January 27, 2025

Phoenix Labs, the maker of Dauntless and Fae Farm, has laid off a majority of its staff two years after it was quietly acquired by blockchain gaming firm Forte. The layoffs came a month after releasing an unpopular update for Dauntless on Steam, and just before another game was set to go into early access, according to comments from employees laid off on social media. In a post on Bluesky and LinkedIn, Phoenix Labs announced

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The release of the DeepSeek R1 reasoning model has caused shockwaves across the tech industry, with the most obvious sign being the sudden sell-off of major AI stocks. The advantage of well-funded AI labs such as OpenAI and Anthropic no longer seems very solid, as DeepSeek has reportedly been able to develop their o1 competitor at

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More DeepSeek, the fast-growing Chinese AI company, is shaking up global technology yet again. Just as the rapid rise of the company’s frontier AI models triggered a sell-off of U.S. artificial intelligence stocks, the company launched a brand new product: Janus Pro 7B, an open-source vision-based AI model. (You can try a demo right here.) This unexpected release from DeepSeek

0G Labs has introduced ERC-7857, a new NFT standard created specifically for AI agents. They call these agents Intelligent NFTs (iNFTs), each carrying its own encrypted metadata. The group hopes this format will make AI agents easier to buy, sell, and use on decentralized platforms. They also see it as a big step toward AI governed by its owners rather than a central team. This means everyone, from businesses to individual developers, could potentially trade