Nvidia unveils its first SaaS and IaaS offering, Omniverse Cloud, a services suite for artists, developers, and enterprise teams to build and run metaverse apps (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson’s blockchain technology startup Lamina1 releases a whitepaper on building an open metaverse, dubbed Theee Metaverse  —  Neal Stephenson’s Lamina1 blockchain technology startup dropped a white paper today on building the open metaverse.  It’s quite the manifesto.

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Discord debuts Activities to bring group experiences like playing games and watching videos to Voice Channels, an App Directory, Premium App Subscriptions, more  —  Discord announced a number of upgrades to its platform today, including activities where users can play casual games with each other.

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Activision Blizzard reports Q3 net bookings down 3% YoY to $1.83B vs. $1.7B est., and MAUs down 6% YoY to 368M; Modern Warfare II made $1B+ in its first 10 days  —  Activision Blizzard reported that its bookings for the third quarter ended September 30 fell 3% to $1.83 billion compared to a year ago.

Sharon Goldman / VentureBeat:
OpenAI releases DALL-E API in public beta, letting developers integrate DALL-E into their apps and products; the API is priced per image  —  Get ready, developers: Today, OpenAI released the hotly anticipated DALL-E API in public beta, which means developers can now integrate DALL-E directly into their apps and products.

David Pierce / The Verge:
Google updates its Workspace enterprise suite, adding integration with Atlassian, Figma, and other services, releasing new APIs for Chat and Meet, and more  —  Google’s Cloud Next developer event is today, and the Google Workspace team is using the opportunity to announce a number of new tools across Gmail …

Stephanie Condon / ZDNet:
Nvidia and Microsoft plan to build an AI supercomputer in the cloud, making Azure the first public cloud to incorporate Nvidia’s full AI stack  —  Nvidia and Microsoft announced Wednesday a multi-year collaboration to build an AI supercomputer in the cloud, adding tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs to Microsoft Azure.