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The open-source AI debate: Why selective transparency poses a serious risk

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More As tech giants declare their AI releases open — and even put the word in their names — the once insider term “open source” has burst into the modern zeitgeist. During this precarious time in which one company’s misstep could set back the public’s comfort with AI by a decade or more, the concepts of openness

Jason Corso, University of Michigan, Voxel51 March 22, 2025

Minecraft adds two new game drops and more movie details

Minecraft announced details for the next two game drops, Spring to Life and the next vanilla game drop, a visual upgrade called Vibrant Visuals. Minecraft also announced movie updates, including an exclusive clip from A Minecraft Movie and details about an in-game live event during the Minecraft Live broadcast. Players will be able to experience new variants of the chicken, pig, and cow, along with new ambient features and sounds on March 25, 2025. Additionally,

Dean Takahashi March 22, 2025

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Less is more: UC Berkeley and Google unlock LLM potential through simple sampling

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More A new paper by researchers from Google Research and the University of California, Berkeley, demonstrates that a surprisingly simple test-time scaling approach can boost the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs). The key? Scaling up sampling-based search, a technique that relies on generating multiple responses and using the model itself to verify them. The core

Ben Dickson March 21, 2025

Monica Harrington was the hidden figure of Valve in its critical early years | The DeanBeat

It’s funny how people slip out of history. The story of Valve’s formation in its critical early years and how it made the original Half-Life is an inspiring one. I was one of the people who attempted to capture the story of the storytelling shooter game, but my relatively short story in 1998 for the Wall Street Journal left a key contac…Read More

Dean Takahashi March 21, 2025

Elda Entertainment will publish Overseer Games’ Kaiserpunk on March 21

Elda Entertainment and Overseer Games announced that Kaiserpunk, a grand city building and world conquest game, is marching toward a launch on March 21. Elda Entertainment is a brand-new publisher with a vision to deliver the best management games, and it’s teamed up with Zagreb, Croatia-based Overseer Games on the project. Blending productio…Read More

Dean Takahashi March 21, 2025

Small models as paralegals: LexisNexis distills models to build AI assistant

LexisNexis fine-tuned Mistral models to build its Protege AI assistant, relying on distilled and small models for its AI platform.Read More

Emilia David March 20, 2025

Remedy unveils FBC: Firebreak — a 3-player co-op multiplayer FPS in the Control universe

Remedy Entertainment unveiled a new gameplay trailer for FBC: Firebreak, a three-player co-op FPS where the Federal Bureau of Control’s first-response unit must contain an escalating paranatural threat. When the Oldest House, the Bureau’s shifting headquarters, falls under siege by a relentless paranatural force, only Firebreak – its most adaptabl…Read More

Dean Takahashi March 20, 2025

ESA launches a major accessibility initiative at GDC

The ESA introduced the Accessible Games Initiative to provide players with information about accessibility features in video games.Read More

Dean Takahashi March 20, 2025

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OpenAI’s new voice AI model gpt-4o-transcribe lets you add speech to your existing text apps in seconds

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI‘s voice AI models have gotten it into trouble before with actor Scarlett Johansson, but that isn’t stopping the company from continuing to advance its offerings in this category. Today, the ChatGPT maker has unveiled three new proprietary voice models: gpt-4o-transcribe, gpt-4o-mini-transcribe and gpt-4o-mini-tts. These models will initially be available through the ChatGPT maker’s application programming

Carl Franzen March 20, 2025

LightSpeed Studios will focus on original IP in future games

LightSpeed Studios, a global game developer, said at GDC 2025 it is revealing the “Original IP Initiative,” a new strategic focus centered on developing original game titles. Game industry veterans from LightSpeed Studios took the stage at GDC 2025, to reveal plans for its decisive focus on the creation of original IP. Steve C. Martin will un…Read More

Dean Takahashi March 20, 2025

The open-source AI debate: Why selective transparency poses a serious risk

Minecraft adds two new game drops and more movie details

Less is more: UC Berkeley and Google unlock LLM potential through simple sampling

Monica Harrington was the hidden figure of Valve in its critical early years | The DeanBeat

Elda Entertainment will publish Overseer Games’ Kaiserpunk on March 21

Small models as paralegals: LexisNexis distills models to build AI assistant

Remedy unveils FBC: Firebreak — a 3-player co-op multiplayer FPS in the Control universe

ESA launches a major accessibility initiative at GDC

OpenAI’s new voice AI model gpt-4o-transcribe lets you add speech to your existing text apps in seconds

LightSpeed Studios will focus on original IP in future games

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