https://www.christiandefazio1196.comRSS Feed for Christian DeFazioenThu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://gamesbeat.com/artificial-agency-launches-behavior-engine-to-create-games-that-feel-alive/Artificial Agency, an AI startup pioneering generative behavior for gaming, announced the alpha launch of its flagship product. It’s an AI-powered behavior engine meant to revolutionize how games are developed and played. (function(d,s,n){ var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; js=d.createElement(s); js.className=n; js.src="//player.ex.co/player/9d9239bf-7367-42df-9c40-0354ac127bff"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs); }(document,"script","exco-player")); The technology is now ava...Thu, 10 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://gamesbeat.com/artificial-agency-launches-behavior-engine-to-create-games-that-feel-alive/https://fortune.com/2025/06/10/exclusive-ex-meta-ai-leaders-agent-web-yutori/The trio is widely regarded as among the world’s most elite AI talent.  All three are veteran ex-Meta researchers who helped lead the company’s high-profile generative AI efforts—and before that, ran labs together at Georgia Tech. Devi Parikh led Meta’s multimodal AI research team. Dhruv Batra headed up embodied AI, building models that help robots navigate the physical world. And Abhishek Das was a research scientist at Meta’s Fundamental AI Research lab, or FAIR. A year ago, Parikh and Das...Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0100https://fortune.com/2025/06/10/exclusive-ex-meta-ai-leaders-agent-web-yutori/https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/former-meta-executives-raise-15-million-ai-assistant-startup-2025-03-27/Anna Tong is a correspondent for Reuters based in San Francisco, where she reports on the technology industry. She joined Reuters in 2023 after working at the San Francisco Standard as a data editor. Tong previously worked at technology startups as a product manager and at Google where she worked in user insights and helped run a call center. Tong graduated from Harvard University.Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/former-meta-executives-raise-15-million-ai-assistant-startup-2025-03-27/https://apnews.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-video-games-npc-c1327bb9130136d0a5f658f44176c5e7LOS ANGELES (AP) — For decades, video games have relied on scripted, stilted interactions with non-player characters to help shepherd gamers in their journeys. But as artificial intelligence technology improves, game studios are experimenting with generative AI to help build environments, assist game writers in crafting NPC dialogue and lend video games the improvisational spontaneity once reserved for table-top role-playing games.In the multiplayer game “Retail Mage,” players help run a magical...Wed, 25 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://apnews.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-video-games-npc-c1327bb9130136d0a5f658f44176c5e7https://qz.com/ai-startup-artificial-agency-raise-video-game-character-1851598325A startup with the first-ever artificial intelligence-powered “behavior engine” for characters in video games just raised $16 million.Canada-based AI startup Artificial Agency announced it has come out of a year in stealth mode and raised $16 million in funding from investors including Radical Ventures and Toyota Ventures. The startup, founded by a group of former Google DeepMind researchers, said the funding will go toward developing its flagship product, which allows game developers to make vi...Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://qz.com/ai-startup-artificial-agency-raise-video-game-character-1851598325https://fortune.com/2024/06/18/canada-startup-waabi-raises-200-million-generative-ai-self-driving-trucks/© 2025 Fortune Media IP Limited. All Rights Reserved. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy | CA Notice at Collection and Privacy Notice | Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information FORTUNE is a trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, registered in the U.S. and other countries. FORTUNE may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Offers may be subject to change without notice. © 2025 Fortune Media IP Limited. All Rights...Tue, 18 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0100https://fortune.com/2024/06/18/canada-startup-waabi-raises-200-million-generative-ai-self-driving-trucks/https://heatmap.news/technology/ocean-carbon-removal-vestaWhen visitors flock to the beach this summer in Duck, North Carolina, a small, 6-mile long town on the Outer Banks, they may catch a glimpse of a climate experiment happening among the waves. About 1,500 feet offshore, a company called Vesta will be pouring 9,000 tons of sand into the sea and watching carefully to see what happens next. This finely crushed rock will not be of the typical Outer Banks variety. Instead, it will consist of a mineral called olivine, which should enhance the ocean’s Thu, 21 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://heatmap.news/technology/ocean-carbon-removal-vestahttps://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/28/raquel-urtasun-cnbc-changemakers.htmlCompany: Waabi Title: Founder & Chief Executive Officer Industry: Technology Hometown: Pamplona, Spain Notable in 2023: Accelerated the deployment of AI-driven autonomous trucks. Rachel Urtasun has a vision to help solve supply chain delivery woes. Her company Waabi focuses on developing self-driving trucks, but it's relying on artificial intelligence