Dungeons & Dragons gets its very own streaming channel

After the film “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” became a hit, topping $200 million at the worldwide box office, Hasbro wants more. Hasbro-owned production company eOne announced Thursday... Read more »

‘AI-powered’ VC firm Vela emerges from stealth with $25M under management

Six years ago, Yi?it Ihlamur, a former senior program manager at Google, observed that AI was surpassing human capabilities in certain areas — at least by his estimation. Equipped... Read more »

GitHub’s Thomas Dohmke talks open source, AI and more on the Disrupt SaaS Stage

Stating the obvious, you can’t have software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies without software developers. Creative developers build the proprietary and open-source code that fuels commercial engines around the world. Yet as... Read more »

Elon Musk says he has found a new CEO for Twitter

Elon Musk has found a new CEO for Twitter and says she will be starting in about six weeks, but did not specify who will be taking on the... Read more »

Teenage Engineering teases the tape recorder of my dreams, only it’s digital

The kooky geniuses at Teenage Engineering are back with a new gadget that is guaranteed to make you salivate until its price tag smacks you back to reality. The... Read more »

Hands on with Google’s AI-powered music generator

Can AI work backward from a text description to generate a coherent song? That’s the premise of MusicLM, the AI-powered music creation tool Google released yesterday during the kickoff... Read more »

Pudgy Penguin’s $9M seed round could point to a growing NFT industry

Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Earlier this week, Pudgy Penguins, an NFT collection that also doubles as a web3 IP company, raised $9 million for its seed round. Why... Read more »

Project Starline is the coolest work call you’ll ever take

I don’t have any images from my Project Starline experience. Google had a strict “no photos, no videos” policy in place. No colleagues, either. Just me in a dark... Read more »

Keepon, carry on

I’m back in the South Bay this week, banging away at an introduction in the hotel lobby a few minutes before our crew heads to Shoreline for Google I/O.... Read more »

TuSimple continues its slide into the ether with new delisting warning

It wasn’t that long ago that self-driving trucks company TuSimple was on a tear — raising funds, locking in partnerships and hitting some development milestones that seemed to push... Read more »
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