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#Veo3 is good at a lot of things, but it really excels at believable environments. This place isn't real, but it feels real. And it “remembers” what's already been shown; more than a video model; a world model. #AIVideo

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I’m impressed by the new Hailuo 2.0 video model; good prompt comprehension, quality, and camera motion. #AIVideo

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Ryan Murphy had a sudden burst of inspiration for season 3 of Feud.

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“It’s cheating, if you like, for somebody who can’t play an instrument to press a button and then the instrument plays.” The Synthesizer - a Blessing or a Curse (1983) youtu.be/91NCoDRadlg

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xAI blames “an unauthorised modification” for flurry of messages from Grok propagating the idea of ‘white genocide in South Africa’. So weird, that’s the second time this year that “an unauthorised modification” has resulted in messages that more explicitly support Elon’s ideas and values.

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What's the carbon footprint of using #ChatGPT? Very small compared to most of the other stuff you do. www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/carbon-foo...

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I think I Jack Ryan'd that shit. (On the massive legal blow to Apple's App Store, and how Epic potentially Sun Tzu'd them into it years ago.)

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Some thoughts after reading “AI as Normal Technology”.

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I’m reading this report: knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a... The thesis is that, despite all the noise and hype, AI is progressing on the path of every technology before it, even the highly transformative ones such as electricity and the internet, and doesn’t need to be thought of as a special case.

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I'm at #AdobeMAX this morning. Best announcements: * Firefly 4 & 4 Ultra, with improved prompting and photorealism * Choice of models in Firefly, including FLUX, Imagen, and the new gpt-image-1 * Firefly Boards, a collaborative space for concept exploration * Firefly Video out of Beta and updated

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Dia is a new open text-to-dialogue model that’s taking on Eleven Labs and Google’s ‘podcast’ audio overviews. It detects emotion from the script, you can prompt it with non-verbal interjections, and has high-quality voices. Here’s a quick example I made — maybe a little manic, but very impressive.

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We’re introducing a new layer of verification on Bluesky — a user-friendly, easily recognizable blue check. In addition to account verification issued by Bluesky, we're also introducing Trusted Verifiers. Select independent organizations can verify accounts directly.

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Yeah, I mean, I had to…

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#Arsenal #RMAARS #ChampionsLeague

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#Arsenal player ratings: 10/10. #RMAARS #ChampionsLeague

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Remembering Dani Ceballos’ one incredible game for #Arsenal. #RMAARS #ChampionsLeague

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Lots of games have weather effects but none has made me stop playing just to watch them as much as #AssassinsCreedShadows has.

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Quest failed.

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First AI will come _to_ Hollywood, then it will come _for_ Hollywood. Super-interesting presentation by Doug Shapiro on the upcoming disruption of media: youtu.be/D2YZxq4z2DM Worth watching the whole thing, but from 13:57 is especially relevant.

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I’ve just finished reading a book about the invention, rise, and fall of the telegraph, and this excerpt feels incredibly relevant 140 years on.

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This #AI video by The Dor Brothers is incredible (and a little NSFW, maybe?). www.youtube.com/watch?v=unfp...

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The new image generator from OpenAI (in #ChatGPT and #Sora) is really, really good. But it needs a better name than "4o Image Generation". Prompts in alt.

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Some Americans give their sons the nickname Chip if he is named after the father (chip off the old block); Skip if named after a grandfather (skipped a generation); and Trip if named both after the father and a grandfather (triple).

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This trend seems to be growing here. False comfort that AI doesn’t work or that it isn’t getting better is pervasive on Blue Sky. As a result, people who could add important points of view to current discussions on the meaning & use of AI instead try to believe they don’t have to think about it.

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Bluesky makes it easier for publishers to track referrals 🔗 Bluesky links now use the go.bsky.app domain, letting publishers see referral traffic clearly in analytics tools. 📈 Some news outlets say Bluesky now drives more traffic than LinkedIn and Threads, and in some cases, even X.

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At least they’re honest.

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Please, make it stop.

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Very cool: Flux, Imagen, Veo, and more coming to #Adobe products in addition to #Firefly. blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2...

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The #GoogleGemini Flash 2.0 (Image Generation) Experimental model is pretty incredible. It generated this new image of a woman wearing a floral shirt [1] from source images of the woman [2] and the shirt [3] and a simple prompt.

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Imagine being the first person to try combining sweet potato and chilli. It must have felt like divine revelation.

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Testing the new Hailuo Image-01 model. Good results, although I’ve yet to throw anything tricky at it.

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The Topaz video upscaler is now available through some third-party platforms, so I ran a quick test to upscale a Veo2 video from 720p to 4k. youtu.be/Blsl2DiJ1h8 - open it full screen and change the quality setting to 4k for the best result.

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’Breaking’ news is news about a subject that is occurring or still developing, not just a label you slap on a repost of a press release to make yourself look important.

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According to a computer analysis of 300 million facts, April 11, 1954 was the most boring day in the 20th century.

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"Quality Over Quantity: Rethinking Video Games and Mental Well-Being" This is me dipping my toe into communicating the science of life online. If you like it, please share and let me know what you think! #digtalwellbeing #scicomm #lifeonline www.linkedin.com/pulse/qualit...

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Google is testing a new multimodal #Gemini model that can edit images through text prompting, without regenerating a new one each time. Gemini Flash 2.0 Experimental is available to try now in AI Studio. Here’s a quick test sequence I made:

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The #Veo2 image-to-video mode is now available in Freepik. Here’s a quick test I made.

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Pocket Casts just made its web player free and open to all, which makes it an excellent choice for when you want to share #podcast series and episodes with others. blog.pocketcasts.com/2025/03/11/w...

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YouTube has a video editor app called Create which has been in Beta forever. Regularly updated through the Play store, but never seems to have any new features, release notes, or public changelog. What a missed opportunity when CapCut is moving to paid subscription. Meta Edits is going to clean up.

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📢 App Version 1.99 is rolling out now (1/5) With every update, we’re aiming to make the Internet less toxic, more fun, and more in your control. • 3 minute videos! • A separate request inbox for DMs from unknown users • Mute accounts more quickly

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The finale of #Paradise was mostly satisfying in terms of paying off clues from earlier in the season, but felt emotionally underwhelming after the incredible episode 7.

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