Sora heads to unlikely platform

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Today’s Insights

• Character AI’s new VLM, Bing’s big refresh, and Meta’s automated ads

• PwC analysis complicates the AI jobs picture

• Tutorial: How to download and organize anything with Genspark’s AI agent

• 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

• News, memes, what’s trending on socials, and more

TODAY IN AI

1. Anyone can now try Character AI’s new video model: The Google-backed role-playing platform is giving everyone access to AvatarFX, letting them generate up to five clips per day. That’s part of a bigger multimodal push: “Scenes” lets you insert yourself into interactive storylines with both real and imagined AI characters, while “streams” lets two AI characters chat about a topic of your choice. While not without its controversies, Character AI boasts some of the highest engagement in the industry — and it’s betting these new features will help lock in that lead.

2. OpenAI’s Sora shows up in the most unlikely place: If you haven’t used Bing in a while, it’s time to dust off those cobwebs. Microsoft’s search engine just became the first platform to offer OpenAI’s state-of-the-art video model at no cost — even beating the base version of ChatGPT to the punch. In order to access it, you’ll need the Bing mobile app. Once downloaded, you can click “Video Creator” and type in any prompt to generate a five-second clip.

3. Meta wants to fully automate ad creation by next year: The platform already lets companies use AI tools to handle some steps, like generating multiple variations of a single ad. But as soon as 2026, companies will be able to generate entire campaigns with nothing more than a product image and a budget. AI could unlock more personalization, too, including ads that are different depending on where in the world you’re viewing them from. It’s a seismic shift, considering 97% of the Instagram owner’s revenue last year was generated by ads.

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FROM THE FRONTIER

What nearly 1 Billion job ads reveal about AI’s impact on the economy

For all the talk of AI taking our jobs, the reality might be a lot more complicated. That’s the big takeaway from a new analysis courtesy of PwC, which dug through nearly 1 Billion job listings to figure out how AI is impacting the workplace.

One cause for concern: Sectors where AI is being adopted more quickly show slower job growth than those that haven’t been exposed to AI yet. That seems to line up with another recent study, which found that listings for AI-doable jobs (jobs that AI can now augment or do entirely on its own) have dropped 19% in the last three years.

But that picture is complicated by the fact that AI is also “pioneering new forms of economic activity,” meaning companies are “using AI to help people create more value rather than simply reduce headcount.” In fact, job listings asking for AI-related skills grew last year — despite there being fewer job postings overall.

This makes intuitive sense: If your competitor uses AI to boost its workers’ productivity by 50%, you’ll need at least the same number of workers to stay competitive, even after implementing AI into your own workflow. The big takeaway is that no matter what happens to overall job growth, there’s going to be a big premium on AI knowledge, with 2% of positions last year explicitly asking for AI expertise.

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AI & TECH NEWS

Everything else you need to know today

🔦 Stealing the Spotlight: In a bid to take on WhatsApp and Telegram, X is rolling out a new messaging platform called XChat that offers audio and video calls, file-sharing, and ‘Bitcoin-style encryption.’

🕊️ Olive Branch: Universal Music, Sony Music, and other major record labels could soon own a piece of Udio and Suno in a deal that would settle multiple billion-dollar lawsuits against the popular AI song generation platforms.

🌧️ Rain Check: Bloomberg reports that Apple will have a relatively quiet WWDC next week, with most of its major AI releases delayed into 2026.

🤝 Joining Forces: Intel and SoftBank are forming a new memory chip company called Saimemory. Their first product: An AI chip that uses half as much power as the competition.

💰 Funding & Acquisitions: Software giant Salesforce just nabbed Moonhub, a company that builds AI-powered recruitment tools. And IBM acquired Seek AI, a startup that uses AI to make enterprise data easily searchable.

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SOCIAL SIGNALS

What’s trending on socials today

📖 Long and Short: VC legend Mary Meeker just dropped her always-insightful annual AI trends report. But if you don’t have time to read its 340 pages, here’s a great thread with all the highlights.

⚖️ Pros and Cons: OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy shares his quick and dirty guide to figuring out the differences between every ChatGPT version.

📈 Force Multiplier: Someone just got 16 different Claude coding agents to run at the same time. They tackled tasks “95% autonomously with minimal input for several hours straight” — before the user got banned for having so many accounts open at once.

🩺 On the Mend: Founder Javi Lopez says he used ChatGPT to accurately diagnose the condition causing his chronic hand pain. After a doctor confirmed the diagnosis, the chatbot even generated a weekly recovery plan to help him heal.

💡 AI Goldmine: Product manager Peter Yang asked people to send him their best AI workflows and agents — and the replies are a treasure trove of useful ideas.

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