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Sam Altman Goes Off at AI Skeptic

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-02 10:36:49

In the artificial intelligence world, there are two streams. One is the cool, analytical current of AI scholarship, flowing with genuine curiosity and drive to verify. The other is the boiling-hot torrent of commercial AI — excited, frenetic, gushing with utopian promises. As AI hype blasts off into the heavens, one notable tech critic asks an important question: which of these streams should drive AI development? Yesterday, neural scientist, AI scholar and outspoken OpenAI critic Gary Marcus

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Logitech unveils Flip Folio case and keyboard for iPad Pro and iPad Air

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-12-01 18:01:00

Logitech announced the Flip Folio, a protective case with a magnetically-storable keyboard for iPad Pro and iPad Air, designed to keep up with your lifestyle. It’s aimed at folks who are enjoying videos, creative projects, or just collaborating. Unlike existing keyboard cases for iPad, this full-size Bluetooth keyboard, with a compact design, allows for flexibility, letting you position your set-up exactly how you like. “We’ve designed Flip Folio to make the iPad experience both fun and functi

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Riot Games partners with T/Squared on EMEA esports

venturebeat.com Rachel Kaser 2025-12-01 20:01:55

Riot Games announced today that it has begun a strategic, regional partnership with T/Squared, the marketing agency within TEAM Group. T/Squared will support Riot Games EMEA’s business division, in particular its core products, the League of Legends EMEA Championships (LEC) and the Valorant Champions Tour EMEA (VCT), dealing with all sponsorship deals for the two events. According to Riot Games, its EMEA — Europe, Middle East and Africa — esports partners include Kia, KitKat, Red Bull and LG Ul

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360-degree camera maker Insta360 goes public in China

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-12-01 21:30:00

Insta360, a maker of 360-degree cameras and action cameras, went public in in an initial public offering in China. It’s a company for the age of vloggers. The company started in 2015 with the mission of helping people better capture and share their lives. It expanded worldwide and it is the No. 1 market leader in the U.S. in 360-degree cameras. On the Shanghai Stock Exchange, Insta360 went public at 182 yuan per share, or $25.32 a share. That set the company’s total value at 70 billion yuan, o

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Nvidia believes physical AI systems are a $50 trillion market opportunity

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-12-01 23:00:00

Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, is giving a keynote at the Nvidia GTC Paris event, where he said Nvidia’s physical AI systems are poised to revolutionize industries, with a $50 trillion market opportunity across factories, transportation, and humanoid robots. The company’s automotive business is expected to reach $5 billion this year, with a trillion-dollar potential as all cars become fully autonomous. But only 1% of the cars on the road today are L2+ capable today — suggesting a significant mark

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Unity launches new Audience Hub for privacy-first ad campaigns

venturebeat.com Rachel Kaser 2025-12-02 00:00:00

Unity today announced the launch of its new Audience Hub, which combines the company’s own privacy-first insights with third-party data sources to offer advertisers curated audience targeting. According to Unity, this new Hub offers audience intelligence without compromising data. The Audience Hub is now available to advertisers in the U.S. and Canada, with plans for a full global rollout soon. The Audience Hub is powered by Optable, with Experian as its initial third-party data partner. With t

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Maingear launches Ultima 18 gaming laptop with ‘extreme performance’

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-12-02 00:30:00

Maingear, a maker of high-end gaming PCs, unveiled its most powerful laptop to date, the 18-inch Ultima 18 with desktop-like specs. Developed in collaboration with Clevo, Ultima 18 aims to offer desktop-level specs in a gaming laptop — such as a 4K@200Hz G-Sync display, Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor, and up to an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 mobile GPU, all inside a chassis outfitted with metal lid and palm rest. Designed for elite gamers and creators who demand top-tier performance without co

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Story Kitchen and MoonHood Studios will bring The Midnight Walk game to film and TV

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-12-02 00:30:00

Story Kitchen, the film and TV company behind game adaptations like Sonic the Hedgehog and Tomb Raider, has teamed up with Swedish developer MoonHood Studios to adapt the critically acclaimed dark fantasy game The Midnight Walk for film and TV. Released last month to widespread acclaim, The Midnight Walk is a handcrafted claymation world of shadow and sorrow, a mysterious figure known as The Burnt One must journey through five haunting tales of fire and darkness—guided only by the flickering fl

