US urged to consider military strikes to stop China achieving AGI first
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US urged to consider military strikes to stop China achieving AGI first

The United States should start preparing for scenarios where extreme measures must be taken to stop China from achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), according to a former White House official, including state-backed espionage and military strikes on Chinese data centres.

Jacob Stokes, deputy director of the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the Centre for a New American Security (CNAS), said at an online event on Thursday that various US agencies, including the Department of Defense and the National Security Agency, should begin assessing what intelligence they need to justify taking such actions.“Trying to think through the particulars of that will be especially important, in part because it will help policymakers … start to work backwards based on the unique nature of the technology, in the same way that in a past era, policymakers would learn about nuclear weapons and … work backwards from the science to the policy implications,” he said.

In a new CNAS report published last week, the former Obama administration national security staffer called for the US government to consider the feasibility of diplomatic, espionage, cyber and kinetic measures to prevent China from achieving AGI first.

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u/Feltonlu — 1 month ago
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A group photograph from the SCO Summit has triggered attention after the Pakistan PMO shared a cropped version of the leaders’ picture.

PM Narendra Modi and several other leaders were absent from the version posted by the Pakistani side, while Shehbaz Sharif appeared at the centre. PM Modi later shared the full group photograph from the Bishkek summit.

u/Feltonlu — 1 month ago
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47 states said “nah”.... 😂

LOL !!Only 3 states are still above water

u/Feltonlu — 2 months ago
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Seedance 2.5 acting prompt tutorial: how I built a 29-second AI dialogue scene in one generation

I tested a GPT Image 2.0 × Seedance 2.5 workflow for a 29-second mother-daughter dialogue scene on Atlas Cloud.

The main thing I learned: if you want convincing AI acting, don’t treat dialogue, facial expressions, and camera as separate pieces.

How to keep characters consistent in Seedance 2.5?

I prepared 3 direct reference images:

  • daughter character turnaround
  • mother character turnaround
  • scene reference for blocking, lighting, and environment

I also made a fourth image just to map the mother’s emotional progression.

Prompt idea:

lock identity, age, body proportions, hairstyle, clothing, lighting, and spatial relationship to the reference images throughout the scene.

How to make AI acting feel more natural

Give each character a clear personality and emotional history before writing the scene.

For this one:

the daughter is cautious but still believes love will be enough.
the mother is haunted by her past and terrified her daughter will repeat it.

Then I mapped specific dialogue beats to emotional changes.

How to structure a Seedance 2.5 acting prompt?

I used 6 blocks:

references → characters → scene → dialogue → camera → performance timeline

The performance timeline was the most important part.

Example:

“your father” triggers a brief flash of memory.
“money ran out” becomes the first emotional break.
“ENOUGH” is the peak, followed by an immediate cut to black.

Instead of just saying “she gets angry,” I defined exactly when the emotion changes and what line causes it.

How do you use camera movement to support AI acting?

I mostly used 50mm and 85mm framing, then gradually tightened the shots as the argument became more intense.

The mother also moves closer while the daughter is pushed back toward the wall, so the blocking itself reinforces the emotional pressure.

My takeaway:

references + character history + timed acting beats + camera progression

seems to work much better than just writing a long “cinematic” prompt.

u/Feltonlu — 2 months ago