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Google’s Genie 4 world model adds audio, more realistic worlds, and real-time steering

By Rebecca Bellan · TechCrunch · Tuesday, 27 October 2026 at 16:30 (1h ago) · Original article ↗

Google DeepMind released Genie 4, a world model with real-time audio, more realistic simulations, and mid-simulation text prompts, in research preview for trusted testers.

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VisionQuest is what happens when AI really goes rogue

In Marvel's VisionQuest, a superpowered robot tries to better understand humanity by getting lost in elaborate, digital daydreams in which he and other artificial intelligence-powered beings live together in a home. The series is deeply fantastical, yet it plays with some of the…

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