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Microsoft's head of trust and safety, Kim Kunes, spoke at GBS 2024 about what role AI plays in the future of content moderation. https://bit.ly/4aIdZBZ

Pliny the Prompter has been finding ways to jailbreak, or remove the prohibitions and restrictions on leading LLMs, since last year. https://bit.ly/3yIYegK

Xbox plans to publish the next new title from Skylanders developer Toys for Bob after spinning off the studio from Activision in February. https://bit.ly/3RaWu6h

Konami revealed more details about the upcoming Silent Hill 2 remake, including its release date on October 8. https://bit.ly/3X58fyR

The opening act at Sony's State of Play event was Concord, a new PvP FPS from Firewalk Studios coming out in August. https://bit.ly/3Ktfc5e

God of War: Ragnarok is coming to the PC on September 19, 2024 as Sony continues its love affair with its favorite second platform. https://bit.ly/3Vo8AvA

Tyler Bahl of Activision and Vanessa Chang of TikTok spoke at GamesBeat Summit 2024 about how Call of Duty's marketing reaches digital audiences. https://bit.ly/3VluwHx

Fable is launching its Netflix of AI platform, Showrunner, which lets people make their own TV shows and share them. https://bit.ly/456vXNk

GEM Capital announced today today that it has invested a combined $5 million into three game development studios. https://bit.ly/3RbCYqj

Maven AGI raises $28M to transform customer support with generative AI, enabling enterprises to deploy accurate, empathetic AI agents that reduce costs and enhance customer satisfaction. https://bit.ly/454WRFk

The open, non-commercially licensed model specializes in more than 80 languages and already outperforms CodeLlama 70B and Deepseek Coder 33B. https://bit.ly/3wZ91Tx

Sony is holding a 30-minute State of Play on May 30 to show off its PS5 and PS VR2 games coming out later this year. https://bit.ly/4552q6B

Kinetix, the generative AI startup doing user-generated emotes for games, has teamed with Overdare on putting AI in the hands of gamers. https://bit.ly/3Kjtup8

The race to make Llama 3 faster continues as SambaNova accelerates the gen AI model to a new milestone, bringing significant benefits to enterprise users. https://bit.ly/454Pb5K

India-based tournament platform Gamerji is expanding to Southeast Asia, continuing its focus on developing esports markets. https://bit.ly/3yFLmIo

Elon Musk and Meta's AI Chief Yann LeCun clash on Twitter over the future of AI research, development, and self-driving technology. https://bit.ly/4aMNzza

Microsoft confirmed today that the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 will debut on day one Xbox Game Pass when the title debuts this fall. https://bit.ly/3KiVitE

MultiVersus is returning to general availability today from publisher Warner Bros. Games and developer Player First Games. https://bit.ly/4by2KgP

AI’s potential is immense, but it will only be realized when AI systems and the people who make them can reach and maintain trust. https://bit.ly/4bQNmwd

Epic Games will open the Epic Games Store and Fortnite on Apple's iOS in the United Kingdom in the second half of 2025. https://bit.ly/4dZSTSg

University of Chicago researchers demonstrate GPT-4's remarkable ability to predict corporate earnings, outperforming human analysts and transforming the future of financial statement analysis. https://bit.ly/3WXf3OY

Now, whether users actually act upon the information provided in these searches remains to be seen — but if they do, it is clearly unwise. https://bit.ly/3USACOa

Songyee Yoon, president of NCSoft, is one of the rare women leaders at one of the game industry's biggest companies. https://bit.ly/3KiKdZL

The video game industry is a tough place to be in right now. But that just makes it more important than ever to connect with people and find a sense of community. Influential voices from the gaming community came together for a discussion at GamesBeat Summit 2024 to talk about different ways for people to […] https://bit.ly/4bWzRuy

Bruno Aziza discusses three broad generative AI use cases, outlines questions to ask about AI, and explores enterprise AI readiness today. https://bit.ly/3UXXRb0

