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• Games for Change honors Player 2’s Alyssa Sweetman with Vanguard Award
  Games for Change announced the winners of its Special Awards today, including its most recent Vanguard Award. This year, the award goes to Alyssa Sweetman, currently the director of strategy at Player 2 and founder of Ideation Forge. Sweetman was also the program manager for social impact at Twitch. According to Games for Change, they […]
• Most gamers say it’s easier to be themselves in-game | Fandom
  According to Fandom's 2024 edition of its Inside Gaming study, two thirds of gamers say it is easier to be themselves while playing games.
• Exclusive: Inflection AI reveals new team and plan to embed emotional AI in business bots
  Inflection AI announces its new executive team, including CEO Sean White, CTO Vibhu Mittal, COO Ted Shelton, product lead Ian McCarthy.
• Kyndryl and Nvidia team to enable and accelerate enterprise generative AI adoption
  Kyndryl and Nvidia join forces to empower businesses with the tools and expertise to develop and deploy successful generative AI projects.
• Unity for Humanity awards grants to drive social change
  Unity, the maker of the Unity game engine, announced 2024 Unity for Humanity grant winners and honorees, all of whom will receive bespoke awards from a pool of $500,000. Judged based on the vision, impact, inclusion, and viability of their projects, the eight winners will also receive technical support from Unity to bring these projects […]
• Why data breaches have become ‘normalized’ and 6 things CISOs can do to prevent them
  It’s crucial that CISOs and their teams ensure employees are aware of vulnerabilities, and build a system resilient to breaches.
• From sci-fi to reality: The dawn of emotionally intelligent AI
  The future might see AI becoming an integral part of emotional support networks, providing companionship that feels empathetic and informed.
• Jace Hall wants to talk about how to celebrate gamers and their big achievements
  Jace Hall, the CEO of Twin Galaxies, has a big idea to bring attention to gamers and their achievements.
• Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ protagonists are perfect and here’s why | Kaser Focus
  Ubisoft has revealed its new game, Assassin's Creed: Shadows, and Rachel Kaser is fascinated by the dual protagonists.
• Google launches ‘Model Explorer’, an open source tool for seamless AI model visualization and debugging
  Google's new open source tool, Model Explorer, revolutionizes AI transparency by enabling smooth visualization and debugging of complex machine learning models, paving the way for more responsible AI development and deployment.
• TL;DR? ElevenLabs now lets you add voiceover narration to your website
  The new Audio Native embeddable audio player automatically narrates web page content via ElevenLab's text-to-speech technology. 
• Agents of manipulation (the real AI risk)
  Artificial agents will make our lives better. At the same time, these superpowers could easily be deployed as agents of manipulation. 
• Xbox’s latest Transparency Report details AI usage in player safety
  Xbox has released its fourth Transparency Report, in which it details updates on its safety measures and how its incorporating AI.
• Resilience and adaptation on display at GamesBeat Summit 2024 | The DeanBeat
  It's been a tough time in the game industry lately and I'd like to think of our GamesBeat Summit 2024 event as an oasis.
• RSAC 2024 reveals the impact AI is having on strengthening cybersecurity infrastructure
  Quickly progressing from first-generation chatbots to an essential ingredient of the high-octane fuel that’s running hyperscalers and cybersecurity platforms, AI’s dominance at RASC 2024 proves it is the DNA of cybersecurity.  RSAC’s theme of “the art of the possible” sums up how cybersecurity vendors are looking to capitalize on the inherent strengths of the technology. […]
• OpenAI’s former superalignment leader blasts company: ‘safety culture and processes have taken a backseat’
  Jan Leike has taken to his personal account on X to post a lengthy thread of messages excoriating OpenAI and its leadership.
• Arena Breakout: Infinite devs on building a military sim for all gamers
  The developers at MoreFun speak with GamesBeat about building its new military FPS, Arena Breakout: Infinite for all gamers.
• RenderATL is a tech conference dedicated to diverse perspectives in Atlanta
  RenderATL is a different kind of tech conference that is far away from the tech heartland of Silicon Valley.
• Yelp for government contracting? Procurated launches Canary
  Canary seeks to empower both state governments in evaluating suppliers, and suppliers in evaluating their performance.
• ChatGPT now lets you import files directly from Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive
  Users can find it by clicking the tiny paper clip icon to the left of their prompt/text entry bar at the bottom of the ChatGPT interface.