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📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?
🌎 Tencent’s Voyager for 3D world creation
📊 OpenAI acquires Statsig for $1.1B
✨Amazon’s Lens Live AI shops for anything you can see
🛡️ ChatGPT gets new safety features
💡 AI Tutorial:How to turn Google Photos into videos for free
🤯 6 new AI Tools
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Anthropic just announced a new $13B funding round that values the company at a whopping $183B, nearly tripling its worth from six months ago and coming amid significant growth from Claude Code and enterprise accounts. Anthropic now serves over 300,000 enterprise customers, with accounts worth $100k+ in annual revenue growing sevenfold in 2025.
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Tencent just released HunyuanWorld-Voyager, an open-source “ultra long-range” AI world model that transforms a single photo into an explorable, exportable 3D environment. Voyager uses a "world cache" that stores previously generated scene regions, maintaining consistency as cameras move through longer virtual environments.
OpenAI just announced a $1.1B all-stock acquisition of experimentation platform Statsig, bringing its founder Vijaye Raji aboard as CTO of Applications to lead ChatGPT and Codex engineering. Raji will oversee product engineering across ChatGPT and Codex, reporting to Applications CEO Fidji Simo, who recently joined from Instacart.
Amazon will now let you shop for products by pointing your camera at them. On Thursday, the company announced Lens Live, a new feature that uses your camera to scan things in the environment around you, while surfacing matching product listings. This feature, which is only rolling out to the Amazon Shopping app on iOS for now, lets you pan your camera around a room or focus on a specific product.
OpenAI is rolling out updates aimed at making ChatGPT safer in sensitive situations. A new routing system will detect signs of acute distress and automatically switch conversations to reasoning models like GPT-5-thinking, built to give steadier, more resistant responses. Parents of teens will soon be able to link accounts, set boundaries, disable features, and get alerts if the system flags a crisis.
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AI Tutorial
How to turn Google Photos into videos for free
*Note: This feature is not limited to Pixel devices. It works on both Android and iPhone with the Google Photos app (version 7.41.0 or newer).
Open the Google Photos app
Tap Create → Photo to video.
(If you don’t see it, update your app.)Choose any picture you want animated.
Select Subtle movements (for small, natural effects) or I’m feeling lucky (for random effects).
Wait for AI to process.
Watch the generated video. If you like it, tap Save; otherwise, you can try Regenerate.
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