VentureBeatModel Context Protocol: A promising AI integration layer, but not a standard (yet)Enterprises should experiment with MCP where it adds value, isolate dependencies and prepare for a multi-protocol future.Read MoreJun 01, 2025
VentureBeatAugmented World Expo 2025 will draw 400 speakers, 6K attendees and 300 global exhibitorsAugmented World Expo 2025 will draw more than 6,000 attendees, 400 speakers and 300 global exhibitors to its event June 10 to June 12.Read MoreJun 01, 2025
VentureBeatWhen your LLM calls the cops: Claude 4’s whistle-blow and the new agentic AI risk stackClaude 4’s “whistle-blow” surprise shows why agentic AI risk lives in prompts and tool access, not benchmarks. Learn the 6 controls every enterprise must adopt.Read MoreJun 01, 2025
VentureBeatThe future of engineering belongs to those who build with AI, not without itAs we look ahead, the relationship between engineers and AI systems will likely evolve from tool and user to something more symbiotic.Read MoreMay 31, 2025
VentureBeatMicro Center nerd store fills the Fry’s vacuum with its return to Silicon ValleyMicro Center, an electronics retailer, has opened a store in Silicon Valley in California And so the nerd kingdom has returned.Read MoreMay 31, 2025
VentureBeatQwenLong-L1 solves long-context reasoning challenge that stumps current LLMsAlibaba's QwenLong-L1 helps LLMs deeply understand long documents, unlocking advanced reasoning for practical enterprise applications.Read MoreMay 31, 2025
VentureBeatZeniMax union reaches tentative agreement with MicrosoftZeniMax Workers United has reached a tentative contract agreement with Microsoft after two years of negotiation.Read MoreMay 30, 2025
VentureBeatElevenLabs debuts Conversational AI 2.0 voice assistants that understand when to pause, speak, and take turns talkingWith Conversational AI 2.0, ElevenLabs aims to provide tools and infrastructure for truly intelligent, context-aware enterprise voice agents.Read MoreMay 30, 2025
VentureBeatWhich LLM should you use? Token Monster automatically combines multiple models and tools for youThis architecture lets Token Monster tap into a range of models from different providers without having to build separate integrations for each one.Read MoreMay 30, 2025
VentureBeatThe challenges of translating The Last of Us to the television audience | The DeanBeatThere are many times when I've fantasized about being game director for The Last of Us and showrunner for its accompanying television show.Read MoreMay 30, 2025
VentureBeatBitkraft doubles down on Web3 games with added leadersBitkraft Ventures, an early-stage investment firm focused on games, has announced new leaders who will double down on Web3 gaming.Read MoreMay 30, 2025
VentureBeatAyzenberg Group aims to accelerate the growth of game companies with better marketingAzyenberg Group is launching a consulting business to accelerate the growth of game startups via marketing.Read MoreMay 30, 2025
VentureBeatCampFire Studio will launch Soulmask DLC on June 5Soulmask, a survival sandbox game developed by CampFire Studio and published by Qooland Games, has announced its first major cultural expansion, the free Golden Legend (Sanxingdui) DLC, coming on June 5. Inspired by ancient Sanxingdui...May 30, 2025
VentureBeatFLUX.1 Kontext enables in-context image generation for enterprise AI pipelinesFLUX.1 Kontext from Black Forest Labs aims to let users edit images multiple times through both text and reference images without losing speed.Read MoreMay 29, 2025
VentureBeatFortnite makes its data API public to offer creators more insightsEpic Games has launched the Fortnite Data API to the public, allowing anyone to access information about the company's own islands.Read MoreMay 29, 2025
VentureBeatDisney+ launches fan perks with Disney Pinnacle by Dapper LabsDisney+ has launched its always-on perks program with exclusive offers designed for subscribers. And with Disney is also launching Disney Pinnacle by Dapper Labs.Read MoreMay 29, 2025
VentureBeatEmotive voice AI startup Hume launches new EVI 3 model with rapid custom voice creationWhile EVI 3’s specific API pricing has not been announced yet (marked as TBA), the pattern suggests it will be usage-based.Read MoreMay 29, 2025
