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👩🏽‍💻💕 Ethical AI Adoption & Enablement 🤖 #XR #AI #VR #ImmersiveTech #EmergingTech #Tech4Good Advocate 🌐 genkidesign.com | #KidLit #illustrator 👩🏽‍🎨 | #UX #UI #design 🌈 🖥️ 🦄 🤘🏽 #anime #learning #gamification

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Haven Social @havensocial.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Our Kickstarter is LIVE! Tired of just defending against AI and want to go on the OFFENSIVE for once? We'll soon be raffling off free commissions from the art YouTubers we've sponsored, so follow us to not miss out on those! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hav...
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Haven: Stopping AI Art Theft & Surveillance
Social media that prevents AI from stealing your art, your biometrics, and your privacy.
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BridgeMakers @bridgemakers.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
🪐 Be part of the adventure! The BridgeMakers Firefly VR series, beginning 8/28 at 9PM ET, explores the ‘Verse with weekly talks & discussions in a custom VR world. Meet fellow fans, share theories, and relive the magic. Limited tickets—don’t miss out! #firefly #filmsky 🗣️: discord.gg/xX5M5D7ByX
This is a poster of a show called Firefly. The BridgeMakers Firefly VR series explores the 'Verse with weekly talks & discussions in a custom VR world. Meet fellow fans, share theories, and relive the magic. Limited tickets—don't miss out!
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BridgeMakers @bridgemakers.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
(1/2) 🚀 Step aboard Serenity! Join host ScottScott @byskieboo.bsky.social in VRChat on 8/28 at 9PM ET for a 16-week Firefly deep dive with presentations, behind-the-scenes stories, and fan theories. Bring your headset and RSVP in Discord to join the crew. 🛸 #firefly #filmsky 🗣️: discord.gg/xX5M5D7ByX
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Join the BridgeMakers Discord Server!
BridgeMakers is a collaborative incubator empowering builders, leaders, and learners in social VR. We practice kindness, iteration, and conflict resiliency while creating brave spaces to grow alongsid...
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Ferry Godmother @ferrygodmother.com · 30/08/2025
Mental health days are essential for maintaining a better work-life balance, reducing burnout, and boosting well-being. How can you help balance your life by taking a mental health day? Read more: ferrygodmother.com/mental-healt... #MentalHealth #SelfCare #Anxiety #Depression #Stress #Therapy
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The Importance Of Mental Health Day - Ferry Godmother Productions
This article explores the importance of having a mental health day especially in today's day and age. It helps improve wellbeing.
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Ferry Godmother @ferrygodmother.com · 30/08/2025
Roller skating has arrived in virtual reality! The Ferry Godmother Roller Rink by Ferry Godmother Productions offers a virtual roller skating rink and more to enjoy in this new VR world. Read more: ferrygodmother.com?p=9331&previ... #skating #rollerskating #skate #skater #rollerskate #Community
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Roll with Us at the Ferry Godmother Roller Rink in VR - Ferry Godmother Productions
The Ferry Godmother Roller Rink is a brand-new experience in virtual reality! Keep reading to learn more about roller skating in VR!
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 31/08/2025
My weekly cybersecurity newsletter is out, featuring stories on DOGE uploading the entire Social Security database to AWS, Salt Typhoon hacked 600+ companies globally, Salesloft's cyberattack affects all Drift customers, TransUnion's breach, and much more. Plus, good news, and a brand new cyber cat.
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this week in security — august 31 2025 edition
Plus: WhatsApp zero-day used to hack Apple users, another Citrix flaw under attack, Nevada's ongoing cyberattack, and more.
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Blerd_ette.exe @genkixr.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
VR roller rink?? I’m in!
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VR Dance Academy @vrdance.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
❤️‍🔥 Check out our students dancing Merengue! 🕺💃 youtube.com/shorts/zQiqB...
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🕺💃 VR Dance Academy Students Dancing Merengue in VR! 🎉 #VRChat
YouTube video by The Virtual Reality Dance Academy
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Skarredghost @skarredghost.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
MotionBlocks remaps VR controls, enabling enjoyable gameplay for people with mobility challenges techxplore.com/news/2025-05... via @techxplore_com #VirtualReality #VR #accessibility
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MotionBlocks remaps VR controls, enabling enjoyable gameplay for people with mobility challenges
A team of researchers from the University of Waterloo have created a method that makes virtual reality (VR) more accessible to people with mobility limitations.
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BridgeMakers @bridgemakers.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Recently @humanonpurpose.bsky.social had a chance to listen to community leaders about the challenges they face. Let's focus on context first. What drives you to lean in to the hard questions? 

