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Is your weekend a little boring? Here’s something you can enjoy for a minute or two. Chatbot Grok-2 is now available for everyone to play for free on X. We knew this was coming, and now it’s here. Good luck, baby.For those who don’t want to shell out $8 (or more) every month for X Premium, there are some limitations. The free tier only allows 10 messages every two hours. Image analysis also has a hard limit of 3 requests per day. This Grok-2 Beta will be the only game in X-Town, as it will replace the existing Grok-2 mini…
With the Fantastic Four set to arrive in the MCU next summer, it’s a safe bet that Marvel Publishing will push forward with the First Family sometime in 2025. Case in point, Marvel announced that Ben Grimm, aka The Thing, will receive five films of his own. Following his critically acclaimed Marvel Comics debut, Venom War: Wolverine, written by Tony Freese and written by former Fantastic Four artist Leonard, known for such great works as Star Wars: Battle of This is a limited series drawn by Kirk. Jakku and Sabretooth. The first issue, on sale this March, will feature a…
The new SPIDER-GWEN storyline begins in March of this year, and the number 11 makes the story numerically consecutive (no reboots, oh well). Written by the incredibly talented Stephanie Phillips and with art by Paolo Villanelli, this new storyline takes Gwen into space in a new story where she teams up with Loki. “We envisioned a Gwen and Loki storyline from the moment we started working on Gwen, so this arc feels like the culmination of everything we’ve been building,” Phillips said in a statement from Marvel. mentioned in. “Bringing Gwen into space allowed us to explore unexpected elements of…
Meta’s aggressive efforts to make AI assistants a ubiquitous presence in apps continues to pay off. Meta AI is on the verge of passing its next major milestone, reaching “almost” 600 million monthly users, Mark Zuckerberg shared in an update. Meta AI, which debuted last fall, surpassed 500 million users in October.This update coincided with the release of Meta’s latest Llama 3.3 70B model. According to Meta, the latest text model has “performance comparable to the Llama 3.1 405B model,” but at “a fraction of the cost.” Ahmad Al-Dahle, VP of Generated AI at Meta, posted a graph on X…
A new TMNT game is in town. This is unlike anything this series has attempted before. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown is, as the name suggests, a turn-based strategy RPG. This means that the player controls a character on a grid-based map, with each turn representing some movement or action.There is one thing that sets this game apart from other SRPGs. Combat takes “several minutes” to complete. This is very different from the time-consuming tasks found in games like Unicorn Overlord. From the trailer, the battles look even more lively than in the Mario + Rabbids series. Players will…
IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is having a strong year with record sales and will soon begin its second story with issue #6. Joining series writer Jason Aaron is Juan Ferreira, who will draw six issues of the series.So, what is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #6 about?Superstar artist Juan Ferreira (Batman & Robin, Green Arrow) debuts as TMNT’s new continuity artist. The Turtles are reunited and fight each other violently while on the run. Traveling through New York City, once their home but now a hostile territory, the four brothers try to put things back to normal, but Donatello remains…
Three judges have rejected ByteDance’s petition to overturn a law that could have banned TikTok in the United States. On Friday, the New York Times reported that judges upheld the new law. The new law requires the company to sell its apps to companies outside China by January 19 or face a ban.ByteDance argued that the law unfairly targets TikTok and that the ban violates users’ First Amendment rights. The company says the sale is impossible because the Chinese government is blocking the sale. In 2020, the country updated its export control rules to give it more say in potential…
Donald Trump has chosen a crypto bull to advise him on AI and crypto policy. On Thursday night, the president-elect appeared on Truth Social and announced that he would appoint former PayPal chief operating officer David Sachs as the “White House AI and Cryptocurrency Czar.” President Trump said Sachs will also chair the President’s Council of Science and Technology Advisers.“David will guide the administration’s policy in artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies, two areas critical to America’s future competitiveness. Trump wrote, adding that Sacks will “defend free speech online and keep us away from Big Tech’s bigotry and censorship.”As an appointee to…
Google has given out a surprise holiday gift to anyone who owns a Pixel 6, Pixel 7, or Pixel Fold. The company says it will provide two more years of OS upgrades on these devices. Initially, these devices were scheduled to receive three years of OS updates and five years of security patches, but now that they are first listed on the Google Store in the US, these have been extended to five years each.Since the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro debuted in October 2021, Android 15 was scheduled to be the last major OS update for these smartphones. However,…
Riot has announced a trading card game (TCG) based on League of Legends. It’s called Project K and it looks like a lot of fun. The cards are expertly drawn and drawn from IP from across the wider LoL universe, including Netflix’s hit Arcane.Although Project K is not a physical version of the existing digital card game Legends of Runeterra, some characters and locations are taken from that game. According to its creators, it’s something completely new and designed “for everyone who loves card games and loves gathering and connecting with friends around the table.”To that end, it offers multiple…