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Quantum Art integrates Nvidia for its scalable quantum computers

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-12-02 02:00:00

Quantum Art a developer of full-stack quantum computers, has integrated Nvidia’s CUDA-Q hybrid quantum-classical platform into its “qubits.” The integration of Nvidia’s open-source platform into its advanced circuit compiler for logical qubits will advance the performance of scalable quantum computing real-world applications. The integration pairs Israel-based Quantum Art’s Logical Qubit Compiler which utilizes its unique Multi-qubit gates and Multi-Core architecture with NVIDIA CUDA-Q, an ope

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Wandercraft raises $75M for acceleration of AI-powered humanoid robotics and exoskeletons

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-12-02 02:00:00

Wandercraft, a maker of self-balancing robotic mobility systems, has secured $75 million in funding to accelerate AI-powered robotics. This influx of capital arrives during a time of rapid growth, increased global visibility, and product innovation in clinical, consumer, and industrial robotics. The Series D round came with major contributions from Renault Group, Bpifrance, the European Investment Bank, Teampact Ventures and Quadrant Management. The new funding will help propel Wandercraft in

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Lemony is a plug-and-play device for secure on-premise AI

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-12-02 02:00:00

Lemony launched a simple-looking device to deliver on-premise artificial intelligence to redefine how organizations deploy generative AI. Lemony’s secure, hardware-based node offers enterprise-grade ‘AI in a Box,’ empowering companies to run advanced, end-to-end AI workflows privately, instantly, and without cloud dependence. Lemony has secured a $2M seed funding round led by True Ventures. Lemony’s AI nodes are stackable and scalable, creating small, modular AI compute clusters that support s

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Outset raises $17M to replace human interviewers with AI agents for enterprise research

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-12-02 02:00:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Outset, a San Francisco startup that uses artificial intelligence to conduct market research interviews, has raised $17 million in Series A funding to accelerate adoption of its AI-moderated research platform among Fortune 500 enterprises. The round, led by venture capital firm 8VC with participation from Future Back Ventures by Bain & Com

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Hershey’s Kisses will feature 151 original Pokémon chocolates

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-12-02 02:00:00

Get ready, Trainers! The Hershey’s Kisses brand and The Pokémon Company International are introducing special-edition Hershey’s Kisses wrapped in collectible Pokémon foils. With 151 unique foil designs inspired by the original Kanto region Pokémon, every unwrapping is a chance to discover, trade and collect them all. From Pikachu to Mew, each Hershey’s Kisses chocolate is wrapped like a Poké Ball unveiling the classic, melt-in-your-mouth milk chocolate that fans have loved for generations. It’s

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Why most enterprise AI agents never reach production and how Databricks plans to fix it

venturebeat.com Sean Michael Kerner 2025-12-02 02:00:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Many enterprise AI agent development efforts never make it to production and it’s not because the technology isn’t ready. The problem, according to Databricks, is that companies are still relying on manual evaluations with a process that’s slow, inconsistent and difficult to scale. Today at the Data + AI Summit, Databricks launched Mosaic

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Asset sprawl, siloed data and CloudQuery’s search for unified cloud governance

venturebeat.com Taryn Plumb 2025-12-02 02:30:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Gaining visibility — and, ultimately, insights — into enterprise cloud assets is growing ever more challenging. Cloud estates are sprawling and fragmented, and inventory capabilities in existing tools can be narrow and unintuitive, separating elements like cost and security data into disconnected platforms with limited flexibility. Cloud

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Cubit Studios shows off Infinitesimals sci-fi game with small heroes and huge bugs | preview

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-12-02 04:00:00

Cubit Studios showed off its Infinitesimals sci-fi game with tiny characters and some very big bugs. It’s an upcoming third-person sci-fi action-adventure which will be published in 2026 by Epic Games Publishing. You’re kind of like a bug yourself, and you’re pitted against some much bigger ones. I got a demo from Cubit Studios at the Epic Games booth at the Summer Game Fest Showcase on Sunday. James McWilliams, founder of Cubit Studios and game director for Infinitesimals, and Mickaël Fourgea

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Resident Evil Requiem features terror in first and third-person views

venturebeat.com Mike Minotti 2025-12-02 04:00:00

Resident Evil Requiem was a big highlight from Summer Game Fest’s onslaught of announcements and trailers. The horror franchise’s ninth mainline installment is taking players back to the devastated and iconic Racoon City, this time playing as FBI agent Grace Ashcroft. It releases on February 27 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. I got to see an off-hands theater presentation of the game at Summer Game Fest Play Days. What I saw definitely felt in line with the direction the series has

