Try These Prompts to Turn Your Photos into Halloween Horror Scenes 🎃

Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,

With Halloween right around the corner, we’re sharing 5 fun prompts that will let you turn your photos into something straight out of a scary movie.

Let’s jump into it!

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

• Google Launches Gemini 4 Carbon

• Amazon Introduces Five New Alexa Devices

• AI Tutorial: Turn Your Photos into Halloween Horror Scenes

• AI Tools to check out

• AI Findings/Resources

• The Latest in AI and Tech 💡

AI News

GOOGLE

Google Launches Gemini 4 Carbon

Google has introduced Gemini 4 Carbon, a new frontier model focused on coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity that the company says outperforms the top models from OpenAI and Anthropic on some benchmarks.

Details:

• Gemini 4 Carbon ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0, ahead of Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra.

• Google says Carbon delivers significant improvements in coding and agentic tasks, as well as in key cybersecurity defense capabilities, particularly in identifying software vulnerabilities and generating more secure code.

• The model currently leads SEC-bench Pro, which evaluates AI models on finding real-world software bugs, and ExploitGym, which measures their ability to develop exploits from vulnerabilities.

• Google says Carbon can handle longer, more complex engineering tasks, with internal teams reporting that it can work for days while navigating setbacks and completing multiple steps.

• The company also reports improvements in resisting prompt injection attacks, avoiding shortcuts, and collaborating with users. Compared with Gemini 4 Argon, Carbon reportedly cuts unsupported claims by half.

Access is currently restricted to selected cybersecurity defense companies. Google plans to expand availability to additional partners through its Fairwind Program. It will launch at the same introductory API prices as Argon: $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.

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TOGETHER WITH ATLASSIAN

State of Product reveals what AI still hasn’t solved

80% of product professionals say AI helps them ship faster, but customers aren’t seeing value any sooner. Atlassian’s State of Product 2027 explores the gains AI is delivering and the challenges that remain, from decision-making that hasn’t kept pace to gut instinct overriding customer evidence.

Read the report

AMAZON

Amazon Introduces Five New Alexa Devices

Amazon has announced five new Alexa-powered devices as it expands its smart home lineup. The releases include a redesigned Echo Show 16, a new Echo Studio speaker, and devices designed for sleep tracking and displaying photos.

Details:

• The redesigned Echo Show 16 features a 16-inch screen, built-in Fire TV, and Amazon’s first Echo Show camera with night vision. It is available for preorder starting at $499.99.

• The new Echo Studio costs $249.99 and includes a camera that allows Alexa to recognize objects users hold up to it. It also lets users remotely check on a room.

• The latest Echo Dot costs $99.99 and adds a built-in smart home hub and Wi-Fi extender for the first time.

• Echo Time is a $199.99 bedside clock with sleep-sensing technology designed to wake users during lighter stages of sleep without requiring a wearable device.

• The Alexa Photo Frame starts at $199.99 and automatically syncs pictures from Amazon Photos.

The launch comes as Amazon faces growing competition in the smart home market. Apple recently introduced its $299 HomeView smart home device with a 7-inch screen and face recognition, alongside the $149 HomePod mini 2.

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AI Tutorial

Turn Your Photos into Halloween Horror Scenes

Go to ChatGPT or Gemini (or any other AI of your choice) and try these prompts:

1. Make Your Own Scary Movie Poster

Create a photo of me in a dream Y2K style portrait of me laying in shiny purple bedding as I hold a large 90s-style landline in a daydreaming pose. I wear delicate jewelry and gold chunky rings. The room behind me is girly with 90s-style posters. My makeup is simple yet glamorous with pink lip gloss. The photo should have a grainy 90s style with a light source like a lamp in a dimly lit room at night. A 90s photo album rests beside me with a disposable camera. [Ghostface] stands behind me staring at me, and it should be standing in the doorway of a dimly lit hallway. The background behind it should be slightly dark and ominous. Vertical poster format, 2:3 aspect ratio.

You can replace [Ghostface] with any character or figure you want, as well as make any other changes you see fit.

AI Tools to check out

👀 Cuey: ChatGPT Dot: Compare ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok & DeepSeek answers side by side

🎤 Clumi AI: remove vocals from a song and create clean instrumental tracks for karaoke, remixing, and music production.

✨ CopySlides: turn images & PDF into editable PowerPoint

💬 Tincan: a group chat for AI assistants

AI Findings/Resources

😬 YouTuber Tim Pan folded an iPhone Duo 10,000 times to see what the screen crease would look like after years of use... and the results aren’t great

😐 Purdue University's IDEAS Lab built an autonomous drone that tracks runners through dense forests completely without GPS or cloud networks

📖 AI glossary: 65 terms everyone should know

🧠 Anthropic research: How AI agents shape experts’ judgment call

🔒 The internet is under attack. Here’s how to protect yourself and your family

The latest in AI and Tech

OpenAI now lets you text your ChatGPT Dot agent

The company is rolling out text messaging for its Dots, allowing US Pro subscribers to assign tasks, share photos or voice notes, and receive proactive updates through iMessage or RCS.

Alleged Chinese spy had ‘close relationship’ with Nvidia boss Jensen Huang 😱

The New York Times reports that US intelligence officials believe an executive at one of Nvidia’s data center customers, Megaspeed, may be a “Chinese intelligence asset,” and has a “close relationship” with Nvidia CEO Huang. Details are sparse in the article, especially on how close that relationship was, Nvidia says she’s just one of “thousands of customer executives” Huang meets every year.

Instagram head warns backlash against AI will continue to grow

Adam Mosseri says public frustration with AI is likely to intensify over the next few years, driven by concerns about job displacement, content ownership, safety and the spread of misleading AI generated material.

Chrome can now use Gmail to autofill online forms

Google is updating Chrome with AI powered autofill that can retrieve details from Gmail, including flight confirmation numbers, membership IDs, delivery tracking information, addresses and payment details, to help users complete online forms.

The feature is rolling out to US users on desktop and through Gemini in Chrome on iOS and Android, with an option to enable it in settings and Google saying sensitive information is encrypted.

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