Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson’s blockchain technology startup Lamina1 releases a whitepaper on building an open metaverse, dubbed Theee Metaverse (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

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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  —  Nvidia today announced its first software- and infrastructure-as-a-service offering — Nvidia Omniverse Cloud …

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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.

Taryn Plumb / VentureBeat:
CyberCube, a cyber risk analytics service for insurers, raised $50M from Morgan Stanley Tactical Value, bringing its total raised to over $100M  —  Undoubtedly, cybersecurity — and the management of risk — is top of mind for most business leaders today.  —  Consider that nearly 75% …

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Isovalent, the creator of open-source networking and security solution for cloud environments Cilium, has raised a $40M Series B led by Thomvest Ventures  —  There’s no question that Kubernetes has become the new enterprise standard when it comes to building and operating modern applications.