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Reported details on why Skydance removed James Gunn & Peter Safran as co-heads of DC Studios: • 'Supergirl' was viewed as a box office disaster • Superman’s $618M box office was not impressive to Skydance — it reportedly lacked pop culture impact to them • DC heads were reportedly reluctant or slow to share future DC plans, slate details and footage with Skydance execs • They wanted to report directly to David Ellison to maintain strong control over the rollout of DC projects • One insider says the exec shakeup has been in the works since early Fall • Gunn and Safran will still have direct links to the studio, but with less control • It is unclear if Gunn will get the chance to finish any of his vision for Superman, which reportedly includes a trilogy • One DC insider expressed concern about whether fans will continue investing in the franchise if it is rebooted yet again (via @THR)

At least I enjoyed it

James Gunn and Peter Safran will no longer run DC Studios. Jeremy Latcham, who previously served as a producer at Marvel Studios, is taking over DC. (Source: hollywoodreporter.com/movies…)

The internet? You dystopian fool. It's called THE LIBRARY Very seriously: I would love to hear the argument for why the internet is good but AI is bad. The internet is to libraries as AI is to the internet. Not sure how you rationalize arguing against technology on one side but for it on the other.

Sam Altman: "The world needs to accept that bad things will happen for AI to move forward."

sam: local inference is a terrible allocation of scarce resources “a lot of people want local inference, and somehow they assume that the problem is solved now because we have open-source models, we're going to be able to run them on our computers, and so we're not going to need all the stuff in the data centre but from a global allocation perspective, actually it's quite terrible to have everybody, like, have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time you want maximum utilisation in the cloud if you're trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment somehow many people's intuition is the opposite of that”

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Batman: Arkham City was released 15 years ago today. Fun Fact: There still hasn't been a better Batman game than this one.

An update from PlayStation Studios: After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to step away from collaborating with KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS on its project PHYSINT. We continue to have great admiration for Hideo Kojima's vision for the game. Our relationship remains strong after three decades of industry-leading, genre-defining creative cooperation, and we look forward to continued close collaboration with Hideo Kojima and his award-winning independent studio in the future.