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Elden Ring, Death Stranding Movie Studio Gets $75 Million From Google For AI Research, Report SaysGoogle is reportedly investing $75 million into the movie studio A24 for AI-based research, with the aim of developing new tools for movie production. While A24 is producing films based on Elden Ring and Death Stranding, the investment is not expected to directly impact those projects. This move marks Google's first investment in a movie studio and comes amid growing concerns about AI's role in creative industries.
Microsoft might be all-in on OpenAI now, but back in 2018 thought it was just 'motivated by a need to show how Al…Internal Microsoft communications from 2017-2018 reveal executives' concerns and skepticism regarding OpenAI's AI development, particularly its focus on beating humans in games like Dota 2. Despite initial doubts about financial viability and potential PR issues if OpenAI partnered with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft eventually invested heavily in the company, recognizing the strategic importance of AI.
"I'm not going to fight the Chinese Communist Party" – Why Eve Online firm CCP Games rebranded to Fenris CreationsCCP Games has rebranded to Fenris Creations and completed a management buyout from its former owner, Pearl Abyss. CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson cited strategic divergence and the need to avoid political issues associated with the 'CCP' name as reasons for the change. The company also announced a research partnership with Google's DeepMind division and outlined future plans for its Eve Online universe, including Eve Frontier and Eve Vanguard.- Google's Pentagon AI deal reportedly drove the DeepMind team to unionizeDeepMind employees in the UK have voted to unionize, reportedly influenced by Google's partnership with the Pentagon on artificial intelligence projects. This move signifies a growing trend of labor organization within the tech industry.
- Google built a flash-flood prediction tool using Gemini and old news reportsGoogle has developed Groundsource, a new AI-powered methodology utilizing its Gemini language model to predict flash floods. The system processes millions of global news reports to create a dataset of flood events, which is then used to train a model that forecasts flood likelihood based on current weather data. While it has limitations in precision and area coverage compared to some existing systems, it aims to assist areas lacking advanced weather-sensing infrastructure and has potential applications for predicting other natural phenomena.