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  • IO Interactive Reveals James Bond Origin Story Sport 007 First Gentle, Set for Launch in 2026

    IO Interactive revealed 007 First Gentle, its upcoming action-adventure title that reimagines the origin story of James Bond, at PlayStation State of Play Wednesday. The studio debuted the primary trailer for the sport, that includes a mixture of gameplay, cutscenes and in-engine footage, showcasing Bond staples — unique areas, thrilling automotive chases and frenetic shoutouts. 007 First Gentle is coming to PC and consoles in 2026 and is at present obtainable to wishlist throughout all supported platforms.

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    Sony held its State of Play broadcast on June 4 (early hours of June 5 in India), bringing trailers and updates on a number of video games headed to PS5. The occasion additionally featured IO Interactive’s James Bond sport, with a three-minute-long announcement trailer sharing particulars in regards to the studio’s tackle the enduring MI6 agent.

    007 First Light is a standalone reimagining of James Bond’s origin story, with a younger, 26-year-old Bond who should earn his ‘00′ standing. He begins as a brash Royal Navy air crewman within the sport earlier than reckless bravery lands him on MI6’s coaching program, the place he finally works his technique to ‘00′ standing.

    “For the primary time ever, followers will be capable to expertise Bond’s ascent at MI6 from a younger 26-year-old recruit right into a full-fledged spy – immersing them within the unique and harmful world of espionage captured within the movies,” IO Interactive stated in its announcement.

    “Bond’s adventures will take gamers throughout the globe, coming nose to nose with allies and foes (or in some instances, each), whereas selecting how they overcome obstacles and challenges, whether or not or not it’s with brute drive, crafty guile, or charming wit.”

    Bond can be accompanied by acquainted characters from the franchise, together with allies like M, Q and Moneypenny.

    007 First Gentle is a third-person action-adventure sport, in-built IO Interactive’s proprietary Glacier engine, that includes a mixture of fight, driving, stealth, and devices gameplay — glimpses of all had been proven within the trailer.

    “We’re pouring our power and fervour for the franchise into making a cinematic journey that pushes the boundaries of what a James Bond sport might be, whereas telling a recent, new story. We won’t anticipate gamers and followers to find an expertise tailored for them,” IO Interative CEO Hasan Abrak stated.

    007 First Gentle will launch on PC (by way of Steam and Epic Video games Retailer) PS5, Xbox Series S/X and Nintendo Switch 2 in 2026. The sport will even be enhanced for PS5 Professional utilizing Sony’s PSSR know-how and can be playable at 60 fps in High quality Mode on the console. It’s at present obtainable to wishlist on all supported platforms.

  • Rosebud lands $6M to scale its interactive AI journaling app

    Journaling app Rosebud has raised $6 million in seed funding because it seeks to additional flesh out its app as an AI mentor for self-reflection and private development. 

    Rosebud makes use of AI to investigate your journal entries, establish patterns over time, and supply insights, questions, and steerage. The corporate says its objective is to assist customers higher perceive themselves, construct new habits, and monitor objectives, similar to a human mentor would.

    Since its launch, Rosebud says, customers have journaled 500 million phrases and spent greater than 30 million minutes on its platform.

    Rosebud was based in 2023 by Chrys Bader, a Y Combinator alum and co-founder of Secret; and Sean Dadashi, a UC Berkeley Cognitive Science graduate. The pair met at a males’s group, and got here up with the concept for Rosebud based mostly on their very own experiences with remedy and training. 

    “All people is totally different, and everybody has totally different languages, not simply spoken languages, however totally different emotional language, other ways of communication,” Bader stated in an interview with TechCrunch, explaining that AI permits for a degree of personalised teaching and help that wasn’t accessible up to now.

    “So one individual would possibly need validation and a comfortable method, whereas someone would possibly need the actually arduous, like, ‘hey, problem me, name me out on my BS’ method,” he continued. “A part of understanding someone is utilizing that understanding to finest help every particular person. That’s what AI unlocks; that’s by no means been attainable earlier than, to scale that type of personalised recommendation or help the place each particular person might have this wildly totally different expertise than the opposite, relying on what they shared.”

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    Rosebud says it isn’t seeking to change therapists, and as a substitute needs to open up entry to high quality mentorship.

    The corporate plans to make use of the brand new funding to broaden its group of 4 with engineering and product expertise, and investing extra into advertising. The startup additionally plans to take a position extra in its proprietary reminiscence expertise, and construct out the app’s options. 

    As well as, Rosebud needs to discover methods to make its AI journal extra accessible, probably via partnerships with colleges, companies and clinics. 

