Koji raises $10 million so you can remix games and interactive content for social media
Koji has raised $10 million for its platform for creating interactive social media posts. It’s a remix tool that anyone can use to make...
Twitch suspends President Trump’s account for ‘hateful conduct’
Twitch has suspended President Donald Trump’s account from its platform, saying that he violated the streaming service’s policies by engaging in hateful conduct. The...
Facebook releases AI development tool based on NetHack
Facebook researchers believe the game NetHack is well-tailored to training, testing, and evaluating AI models. Today, they released the NetHack Learning Environment, a research...
Creative is king: UA advertising creative trends in 2020
Presented by Consumer Acquisition We’ve all seen big changes in user acquisition (UA) advertising in the last few years. Artificial intelligence (AI) is automating...
Google builds AI agent that learns to generalize to new environments by ignoring distractions
In a study earlier this year accepted to the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2020, Google researchers investigate the properties of AI software...
Zynga creates $25 million fund for promoting diversity education and charities
Zynga CEO Frank Gibeau said in a letter to employees today that the company is creating a $25 million fund to donate money or...
Google Assistant actions can now continuously listen for specific words
Google today detailed new tools for partners developing on Google Assistant, its voice platform used by over 500 million people monthly in 30 languages...
Amazon and Techstars announce inaugural Alexa Next Stage cohort
The Alexa Fund, Amazon’s $200 million venture fund for voice-focused startups, and Techstars today revealed the inaugural cohort of companies participating in Alexa Next...
AI model creates 3D avatars from a person’s picture
What if all it took to create a realistic digital avatar of a person was a single image? In a paper accepted to the...
Google launches Android 11 Beta 1, Kotlin coroutines, and Jetpack updates
Google today launched the first Android 11 beta with final SDK and NDK APIs as well as new 10 features. The company also released...