Today in Generative Media

OpenAI signs WaPost deal; Israel launches AI tutoring; Are em dashes a sign of AI?

News and Opinion

• ChatGPT adds Washington Post content to growing list of OpenAI media deals (CNBC)

• Israel to become first country to roll out AI-driven tutoring at national level (Jerusalem Post)

• Are em dashes really a sign of AI writing? (Rolling Stone)

• AI is pushing the limits of the physical world (MIT Technology Review)

• Fake job seekers are flooding the market, thanks to AI (CBS News)

• AI and the Empathy Economy (Psychology Today)

Software

• A new, open source text-to-speech model called Dia has arrived to challenge ElevenLabs, OpenAI and more (VentureBeat)

• We present MAGI-1, a world model that generates videos by autoregressively predicting a sequence of video chunks, defined as fixed-length segments of consecutive frames (GitHub)

• Tencent Hunyuan 3D AI Creation Engine v2.5 is here, revolutionizing 3D generation with ultra-high-definition modeling! (X)

• Suna, your AI Employee. Suna by Kortix – is a generalist AI Agent that acts on your behalf.

Research

• DoF-Gaussian: Controllable Depth-of-Field for 3D Gaussian Splatting (project page)

• DRAGON: Distributional Rewards Optimize Diffusion Generative Models (project page)

• TetSphere Splatting: Representing High-Quality Geometry with Lagrangian Volumetric Meshes (OpenReview)

• Eagle 2.5: Boosting Long-Context Post-Training for Frontier Vision-Language Models (project page)

Misc

• Another one of those little shocking AI moments: this sound clip was generated in 46 seconds on my home PC from the script below. Just the text (X)

• Look who’s podcasting (X)