

Immutable Passport hits 200K unique Web3 gamers

Immutable has crossed 200,000 unique gamers for its Web3 onboarding system dubbed Immutable Passport. https://bit.ly/3P0jyDR