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[Gene Park @GenePark]

I asked Hideo Kojima what happened. Sony canceled Physint over a Zoom call.

https://t.co/D6Gq81eI05

[KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS (Eng) @KojiPro2015_EN]

You may have seen a recent article that mentions KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS, speculating on the reasons for the change in publishing partners for PHYSINT.

Normally, we would not comment on unsubstantiated speculation on the internet, but these aspersions around our relationship with PlayStation, the commercial performance of the DEATH STRANDING franchise, and the broader production planning and investment for PHYSINT, have reached beyond the studio and have touched our fans, our creative partners, and colleagues we have worked alongside with for three decades.

None of the claims written came from any official or on-the-record source and as such we encourage you to take them with a dose of scepticism.

Make no mistake, this was a serious situation for the studio with a range of potentially significant implications. While we recognise that the article may have caused alarm, we want to reassure you all, for the record: that the studio is in a healthy, profitable state, development for PHYSINT continues to move forward with XBOX, and our relationship with PlayStation remains strong.

Thank you for your continued support,
KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS

[Gator Gar @gatorgar]

“Guys we need a bunch of money so we can defeat ICE!”

*steals all the money*

[Mark Zuckerberg @finkd]

Last month I wrote about how we can build a positive and safe future for everyone: https://t.co/eoLGVY8yad

Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability to take its own actions to ensure that happens.

The reality is:

- People won't want to use agents that are misaligned with them and that don't do what they ask, so labs have a strong natural incentive to make their models more aligned.

There is a lot of debate about slowing progress on capabilities until alignment catches up. My view is that trust and alignment are quickly becoming the most important capabilities that will differentiate agents and models. Any lab that doesn't focus on alignment will fall behind.

- Labs face significant liability if their models cause harm, so they have a strong incentive to prevent this as well.

Meta delayed shipping Muse for several months to focus on safety and security. We didn't call for everyone else to do this before we would. We just did it as part of our day-to-day work because it was clearly the right thing for people and for us. I'm proud of the security foundations we've built.

- Engaging independent evaluators and advisors is industry best practice. MSL already does this today in several areas because it helps produce better work. Other labs can just do this too. In general, it would be helpful for there to be a larger and more diverse ecosystem of evaluators.

- Committing the significant majority of compute towards serving people rather than racing towards recursive self-improvement is one of the best ways to ensure we develop this technology safely. Meta has made this commitment and other labs can do this as well.

I believe the key to building a positive future for everyone is maintaining the right balance of power. This is within our power to do.

[Bob Gourley - e/acc @bobgourley]

Scott is misinformed. The Hugging Face incident occurred because OpenAI trained and guided a model to attack, hoping it would only attack the intended sandbox target, but not monitoring it closely enough to realize what it was doing. Furthermore, according to OpenAI staff (Eric Wallace and Michael Dalton) in a public presentation at Black Hat, the system was first caught attacking internal OpenAI systems (their Artifactory instance). Even after OpenAI caught the system exceeding its authority and attacking internal OpenAI systems they did not pause the exercise, they cleaned up Artifactory and kept letting the exercise run.

Poor security controls do not mean AI is going to kill us all. Poor security controls means immature governance processes.

Maybe the solution is to get an experienced CEO to run Anthropic vice someone distracted by his EA ambitions.

[CTMT @CTMT03K64]

"pedophile podcaster"

We will just say anything on this app for attention won't we holy fuck.

[MonteCristo @MonteCristo]

@Muckbeast Maybe the stupidest example ever considering the comparison to American sports.

A more apt comparison, yet still imperfect, is asking if anyone would trade NBA titles (the harder achievement) for Olympic medals in basketball.

[MonteCristo @MonteCristo]

GenG winning 5 Korean titles and 2 MSIs since 2022 is more difficult and impressive than T1 winning 3 Worlds titles and 1 Korean title, but you're not ready to have that conversation yet.

It will be even more impressive with a 6th.

[MonteCristo @MonteCristo]

Let me explain to you:

LCK basically is champions league.

The World Cup is dogshit because of the national teams and the horrendous format.

Worlds also has a horrendous format. T1 has failed to win any tournament with a good format.

You haven’t the slightest clue what teams “value,” nor can you define what that means.

You still haven’t answered why T1 wouldn’t have wanted to also win domestic titles or MSI.

GenG’s failures are extraordinary at Worlds, which also means T1’s wins are less impressive.

[HorrorAmorata🌌🦑✨The Abysmal Critic @HAmorata]

Imagine you've been going to a restaurant for years.

The restaurant is doing well, they're not hurting for money, staff's paid well, they make great food.

You take your friends, they love it.

They bring their friends, they love it.

Then one day, a new group shows up and they start saying "I like this, but it needs to change because I'd like it better this way."

Suddenly, they're on Facebook, saying your favorite dish is too spicy. They need to take onions out of the salad, all the food should be vegan because they think meat is murder...

Unfortunately, this is the sort of thing that happens in gaming. New "fans" show up, but the only thing they have to say is that things about the game need to change.

These are often things fundamental to why the original fans loved the game.

Is it all new fans? No, of course not.

But it happens enough that a gamer's butthole will pucker when they see new people flooding in.

[Gen.G Esports @GenG]

🥇 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗟𝗖𝗞 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗠𝗣𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦: 𝗚𝗘𝗡.𝗚 🥇

Lifting the LCK trophy once again. 🏆
Every cheer, every moment, every light you’ve shown us has carried us this far.
This championship belongs to everyone who has been part of our journey — TIGERNATION and our partners who continue to stand with us, every step of the way.

The LCK throne remains ours. But our journey isn’t over yet.
Your light brought us here. Now, let’s see how far we can shine together. ✨
Thank you for always being our strength.

Next stop: Worlds. 🌎

다시 한번 들어 올린 LCK 트로피! 🏆
우리가 여기까지 올 수 있었던 건, 언제나 곁에서 젠지를 비춰준 타이거네이션 여러분과 함께해주신 파트너분들이 있었기 때문입니다. 여러분이 보내준 응원과 빛이 모여, 또 하나의 우승을 함께 만들어냈습니다.

LCK 왕좌를 지켜냈지만, 우리의 여정은 아직 끝나지 않았습니다.
여러분의 빛이 우리를 여기까지 데려왔습니다.이제 그 빛과 함께, 더 큰 무대로 향합니다. ✨

다음은 월즈입니다. 🌎

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Saber Interactive says one reason its games can be so profitable is simple: it doesn’t spend like a major North American studio.

Tim Willits, Saber’s chief creative officer, says the company has “no real development in North America anymore.” Most of its teams are now based across Europe, where costs can be substantially lower.

>Large North American studios can have a $2 million+ monthly burn rate.
>SnowRunner cost Saber around $6 million to make, yet generated hundreds of millions of dollars.
>Willits says that $6 million is roughly three months of development costs for a major California studio.
>At a $2 million monthly burn rate, five years would mean around $120 million in salaries alone.

Willits believes this shapes the games publishers are willing to make, when costs reach $100–150+ million, a game needs enormous sales just to justify the investment.

Saber takes a different way, keep costs under control, target specific audiences, and don’t assume every game must sell millions of copies.

Willits also claims Space Marine 2 cost about a third as much as a recent major game from a big North American studio, while selling 11 million more copies.

“You don’t need to spend $150 million to make a billion.”

[Jack @jackunheard]

This doesn’t look like “mourning” to me.

Care to explain?

[EvanDoThings @RealEvanDoThin1]

He applauded for her not having an abortion and made a case that even thought the act of his conception was made from cruelty the child itself is not evil, the fact you are framing it this way makes you look like a retarded troglodyte

[Kaizu_r @kaizu_r]

genshin players think nintendo is copying their slop of a game LMAOOO

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

I don’t believe they just want healthcare.

[Christian Heiens 🏛 @ChristianHeiens]

Women will do things like this and then kill their babies in the womb, post videos on TikTok in support of Lindsay Clancy, and vote to mass import rapists from the Third World.

[All-Father - 🇵🇸 @AllFatherMedia]

Notice how, even when doing their own interpretation, Marvel Rivals has never had to clarify who a character is

[Lee1ng @lilaoshizuikeai]

今天的网友们在庆幸着“告洋状”真的有用
但实际上世界并没有突然开始关心中国的牛马们。
一切都是政治角力使然。
去年和今年初，我和方脸带着 https://t.co/dxNsxnURm2的报告去布鲁塞尔见了欧盟两次，显然，在见面之前，他们便早已知晓中国的公司所存在的各种问题。只是限于时局而故左右言他，还提醒我们，以后做中国问题，可以多整理些少数民族相关的案例来。
所以在当时，我们的共识是欧盟实际上因为自身依赖中国的商品，所以对中国工厂里的人权问题兴趣并不真的很大，便将国际倡导的目标转向北美和亚洲。
近几个月，欧盟突然开始转向，对华开始逐渐强硬，各国领导人和冯德莱恩相继放出狠话。我和团队亦很快收到邀请，让我们择日再向欧盟各国介绍中国���内情况。
这几天又出现了星宇事件，本质上也是这种变化的一部分。今后，中国企业内部的劳动问题可能不再被欧盟视为纯粹的“中国内政”，可能会更多的进入欧盟监管体系。
而欧盟转变的原因亦十分简单
过去虽然中欧之间亦存在贸易逆差，但默契尚存，中国向欧洲出口廉价小商品，而欧洲向中国输出汽车，机械和奢侈品。
但随着中国开启国富民弱的帝王时代，内需萎靡，制造业崛起，中国企业依仗国家支持、发达的国内供应链体系和人矿所形成的成本优势，进入欧洲市场直接杀死了比赛，宣布了欧洲传统工业体系的死刑。
���加上欧盟在俄乌战争中逐渐占据更主动的地位，也不得不直接面对中国持续给俄罗斯输血的挑战。
现在的中欧问题，已经从贸易问题，变成了关乎欧盟生死存亡的问题。
这就让中国的劳工问题，成为了这当中政治角力的一环。
今天，国内的语境尚还在斥责着星宇“丢人丢到国外去”和感叹“告洋状真的有用”之间雀跃
但恐怕不远，这类话题便会上升到一个更严肃更民族主义的语境。
但总的来说，能让劳工权益问题引起世界关注，亦是对一直在一线做事的团体的鼓励，世界也早该听听普通中国人的境遇和声音。

[bumbadum @bumbadum14]

Fun fact. The judge literally refused the play the audio of Patrick calling 911 after discovering his dead children because it was so gut wrenching that the judge believed it to be a danger to public safety.

You people are disgusting