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Elon Musk's xAI tries to explain Grok's South African race relations freakout the other day

14 hours ago | venturebeat.com | Carl Franzen

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Arm is rebranding its system-on-a-chip product designs to showcase power savings for AI workloads, targeting a surprising sector

1 day ago | venturebeat.com | Carl Franzen

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn MoreUK-based chip designer Arm offers the architecture for systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) that are used by some of the world’s largest tech brands, from Nvidia to Amazon to Google parent company Alphabet and beyond, all without ever manufacturing any hardware of its own — though that’s reportedly due to change this year.
OpenAI brings GPT-4.1 and 4.1 mini to ChatGPT - what enterprises should know

1 day ago | venturebeat.com | Carl Franzen

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn MoreOpenAI is rolling out GPT-4.1, its new non-reasoning large language model (LLM) that balances high performance with lower cost, to users of ChatGPT. The company is beginning with its paying subscribers on ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Team, with Enterprise and Education user access expected in the coming weeks.
Elon Musk's Grok AI is spamming X users about South African race relations now, for some reason

1 day ago | venturebeat.com | Carl Franzen

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn MoreElon Musk’s AI startup xAI has sought to compete with category leaders like OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic for individual consumers and app developers as customers, but a new development with its signature chatbot assistant Grok seems unlikely to help it win market share.
Schemata raises $5M for AI training program for defense and enterprise sectors

2 days ago | venturebeat.com | Dean Takahashi

AI company Schemata has come out of stealth and announced $5 million in seed funding to accelerate the development of its training platform. The company’s 3D reality capture, spatial AI, and contextual information can help the defense and enterprise sectors more rapidly and cost-effectively create photorealistic and interactive training programs. The new platform is already being piloted by the Department of Defense.
Layer raises $6.5M for next-generation production tools for game makers

2 days ago | venturebeat.com | Dean Takahashi

Layer, the AI application gateway built specifically for game developers, has raised $6.5 million in seed funding to make next-generation production tools. Layer acts as the glue for game studios to deploy AI quickly and efficiently, with a professional suite of tools to build, manage and refine 2D, 3D and video assets while significantly reducing production time. Layer helps scale content across production pipelines, making it easier to develop and maintain games of all types.
Remedy’s FBC: Firebreak will keep you busy exterminating the Hiss | hands-on preview

2 days ago | venturebeat.com | Dean Takahashi

I played hands-on with multiple missions in a preview Remedy Entertainment‘s FBC: Firebreak game. You’ll spend so much time exterminating monsters known as The Hiss that you’ll feel like a rodent exterminator. It’s a quirky game with beautiful triple-A graphics and some quirky humorous elements, like the presence of tons of paper sticky notes through some of the levels. It’s a co-op first-person shooter game, with online play for three players.
TaleMonster Games raises $7M to make casual mobile games

2 days ago | venturebeat.com | Dean Takahashi

TaleMonster Games, an Istanbul studio founded by Peak Games veterans on a mission to bring depth and creativity back to casual puzzle games, has raised $7 million in funding. The funding will accelerate development of the team’s first titles — including the match-3 game Match Valley — and support continued investment in the creative and technical foundations for a new generation of casual puzzle games.
Square Enix cancels action RPG game Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link

2 days ago | venturebeat.com | Dean Takahashi

Square Enix announced that it has canceled Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link, a GPS-based action role-playing game (ARPG) for mobile devices. The company said, “The Kingdom Hearts series will continue. We are hard at work on Kingdom Hearts IV, and hope you’ll continue to support the series as you keep an eye out for further updates.”Square Enix announced the game back in 2022, and it was originally slated for release in 2024. But the then it was delayed again.
Notion bets big on integrated LLMs, adds GPT-4.1 and Claude 3.7 to platform

2 days ago | venturebeat.com | Emilia David

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn MoreProductivity platform Notion is betting on large language models (LLMs) powering more of its new enterprise capabilities, including building OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 and Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 into their dashboard.