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Midjourney has released its first AI video model, allowing users to animate still images into short video clips. The company announced the launch of its V1 Video Model to nearly 20 million users worldwide. The new feature works through an “Image-to-Video” workflow. Users create or upload an image, then press an “Animate” button to generate …
Chinese AI company MiniMax has released MiniMax-M1, a new open-source language model that can process up to one million tokens of context. This makes it capable of handling entire book collections in a single conversation, reports Carl Franzen for VentureBeat. The model is available for free commercial use under an Apache 2.0 license on platforms …
Financial intelligence platform AlphaSense has launched Deep Research, an AI agent that automates complex research tasks by searching both public web content and private enterprise databases. The announcement was reported by Carl Franzen of VentureBeat. Unlike existing AI research tools from OpenAI, Google, and others that often only access public websites, AlphaSense’s offering connects to …
Google announced that its Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash AI models have moved from preview to general availability. The company stated that developers can now build production applications with confidence using these stable versions. Several organizations including Snap, SmartBear, Spline, and Rooms have already been using the latest versions in production for recent weeks, according …
Sean Goedecke predicts that AI language models will eventually cause a mass-casualty disaster, drawing parallels to early transportation accidents. The author notes that railways took 17 years to produce their first major disaster, while aviation took 11 years. ChatGPT launched in November 2022, making the timeline significant. He identifies AI agents as the most likely …
Three prominent news organizations are successfully using artificial intelligence to generate article summaries for their readers. The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Yahoo News have implemented AI-powered summary features to serve busy audiences seeking quick information digests. Sarah Scire reports on these developments for the journalism industry publication Nieman Lab. Yahoo News introduced “Key Takeaways” …
Artificial intelligence companies are deploying a new generation of bots that scrape web content in real time to provide users with instant summaries instead of traditional search results. Traffic from these retrieval bots surged 49 percent in the first quarter of 2025 compared to the previous quarter, according to data from TollBit, a startup that …
The internet faces a fundamental transformation as artificial intelligence agents evolve from passive assistants to active decision-makers, according to technology expert Justin Westcott from Edelman. Writing for VentureBeat, Westcott argues that the current web design built for human users will become obsolete as AI agents take over routine digital tasks. Today’s AI systems like ChatGPT, …
The Wikimedia Foundation has paused its trial of AI-generated article summaries following fierce opposition from Wikipedia editors. The experiment would have shown machine-generated summaries at the top of articles on mobile devices for two weeks. Emanuel Maiberg reports for 404 Media that editors called the plan a “very bad idea” and warned it would cause …
OpenAI has achieved $10 billion in annual recurring revenue, nearly doubling its performance from $5.5 billion last year. The milestone comes less than three years after launching ChatGPT. The revenue figure encompasses consumer ChatGPT subscriptions, business products, and API services, but excludes Microsoft licensing deals and large one-time contracts, according to an OpenAI spokesperson. Despite …