{"id":989142,"date":"2026-02-02T07:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989142"},"modified":"2026-02-02T08:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:38:17","slug":"videogame-stocks-slide-on-googles-ai-model-that-turns-prompts-into-playable-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/02\/videogame-stocks-slide-on-googles-ai-model-that-turns-prompts-into-playable-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"Videogame stocks slide on Google&#8217;s AI model that turns prompts into playable worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shares of videogame companies fell sharply in afternoon trading on \u200dFriday after Alphabet&#8217;s Google rolled out its artificial intelligence model capable of creating interactive \u2060digital worlds with simple prompts. <\/p>\n<p>Shares of &#8220;Grand Theft Auto&#8221; maker Take-Two Interactive and online gaming platform Roblox were down around 9% each, while videogame engine maker Unity Software dropped \u200c19%. <\/p>\n<p>The AI \u200cmodel, dubbed &#8220;Project Genie&#8221;, allows users to simulate a real-world environment through prompts with text or uploaded \u200cimages, potentially disrupting how video games have been made for over a decade and forcing developers to adapt to the fast-moving technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shares of videogame companies fell sharply in afternoon trading on \u200dFriday after Alphabet&#8217;s Google rolled out its artificial intelligence model capable of creating interactive \u2060digital worlds with simple prompts. Shares of &#8220;Grand Theft Auto&#8221; maker Take-Two Interactive and online gaming platform Roblox were down around 9% each, while videogame engine maker Unity Software dropped \u200c19%. The AI \u200cmodel, dubbed &#8220;Project Genie&#8221;, allows users to simulate a real-world environment through prompts with text or uploaded \u200cimages, potentially disrupting how video games have been made for over a decade and forcing developers to adapt to the fast-moving technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}