An ‘AI afterlife’ is now a real option – but what becomes of your legal status?
The idea of digital immortality raises many legal questions – and most of them don’t have a clear answer.
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What Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse U-turn means for the future of virtual reality
Major job cuts at Meta could signal a shift from virtual reality to the broader, less-immersive forms of extended reality.Read More →
Artificial metacognition: Giving an AI the ability to ‘think’ about its ‘thinking’
What if an AI system could recognize when it’s confused or when to think more carefully? Researchers are working to give large language models these metacognitive abilities.Read More →
Google’s world-building AI points to exciting future for OpenSim creators (or their doom!)
Google DeepMind just released Project Genie, an experimental tool that generates explorable 3D environments from text prompts. Now, the tool itself isn’t useful for OpenSim communities yet. It doesn’t last long. There’s no multi-user support. You can’t build anything that persists. And there’s zero hypergrid connectivity. So more of aRead More →
OpenSim land grows as traffic slows slightly
Yup, this month’s report will sound a lot like last month’s! Regions up, actives down slightly, and still some weirdness on OSgrid! Due to an OSgrid user modeling all of North America, the total number of standard-sized regions in OpenSim is still an astronomical 988,206. I guess OSgrid still hasn’tRead More →
The 10 biggest AI stories of 2025
So, when I’m not sporadically posting articles here on Hypergrid Business, I’m at work covering enterprise artificial intelligence. This is how companies, non-profits, and government organizations are actually using AI. N I’m not into the public relations BS that vendors are pushing, nor the get-rich-quick schemes from charlatans or equallyRead More →
OpenSim in 2025: A Year of Crisis, Growth, and Loss
We haven’t done one of these in a while! But since I presented on OpenSim statistics at the OSCC conference in December, it seemed like a good time to look back at what happened in the OpenSim community this year. 2025 was a year of dramatic highs and lows forRead More →
World’s best color palette generator — my latest vibe-coding experiment
Check out Maria’s World Best Free Color Palette Generator! Create perfectly balanced color palettes, starting with a color, a hex code, or an image — and it goes up to eleven! So I’m writing a novel, like I usually am, and I’m using a database to track all the versionsRead More →
Regions up, users down in OpenSim this month
Due to an OSgrid user modeling all of North America, the total number of standard-sized regions in OpenSim is still an astronomical 986,951. I guess OSgrid still hasn’t figured out what to do about all these testing regions. Land is land, and plenty of people put up regions in OpenSimRead More →
Three myths about AI we keep seeing in books and movies
A lot of what you know or think you know about artificial intelligence probably comes from movies and science fiction books, but there’s a lot that the movies and the books get wrong about AI.Read More →
New AI-driven NPCs can see, navigate, and chat
NPCs in OpenSimulator can now actually see what’s around them, navigate without getting stuck, and chat intelligently thanks to a new modular AI framework.Read More →
