Today in Generative Media
AI-fueled video games; AIs communicate subliminally; Manifesting with AI
News and Opinion
The Unnerving Future of A.I.-Fueled Video Games (New York Times)
AI Models Can Send "Subliminal" Messages to Each Other That Make Them More Evil (Futurism)
Coming Soon: Your Beautiful, Successful, Confident Life (New York Times)
The Biggest Signs That AI Wrote a Paper, According to a Professor (Gizmodo)
Netflix is now using generative AI – but it risks leaving viewers and creatives behind (The Conversation)
Why AI is making us lose our minds (and not in the way you’d think) (VentureBeat)
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test (Ars Technica)
Software and Research
What’s new in NotebookLM: Video Overviews and an upgraded Studio (Google Keyword blog)
VGGT: Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (HuggingFace) This Hugging Face repository provides a model checkpoint licensed for commercial use, with the exception of military applications… (VGGT, CVPR 2025) is a feed-forward neural network that directly infers all key 3D attributes of a scene, including extrinsic and intrinsic camera parameters, point maps, depth maps, and 3D point tracks, from one, a few, or hundreds of its views, within seconds.
VoluMe Authentic 3D Video Calls from Live Gaussian Splat Prediction (project page)
GaRe: Relightable 3D Gaussian Splatting for Outdoor Scenes from Unconstrained Photo Collections (project page)
HairCUP: Hair Compositional Universal Prior for 3D Gaussian Avatars (project page)
Flow Matching Policy Gradients (project page)