On this week's episode, Hackl and Kebler talk about Murderbot Diaries, a Hugo Award-winning sci-fi book series. Hackl and Kebler discuss the Figma Adobe merger failure. Hackl and Kebler talk about  Marriott Bonvoy Land in Fortnite and Asgard’s Wrath 2 in VR. OpenAI suspends ByteDance’s account. Kebler tries to break ChatGPT 4. Hackl and Kebler discuss Epic, Meta, and Unity joining the Alliance for OpenUSD. Hackl interviews Nick Vinckier, Director of Corporate Innovation at Chalhoub Group.Producer Lily Snyder brings you the Dispatch from the Fringe.Show Notes:Apple is adapting the Hugo Award-winning sci-fi book series MurderbotFigma and Adobe are abandoning our proposed mergerFortnite’s Marriott Bonvoy Land is a ghost town of video game sadnessVR’s killer app has finally arrived” - IGN gave it a perfect score and called it a masterpieceOpenAI suspends ByteDance’s account after it used GPT to train its own AI model.Alliance for OpenUSD Unveils Roadmap for Core USD Specification and Ecosystem CollaborationNick Vinckier on LinkedInThe hottest new climate technology is bricksSubscribe and Share:www.adweek.com/podcasts/tech-magic/Cathy Hackl on LinkedInLee Kebler on LinkedInLily Snyder on LinkedIn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.