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Playhouse MD reimagines pediatric healthcare with play

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-12-02 05:20:00

The two sisters running Playhouse MD are reimagining children’s healthcare through the transformative power of play. Sisters Sydney Wiseman, an award-winning toy creator, and Kaitlin Wiseman, a trusted family physician, are launching Playhouse MD. Sick days are never easy, for kids or their caregivers. From giving medicine to a squirming baby to battling midnight boogers, these small yet recurring tasks can feel huge and stressful. Playhouse MD was born from those very moments, designed to bri

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‘Generative AI helps us bend time’: CrowdStrike, Nvidia embed real-time LLM defense, changing how enterprises secure AI

venturebeat.com Louis Columbus 2025-12-02 05:39:08

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Generative AI adoption has surged by 187% over the past two years. But at the same time, enterprise security investments focused specifically on AI risks have grown by only 43%, creating a significant gap in preparedness as AI attack surfaces rapidly expand. More than 70% of enterprises experienced at least one AI-related breach in the pa

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Meow Wolf and Niantic Spatial explore expansion of multimedia art with AR

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-12-02 06:00:00

Meow Wolf, known for its story worlds and immersive multimedia art, has partnered with Niantic Spatial to explore multimedia art with augmented reality. They are working on a proof of concept to bring those worlds beyond the walls of physical exhibitions and into the world of AR. Niantic Spatial is a geospatial AI company transforming how people and machines understand and interact with the physical world. Together, the two companies are exploring how location-based AR—powered by Niantic’s Vis

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Databricks open-sources declarative ETL framework powering 90% faster pipeline builds

venturebeat.com Shubham Sharma 2025-12-02 06:29:32

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Today, at its annual Data + AI Summit, Databricks announced that it is open-sourcing its core declarative ETL framework as Apache Spark Declarative Pipelines, making it available to the entire Apache Spark community in an upcoming release. Databricks launched the framework as Delta Live Tables (DLT) in 2022 and has since expanded it to he

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Microsoft-backed Mistral launches European AI cloud to compete with AWS and Azure

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-12-02 06:51:22

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Mistral AI, the French artificial intelligence startup, announced Wednesday a sweeping expansion into AI infrastructure that positions the company as Europe’s answer to American cloud computing giants, while simultaneously unveiling new reasoning models that rival OpenAI’s most advanced systems. The Paris-based company revealed Mistral Co

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite’s AI character creation tool has ambitions beyond Darth Vader

venturebeat.com Giancarlo Valdes 2025-12-02 10:52:46

Epic Games took a big step with conversational AI when it added a new version of Darth Vader in Fortnite that could speak with players. But later this year, any creator using Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) will be able to make their own AI-powered characters with the same underlying technology behind Vader. During the 2025 State of Unreal keynote, Epic revealed that a new tool in UEFN called the Persona Device will allow anyone to create non-playable characters (NPCs) with AI-driven personal

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Nintendo sells 3.5M Switch 2 consoles in four days

venturebeat.com Dean Takahashi 2025-12-02 14:17:00

Nintendo of America announced that the Nintendo Switch 2 has sold over 3.5 million units worldwide in its first four days, becoming the fastest-selling Nintendo hardware ever globally. The new system went on sales on June 5 around the world, with fans lined up at midnight sales in a number of places. The Kyoto, Japan-based company said it hopes to sell 15 million Switch 2 consoles in its first year, on a pace to exceed growth of the original Switch. That’s a pretty good sales rate, despite an

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The Pentagon is gutting the team that tests AI and weapons systems

technologyreview.com James O'Donnell 2025-11-30 16:00:00

It is a significant overhaul of a department that in 40 years has never before been placed so squarely on the chopping block. Here’s how today’s defense tech companies, which have fostered close connections to the Trump administration, stand to gain, and why safety testing might suffer as a result. The Operational Test and Evaluation office is “the last gate before a technology gets to the field,” says Missy Cummings, a former fighter pilot for the US Navy who is now a professor of engineering

