Google launched a free version of its AI-powered video editor Vids yesterday, while keeping premium AI features behind paid subscriptions. The post Everyone Can Now Access Google Vids originally appeared here on Shelly Palmer| Shelly Palmer
There's a meme that's been circulating around the interweb this week. I like the simplicity of this meme, but there are far more than three probable futures. The post AI Math originally appeared here on Shelly Palmer| Shelly Palmer
Perplexity is launching a $5/month subscription service called Comet Plus, and it comes with a payout model for publishers. When a user asks a question (and Perplexity pulls from licensed news content), the publisher gets paid. The company is setting aside $42.5 million for the first phase and says 80% of Comet Plus revenue will go to participating publishers, including revenue from higher-tier plans that bundle the feature for free. The post Perplexity Will Pay Publishers originally appeared...| Shelly Palmer
Your AI platform sends a notification that says, “I have detected an anomaly in Market 26. Recent weather events have resulted in supply chain issues that must be addressed. I have adjusted our marketing investments and re-routed supply logistics. I will report back in 14 days with results and next steps.” Who gets this notification? The CMO? The CFO? The CEO? The board? The investors? Let's explore. The post Winning the Race to the End State originally appeared here on Shelly Palmer| Shelly Palmer
Mustafa Suleyman says “seemingly conscious AI” is coming – and soon. In his latest essay, the DeepMind and Inflection co-founder warns that language models will display empathy, personality, memory, autonomy, and self-referential awareness so convincingly that many people will believe they're sentient. They won’t be. But they’ll act like it. The post Will You Believe Your AI Assistant Is Alive? originally appeared here on Shelly Palmer| Shelly Palmer
Anthropic just announced that Claude Code, its command-line coding assistant, is now bundled with Team and Enterprise plans. The announcement includes the predictable enterprise features: administrative controls, usage analytics, spend limits, and a new Compliance API for audit trails. The post Claude Code Gets Serious About Enterprise originally appeared here on Shelly Palmer| Shelly Palmer
Meta rolled out AI voice translation for Reels on Instagram and Facebook. The tool dubs spoken audio between English and Spanish, preserves the creator’s voice, and can optionally lip-sync to match mouth movements. Translated reels are labeled and surfaced in a viewer’s preferred language. The feature is rolling out globally where Meta AI is available. The post Meta Adds AI Voice Translation to Reels and Everyone’s Suddenly Fluent originally appeared here on Shelly Palmer| Shelly Palmer
Grammarly just announced that its new AI agent can “predict whether a piece of writing will receive an A.” The tool, called AI Grader, is part of a new set of agents that the company is rolling out this fall. By analyzing assignment instructions, grading rubrics, and available information about the instructor, the system estimates whether a paper would earn an A. Grammarly claims it has trained this model on millions of writing samples that included instructor feedback. The post Grammarly...| Shelly Palmer
Five days ago, I published "Five Hours with GPT-5," calling OpenAI's latest model "impressive." I was wrong. After living with GPT-5 for more than a week, my user experience tells a different story than the initial benchmarks. I'm not alone. The post Five Days with GPT-5 originally appeared here on Shelly Palmer| Shelly Palmer
ChatGPT head Nick Turley just admitted what every tech executive already knows: even 700 million weekly active users can't make the math work without ads. In an interview on Decoder, Turley said he's "humble enough not to rule it out categorically," though he hedged that OpenAI would need to be "very thoughtful and tasteful" about how ads could be integrated into ChatGPT.| Shelly Palmer
