Industrial Connect hits Chicago on Sept. 18!
Join industry leaders to explore how AI is transforming manufacturing supply chains—boosting resilience, delivery, and decision-making: https://
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Industrial Connect Chicago September 18 AI Manufacturing Supply Chain
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Future-Proof Jobs: Career Prospects in AI Era
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Good analysis on what jobs have future when AI comes
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Metaverse Economy: Mirage or Mega Asset?
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Adi-bytes : The #Metaverse economy: Mirage or mega asset?
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AI avatars outperform humans in livestream sales and market trends
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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://
therundown.ai/p/ai-avatars-o
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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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MiniMax’s Hailuo 02: Powerful Video AI Ranked #2 Globally
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China's MiniMax continues to cook — this time delivering a powerful video AI called Hailuo 02
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 18 juin 2025
The model currently ranks #2 on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard (ahead of Veo 3) with 1080p outputs and the ability to handle extreme physicspic.twitter.com/N7WaEh8QdSChina's MiniMax continues to cook — this time delivering a powerful video AI called Hailuo 02 The model currently ranks #2 on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard (ahead of Veo 3) with 1080p outputs and the ability to handle extreme physics
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Chinese Livestreamer Uses AI Clone to Generate $7.5M in Sales
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One of China’s biggest livestreamers just outdid himself in ecommerce, with an AI clone
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 18 juin 2025
His avatar hosted a 6-hour stream powered by Baidu’s ERNIE AI, promoted 133 products, pulled 13M views, and drove $7.5M+ in sales
The future of live commerce is herepic.twitter.com/qhX1jP8D6xOne of China’s biggest livestreamers just outdid himself in ecommerce, with an AI clone His avatar hosted a 6-hour stream powered by Baidu’s ERNIE AI, promoted 133 products, pulled 13M views, and drove $7.5M+ in sales The future of live commerce is here
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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: