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The most important news pieces from the AI world are here for you, whether you're an AI enthusiast or just wish to keep an eye on what's going on.

Focus Topic: the gentle singularity - how AI quietly changed everything

Whenever Sam Altman publishes a blog post, it’s worth paying attention. These updates often hint at where the future of AI is headed. This time, he dives into a concept that may feel abstract to many - the singularity. Since it's not a familiar term for most people, let's break it down and explore why it actually matters for everyday users like us.

Altman argues that we’ve already crossed the "event horizon" - the point where AI development becomes self-accelerating. No, robots aren't roaming the streets, and most of us still die of very human problems. But behind the scenes, AI is already amplifying our productivity, helping scientists, creators, and companies do more, faster. Tools like ChatGPT aren’t just helping us write emails; they’re doing cognitive work once reserved for experts.

What makes this different is compounding. AI is now helping build better AI, which means progress will accelerate. We could soon go from making one major scientific breakthrough a decade to one every few months. That’s not science fiction - that’s what recursive improvement looks like. If intelligence and energy become cheap and abundant, as Altman suggests, then nearly everything else becomes possible.

Still, this transformation won’t be dramatic. It will feel gradual - tools get better, we adapt, and only later do we realize how much has changed. That’s the heart of the gentle singularity: when wonders become routine, and the impossible becomes table stakes. The challenge now is not just building smarter systems, but making sure they align with what society actually wants. Because what we’re really building is a shared digital brain - and everyone should have a say in how it works.

LLMs & AI Models

• OpenAI removed limits on custom GPTs, allowing users to build agents with broader capabilities beyond just GPT-4o.

• Mistral launched Mistral Compute, a platform offering compute, orchestration, and training tools as an alternative to big cloud providers.
• ChatGPT Projects got a major update - now with real-time web access, voice input, file uploads, memory, and shareable chat links.
• Microsoft Copilot Vision is rolling out for free on Windows 10 & 11, allowing AI to analyze your screen and assist in real time.
• Mistral AI introduced Magistral, a new logic-focused model series for complex tasks in math, physics, and reasoning.
• OpenAI signed a compute deal with Google Cloud, reducing reliance on Microsoft and securing more resources for ChatGPT’s growing demand.
• OpenAI o3-pro was launched with strong performance in math and science tasks, alongside an 80% price cut for enterprise and team users.
• Gemini added scheduled actions, allowing users to automate calendar overviews and other tasks - a step closer to a real AI assistant.
• A US court ordered OpenAI to retain all ChatGPT conversations, even deleted ones, in relation to the NYT copyright lawsuit.

New Tools

• ByteDance released Seedance 1.0, a top-tier text-to-video model creating 1080p, multi-scene clips that beat Google and OpenAI in benchmarks.
• Runway launched Chat Mode, a conversational interface for generating images and videos using natural language prompts.

• Google is testing Audio Overviews in Search – podcast-style dialogues summarizing results, unlike NotebookLM, which is grounded in user-selected sources.
• Meta introduced a generative video editing tool that transforms short clips via 50+ presets for clothing, style, and background.
• Google unveiled Portraits, an experimental tool featuring AI-based interactions with virtual versions of real experts.

👉 Explore these tools: Bytedance | Runway | Meta AI video editing | Google Portraits

Other Quick Picks

• Kalshi produced a fully AI-generated NBA ad in 2 days using Google Veo 3, costing 95% less than traditional production.

• Meta will invest $14B into AI, hiring Scale AI’s founder to lead a new lab focused on superintelligence.
• Google is ending its partnership with Scale AI over data privacy concerns after Meta’s involvement.
• Chinese tech firms smuggled up to 80TB hard drives to Malaysia to train AI models and bypass US chip sanctions.
• Apple delayed its AI-powered Siri relaunch to spring 2026 due to major redesign challenges.
• Amazon launched a free AI video ad tool that creates multi-scene product videos in under 5 minutes.
• Disney and Universal sued Midjourney over unauthorized use of iconic characters in AI-generated images.

• Meta’s V-JEPA 2 can predict real-world object behavior, working 30x faster than Nvidia Cosmos in robotic tasks.
• Starbucks is testing Green Dot Assist, an AI tool that helps baristas with live guidance and task instructions.
• Wikipedia paused AI-generated summaries after strong backlash from volunteer editors over quality and neutrality concerns.
• Mattel and OpenAI are co-developing AI-powered toys and games, with ChatGPT Enterprise used across the company.
• Similarweb found that AI search features like Google AI Mode have cut traffic to news sites by over 50%.

🇪🇪 AI News from Estonia

• TalTech’s new vice rector Ingrid Pappel says AI must become a core skill in all curricula, from social sciences to engineering and law.
• LHV ’s incoming CEO Mihkel Torim emphasized AI’s role in automating routine work, not replacing people.
• Prof. Tanel Tammet from TalTech – Tallinn University of Technology says current AI is impactful but not revolutionary – new AI types are needed for real breakthroughs.
• Oleg Shvaikovsky urges action in schools, noting AI is already here and delayed adaptation widens the digital gap.
• Vienna University officially enrolled its first AI student Flynn, who passed interviews and portfolio reviews like any human applicant.
• Pactum AI raised €47.3M - Estonia’s largest AI funding round in 2025 - citing the country’s strong AI talent and investor trust.
• MarkeDroid , winner of Latitude59 , says it can cut solar payback time from 10+ years to 3 with AI-driven energy optimization.

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