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Source: Venture Beat I’m a fan of transparency. Because, as the big newspaper says, “Democracy dies in darkness.” Read Full Article

Source: Venture Beat Authorities arrested GameOn Technology founder Alex Beckman and attorney Valerie Lau Beckman (a married couple) for allegedly defrauding investors of $60 million. Read Full Article

Source: Venture Beat G2 Esports announced the launch of a new media agency called 62, which aims to connect brands with gamers. Read Full Article

Source: Venture Beat The Royal Shakespeare Company announced it’s making its first video game alongside iNK Stories, an adaptation of MacBeth called Lili. Read Full Article

Source: Venture Beat DeepSeek has a free website and mobile app even for U.S. users with an R1-powered chatbot interface similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Read Full Article

Source: Venture Beat Circana’s December report reveals Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is 2024’s last big hurrah on the U.S. sales charts. Read Full Article

Source: Venture Beat Sakana found that self-adaptive models can modify their weights during inference to adjust behavior to new and unseen tasks. Read Full Article

Source: Venture Beat Savvy Games Group expanded its leadership team with former executive director of the International Game Developers Association Foundation, Nika Nour. Nour, who carries over a decade’s experience in games and esports, and held positions at Genvid Entertainment, Entertainment Software Association, Internet Association and more, joins Savvy Games Grou… Read Full Article

Source: Venture Beat Trump unveils ambitious $500 billion ‘Project Stargate’ AI initiative with tech giants OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank, sparking controversy as Elon Musk questions funding and environmentalists raise concerns about massive data centers. Read Full Article

Source: Venture Beat Hugging Face revolutionizes AI accessibility with new SmolVLM models that run on smartphones, outperform larger systems, and slash computing costs by 300x, making enterprise-grade vision AI affordable for businesses of all sizes. Read Full Article