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Today:

• OpenAI Launches Aardvark — Your AI Security Researcher

• OpenAI Eyes $1T IPO Amid AGI Surge

• Universal Strikes AI Deal with Udio After Copyright Clash

• OpenAI’s Sora Adds Scene Stitching & Character Sharing

• Canva Unveils Creative OS: One Price, Every Tool

OpenAI Launches Aardvark — Your AI Security Researcher

Aardvark is OpenAI’s new AI-powered agent that acts like a security researcher. It reads and monitors code, finds bugs, tests if they can be exploited, and suggests fixes. Unlike old tools, Aardvark uses reasoning, not rules, and works like a real human expert. It’s now in private beta.

KEY POINTS

• AI Security Agent: Aardvark uses GPT-5 to act like a real security researcher—reading code, testing bugs, and suggesting patches.

• Real-Time Protection: It scans every code update, builds threat models, tests vulnerabilities, and offers one-click fixes.

• Open Source Help: Aardvark has already found real bugs in public code and plans to help non-commercial open-source projects for free.

Why it matters

Software powers everything—from hospitals to banks. But tiny coding mistakes can open doors for hackers. Aardvark helps stop that early, like a tireless expert watching your code. It makes software safer without slowing down the people who build it. This could protect companies and communities alike.

OpenAI Eyes $1T IPO Amid AGI Surge

OpenAI is preparing for a potential IPO as early as late 2026, with an expected valuation of up to $1 trillion. The move follows a major restructuring that reduced reliance on Microsoft and positioned the company to raise capital for AI infrastructure. Revenue is soaring, but so are costs.

KEY POINTS

• IPO in the Works: OpenAI may go public by late 2026 or 2027, aiming for a valuation between $500 billion and $1 trillion.

• Big Financial Shift: Restructuring gives the OpenAI Foundation a financial stake, while enabling the company to raise funds more flexibly.

• Fueling AI Ambitions: Proceeds could support trillions in planned AI infrastructure and major acquisitions.

Why it matters

This could be one of the biggest IPOs in history. OpenAI’s move signals how fast AI is reshaping business and investment. The company needs massive funding to keep up with growth and competition. Going public would help it scale, innovate, and influence the AI future.

Universal Strikes AI Deal with Udio After Copyright Clash

Universal Music Group has partnered with Udio after settling a copyright lawsuit, paving the way for a new AI-powered music creation platform. The service, set to launch next year, allows users to generate, customize, and share music while compensating artists through licensing deals.

KEY POINTS

• Lawsuit Settled, Partnership Formed: Universal settled its copyright case against Udio and will now license music to the startup.

• New AI Music Platform Coming: The two companies will launch a subscription-based music creation tool in 2026.

• Artist Compensation Promised: Universal says the deal opens new revenue streams for musicians and adds copyright protections.

Why it matters

This is a turning point for the music industry and AI. Instead of fighting tech companies in court, major labels are now teaming up with them. The deal could set a model for how artists and AI coexist—protecting rights while embracing new creative tools.

🧠RESEARCH

Multi-Agent Evolve: LLM Self-Improve through Co-evolution

Multi-Agent Evolve (MAE) is a new method that helps large language models get better at solving problems by letting them learn from each other. Using three roles—question maker, problem solver, and evaluator—all powered by the same AI, MAE boosts reasoning skills without needing lots of human-made data.

Incentivizing Agentic Reasoning in LLM Judges via Tool-Integrated Reinforcement Learning

TIR-Judge is a new training method that helps AI judges improve by using tools like code execution to check answers more accurately. Unlike regular models that only read text, TIR-Judge learns through practice and performs better—even without human-made training examples—matching top models while using fewer resources.

VISTA: A Test-Time Self-Improving Video Generation Agent

VISTA is a self-improving video generator that boosts quality by refining prompts through feedback loops. It breaks user input into timed steps, picks the best result, critiques it using three expert agents, and rewrites the prompt for better output. VISTA consistently outperforms other methods, winning over both metrics and human judges.

🛠️TOP TOOLS

Each listing includes a hands-on tutorial so you can get started right away, whether you’re a beginner or a pro.

FineShare – AI Voice Generator & AI Music Maker - all‑in‑one AI audio creation platform

Talkie AI – AI Character Chat & Voice Companion - mobile‑first AI companion and character‑chat platform

Unscreen – AI Video Background Remover - removes the background of videos and GIFs

📲SOCIAL MEDIA

🗞️MORE NEWS

• OpenAI's Sora now lets users create reusable video characters and stitch scenes together. You can feature pets or toys in multiple clips, share them with others, and explore top remixes via new leaderboards.

• Canva launched a new “Creative Operating System” with AI-powered tools for marketing, video editing, forms, and email campaigns. It’s a full design suite, but users must pay for everything, even if they don’t use all features.

• Meta and University of Edinburgh researchers created a new method called CRV to detect and fix AI reasoning errors by analyzing internal model circuits. It works in real time and improves model reliability.

• Reddit is testing an AI-powered ad campaign tool to help small businesses easily create and optimize ads. It automates targeting, bidding, and performance tracking, aiming to boost revenue and reduce advertiser reliance on outside tools.

• Google AI Studio added new logging and dataset tools to help developers track AI performance, debug apps, and export data for testing—without writing extra code. It boosts quality control from prototype to production.

• Nvidia plans to invest up to $1 billion in AI startup Poolside, boosting its valuation to $12 billion. Poolside, known for AI coding tools, has already secured over $1 billion in funding commitments.

• Figma has acquired AI media generation startup Weavy, rebranding it as Figma Weave. The deal brings advanced image and video editing tools using multiple AI models, boosting Figma’s creative power and workflow flexibility.

• Meta’s stock fell 11%, its worst drop in three years, after announcing increased AI spending. CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended the $70–$72 billion capex as necessary to prepare for future superintelligence and AI infrastructure growth.

• Microsoft’s earnings reveal OpenAI lost $11.5 billion last quarter. This figure was inferred from Microsoft's $3.1 billion hit to earnings due to its 27% OpenAI stake, exposing the scale of AI investment burn.

• Meta plans a $25 billion bond sale to fund soaring AI infrastructure costs. This follows a $208 billion market value drop after announcing record spending—up to $72B this year and more in 2026—for superintelligence ambitions.