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“I just find AI to be creatively soulless.”
That’s a quote given to Bloomberg by Casey Hudson, who directed Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic at BioWare and is helming a spiritual successor. “It’s hard to imagine where it’s actually helpful in the process. I’m just really unimpressed with it.”
Game developers I spoke with at GDC this year shared similar sentiments.
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The third season of The Rings of Power debuts in November on Prime Video.
Mark your calendar for November 11th.
”Season Three takes place at the height of the War of the Elves and Sauron, as the Dark Lord seeks to craft the One Ring that will give him the edge he needs to win the war, bind all peoples to his will – and at last rule all Middle-earth,” according to a press release.
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BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti is getting a new job: President of BuzzFeed AI.
Byron Allen’s family office is taking a majority stake in the embattled BuzzFeed, and Allen will become BuzzFeed’s chairman and CEO while Peretti will transition to the new AI-focused role. In the role, Peretti will “bring his strategic focus to applied AI research, product innovation, and the development of new technology-driven media formats,” according to a press release.
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Threads has a new logo and wordmark.
The logo isn’t too different from the previous version, but I think it looks nice. Threads’ head of design has a… thread… with a little more about the changes.
Image: Meta
Jay Peters
iRacing now works on the Vision Pro.
It supports foveated streaming, which will show you the sharpest image right in front of your eyes, according to an iRacing blog post.
If you’re more of a flight sim person, there’s also now a public beta of X-Plane with support for the Vision Pro, too.
iRacing for Apple Vision Pro Now Available
[iRacing.com]
Jay Peters
The Instagram iPad app no longer shows you Reels first.
When Instagram’s iPad app launched last year, it would open up to a feed of Reels instead of the usual mix of posts you might be familiar with from the iOS app. Now, though, the iPad app has a more familiar home feed that works like the one in the iOS app, as reported by 9to5Mac.
Jay Peters
The social web, now in Wordpress.com’s reader.
The reader, which already lets you track things like RSS feeds and podcasts, can now serve as a hub to track your Bluesky/AT Proto and Mastodon feeds, too. Over the second half of this month, the team is working on adding features like a shared composer to make posts across networks.
Radical Speed Month — The Reader Meets the Fediverse
[ActivityPub for WordPress]
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