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World of Warcraft posts update notes for next week’s Legacy of Arathor
- World of Warcraft is introducing a new update titled Legacy of Arathor next week.
- The update will focus on a branching storyline in the Arathi Highlands and is set to release on Tuesday, June 17th.
- Players will join characters like Faerin, Danath, and Geya’rah in uncovering a conspiracy and dealing with tensions between Stromgarde and Hammerfall.
- The patch will include repeatable Lorewalking storylines, new delve mechanics, and rewards, along with a Turbulent Timeways rotation lasting seven weeks.
- Tougher timewalking dungeons and a new UI skill assistant that recommends or triggers optimal abilities will also be introduced.
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Xbox Continues Quietly Abandoning Physical Games
- Microsoft is producing more games, but physical editions for Xbox are decreasing, with some games, like The Outer Worlds 2, only having a code in a box for Xbox Series X.
- Games shown at Microsoft's summer showcase are not getting physical versions on Xbox, like Koei Tecmo’s Ninja Gaiden 4 and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4.
- Rumors suggest Microsoft considered a digital-only mid-generation console refresh, leading to concerns among fans.
- Pictures show physical Xbox sections at retailers shrinking, with retail teams rumored to be cut in downsizing efforts.
- Microsoft stresses supporting physical media but follows customer demand for digital purchases.
- Some Xbox games, like Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II and Avowed, did not receive physical releases.
- Microsoft's strategy is not completely digital-focused, but recent trends indicate a shift towards digital distribution.
- Xbox subscription services like Game Pass Ultimate offer digital access to games, reducing the need for physical copies.
- While Nintendo releases games on cartridges, Microsoft is turning to game key cards for its own titles on Xbox.
- Future releases for Xbox in 2026 may continue the trend of digital-only releases, with limited physical editions.
- It raises questions about the future of physical game preservation and the balance between digital and physical distribution in gaming.
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Meta Invests $14.3bn In AI Firm Scale, Poaches CEO
- Meta Platforms has made a $14.3 billion investment in the AI startup Scale AI, valuing the company at over $29 billion.
- Meta's investment in Scale AI is the company's largest-ever external AI investment, highlighting its focus on AI development.
- Along with the investment, Meta will hold a minority of Scale's outstanding equity.
- Meta has also poached Scale AI's founder and CEO, Alexandr Wang, and a few other staff members to join Meta's AI development team.
- Scale AI, founded in 2016, provides data-labelling services for machine-learning training, contributing to its revenue growth.
- Scale AI expects its revenue to more than double to $2 billion this year.
- Meta's Meta AI chatbot assistant has reached one billion monthly active users, and Meta is focusing on expanding its reach.
- Meta may explore monetization strategies for the Meta AI chatbot like paid recommendations or a subscription plan.
- Meta's investment in Scale AI contrasts with its past approach of developing AI technology internally.
- Other tech firms like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google have also made significant investments in AI technologies.
- Jason Droege has been appointed as Scale AI's Interim CEO following Alexandr Wang's departure to join Meta.
- Scale AI is committed to bridging the gap between human values and technology to unlock AI's full potential according to Alexandr Wang.
- Meta's investment and commercial agreement with Scale AI acknowledge Scale's accomplishments and future potential.
- Meta stated its commitment to AI technology, especially in expanding the reach of Meta AI.
- Meta is exploring various monetization options for its Meta AI chatbot assistant.
- Meta's investment in Scale AI is a significant move in the AI sector, mirroring the increasing competition in AI technology development.
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A ‘Threat To Privacy’? US Senators Question Meta’s Stablecoin Plan In New Letter
- Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal have sent a letter to Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg regarding the company's stablecoin strategy.
- They expressed concerns about Meta's alleged plan to launch a private currency, raising issues about competition, financial privacy, and control of the U.S. money supply.
- Senators referenced Meta's previous failed attempt with the Libra project and asked for information on its stablecoin plans before June 17, 2025.
- The lawmakers requested details on Meta's consultations with stablecoin companies, ownership considerations, and potential partnerships in the stablecoin venture.