VentureBeatGamesBeat Summit 2025: Finding new ways for the industry to growThe days of double-digit growth in gaming are over. But there are still ways to expand the market if companies start thinking outside of the traditional business models. Read MoreMay 29, 2025
VentureBeatMinecraft sales grew 35% on both mobile and console after release of film | Sensor TowerA Minecraft Movie has generated $941 million in revenue at the worldwide box office, and it has also helped sales of the Minecraft game as well, Sensor Tower said.Read MoreMay 29, 2025
VentureBeatSocialpoint’s Two Dots celebrates 11th anniversary with a vacation sweepstakesSocialpoint's Two Dots game is is celebrating its 11-year anniversary today with its Tropical Paradise Dream Vacation Sweepstakes.Read MoreMay 29, 2025
VentureBeatBurgschneider blows past Kickstarter goals for Middle-earth Brandywine FestivalBurgschneider, a German live events company, has run way past its goals on Kickstarter to hold The Brandywine Festival.Read MoreMay 29, 2025
VentureBeatEncharge AI unveils EN100 AI accelerator chip with analog memoryEnCharge AI, a startup that raised $144 million to date, announced the EnCharge EN100, an AI accelerator built on analog in-memory computing.Read MoreMay 29, 2025
VentureBeatHow Snowflake’s open-source text-to-SQL and Arctic inference models solve enterprise AI’s two biggest deployment headachesNew open-source efforts from Snowflake aim to help solve that unsolved challenges of text-to-SQL and inference performance for enterprise AI.Read MoreMay 29, 2025
VentureBeatELO launches to remake game marketing with community-first visionELO, a new community building studio led by esports and gaming veterans Roald van Buuren and Wouter Sleijffers, has officially launched.Read MoreMay 29, 2025
VentureBeatDeepSeek R1-0528 arrives in powerful open source challenge to OpenAI o3 and Google Gemini 2.5 ProAdditionally, the model’s hallucination rate has been reduced, contributing to more reliable and consistent output.Read MoreMay 29, 2025
VentureBeatAppHarbr helps block malicious ads for mobile gamesFunCorp had an ad quality problem, so it turned to AppHarbr for a way to stop malicious ads from annoying users.Read MoreMay 29, 2025
VentureBeatDreamPark raises $1.1M to transform real-world spaces into mixed-reality theme parksDreamPark, the creator of what it calls "the world’s largest downloadable mixed reality (XR) theme park," said it has raised $1.1 million.Read MoreMay 29, 2025
VentureBeatMystic Moose unveils MovieFlo.AI to make user-generated filmsMystic Moose today announced the launch of MovieFlo.AI, an AI-powered storytelling and movie-making app for users and creators.Read MoreMay 29, 2025
VentureBeatPeer launches Global Simulation as real-time digital Earth with AI agentsPeer launched Global Simulation, a real-time digital Earth where players use avatars to connect by location and build relationships in a living, spatial network.Read MoreMay 29, 2025
VentureBeatDanaBot takedown shows how agentic AI cut months of SOC analysis to weeksAgentic AI played a decisive role in dismantling DanaBot, a Russian malware platform responsible for more than 50 million dollars in damages.Read MoreMay 29, 2025
VentureBeats3: The new RAG framework that trains search agents with minimal dataS3 decouples RAG search from generation, boosting efficiency and generalization for enterprise LLM applications with minimal data.Read MoreMay 28, 2025
VentureBeatMake a wish, because Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sold 3.3 million copiesDeveloper Sandfall Interactive announced today that its funky, turn-based RPG Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has sold 3.3 million copies within 33 days of its launch. This extraordinary coincidence has brought attention to the indie title,...May 28, 2025
VentureBeatMistral launches new code embedding model that outperforms OpenAI and Cohere in real-world retrieval tasksMistral's Codestral Embed will help make RAG use cases faster and find duplicate code segments using natural language.Read MoreMay 28, 2025
VentureBeatNvidia CEO takes a shot at U.S. policy cutting off AI chip sales to ChinaNvidia CEO Jensen Huang tiptoed into politics with a comment taking a shot at the U.S. policy that has cut off sales of his chips to China.Read MoreMay 28, 2025
