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situations like this one where the player just stood in a garden and didn't move at all and eventually a ghost appears huh if that's not creepy enough the googlers took their previously announced generalist AI agents capable of operating in any game and drop them into these nonsensical dream worlds presumably as a kind of prank hey wait a sec is this AI yeah just like you just like me a that's funny oh Deep Mind also showed their New Gen cast AI weather forecasting system outperforming the current best in-class model but that's like actually practical stuff it's there what's even more practical is our sponsor grammarly the AI writing partner that helps you find the words to describe this girl without being disrespectful whether it's that or more realistically writing a tricky email or project proposal grammarly can help come up with Initial Ideas check writing for clarity in tone and ensure that the messy thoughts in your head are properly translated to contextually appropriate 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content will still launch with servers remaining live until June 2025 the news also means the shutdown of three different Production Studios and 277 employees being laid off my heart goes out to those developers one of whom I really hope brought up the fact that that name sounds like a Call of Duty parody game they made up for a b movie to avoid licensing fees X defiant it sounds like a translation error and the FTC won't let scummy companies be proposing orders yesterday that would ban location data firms ventel and mobile wallala from selling location data which can reveal details about consumers visits to medical clinics and places of worship sensitive areas the ban would prevent these companies which are some of the most prominent of their kind from conducting their main business providing location information to advertisers as well as government agencies like the IRS daa and FBI man they're not going to be able to arrest anyone soon thankfully the propos is subject to public 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