OpenAI's Warning as AI Racing Towards Major Discovery 🔥

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OpenAI stated it expects AI to be capable of making major scientific discoveries by 2028, despite acknowledging that the systems still face "serious weaknesses."

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• OpenAI Predicts 2028 AI Breakthroughs but Also Big Risks

• Snap Integrates Perplexity to Revolutionize Social Search

• AI Tutorial: Guide to Cinematic Short Film Production Using Runway AI

• AI Tools to check out

• AI Findings/Resources

• The Latest in AI and Tech 💡

AI News

OPENAI

OpenAI Predicts 2028 AI Breakthroughs but Also Big Risks

OpenAI projects that artificial intelligence will achieve major breakthroughs and be capable of making significant scientific discoveries by 2028. Despite this optimistic forecast for exponential capability growth, the company simultaneously issues a strong warning, noting that current AI systems still face "serious weaknesses." 

Details:

• OpenAI predicts AI will achieve major breakthroughs and be capable of making significant discoveries (in healthcare, science, and education) by 2028.

• Despite rapidly increasing power, AI systems still face "serious weaknesses" but are capable of outperforming the smartest humans in some challenging intellectual competitions.

• The company warns that the risks posed by superintelligent systems are "potentially catastrophic" and must not be deployed without robust alignment and control.

• OpenAI is calling for shared standards and insights among "frontier labs" to create a new system for oversight and accountability, similar to establishing building codes.

• To mitigate risk, an entire "AI resilience ecosystem" must be built out, involving new software, standards, monitoring, and emergency response teams (akin to cybersecurity).

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SNAPCHAT

Snap Integrates Perplexity to Revolutionize Social Search

Snap Inc. and Perplexity have announced a major partnership that will integrate Perplexity's AI-powered answer engine directly into the Snapchat app. This partnership marks the first large-scale integration of an external AI partner to serve its massive, mobile-native community of nearly a billion monthly active users.

Details:

• Snap is partnering with Perplexity, an AI-powered answer engine known for providing real-time answers drawn from verifiable sources with in-line citations.

• The integration will be available to Snapchat's community of nearly 1 billion monthly active users, offering a new way to access conversational AI Search.

• Perplexity will pay Snap $400 million over one year (through a combination of cash and equity) upon achieving global rollout, with revenue starting in 2026.

• The Perplexity engine will be integrated into the popular Chat interface starting in early 2026, allowing users to ask questions and receive clear, conversational answers.

• The integration will exist alongside Snapchat's existing My AI chatbot, with Perplexity serving as a dedicated answer engine for finding real-time information from credible sources.

This partnership marks Snap's first step toward making Snapchat a platform where leading AI companies can connect with its global community in creative and trusted ways.

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AI Tutorial

Guide to Cinematic Short Film Production Using Runway AI

1. Break your scripts down into scene-by-scene and then shot-by-shot by writing detailed visual descriptions for each line to guide the AI.

   • Use a structured format: [Subject] + [Action/Setting] + [Camera Angle/Movement] + [Style/Lighting]

   • Example: A weary detective, close-up, turning his head sharply. Cinematic 35mm film, volumetric lighting, film noir.

2. For consistency across all scenes, use a reference image and consistent style keywords (e.g., cinematic 4K, anamorphic lens, golden hour)

3. Go to Runway and sign up to input your engineered prompt (Step 1) and your Reference Image (Step 2) into Runway.

4. Use Runway's Motion Controls (pan, tilt, dolly) to add subtle, intentional movement for realism. Download the final clips for all your shots and organize them by scene number.

5. Import all clips into a video editor (like Adobe Premiere or DaVinci Resolve) and arrange them on the timeline according to the original script order. Add all dialogue, sound effects, and consistent color grading to unify your short film.

AI Tools to check out

📈 Chatter: Stock market analyser and retail chatter for investors.

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AI Findings/Resources

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🎨 Generative AI Tools Embedded in Creative and Cloud Workflows

🌎 Global AI quality gap narrows as US investment hits $109.1 billion

⚖️ Global Bodies Demand Ethical Guardrails for AI decisions.

The latest in AI and Tech

Open-Source Model Kimi K2 Challenges GPT-5

Moonshot AI's new 1-trillion-parameter system open-source model, Kimi K2 Thinking, has achieved state-of-the-art results on key agentic benchmarks, reportedly surpassing proprietary models like GPT-5 and Claude Sonnet 4.5.

Data Industry Giants Consolidate with Multi-Billion-Dollar Deals

The data industry is consolidating rapidly to accelerate AI adoption, with major deals including Salesforce's $8 billion acquisition of Informatica and Databricks' reported $1 billion purchase of Neon.

OpenAI Targets $20B Revenue amid Massive Infrastructure Bet

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman disclosed the company is operating at a $20 billion annual revenue run rate, expects revenue to grow into the hundreds of billions by 2030, and plans future expansion into consumer devices and scientific discovery.

Rumble Acquires Northern Data to Build the 'Freedom-First' Cloud

Rumble has expanded its portfolio by integrating GPUs and data centers through the acquisition of Northern Data AG, a leading provider of AI and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure.

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