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Players invested 8.34B hours into Blizzard titles in 2024, says studio | VentureBeat

Blizzard has released its 2024 End-of-Year report, detailing the amount of player investment in its titles across the year.

Perplexity's Carbon integration will make it easier for enterprises to connect their data to AI search | VentureBeat

With the acquisition of Carbon, Perplexity will expand the knowledge pool powering its AI search engine, making its responses more relevant.

Large language overkill: How SLMs can beat their bigger, resource-intensive cousins | VentureBeat

Whether a company begins with a proof-of-concept or live deployment, they should start small, test often and build on early successes.

Nvidia AI Enterprise 2.1 bolsters support for open source | VentureBeat

Nvidia updated its AI Enterprise to version 2.1, providing new tools to help run AI and ML workloads for enterprise use cases.

AWS re:Inforce: BigID looks to reduce risk and automate policies for AWS cloud | VentureBeat

BigID announced extended auto-detection and automated discovery for AWS accounts and datasets, with security access controls for AWS cloud.

A deep dive into Capital One's cloud and data strategy wins | VentureBeat

Pair programming driven by programming language generation | VentureBeat

We are now seeing the evolution of intelligent systems that can understand an objective, comprehend context and generate code.

Shining a light on equal pay and the wage gap | VentureBeat

Developers can bring their own models to Qualcomm's AI Hub | VentureBeat

Qualcomm's AI Hub is allowing developers to import models and optimizing them for use in AI PCs. It also now supports Snapdragon X processors.

Once frenemies, Elastic and AWS are now besties | VentureBeat

It has been a frosty few years for Amazon and Elastic, but the two companies have emerged as the best of buddies.

4 emerging tech cities for new graduates | VentureBeat

Alongside the well-established technology centers, there are a growing number of emerging locations that are offering huge opportunities.

Enterprise VR training company Strivr raises $35M to help reskill the workforce | VentureBeat

Strivr, the enterprise-focused virtual reality (VR) training platform used by Walmart and Bank of America, has raised $35 million.

How AI can improve services revenue and customer success | VentureBeat

Having real-time data that can be modeled using AI and machine learning can help to solve customer success challenges today.

Report: 95% of businesses have a customer success function | VentureBeat

It’s clear that strategic, data-driven investments in customer success make a huge difference to the bottom line.

How AI can improve services revenue and customer success | VentureBeat

Having real-time data that can be modeled using AI and machine learning can help to solve customer success challenges today.

Immutable and Sequence team up on Web3 in-game and cross-game experiences | VentureBeat

Immutable and Sequence, two companies that support Web3 game development, announced a strategic partnership and technical integration.

Genies launches Parties for brands and creators to launch their own 'AI Roblox' | VentureBeat

Genies, an avatar technology company, has launched Parties after developing its foundational technology stack since the last fundraise.

Will Sam Altman always win the OpenAI board fight in an AI agent simulation? | VentureBeat

Fable built its AI Sim Francisco "war game" to find out why OpenAI's behind closed doors board fight turned out the way it did.

What's it going to take to get cryptocurrency widely accepted? | VentureBeat

There’s a long road before consumers believe that crypto and NFTs are secure, and they become universally accepted. How do we get there?

Midnite raises $16M for Gen Z-focused esports betting apps | VentureBeat

PlayVS adds Hearthstone to high school esports platform | VentureBeat

Astro Bot wins Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2024 | VentureBeat

Team Asobi's Astro Bot is the winner of Game of the Year at the 10th anniversary of The Game Awards for 2024.

Geopolitics and AI will affect the chip industry in 2025 | KPMG | VentureBeat

AI is making semiconductor leaders more optimistic about 2025, but headwinds could come from geopolitical and talent retention concerns.

Casual and cute exploration in Revenge of the Savage Planet | hands-on preview | VentureBeat

GamesBeat had a chance to play Revenge of the Savage Planet in a hands-on preview.