METAL

Hyunkook Kim

김현국

The Lab

9 Claude Lane, the insurance company that never sleeps

A narrow alley in San Francisco's financial district now has a café that keeps its lights on at three in the morning. It sells coffee, but the owner is an AI insurance company — and its founder says he sleeps three or four hours a night because he's going to die anyway.

By 김현국

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Creative

Runway unveils playable world model with sound

Three days after unveiling Solaris, which renders screens, the company has now released GWM Worlds 2 — a real-time world model that adds sound. Why is a video company shifting its focus toward rendering spaces?

By 김현국

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