The State of Video Games, Comparison of Video Models, and the X Games and AI

Tools and industry news from the world of artificial intelligence.

Morning y’all!

Humpday. Humpday. Humpday. That’s how much I love Humpday.

• IBM and L’Oreal are going to make AI cosmetics.

• I created a few fun video avatars in the last issue and today I’m using the same script but using Kokoro TTS to test — I don’t mind this voice! There are a bunch fo choose from so you can get an idea of it’s performance.

• Alexa (from Amazon) is getting a brain translate for AI. That’s the word I’m using for it since it seems like they should really just build a new product and call it Alexa after it start working.

• Modern retail is going to start using AI.

• The state of video games by Matthew Ball.

• Why AI reminds me of cloud computing.

• Video generation model review by Variety.

• Marc Andreessen in the NYTimes, again. He talks about AI.

• Global robot density doubled in 7 years (research).

• Email wall on this accounting and tax report by Wolters Kluwer and AI.

• And another email wall for this report on the music industry in 2024.

• An overview of Firecrawl and web scraping. Useful.

• Building a RAG using DeepSeek on local.

• DOGE is the official DOGE logo and I had to LOL a bit.

• A new end-to-end payment platform.

• Supply chain intelligence via AI.

• Does AI product better content? Apparently so.

• AI for music and business.

• Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht, an OG bitcoin and defi guy.

• Connect your company data to an LLM so you can find stuff.

• The X Games are going to use AI for their games.

• AI will give ministers a “vibe check” on how their policies might affect stuff.

• Mistral is going to go IPO?

• Personal AI trainer, open source.

• New AI will use your throat to figure out what you’re saying (medical).

• What we learned from AI from investing from 7 active investors.

And that’s it for today friends! Have a good one.

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— Summer