- Multiple Big Tech companies, such as Apple and Google, are exploring stablecoin adoption to reduce transaction costs and improve cross-border payments.
- Meta's interest in stablecoins coincides with the US Congress' progression on related bills like the GENIUS Act aiming to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoins.
- Senate Democrats, led by Warren, have raised concerns about the GENIUS Act and its implications for Big Tech companies issuing stablecoins.
- The senators quizzed Zuckerberg on Meta's lobbying activities related to crypto legislation, including bills like the GENIUS Act and the STABLE Act.
- They inquired whether Meta would oppose an amendment prohibiting Big Tech firms from involvement in stablecoin issuing.
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BYD Dolphin Surf is UK’s cheapest EV, Meta invests $15 billion in Scale AI
- BYD launched the Dolphin Surf, the UK's cheapest EV, starting at £18,650, challenging Tesla's dominance in the electric car market.
- Meta invested $15 billion in Scale AI, doubling its valuation to $29 billion and aims to expand their commercial relationship.
- Sony has teased the PlayStation 6, hinting at the next generation of gaming hardware, while gaming actors in the US ended a strike over AI use.
- BMW's Neue Klasse electric cars with advanced driver assistance systems using AI and sensors for smarter driving assistance have been tested.
- The hacking incident involving Italian Prime Minister's government deepens as evidence of targeting journalists with military-grade spyware emerges.
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Top AI researchers say language is limiting. Here's the new kind of model they are building instead.
- Top AI researchers like Fei-Fei Li and Yann LeCun are moving beyond large-language models (LLMs) and focusing on building world models that mimic human mental constructs.
- World models predict events based on how humans mentally conceptualize the world around them, in contrast to LLMs that rely on statistical relationships in training data.
- Fei-Fei Li is leading the development of world models at World Labs, aiming to endow AI models with spatial intelligence to operate in 3D worlds.
- Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, is also working on world models using video data and simulations to understand and predict changes in abstract representations.
- The goal of building world models is to enable AI to make mental models akin to human cognition and enhance AI's ability to learn new tasks quickly and understand the physical world.
- Fei-Fei Li's World Labs received an initial backing of $230 million to advance spatial intelligence in AI models for various applications including creative fields, robotics, and military uses.
- Both Li and LeCun stress the challenges in building world models due to the lack of sufficient data for spatial intelligence compared to language data.
- To overcome data challenges, researchers like Li emphasize the need for advanced data engineering and synthesis to generate the complex models required for world models.
- Yann LeCun's team at Meta is focusing on training models with video data at abstract levels to simplify predictions and map out changes in the world.
- The push towards world models signifies a shift in AI research towards creating truly intelligent AI that can understand the physical world, exhibit common sense, reason, plan, and learn new tasks rapidly.
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Instagram is throwing shy and indecisive users a lifeline with a new update
- Instagram is introducing new updates to cater to shy and low-key users who want to post without notifying all their followers.
- Users will soon have the option to post on their feed quietly without broadcasting it to everyone.
- Instagram will also allow users to rearrange existing posts on their grids.
- Adam Mosseri, Instagram's head, mentioned these changes are aimed at helping users overcome self-doubt and share content without added pressure.
- The updates aim to provide added flexibility in creating and sharing content.
- The release date for these new features has not been disclosed yet.
- Another new feature, trial reels, has already been rolled out. It allows users to share reels with non-followers before sharing them with followers.
- Trial reels aim to give users the freedom to explore creativity in a low-pressure manner.
- Instagram users are increasingly becoming more private, sharing less on feeds, more on stories, and engaging in private messaging.
- Mosseri stated that public content sharing on feeds is decreasing as users shift towards stories and private messaging.
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5 things to know about Alexandr Wang, the buzzy Scale AI founder
- Meta is expected to invest nearly $15 billion in Scale AI, with CEO Alexandr Wang becoming a top-level Meta executive.
- Wang, a 28-year-old MIT dropout, co-founded Scale AI in Y Combinator's summer 2016 cohort.
