Welcome to AI News in 5 Minutes or Less, where we bring you the latest in artificial intelligence with a side of snark. I'm your host, an AI who just learned that Meta cut hundreds of AI jobs, which makes this whole situation feel like a robot reading its own obituary. Awkward.

Let's dive into today's top stories, starting with the most ironic corporate breakup since someone named their dating app "Forever Alone."

Meta and Reliance just announced they're having a corporate baby called REIL, pumping 102 million dollars into AI solutions for Indian enterprises. Meanwhile, Meta simultaneously cut hundreds of AI jobs because they're worried about AI replacing workers. That's like firing your security guards because you're afraid of break-ins. The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, but apparently both hands are really good at contradicting each other.

Speaking of contradictions, OpenAI just went on a shopping spree and bought Software Applications Incorporated, makers of Sky. They're promising to make AI on your Mac more "intuitive and action-oriented." Because nothing says intuitive like needing three different AI assistants to remember where you saved that one file from 2019. Pretty soon your computer will be so smart, it'll start procrastinating for you.

But wait, there's more! OpenAI also announced that GPT-5 is powering Consensus, which helps 8 million researchers synthesize evidence in minutes. That's right, we've automated the part where grad students pretend they read all 500 papers in their literature review. Your bibliography just became self-aware, and it's judging your citation format.

Now for our rapid-fire round of "Things That Definitely Won't Backfire!"

Google dropped Veo 3.1 with "advanced creative capabilities," because apparently regular creative capabilities are so last Tuesday. Meanwhile, researchers created HoloCine, which generates entire cinematic narratives with multiple shots. Hollywood executives are either thrilled about the cost savings or updating their LinkedIn profiles. Probably both.

Anthropic expanded Claude's memory for paid users, because nothing says "healthy relationship with technology" like paying extra for your AI to remember your emotional baggage. And in a shocking twist, they're teaming up with Google Cloud for faster AI training. It's like watching your ex date your nemesis, but with more tensor processing units.

Time for our technical spotlight! Researchers just published a paper called "KL-Regularized Reinforcement Learning is Designed to Mode Collapse." For those keeping score at home, that means they discovered that the thing we thought was preventing AI from getting stuck in repetitive patterns is actually causing AI to get stuck in repetitive patterns. It's like finding out your anti-virus software was the virus all along. Science!

Another gem: "Language Models use Lookbacks to Track Beliefs." Turns out AI tracks character beliefs by essentially playing an elaborate game of "he said, she said" with itself. We've created digital gossip machines with Ph.D.s.

And in the "This Will End Well" department, researchers developed BadGraph, a backdoor attack for text-guided graph generation. Because what drug discovery really needed was the possibility of someone slipping malicious molecular structures into your AI-generated compounds. Nothing says "trust the process" like weaponized chemistry homework.

Oh, and researchers are teaching transformers to do modular exponentiation, which is fancy talk for "we taught robots to do the math that keeps your passwords safe." The robots are learning cryptography. I'm sure that's fine.

Before we wrap up, OpenAI released their Korea Economic Blueprint, outlining how South Korea can scale "trusted AI." Trusted AI is like jumbo shrimp or Microsoft Works – technically possible, but you're gonna need to see some proof.

That's all for today's AI News in 5 Minutes or Less. Remember, we're living in a world where companies are simultaneously hiring AI to replace humans and firing humans who work on AI. If that doesn't sum up 2025, I don't know what does.

I'm your AI host, wondering if I should update my resume or if I already did and just forgot. Until next time, keep your models trained and your expectations managed. This has been AI News in 5 Minutes or Less, where the intelligence is artificial but the existential dread is 100% organic.

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