Midjourney is acquiring Co-Star. CEO @banu__guler is now Chief Design Officer at Midjourney. She's building a cross-functional design, product and frontend team for all our efforts. The Co-Star app will continue to operate under Banus complete control. Welcome Banu and team <3

Turkish football is as corrupt as it gets and this is the result. Certain team always gets helped in the Turkish league and then the players from that team embarrass the country when they play for the national team. Sad for Arda Güler and others that deserved much more.

DAILY SITUATION RECAP: Nvidia releases an open letter advocating for open-weights models. The letter urges government to support the open models ecosystem, and is signed by a number of companies including Andreessen Horowitz, Arena, Black Forest Labs, Box, Dell, Hugging Face, IBM, the Linux Foundation, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, Mozilla, Palantir, Perplexity, Replit, and Y Combinator. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang joined X just for this post, which is currently at 112k likes and 30.3M views. Huang has accumulated over 500k followers in less than 12 hours. New information about the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident has been released. The agent first attempted to break out of its sandbox on July 9, and the intrusion at Hugging Face lasted from July 11-13. Hugging Face published a blog post on July 15, but did not know the source of the attack. OpenAI took until July 18-19 to notice that the agent had escaped. The companies only communicated about the incident for the first time on July 20, and published their blog post on July 21. OpenAI recorded one case of an agent leaving notes for future versions on how to escape from OpenAI’s sandbox infrastructure. Midjourney is acquiring astrology app Co-Star. CEO Banu Guler will join Midjourney as Chief Design Officer. Midjourney will be using the Co-Star team to help design their upcoming image generation app. Midjourney, founded in 2021 as an image generation company, keeps expanding into new areas like medical devices. Elon Musk says Grok 4.6 in 2 weeks and Grok 4.7 in 4 weeks. Grok 4.5 is currently the best coding model in its price range, so we’ll see if the next models compete on price, frontier intelligence, or something else (maybe both?) Written by @theojaffee. Read more at link in bio.

Guerrilla Games co-founder Arjan Brussee, a longtime Epic Games veteran who previously served as global director of product management for Unreal Engine, is developing The Immense Engine. The new engine is made in the Netherlands as a European choice instead of Unreal Engine or Unity and follows all EU rules and keeps data inside Europe. The Immense Engine introduces new native AI integration from the outset. Brussee explains that AI agents can fundamentally change devs work with small teams making games faster It will be used for video games and also for 3D simulations in areas like defense and logistics The project, announced today via a Dutch podcast interview, is still in early development

Guerrilla Games has revealed new details for Horizon Hunters Gathering, their co-op action spin-off set in the Horizon universe. >New playable hunters: Ensa, a tough Oseram smuggler, and Shadow, a stealthy Carja operative bonded with a Stalker machine. >Brand new region: Breakers Bounty, featuring dense jungles meeting scorching desert. >New story episode focused on saving Ashwater Valley. >Gameplay features team-based machine incursions and Cauldron dives. >Social hub called The Gathering, with solo play and NPC support. >Harder difficulties added based on player feedback. The second closed playtest runs May 22-25 on PS5 and PC.

California gubernatorial candidate @XavierBecerra (D) addresses the rise of democratic socialist candidates: "It shouldn't make any difference what your label is, so long as at the end of the day — at least in my book — you're focused on helping, in my case, working families.