- He became the youngest self-made billionaire at 24 and is estimated to be worth $3.6 billion.
- Wang has been involved in AI policy discussions in DC and testified before lawmakers on military AI uses.
- He wrote a letter to Trump outlining ways to advance AI in the US, emphasizing investment and regulation review.
- Scale AI confirmed Meta's purchase of a 49% stake, valuing the company at over $29 billion.
- Wang will work on Meta's AI efforts, focusing on the superintelligence arm.
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Meta files lawsuit against AI firm behind fake nonconsensual nude images
- Meta Platforms Inc. is suing a company for advertising AI apps enabling users to create nonconsensual nude images on Meta's platforms.
- The lawsuit targets Joy Timeline HK Ltd. for promoting the CrushAI app, allowing users to virtually undress people without consent.
- Meta takes legal action seriously to protect its community from such abuse and vows to combat misuse of its platforms.
- The lawsuit followed Meta's investigation into nudify apps proliferating online, leveraging deepfake technology for sexualized images.
- Crush AI had over 8,000 ads on Facebook and Instagram, challenging Meta's efforts to detect nonconsensual content due to clever advertising tactics.
- Meta has expanded safety-related terms to combat such apps, known for virtually undressing celebrities and raising concerns about child exploitation.
- The apps present a risk of misuse, illustrated by arrests of teens in Florida for generating sexualized images using generative AI technology.
- In the U.S., the Take It Down Act criminalizes nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfake content, facilitating its removal and protecting victims.
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Meta is paying $14 billion to catch up in the AI race
- Meta is acquiring 49% of Scale AI for $14.3 billion and hiring its CEO to boost AI efforts.
- Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, will lead a new AI lab at Meta focusing on 'superintelligence'.
- Wang will report directly to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and continue serving on Scale's board of directors.
- Meta plans to reveal more details about this AI initiative in the upcoming weeks.
- Mark Zuckerberg has been recruiting researchers to join Wang's team, offering lucrative compensation packages.
- Scale AI collaborates with tech giants like Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic to train AI models through data annotation.
- The data annotation work is crucial for AI development and is mainly outsourced to low-cost labor outside the US.
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Meta is turning to AI models from rivals like Anthropic to help its engineers code better
- Meta has introduced Devmate, an AI coding assistant powered by models from rivals like Anthropic's Claude.
- Despite investing heavily in AI, Meta chooses competitor models for improved coding performance.
- Devmate assists with complex coding tasks that another internal assistant, Metamate, struggles with.
- The tool helps write code, analyze failed tests, identify issues, and suggest fixes for review.
- Employees have reported increased productivity, with tasks being completed in half the time.
- Devmate is considered an agentic assistant capable of handling multi-step tasks independently.
- Meta's own coding model, Code Llama, is deemed inferior for complex tasks compared to Devmate and other options.
- Metamate is used for simpler tasks while Devmate is relied upon for more complex coding tasks within Meta.
- Meta executives aim for Metamate to be beneficial for all employees, not just technical staff.
- Meta is seeking to address AI shortcomings by recruiting a 'superintelligence' team and pursuing an acquisition of Scale AI.
- CEO Mark Zuckerberg envisions AI writing half of Meta's code within a year, with current reliance on competitor AI models.
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Meta’s new world model lets robots manipulate objects in environments they’ve never encountered before
- Meta's latest model, V-JEPA 2, aims to enable robots to manipulate objects in unfamiliar environments.
- V-JEPA 2 learns a "world model" from video and interactions, aiding in predicting outcomes and planning actions.
- The model focuses on understanding scenes, predicting scene changes, and planning action sequences.
- It operates efficiently by predicting high-level features of a scene rather than pixel-level details.
- The two-stage training enables zero-shot robot planning, allowing robots to manipulate new objects without retraining.
- This advancement benefits industries like logistics and manufacturing by enabling adaptable robots and digital twins.
- V-JEPA 2's lower training costs and abstract predictions make it suitable for real-world deployment.
- Meta's release of the model and training code aims to drive progress in developing world models for AI interactions in the physical world.
- The model's ability to plan and act in new situations can revolutionize business operations and industrial safety.
- V-JEPA 2's approach aligns with Meta's vision of advanced machine intelligence (AMI) and software-defined robotics.
- The model's low training overhead reshapes the cost equation for enterprises deploying AI in physical settings.
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Marvel’s Deadpool VR Preview: A Not-So-G-Rated Good Time
- Marvel’s Deadpool VR was previewed at Summer Game Fest 2025, offering players hands-on experience with the Merc with the Mouth.
- The game is set to release in 2025 exclusively for Meta Quest 3 and 3S, featuring a unique story spanning the MCU.
- Players control Deadpool's head, needing to reunite with his body, and encounter characters like Lady Deathstrike and Mephisto.
- Marvel’s Deadpool VR includes plenty of fourth-wall-breaking moments typical of Deadpool, ensuring a unique experience for each player.
- The game allows for creative combat options like using grenades, dismembering enemies in various ways, and wielding guns and katanas.
- Accessibility options such as snap turns, camera reset, and customized arm length aim to reduce motion sickness for players.
- The art style in Marvel’s Deadpool VR pays homage to Marvel comics, featuring gore in a more cartoonish manner.
- The game offers replayability with collectibles, weapon upgrades, and changing dialogue across playthroughs.
- Neil Patrick Harris lends his voice to the game, bringing a unique spin to the character of Deadpool.
- Marvel’s Deadpool VR is scheduled for a 2025 release, with potential for varied dialogues and choices in repeated playthroughs.
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Three insights you might have missed from theCUBE’s coverage of Snowflake Summit
- Agentic AI is transforming enterprise data engineering by embedding intelligence directly into data platforms, enabling autonomous decision-making and real-time action across industries like cybersecurity, finance, and advertising.
- Platforms are evolving to support AI agents using standardized metadata and flexible compute strategies, elevating metadata to an active control layer for insight delivery.
- Industry partnerships are enhancing AI engineering capabilities, with collaborative models integrating domain-specific AI capabilities in infrastructure, financial services, and unstructured data processing.
- Real-world use cases demonstrate how agentic AI is reshaping enterprise workflows in sectors such as finance, cybersecurity, and internal analytics, delivering decision-ready insights faster and more responsibly.
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Is Meta really spending $15 billion to hire a 28-year-old?
- Meta plans to buy nearly half of Scale AI for $15 billion, with a focus on acquiring cofounder Alexandr Wang.
- Scale AI is a data company working with AI giants like Meta and OpenAI, with Meta looking to solidify its AI ambitions.
- The $15 billion investment values Scale AI at close to $30 billion, indicating Meta's strong interest in Wang and his team.
- The deal is seen as an expensive acquihire of Wang, where Meta is likely interested in his talent more than the company's products.
- Acquihires have become more common in AI, with companies like Microsoft and Google making similar hires in recent years.
- President Joe Biden's antitrust measures have made M&A less common, but high-priced deals in AI are picking up.
- The acquisition could see Wang joining an AI lab at Meta, aligning with the trend of hiring top talent in the field.
- While some argue the $15 billion isn't solely for an acquihire, many believe the main interest is in bringing Wang into Meta's fold.
- Wang is considered more of a business-oriented individual rather than a top AI researcher, raising questions about Meta's motivations.
- Meta has a history of acquiring talent that later leaves, as seen with the cofounders of Instagram and WhatsApp.
- Despite risks, Meta's focus on AI and its financial capacity could justify the high investment in Wang and Scale AI.
- Zuckerberg's interest in Wang mirrors previous hires based on talent and business potential, rather than scientific prowess.
- Meta's willingness to spend billions on hires aligns with their vision of AI as the future of technology and business.
- The deal raises questions about Meta's hiring strategies and the potential long-term impact on the company.
- The acquisition reflects a trend of tech giants investing heavily in AI talent to drive future innovation and competitiveness.
- Overall, the $15 billion acquisition of Scale AI by Meta signifies a significant move in the field of AI-driven businesses and talent acquisition.
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