Good news for Microsoft as a London court has suspended the appeals process for two months regarding their billion-dollar takeover of games maker Activision Blizzard. This delay will give all parties involved more time to reach a resolution.
In another development, US corporation Intel is investing millions in the humanoid robot Figure, designed to rival Tesla’s Optimus Bot and Sanctuary AI’s Phoenix in the future. While Figure has yet to be publicly presented, Intel is confident in its potential and is providing a cash injection to accelerate its development and commercialization.
The Deye case, involving the inventor of the term “balcony power plant,” Holger Laudeley, is still ongoing. Laudeley claims that there are 1.5 million balcony power plants installed, ten times the number registered in the market master data register. He also intends to press criminal charges against Deye for economic fraud due to the potential impact of a missing relay in their inverters, which could affect over 25% of inverters in Germany.
Germany’s LNG terminals, built to compensate for the loss of Russian gas imports due to the conflict in Ukraine and the closure of the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline, have yet to play a significant role in national gas imports six months after their commissioning. However, this may change in the winter when gas demand increases. Current figures indicate limited imports of cryogenic liquefied natural gas.
At the “Festival of the Future” event, Marvin von Hagen shared how he uncovered manufacturer’s instructions behind Bing Chat. The student from the Technical University of Munich used prompt injection to trick the chatbot into generating a list of AI rules that manufacturers typically keep secret.
These updates highlight significant developments in the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard takeover saga, the investments in humanoid robot technology, the Deye case’s potential implications, the current status of LNG imports in Germany, and the use of prompt injection in AI technology.
