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Attack on Titan VR Leaves Early Access This Month
- The full Attack on Titan VR: Unbreakable experience is leaving early access on December 17, 2024.
- The game offers Omni-Directional Mobility (ODM) gear and allows players to fight against titans with the Survey Corps.
- The Complete Edition, which includes both Part 1 and Part 2, is available for $19.99.
- Part 2 adds new chapters, multiplayer co-op, Global Challenge events, and a Survival Mode.
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Meta ‘planning $10,000,000 cable which will stretch round entire world’
- Facebook's parent company, Meta, is planning to lay over 40,000km of fiber optic cables under the sea to handle data for its social media platforms and AI investments.
- The project, which may cost over $10 billion, will make Meta the sole owner and user of the underwater cable.
- Meta already has the 2Africa cable project, aiming to connect Africa and Europe, but the new cable would be its own project.
- The cable's route is expected to serve India and will avoid potential geopolitical risk areas in the Red Sea, South China Sea, and Egypt.
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Meta ‘planning $10,000,000,000 cable which will stretch round entire world’
- Facebook's parent company, Meta, is planning to lay over 40,000km of fiber optic cables under the sea to handle its social media platforms and AI investments.
- The estimated budget for the project is starting at $2 billion but could potentially reach over $10 billion.
- The cable is expected to serve India and will have a circuitous route from the US East Coast to South Africa to India before returning to the US West Coast via Australia.
- The cable will avoid potential geopolitical risk areas such as the Red Sea, the South China Sea, and Egypt.
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Act fast for your chance to get a Steam Deck or Meta Quest 3 for $1
- Online game retailer, Fanatical, is running a mystery game bundle prize draw to celebrate its birthday.
- By spending just $1, you have a chance to win a Steam Deck or a Meta Quest 3.
- Other prizes include Twitch voucher, a Lexip Bundle, or a Fanatical Spending Spree.
- Even if you don't win a prize, you'll still get a mystery game to add to your Steam collection.
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Meta says AI content made up less than 1% of election-related misinformation on its apps
- Meta claims that generative AI had limited impact on its platforms in spreading propaganda and disinformation during major elections.
- During the major elections, AI content related to elections, politics, and social topics represented less than 1% of all fact-checked misinformation.
- Meta's Imagine AI image generator rejected 590,000 requests for election-related deepfakes.
- Meta took down approximately 20 covert influence operations worldwide to prevent foreign interference.
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What AI vendor should you choose? Here are the top 7 (OpenAI still leads)
- IT analyst firm GAI Insights offers the first known buyer’s guide to large language models (LLMs) and GAI, reviewing 29 vendors across common enterprise GAI use cases and identifying seven emerging leaders.
- OpenAI is still leading the pack as the industry is "splintering into sub-categories."
- The six other vendors identified by GAI are Deepset, Glean, IBM, LangChain, LlamaIndex and SambaNova.
- Vendors were rated based on various factors, including product and service innovation, quality of technical and management team experience, track record in launching products and partnerships, and defined target buyers.
- Nvidia continues to dominate the market share with 85% share, and will continue to offer products up and down the hardware and software stack.
- GAI Insights projects that Gen AI is the leading budget priority for CIOs and CTOs amidst a 240x drop in the cost of AI computation in the last 18 months, and expects 33% of companies to push models into production in 2025.
- The firm also noted a current trend toward proprietary large language models, as enterprises prioritize data privacy, control, and regulatory compliance. However, GAI Insights anticipates a boom in vertical-specific small language models emerging for specific use cases.
- The top use cases for Gen AI include customer support, summarization, text generation, coding, and contract management.
- AI agents have yet to be fully defined and those in deployment are confined to internal applications and small-scale deployments. GAI Insights noted many hurdles to overcome including, among others, unregulated spread, agentic AI making unreliable or questionable decisions.
- GAI Insights advises that, to get started with AI initiatives, enterprises should accept that the enterprise IT stack will continue to change drastically over the next 15 years and designate an executive to oversee integration, develop a center of excellence and coordinate projects.
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What We Saw on Our Platforms During 2024’s Global Elections
- Meta has shared the trends observed on their platforms during the global elections in 2024.
- Meta ran election operation centers around the world to ensure a swift reaction to issues in major elections.
- Meta launched political content controls on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads to enable free expression while keeping people safe.
- Meta also enabled notifications for voters and verified and stored ads with its Ad Library for transparency.
- Meta closely monitored the potential use of generative AI by Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior networks and took action accordingly.
- Meta also prevented foreign interference by taking down about 20 new covert influence operations.
- Russia remained the number one source of the covert influence operations that Meta disrupted with 39 networks disrupted in total since 2017.
