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Here’s a glimpse into what we have today:
Gemini 3.1 Pro lands.
Meta patents an AI that posts after you die.
Hollywood goes after ByteDance’s video model.
A Cruise vs Pitt AI video goes viral.
Stanford students admit how they use ChatGPT.
Nosh is a robo-chef that cooks dinner.
Claude Code plugins directory is live.
KittenTTS runs offline under 25MB.
Prompt: Personal Social Media Strategist.
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Breaking News
This Week’s Top AI Developments
Google rolled out Gemini 3.1 Pro across the API, Vertex, the Gemini app, and NotebookLM, with benchmark gains aimed at harder reasoning. Google wants the “best model” crown back.
Meta patented an AI that could keep a dead user’s account posting and responding, even chatting in their voice. It turns grief into a product, and invites consent fights plus outright scams.
Seedance 2.0 is pumping out Tom Cruise-style clips from two-line prompts, and studios plus unions are already firing off takedown threats. The AI video copyright war just moved from posts to enforcement.
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AI Finds
The Best of Beyond the Feed
Amjad Masad breaks down how to build million-dollar apps without writing code. His take: “It’s the easiest time to build apps in the history of software.”
A viral AI video of Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt has Hollywood laughing nervously, calling lawyers, and wondering what comes next.
Stanford students reveal their real ChatGPT habits, and it’s less sci fi, more brutally practical, and a little embarrassing.
Interesting AI
This Week’s Most Interesting AI
Nosh is a countertop robot that actually cooks dinner.
You load the ingredients, pick from 500+ recipes (or program your own), and Nosh handles the timing, heat, and seasoning. The app lets you dial in preferences per person: less salt for the kids, extra spice for you, lower oil for whoever’s watching their intake. It even has a patented spice dispenser for consistency.
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Open Source Finds
This Week’s Top OSS
🐱 KittenTTS is a 15M-parameter text-to-speech model under 25MB that runs on CPU anywhere. Offline voice UX without cloud latency or per-character pricing.
📒 Open Notebook is a privacy-first alternative to Google’s NotebookLM, with 16+ AI model options, multimodal research support, and full customization.
🧩 Claude Plugins Official is Anthropic’s directory of Claude Code plugins, giving you a central place to find and plug in agent skills as the ecosystem matures.
Prompt of the Week
Personal Social Media Strategist
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