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🎬 Runway’s Act-Two for AI motion capture
💰 Trump to unveil $70 billion in AI and energy investments
🗣️ Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open source AI audio model
⚠️ OpenAI's true culture exposed!
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Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati just announced a new $2B seed raise for her startup, Thinking Machines Lab AI, also revealing that the secretive company will share its first product in “the next couple of months.”The $2B seed round brings the company’s value to $12B, less than a year after its creation, with no product and little public information on direction.
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Runway just launched Act-Two, the company’s next-gen motion capture model that translates single performance videos into fully animated characters with head, face, body, and hand tracking across artistic styles and outputs. The system captures subtle facial expressions, upper body movements, hands, and backgrounds from a single driving performance video.
U.S. President Donald Trump will announce $70 billion in artificial-intelligence and energy investments on Tuesday, according to a White House official and a person familiar with the initiatives. Trump will reveal details of these new initiatives at an event near Pittsburgh, where he will be joined by Republican Senator David McCormick, who is hosting the first Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit at Carnegie Mellon University.
Mistral announced the release of Voxtral, its first family of audio models aimed at businesses. The company is pitching Voxtral as the first open model that’s capable of deploying “truly usable speech intelligence in production.”
Former OpenAI engineer—Calvin French-Owen—who quit OpenAI after working there for a year—has written a blog divulging what it’s really like to work at the start-up. He recounted a sleepless sprint to build Codex—OpenAI’s coding agent—wasted work caused by duplicated effort from multiple teams, and a central code repository that’s “a bit of a dumping ground.”
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