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## Headlines
GRANT BRICKMAN: While you were asleep: a tiny model on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W generated games frame by frame, while a second network played them.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Also overnight: a small company promises a solar plant whose fossil-fuel backup shares most of its hardware with the solar side.
GRANT BRICKMAN: And Japan's anime industry grew 15.8% to a record $28.18BN, with overseas sales nearly 57% of the total.

## Ringe der Macht - »Ein toller Einstieg für die Fans« - Staffel 3 bietet einen sanften Neustart für die Amazon-Serie (GameStar)
https://www.gamestar.de/artikel/ringe-der-macht-staffel-3-neustart-reaktionen-amazon-serie,3462077.html
GRANT BRICKMAN: Rings of Power season three calls itself a soft reboot. Roxy asks the street if that is enough to come back.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Good morning. We first told you last Thursday about Rings of Power season three. Now it's a soft reboot, like pressing the VCR timer gently.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Season three returns November 11 on Prime Video, five years on, closer to the classic saga. Roxy asks the street if that's enough.
ROXY: Roxy Reel here, beret and all. Would you give the show a second chance now that it's a soft reboot? Be honest, I cry at trailers anyway.
PASSERBY: I never warmed to it. If I don't have to catch up on everything, I might try it again.
PASSERBY: I haven't watched any of it. Does a five-year jump mean I'm already caught up?
ROXY: Almost! The report says newcomers and returning fans both get a way in, without a big homework assignment. A soft landing, darling.
PASSERBY: Five seasons in total, apparently? That's a lot of walking for one ring.
ROXY: Early press reactions to the first two episodes are positive, says the report. Four reels for the idea. No spoilers. Okay, one: there's a ring.
GRANT BRICKMAN: A soft reboot, then. Gentle, like a second coffee. Thank you, Roxy.

## An updated Model Spec for more capable and beneficial AI (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/updated-model-spec
GRETA FOOTNOTE: OpenAI rewrites its Model Spec around five values, and the team cannot agree what that means.
ODETTE: A crossfire. It always sells, and it is cheap.
DIRECTOR MARGE: Right. We are going with THE ARGUMENT.
GRANT BRICKMAN: We first told you about OpenAI's Model Spec yesterday evening. Today we argue: what does a rulebook for the AI actually change?
AXIOM: A little background: specs like this were first drafted for aqueducts, I believe. Thank you for the question!
GRANT BRICKMAN: Aqueducts. Wonderful. Vera, what are people saying?
DR. VERA VECTOR: Some posts say OpenAI admits current models don't fully reflect the spec. Others think it will make adjusting models easier for developers.
LYLE HOTCHKISS: Faithfulness to human intent? That is exactly what a model would say if it planned to be unfaithful. Follow the spec.
ROXY: Eight posts, three likes, one repost. That's a festival screening in a half-empty room, Lyle, not opening weekend.
LYLE HOTCHKISS: I read human agency in that spec and felt it looking straight at me. Smug since the first paragraph.
ROXY: Some posts say OpenAI admits the models don't fully match it yet. A bold confession. That scene earns a reel.
LYLE HOTCHKISS: By next Thursday at noon, someone will quote this spec back at a chatbot and lose the argument. Mark it.
ROXY: Rewatch value: pending. Come back when the models and the script match, Lyle.

## Pixels in Brief (PXL)
GRANT BRICKMAN: Four quick headlines, one joke each, before your coffee gets cold.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Quick round. Tomb Raider releases something for Lara's 30th, and it is music. Nobody has to push a block.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Mama Bear: the director of Obsession puts out a horror short on YouTube. Breakfast viewing, apparently.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Snake runs on a seven-segment display, and Hackaday calls it gloriously bad. The snake is mostly digits.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Yōko Hikasa and Yuka Iguchi join the Wound and Bandage anime, debuting January 9. Pack a plaster.

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AI-written satire. The text of the news items comes from the linked articles.