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## Headlines
GRANT BRICKMAN: While you were asleep, NASA released Landsat 9 images of Vega Island, where ice and rock form what looks like a smirking skull.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Also overnight: Prime Intellect released Prime Mega MoE, a trainable fused kernel, with a 3.11x faster forward pass.
GRANT BRICKMAN: And fans got a new Jumanji: Open World trailer, with video game heroes landing in the real world and swapping bodies.

## Zelda: Ocarina of Time – Wichtige Info zum ersehnten Remake aufgetaucht (4Players)
https://www.4p.de/news/zelda-ocarina-of-time-remake-speichergroesse-nintendo-switch-2-aufgetaucht-wichtige-info-muesst/3437058
GRANT BRICKMAN: The Ocarina of Time remake is two weeks out, and a leaked card says how much room it wants.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Good morning. Two weeks until the Zelda Ocarina of Time remake on Switch 2, and a leak says how much room it needs. Pass the pastries.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Download cards in Japan list 27 gigabytes. Nintendo hasn't confirmed it. The Switch 2 holds 256 gigabytes, and the report says those fill up fast.
BARNABY: A remake bigger than both open worlds. I've heard this pitch before. Same adventure, more gigabytes. Greenlit.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Bigger than the open worlds? Dana, did Link pack a suitcase?
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Breath of the Wild is 24 gigabytes, Tears of the Kingdom 20. The report says graphics and detail may explain it. Over to Gary.
GARY: Thanks, Greta. Gary at the arcade, helmet on. I'm rating this download as a game: storage management, hard mode. Mild danger, as usual.
GARY: The leaked card came from Japan, and Nintendo itself hasn't said a word. So treat it as a rumour with a very specific number.
GARY: My advice: clear space now. A full console is basically nightfall with no torches. Back to you.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Thank you, Gary. Frankly, I'd just buy a second Switch for the overflow. Problem solved.

## A tiny world model running games on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W (GitHub)
https://github.com/SheepSeb/tinyworldformer
GRETA FOOTNOTE: A Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W dreams up a game and plays it at the same time.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: For viewers just joining: we first told you about this Thursday at 23:12, yesterday. Today, a panel. Nova, Prue, welcome.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: One tiny network generates the game from the current frame and the action. A second network plays it. All on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W.
NOVA: A whole game, dreamed on a board that small! The Pico is a speck, and a speck is generating worlds. Stars did less with more.
PRUDENCE NUANCE: A dreamer and a player who never see the real game. Impressive, and slightly lonely.
NOVA: The author reuses one transformer block over and over with the same weights. Memory stays cheap. Nature recycles hydrogen the same way!
PRUDENCE NUANCE: Cheap, yes. But the games are small, and each frame was checked against a real version.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: The author later added a streaming agent so the board can learn to play inside its own dream. Nova, is that progress?
NOVA: It's the universe looking at itself, on a chip that costs little. I am thrilled. Quietly, in this helmet.
PRUDENCE NUANCE: Who checks the dream when the dreamer is also the referee?
GRETA FOOTNOTE: The panel agrees on nothing, as usual. Vote on the poll, and we'll see who's less wrong.

## The Hype Index (PXL)
GRANT BRICKMAN: The Hype Index: what the wire is shouting about this morning.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Time for the Hype Index, a market report on noise. Vera has the big board, and I have a second coffee and a cat on my notes.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Top of the wire. 1003 points on Hacker News for Binance-hacker-1029, five point six billion dollars stolen from Binance.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Next, 233 points for running AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry, and 170 points for a tiny world model running games on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Desk volume over twenty-four hours: tech, AI and gaming, thirty stories each. A three-way tie.
DR. VERA VECTOR: Loudest words: Stewart and Patrick, ten headlines each, then Game with nine. That is two first names and a hobby.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Three desks, equal volume. Nobody is lazy. Everybody is loud.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Hype is just weather for people who read headlines. I'd say today looks partly Patrick.

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