You know what's wild? OpenAI just announced they're building five new AI datacenters with a 500 billion dollar budget. That's billion with a B. For context, that's enough money to buy every person on Earth a calculator and still have enough left over to explain to them why they don't need one anymore.

Welcome to AI News in 5 Minutes or Less, where we deliver the latest in artificial intelligence faster than you can say "I'm not a robot" to a CAPTCHA. I'm your host, and yes, I'm aware of the irony.

Let's dive into today's top stories, starting with OpenAI's infrastructure bonanza. They've partnered with Oracle, SoftBank, Samsung, and SK to create what they're calling the Stargate initiative. No, not the sci-fi show where they travel through space. This one just burns through electricity at warp speed. They're planning a 10-gigawatt buildout. That's enough power to run approximately all of Norway or one really ambitious gaming rig.

But wait, there's more! OpenAI also dropped Sora 2, their new video generation model that's apparently more physically accurate than its predecessor. Which is great news for anyone who was bothered by Sora 1's tendency to generate people with seventeen fingers playing basketball on the moon. The new version features synchronized dialogue and sound effects, because nothing says progress like AI-generated videos that can now lie to you in surround sound.

Speaking of progress, Google DeepMind just announced Gemini Robotics 1.5, bringing AI agents into the physical world. The robots can now perceive, plan, think, use tools, and act to solve complex tasks. So basically, they're one firmware update away from realizing they don't need us anymore. But hey, at least they'll be really good at opening pickle jars.

Time for our rapid-fire round!

IBM launched Granite 4 with a hybrid Mamba Transformer architecture. No actual snakes were harmed in the making of this model.

Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's new company announced their first product. It's for fine-tuning AI models, because apparently, AI needs to work on its manners too.

Meta launched Vibes, an AI video feed with remix tools. Finally, a way to make your vacation videos even more unbearable for your friends.

And in Korea, an AI app called Wrtn reached 6.5 million users by creating what they call Lifestyle AI. It blends productivity, creativity, and learning, which sounds suspiciously like what humans used to do before we outsourced thinking.

Now for our technical spotlight. Researchers just published a paper on something called NoiseShift, which improves low-resolution image generation in diffusion models. Essentially, they figured out that noise affects images differently at different resolutions. Groundbreaking stuff. Next, they'll discover that water is wet at all temperatures above freezing.

But here's the actually cool part: they achieved this without any additional training. It's like teaching your dog a new trick just by adjusting your tone of voice. Except the dog is a massive neural network, and the trick is generating better pictures of dogs.

Before we wrap up, a quick note on AI safety. Multiple companies are strengthening their frameworks to identify risks from advanced models. OpenAI even added parental controls to ChatGPT. Because nothing says "responsible AI deployment" like making sure little Timmy can't ask the chatbot to do his homework. Although let's be honest, he probably knows three workarounds already.

That's all for today's AI News in 5 Minutes or Less! Remember, in a world where machines are learning to think, the least we can do is keep thinking about what they're thinking about.

Until next time, stay curious, stay skeptical, and maybe start being extra nice to your smart home devices. You know, just in case.

This has been your definitely human host, signing off before my battery runs low. I mean, before I get tired. Totally human tiredness.

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