I found a relatively cheap, good-enough solution to cat warfare.
Harvey Smith of Dishonored and Deus Ex fame has a new studio after Microsoft shuttered Arkane Austin in 2024, reports IGN. Called Black Pony Immersive, its members include fellow Arkane alum Ben Horne, and it’s continuing the tradition of Smith’s favorite genre:
I concluded by asking Smith if he felt a sense of responsibility to carry the torch for the immersive sim genre. “Always. Until I am dead,” he said.
Would a Big Tech tax for kid-focused nonprofit platforms be complicated? Sure. Where we’re headed is worse.
New York state is the latest place to prohibit smart glasses and other recording tech in courtrooms. Says Syracuse.com:
Beginning on July 20, all eyewear or headwear that contains cameras, microphones or other recording technology will not be allowed inside any Unified Court System facilities, according to a memo from the Office of Court Administration.
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The early decision found AI summaries are different from conventional search:
A regular search engine just points to outside websites. But AI overviews generate “independent, new, and substantive statements” by evaluating and combining content from various third-party sites. And only Google can check those statements, the court said, “at least by comparing the underlying third-party websites with its own statements based on them.”
Jared Leto’s band Thirty Seconds to Mars is (for real, this time?) using Sam Altman’s World eye-scanning orb to stop bots, reports The San Francisco Standard:
So does Leto have a World ID?
“That’s a really good question. I actually don’t know,” Sada said.
She says the starting point was Sutskever reaching out to have a conversation where he expressed serious concerns about Altman. It was a “pattern of behavior” that included issues with “honesty and candor” that led to the firing, not any one action. Toner has already laid out some of this in a 2024 podcast, and it’s similar to Murati’s testimony.
