🏛️ US DOE signs on 24 tech giants for Genesis Mission

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

• 🚀 Figure CEO Brett Adcock launches new AI lab

• 📱 TikTok signs agreement to create new US joint venture

• 🔐 OpenAI launches GPT-5.2-Codex for professional coding

• ✅ Google adds video verification to Gemini

• 💡 AI Tutorial:How to Quickly Create a Presentation Using AI

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🏛️ U.S. DOE signs on 24 tech giants for Genesis Mission

The U.S. Dept. of Energy just announced partnerships with 24 organizations to power the Trump administration’s Genesis Mission effort to accelerate scientific research with AI — including OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Nvidia. The initiative unites 17 national labs with 40K researchers, targeting breakthroughs in nuclear energy, quantum computing, and manufacturing.

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🚀 Figure CEO Brett Adcock launches new AI lab

Robotics startup Figure AI CEO and founder Brett Adcock is reportedly starting a new AI lab called Hark, backed entirely by $100M in personal funding, according to The Information. The venture will pursue “human-centric AI” capable of proactive reasoning, continuous self-improvement, and designed to “care deeply about humans.”

📱 TikTok signs agreement to create new US joint venture, memo says

TikTok's US operations will soon be housed in a new joint venture named TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC. The company has signed agreements with Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi-based MGX. The deal's closing date is on January 22. Oracle will serve as the 'trusted security partner' in charge of auditing and validating that TikTok complies with agreed-upon national security terms.

🔐 OpenAI launches GPT-5.2-Codex for professional coding

OpenAI has released GPT-5.2-Codex, its most advanced coding model designed for complex software engineering and cybersecurity tasks. The model includes significant improvements for long-term projects, large code refactors, Windows environments, and notably stronger cybersecurity capabilities that recently assisted in discovering three React vulnerabilities.

✅ Google adds video verification to Gemini

Google added video verification to its Gemini app, allowing users to see if content was created with Google AI tools. Users can upload videos up to 100 MB and 90 seconds long and ask if they were AI-generated. It scans for SynthID watermarks across audio and visual tracks, providing specific feedback like "SynthID detected within the audio between 10-20 secs

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How to Quickly Create a Presentation Using AI

1. Go to Gemini and sign in.

2. Upload the document you want to use (PDF, Word or text file).

3. After uploading, open Tools and select “Canvas.”

4. Type your prompt:
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5. When the presentation is ready, click Export to Slides.

6. Your deck will open in Google Slides, where you can edit and polish it.

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⚡️Quick AI News Roundup

💊 Takeda rises on AI-developed psoriasis drug triumph

🤖Zara’s using AI to create fashion images, built on real-life models

🤖ChatGPT’s mobile app just crossed $3B in consumer spending

⚡Luma released an AI model that fills in video between two frames

👓 Updates to Meta AI Glasses: Conversation Focus, Spotify Integration, and More.

💰 Lovable has raised $330 million, bringing its valuation to $6.6 billion.

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