Google announced Genie 4, a world model that generates interactive simulations in real time, now with native audio. Users can steer a scene with plain language, for example moving the camera, changing the weather or adding characters.
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GM plans to invest more than $2 billion in the Lansing, Michigan, region, including $1.25 billion to prepare its Delta Township plant to build hybrids. It is working with the Energy Department to redirect a previously awarded grant toward that hybrid production.
NVIDIA and Oracle will expand Oracle Cloud Infrastructure superclusters with Vera Rubin NVL72 systems to multi-gigawatt scale. Vera Rubin NVL72 and NVIDIA's Vera CPUs are now generally available on OCI for AI training, inference and agent workloads.
Some iPhone Duo owners report bright white lines on the inner display within hours of unboxing the new phone. Apple acknowledged an issue affecting a small number of units and is offering replacements, though the cause and failure rate are still unknown.
Bank of America emailed customers asking them not to share their banking username and password with AI assistants or agents that offer to act on their behalf. TechCrunch says more people are handing logins to AI tools, which risks the agent doing something the customer didn't intend.
