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Gamescom 2024 will kick off next week in Cologne, Germany, with more than 1,400 exhibitors, a new record at 15% more than a year ago. https://venturebeat.com/games/gamescom-will-have-more-than-1400-exhibitors-up-15-from-a-year-ago/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Even though OpenAI showed off a similar feature first, Google is set to make it more available to a much wider potential audience sooner. https://venturebeat.com/ai/googles-ai-surprise-gemini-live-speaks-like-a-human-taking-on-chatgpt-advanced-voice-mode/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Asmodee announced that its online board gaming platform, Board Game Arena, now officially has over 10 million users. https://venturebeat.com/games/board-game-arena-surpasses-10m-user-account-milestone/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Squid Game: The Experience is coming to New York City in October as Netflix is stirring up interest in another upcoming season of the streaming series. On top of that, a multiplayer video game Squid Game: Unleashed, featuring series characters and all the competitive fun, is set to release later this year. The idea is […] https://venturebeat.com/games/squid-game-the-immersive-experience-is-coming-to-new-york-city-in-october/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The case can move forward toward a discovery phase — which allows the lawyers for the artists to peer inside AI image generator companies. https://venturebeat.com/ai/artists-celebrate-as-copyright-infringement-case-against-ai-image-generators-moves-forward/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

In several benchmark, Falcon Mamba 7B convincingly outperformed Llama 3 8B, Llama 3.1 8B, Gemma 7B and Mistral 7B.  https://venturebeat.com/ai/falcon-mamba-7bs-powerful-new-ai-architecture-offers-alternative-to-transformer-models/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Startup takes aim at making Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) easier to build and deploy for enterprises with a new RAG as a service model. https://venturebeat.com/ai/ragie-debuts-enterprise-rag-as-a-service-raises-5-5m-seed/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Mobile app ad data platform AppsFlyer released its gaming app marketing report, detailing monetization and user acquisition trends. https://venturebeat.com/games/appsflyer-state-of-gaming-report-user-acquisition/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Krafton announced in its quarterly earnings it has acquired Tango Gameworks, including rights to the Hi-Fi Rush intellectual property. https://venturebeat.com/games/krafton-acquires-hi-fi-rush-maker-tango-gameworks/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

The more AI plays a central role in our lives, the more we need to understand how we interact with and process the world. https://venturebeat.com/ai/from-data-to-insight-to-action-the-very-human-challenges-of-ai-transformation/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Like a Dragon: Yakuza, the upcoming Prime series, is inspired by the games -- but the cast and producer say they're making something fresh. https://venturebeat.com/games/like-a-dragon-series-actors-on-bringing-their-characters-to-life-kaser-focus/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Apple has announced an updated fee structure for purchases following the EU's DMA violation investigation -- and the fees are steep. https://venturebeat.com/games/apple-revises-fees-and-link-policies-following-eu-dma-investigation/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Enshrouded, the survival action roleplaying game from Keen Games, has reached 3 million players since its January early access launch. https://venturebeat.com/games/enshrouded-3m-players-keen-games/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Anthropic and Caylent partner to accelerate enterprise AI adoption, promising to cut implementation times by half and revolutionize business operations across industries. https://venturebeat.com/ai/anthropic-caylent-partnership-ai-deployment-times/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Diffusion Augmented Agent proposed by the Imperial College and DeepMind team, is designed to enable agents to learn tasks more efficiently. https://venturebeat.com/ai/imperial-college-london-deepmind-introduce-embodied-agents-that-learn-with-less-data/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Browser game platform Arkadium is now offering publishing support to third-party developers, as well as a $1 million fund. https://venturebeat.com/games/arkadium-opens-publishing-to-third-party-devs-establishes-support-fund/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

With one line of code, users can process requests on Snowflake's Cortex AI in a different region even if an LLM isn’t available in theirs. https://venturebeat.com/ai/llm-not-available-in-your-area-snowflake-now-enables-cross-region-inference/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Nazara Technologies, a publicly traded gaming and sports media company in India, has acquired Fusebox Games in the U.K. for $27.2 million. https://venturebeat.com/games/nazara-acquires-fusebox-games-for-27-2m/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

You can only watch Disney Horizons Live from D23 live via a special Fortnite island. https://venturebeat.com/games/disney-fans-can-tune-into-fortnite-for-theme-park-announcements-and-more/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Xbox and PlayStation players can explore Black Desert Console's new region, Mountain of Eternal Winter, starting today. https://venturebeat.com/games/black-desert-console-mountain-of-eternal-winter-launch/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Thirdverse, one of Japan’s prolific virtual reality game companies, has appointed Masaru “Nogi” Ohnogi as CEO. Ohnogi will become a representative director and CEO of the company on August 8 under a new management structure to strengthen its overseas growth strategy. Under this new structure, Masaru Ohnogi, formerly director and chief business officer in charge […] https://venturebeat.com/games/thirdverse-appoints-masaru-ohnogi-as-ceo-to-drive-vr-games-forward/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Sony reported higher gaming sales and operating income than expected in Q1 FY24 and has raised its projections for the year in response. https://venturebeat.com/games/sonys-gaming-q1-revenue-grows-12-yoy-ups-fy24-projections/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

