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Storycraft raises $3M for social AI game to turn players into creators

Storycraft — the AI-powered game platform where players create, explore, and share their own interactive story worlds — has raised a $3 million seed round. The funding for the Montreal-based startup will accelerate the global multiplatform launch of Storycraft’s multiplayer mobile game built on Google Cloud, which combines AI creative tools, online community, and social storytelling in never…
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NTT launches physics of AI group and AI inference chip design for 4K video

NTT Research announced at its annual Upgrade event that it has started a new AI basic research group, dubbed the Physics of Artificial Intelligence Group. Physical AI has become a big deal in 2025, with Nvidia leading the charge to create synthetic data to pretest self-driving cars and humanoid robotics so they can get to market faster. NTT Research is launching its Physic of Artificial…
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Google Cloud intros AI security agents, unified security platform to consolidate ops, triage, threat intel

Enterprise infrastructure is increasingly complex, meaning protecting it is, too. The attack surface is more expansive than ever, and many enterprises have a patchwork quilt of security tools, making it difficult to gain a cohesive understanding of their security posture. Add in AI — and all the threats it brings — and security teams are scrambling to keep up. With a new Google Unified…
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The RAG reality check: New open-source framework lets enterprises scientifically measure AI performance

Enterprises are spending time and money building out retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. The goal is to have an accurate enterprise AI system, but are those systems actually working? The inability to objectively measure whether RAG systems are actually working is a critical blind spot. One potential solution to that challenge is launching today with the debut of the Open RAG Eval…
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