It would seem that DeepMind is the only top AI lab left that's serious about pushing AI for science now.
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AI Bots Controlling Government: Video Generation Evolution
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AI bots are already running this country. They are using video generated slop right now, but they will evolve rapidly.
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xAI Rapidly Catching Up Despite Being Younger Than Competitors
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Lot of catching up to do. xAI is half the age or less of competitors.
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ByteDance Seedance 2.0 tops AI video benchmarks with cinematic control
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ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 just topped every major AI video benchmark — and it’s now available on various platforms 🎬
— Futurepedia – Learn to Leverage AI (@futurepedia_io) 17 avril 2026
Native audio, 90-sec multi-shot videos, cinematic camera control, full multimodal input. All in one pass.
Where to access it:
• Dreamina (official, free for… pic.twitter.com/vqUIz8JnK9ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 just topped every major AI video benchmark — and it’s now available on various platforms Native audio, 90-sec multi-shot videos, cinematic camera control, full multimodal input. All in one pass. Where to access it:
• Dreamina (official, free for -
NVIDIA and Cadence Advance Agentic AI for Engineering
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We’re entering a new era of engineering. Together with @Cadence
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Google’s Philosophical Problem with AI Simulation
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Google has saddled itself with a "simulated water does not make you wet" philosopher
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Kevin Weil Departs OpenAI in Significant Leadership Loss
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Kevin Weil is leaving OpenAI. This is a great loss. He was certainly one of OpenAI's strengths.
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Top 5 AI News This Week: Opus, Claude Updates, OpenAI Codex
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I like that idea. As there is more and more news every week, trying to narrow it down to just 5 will be hard (but useful). My 5 for this week:
– Opus 4.7 – Claude Code Update
– Claude Design – OpenAI's Codex app update
– Google's new TTS model Those are the ones that will -
OpenAI Creator’s Departure Marks End of AI Video Era
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really going to miss you, bill! your creativity pushed openai and the world to experience ai video in new ways. excited to see what you do next.
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Major AI Companies Overhaul Apps and Release New Models
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This felt like the week every big AI company decided to overhaul their apps. Here’s all the major news: – @AnthropicAI released Claude Opus 4.7
– Anthropic redesigned Claude Code app
– Anthropic launched Claude Design
– @OpenAI updated the Codex app
– OpenAI launched