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Jeff Bezos, Nvidia Corp. and other big technology names are investing in a business that's developing human-like robots, according to people with knowledge of the situation, part of a scramble to find new applications for artificial intelligence.

Venture capital firm A16Z Games has invested $75 million into its third annual accelerator for pre-seed game startups.

Chinese tech and entertainment giant Tencent has upped its stake in Swords of Legends publisher Wangyuan Shengtang to take control of the company.

Hiring in crypto isn't heating up as fast as the recent rally the space has seen on expectations of an imminent approval of a US exchange-traded fund investing directly into Bitcoin.

Some investors in OpenAI, makers of ChatGPT, are exploring legal recourse against the company's board, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday, after the directors ousted CEO Sam Altman and sparked a potential mass exodus of employees.

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Venture capital firm Peak XV Partners said the latest batch of its accelerator program are made up mainly of AI and deep tech startups, as global investors jostle to be early in such companies.

Upland has raised $7 million in funding for its virtual land metaverse based on Web3 technology.

Venture capital funding in the U.S. fell to its lowest level in six years in terms of venture deal value and the lowest level in deal count in three years during the third quarter.

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Space Rock Games has raised $1.2 million for a video game studio working on a game called Criminals Within.

Venture capital funding in video games fell to its lowest in three years last quarter.

New studio Rascal Games has raised $4.2 million in a seeding round led by game venture capital firm Patron.

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Today, Inworld AI announced it has received a new round of funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners and big corporations like Microsoft (through its M12 fund), Samsung Next, and LG (through Technology Ventures). Even Stanford University and Eric Schmidt's First Spark Ventures participated in this investment round. In previous rounds, other big companies and investment funds like Section 32, Intel Capital, Founders Fund, the Disney Accelerator, BITKRAFT Ventures, The Venture Reality Fund, Kleiner Perkins, CRV, Meta, Micron Ventures, NTT Docomo Ventures, and SK Telecom Venture Capital had pitched in.