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Phonely's new AI agents hit 99% accuracy--and customers can't tell they're not human
Venture Beat - 3 Jun 2025 22:31
Phonely, Maitai and Groq achieve breakthrough in AI phone support with sub-second response times and 99.2% accuracy, enabling human-level conversational AI for call centers.
Snowflake's Openflow tackles AI's toughest engineering challenge: Data ingestion at scale
Venture Beat - 3 Jun 2025 19:16
At its annual summit, Snowflake announced Openflow, a data ingestion service that can integrate any data type from virtually any data source.
Beamdog unveils MythForce 1.2 update with hero customization
Venture Beat - 3 Jun 2025 18:00
Beamdog announced that MythForce 1.2, the game's most ambitious and content-rich update yet, will launch as a free update on June 26 across all platforms.
Star Wars, Squid Game, and more coming to Unreal Editor in Fortnite
Venture Beat - 3 Jun 2025 17:01
ORLANDO, Fla. - Fortnite creators will soon have a lot more toys to play with in Unreal Editor in Fortnite (UEFN). At the State of Unreal keynote today at Unreal Fest 2025, Epic Games announced a slew of new IP-based ass...
What game companies can learn from AI analysis of 1.5M gamer conversations | Creativ Company
Venture Beat - 3 Jun 2025 16:30
Creativ Company is emerging today as a new kind of market intelligence company. It uses AI to do do sentiment analysis.
Epic Games' MetaHuman creation tool launches out of early access
Venture Beat - 3 Jun 2025 16:29
ORLANDO, Fla. - MetaHuman, an innovative tool from Epic Games to quickly create realistic digital human characters, is now out of early access and available to all developers with today’s release of Unreal Engine 5.6. ...
The Witcher 4 tech demo shows off new features in Unreal Engine 5.6
Venture Beat - 3 Jun 2025 15:54
ORLANDO, Fla. - The Witcher 4 is still years away from release, but we now have a much better idea of what the open-world RPG will look like. CD Projekt Red showed off a gorgeous tech demo of The Witcher 4 during Epic Ga...
Rachel Kowert wins Games for Change Vanguard Award | exclusive interview
Venture Beat - 3 Jun 2025 15:15
Games for Change announced its 2025 special award winners, including Rachel Kowert as the winner of the gaming nonprofit's Vanguard Award.
Inside Intuit's GenOS update: Why prompt optimization and intelligent data cognition are critical to enterprise agentic AI success
Venture Beat - 3 Jun 2025 15:00
Intuit is using advanced genetic algorithms to help with prompt optimizations that could have significant impact for users.
Neowiz signs publishing deal with China's indie game studio Shadowlight
Venture Beat - 3 Jun 2025 15:00
Neowiz has signed a publishing deal with Chinese indie game developer Shadowlight for the global rights to their first title, Kill the Shadow.
Car and chipmakers form group to develop open in-car connectivity
Venture Beat - 3 Jun 2025 15:00
Automotive car makers, suppliers, semiconductor manufacturers and ecosystem partners announced the formation of the OpenGMSL Association.
Emptyvessel expands Defect game with $11M raised to date
Venture Beat - 3 Jun 2025 15:00
Emptyvessel announced it has raised $11 million to date, including its earlier seed round and latest Series A round.
Gaming's demographic reach: 36% of people ages 80 to 90 play video games | ESA
Venture Beat - 3 Jun 2025 14:00
The demographic reach of games even wider, as 36% of the Silent Generation (ages 80 to 90) is now playing video games weekly.