VentureBeatNvidia beats estimates for Q1 results as revenues rise 69% from a year agoNvidia, the AI and graphics chip company driving societal changes with AI, reported revenue for the first quarter ended April 27, 2025, was $44.1 billion, up 12% from the previous quarter and up 69% from a year ago. On April 9, 2025, the...May 28, 2025
VentureBeatEA cancels Black Panther and closes game studio Cliffhanger GamesElectronic Arts confirmed that it has canceled its planned Black Panther game and closed the game studio making it, Cliffhanger Games. Cliffhanger Games opened in 2023 to make the Black Panther game as part of EA’s deal with Marvel for...May 28, 2025
VentureBeatLess is more: Meta study shows shorter reasoning improves AI accuracy by 34%New research from Meta reveals AI models achieve 34.5% better accuracy with shorter reasoning chains, challenging industry assumptions and potentially reducing computing costs by 40%.Read MoreMay 28, 2025
VentureBeatZiMad launches World Hunger Day event in its flagship gamesIn honor of World Hunger Day, game developer and publisher ZiMad is collaborating with the international nonprofit organization The Hunger Project to help fight hunger. ZiMad is launching a special “Small Actions. Big Change” campaign...May 28, 2025
VentureBeatRumi raises $4.7M to change passive media into interactive AI experiencesRumi, an AI media company, has raised $4.7 million in a pre-seed funding round to transform passive media with rewards.Read MoreMay 28, 2025
VentureBeatDiversion raises $12M in funding for its version control platform for creativesDiversion has raised $4.5 million in its latest funding round, led by Konvoy, bringing its total fundraise up to $12 million.Read MoreMay 28, 2025
VentureBeatSolo dev Adam Kugler reveals fantasy automation game MoteMancerAdam Kugler, a solo dev at CyanAvatar, is unveiling MoteMancer, a fantasy puzzle game where alchemy meets logistics.Read MoreMay 28, 2025
VentureBeatAkool Live Camera can translate video calls in real time, swap faces, and get live virtual avatars to mimic human movementsAkool Live Camera uses AI to capture human movement and mimic that movement with a generated virtual avatar in real time.Read MoreMay 28, 2025
VentureBeatOncade raises $4M to revamp game distribution with direct-to-consumer modelOncade, a new community-driven platform built to increase studio revenue through strengthening player engagement, raised $4 million.Read MoreMay 28, 2025
VentureBeatWheel of Time Games expands leadership team with 3 veteransWheel of Time Games announced the addition of three game industry veterans to beef up its studio in Montreal.Read MoreMay 28, 2025
VentureBeatIntel Extreme Masters moves esports tournament from Katowice to Kraków, PolandESL FaceIt Group, the esports company owned by Savvy Games Group, said the Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) esports tournament will move from Katowice to Kraków, Poland.Read MoreMay 28, 2025
VentureBeatSpott’s AI-native recruiting platform scores $3.2M to end hiring software chaosSpott secures $3.2 million in funding to build an all-in-one AI-native recruitment platform that automates workflows and eliminates tech fragmentation for recruitment agencies seeking to focus on high-value activities.Read MoreMay 28, 2025
VentureBeatEveryone’s looking to get in on vibe coding — and Google is no different with Stitch, its follow-up to JulesGoogle is looking to compete in vibe coding with Stitch, which designs user interfaces (UIs) with one prompt. Read MoreMay 28, 2025
VentureBeatAnthropic debuts Claude conversational voice mode on mobile that searches your Google Docs, Drive, CalendarWith the rollout of voice mode, Anthropic continues to broaden Claude's functionality and accessibility to all users.Read MoreMay 27, 2025
VentureBeatSecurity leaders lose visibility as consultants deploy shadow AI copilots to stay employedFearing sweeping layoffs driven by AI and automation, elite consultants and high performers are turning to shadow AI for a competitive edge.Read MoreMay 27, 2025
VentureBeatMistral launches API for building AI agents that run Python, generate images, perform RAG and moreFor professionals like the Lead AI Engineer or Senior AI Engineer, the Mistral Agents API represents a powerful addition to their AI toolkit.Read MoreMay 27, 2025
