Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Halliday has raised $20 million in Series A funding to develop AI agents that can safely operate on blockchain networks without requiring traditional smart contract development. The funding round, led by Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto arm (a16z…

Muse by Interaxon, a neurotechnology startup, unveiled Muse S Athena, a consumer wearable that can deliver advanced cognitive fitness insights. It does so by combining two powerful brain sensors: Electroencephalogram (EEG) to track brain activity and Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS), a technology that measures oxygen levels in the brain’s frontal cortex. Athena transforms real-time brain…

Operative Games, an AI-based interactive storytelling company, emerged today from stealth with backing from investors 1AM Gaming, Samsung Next, and LongJourney.vc. The company is creating immersive games and experiences where players can converse with genuinely thoughtful, lifelike AI characters that forge lasting emotional connections in the context of solving problems and navigating intricate stories together.…

For centuries, St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican has stood as one of the world’s most awe-inspiring landmarks—home to breathtaking art, architecture, and stories that have shaped history. Now, for the first time ever, students can step inside this legendary building and take on the role of its caretakers in Peter Is Here: AI for…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Over the weekend, Chinese web search giant Baidu announced the launch of two new AI models, ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1, a multimodal language model and reasoning model, respectively. Baidu claims they offer state-of-the-art performance on…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More French artificial-intelligence startup Mistral AI unveiled a new open-source model today that the company says outperforms similar offerings from Google and OpenAI, setting the stage for increased competition in a market dominated by U.S. tech giants.…

The current AI ecosystem wasn’t built with game developers in mind. While impressive in controlled demos, today’s AI technologies expose critical limitations when transitioning to production-ready games, said Kylan Gibbs, CEO of Inworld AI, in an interview with GamesBeat. Right now, AI deployment is being slowed because game developers are dependent on black-box APIs with…

Klang, the pioneering studio behind the ambitious simulation Seed, announced a strategic partnership with Google Cloud to bring its vision of a dynamic, AI-driven society to life. By using Google Cloud’s cutting-edge technologies, including Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Vertex AI, and Gemini model, Berlin-based Klang is creating a persistent, evolving virtual world inhabited by hundreds…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Global payments giant Visa operates in 200-plus countries and territories, all with their own unique, complex rules and regulations.  Its client services team must understand those nuances when policy-related questions come up — like ‘are we…