How can you establish a clear method of articulating a framework around how you quantify the value of data, or a data tool, in your business?  https://bit.ly/4bj0Wbd

Defending against adversarial AI-based attacks and the torrent of new tradecraft attackers are creating requires a new approach to cybersecurity. https://bit.ly/3JTTkQm

As Founder and CEO of Bit Reactor, I've witnessed firsthand the transformative power of putting developers at the heart of every decision. https://bit.ly/4bcw3VX

Whatever happens, it's clear the era of outbound link-ranked web search ushered in by Google more than 25 years ago is rapidly changing. https://bit.ly/3wrMFtH

CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: Artificial intelligence is bringing high-impact technology to individuals and businesses alike. Harnessing the power of human-like intelligence is boosting productivity and helping people all around the world to do more, all while increasing accuracy. Popular tools like ChatGPT are already taking the world by storm, but many of today’s top AI tools come with one […] https://bit.ly/3JTZ64m

Lightspeed and GamesBeat are announcing the second year of Game Changers, a list celebrating 25 extraordinary startups in gaming. https://bit.ly/4buuKkU

Netflix and Roblox announced the launch of Netflix Nextworld, a digital theme park on Roblox that expands the worlds of fans’ favorite films and series.  https://bit.ly/4b7CGbW

AI voice startup ElevenLabs shows off early preview of its music-generating model, turning any prompt into song lyrics. https://bit.ly/3yobbME

Reebok announced the launch of Reebok Impact – a custom AI fashion experience on Instagram in partnership with Futureverse. https://bit.ly/4btCWSv

Will Wright is joining us at GameBeat Summit 2024 in Los Angeles to talk about the potential of AI agents in games. https://bit.ly/44E43bo

Enkrypt hopes this safety list will give enterprise teams a way to delve into the strengths and weaknesses of each popular LLM and use that to decide what would work best for their targeted use case. https://bit.ly/3wq9jCI

AGBO, the media company founded by the Russo Brothers, has launched its Innovation Department to propel tech-enabled creativity. https://bit.ly/3QzMQd2

Pryon says it has overcome many challenges of retrieval-augmented generation, including scalability, security and accuracy. https://bit.ly/4b9ZBmZ

The Political Machine 2024 is a new political strategy game from Stardock for anyone who wants to see who will be the next U.S. president. https://bit.ly/3UQKr0e

Microsoft's 2024 Work Trend Index shows workers embracing AI faster than their employers and are resorting to bringing their own AI to work. https://bit.ly/3JThQRI

With RHEL AI and InstructLab, Red Hat aims to do for AI what it did for Linux and Kubernetes - make powerful tech accessible to a broad... https://bit.ly/3JRDQfS

Navigating the hiring process has never been easy, but where remote working is the norm, new challenges and expectations continue to emerge. https://bit.ly/4bnz9pE

Neurable raised $13 million for its brain-computer interface (BCI) technology that can work with everyday products. https://bit.ly/3yaQYKr

Nintendo expects sales to fall 19.3% and earnings to fall 38.9% in the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025. https://bit.ly/3wlXMnZ

Supergiant Games wasted no time launching Hades II in early access so soon after the wrap of its technical test. https://bit.ly/44yuq27

DrEureka takes a robotic task description and uses an LLM to generate software implementations for a reward function that measures success in that task. https://bit.ly/3y955jo

The more you give your workforce the chance to safely interact with gen AI tools, the more they will build the right intuition for success.  https://bit.ly/3JNML1O

Brazilian President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva signed into law the legal framework for the electronic games industry in Brazil. https://bit.ly/4boVbbw

We got to see a glimpse of upcoming indie games at this week's Xbox Showcase, and Rachel Kaser likes what she's seen so far. https://bit.ly/4b0NgRT

I’m very excited to present our full agenda for our GamesBeat Summit 2024 event on May 20-21 at the Marina del Rey Marriott in Los Angeles. https://bit.ly/3UKsMaE