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Welcome, humans. |
Want to make better AI videos but have absolutely no idea what you’re doing? Perfect. Neither do we TBH. 😹 |
That’s why later today at 1pm ET, 10 AM PT, we’re going LIVE with the team at LTX for a TOTAL beginner’s guide to video prompting using the all new LTX-2.5. We’ll cover how video prompts differ from image prompts, then show you how to control shots, motion, subjects, and scenes. And of course, we’ll put LTX-2.5 through a live demo + Q&A. Bring your weirdest prompts. |
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Speaking of the power of prompts, apparently one Claude user just gave Opus 5 access to Unreal Engine for 24 hours and told it to build GTA 6 (he used AAABench for it). The result is more what I'd called “GTA 4.5” than “GTA 6,” but waaaaaaay better than anything you'd imagine AI could create entirely on its own a year ago. |
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Honestly, this just makes me respect the masterpiece that was GTA 5 so much more. |
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Here’s what happened in AI today: |
😺 Grok 4.6 launched for long-running AI agents. 📰 Lovable raised $400M at a $13.3B valuation. 📰 Hot tea on why Demis DIDN’T leave Google. 🍪 Preview is a full workspace for team video generation. 🎓 Turn Claude Voice into a morning briefing.
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... and a whole lot more that you can read about here. |
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😺 Grok 4.6 Is Here, and it’s GPT 5.6 Level?! |
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Nuff said in the headline, am I right? |
Here’s what happened: |
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.6 for long-running agents, coding, research, and more ambitious interactive work. Artificial Analysis scored it 61, up five points from Grok 4.5 and level with GPT-5.6 Sol overall. It is available now in Cursor, Grok Build, the API, OpenRouter, Vercel, and Cloudflare, with 2x included usage in Cursor and Grok Build for the first week.
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AI agents get expensive fast. A model can look brilliant in one answer and still be a bad deal if a multi-hour task takes twice as many turns, tokens, and retries. Grok 4.6's pitch is that it can stay near the frontier without the frontier bill. |
On price, xAI’s current pricing page includes Grok 4.6 on the $30/month SuperGrok plan, while API pricing starts at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens. Artificial Analysis (linked above) measured it at $0.84 per task and placed it on its cost-performance frontier across every agentic evaluation in the index. |
The efficiency matters A LOT on long jobs. On AA-Briefcase, a Grok reached Fable 5-tier while averaging about 53 turns and 0.5B input tokens, versus roughly 103 turns and 2.0B for Claude Opus 5 Max. Fewer turns and less context can compound into much lower agent costs over hours of work. |
Why this matters: If Grok can stay near frontier quality while burning fewer turns and cheaper tokens, teams running agents all day definitely care more about cost per completed task, and will more than likely make the switch. |
Also: Musk says Grok 4.7, due in 3 to 4 weeks, is already significantly better than 4.6, and is being supplemented with a massive amount of SpaceX company data. |
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🎓 AI Skill of the Day: Build a Hands-Free Morning Brief |
Your first hour disappears when your inbox, calendar, and project updates live in separate tabs. Anthropic's updated Claude Voice guide says Voice can use connected Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, and Slack tools. |
Connect the tools you trust, then ask for the brief in small steps. Anthropic recommends splitting complex questions and notes that several tools at once can add delay. |
Check today's calendar first. Then summarize urgent email and Slack items tied to those meetings. Finish with three priorities and flag anything that needs my approval before action.
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🍪 Treats to Try |
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Google DeepMind launched SL2T, letting Deaf users sign ASL into Pixel 11 instead of typing through Gboard and Live Transcribe. |
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ChatGPT for Linux now has an official OpenAI signup page so Linux users can get notified when the desktop app becomes available. Claude in Chrome now turns the browser side panel into a Cowork session that keeps history, Skills, connectors, and multi-step tasks synced across Chrome and Claude’s apps. Click gives agents live context ordinary web search misses, including YouTube transcripts, LinkedIn reactions, flight fares, and financial data through an MCP connection (like a Claude / GPT Plugin). Infisical lets you sandbox Claude or another agent behind a fake API key while its proxy swaps in the real credential only when requests leave the agent. Preview gives AI video teams one workspace to storyboard, generate, direct, compare models, and keep characters and locations consistent across shots.
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P.S: Yesterday, we said something about there not being pricing visible for Grokbot. That was Grantbot missing it; actually, website says its $200/ month Billed monthly with Cursor Ultra, or $120 / seat / month Billed monthly via Cursor Premium Teams. |
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📰 Around the Horn |
Demis Hassabis apparently pitched his U.S.-led AI oversight body weeks before stepping down as Google DeepMind's CEO to become Alphabet's chief scientist… which apparently was a PR move to save Google’s stock. Amazon/Twitch said streamers' content will now be used to train generative AI by default unless creators opt out. Cognition reportedly entered fundraising talks at a $40B valuation after reaching a $1B annualized revenue run rate. Google unveiled Pixel 11 devices with Gemini features, sign-language transcription, and a more natural voice-input system. Lovable raised $400M at a $13.3B valuation, more than doubling its valuation since December. Apple is discussing a nine-figure budget for multiyear news deals that would pay publishers when Siri AI uses their content. Mistral launched regional inference, third-party open-model hosting, and a European compute coalition targeting up to 1 GW by 2030. Dream Security detailed a multi-agent system that autonomously mapped and compromised Asian government entities over four days. OpenAI says frontier firms now generate 8.3x more output tokens per active user than typical enterprises, up from 2.6x.
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🧩 Thursday Trivia |
You know the drill: One is AI, and one is real. Which is which? (Vote in the poll below!) |
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Which is AI, and which is real?Which is AI, and which is real? The answer is below, but place your vote to see how your guess everyone else (no cheating now!) |
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New from The Neuron: AI Explained |
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AI models can now read and write DNA. In our latest episode, Radical Numerics CEO Eric Nguyen explains how genomic AI helped design CRISPR systems and viral genomes, why “deepfake viruses” create a new biosecurity problem, and how the same technology could help detect them. |
Watch on YouTube by clicking the thumbnail above, or listen on Spotify. |
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