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Unreal Editor for Fortnite's AI character creation tool has ambitions beyond Darth Vader
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2025 22:52
Epic Games took a big step with conversational AI when it added a new version of Darth Vader in Fortnite that could speak with players.
Microsoft-backed Mistral launches European AI cloud to compete with AWS and Azure
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2025 19:51
Mistral AI partners with Nvidia to launch European AI infrastructure platform, challenging US cloud giants while unveiling breakthrough reasoning models that rival OpenAI.
Databricks open-sources declarative ETL framework powering 90% faster pipeline builds
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2025 19:29
With Apache Spark Declarative Pipelines, engineers describe what their pipeline should do using SQL or Python, and Apache Spark handles the execution.
Meow Wolf and Niantic Spatial explore expansion of multimedia art with AR
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2025 19:00
Meow Wolf, known for its story worlds and immersive multimedia art, has partnered with Niantic Spatial to explore multimedia art with AR.
'Generative AI helps us bend time': CrowdStrike, Nvidia embed real-time LLM defense, changing how enterprises secure AI
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2025 18:39
Falcon is now built into Nvidia's LLMs, delivering native runtime threat defense and eliminating blind spots across AI pipelines.
Playhouse MD reimagines pediatric healthcare with play
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2025 18:20
The two sisters running Playhouse MD are reimagining children's healthcare through the transformative power of play.
Cubit Studios shows off Infinitesimals sci-fi game with small heroes and huge bugs | preview
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2025 17:00
Cubit Studios showed off its Infinitesimals sci-fi game with tiny people and very big bugs. Life gets tough when you are 8 millimeters tall.
Resident Evil Requiem features terror in first and third-person views
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2025 17:00
Resident Evil Requiem was a big highlight from Summer Game Fest's onslaught of announcements and trailers.
Asset sprawl, siloed data and CloudQuery's search for unified cloud governance
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2025 15:30
CloudQuery's developer-first approach to cloud governance pulls data from 60-plus sources into a single, queryable data warehouse.
Why most enterprise AI agents never reach production and how Databricks plans to fix it
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2025 15:00
Databricks Agent Bricks automates enterprise AI agent optimization and evaluation, eliminating manual processes that block production deployments.
Quantum Art integrates Nvidia for its scalable quantum computers
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2025 15:00
Quantum Art a developer of full-stack quantum computers, has integrated Nvidia's CUDA-Q hybrid quantum-classical platform into its "qubits."
Wandercraft raises $75M for acceleration of AI-powered humanoid robotics and exoskeletons
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2025 15:00
Wandercraft, a maker of self-balancing robotic mobility systems, has secured $75 million in funding to accelerate AI-powered robotics.
Lemony is a plug-and-play device for secure on-premise AI
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2025 15:00
Lemony launched a simple-looking device to deliver on-premise artificial intelligence to redefine how organizations deploy generative AI.
Maingear launches Ultima 18 gaming laptop with 'extreme performance'
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2025 14:30
Maingear, a maker of high-end gaming PCs, unveiled its most powerful laptop to date, the 18-inch Ultima 18 with desktop-like specs.
Story Kitchen and MoonHood Studios will bring The Midnight Walk game to film and TV
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2025 14:30
Story Kitchen, the company behind game adaptations like Sonic, has teamed with MoonHood Studios to adapt The Midnight Walk for film and TV.
Unity launches new Audience Hub for privacy-first ad campaigns
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2025 14:00
Unity announced the launch of the Unity Audience Hub for advertisers, which offers targeting with a focus on data privacy.
Nvidia believes physical AI systems are a $50 trillion market opportunity
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2025 13:00
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, said Nvidia's physical AI systems are poised to revolutionize industries, with a $50 trillion market opportunity.
360-degree camera maker Insta360 goes public in China
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2025 11:30
Insta360, a maker of 360-degree cameras and action cameras, went public in in an initial public offering in China.
Riot Games partners with T/Squared on EMEA esports
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2025 10:01
Riot Games enters a strategic, regional partnership with marketing agency T/Squared to support its EMEA esports.
Logitech unveils Flip Folio case and keyboard for iPad Pro and iPad Air
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2025 09:01
Logitech announced the Flip Folio, a protective case with a magnetically-storable keyboard for iPad Pro and iPad Air.
Gaming VC activity settles into a new normal in Q1 | Pitchbook
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2025 06:01
In Q1, gaming VC activity may have finally settled into a new normal -- though it's a leaner, more selective market, PitchBook said.
AlphaSense launches its own Deep Research for the web AND your enterprise files -- here's why it matters
Venture Beat - 11 Jun 2025 02:49
Every report generated by Deep Research includes clickable citations to underlying content, enabling both verification and deeper follow-up.