Dear Commander, The following new Augment Modules will be available in-game between 7/16 - 7/29, 11:59 P.M. (UTC-7)! 2B - Virtuous Contract A2 - Type-4O Sword #AzurLane# #Yostar# #NieR#

Dear Commander, The following new Augment Modules will be available in-game after the 6/12 maintenance! Drake - Privateer's Heroism Cavalla - Blacktail Diving Goggles Zuikaku - Auspicious Crane's Uchigatana Deutschland - Highborn Princess's Command Kisaragi - Safety Bell and Butterfly Bow #AzurLane# #Yostar#

NEWS: Grok 4.5 recorded the largest week-over-week increase in usage of any model in Augment Code's Cosmos picker. • Grok 4.5 saw the biggest weekly adoption gain among all supported models. • Developers are increasingly choosing Grok for large, complex codebases. • Combined with Cosmos's Context Engine, Grok 4.5 can better understand massive repositories, software architecture, and relationships across an entire codebase. • The growth reflects real-world developer adoption, not just benchmark performance. Grok 4.5 is rapidly emerging as one of the leading AI coding models for serious software engineering. @elonmusk

Netflix confirmed it paid $587m for Ben Affleck’s AI film startup InterPositive. Affleck founded it in 2022 to augment existing filmmaking workflows: ▫️directors can train a small model from their own dailies ▫️improves the post-production editorial process ▫️more quickly mix, color and finish films (use their trained model to change shots, add props, enhance backgrounds or remove visuals while keeping consistency) In a sit down vid with Netflix execs, Affleck mentions “getting more episodes” of your favourite TV shows with his tech. If Affleck hits the full $587m deal (based on milestones), this looks to be Netflix’s largest tech acquisition ever. Whether or not the tech is worth that much, Netflix is getting the Affleck halo of a well-known (but still skeptical) AI practitioner. He has been Hollywood’s go-to takesman (eg. Rogan podcast) on how AI can or can not change Hollywood (he doesn’t think it has creative chops for scriptwriting and thinks unions will protect a lot of acting/writing jobs for foreseeable future). If Netflix wants to ramp its use of AI, Affleck’s narrow view of the technology’s use makes it less threatening and helps with creative talent (David Fincher already using it for Brad Pitt film, probably the Once Upon A Time In Hollywood sequel). “It’s not about text prompting or building something from nothing,” Affleck says. “You’re building a model from your own material.” *** Variety on the deal: Netflix CCO and CTO full interview Affleck:

Generative AI has sparked debates on authorship and creative ownership. Stanford HAI Student Affinity Groups members Christina Ba and Navya Agarwal set out to explore a different angle — what if AI could augment the creative process rather than diminish it?

Today we're expanding our collaboration with @googlecloud, the latest milestone in a long history of co-innovation between our companies. Teams across Intel will use Gemini Enterprise to build AI agents for everyday workflows. And Google Cloud's infrastructure will augment our on-prem compute, so silicon design teams can run bigger simulations, faster. AI helping build the silicon that powers AI. Read more: