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📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?
🎬 ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 stuns the AI video world
🏦 MrBeast is Buying Gen Z Banking App Step
⏰ AI gold rush sees tech firms embracing 72-hour weeks
🚗 Waymo taps Genie 3 to train self-driving cars
💡 AI Tutorial:Build lead widgets for your site without coding
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Free and Go ChatGPT members will see something new soon. OpenAI announced it’s beginning to test ads in the U.S. for the free and low-cost subscription tiers, while Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Education tiers will not see the ads. Rest assured, OpenAI says “ads do not influence the answers ChatGPT gives you.”
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Chinese AI giant ByteDance is going viral across social media with Seedance 2.0, a new model in beta with upgraded cinematic shots, consistency, and synced audio that looks to surpass current top available systems. The model can reportedly handle text, image, audio, and video inputs, with tests showing impressive outputs across a range of styles and use cases.
Every company can become a media company if you really try. YouTube star MrBeast announced his company, Beast Industries, is buying Step, a teen-focused banking app. Step, which raised half a billion in funding and has grown to over 7 million users, offers financial services geared toward Gen Z to help them build credit, save money, and invest. MrBeast finance channel, when?
AI startups are openly advertising 70+ hour work weeks in their job postings, with companies like Rilla warning applicants not to apply unless they're "excited about working ~70 hrs/week" as the race to monetize AI intensifies. The trend, known as 996 culture (9am to 9pm, six days a week), has spread from China's tech sector to Silicon Valley, where venture-backed firms are pushing employees to outpace competitors in bringing AI products to market.
Waymo just introduced the Waymo World Model, a driving simulator built on DeepMind's Genie 3 that generates hyper-realistic scenarios the company's fleet of self-driving cars has never encountered to help it deal with extreme edge cases. The model takes Genie 3's visual knowledge and converts it into paired camera and lidar outputs, helping dream up scenarios its cars have never actually seen.
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