‘You’re a liar.’ Why the world’s biggest building boom has run into a wall in California

In front of a wall of people holding “No Data Center” placards, he outlined how his company, Australia’s HMC StratCap, ...
MIT Technology Review

The gig workers who are training humanoid robots at home

As companies like Tesla, Figure AI, and Agility Robotics race to build humanoids—robots designed to resemble and move like ...
Michigan Technological University

Michigan Tech Experts Model the Future of Data Science

Data science is everywhere, a driving force behind modern decisions. When a streaming service suggests a movie, a bank sends ...
Wired

Pico’s Project Swan XR Headset Wants to Go Where the Apple Vision Pro Failed

ByteDance, the Chinese company best known for creating TikTok, got into the virtual reality game when it bought the startup Pico in 2021. Now, Pico is taking its mixed reality (XR) efforts even more ...
ArchDaily

World Monuments Fund Backs 21 Locally Led Heritage Projects Addressing Climate Risks and Indigenous Knowledge Loss

WMF's 2026 funding supports locally led preservation initiatives addressing urgent challenges, including climate change, natural disasters, unsustainable tourism, structural deterioration, and the ...
Sports Illustrated

Real Madrid Reach Final Verdict on Controversial European Super League Project

After a nearly five-year long dispute, UEFA announced it reached an agreement with European Football Clubs (EFC) and Real Madrid to officially end the controversial European Super League project. Real ...
Geeky Gadgets

Google Project Genie : You Don’t Need Unity to Build Worlds Anymore

What if you could create entire virtual worlds in just seconds, shaping every detail to match your imagination? In this walkthrough, the AI Grid team shows how Project Genie, an AI-powered platform ...
Engadget

Google's Project Genie lets you create your own 3D interactive worlds

Project Genie allows people outside of Google to try the company's Genie 3 world model. (Google) This past summer, Google DeepMind debuted Genie 3. It’s what’s known as a world world, an AI system ...
InfoWorld

Are you ready for JavaScript in 2026?

Strip the types and hotwire the HTML—and triple check your package security while you are at it. JavaScript in 2026 is just getting started. I am loath to inform you that the first month of 2026 has ...
Road to VR

Google’s Project Genie Makes Real-time Explorable Virtual Worlds, Offering a Peek Into VR’s Future

DeepMind, Google’s AI research lab, announced Genie 3 last August, showing off an AI system capable of generating interactive virtual environments in real-time. Now, Google has released an ...
Ars Technica

Google Project Genie lets you create interactive worlds from a photo or prompt

Last year, Google showed off Genie 3, an updated version of its AI world model with impressive long-term memory that allowed it to create interactive worlds from a simple text prompt. At the time, ...
Mashable

Meet Project Genie from Google, a 'world model' it calls a stepping stone to AGI

An example of a virtual world created by Project Genie. Credit: Google Google has launched a new AI experiment called Project Genie, a tool that lets users build their own interactive virtual worlds.