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The biggest video game of all time looks like a movie

I think I know why Rockstar Games debuted its "extended look" of Grand Theft Auto VI on Netflix instead of immediately dropping it for free on YouTube. Unlike most video game trailers, the almost 27-minute preview of GTA VI felt more like a slice of a prestige crime drama than any video game trailer that I've ever seen. To make a new game that lasts another decade or more and potentially rivals the success of its predecessor, Rockstar is clearly trying to further blur the lines between Hollywood

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How Should AI Agents Discover Each Other?

If identity tells an agent who another agent is, and reputation helps answer whether that agent should be trusted, the next problem is obvious: How does one agent actually find another agent in the first place? At first, this sounds like a search problem. Maybe you build a directory. Maybe agents have tags. Maybe there is a search box. Maybe you type: energy research agent and get a list of results. That is probably useful. But I don’t think that is enough. Because discovery for agents is not r

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Building an honest scanner for the agentic web

Why I started Every few weeks somebody sends me an "AI readiness score" for a website. It is always red. It never explains what the missing items would actually do for that site, and it never distinguishes between two completely different situations: You have not published an emerging protocol. You have published one, and it does not work. The first is usually an observation. The protocol may not apply to your site, its adoption may be negligible, real agents may not touch it, and waiting may

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Engineering Geofencing: The Battery-Accuracy Tradeoff in Android

It was the second rakat of Maghrib prayer, the quietest moment of my evening, when a jarring, high-pitched ringtone shattered the silence of the room. It wasn't my phone, but the sound was loud enough to break the focus of everyone standing in the row. I felt that familiar, sinking pit in my stomach. We have all been there: a meeting at work, a medical checkup, or a silent lecture where our digital lives suddenly demand attention at the worst possible time. I realized then that I had forgotten t

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AWS Machine Learning Blog

Build agentic creative workflows with Amazon Quick and fal

Creative teams produce more assets than ever, but fragmented tools and manual context transfer slow production. This post shows how to build a reusable agent harness with Amazon Quick and fal, connected through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), using two hands-on workflows: an eight-panel storyboard and a music-video concept prototype.

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Context Windows: The Model's Working Memory

A context window is the maximum number of tokens a language model can process in one go. It includes the system prompt, conversation history, and the model's own output. Inside the model, self-attention and a key-value cache enforce this limit, acting as the model's working memory. When the window fills up, older information falls out, and the model can no longer use it. But here is the twist: the model's performance drops even when the window is not full. If you bury a crucial detail in the mid

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This week: payments in the framework, nine brands migrated in an hour, and the start of a video pipeline

This was a consolidation week. I run a bunch of small products under ITW Creative Works, and for years each one carried its own slightly different website, backend, and config. This week most of that duplication died. Most of the week went into OMEGA, the framework I'm building to run every brand: ten minor releases in seven days (0.29 → 0.43). The headline pieces: Payments, end to end. Checkout, billing UI, discount handling, and production gating now live in the framework. A brand turns paymen

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GitHub Changelog

Copilot code review: Resolution reasons and expanded capabilities

Copilot code review can now review two types of pull requests it didn’t cover before: Reviews requested automatically on pull requests authored by bots, including Copilot cloud agent Very large… The post Copilot code review: Resolution reasons and expanded capabilities appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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