The public has lost trust in AI.
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Public trust could become one of AI’s biggest challenges. People may push back if they think AI only helps big companies, wealthy investors, or government agencies. For AI to be
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Public trust in AI fades as benefits perceived for elites only
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Frontier AI recreates world’s literature as playable video games
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using frontier ai to recreate the world's literature as playable video games ftw!
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Disney licenses characters to OpenAI for Sora video generation
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4/ Then in December, Disney agreed to a deal worth around $1 billion. Mickey Mouse, Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars, all licensed for people to drop into Sora videos. An OpenAI exec called it a shift on the level of the end of silent film.
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Sora Launch Shocks Hollywood, Threatens Film Careers
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1/ Sora launched in late 2025 and hit number one on the App Store in its first week. Over a million downloads. It scared Hollywood. The demos looked like the end of film as a career.
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OpenAI’s Sora: from media success to failure in six months
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OpenAI created the most media-covered AI video application on Earth. It cost them millions per day to run. But it only earned them $2.1 million over its entire lifespan. Here is how Sora went from number one to dead in six months:
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Lennysan quotes Mark Pinc: AI isn’t rowdy enough
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.@markpinc: AI isn't rowdy enough https://t.co/okgQlzyWaR pic.twitter.com/KNNUSizYCT
— Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan) 16 juin 2026.
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Runway’s Fourth Annual AI Festival Coming to Tokyo
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Runway's fourth annual AI Festival is coming to Japan. Join us on July 30th in Tokyo to celebrate the creatives working at the forefront of art and technology.
— Runway (@runwayml) 16 juin 2026
Tickets are now available at the link below. pic.twitter.com/jtrCfjQPVlRunway's fourth annual AI Festival is coming to Japan. Join us on July 30th in Tokyo to celebrate the creatives working at the forefront of art and technology. Tickets are now available at the link below.
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AI bubble discovers world values jailbreaks over impressive apps
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Our AI bubble will very quickly learn how little the rest of the world cares about you one-shotting a mind blowing app and how much they care if you tell them that this new model can hack everyone and apparently it's impossible to patch the jailbreaks
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AI writing too clean, bring back human disorder
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7/ Last. AI writing is too clean. People leave fingerprints. A digression that cuts to the heart of the subject. A sentence that runs out of breath. A detail so specific that no one would bother to invent it. "Bring back human disorder."
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AI Literacy: Trust, Not Coding, Key Skill
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AI literacy is the skill employers want, and it’s about confidence, not coding.
— Bernard Marr (@BernardMarr) 16 juin 2026
Think of it like learning to drive. You do not need to build the engine, you need to know how to use the tool safely, productively, and with good judgment about when to trust it, and when not to.
In… pic.twitter.com/oJmEMIEYASAI literacy is the skill employers are looking for, and it's about trust, not coding. Think of it like learning to drive. You don't need to build the engine, you need to know how to use the tool safely, from