It’s impressive, but we’re not the only ones who found the results from OpenAI’s new AI video model tend to be a bit weird. It struggles with natural movement, often includes additional appendages or other visual distortions, and sometimes ignores half your prompt directions entirely.
The NES version of Tetris has landed on Switch Online, alongside Tetris DX — a Game Boy Color edition released in 1998. Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov made the announcement on Nintendo’s YouTube channel as part of the game’s 40th anniversary.
All of the company’s Blu-ray player models have been discontinued according to FlatpanelsHD, following similar exits from the industry from Oppo in 2018 and Samsung in 2019.
LG hasn’t released a new Blu-ray player for six years, but it’s still another small blow for the dwindling physical media industry.
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With funding from Microsoft and OpenAI, the university’s Institutional Data Initiative (IDI) is releasing a dataset for training AI that contains nearly one million public-domain books — around five times larger than the controversial Books3 dataset.
The aim is to “level the playing field” for smaller AI developers who don’t have access to the massive datasets used by tech giants, according to IDI executive director Greg Leppert.
This deep-dive from Sherwood explores how things are progressing at Snailbrook, the company community that Musk is building to house SpaceX and The Boring Co employees — if they can be persuaded to move there.
Those that do seemingly prefer to rent, according to Real-estate agent Judah Ross:
“I get the sense from a lot of the employees that they’re not ready to commit. They’re not sure about planting roots here, buying it, or they’re just not sure what Elon’s gonna do.”
Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos spoke during the UBS conference about technical issues that impacted the Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson fight, and said the company is interested in doing more “big scale live events” like the upcoming Christmas Day Games.
“We were stressing the limits of the internet itself that night. So we had a control room up in Silicon Valley that was re-engineering the entire internet to keep it during this fight because of the unprecedented demand that was happening.”