first and foremost to advance its technology quicker than competitors. It's paying off. In September 2023, Waabi's AI-powered software and sWed, 28 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/28/raquel-urtasun-cnbc-changemakers.htmlhttps://www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-startups-betting-on-pulverized-rocks-for-carbon-removalTo many industry observers, “carbon removal” conjures visions of extreme feats of engineering: whirring fans that suck in air or wells built to inject carbon underground. But to some, the industry’s potential looks just like sand. Direct air capture is easily the buzziest carbon removal pathway, but it is far from the only one being explored. Forecasts suggest DAC plants will remove less than one gigaton of carbon from the air by 2050. By then, IPCC projections suggest the world may need to be rFri, 16 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-startups-betting-on-pulverized-rocks-for-carbon-removalhttps://elevate.ca/speakers/aidan-gomez/“Aidan Gomez is Cofounder and CEO at Cohere, a company kickstarting a new chapter in machine learning by giving developers and businesses access to NLP that generates, categorizes, and organizes text at a scale that was previously unimaginable. Prior to Cohere, Aidan co-authored the paper “Attention is All You Need,” which introduced the groundbreaking Transformer architecture. He also collaborated with a number of AI luminaries, including Geoff Hinton and Jeff Dean, during his time at Google BrFri, 16 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://elevate.ca/speakers/aidan-gomez/https://www.fastcompany.com/next-big-things-in-tech/2022It would be nearly impossible these days to find a sector in the economy that isn’t reinventing itself. As technology evolves at an ever-accelerating clip, companies big and small are turning to pioneering approaches in areas such as generative AI, Web3, and automation to create smarter, better, and (increasingly) more sustainable products and services. Yet, even in the crowded world of innovation, a number of brands stand out. A panel of 22 Fast Company editors and writers selected this year’sFri, 16 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://www.fastcompany.com/next-big-things-in-tech/2022https://time.com/6338489/ai-work-jobs/Artificial intelligence is widely expected to transform our lives. Leaders from across the sector gathered for a TIME dinner conversation on Nov. 30, where they emphasized the need to center humans in decisions around incorporating the technology into workflows and advocated for governments and industry leaders to take a responsible approach to managing the risks the technology poses. As part of the TIME100 Talks series in San Francisco, senior correspondent Alice Park spoke with panelists CyntFri, 01 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://time.com/6338489/ai-work-jobs/https://www.businessinsider.com/the-ai-100-2023-the-people-who-make-ai-intelligent-2023-10It may seem like AI emerged in the mainstream consciousness from nowhere. But not everyone is surprised. For prescient researchers, founders, and others who make up Insider's AI 100, this moment was inevitable. Even among those who predicted this moment, the speed with which AI has arrived on the world stage has been startling. And it's led to mixed reactions; first, a wave of wonder, followed by a period of deep skepticism. AI has become a Rorschach test: Ask someone about it, and they'll reTue, 10 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://www.businessinsider.com/the-ai-100-2023-the-people-who-make-ai-intelligent-2023-10https://archive.ph/xqqlVA growing number of startups are attempting to do so, using techniques that range from carbon-capturing machines to sequestering bio-oil underground. And some are turning to the ocean — which already absorbs about a quarter of all CO2 emissions — as a potential solution, including San Francisco-based Vesta.Thu, 28 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://archive.ph/xqqlVhttps://time.com/collection/time100-ai/6310653/aidan-gomez/idan Gomez was just 20 years old when he co-authored a research paper that would change the entire AI industry. It was 2017 and Gomez, then a Google intern, joined a team of researchers writing “Attention Is All You Need”; it proposed a novel neural network technique called the transformer that would learn relationships between long strings of data. Gomez and his seven colleagues raced to finish the paper for inclusion at a major AI conference, even sleeping in the office to make the deadline. Thu, 07 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/6310653/aidan-gomez/https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/6310622/raquel-urtasun/hen it comes to technology trends, there are some counterintuitive upsides to getting in late, says Raquel Urtasun. “There is a huge advantage to be a second mover,” she says. The former chief scientist at Uber’s self-driving unit founded autonomous-trucking startup Waabi in 2021, half a decade after the sector’s hype surge of the mid-2010s. Many of the companies founded during that period failed to deliver on their lofty ambitions, and Urtasun, who is also a professor of computer science at theThu, 07 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/6310622/raquel-urtasun/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgLX6-ohBPENatural language sits at the heart of human intelligence. It is the unique skill that unambiguously separates us from other species and provides a window into how our minds process the world. As we continue to equip