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Gamescom Latam Big Festival awards kick off with lifetime award for Shu Yoshida
Venture Beat - 1 May 2025 01:01
The Gamescom Latam Big Festival 2025 awards kicked off today in Sao Paulo, Brazil, starting with a lifetime achievement award for Shu Yoshida, who championed indies at Sony’s PlayStation division during his decades of ...
Hidden costs in AI deployment: Why Claude models may be 20-30% more expensive than GPT in enterprise settings
Venture Beat - 1 May 2025 22:14
It is a well-known fact that different model families can use different tokenizers. However, there has been limited analysis on how the process of "tokenization" itself varies across these tokenizers. Do all tokenizers r...
Monopoly Go passes $5B in gross bookings at a speed unseen in mobile gaming
Venture Beat - 1 May 2025 19:01
Scopely announced today that Monopoly Go! has surpassed $5B in gross bookings, the fastest title in mobile game history to do so.
Astronomer's $93M raise underscores a new reality: Orchestration is king in AI infrastructure
Venture Beat - 1 May 2025 15:00
Astronomer secures $93 million in Series D funding to solve the AI implementation gap through data orchestration, helping enterprises streamline complex workflows and operationalize AI initiatives at scale.
Microsoft launches Phi-4-Reasoning-Plus, a small, powerful, open weights reasoning model!
Venture Beat - 1 May 2025 14:41
The release demonstrates that with carefully curated data and training techniques, small models can deliver strong reasoning performance.
U.S. veterans say games support their mental health and well being | ESA report
Venture Beat - 1 May 2025 14:00
The ESA touted the benefits of games for U.S. veterans, with 77% of veterans saying they believe games have a positive impact on their lives.
Salesforce takes aim at 'jagged intelligence' in push for more reliable AI
Venture Beat - 1 May 2025 14:00
Salesforce unveils groundbreaking AI research tackling "jagged intelligence," introducing new benchmarks, models, and guardrails to make enterprise AI agents more intelligent, trusted, and consistently reliable for busin...
Gillette and EA Sports FC partner on in-game ads and soccer Ultimate Team packs
Venture Beat - 1 May 2025 14:00
Gillette and EA Sports FC have partnered in a global brand deal aimed at elevating how fans experience the game of soccer on and off the pitch.
Epic Games touts victory in latest court ruling in Apple antitrust case
Venture Beat - 1 May 2025 02:12
A federal district court judge found that Apple willfully violated a court order in Epic Games vs. Apple antitrust case.