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War Robots mobile shooter hits 250M downloads

August 17, 2023
My.Games announced that its War Robots mobile shooter has surpassed 250 million registered players across all platforms. Built by its in-house game studio Pixonic, War Robots is currently available on the App Store, Google Play, and Steam, My.Games said. War Robots celebrated its ninth anniversary in April 2023, and it has generated more than $750 million inlifetime gross revenue and continues to…
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Ex-MZ CEO launches BeFake, an AI-based social media app

August 17, 2023
Alias Technologies, an AI company started by former Machine Zone CEO Kristen Garcia Dumont, has introduced BeFake, a social media app for digital self-expression. It’s built on the catch phrase, “Why be real when you can be fake?” The app, now available on both the App…
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OpenAI acquires startup founded by ex-Instagram talent for undisclosed sum

August 17, 2023
OpenAI is making more moves. The company behind ChatGPT and Dall-E 2 just announced it has acquired Global Illumination, Inc., a New York City-based startup founded in 2021 by a trio of former Facebook and Instagram workers — Thomas Dimson, Taylor Gordon and Joey Flynn, who worked on engineering and product design at the Meta companies, respectively. “Global Illumination is a company that has…
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Voiceflow raises $15M to build the ‘Figma’ of conversational AI

August 16, 2023
California-based Voiceflow, a startup looking to build the ‘Figma’ of conversational AI, today announced it has raised $15 million in a fresh round of funding led by OpenView Venture Capital. The company said it will use the capital to expand its product’s capabilities and enable more teams to build conversational AI agents targeting different use cases. The development comes at a time when…
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How FraudGPT presages the future of weaponized AI

August 15, 2023
FraudGPT, a new subscription-based generative AI tool for crafting malicious cyberattacks, signals a new era of attack tradecraft. Discovered by Netenrich’s threat research team in July 2023 circulating on the dark web’s Telegram channels, it has the potential to…
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US DoD AI chief on LLMs: ‘I need hackers to tell us how this stuff breaks’

August 15, 2023
On the main stage at the DEF CON security conference in a Friday afternoon session (Aug. 11), Craig Martell, chief digital and AI officer at the U.S. Defense Department (DoD), came bearing a number of key messages.  First off, he wants people to understand that large language models (LLMs) are not sentient and aren’t actually able to reason. Martell and the DoD also want more rigor in model…
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