OpenAI quietly releases a cheaper, more powerful GPT-4o update as the company faces leadership exodus and fierce competition in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. https://venturebeat.com/ai/openai-quietly-releases-gpt-4o-update-amid-leadership-turmoil/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Napkin is an AI-based tool for visual storytelling for business people to bring life to their presentations using generative AI. https://venturebeat.com/ai/napkin-uses-visual-ai-to-automate-business-storytelling/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Backed by Lakestar, Sisu Game Ventures & Griffin Gaming Partners, Chamo aims to bring a diverse European approach to its "non-lethal" FPS. https://venturebeat.com/games/chamo-games-founded/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Yield Guild Games (YGG) Pilipinas has partnered with Immutable to promote the Guild of Guardians Web3 game. https://venturebeat.com/games/ygg-pilipinas-and-immutable-partner-to-promote-guild-of-guardians-web3-game/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

For workers fear being left behind and worry their current skillset will soon become obsolete, there are several courses of action to take. https://venturebeat.com/programming-development/tech-workers-who-adopt-a-wait-and-see-approach-to-ai-will-be-left-behind-in-the-jobs-race/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

EdgeCortix is pioneering energy-efficient AI processors for the edge. It's a mighty dream, obstructed only by this little company worth $2.76 trillion called Nvidia. https://venturebeat.com/ai/edgecortix-is-making-energy-efficient-ai-chips-and-software-for-the-edge/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

S&P Global partners with Accenture to launch an ambitious AI training program for 35,000 employees, revolutionizing financial data analysis and decision-making on Wall Street. https://venturebeat.com/ai/sp-global-partners-with-accenture-launches-massive-ai-training-program-for-35000-employees/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Riverlane has raised $75 million in funding to build its quantum error correction technology. https://venturebeat.com/ai/riverlane-raises-75m-for-quantum-computing-error-correction/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Five Nights at Freddy's is crossing over with Dead By Daylight to celebrate 10 years of killer animatronics. https://venturebeat.com/games/fnaf-dead-by-daylight-crossover-anniversary/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Dig VR is a new VR sim title where you operate a digger -- and it's a both funnier and more thoughtful than you might think. https://venturebeat.com/games/dig-vr-is-a-funny-vr-working-sim-with-unexpected-heart/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Warner Bros brings Beetlejuice to Roblox in a new branded experience, along with a virtual Fandango box office for buying real tickets. https://venturebeat.com/games/warner-bros-launches-beetlejuice-roblox-experience-with-virtual-box-office/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Now.gg has partnered with Netmarble to bring South Korean company's Tower of God: New World collectible RPG title to the cloud. https://venturebeat.com/games/now-gg-debuts-netmarbles-tower-of-god-new-world-on-cloud-in-japan-and-u-s/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Amber, a video game development agency in Bucharest, Hungary, has acquired the Colombian game studio Madbricks. https://venturebeat.com/games/amber-acquires-madbricks-game-studio-in-colombia/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Study finds threat actors are increasingly targeting physical supply chains and tampering with device hardware and firmware integrity. https://venturebeat.com/security/hp-wolf-not-just-software-attacks-hackers-are-coming-for-enterprise-hardware-too/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

People thought the internet would fail. So could we be underestimating gen AI's long-term potential as we focus on short-term challenges? https://venturebeat.com/ai/gen-ais-awkward-adolescence-the-rocky-path-to-maturity/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Effective, sustainable use of gen AI requires a flexible training program within a culture that values collective, continuous learning. https://venturebeat.com/ai/in-the-age-of-gen-ai-upskilling-learn-and-let-learn/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

To be sure, the path from gen AI Act 1 to Act 2 will not be a straight one. It will require effort we've never seen before. https://venturebeat.com/ai/act-2-in-gen-ai-lets-get-ready-now/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

From Bungie's adding their numbers to the layoff counter to Game Informer shutting down so abruptly, it's been a bleak week for Rachel Kaser. https://venturebeat.com/games/bungie-game-informer-and-earnings-reports-kaser-focus/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Character AI’s founding team, Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, along with some members of its research team, will join Google. https://venturebeat.com/ai/google-strikes-licensing-deal-with-character-ai-and-poaches-top-executives-for-deepmind/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

GameStop has shut down the iconic, long-running gaming magazine, Game Informer, after 33 years and 367 issues. https://venturebeat.com/games/game-informer-shut-down-gamestop/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=blogger

Riot Games released Valorant on Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Japan and Brazil. https://bit.ly/3MaVGM5

Borderlands the movie is coming out on August 9 in theaters as the latest gaming intellectual property that has gone Hollywood. https://bit.ly/3WpKLTg

Hedra released its AI video model Character-1 after raising cash from Index Ventures, A16Z Speedrun and Abstract. https://bit.ly/3WxIOEb

To develop Whisper-Medusa speech recognition model, aiOla modified Whisper’s architecture to add a multi-head attention mechanism. https://bit.ly/3Sxeb0E

Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro revolutionizes AI with top LMSYS scores, outperforming GPT-4 and Claude-3.5, promising transformative impact across industries while raising ethical questions. https://bit.ly/3yddFOx

Mountaintop's first game is Spectre Divide, a 3v3 multiplayer tactical shooter game with an unique twist: you get two bodies. https://bit.ly/4dsqymA

Google is bringing Gemini to BigQuery and Looker while expanding the power of the Spanner database for gen AI. https://bit.ly/3Wtqlsz

Google, IBM, Microsoft, SAP and other tech giants say ICT work will be transformed, and we must prepare now. https://bit.ly/3LOfLr9