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• 🎥 A Real-Time Style Swap for Your World? This New AI Model Says Yes

• 🌟 AI Highlights

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• ⚡ 5 AI Quick Hits

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AI INSIGHTS

🎥 “Open” AI = First-Class Trip for 0 Cent?

Maybe you could turn your room into the Versailles Palace or an anime wonderland during a Zoom call or Twitch stream? A new AI model called Mirage promises exactly that. And yes, it’s kind of like taking a zero-cost, first-class trip anywhere your imagination goes.

Unlike traditional AI tools that make you wait, hope, and re-edit, Mirage lets you transform videos in real time even during a webcam chat or a gaming session.

🎮 Real-Time, AI-Powered Video Transformation

• No more typing prompts and re-generating over and over.

• Presets include wild styles like “Versailles Palace,” “anime,” “yarn world” or you can invent your own vibe like “cubist painting.”

This could evolve into real-time storytelling, AR/VR, or immersive games. Mirage is only “day one” - more models coming: audio, emotion, music.

💡 Use Cases: From TikToks to Cyberpunk Soccer

• Watch sports games with cyberpunk visuals or turn your favorite shooter into a Western standoff.

• Streamers could switch themes mid-stream based on audience votes or reactions.

• Influencers, gamers, and creators on platforms like TikTok, Instagram, Twitch could build whole new types of content, completely styled on the fly.

Why It Matters: Mirage gives creators (like us) full control in the moment, no post-editing, no waiting. It also just opens the door for audience-interactive content: think viewers choosing the setting in real time or co-creating a vibe with the streamer.

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AI HIGHLIGHTS

⚠ OpenAI’s CEO just warned that entire job categories will be “totally, totally gone” due to AI. Sounds like he’s quietly flexing ChatGPT’s real power. Here’s the speech.

😳 You might’ve scrolled past this Babydoll Archi with 1.4M followers, even a pic with Kendra Lust. But it’s just a deepfake AI persona. People liked, shared. No one realized it was fake, or they didn’t care.

😥 ChatGPT psychos is becoming real, like this case where an OpenAI investor posted a wild conspiracy video filled with confusing, GPT-rambling technobabble.

💼 Major companies used terms like “reorganizing”, “restructuring”, “optimizing” as an excuse for AI job cuts. As a result, 60% of Gen Z (including you or not?) can’t find jobs.

📊 OpenAI confirmed it’s the mystery customer behind Oracle’s $30 billion-a-year cloud deal for data center services. GPT-5 might actually need massive compute power!

💰 AI Daily Fundraising: Two 21-year-old MIT dropouts just raised $32M for Delve, their AI startup that automates compliance. Backed by Insight, they’ve grown from 100 to 500+ customers in just 6 months.

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AI QUICK HITS

1. 🛋️ An AI creator tested Veo 3 for ads-IKEA (prompt), gaining 1M+ views

2. 🧠 Another prompt for turning ChatGPT into a “discerning collaborator”

3. 🎬 Pika announced a new AI-only social video app with early access here

4. 💼 Microsoft poached top Google DeepMind staff as it beefs up Copilot

5. 🚀 Elon Musk’s xAI poached Ethan He, one of Nvidia’s top AI researchers

AI CHART

🏆 China Finally Beat Big US Tech In Public (GPT, Claude…)

Alibaba just dropped a model that challenges all big tech head-on in broad daylight. Their new Qwen3 is fully open-source, runs circles around other open models like Kimi K2, and even dares to poke at GPT-4o and Claude Opus.

→ It’s free for anyone to use.

Qwen3 is 100% open-source → available for researchers, devs, and companies. It powers Qwen Chat, Alibaba’s free ChatGPT-style platform:

• It activates 22B parameters out of a total 235B, optimizing for speed + quality.

• Supports a 256K token window – enough to process entire books or hour-long conversations.

• In benchmarks, it:

  • Beats Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2 (a top open-source model)

  • Challenges GPT-4o-0327 and Claude Opus 4 in performance

Despite chip bans from the West, Chinese labs like Alibaba are going fully open to attract global developers. Rather than just compete with ChatGPT clones, Alibaba’s betting on community adoption & making Qwen3 the default open backbone for AI devs.

And maybe… just maybe… the next wave of AI breakthroughs won’t come from a private beta, but from GitHub.

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