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The AI frontier just leveled up, cinematic, explorable, and social, as new breakthroughs bring creativity, interactivity, and accessibility together like never before.

🎬 LTX-2: Open-Source 4K AI Video Engine – LTX unveils its most advanced open-source creative engine unifying audio and video generation in perfect sync. Delivering native 4K at 50 fps and supporting longer cinematic sequences, it empowers filmmakers with an API-first, GPU-friendly system that’s as open as it is powerful.

🌍 Google Genie 3: From Text to Playable Worlds – Google’s next-gen AI world model turns your prompts into fully interactive 3D universes. Describe a world or character, and watch it come alive with physics, memory, and dynamic events—ushering in a new era of explorable, persistent AI environments.

🎥 OpenAI Sora: Create, Collaborate, and Connect – Sora’s upcoming update brings AI-generated cameos, built-in editing tools, and social channels for creators and communities alike, plus an Android release that opens the door to everyone.

From open-source cinematic engines and living AI worlds to collaborative video creation, this week’s AI wave blurs the line between imagination and reality — creativity has never felt this alive.

LTX-2: Open-Source 4K AI Video Engine

LTX has unveiled LTX-2, its most advanced open-source AI creative engine designed to unify audio and video generation in perfect sync. It delivers native 4K fidelity at up to 50 frames per second and supports sequences longer than 10 seconds, enabling filmmakers and creators to produce cinematic-quality results with precision. Built with an API-first architecture, LTX-2 allows seamless integration into existing creative pipelines and runs efficiently on consumer GPUs, making high-end AI video creation more accessible. The engine is fully open-source, and its weights are expected to be released later this year, solidifying its commitment to transparency and innovation within the open creative community.

Google’s Genie 3 Turns Prompts into Playable Worlds

Google is preparing a public experiment for Genie 3, its latest AI world model capable of generating interactive 3D environments from text prompts. Users will be able to describe worlds and characters, then explore and interact with them in real time, turning written ideas into explorable digital spaces. Genie 3 builds on Google DeepMind’s progress in world modeling, enabling persistent environments with realistic physics, memory, and dynamic events. The upcoming experiment, expected to appear via a web-based playground or Google Labs, will let researchers, creators, and developers test the technology firsthand. While a release date hasn’t been confirmed, the move marks a major step toward making generative, explorable AI worlds publicly accessible.

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Next for Sora: More Tools, More Friends, More Fun

OpenAI’s Sora app is getting a major update focused on creativity, collaboration, and accessibility. The new roadmap adds character cameos, letting users create AI versions of pets, toys, or even generated characters that can appear in videos. The app will also gain basic video editing tools, starting with clip stitching, with more advanced features planned soon. Social experiences are expanding with friend and community-based channels for universities, companies, and clubs. The team is also improving feed speed, reducing excessive moderation, and enhancing performance. Finally, an Android version of Sora is on the way, bringing the AI video creation experience to a wider audience.​

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• StickrSnap - StickrSnap turns your photos into amazing stickers with AI: background removal, 8 artistic styles, live previews, and a token-based model. Free to try with 3 free stickers! If you like the app, let me know and I'll provide a promocode for a free Creator Pack

• Nubio - A beautiful dashboard that connects to your cloud providers, database and ad accounts to visualize costs, cloud usage, and metrics. Integrates with Vercel, OpenAI, Stripe and more, with drag-and-drop simplicity.

• Fitwoody - FitWoody is a smarter, kinder fitness app that adapts to your energy, mood, and time. Set goals, track your health with FitPassport, and get private AI insights that help you build habits that actually last.

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• Fauxto Labs - Comprehensive AI Creative Suite with 40+ tools and all the latest's and greatest models. Generate images, videos, audio, and 3D content all in one powerful workspace. Start creating professional content in seconds.

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This week in AI

• Claude AI Expands Memory to All Paid Users - Anthropic’s Claude chatbot now remembers past chats for Pro and Max users, offering editable, project-based memory to enhance continuity and productivity across conversations.

• OpenAI Acquires Sky, the Mac AI Interface - OpenAI bought Software Applications Inc., creators of Sky—an AI assistant that understands your Mac screen, manages tasks, and boosts productivity. The team joins OpenAI to enhance ChatGPT.

• Bumi The Cheapest Humanoid Robot - Beijing’s Noetix Robotics unveiled Bumi, a 3.1-foot humanoid robot priced at just $1,370. It walks, dances, and supports voice and drag‑and‑drop programming for homes and schools.

• YouTube Fights Deepfakes with AI Tool - YouTube launched an AI likeness-detection system letting creators spot and remove fake videos replicating their voice or face, protecting identities from misuse and impersonation.

• Good Enough AI and the End of Coding - Marc Andreessen and Replit CEO Amjad Masad discuss how reinforcement learning and verification loops enable AI agents to code, reason, and build apps autonomously in natural language

Paper of The Day

The paper proposes a new measure of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) that focuses on balanced competence across essential cognitive domains rather than just averaging abilities. It uses the Cattell–Horn–Carroll (CHC) model and introduces a coherence-based score calculated by integrating generalized means over different compensability levels. This measure penalizes imbalances between skills, revealing that models like GPT-4 and GPT-5, despite decent average scores, still lack true general intelligence due to weak areas like long-term memory. The approach offers a stricter, clearer way to track real progress toward AGI by emphasizing overall system coherence rather than isolated strengths. This helps identify genuine generality as balanced, robust cognitive ability across diverse tasks.

To read the whole paper 👉️ here