The rights to the popular “Red Rising” book series have been picked up at Paramount with “Hunger Games” director Francis Lawrence attached to a movie based on the first novel. Justin Rhodes will write the script, based on the original 2014 novel by author Pierce Brown. variety.com/2026/film/news/r…

A ‘RED RISING’ movie is in the works at Paramount • Francis Lawrence (‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’) set to direct • The story follows a young miner living on Mars who attempts to bring down the color-coded class system (Source: hollywoodreporter.com/movies…)

Our newest book is finally here! Making the Modern Laboratory is a spectacular 504-page hardcover that tells the story of everything in the research laboratory and how it came to be, from pipettes to heat-resistant glass to microscopes and more. It features dozens of articles (most of which will never appear in print), 100+ full-color images, and original writing from 36 authors. It's printed on Arena Natural Rough paper from Fedrigoni. These books are THICC and would make a great gift for both the science-curious and the working scientist. :) We have spent the last year working on this project. It has been an insane labor of love. The best way to support our independent science journalism is to buy a copy. <3 Pre-order for $49, with free shipping: press.asimov.com/articles/mo…

Vinod Khosla reveals Sam Altman admitted nobody tells him where he is “screwing up,” and explains why startups fail when private doubts go unspoken “By the way, I was just talking to Sam Altman. He was here earlier this week. We were having dinner. I said, ‘Sam, your hardest problem is nobody’s going to be brutally honest with you and tell you you’re screwed up in X or Y.’ Like, literally, I told him that.” “And he said, ‘Yeah, nobody says that to me. Like, where am I screwing up?’” “And there’s a great book by a woman called Margaret Heffernan. I said to him, ‘You should invite her to come speak to your senior management team.’ And she’s given a TED Talk, which is the easy way to look at it, called Dare to Disagree.” “She talks about where people don’t disagree even if they know something’s wrong. And then very often you don’t know something’s wrong, but you have a hunch. So you’re not even sure of your own opinion. But if you don’t bring it up in a group meeting, you can’t discuss it. And there may be three other people in the room that are worried about the same thing.” “And very often when startups go wrong, people say, ‘You know, I thought that two years or three years ago,’ and somebody else will say, ‘I thought that too,’ but they never surfaced it for discussion.” “Discussion is always a good thing. Disagreement is always a good thing. As Jeff Bezos says, you want to have that discussion, then you want to have the team agree and commit or disagree and commit. But you want one strategy, and that’s what the founder does or the CEO does.”

This will make you smile. Rain Wilson shares his observation of returned missionary reunions at the SLC airport. Mystic Observes Book of Mormon Promise youtube.com/shorts/bwzmjAPKo… via @YouTube

Presenting compute-optimal scaling laws for human motion generation!!! Human motion generation has historically been niche and difficult to scale. Animators, roboticists, motion analysts, and game developers all see the potential, but it rarely lives up to the rigor required in production. We have long believed this is because all prior systems have been fantastically data constrained. Until today, we haven't been able to prove that scaling would actually help. Today we present our flagship research paper: Compute-Optimal Scaling Laws for Human Motion Generation. (link: github.com/Cartwhl/scaling-l…) We are building the world's largest, high-quality human-motion dataset. We trained hundreds of models across varying scales. They match the Chinchilla scaling found in language. This places motion as the fifth data modality we understand how to scale. Text, images, audio, and video all have scaling laws. None of them really reflect the physical world. 3D human motion, across time, does. Both autoregressive and flow matching motion models scale predictably. We can now predict, before training a model, how good it will be. Motion is no longer data constrained. It is now a predictable and scalable frontier for physical and digital intelligence. Our largest models are training now, and the gap between generated motion and the real physical world is closing fast. paper: github.com/Cartwhl/scaling-l… blog: getcartwheel.com/blog/scalin…

Quantum Mode: Activated.

I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining OpenAI and look forward to working with the exceptional team there. It was a difficult decision to move on. I’m incredibly proud of the amazing team at Google and everything we’ve built together. It has been an honor and a pleasure to work with all of you.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time will be reborn on Nintendo Switch 2 in 2026. #NintendoDirect