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LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman unveils 'super agency' vision at TED AI conference, takes subtle shot at Elon Musk
Venture Beat - 26 Oct 2024 01:36
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman introduces 'super agency' framework for AI development, dismissing near-term election risks while advocating for balanced regulation and human-AI collaboration in emerging cognitive techn...
The Sandbox launches multi-year partnership with King Kong of Skull Island
Venture Beat - 26 Oct 2024 00:30
The Sandbox has launched a multi-year partnership with King Kong of Skull Island to build a space inside its virtual world where you can build, own, and monetize your gaming experiences. The Sandbox has been creating Adv...
DeepMind and Hugging Face release SynthID to watermark LLM-generated text
Venture Beat - 25 Oct 2024 23:36
SynthID makes subtle changes to LLM-generated text to create a statistical signature while preserving the quality of the output.
OpenAI CEO responds to report of GPT-5 Orion coming later this year: 'Fake news out of control'
Venture Beat - 25 Oct 2024 17:31
It's an interesting quasi-denial given how precise The Verge report is, noting specific details about Orion's supposed release plans.
Mattel and Outright Games release Barbie Project Friendship
Venture Beat - 25 Oct 2024 12:40
Mattel and Outright Games today launched Barbie Project Friendship, on the PC and consoles. Players can join Barbie “Malibu” Roberts and Barbie “Brooklyn” Roberts as they team up to save the Malibu Waves Communit...
Cohere launches new AI models to bridge global language divide
Venture Beat - 25 Oct 2024 03:12
Cohere released two new open weight AI models from its Aya initiative that looks to expand LLM performance for languages other than English.
Anthropic's agentic Computer Use is giving people 'superpowers'
Venture Beat - 25 Oct 2024 03:05
Claude uses a computer essentially as a human does. People are using it for coding, researching, 'drudge work' and even to hail Uber rides.
Surgent Studios' next project is Project Uso, an Afro-Gothic RPG
Venture Beat - 25 Oct 2024 02:28
Tales of Kenzera: Zau developer Surgent Studios told VGC that it is working on a game that it calls an Afro-Gothic RPG.
DeepMind's Talker-Reasoner framework brings System 2 thinking to AI agents
Venture Beat - 25 Oct 2024 02:01
Talker-Reasoner is inspired by the two-system thinking cognitive framework proposed by Daniel Kahneman.