🤖 AI Creates Infinite Super Mario Bros. Levels

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In today’s Daily Report:

• 🕹️AI Creates Infinite Super Mario Bros. Levels

• 🗺️AI Provides Real-Time Flood Forecasts

• 🇸🇬Singapore Arrests GPU Smugglers

• 🛠Trending Tools

• 🥪Brief Bites

• 💰Funding Frontlines

• 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

AI AND VIDEO GAMES

🕹️AI Creates Infinite Super Mario Bros. Levels

Virtuals Protocol developed “MarioVGG,” an AI System that generates playable Super Mario Bros. levels.

Key Details:

• “MarioVGG” takes a text description of a gameplay action (e.g., “Mario jumps over a Goomba!”) and generates a corresponding video clip.

• It relies on a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), which has two parts:

  1. Generator: Learns to generate plausible data.

  2. Discriminator: Learns to distinguish the Generator’s fake data from real data.

• The Generator gets closer to producing outputs that can fool the Discriminator. This process helps “MarioVGG” create Super Mario Bros. levels that resemble the actual video game.

Why It’s Important:

• Hao AI Lab just tested whether Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet could “learn” how to play Super Mario Bros., which measures the Hybrid Reasoning Engine’s reasoning abilities.

• Playing Super Mario Bros. requires understanding the video game’s mechanics and generating gameplay strategies that adapt to the ever-changing Game State: a current “snapshot” of the video game.

AI RESEARCH

🗺️AI Provides Real-Time Flood Forecasts

Google Research developed “Flood Hub,” which provides locally relevant flood forecasts up to 7 days in advance so governments can take timely action.

Key Details:

• “Flood Hub” provides water trend information, offers real-time flood forecasts, and delivers flood alerts.

• It covers river basins across 80 countries worldwide, providing critical flood forecasting for over 1,800 areas populated by 460 million people.

• “Flood Hub” combines two AI Models:

  1. Hydrologic Model: Forecasts the amount of water flowing in a river.

  2. Inundation Model: Simulates the behavior of water as it moves across floodplains based on the Hydrologic Model and satellite imagery.

Why It’s Important:

• Floods are the most common type of natural disaster. Early warnings reduce flood-related deaths by up to 43% and mitigate economic recoveries by up to 50%.

• “Flood Hub” offers more actionable and accurate flood forecasts than the Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS), which is referred to as the gold standard for global daily flood forecasts.

🚨Check out the “Flood Hub” map here.

AI REGULATIONS

🇸🇬Singapore Arrests GPU Smugglers

Singapore’s Home Affairs and Law Minister, Mr K Shanmugam, announced that Police and Customs Authorities raided 22 locations and detained 3 people for procuring and shipping NVIDIA’s cutting-edge GPUs to Malaysia, raising the question: “Was Malaysia truly the final destination?”

Due to national security concerns, the U.S. prohibits NVIDIA from directly selling cutting-edge GPUs to Chinese companies.

NVIDIA recently shared its Q4 Fiscal 2025 Summary, showing that Singapore is the chipmaker’s second-largest revenue source, which has fueled widespread speculation that NVIDIA’s cutting-edge GPUs are being smuggled into China through Singapore.

🩺 PULSE CHECK

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🥪BRIEF BITES

OpenAI plans to integrate Sora, a video generator that converts text prompts into hyperrealistic short films, directly into ChatGPT.

Anthropic just raised a $3.5 billion Series E led by Lightspeed Venture Partners to fund the development of Next-Gen AI Systems.

OpenAI Founding Member Andrej Karpathy uploaded a YouTube video outlining how to use LLMs to help streamline your daily workflows.

Google developed “Career Dreamer,” which uses your unique experiences, educational background, skills, and interests to find your next dream job.

💰FUNDING FRONTLINES

• Millie closes a $12M Series A for a Tech-Enabled Maternity Clinic Platform.

• Regie.ai secures a $30M Series B for AI-Native Sales Agents that close deals faster.

• Sparta raises a $42M Series B for an AI-powered Commodity Trader Intelligence Platform.

💼WHO’S HIRING?

• Tesla (Palo Alto, CA): AI Engineer Intern, Self-Driving, Summer 2025

• Tatari (New York, NY): Software Engineer Intern, Backend, Summer 2025

• NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA): Datacenter GPU Power Architect, Entry-Level

• Naptha AI (Remote): AI Agent Engineer, Mid-Level

• Google DeepMind (New York, NY): Research Engineer, Gemini Flash, Senior-Level

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