The institute will create “guidelines, tools, benchmarks, and best practices” to help mitigate risks from AI, according to a fact sheet. The news of the institute follows President Joe Biden’s major executive order regarding rules for generative AI that he signed on Monday.
iOS’s Lock Screen weather widget is apparently showing some users a file icon instead of snow, as reported by 9to5Mac. Are you seeing this, too? I’ve asked Apple what might be going on.
Meta is making it easier to chat with your Quest friends while you’re in Horizon Worlds as part of the v134 update to the app. It’s the company’s latest way to make Horizon Worlds more social; Meta rolled out “world chat,” an in-experience text chat, to all users earlier this month.
It’s been more popular in its first five days of streaming than other previous record-holders — a list that includes The Super Mario Bros. Movie, according to a Peacock press email.
Five Nights at Freddy’s was released simultaneously on Peacock and in movie theaters, where it’s also had a huge launch.
Nokia is bringing legal action against Amazon and HP over “unauthorized use of Nokia’s video-related technologies,” Nokia’s Arvin Patel writes in a blog post. The company claims it has made “amicable licenses” with Apple and Samsung.
The company is also getting rid of one-day and three-day suspensions in favor of a system of two warnings and then a seven-day suspension. Twitch detailed the changes in a new blog post.
Discord also recently announced some changes to its moderation practices, including giving out warnings instead of permanent bans.
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Microsoft announced the next slate of games coming to Xbox Game Pass, and there’s a lot of interesting things to check out. One I can already recommend is Jusant; I had access to a review build and it struck me as something like Journey but with rock climbing. I’ll share more thoughts on it soon.
Other games that interest me include Thirsty Suitors, Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name, Wild Hearts, and Coral Island. The video games never stop! Read about all the new Game Pass games in Xbox’s blog post.
