SITUATION EXPLAINED: Google DeepMind just launched Genie 4, a world model that builds interactive worlds you can walk into, with sound. • You describe a scene or upload a photo, and Genie 4 generates a world you can move through in real time • It now generates its own audio, from ambient sound and music to characters that talk back • You can reshape the world mid-session with text, like changing the weather or adding a person • Google is also using it to simulate robot tasks, like Apptronik’s…