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Meta has announced Vibes, a new feed inside the Meta AI app and on meta.ai, designed to let users create, remix, and share short-form AI-generated videos. The feature underscores Meta’s push to make AI-driven creativity more interactive and accessible across its ecosystem. The Vibes feed acts as a central hub for AI video content, where…
Silicon Valley leaders including White House AI & Crypto Czar David Sacks and OpenAI Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon caused a stir online this week for their comments about groups promoting AI safety. In separate instances, they alleged that certain advocates of AI safety are not as virtuous as they appear, and are either acting…
YouTube has officially introduced its YouTube Premium Lite subscription plan in India, expanding the pilot program that was first tested in select countries earlier this year. The new plan is priced at ₹89 per month and allows users to watch most videos on the platform without interruptions from advertisements. The launch comes as YouTube Music…
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users. 2024 was a big year for OpenAI, from its partnership…
OnePlus has officially teased the global launch of its upcoming flagship smartphone, the OnePlus 15, confirming a unique “Sand Storm” edition that blends cutting-edge materials with minimalist design. Earlier, OnePlus unveiled the OnePlus 15, powered by the world’s fastest mobile platform, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. At the OnePlus Gaming Conference 2025, the company…
Silicon Valley’s rule? It’s not cool to be cautious. As OpenAI removes guardrails and VCs criticize companies like Anthropic for supporting AI safety regulations, it’s becoming clearer who the industry thinks should shape AI development. On this episode of Equity, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Max Zeff discuss how the line between innovation and responsibility…
In this tutorial, we build a compact, efficient framework that demonstrates how to convert tool documentation into standardized, callable interfaces, register those tools in a central system, and execute them as part of an automated pipeline. As we move through each stage, we create a simple converter, design mock bioinformatics tools, organize them into a…
OpenAI is reportedly developing Sora 2, a standalone app for AI-generated videos, according to documents reviewed by WIRED. The app is said to feature a vertical swipe-to-scroll feed similar to TikTok, where all content is created by AI. A “For You” style recommendation system will personalize the feed, and users can like, comment, or remix…
Senate Republicans shared a deepfake video of Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, designed to make it seem like Democrats are celebrating the ongoing government shutdown, which has lasted 16 days. In the deepfake, an AI-generated Schumer repeats the phrase “every day gets better for us,” an actual quote taken out of context from…
