One of the talks at GDC was Baldur's Gate 3 director talking about how the game has changed and how the developers accounted for iteration.

The Game Developers Conference was a whirlwind this year -- what did GamesBeat's Rachel Kaser take away from the experience?

The #1ReasonToBe panel has had a strong legacy at the GDC. It has been dormant, but the session returned at this year's GDC.

The tech has obviously huge implications for those who record themselves speaking often, be they podcasters, voice over artists, performers.

At GDC, GamesBeat writer Jordan Fragan spoke with Xsolla execs about new forms of mobile monetization in a still-uncertain market.

xAI says that the new model will initially become available to early testers and those already using the Grok chatbot on the X platform.

Skich started out as a discovery and recommendation app for mobile games and now creating its own alternative app store.

Joost Van Dreunen has made a career out of helping people understand the game industry. We sat with him for a recent interview.

Google DeepMind researchers have developed a new AI system that excels in fact-checking, outperforming human annotators and saving costs, but critics question what 'superhuman' really means in this context.

What makes this achievement particularly notable is the efficiency of the model???it achieves these speeds without compromising on precision.

SydeLabs launched its red teaming solution, SydeBox, on March 1, 2024, and has since seen adoption from 15+ enterprises that have detected over 10,000 vulnerabilities across 50+ applications/models.

MineOS enters the high-stakes race for enterprise AI governance with a new module designed to peer inside the black box of AI systems and provide the visibility needed for oversight and control.

Larry Hryb made a name for himself during a long career at Xbox. Players best knew him as Major Nelson, and he would serve as a bridge between the company and its fans via podcasts and videos. Last year, he announced his departure from Xbox. Now hes been active in new ways to contribute to?[]

VB LAB INSIGHTS: Presented by Xsolla Live on the show floor of GDC 2024, GamesBeat lead writer Dean Takahashi took the temperature of the game industry in a conversation with Xsolla???s president David Stelzer and Chris Hewish, chief strategy officer at Xsolla. Their discussion focused largely on the company???s most recent State of Play report, recapping the last?[]

According to AI21 Labs Jamba can outperform traditional transformer-based models on generative reasoning tasks as measured by benchmarks such as HellaSwag.

This AI Impact Tour stop will bring together leaders in generative AI and enterprise security, and features case studies from industry giants like Honeywell and Ally Financial, showcasing how they're both leveraging generative AI applications, but also using AI to revolutionize security operations.

Beyond working to block out safety and security-threatening prompt injection attacks, Microsoft has also introduced tooling to focus on the reliability of gen AI apps.

Story Protocol is teaming up with art platform Magma to help millions of artists monetize their creations through programmable IP.

According to Lightning AI, the compiler Thunder achieves up to a 40% speed-up for training LLMs when compared to unoptimized code in real-world scenarios.

Hume AI's EVI may have just set a new standard in mind-blowing human-like interactivity, intonation, and speaking qualities..

Pocket Worlds has launched Highrise Studio and Highrise 4.0 to empower creators to easily build and monetize virtual experiences.

Wargaming cofounder Nick Katselapov has launched Mika Games, a gaming investment ??ompany that aims to invest $50 million in mobile game studios.

Shifty Eye Games has raised $580,500 in funding from Canadian government groups and recruited a trio of game industry veterans as advisers.

While LLMs excel at semantic interpretation, their ability to interpret complex spatial and visual recognition differences is limited. Gaps in these two areas are why jailbreak attacks launched with ASCII art succeed.

Voice actor Sarah Elmaleh spoke at the GDC last week, but she also had a side duty, as she is chair of a union committee for SAG-AFTRA.

Benjamin Capital Partners has raised $5.5 million to invest in its cash rewards business built around the Benjamin app.

WorldWinner is celebrating its 25th anniversary with the launch of the Loter??a Fant??stica on Worldwinner.com and mobile apps.

Palworld creator Pocketpair just teamed up with Tencent, the world's biggest game company on cloud technology.

Take-Two announced today that it has acquired Borderlands developer Gearbox for $460M, over 60% less than what Embracer paid for it in 2021.

Researchers have taught AI models to think before responding to prompts ??? just as (most) people consider what to say before speaking.??

ValidMind, a regulatory compliance platform for AI risk management at banks, raises $8.1 million in seed funding to automate model validation and documentation.

GDC 2024 drew nearly 30,000 attendees to San Francisco's Moscone Center last week, with the numbers up 7% from 28,000 a year earlier.

According to Zscaler's report, manufacturing generates the most AI traffic, accounting for 20.9% of all AI/ML transactions, followed by finance and insurance (19.9%) and services (16.8%).

Anthropic has been on a tear lately, releasing its powerful, new Claude 3 family of large language models (LLMs).

When Savvy Games Group bought Scopely a year ago for $4.9 billion, some people wondered if it wasn't such a smart deal. Now? Brilliant.

Studio Don't Nod announced that it's restructuring around three branches, each based around a genre: RPG, narrative and action.

Snowflake, which has seen Observe evolve closely for years, plans to tap the startup???s observability capabilities.

Unlike other AI bot creation platforms, MyShell also issues its own blockchain-based cryptocurrencies that users can acquire.

There are more than 8,500 performance results in the MLCommons' latest benchmark, testing all manner of combinations and permutations of hardware, software and AI inference use cases.

Game veteran Bill Roper has unveiled Lunacy Games as a new studio working on an open world survival RPG set in the post-apocalyptic American West.