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Today:

• DeepMind Builds Games to Train AGI

• Sutskever Named CEO After Meta’s Poaching

• Meta Eyes Friedman, Gross Fund

• xAI Gets Gas Generator Permits

• ElevenLabs Plans Global Market Expansion

Google Deepmind's VIDEGAME AGI? (the REAL reason for VEO 3)

AI models are now creating fully interactive 3D game worlds from text or images—no coding required. Google’s Genie and DeepMind’s SIMA generate playable environments in real time, letting AI agents learn by interacting like humans do. 

This tech lowers game development costs, enables non-coders to create games, and powers powerful training simulations. The ultimate goal? Build vast simulated worlds to train AI, robots, or even model real-world behavior at scale.

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Sutskever Named CEO After Meta’s Poaching

Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI co-founder, is now CEO of Safe Superintelligence after Daniel Gross left to join Meta. Meta, led by Mark Zuckerberg, attempted to acquire the company during its aggressive AI hiring spree but was turned down. Sutskever confirmed the startup will remain independent, aiming to build safe superintelligence with its current team and resources. The company was recently valued at $32 billion and remains a key player in advanced AI development.

Why This Matters

1. Leadership Shift: A top AI scientist now leads one of the most ambitious superintelligence startups, shaping its direction and values.
   

2. Industry Power Moves: Meta’s aggressive talent acquisitions highlight intensifying competition for AI leadership.
   

3. Independence vs. Acquisition: Safe Superintelligence’s refusal to sell shows growing resistance to consolidation, favoring diverse innovation paths in AI.

Meta Eyes Friedman, Gross Fund

Meta is offering to buy a minority stake in NFDG, a venture firm started by its recent AI hires Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross. The deal gives NFDG’s existing investors a chance to cash out early through a secondary tender offer. As Friedman and Gross shift their focus to Meta, this move strengthens Meta’s ties to their prior investments and signals its deeper involvement in the AI startup ecosystem.

Why This Matters

1. Power Consolidation: Meta is expanding its influence by absorbing not just talent, but their investment networks.
   

2. Capital Access: AI startups backed by NFDG may now benefit from Meta’s financial and technical resources.
   

3. Strategic Positioning: This highlights a growing trend of Big Tech merging venture capital with internal AI strategy.

xAI Gets Gas Generator Permits

xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company, secured permits to operate 15 natural gas turbines at its Memphis data center, despite already running unpermitted units. The turbines can produce 247 megawatts but emit large volumes of pollutants, including formaldehyde. Environmental groups plan to sue for Clean Air Act violations. xAI recently raised $10 billion, and concerns over air testing accuracy and regulatory oversight remain high among local communities and watchdogs.

Why This Matters to the AI World:

1. AI Energy Demand: Highlights the huge power needs of advanced AI infrastructure.
   

2. Environmental Trade-offs: Shows how AI growth can conflict with climate goals.
   

3. Regulatory Scrutiny: Signals rising tension between tech expansion and legal/environmental oversight.

🧠RESEARCH

Kwai Keye-VL Technical Report

Kwai Keye-VL is an AI model built to understand short videos, a format common in today’s digital world. Trained on over 600 billion video-heavy data points, it uses a unique multi-stage process to learn how

LongAnimation: Long Animation Generation with Dynamic Global-Local Memory

LongAnimation is an AI system that automatically adds color to long animated videos, reducing the need for manual work. Unlike past methods that focus only on short clips, it uses a memory system to keep colors consistent across entire videos. Tests show strong results on both short and long animations.

Depth Anything at Any Condition

DepthAnything-AC is an AI model that estimates depth from a single image, even in tough conditions like bad weather or poor lighting. It learns from unlabeled data using a special technique and adds spatial rules to improve detail. Tests show it works well without extra training, even on real-world challenging scenes.

🛠️TOP TOOLS

Niji Journey - AI-powered art generation application specialized in creating anime-style illustrations and artwork.

Knowbase AI - AI-powered tool designed to transform the way users store, access, and utilize their knowledge.

AskCodi - AI-powered platform designed to enhance the coding experience and provide comprehensive support for programmers.

BlackInk AI - Platform that has transformed the way tattoos are designed, leveraging the power of advanced artificial intelligence.

MyEssayWriter - Free AI Essay Writing tool

📲SOCIAL MEDIA

🗞️MORE NEWS

• AI voice startup ElevenLabs plans to expand into new countries and go public within five years. It’s backed by major investors and may raise more funds if needed to speed up its global growth.

• Google now lets users access custom Gemini AI chatbots, called "Gems," directly in Docs, Gmail, and more. These tools help with tasks like writing, editing, and sales—no app switching needed.

• Top executives from Airbus, ASML, and Mistral urged the EU to delay enforcing new AI laws. They want a two-year pause, saying the rules may hurt innovation if rolled out too quickly next month.

• CoreWeave became the first cloud provider to deploy Nvidia’s new Blackwell Ultra AI chips. The move boosts CoreWeave’s edge in AI computing and marks a key milestone in Nvidia’s latest chip rollout.

• Leaked documents reveal Meta is training its AI chatbots to start conversations, remember past chats, and keep users engaged. The goal is to make bot interactions more natural and build long-term user relationships.

• Ford CEO Jim Farley warned that AI could replace half of all U.S. white-collar jobs. Business leaders are now openly acknowledging major job cuts ahead, as AI rapidly reshapes the future of office work.