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    The seed spherical was led by Bessemer Enterprise Companions, with participation from 776, Initialized Capital, Gasoline Capital, Avenir, Tim Ferriss, and different traders.

    Rosebud states that each one journal information is encrypted, and that journal entries are by no means shared with third events or used to coach AI fashions.

    Wanting ahead, Bader and Dadashi envision Rosebud as a mentor, instructor and companion that may develop strategic, long run engagement plans with customers. As an example, if somebody is about to turn into a father, Rosebud might create personalised content material round that milestone with journaling and different assets. 

    “What if all people had one thing that was looking for what’s finest for them? Or one thing that’s serving to them turn into their finest self? I feel that’s the thrilling factor that AI permits,” Dadashi stated. “I benefited a lot from having mentorship all through my life at numerous instances, and I’ve suffered in instances once I haven’t had that mentorship. I feel what we’re seeing is a future the place this may be accessible to all people in a approach that it simply wasn’t attainable for it to be accessible earlier than. You’ll be able to have one thing that’s really serious about you, really attempting to know you, and is aligned with who you need to turn into.” 

    Rosebud’s fundamental journaling options are free to make use of, however the startup affords a $12.99 month-to-month subscription that unlocks premium options, reminiscent of long-term reminiscence, and voice and name modes. 

    The AI journal is accessible through the web, and on iOS and Android.

  • Odyssey’s new AI mannequin streams 3D interactive worlds

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    Odyssey, a startup based by self-driving pioneers Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, has developed an AI mannequin that lets customers “work together” with streaming video.

    Out there on the net in an “early demo,” the mannequin generates and streams video frames each 40 milliseconds. Through fundamental controls, viewers can discover areas inside a video, much like a 3D-rendered online game.

    “Given the present state of the world, an incoming motion, and a historical past of states and actions, the mannequin makes an attempt to foretell the subsequent state of the world,” explains Odyssey in a blog post. “Powering this can be a new world mannequin, demonstrating capabilities like producing pixels that really feel lifelike, sustaining spatial consistency, studying actions from video, and outputting coherent video streams for five minutes or extra.”

    A lot of startups and Huge Tech corporations are chasing after world models, together with DeepMind, influential AI researcher Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs, Microsoft, and Decart. They imagine that world fashions may at some point be used to create interactive media, similar to video games and films, and run lifelike simulations like coaching environments for robots.

    However creatives have blended emotions in regards to the tech. A recent Wired investigation discovered that recreation studios like Activision Blizzard, which has laid off scores of staff, are utilizing AI to chop corners and fight attrition. And a 2024 study commissioned by the Animation Guild, a union representing Hollywood animators and cartoonists, estimated that over 100,000 U.S.-based movie, tv, and animation jobs will likely be disrupted by AI within the coming months.

    For its half, Odyssey is pledging to collaborate with inventive professionals — not substitute them.

    “Interactive video … opens the door to completely new types of leisure, the place tales may be generated and explored on demand, free from the constraints and prices of conventional manufacturing,” writes the corporate in its weblog submit. “Over time, we imagine all the things that’s video at the moment — leisure, advertisements, schooling, coaching, journey, and extra — will evolve into interactive video, all powered by Odyssey.”

    Odyssey’s demo is a bit tough across the edges, which the corporate acknowledges in its submit. The environments the mannequin generates are blurry and distorted, and unstable within the sense that their layouts don’t all the time stay the identical. Stroll ahead in a single path for some time or flip round, and the environment may immediately look totally different.

    However the firm’s promising to quickly enhance upon the mannequin, which may at present stream video at as much as 30 frames per second from clusters of Nvidia H100 GPUs at the price of $1 to $2 per “user-hour.”

    “Wanting forward, we’re researching richer world representations that seize dynamics much more faithfully, whereas growing temporal stability and protracted state,” writes Odyssey in its submit. “In parallel, we’re increasing the motion house from movement to world interplay, studying open actions from large-scale video.”

    Odyssey is taking a distinct method than many AI labs on the planet modeling house. It designed a 360-degree, backpack-mounted camera system to seize real-world landscapes, which Odyssey thinks can function a foundation for higher-quality fashions than fashions skilled solely on publicly accessible knowledge.

    Thus far, Odyssey has raised $27 million from traders, together with EQT Ventures, GV, and Air Road Capital. Ed Catmull, one of many co-founders of Pixar and former president of Walt Disney Animation Studios, is on the startup’s board of administrators.

    Final December, Odyssey said it was engaged on software program that enables creators to load scenes generated by its fashions into instruments similar to Unreal Engine, Blender, and Adobe After Results in order that they are often hand-edited.