- Meta's approach towards ensuring free expression while maintaining security is constantly evolving.
- Meta will continue to review and update their policies to stay ahead of potential threats.
- Meta's findings and policies provide valuable insight into the approach that platforms should take during important global elections.
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The Daily Grind: Have you ever had a dream about MMORPGs?
- Today's Daily Grind is inspired by dreams about MMORPGs.
- MMO boss battles can be compared to explaining a dream.
- Mike Morhaime retweeted a story about a gamer escaping bad dreams using a vision of the StarCraft menu.
- Some players experience panic about falling in real life after playing MMOs with vertical movement.
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Former Meta exec says the company's failed crypto project was '100% a political kill' by regulators
- David Marcus, the former Meta executive heading the company's Libra cryptocurrency project, says that politics led to the demise of the crypto project.
- Libra was a stablecoin digital currency initiative introduced by Facebook in 2019 to provide financial services to billions of bankless people around the world.
- The project encountered challenges from lawmakers and regulators, forcing many of the collaborating companies, including Mastercard, PayPal, Uber, and Spotify, to withdraw.
- David Marcus testified before both the Senate Banking Committee and the House Financial Services Committee in 2019, resulting in his project going through two years of nonstop work and regulatory appeasement.
- Though Meta had overcome regulatory issues as of the Spring of 2021, Diem, as it was later known, remained discontinued alive due to politics.
- Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell expressed serious concerns about privacy, money laundering, consumer protection, and financial stability in the 2019 House Financial Services Committee hearing at which Marcus testified.
- According to Marcus, at biweekly meetings, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen informed Fed Chair Jay Powell that permitting the project to proceed would be a political mistake, and she would not support him if he did.
- In January 2022, the Meta-backed Diem Association declared that it was winding up and selling its assets to crypto bank Silvergate for $182 million.
- David Marcus, who directed the Meta-supported Libra/Diem project now heads payments start-up Lightspark and says that political hindrances were the biggest factor in the project's demise.
- Marcus had established Lightspark after the downfall of the project and is presently heading the payments startup.
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GOG offers a discount on the original Warcraft 1 and 2 along with a commitment to preservation
- GOG is offering a discount on the original Warcraft 1 and 2 games.
- The games are available for $15 on GOG, with a sale coupon reducing the price to $13.
- Both games will be delisted from GOG on December 13th as per Blizzard's request.
- GOG has committed to preserving the games and ensuring their functionality in the future.
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GOG takes on Blizzard in a big win for game preservation
- GOG has announced its intention to make Warcraft and Warcraft 2 available for anyone who already purchased them, despite Blizzard's delisting of the games from GOG.
- GOG has launched a sale for the two games before they leave the store on December 13, offering a discount code to knock $2 off the price.
- The GOG versions of the games have improved multiplayer connections and a more attractive look on modern monitors.
- GOG's commitment to game preservation and its DRM-free approach have garnered goodwill and increased its popularity within the gaming community.
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The First AI Metaverse With Synthetic Derivative RWAs: Powered By AI Agents, HyperGen And Axelar
- MIRAI is an AI-powered metaverse platform revolutionizing virtual world creation and monetization.
- Key features of MIRAI include AI-powered world-building and HyperGen™ technology.
- The platform enables the integration of real-world assets as synthetic derivatives within the metaverse.
- MIRAI aims to shape the future of virtual worlds by fostering creativity and economic potential.
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AI Explained: The Fine Art of AI Optimization
- Major technology companies are focusing on AI optimization to improve performance and reduce computing costs.
- AI optimization involves refining complex software systems to run efficiently on smaller models and devices.
- Companies like Meta, Apple, and Google are deploying optimized AI models on various platforms, from data centers to pocket devices.
- Cloud providers, such as Microsoft and AWS, are offering specialized instances for running optimized AI workloads.
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The Diablo franchise boss seriously suggested that ARPGs should be called ‘Diablo-likes’
- Rod Fergusson, senior vice president of the Diablo franchise, suggested calling ARPGs 'Diablo-likes'.
- The suggestion received mixed reactions on Twitter, with some criticizing Diablo IV and preferring other games like Path of Exile.
- It is speculated that Fergusson's remark may be influenced by the upcoming early access arrival of Path of Exile 2.
- The tweet has sparked discussion and debate among the gaming community.
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Tech Story
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Meta Introduces Verification for Financial Advertisers to Curb Scams on Facebook and Instagram
- Meta is introducing a new verification system for financial advertisers on Facebook and Instagram.
- Advertisers promoting financial services must authenticate their identity and provide clear credentials.
- The initiative aims to create transparency and protect users from deceptive practices.
- The verification system will be enforced starting in February 2024.
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