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AI Vids Get a Major Upgrade
Veo 3.1, Haiku 4.5, AI + you = the ad, China shock, AI trust sinks, and more...
There's An AI For That
October 15, 2025
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Veo 3.1 just dropped.
China shocks Western execs.
Prompt: Mental Model Matrix.
Is GPT-5 worse than GPT-4o?
Firefox adds Perplexity search.
Researchers are losing trust in AI.
Haiku 4.5 gives Sonnet 4 the boot.
You will soon become your own ad.
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The Latest Developments in AI
Anthropic has released Claude Haiku 4.5, and it's doing Sonnet 4's job for one-third the cost and twice the speed. On real coding tasks, Haiku 4.5 even beats Sonnet 4 at some things. Plus, it's their safest model by alignment metrics. The economics of AI just shifted.
DirecTV will soon turn dead screen time into targeted ads. AI won’t just generate ads, it’ll build a profile of the stuff in your home, remember your buying patterns, and then put you inside shoppable content. Your remote becomes the only thing between you and the checkout.
Perplexity is now a native search option in Firefox after months of testing. One click in the address bar switches you from traditional results to conversational answers with citations. No selling your data. No forcing you into it. Just an option that works differently.
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🔍 PeopleAlsoAsk identifies the exact questions your audience searches and helps you structure content that captures organic traffic.
🎮 Questie AI creates voice-enabled gaming companions that spectate your gameplay in real time and assist with strategy.
🎉 PleaseRSVP generates custom birthday invitations and tracks RSVPs through unique QR codes without requiring guest logins.
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Mind-Blowing AI
Google just solved the three biggest pain points in AI video generation: length limits, character consistency, and transition control.
Veo 3.1 now lets you extend clips by building off the last second of your previous video, so that you can string together minute-long sequences without awkward stitching. Feed it up to 3 reference images and your characters stay consistent across multiple shots. Give it a first and last frame, and it'll generate the transition in between, complete with synced audio. The audio also got a serious upgrade. And if that weren’t enough, the image-to-video generation is way better now. 🎥✨
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Notable AIs
Notable AI Tools
🎓 Vertech Academy turns students into better learners with prompts that guide step-by-step understanding rather than giving quick answers.
Open Source Finds
From the Source
💻 Chatbox is a desktop AI client supporting multiple providers with local data storage, available on Windows, Mac, and Linux with mobile apps.
💰 Firefly III is a self-hosted personal finance manager that tracks expenses and income with budgets, categories, and financial reports.
🌐 Page Assist brings local AI to your browser with a sidebar interface for chatting with models and asking questions about webpage content.
AI Finds
Beyond the Feed
Trust among researchers has dropped sharply since last year, with hallucination concerns to blame, surging from 51% to 64%.
Xi Jinping was clear: global dominance goes to AI's leader. The U.S. can't unilaterally slow AI development without losing to China.
Anthropic isn't waiting for economic disruption. They're pushing stakeholders to engage now on workforce development and tax reform.
GPT-5 breaks the safety improvement trend. Researchers caught it producing harmful responses in 52.5% of sensitive prompts vs 43% for GPT-4o.
Dark factories running 24/7 with zero humans, robots, electric vehicle dominance. China isn't just automating faster; it's operating at a different speed entirely.
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Mental Model Matrix
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