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• ❄️ OpenAI's Orion rises this winter?

• ⚠️ AGI troubles at OpenAI: Safety team dissolves

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🎥 Runway's AI Turns Selfie Videos into Character Magic

Runway launched Act-One, a groundbreaking Gen-3 Alpha video feature that transforms real human facial expressions into expressive AI character animations using a single video and reference image — without any specialized equipment.

How does it work?

• Uses a simple smartphone video to capture facial expressions.

• Needs only one reference image of the target character.

• Maps micro-expressions and eye movements with high accuracy.

• No specialized equipment required.

What can creators do?

• Transfer single performances to multiple AI characters.

• Create different angles and styles from one source video.

• Integrate directly with Runway's Gen-3 Alpha video model.

• Craft complex narrative scenes with realistic expressions.

Why is this a game-changer?

• Eliminates need for expensive motion capture equipment.

• Democratizes high-quality character animation.

• Makes professional-level animation accessible to everyone.

• Dramatically reduces production time and costs.

What's the bigger picture?

• Follows Runway's partnership with Lionsgate.

• Opens new possibilities for indie creators.

• Ability to craft expressive, believable characters, revolutionize digital storytelling.

• Makes animation more accessible than ever.

What's next?

• Potential expansion of character animation capabilities.

• More integration with Runway's existing tools.

• Possible impact on film and content creation industry.

• Democratization of professional-quality animation.

This breakthrough could reshape the landscape of digital storytelling, making professional-quality character animation accessible to creators everywhere.

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• Spain has added it's first Hydrogen passenger train called Hympulso, reaching speeds of 155 miles per hour using the train will use Hydrogen or electric traction from battery to power the train. The Hympulso will have as much range as the diesel trains.

• Midjourney has launched a new AI-powered web editor that allows users to easily modify, retexture, expand, and stylize both generated and uploaded images using natural prompting — initially limited access to yearly subscribers, 12-month members, and users with 10,000+ generations for testing before a broader roll-out.

• OpenAI is reportedly dissolving its AGI Readiness team, marking the latest in a series of major division changes as senior advisor Miles Brundage departs the company and voices concerns about the industry’s safety direction stating both OpenAI, other labs, and the world in general are not ready to handle increasingly powerful AI systems.

• OpenAI scientist Noam Brown revealed at TED AI that giving AI models 20 seconds to "think" can match the performance boost of scaling up training data 100,000x.

• OpenAI is planning to launch its next AI model, the successor to GPT-4, codenamed Orion, in December, something which some believe CEO, Sam Altman, has also confirmed with his cryptic post on X: “Excited for the winter constellations to rise soon” (Orion is a winter constellation in the Northern Hemisphere), If rumors are to be believed.

• Apple is about to release its private AI cloud next week—called Private Cloud Compute (PCC), which will power the more compute-intensive Apple Intelligence requests—and has already invited security researchers to try and expose vulnerabilities that could compromise its security, as an extension of its existing bug bounty.

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