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…
It started with the announcement of OpenAI’s o1 model in Sept. 2024, but really took off with the DeepSeek R1 release in Jan. 2025.
Now, it seems that most major AI model providers and trainers are in a new race to deliver better, faster, and cheaper “reasoning” AI…
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Intelligence measurement in AI is evolving beyond traditional benchmarks like MMLU, with new tests like ARC-AGI and Humanity’s Last Exam focusing on real-world reasoning. The GAIA benchmark assesses practical AI capabilities across web browsing, code…
Democratic Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and John Fetterman introduced the “Clean Cloud Act of 2025” this week, proposing regional emissions limits and financial penalties for cryptocurrency mining operations and artificial intelligence (AI) data centers that exceed environmental standards.
Senate Bill Aims to Impose Fines on High-Emitting Crypto Mines and Data Centers
The bill, formally titled…
Crypto scammers are sweeping through Hawaii with emotionally manipulative schemes that are draining millions from victims, exploiting fake friendships and fraudulent investments in digital currency.
Crypto Scams Sweep Through Hawaii—Victims Hooked by Fake Friendships
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Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto and economic news from Latin America over the past week. In this week’s edition, the Argentine lower chamber will investigate Libra’s launch, cryptocurrency can now be legally seized in Brazil, and the…
Based on a capable Volvo FM Electric 8×4 chassis, Putzmeister revealed one of the world’s largest all electric concrete pump trucks at the bauma equipment expo in Munich, Germany this week. The zero-emission concrete pumper can up to 50 km and pump approximately 50 cubic meters of concrete on a single charge.
50 km (a little over 30 miles) and 50 cubic meters (about 65 cubic yards) may not…
Volvo CE arrived at bauma 2025 in Munich, Germany with a groundbreaking (Ha!) electric line of heavy equipment options that includes the new A30 Electric articulated haul truck – a world’s first from the Swedish equipment brand!
Volvo CE is calling its bauma display a…
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…
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Writer, an Enterprise AI company, launched AI HQ to enable businesses to bridge the gap between AI potential and real-world results. The platform features autonomous agents for complex workflows, self-evolving models, and a $1.9 billion valuation with unique enterprise-focused models. Writer aims to transform industries by offering innovation partnerships in AI-native enterprise…