 Feel free to discuss in our Discord
🗣️ : discord.gg/VTrRRkDjTj

 bridgemakers.world/2025/05/01/s...
This image is of a portion of an article about community leaders holding space for hard questions about emotionally-fluent leadership, challenging moments, and figuring out what to do in the process.This image is of a portion of an article about community leaders holding space for hard questions about emotionally-fluent leadership, challenging moments, and figuring out what to do in the process.
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Blerd_ette.exe @genkixr.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Join me in the chat during this @bridgemakers.bsky.social livestream on Monday as we explore @playpalia.com and what makes it so successful at fostering community building and collaboration! #communitymanagement #humancentricdesign #UX
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Dilmer 👓 @dilmerv.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
We’ve a lot of great events in the pipeline, and as a way to include more devs, we’re hosting a #HarvardXR virtual pre-event for anyone interested in learning how AI and XR can enhance their existing apps/games. Showcase Horizon Worlds GenAI & Meta Quest Camera Access samples. #xr #developers
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VRAR Chicago @vrarchicago.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Sonya is a respected personality in VR & the first female player to qualify in the Oculus VR League National Championships in 2017. She's also a journalist & has written about VR sports, community, & accessibility; promotes positive, inclusive environments; & Head of Programming for AWE. #VR #AR
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MIXED @mixed-en.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Trap Your Friends turns your home into an MR obstacle course for multiple local Quest users at once, and you can play it for free.
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Trap Your Friends offers local multiplayer fun with Quest 3 - try it for free!
Trap Your Friends turns your home into an MR obstacle course for multiple local Quest users at once.
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Tiny Brains @tinybrains.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
In case you missed some of the biggest XR news stories from the past week, The Tiny Brains Podcast has another episode to help catch you up! 🔗 youtu.be/Y8uC8nDrggg
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Flat2VR @flat2vr.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
RT @vrgamesshowcase: 🚨 TOMORROW 🚨 VR Games Showcase returns! With updates on: 🔫Hitman for PS VR2 🧍‍♂️ Slender: The Arrival VR 🥽Flat2VR Studios' newest games 🤫More surprises to come Live 24 hours from now (9am PT), right buff.ly/bPqnO3ChcKCdU t.co/3hTcAc2RiL
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Blerd_ette.exe @genkixr.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
This was suuuuch a facinating session! We had a meaningful discussion and I feel like I learned a lot from each of the participants' opinions. It's wonderful to have such difficult conversations in a setting where everyone feels heard and respected. Highly recommend joining us in the future! 🤓
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Blerd_ette.exe @genkixr.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
RSVP and join me and the other Bridgemakers tomorrow! ✨🤘🏽✨
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VR Games Showcase @vrgamesshowcase.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
🚨 5 DAYS UNTIL VR GAMES SHOWCASE 🚨 An epic celebration of VR gaming, March 11, 9am PT. Tune in for: 👨‍🦲 Gameplay for HITMAN 🤖 New trailer for ROBOQUEST VR 👻 Update on GHOST TOWN 🐔 New look at PRISON BOSS: PROHIBITION And MUCH more. Subscribe: buff.ly/6KdxOG7
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UploadVR @uploadvr.com · 04/03/2025
All on Board! offers a fun platform to play board games in impeccably dressed virtual spaces, but it needs more time. Our review-in-progress:
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All On Board! Review-In-Progress: More Than Just Fun And Games
All on Board! offers a fun platform to play board games in impeccably dressed virtual spaces, but it needs more time.
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BridgeMakers @bridgemakers.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
On 2/26 at 8PM ET, we'll dive into the world of emotional connection through #music, exploring how we resonate together with songs in our Music HOP event. Join us on #Discord in appreciating sadness as this week's theme. 💙 #VRChat #VRCademicSky 🎶 📺: youtu.be/iWGL3mPE114?... 🗣️: discord.gg/82ZzAMup
This is an image of a rabbit wearing glasses and headphones. On 2/26 at 8PM ET, we'll dive into the world of emotional connection through #music, exploring how we resonate together with songs in our Music HOP event. Feel free to join us on Discord in appreciating sadness as this week's theme.
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BridgeMakers @bridgemakers.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
(🧵8/8) TV Night Featuring "Sort Of": This is a show that beautifully explores the intersections of identity, culture, and belonging in today's world. The episodes are roughly 20 minutes long, and the discussion about 30 minutes long. Sundays, 9:30pm ET. #socialVR #VRChat #VirtualReality
This is a promotional image for a watch event featuring the main character of the TV show "Sort Of". This is a show that beautifully explores the intersections of identity, culture, and belonging in today's world. The episodes are roughly 20 minutes long, and the discussion about 30 minutes long. Sundays, 9:30pm ET.
