Grok has released the first seven minutes of its AI generated Odyssey, three months after Elon Musk said Grok would produce a full length version, with the clip now billed as episode one of a series, TechCrunch reported. Its reviewer found individual shots plausible and the whole airless, which is the current state of long form AI video in one release.
South Korea’s science minister Bae Kyung-hoon has promised to accelerate smart glasses regulation covering unauthorised filming and exam misuse, developed at a pan ministerial level, The Register reported in its Asia brief. Grab, the Singapore super app operator, has suggested in an engineering publication that grocery purchase patterns for symptom related products could supplement disease outbreak surveillance, while stressing it has not deployed such a system and that any use should be aggregate, government approved and time limited.
In research results, a silicon photonic modulator from Science Tokyo, Yokohama National University, AIST and PETRA has reached 200 Gb/s PAM4 with reduced digital signal processing, Semiconductor Engineering reported, and imec research on vertical DRAM stacking explores thermal design beyond HBM on GPU packaging. The Register’s columnists argue the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities are a warning shot for disclosure practice, a column rather than a new flaw, following the third PHP2Shell flaw covered on this site on October 24.
Finally, Jio Platforms begins trading on October 28 after its October 23 IPO close, the market debut of the valuation above 100 billion dollars that the subscription book validated.