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Amazon builds its own AI production platform and greenlights three AI animated series for Prime Video
Amazon MGM Studios and AWS have launched the 'GenAI Creators' Fund' to accelerate film production using AI. A key component is 'Project Nara,' a proprietary platform that integrates various AI models into professional creative tools like Blender and Adobe. The initiative aims to solve common AI video production issues, such as continuity errors, while supporting three new animated series currently in development.
ElevenLabs Music v2 promises opera-to-metal transitions without losing musical coherence
ElevenLabs has launched Music v2, an AI model capable of generating complex musical transitions across genres, such as opera to metal, while maintaining coherence. The update includes improved inpainting for section-specific regeneration and expanded multilingual support. The model is available via ElevenMusic, ElevenAPI, and ElevenCreative, with all output cleared for commercial use starting from the Starter+ plan.
Building self-improving tax agents with Codex
OpenAI and Thrive Holdings detail how they built a self-improving tax agent using Codex. By capturing production traces and practitioner feedback, the system automatically identifies failures, generates targeted evals, and uses Codex to implement and validate fixes, significantly increasing accuracy and efficiency.
Anthropic's Pentagon model is now everyone's model
Anthropic releases its Pentagon-grade model Mythos to the public, blurring the lines between sovereign and developer AI. Meanwhile, DeepMind's Demis Hassabis predicts AGI by 2029, and major tech companies face a reckoning over AI ROI as token costs skyrocket and layoffs linked to AI agents continue.
Election information and safeguards in 2026
OpenAI outlines its strategy for the 2026 election cycle, focusing on providing reliable information, supporting cyber defenders, increasing transparency through provenance tools like C2PA, and combating misuse of AI for election interference.
Microsoft's MAI-Image-2.5 pulls even with Google's Nano Banana 2 on benchmarks
Microsoft has released MAI-Image-2.5, which now ranks third on the Arena text-to-image leaderboard, matching Google's Nano Banana 2. The update features significant improvements in text rendering, stylized illustrations, and consistency, positioning it for professional commercial use.
Robinhood lets AI agents trade shares and make credit card purchases for customers
Robinhood is allowing customers to link AI agents to their investment accounts and virtual credit cards using the Model Context Protocol. While this enables automated trading and purchasing, regulators and the company warn of significant risks, including potential financial loss and lack of human oversight.
YouTube will try to automatically flag AI videos starting this month
YouTube is rolling out automatic labeling for AI-generated content to increase transparency. While creators can appeal incorrect labels, content created with YouTube's own AI tools or containing C2PA metadata will have permanent labels. The platform maintains that these labels will not impact monetization or recommendations.
The AI boom drove Nvidia's yearly Taiwan spending from $15 billion to $150 billion
Nvidia's annual spending on Taiwanese suppliers has surged to $150 billion due to the AI boom, up from $15 billion just a few years ago. The company is also expanding its local workforce and planning a new campus, while rival AMD is also increasing its investments in the region.
China turns its aging camera network into an AI-powered mass surveillance apparatus
China is upgrading its nationwide surveillance network with AI-powered computer vision and language models. This shift enables automated behavioral analysis and text-based video search, moving beyond simple identification to large-scale monitoring, raising significant concerns about privacy and state repression.
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