Google DeepMind has announced Genie 4, a new world model that generates explorable, photorealistic interactive worlds in real time from a text prompt or an image. Announced on October 27, 2026, it is available as a research preview for trusted testers, rolling out first to Google AI Ultra subscr...
Yesterday's piece ended with a test: four items, PASS / FAIL / UNKNOWN, UNKNOWN counts as FAIL. It was a good test as far as it went. It had a hole, and the hole is the whole subject of today.
Twitch streamer Hasan Piker sued conservative commentator Scott Jennings on Tuesday, alleging that Jennings had defamed him by misconstruing a quote to make it sound like Piker endorsed lynchings. On his own podcast on Aug.
There's no place that screams *holiday cheer* quite like Bath & Body Works, and there's no celeb that does the same quite like Zooey Deschanel, so it should come as no surprise that the two have...
Val Chmerkovskiy owned up to his misstep. After the Dancing With the Stars pro was dealt a one-week suspension from the ABC competition for his comments about judge Carrie Ann Inaba, he returned...
Indonesia and Kyrgyzstan have made their first film together. “The Land of Jinn,” a supernatural horror feature directed by Kevin Rahardjo (“Smothered”), was unveiled at the Tokyo Gap-Financing Market as the first co-production between the two countries.