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Defence: EU countries give final go-ahead for Canada’s participation in SAFE funding
The European Union has officially approved Canada as the first non-European nation to join its €150 billion Security Action for Europe (SAFE) defence funding program. This milestone agreement allows Canadian companies to bid on EU defence contracts, further deepening the strategic security partnership between the two allies.
A #German Court Has Ruled That #Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by #AIOverviews
The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an #AI system must assume legal #liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates.
The script for TESSA: A Nuka-World Story is structurally sound. It works. But "working" isn't the standard I'm aiming for.
Going to some additional time to work on tightening up story and deepen the narrative. I'm expanding the friction, sharpening the dialogue, locking the pacing, and pressure-testing every moral crossing until the tragedy lands like it should.
Once updated, the math is straightforward. Costs run. If interested in assisting on expediting this project you can contribute on the project Patreon page found through my site. Dono's contribute directly towards securing compute time (A100 instance), voice licensing, voice and dialect calibration, lip-sync routing and pipeline QA.
http://bytemestudios.ca
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#Soccer Fans, You’re Being Watched
From anti-drone tech to face recognition, 2026 #WorldCup stadiums in the US, #Canada, and #Mexico are subjecting fans to an array of #surveillance tech. Here’s what you need to know.
#privacy #security
https://www.wired.com/story/soccer-world-cup-biometric-surveillance/
Tessa: A Nuka World Story project costs breakdown set on RunPod for the heavy lifting. Visit my Patreon :p
BASELINE PARAMETERS:
Episode Runtime 22:00
Confirmed broadcast lock
Shot Count per Episode
35-50 shots
****** v3.5.0: MIN 3/MAX 8 per scene × ~7 scenes
Clip Length per Shot: 4-6 seconds
Standard for AI video generation; matches dialogue pacing
Re-run Rate: 3.0x average
Prompt refinement, motion artifacts, framing errors, lip-sync drift
Total Generations/Episode:
105-150 clips
35-50 shots × 3.0 re-runs
GPU Instance: A100 80GB
RunPod A100 80GB Rate
$2.00 USD/hr (community) / $3.50 USD/hr (secure)
~$2.74 CAD/hr / ~$4.80 CAD/hr at 1.37 exchange rate
Generation Time per Clip
1.5-2.5 min
A100 tensor cores + 80GB VRAM reduce SDXL/AnimateDiff render time vs. 4090
Voice Generation:
ElevenLabs "Stable" tier:
~3,000 words/episode × $0.003/word × 1.37 = ~$12.33-16.44 CAD/episode
Lip-Sync
Sync Labs batch API:
~40 clips × $0.50 USD/clip × 1.37 = ~$27.40 CAD/episode
Storage/IO Overhead
RunPod volume + transfer:
~$1.37-4.11 CAD/episode
SEASON 1 AGGREGATE (7 EPISODES | CAD)
Total GPU Hours:
High Estimate 33.6 hrs
Low Estimate 28.0 hrs
Total Voice Generation
Low Estimate $86.31
High Estimate $115.08
Total Lip-Sync $191.80
Total Storage/Transfer
Low Estimate $9.59
High Estimate $28.77
Grand Total (Cloud Services Only)
Low Estimate $379.75
High Estimate $497.00
With 25% Contingency
Low Estimate $474.69
High Estimate $621.25
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