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June 17, 2025

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📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?

  • 💣 OpenAI lands $200M Military contract

  • 🤖 WhatsApp is officially getting ads

  • 🧠 MiniMax’s open reasoner with 1M token context

  • 📊 Reddit launches AI ad tools

  • 💡 AI Tutorial:How to edit your videos with Meta AI

  • 🤯 6 new AI Tools

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OpenAI has secured a one-year, £200M contract with the US Department of Defense to provide them with “frontier AI capabilities” to tackle warfare challenges and support the military and its admin applications.

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The WSJ just declared that the massive partnership between OpenAI and Microsoft is at a “boiling point,” with the AI leader considering filing antitrust complaints after disputes over compute access, IP rights, and company restructuring. The latest argument comes over OpenAI’s $3B acquisition of Windsurf, with the company wanting to withhold the IP due to Microsoft’s rival GitHub Copilot.

WhatsApp will now show ads from businesses through its Stories-like status feature. Ads will be tailored to users using limited information, like location, language, and followed channels. Users can change their ad preferences from Meta's Accounts Center.

Chinese AI startup MiniMax released M1, an open-source reasoning model with a massive 1M token context window that achieves comparable performance to leading open models at a fraction of the training cost.

Reddit has launched two new AI-powered advertising tools to help brands find ways to connect with new audiences, make smarter, more responsive campaign decisions, and improve engagement on the platform.

Spencer Rascoff co-founded Zillow. Austin Allison sold his company to Zillow for $125M. Now they’re transforming the $1.3T vacation home market via co-ownership. By selling shares of luxury properties, Pacaso’s already earned $100M+ in gross profit.

AI Tutorial

How to edit your videos with Meta AI

Meta recently launched an AI video editing feature across the Meta AI app, the Meta.AI website, and the Edits app that allows users to easily edit short-form videos for free using a variety of preset AI prompts that can transform outfits, locations, styles, and more.

Note: It’s available in the US and in “more than a dozen” countries globally so far, so it might not be available to you yet.

  1. Upload a video to the Meta AI app, the Meta.AI website, or the Edits app

  2. Choose from over 50 editing prompts to transform your video

  3. Once you’ve chosen a preset prompt, Meta AI will edit your video to match the selected scenario

  4. You can share your edited videos directly to Facebook and Instagram from Edits and the Meta AI app. In the Meta AI app and on Meta.AI web, you can share it directly to the Discover feed.

While the feature is limited to presets for now, Meta has promised custom text-prompt editing later this year.

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