Google launched a free version of its AI-powered video editor Vids yesterday, while keeping premium AI features behind paid subscriptions.| 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.| 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.| 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.| 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.| 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.| 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.| 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.| Shelly Palmer