This is the regular post where I share updates about things happening in gaming, machine learning, audio, or frankly anything that catches my eye and seems relevant to share or discuss here. Let’s hop right in! Tencent is currently involved in negotiations with the U.S. government around its stakes in Epic and Riot, and the … Continue reading Industry News [May 2021] →

This is the regular post where I share updates about things happening in gaming, machine learning, audio, or frankly anything that catches my eye and seems relevant to share or discuss here. Let’s hop right in! While Microsoft's talks to acquire Discord appear to have fallen through, they did acquire Nuance, a Boston-based speech analysis … Continue reading Industry News [Month of April 2021] →

This is the regular post where I share updates about things happening in gaming, machine learning, audio, or frankly anything that catches my eye and seems relevant to share or discuss here. Let’s hop right in! Lots of notable funding news over the last week or two. In particular, two different platforms with very different … Continue reading Industry News [Week of March 29 2021] →

This is the regular post where I share updates about things happening in gaming, machine learning, audio, or frankly anything that catches my eye and seems relevant to share or discuss here. Let’s hop right in! Roblox officially went public and rapidly hit a momentous $45b valuation. Among other things, what remains most impressive to … Continue reading Industry News [Week of March 15 2021] →

This is the regular post where I share updates about things happening in gaming, machine learning, audio, or frankly anything that catches my eye and seems relevant to share or discuss here. Let’s hop right in! An extension to last week's news about Google's interactions with its former AI ethics research team; Google found itself … Continue reading Industry News [Week of March 1 2021] →

This is the regular post where I share updates about things happening in gaming, machine learning, audio, or frankly anything that catches my eye and seems relevant to share or discuss here. Let’s hop right in! The big news in AI ethics of the last few weeks has been around Google's evolving...misadventures, to use a … Continue reading Industry News [Week of Feb 22 2021] →

This is the regular post where I share updates about things happening in gaming, machine learning, audio, or frankly anything that catches my eye and seems relevant to share or discuss here. Let’s hop right in! Epic Games announced a powerful new tool which utilizes Unreal to allow for deeply realistic human avatar creation. The … Continue reading Industry News [Week of Feb 8 2021] →

This is the regular post where I share updates about things happening in gaming, machine learning, audio, or frankly anything that catches my eye and seems relevant to share or discuss here. Let’s hop right in! Google Stadia announced a major shift, transitioning from a potential game studio to solely focusing on distributing other games … Continue reading Industry News [Week of Feb 1 2021] →

This is the regular post where I share updates about things happening in gaming, machine learning, audio, or frankly anything that catches my eye and seems relevant to share or discuss here. Let’s hop right in! Microsoft filed a patent outlining a process for using machine learning models to "resurrect" individuals who have died. The … Continue reading Industry News [January 2021] →

This is the regular weekly post where I share updates about things happening in gaming, machine learning, audio, or frankly anything that catches my eye and seems relevant to share or discuss here. Let’s hop right in! Epic Games purchased an old mall to serve as its new headquarters. This is not necessarily huge news, … Continue reading Industry News [Kicking off 2021] →