Today in Generative Media

Musk's DOGE gives AI gov't data, makes GSAi chatbot; Characters without people?

News and Opinion

• Elon Musk’s DOGE is feeding sensitive federal data into AI to target cuts (Washington Post)

• Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Working on a Custom Chatbot Called GSAi (Wired)

• Can Characters Come Alive Without People? (New York Times)

• The Dangerous A.I. Nonsense That Trump and Biden Fell For (New York Times)

• “Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed (Ars Technica)

Software

• Pikadditions: Transform Your Videos with Seamless AI Magic (Pika)

• Google Gemini AI Now Makes It Look Like You’re Calling Your Fake Friend (Gizmodo)

• Topaz Labs - "We're launching Project Starlight: the first-ever diffusion model for video restoration. Enhance old, low-quality videos to stunning high-resolution. This is our biggest leap since Video AI was first launched." (Reddit)

• We’re bringing SynthID to Reimagine in Magic Editor (Google Keyword blog)

• GitHub Copilot: The agent awakens (GitHub blog)

• GitHub Copilot brings mockups to life by generating code from images (TechCrunch)

• RPLY is a new AI assistant that responds to missed texts (TechCrunch)

• We used Gemini 2 Flash to build Cursor for arXiv papers (X)

Research

• GARAD-SLAM: 3D GAussian splatting for Real-time Anti Dynamic SLAM (arXiv)

• Introducing Agentic Object Detection! Given a text prompt like “unripe strawberries” or “Kellogg’s branded cereal” and an image, we use an agentic workflow to reason at length and detect the specified objects. No need to label any training data. Watch the video for details. (LinkedIn)

• This paper is wild - a Stanford team shows the simplest way to make an open LLM into a reasoning model. They used just 1,000 carefully curated reasoning examples & a trick where if the model tries to stop thinking, they append "Wait" to force it to continue. Near o1 at math. (X)

Misc

• 1.9M views on this AI generated music video. ViVO instead of VEVO. Uses the likeness of Justin Bieber and Jung Kook without their permission. This is gonna get messy. (X)