It’s been an unbelie-veo-ble week of launches! Here’s everything that happened: — We launched Veo 3.1 with a suite of new features to give you more creative control of your video generations. — We brought Nano Banana into new surfaces like @Google Search, @NotebookLM
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Veo 3.1 Launch: New Creative Control Features and Nano Banana Integration
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NVIDIA’s Open Source Progress Finally Getting Recognition
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Great to see @NVIDIAAI
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Adding Logan Kilpatrick and Hamel Hussain to List
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adding to this list:
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Anthropic Lawsuit: Authors Demand Compensation for Unauthorized Data Use
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Thoughts on the Anthropic lawsuit for $1.5B? Any other authors out there looking for compensation for data / books accessed without permission as I am? Thoughts on what this means for “free use?” Does this harm trust for GenAI? Why or why not? Thanks for your insights.
→ View original post on X — @johnchavens, 2025-10-17 17:09 UTC
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AI as Tool for Corporate Exploitation and Environmental Destruction
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For decades we worried that AI would take over and destroy us. But AI is just the final tool in the corporate psychopaths’ arsenal; extracting our skills, our knowledge, our souls – reducing our brains to mush & our planet to dust as they head off to their luxury bunkers.
→ View original post on X — @johnchavens, 2025-10-17 13:44 UTC
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Army Announces Janus Program Military AI Initiative
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(5a) And the Army Announces Janus Program via @Waksman84
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JPMorgan Chase Launches $1.5 Trillion Security Resiliency Initiative
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(1) JPMorganChase Launches $1.5 Trillion Security and Resiliency Initiative to Boost Critical Industries https://
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JPMorgan’s $1.5T commitment and AI breakthroughs reshape tech landscape
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JPMorgan commits $1.5 trillion
+Erebor approved
Google DM generates novel cancer hypothesis
+ works with CFS on fusion
Levin proposes aging as loss of goal-directedness
California Forever submits detailed plans
Radiant at OTNL
+ Army Janus Program What a week for the optimists.
