Bungie denied leaked claims that it plans to merge its upcoming Marathon shooter with the Destiny franchise, with Marathon creative director Julia Nardin confirming the merger report is fake while acknowledging both games share Bungie's DNA. The wide-ranging leak, originating from 4Chan, also detailed plans to incorporate Destiny mechanics into Marathon and suggested former Destiny 2 developers have been rehired to work on the project.
A developer used Gemini API to label 4,290 Reddit comments about chef's knives for $9, then fine-tuned the open-source GLiNER model on those labels to achieve 0.83 F1 score, replacing expensive API calls with a local model that pays for itself within thousands of comments.