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BridgeMakers @bridgemakers.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
(🧵7/8) Spectrum Street Epistemology: How does context change how we feel about things? This event is about finding answers to things we "think" we are right about playfully and purposefully, gaining perspectives that we've never thought about! Sundays, 4pm ET. #socialVR #VRChat #VirtualReality
This is a promotional image for Spectrum Street Epistemology: How does context change how we feel about things? This event is about finding answers to things we "think" we are right about playfully and purposefully, gaining perspectives that we've never thought about! Sundays, 4pm ET.
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BridgeMakers @bridgemakers.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
(🧵1/8) Hey everyone, we have so many great events coming up that we need a thread to list them out for you! 🥳 Here they are, listed in calendar order from US Eastern Time (UTC−05:00), and you can join us on Discord to RSVP! #socialVR #VRChat #VirtualReality #VRCademicSky discord.gg/6wuXS9nHfV
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BridgeMakers is here to foster resilient and inclusive leaders within virtual reality (VR) communities. | 277 members
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Blerd_ette.exe @genkixr.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
*SQUEE!!* I’ve been waiting for this game for too long! 🤩 So close!! 🥹 Now to decide if I buy it for Quest or PSVR2 🤔 #metaquest #VR #gaming #PSVR2
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Go-Go Town! 🏗️ @gogotowngame.com · 26/02/2025
🔁 🏠 🔁 🏠 🔁 🏠 🔁 🏠 🔁 Build the apartment and housing blocks of your dreams. With the Spring Cleaning update, you'll be able to rotate small houses and apartments in any direction you'd like! (and they'll have a visual indication if there's an empty spot to add a townie in!)
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mcc @dryad.technology · 26/02/2025
Saw on Mastodon that Firefox updated their "terms and use" yesterday and www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/... Per archive.org this isn't present in older (Feb 9) versions of the text. W…what *is* this? This is more like a clause you'd find on a website than a piece of software you run on your computer.
You Give Mozilla Certain Rights and Permissions

You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox, including processing data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice, as well as acting on your behalf to help you navigate the internet. When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.
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Blerd_ette.exe @genkixr.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Abletop, a new series on tabletop accessibility launches next week by @caniplaythat.com caniplaythat.com/2025/02/14/a...
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Abletop, a new series on tabletop accessibility launches next week - Can I Play That?
Be on the lookout for Abletop, a new six-part video series about tabletop accessibility by Laura Kate Dale and Cari Watterton.
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Armani’s Parlour @armanisparlour.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
(2/2🧵) #BlackHistoryMonth Part 1: armanixr.substack.com/p/interview-... Part 2: armanixr.substack.com/p/interview-...
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Interview with Babybanshee: Part 1
Part of the "VR is Alive" Artist Spotlight Series, Season Two
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Armani’s Parlour @armanisparlour.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
(1/2🧵) For #BlackHistoryMonth at the Parlour, we are excited to join @babybanshee.bsky.social to learn more from her journey through the years with avatar creation! #VirtualReality #Blacksky 💙🧡
This is a promotional image for an interview on avatar creation with Babybanshee.This is a promotional image for an interview on avatar creation with Babybanshee.
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Blerd_ette.exe @genkixr.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Aaaand officially deactivated my X accounts. Yuck 🤢 Just can’t anymore. Hate that the mass exodus just contributes to social media becoming even more polarized though 😔
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Owlchemy Labs @owlchemylabs.com · 19/02/2025
we convinced the CEOwl to join us again, this'll be fun! Friday, Feb 21st, 2pm Central twitch.tv/OwlchemyLabs
owlchemy labs live, february 21st 2pm central twitch.tv/owlchemylabs
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BridgeMakers @bridgemakers.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Exploring worlds in virtual reality can often allow an escape from physical reality. In our world HOP-ping group called Human on Purpose (HOP), we explore emotions within our physical bodies while exploring and resonating with virtual worlds that give off the same feelings. #VirtualReality #VRChat
Four social VR users explore various uncomfortable emotions together in worlds of a similar feeling. Four social VR users explore various uncomfortable emotions together in worlds of a similar feeling.
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Blerd_ette.exe @genkixr.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Interested in building healthy VR communities? Check out the @bridgemakers.bsky.social! ✨😊🤝☺️✨
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Blerd_ette.exe @genkixr.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
You get a Copilot button! And YOU get a Copilot button! EVERYONE gets a Copilot button! 🎉🙌😆✨ Hehehe, this one made me chuckle… and also a bit nostalgic of my Win 98 anime desktop theme making days 😌
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Blerd_ette.exe @genkixr.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
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MIXED @mixed-en.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The next @vrgamesshowcase.bsky.social will take place in March, with even more VR and MR games than last year. mixed-news.com/en/vr-games-...
