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Spain is to create a significant foundational large language model, trained in Spanish as well as the country’s co-official languages as spoken in many of its autonomous communities.
The announcement came from Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, speaking ahead of the Mobile World Congress 2024, taking place in Barcelona from Monday 26 to Thursday 29 February. Sanchez confirmed the LLM would be transparent and open source.
A large language model (LLM) is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that utilizes learning techniques and extensive data sets to understand, summarize, generate, and prompt new content.  Generative AI is a term linked to LLMs, which can be described as a form of generative AI specifically designed to create text-based content.
Cross-sector collaboration
The likes of Google Gemini support more than 40 languages in an international context but at present, its advanced features are only available in English. This shows how the Spanish initiative will serve a local purpose, as well as aid national efforts to educate its citizens and workforce in the development of AI technology.
In addressing the English language dominance, the Spanish LLM project “seeks to provide an open, public, and accessible language infrastructure for companies, so that they can have a large-scale language model that facilitates services that allow them to develop advanced applications for their economic exploitation, such as intelligent assistants, conversational and dialogue systems or content generation models”.
To achieve the aims of the LLM, the Spanish government has enabled the formation of a cross-sector body comprising public and private entities such as the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, the Spanish Supercomputing Network, the Spanish Academy of Language (RAE), and the Association of Spanish Language Academies.
The collaboration also has plans to take the program abroad to Spanish-speaking communities in the Americas.
It is hoped the proliferation of the Spanish language model will boost native and non-Spanish enterprises to develop their digital offerings and provide new services.
PM Sanchez touched on the importance of protecting rights and freedoms, in tandem with the growth and impact of generative AI. This was extended to considerations on the labor market and public policy, but the premier insisted Spain was ready to play its part in the international effort to embrace AI sustainably.
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Supermassive Games, the developer of the Until Dawn and Dark Pictures franchise joins a growing list of studios making staff redundant early in 2024.
Employees were updated about the looming lay-offs in accordance with labor laws and the games company is looking to reduce the company staff size by 25%.
This equates to around 90 staff members who will be set to leave the company after a period of consultation according to the BAFTA winning studio.
Dark Pictures
In a somber statement released on X, the company publicly announced the decision to enter this dialogue with current employees about the downsizing process:

A statement from Supermassive Games. pic.twitter.com/9GkgIrYQvt
— Supermassive Games (@SuperMGames) February 26, 2024

The statement from Supermassive would say that the company “is not immune” to the challenges that are facing games publishers and large multi-media companies across 2023 and the early part of this year.
“This is not a decision that has been taken lightly, with many efforts to avoid this outcome,” said the statement. This shows that efforts to avoid the lay-off process have been undertaken, but this will be a small solace to those who have to enter the world of work where competition for places is fierce.
The post would meet the difficulties of the process head on saying “We are all too aware of how unsettling and difficult this process is going to be for all our employees and will be working closely with all those involved to ensure the process is conducted as respectfully and compassionately as possible.”
Major names across digital media and technology have added to a wave of redundancies at companies such as Google, Ebay, and Tik Tok.
These are just a few of the major tech companies to announce a reduced headcount due to the financial challenges facing companies, remote working becoming more prevalent, and the advancement of artificial intelligence technology.
All of these factors play a part in the future of the gaming industry, but for the sake of those who are an established part of the creation, design, and delivery of our favorite titles, it shouldn’t define it.
Our Gaming Editor would write a stark appraisal of the gaming landscape and the impact that job cuts have and their effect on the industry across 2023. This trend has sadly continued in the early part of 2024.
Image Credit: Supermassive Games.
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It is believed the ongoing cyber attack on US health tech giant Change Healthcare is the work of the ‘Blackcat’ ransomware gang.
The targeted hit has caused significant disruption to the health system in recent days with hospitals and pharmacies impacted, as reported by Reuters.
Owned by parent company UnitedHealth, Change operates a major health payment system, connecting care providers and patients across the states. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, the company posted revenues of almost $3.5 billion in 2022.
Last week, hackers obtained access to Change Healthcare’s IT infrastructure with immediate knock-on effects at pharmacies to the detriment of of patients.
Whilst there was no immediate comment from UnitedHealth or Blackcat (also known as ALPHV) in the aftermath of the breach, Reuters has now briefed on the latter’s responsibility for the attack.
Inevitable outcome
This latest development comes after the parent company of Change Healthcare attributed an earlier incident to a “suspected nation-state associated cybersecurity threat actor,” but an industry expert has played down that line of enquiry.
“I am not aware of any links between ALPHV and a nation state,” said Brett Callow, a threat analyst at the cybersecurity firm Emsisoft. “As far as I am aware they are financially motivated cybercriminals and nothing more.”
In December, Blackcat was the target of an international law enforcement response led by US authorities to take down its websites and digital assets, with a relative degree of success. In response, the cyber criminals threatened to retaliate by going after critical infrastructure concerning hospitals and providers.
On this outcome, Callow added law enforcement activity was important but unlikely to completely eradicate the problem.
“It’s inevitable that if you have a group that’s making millions of bucks, they are going to attempt to make a comeback,” he said.
Blackcat is an infamous ransomware gang, one of the most prolific groups of online attackers which has previously targeted the likes of MGM Resorts International and Caesars International.
Image: Tima Miroshnichenko/Pexels
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Does it feel like you have simply run out of things to craft and yet you know there are potentially hundreds of thousands of items you are still missing in Infinite Craft? Have you come to this page simply because you want to find out how to craft Cheat in IC (Student + Copy = Cheat in case you were interested)?
This likelihood is though, you are here for more nefarious reasons. You have lost patience with dragging little boxes from the right to the left to create humans, nuclear bombs, and even Infinite Craft itself.
No, you want an easy life, a life that removes the frustration. You want to know how to get to Mommy Shark and Baby Shark without the mindless clicking. Let’s face it, you want to spoil the game for yourself.
Well okay then, we aren’t here to judge you.
Can you cheat in Infinite Craft?
Well, it depends on your definition of cheating. It’s not like you can just press Up, Up, Left, Down, Up, Up like we used to do in games in the olden days but there are ways and even some tools that may help you get to the item you want with a bit less trial and error.
We don’t really advise using these, what’s the point after all, but each to their own?
One handy site we have found is the Infinite Craft Solver which lets you put an item into a search box and it will feed you the recipe so you can follow it to get your the item. Now while it sounds like it might have everything in the game it certainly does not have all the items. For example, it was no use when we were making Infinite Craft in Infinite Craft. We just couldn’t find it in Infinite Craft Solver so we had to do it for ourselves.
Github has a host of Infinite Craft scrapers that purport to grab everything from the game and add them to your inventory (again, what’s the point) but you should be careful here. We haven’t tested them and cannot vouch for their safety to your machine, but for the sake of full reporting, you can find them at that link.

So if you are hellbent on cheating in Infinite Craft, those pages will give you a headstart. You are welcome.

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