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IBM aims to build the world’s first large-scale, error-corrected quantum computer by 2028

technologyreview.com Sophia Chen 2025-11-30 17:00:00

IBM intends Starling to be able to perform computational tasks beyond the capability of classical computers. Starling will have 200 logical qubits, which will be constructed using the company’s chips. It should be able to perform 100 million logical operations consecutively with accuracy; existing quantum computers can do so for only a few thousand. The system will demonstrate error correction at a much larger scale than anything done before, claims Gambetta. Previous error correction demonstra

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The Download: IBM’s quantum computer, and cuts to military AI testing

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-11-30 20:10:00

The news: IBM announced detailed plans today to build an error-corrected quantum computer with significantly more computational capability than existing machines by 2028. It hopes to make the computer available to users via the cloud by 2029. What is it? The proposed machine, named Starling, will consist of a network of modules, each of which contains a set of chips, housed within a new data center in Poughkeepsie, New York. Why it matters: IBM claims Starling will be a leap forward in qua

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Inside Amsterdam’s high-stakes experiment to create fair welfare AI

technologyreview.com Eileen Guo 2025-12-01 21:00:00

Finding a better way Every time an Amsterdam resident applies for benefits, a caseworker reviews the application for irregularities. If an application looks suspicious, it can be sent to the city’s investigations department—which could lead to a rejection, a request to correct paperwork errors, or a recommendation that the candidate receive less money. Investigations can also happen later, once benefits have been dispersed; the outcome may force recipients to pay back funds, and even push some

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Why humanoid robots need their own safety rules

technologyreview.com Victoria Turk 2025-12-01 22:11:33

“If Digit’s going to walk out into an aisle in front of you, you don’t want to be surprised by that,” he says. The robot could use voice commands, but audio alone is not practical for a loud industrial setting. It could be even more confusing if you have multiple robots in the same space—which one is trying to get your attention? There’s also a psychological effect that differentiates humanoids from other kinds of robots, says Prather. We naturally anthropomorphize robots that look like us, whi

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The Download: Amsterdam’s welfare AI experiment, and making humanoid robots safer

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-12-02 00:10:00

Amsterdam thought it was on the right track. City officials in the welfare department believed they could build technology that would prevent fraud while protecting citizens’ rights. They followed these emerging best practices and invested a vast amount of time and money in a project that eventually processed live welfare applications. But in their pilot, they found that the system they’d developed was still not fair and effective. Why? Lighthouse Reports, MIT Technology Review, and the Dutch n

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Sam Altman Goes Off at AI Skeptic

Logitech unveils Flip Folio case and keyboard for iPad Pro and iPad Air

Riot Games partners with T/Squared on EMEA esports

360-degree camera maker Insta360 goes public in China

Nvidia believes physical AI systems are a $50 trillion market opportunity

Unity launches new Audience Hub for privacy-first ad campaigns

Maingear launches Ultima 18 gaming laptop with ‘extreme performance’

Story Kitchen and MoonHood Studios will bring The Midnight Walk game to film and TV

Quantum Art integrates Nvidia for its scalable quantum computers

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Lemony is a plug-and-play device for secure on-premise AI

Outset raises $17M to replace human interviewers with AI agents for enterprise research

Hershey’s Kisses will feature 151 original Pokémon chocolates

Why most enterprise AI agents never reach production and how Databricks plans to fix it

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Cubit Studios shows off Infinitesimals sci-fi game with small heroes and huge bugs | preview

Resident Evil Requiem features terror in first and third-person views

Playhouse MD reimagines pediatric healthcare with play

‘Generative AI helps us bend time’: CrowdStrike, Nvidia embed real-time LLM defense, changing how enterprises secure AI

Meow Wolf and Niantic Spatial explore expansion of multimedia art with AR

Databricks open-sources declarative ETL framework powering 90% faster pipeline builds

Microsoft-backed Mistral launches European AI cloud to compete with AWS and Azure

Unreal Editor for Fortnite’s AI character creation tool has ambitions beyond Darth Vader

Nintendo sells 3.5M Switch 2 consoles in four days

The Pentagon is gutting the team that tests AI and weapons systems

IBM aims to build the world’s first large-scale, error-corrected quantum computer by 2028

The Download: IBM’s quantum computer, and cuts to military AI testing

Inside Amsterdam’s high-stakes experiment to create fair welfare AI

Why humanoid robots need their own safety rules

The Download: Amsterdam’s welfare AI experiment, and making humanoid robots safer

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