machines with the ability to understand and respond to language, people are beginning to realize the full potential of this technology. In this session, Cohere founder and CEO Aidan Gomez joins author and political commentator Stephen Marche to discuss the importance of the next 18 months for AI, and to explore how the technology will propel an intellectual workforce revolution – similar to how the steam engine propelled an industrial revolution more than 100 years ago. @CollisionHQFri, 28 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgLX6-ohBPEhttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/154049/uploads/21f17bc2-d946-439b-a362-a3ea23093844.pdfFri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/154049/uploads/21f17bc2-d946-439b-a362-a3ea23093844.pdfhttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/154049/uploads/73773a5c-9bc2-4c5a-beac-673bfba1774d.pdfFri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/154049/uploads/73773a5c-9bc2-4c5a-beac-673bfba1774d.pdfhttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/154049/uploads/efa12bea-5e7e-4e6a-963c-921303eae08f.pdfFri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/154049/uploads/efa12bea-5e7e-4e6a-963c-921303eae08f.pdfhttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/154049/uploads/90799072-82f1-47a8-9a35-f47421617953.pdfFri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/154049/uploads/90799072-82f1-47a8-9a35-f47421617953.pdfhttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/154049/uploads/5df81c55-4b11-4d7c-8149-0f1959e2b63f.pdfFri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/154049/uploads/5df81c55-4b11-4d7c-8149-0f1959e2b63f.pdfhttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/154049/uploads/48de9ec4-6f38-4f7a-bb7d-21962333781f.pdfFri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/154049/uploads/48de9ec4-6f38-4f7a-bb7d-21962333781f.pdfhttps://media.journoportfolio.com/users/154049/uploads/07b8fbcf-cfc3-48fb-8b81-16e989d3d3c0.pdfFri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://media.journoportfolio.com/users/154049/uploads/07b8fbcf-cfc3-48fb-8b81-16e989d3d3c0.pdfhttps://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-enterprise-tech/episodes/541?autostart=falseJohn Brisco, CEO and Co-Founder of Coherent talks about a SAS service to unlock the data in your spreadsheets.Fri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-enterprise-tech/episodes/541?autostart=falsehttps://www.barrons.com/articles/oracle-stock-enterprise-ai-cloud-apps-3d16a8c1The recent run-up in Oracle shares reflects an acceleration in the company’s public cloud business, driven in part by a strong position serving companies creating generative AI applications. But Oracle hasn’t said much about how it plans to include generative AI in its own enterprise applications.Tue, 13 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://www.barrons.com/articles/oracle-stock-enterprise-ai-cloud-apps-3d16a8c1https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/video/~2706192• The U.S. Fed is failing in four ways: Mohamed A. El-Erian • Apple, JPMorgan turn to pay now grow later • Remote Working Boom Is Huge for College Towns Like Knoxville • Dismal U.S. GDP report raises the odds of recession this year: Gary Shilling • Musk is wrong for Twitter even if deal math works out • Chocolate bunnies can teach us to save our food supply • The Fed has made a U.S. recession inevitable • Four-day workweeks can burn you out • U.S. Fed expects a soft landing. Don't count on itMon, 12 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/video/~2706192https://awfulannouncing.com/podcasts/israel-gutierrez-talks-four-years-of-heat-podcast.htmlThe “Four Years of Heat” podcast, hosted by Israel Gutierrez. The Miami Heat’s current run to the NBA Finals (which begin Thursday night) has worked out very nicely for a new podcast. That would be “Four Years of Heat,” hosted by veteran sports journalist Israel Gutierrez (known for his work at ESPN, The Miami Herald, and more). The limited-series narrative podcast, a partnership between iHeartPodcasts and the NBA, has Gutierrez “dive deep into the story of what happened during the four years LThu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://awfulannouncing.com/podcasts/israel-gutierrez-talks-four-years-of-heat-podcast.htmlhttps://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/09/cohere-disruptor-50.htmlGenerative AI is all over the news these days, but Cohere is taking a slightly different tack. Rather than offering the service to the public a la ChatGPT from this year's top disruptor OpenAI, the startup focuses on enterprise customers. The company's platform lets developers and businesses of all sizes — even those without expertise in machine learning — integrate AI features like copywriting, search, conversational AI, summarization or content moderation in their company's mobile app or servTue, 09 May 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/09/cohere-disruptor-50.htmlhttps://www.forbes.com/lists/ai50/?sh=8e512be290f4Meanwhile, a flock of fledgling startups have taken advantage of the investor frenzy to assemble sizable businesses. While the rest of venture capital suffers from the market pullback, the AI sector has boomed. Adept, Anthropic and Cohere are among companies founded in the last two years to have secured hundreds of millions in investment. Midjourney and Surge AI, on the other hand, have rapidly amassed impressive customer bases without raising a cent.Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0100https://www.forbes.com/lists/ai50/?sh=8e512be290f4