Genie 3 is a “general-purpose world model capable of generating diverse, interactive environments.” Google is now letting AI Ultra subscribers in the US access it with Project Genie. A world model ...

Google has begun selling access to Project Genie, an interactive world creation tool that lets you generate playable environments from a prompt — including those featuring Nintendo characters. The ...

Google Meet supports real-time speech translation for select languages, but only on computers. Now the Meet Android app shows what could be early evidence for adding the same kind of speech ...

After over a decade of planning, redesigns and public input, Moorpark officially broke ground at the site of the new Moorpark City Library on Jan. 27. Mayor Chris Enegren led the ceremony to ...

Trial for the man King County prosecutors say brutally beat a trans woman in Seattle’s U-District last March began Wednesday. Andre Karlow, 39, has been charged with second-degree assault and a hate ...

Pearl District landlord threatens lawsuit over NW Northrup Shelter impacts The landlord of a Pearl District apartment complex is threatening to sue the City of Portland and the Salvation Army over the ...

Mitsuhiro Iwamoto, a Japanese sailor based in San Diego, who is taking on the world’s first solo, non-stop trans-Pacific crossing by a blind sailor as part of the Blind Sailor Single-Handed Pacific ...

As of January 29, 2026, Google DeepMind has unleashed its latest world model, Project Genie. This is available to any Google AI Ultra subscribers in the US, which is anyone willing to pay $249.99 ...

Florida police recently arrested a transgender woman for using the women’s restroom in the state Capitol in Tallahassee, in what is believed to be the first such arrest in a state with an anti-trans ...

Alphabet Google announced the availability of its artificial-intelligence virtual world creation tool, Project Genie. From simple text and image prompts, Project Genie will allow users to create fully ...