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Microsoft owns Activision Blizzard — now what? | Kaser Focus

October 15, 2023
GamesBeat Next unites gaming industry leaders for exceptional content, networking, and deal-making opportunities. Join us on Oct 23-24 in San Francisco.  Register Now In case you haven’t heard, Microsoft today finally completed its acquisition of Activision Blizzard King after 21 months of prep work and grappling with regulatory bodies. The $69 billion deal sees several of…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Sparta aims to revolutionize commodity trading with AI-driven forecasting

October 14, 2023
Sparta, a startup that provides live market intelligence and forecasting insight for commodity traders, has announced a series A funding round of $17.5 million. The funding round was led by technology venture capital firm FirstMark, alongside existing shareholder Singular. The startup has built a platform that aims to transform the way traders gather, process, analyze and interpret data to inform…
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Google adds AI image generation to Search — but there’s a catch

October 14, 2023
Google‘s artificial intelligence (AI) image generator for the masses is here … sort of. Hot on the heels of Adobe’s new Firefly 2 AI image generator, and OpenAI releasing its new DALL-E 3 image generator broadly within ChatGPT Plus (and offering it through investor/customer Microsoft’s Bing Image Creator), Google this week announced it, too, was putting a text-to-image generation AI…
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How AI and other tech are accelerating game development | Steven Collins interview

October 14, 2023
The acceleration of technological change is evident everywhere, and it’s benefiting games in unseen ways. In 2016, King had only 2,000 levels for Candy Crush Saga. As the publisher King turns 20, there are now 15,000 levels for Candy Crush Saga, which has helped the company generate $20 billion in revenue and five billion downloads to date. The game had 238 million monthly active users in the…
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