ByteDance's OmniHuman-1 creates ultra-realistic AI videos.

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• 🎬 ByteDance's OmniHuman-1 redefines deepfakes

• 🏥 Cancer detection AI: 45,000 scans unlock secrets

• 📱 Snap's 1-second AI art comes to iPhone

• ⚔️ AI Wars: US moves to ban Chinese chatbot

• 💼 New Job Opportunities

BYTEDANCE

🎥 OmniHuman-1: ByteDance’s Deepfake Revolution

ByteDance just dropped a game-changer. Their new AI model, OmniHuman-1, generates eerily realistic deepfake videos—all from a single image and an audio clip.

The details:
🔹 Creates videos of any length and style, even adjusting body proportions.
🔹 Works with everything from cartoons to complex human movements.
🔹 Trained on 19,000 hours of video and can edit existing footage.
🔹 Laws against AI impersonation exist in 10 U.S. states, but enforcement remains tricky.

Why it matters:
OmniHuman-1 isn’t public yet, but the demos show a new reality: AI can now mimic humans flawlessly. As similar tools emerge, the world faces a major dilemma—how do we separate real from fake when deception is effortless?

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🔎 AI Builds the World’s Largest 3D Scan Database to Hunt Cancer

Cancer detection just got a major boost. Johns Hopkins researchers have unveiled AbdomenAtlas, an AI-powered dataset with 45,000 annotated 3D CT scans, designed to revolutionize medical image analysis and catch cancer earlier than ever before.

The Breakthrough:

• It’s 36 times larger than any existing dataset, pooling scans from 145 hospitals worldwide.

• AI and 12 expert radiologists completed in 2 years what would’ve taken humans 2,500 years.

• The system sped up organ annotation by 500x and tumor detection by 10x.

• The team is making AbdomenAtlas publicly available and expanding it with more scans, organs, and tumor data.

Why It Matters:

This dataset dramatically improves AI’s ability to detect cancer early, but even at 45,000 scans, it covers just 0.05% of annual US CT scans. The future? We’re only scratching the surface of what AI can do in medical diagnostics.

Trending Today

• One Plus unveiled a fold phone concept called nothing fold 1, with few more updates to make it to the public, like the AI features and technological designs.

• Hugging Face released open-Deep-Research, an open-source alternative to OpenAI's Deep Research, achieving 55% accuracy on the GAIA benchmark with autonomous web navigation capabilities.

• Snap unveiled a mobile-first AI text-to-image model that can generate high-resolution images in 1.4 seconds on iPhone 16 Pro Max, and it plans to integrate it into Snapchat features.

• Senator Josh Hawley proposed new bill that could make it illegal in the US to download the viral Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek, with people facing huge fines or even jail time for using it—aims to prevent the import, export, collaboration, and utilization of Chinese AI products to protect the US against Beijing’s increasing global AI advancement.

• OpenAI is partnering with South Korean tech giant Kakao—which powers one of the region’s most popular messaging apps, KakaoTalk—to work on a localized AI product, and further expand into Asia,as it will be able to integrate ChatGPT into KakaoTalk to improve its capabilities, and it will allow Kakao employees to use ChatGPT Enterprise internally.

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