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Hello again, human brain, and welcome back to your daily munch of AI news.

Here’s what’s on the menu today:

• Ghibli AI image generator goes viral🤖

  OpenAI and Google push for policy changes.

• Hug your loved ones❤️

  “Just remember, death is not the end.” — Bob Dylan

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MAIN COURSE

AI turns your life into anime🤖

OpenAI's latest image generation update went viral. Why? Mostly from people creating Studio Ghibli-style versions of family photos, popular memes, and more.

What's happening?

After OpenAI released its most advanced image generator, social media has been flooded with images reimagining memes, movie scenes, and political moments in the style of Studio Ghibli films like Spirited Away.

What are people creating?

Scenes from The Sopranos, Lord of the Rings, the Trump-Zelensky White House exchange, and more. Popular memes like distracted boyfriend and a photo of Elon Musk playing with cutlery have also received the Ghibli treatment.

What's the reaction?

Many are celebrating the technology's creative potential, while others point to a 2016 video where Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki called AI-generated art “an insult to life itself.” Watch the video here.

What's OpenAI saying?

CEO Sam Altman joked, saying that after “a decade trying to help make superintelligence to cure cancer,” it was Studio Ghibli images that finally generated viral interest in his work.

What's the controversy?

The images raise copyright questions about both Studio Ghibli's work and the source images being created. ChatGPT now refuses some Ghibli-style requests.

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SIDE SALAD

This one’s for my uncle❤️

I haven't been posting as much lately. Thanks to those of you who reached out. My uncle has been in the ICU and passed away on Friday. He loved life, skydiving, playing music, scuba diving, his wife (my beloved aunt Lisa), and his dog Conan.

The past few weeks have been a blur of hospital visits and difficult decisions. My uncle embraced life with open arms. You could hear it in the music he played, see it in his adventures beneath the waves and falling through the sky, and feel it in the love he shared with everyone around him.

Those who knew him will understand why this silence has been necessary. I've needed time to process, to support my aunt Lisa, and to scratch Conan behind the ears while we both miss the same person. The world feels a little less vibrant without him in it.

I plan to regularly post again, carrying forward with the same curiosity and passion for life that my uncle embodied. I'm learning that grief isn't linear, and sometimes the best way to honor someone is to simply pause and remember them.

Thank you for your patience and understanding during this difficult time. Remember to hug your loved ones extra tight and tell them what’s in your heart.

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Think Piece 🧠

How AI models process data, plan, reason, and more. Anthropic unveils the inner workings of Claude and other models.

Startup News 💰

Amazon's launched Interests. It searches for products, scans for new items that align with your preferences, and notifies you of relevant products.

Anthropic added web-search capabilities to Claude. This allows you to fetch up-to-date info with direct citations for accuracy.

Research 👨‍🔬 

FlexRoPE — achieves efficient long-video training and significantly improved performance in both short and long video generation tasks.

LEGO-Puzzles — evaluates multimodal models on their ability to handle complex, spatial reasoning tasks through LEGO-based puzzles.

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