Gemini's Google Vids now lets you star in AI videos, plus smarter search from Perplexity.

Gemini's Google Vids got creative video tools, Perplexity improved search results, and OpenAI launched a fun new product.

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GeminiGemini's Google Vids now lets you star in AI videos and edit them step-by-step.

Perplexity

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You can now get smarter search results because the app will pick the best mix of images and videos to show you based on what you ask.

Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code, Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model. Grok 4.3 and the Grok 4.20 family — xai/grok-4.3, xai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning, and xai/grok-4.20-multi-agent.

Smart media selection: Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type

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Gemini

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You can now star in your own AI-generated videos using Google Vids.

OpenAI’s Sora may have shut down, but Google apparently thinks there’s still interest in a tool that lets you star in your own AI videos. In addition, Google said it’s bringing its multi-modal AI model Gemini Omni to Vids, letting you create videos using a combination of a written prompt and reference image…

In addition, Google said it’s bringing its multi-modal AI model Gemini Omni to Vids, letting you create videos using a combination of a written prompt and reference images you upload.

Plus, Omni now supports step-by-step edits, meaning you can make changes to your video as you go instead of starting over from scratch.

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ChatGPT

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OpenAI is now selling a ChatGPT-branded basketball for $70.

You may not have heard that alongside this “command center for agentic work,” OpenAI also released a ChatGPT basketball.

In defense of the ChatGPT basketball, the AI industry isn’t exactly known for its product-market fit instincts.

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Claude

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Here’s Why Anthropic Is Pushing States to Regulate AI Faster

Anthropic threw its support behind the first wave of frontier AI safety laws in the United States last year, securing new transparency requirements in California and New York that much of Silicon Valley fought against, arguing they would s…

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Being so pro-regulation is an odd message to come from a startup that is now valued at nearly $1 trillion . But Anthropic is an odd company.

Anthropic threw its support behind the first wave of frontier AI safety laws in the United States l…

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Beyond the self-reporting laws in California and New York , Anthropic has also supported an Illinois measure requiring AI labs to get their safety processes evaluated by third-par…

Anthropic threw its support behind the first wave of frontier AI safety laws in the United States l…

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Claude Code

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The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it.

The Making of Claude Code

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