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GTA VI is expected to be one of the biggest entertainment releases in history when it comes out on November 19. Its immediate predecessor is the best-selling nonmobile game of all time. The game's release is causing other entertainment companies to delay products until next year because they know GTA VI will suck up the planet's attention for most of November. It will almost certainly be the most expensive video game ever created. This article looks at how Rockstar Games built what is expected to be the biggest video game blockbuster of all time.
Anthropic told investors recently that the company's revenue for the third quarter jumped about 45% from the prior quarter to $16.8 billion. The AI lab is currently pursuing what may become the largest-ever initial public offering. Its IPO could value the company at $2 trillion. The San Francisco company is expected to begin trading as early as next month. A successful launch from Anthropic could reopen the door for other listings and provide a vote of confidence for the industry.
NASA's Perseverance rover has now driven 28.1 miles on Mars' surface, surpassing the distance that Opportunity covered from 2004 to 2018. Perseverance landed on Mars in February 2021 and has been traveling in and around the Jezero Crater since. It was set to surpass the driving record back in August, but it came across some interesting rocks, so it dawdled for two months. Perseverance most likely still has many miles to go in the coming years. This article contains some of the highlights from its drive so far.
Two NASA missions are on track to launch to Venus in the early 2030s. The Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging (DAVINCI), which will send a parachute-assisted descent probe through Venus' atmosphere, is now scheduled for launch in December 2030. The Venus Emissivity, Radio science, InSAR, Topography, And Spectroscopy (VERITAS) mission will launch in November 2032 to map the Venusian surface by radar from orbit. The European Space Agency is building an orbiter for launch to Venus in 2032, and Rocket Lab plans to launch a privately funded probe as soon as next year to search for signs of organic material in the planet's clouds.
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99% of product teams have fully integrated AI into at least one workflow. As AI becomes part of everyday work, it's expanding what PMs, designers, and engineers can do and changing how they work together. Atlassian's _State of Product 2027_ [12] explores what comes after adoption, from broader roles to harder choices about where teams should focus.
Being able to tell clean code from messy code is still useful, but it's becoming something that tools can help with. Knowing what shape a program should have before anyone writes it is something AI still can't do yet. The best way to get better at AI coding might be to spend more time thinking about problems and less time thinking about prompts. The programmers that get the most out of these tools already knew what they wanted.
Giving AI agents a way to independently verify their work heavily improves the quality of output. Write end-to-end tests that simulate real user flows and act as the ground truth. Use property-based testing to specify what should never happen and generate thousands of test cases that attempt to break those constraints. Require tests to run quickly and deterministically so that agents retry when the loop is slow or unreliable.
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OpenAI narrowed Anthropic's lead in business AI adoption in September. Today, more than half of businesses pay for AI, and many of them pay for multiple models. The growth in new AI customers has slowed down significantly. Growth in the market will now have to come from more intense adoption rather than more customers.
The work that Silicon Valley's AI labs are doing could reshape entire economies, create vast fortunes, dominate future warfare, and potentially alter the geopolitical power balance. This makes the industry ripe for espionage. While the companies have been on guard against the threat, there's no such thing as a perfect defense. This article explores the different ways corporate espionage is happening in the AI industry.
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Google has been in discussions with publishers in recent months about developing an audiobook feature that will likely be bundled with its ad-free YouTube Premium service.
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