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The next VR Games Showcase promises the "biggest line-up" yet
The next VR Games Showcase will take place in March, with even more VR and MR games than last year.
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Bernie Yee @tripmaster.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
XR fans: @windupminds.bsky.social is shipping the spiritual successor to Bogo: Stay: Forever Home. If you love pet antics, puppies, kittens, Tamagotchi, spent hours trying to get Nintendogs to respond to names: I'd love your help by wishlisting our game! www.meta.com/experiences/...
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Stay: Forever Home on Meta Quest
Escape to a world of warmth, comfort, and play. Stay: Forever Home is the place you’ll meet your fur-ever companion. Cuddle up with Ember on the couch, explore magical environments, and enjoy a dreaml...
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 27/01/2025
DeepSeek has released a new set of multimodal AI models that it claims can outperform OpenAI’s DALL-E 3. The models are part of a new model family that DeepSeek is calling Janus-Pro. They range in size from 1 billion to 7 billion parameters. Read more here: tcrn.ch/40Bc5Qm
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Marques Brownlee @mkbhd.com · 27/01/2025
NEW VIDEO - I Tried Samsung's Secret Android XR Headset, and it was awesome. Think of it as the Nexus/Pixel of headsets. Coming later this year. Full video: youtu.be/az5QL_NLBvg
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I Tried Samsung's Secret Android XR Headset!
YouTube video by Marques Brownlee
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Nicole Lazzaro 🐰 🕹️ ❌👑 @nicolelazzaro.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
Looking forward to being an XR Women Special Guest and talking about Follow the White Rabbit and AI! Weds 8:45 AM PT / 11:45 AM ET. Register and "Request Admittance" on Engage. bit.ly/48AzAMg #XR #XRWomen #applevisionpro #apple #spatialcomputing #AR #vr #visionpro vision pro
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Blerd_ette.exe @genkixr.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
👀 😍 Oooooo... Who else is adding Sushi Bin to their wishlist? #VR #steam #SushiBin #vrgaming #gaming #xr
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Cassia Curran @cassiacurran.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I'm carrying out my annual survey of XR game developers, and I'm uncovering the disastrous impact of last year's changes in the Meta Horizon XR store on independent developers. I'll be sharing a lot on this in the coming weeks, so please keep an eye on my posts.
Quest 3S with a sad emoji plastered on top
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TUBE VR @tubevrclub.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
🎉 HUGE GIVEAWAY ALERT! 🎉 5 x SlimeVR Full-Body Tracking Sets are up for grabs! Take your #VR experience to the next level! 🕺💃 Enter now ⬇️ bit.ly/slimegiveaway Brought to you by SlimeVR, TUBE VR, and @TransAcademyVR. 💜 #VirtualReality #VRChat #Giveaway
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Blerd_ette.exe @genkixr.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
✨📣✨ Meta Quest users! If you've got a few minutes of free time, help out UploadVR by filling out this super short and easy survey. 🤓
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Compulsion Games @compulsiongames.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Last week, we made an appearance at the 2025 @xbox.com Developer_Direct, where members of our studio team shared more about the gameplay, look, and feel of South of Midnight. Watch our full segment: youtu.be/Op14jAJ6Yuc
Doodle art for South of Midnight at Xbox Developer_Direct 2025.
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Ted Mao @ternarybits.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Sorry, just lots of AI posts from me this week, but to be fair, it has been a pretty disruptive week. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti... (archive.ph/drCHB)
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DeepSeek Disruption Has Its Upside
Also unrealized crypto gain taxation and X debt collateral.
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Ted Mao @ternarybits.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Good explanation of how DeepSeek R1 was trained. venturebeat.com/ai/deepseek-...
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DeepSeek-R1’s bold bet on reinforcement learning: How it outpaced OpenAI at 3% of the cost
DeepSeek-R1’s Monday release has sent shockwaves through the AI community, disrupting assumptions about what’s required to achieve cutting-edge AI performance. This story focuses on exactly how DeepSe...
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Compulsion Games @compulsiongames.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
As Hazel, you'll use platforming—a mix of jumping, gliding, and weaving—to overcome the various obstacles found throughout your environment. #SouthofMidnight
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Blerd_ette.exe @genkixr.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I can’t wait to play #SouthofMidnight!! 🤩
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