Top stories in AI today: – China’s AI avatars outsell humans in livestream
– OpenAI lands $200M Pentagon contract
– How to design perfect interfaces with v0
– Gemini 2.5 family goes GA with new flash-lite
– 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities Read more: https://
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AI avatars outperform humans in livestream sales and market trends
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CEO to discuss AI future at TNW Conference Amsterdam
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We’re excited to be at TNW Conference 2025 tomorrow and Friday, in sunny Amsterdam! Join our CEO @FabAroundEU on Friday at 16:00 CEST for a main stage panel discussion: “The Good, The Bad, and The Future of AI” moderated by FT’s @CristinaCriddle
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ByteDance Unveils Seedance 1.0 AI Video Generator Surpassing Google VEO 3
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Bytedance vient de dévoiler Seedance 1.0, générateur vidéo par IA, concurrent direct à google VEO 3 et qui sur les benchmark le dépasse même.
— VISION IA (@vision_ia) 18 juin 2025
Bientôt, on pourra affirmer, plus rien n’est réel…
Voici des exemples hallucinants : pic.twitter.com/ylYgt9DTplBytedance vient de dévoiler Seedance 1.0, générateur vidéo par IA, concurrent direct à google VEO 3 et qui sur les benchmark le dépasse même. Bientôt, on pourra affirmer, plus rien n’est réel… Voici des exemples hallucinants :
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Yann LeCun keynote on AI at VivaTech 2025
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of my keynote/fireside chat with Melissa Heikkilä (Financial Time) at Vivatech on 2025-06-11 . https://
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Google Launches Gemini 2.5 Pro, Flash, and Flash-Lite Models
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Google just launched Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash models in general availability
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 18 juin 2025
The co also started rolling out a hyper-efficient Flash-Lite model (in preview)
All three feature adjustable "thinking" with Flash-Lite defaulting to thinking off for max speedpic.twitter.com/ZJgveuq3EfGoogle just launched Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash models in general availability The co also started rolling out a hyper-efficient Flash-Lite model (in preview) All three feature adjustable "thinking" with Flash-Lite defaulting to thinking off for max speed
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Sam Altman Criticizes Meta’s Talent Poaching and Innovation Capabilities
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Sam Altman cooked Meta on his brother's podcast. Key takeaways:
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 18 juin 2025
— Meta’s offering $100K bonus to poach OAI talent
— None of OAI’s best have taken the offers
— OAI has a better shot at AGI, will eventually be more valuable
— Meta isn't great at innovationpic.twitter.com/68f3UUAeT9Sam Altman cooked Meta on his brother's podcast. Key takeaways: — Meta’s offering $100K bonus to poach OAI talent
— None of OAI’s best have taken the offers
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Meta Offers $100M Bonuses to Recruit OpenAI Talent
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AI NEWS: Sam Altman just revealed Meta is offering "$100M signing bonuses" to poach talent from OpenAI. Plus, more news from Google, Baidu, MiniMax, Proactor, Krea, and Intelligent Internet. Here's everything you need to know:
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AI Efficiency Gains Expected to Reduce Corporate Workforce
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“It’s hard to know exactly where this nets out over time, but in the next few years, we expect that this will reduce our total corporate workforce as we get efficiency gains from using AI extensively across the company.”
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Karpathy’s Vibe Coding Concept Gaining Recognition Among VCs
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It’s crazy but I mentioned Karpathy to a VC and he didn’t know who I was talking about until I said he coined vibe coding.
