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"Avatar 3": Exklusiver Filmausschnitt für Meta Quest macht Lust auf VR-Kino
In zwei Wochen startet "Avatar: Fire and Ash" in deutschen Kinos. Auf Meta Quest gibt es vorab eine Filmszene mit tollem 3D-Effekt zu sehen.

Chipmaker Cerebras withdraws its IPO, a little over a year after filing its IPO prospectus; it announced a $1.1B raise at a $8.1B valuation on September 30 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/03/cerebras-withdraws-ipo-ai.html

AI chipmaker Cerebras withdraws IPO
Days after announcing that it raised $1.1 billion in a financing round, Cerebras said it's pulling its IPO plans.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/uk/nursery-hackers-delete-data-intl-gbr
Nursery hackers delete children’s data following backlash, UK media reports

Nursery hackers delete children’s data following backlash, UK media reports
Hackers who stole the data of more than 8,000 children including photos, addresses and names and published some of the information on the dark web have removed the posts online and claim to have deleted the information, according to UK media reports.

I sat for a long while with my complicated feelings about "vibe coding". It is _genuinely_ empowering for many — opening a door to creating with code that otherwise would never exist. Also? It enables a dangerous dependency that could be a path to serfdom for coders. https://www.…

Vibe Coding: Empowering and Imprisoning
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

London is establishing itself as a center for quantitative finance; filings show trading firms XTX, Qube, and Quadrature each made £1B revenue in the past year (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8a6502c3-f244-4b61-880b-b20cf03299cc

Jensen Huang says "we don't know" if China would accept Nvidia's H200 AI chips even if the US relaxed export controls, following a meeting with President Trump (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

A profile of Silver Lake co-CEO Egon Durban, who brokered the EA takeover with Jared Kushner, following the PE firm's high-stakes deals from TikTok to Altera (Financial Times)

Moonlake AI, which creates tools to "vibe code virtual worlds", including for gaming, animation, and filmmaking, comes out of stealth with a $28M seed (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivast

Gaming Worlds Could Be The Answer To AI’s Data Problem
Stanford PhDs Fan-Yun Sun and Sharon Lee cofounded AI research company Moonlake AI to help people "vibe code virtual worlds."

Sources say President Trump's efforts to block state-level AI regulations through a preemption proposal are facing significant opposition on Capitol Hill (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/02/ai-preemption-push-stalls-trump-pressure

Trump's push to overrule state AI regulations stalls
His calls to block state-level AI regulation are falling short on Capitol Hill.

Chinese short-video company Kuaishou launches Kling Video O1, saying it is the first multimodal AI model to unify video generation, editing, and post-production (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/a…

Kuaishou debuts multimodal AI video model with ‘Nano Banana’ editing capability
Kuaishou expects the new model’s abilities to drive its adoption by filmmakers, production studios, advertisers and influencers.