Indirectly, but it’s hard to imagine who else Simon Zhu, President of Netease (which has published games for Kotick’s Blizzard since 2008) would be referring to. Zhu’s LinkedIn post follows Blizzard announcing the suspension of its games in China after its licensing agreement with NetEase expires on January 23, 2023. Zhu claims the Netease team gave their best efforts to continue the agreement.
Outside of its more controversial applications, AI is analyzing fossilized footprints at the Dinosaur Stampede National Monument in Australia (via The Register).
First believed to be left by a predatory dinosaur, the neural network instead said the footprints belonged to an unidentified, non-predatory ornithopod. Performance is admittedly limited due to small sample sizes, but researchers claim the AI model outperformed human experts during testing. Clever girl.
At least according to this code dug up by reputable app researcher and engineer Jane Manchun Wong. Twitter had previously worked on direct message encryption, though the project was shelved without explanation. Elon Musk has said that he wants Twitter DMs to “superset Signal,” and seemingly confirms Wong’s discovery via his usual emoji-only response.
