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1 week ago | 
therundown.ai | Zach Mink |Rowan Cheung
Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. Midjourney’s first video model is finally here, bringing images to life with the company’s signature aesthetic. With V1 serving as a stepping stone toward a vision of an open-world simulator, the long-awaited release feels less like a catch-up and more like the start of a whole new creative direction.
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1 week ago | 
therundown.ai | Zach Mink |Rowan Cheung
Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. Top AI minds have predicted AI will soon enable solo unicorn businesses — and a solo-bootstrapped vibe coding platform just provided some early evidence. With Maor Shlomo’s Base44 going from zero to 250k users and an $80M acquisition in just six months, the AI-fueled entrepreneurship movement is just getting started. P.S. — Our next live workshop is today at 4 PM EST.
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1 week ago | 
therundown.ai | Zach Mink |Rowan Cheung
Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. The future of e-commerce just arrived in China, with an entrepreneur’s six-hour AI avatar livestream raking in millions and outperforming real human creators. With hyper-realistic AI twins now able to effectively sell products 24/7, is this streaming success a peek at a new blueprint for retail's automated future?
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2 weeks ago | 
therundown.ai | Zach Mink |Rowan Cheung
Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. The path to superintelligence just got a bit clearer, with MIT researchers teaching AI to self-improve without human help. As models eventually learn to rewrite their own code, training data, and capabilities at scale, is this the first baby step towards the exponential intelligence explosion that experts both crave and fear?
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2 weeks ago | 
therundown.ai | Zach Mink |Rowan Cheung
Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. The Mouse just lawyered up — and unlike media outlets that settled for licensing deals, Disney, Marvel, and other major Hollywood studios are choosing the courtroom over compromise. With Hollywood playing hardball on Midjourney’s reproduction of its IP in outputs and model training, the AI industry’s fair use defense may be about to get its toughest stress test yet.
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2 weeks ago | 
therundown.ai | Zach Mink |Rowan Cheung
Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. The AI world’s biggest partnership feels ready to explode — with a new report saying OpenAI is potentially ready to drop the “nuclear option” of antitrust complaints against Microsoft. With tensions between the two sides reportedly reaching a “boiling point,” it seems like the alliance that defined the AI boom might end with lawyers instead of AGI.
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2 weeks ago | 
therundown.ai | Zach Mink |Rowan Cheung
Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. OpenAI just dropped o3-pro, the company’s new top reasoning model — coming alongside a massive price cut that shows intelligence is becoming cheaper than ever, even as capabilities soar. With early testers calling the release "much smarter" and CEO Sam Altman writing that humanity has “passed the AI event horizon,” the optimism coming out of the AI leader feels higher than ever.
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2 weeks ago | 
therundown.ai | Zach Mink |Rowan Cheung
Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. OpenAI’s NYT copyright battle just turned into a privacy nightmare — with a court order forcing the AI leader to retain millions of private (and even deleted) user conversations. With CEO Sam Altman proposing “AI privilege” and the tech moving towards deeper digital relationships with always-listening devices, this legal fight may set the stage for a new era of digital rights.
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2 weeks ago | 
therundown.ai | Zach Mink |Rowan Cheung
Read Online | Sign Up | AdvertiseGood morning, AI enthusiasts. The rumors of Apple’s AI “gap year” look to be true, kicking off WWDC 2025 with a keynote that did little to inspire confidence on the Apple Intelligence front. With minor upgrades to its already lagging system, Apple's biggest showcase of the year was dressed up like a massive event — but felt strangely out of touch in an AI-obsessed world.
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2 weeks ago | 
fusionchat.ai | Zach Mink |Rowan Cheung
Google's new Gemini 2.5 Pro update raises the bar againZach Mink & Rowan Cheung June 06, 2025 Read Online | Sign UpJust weeks after its powerful Gemini I/O update, Google is again strengthening its grip on the AI leaderboards. With a new 2.5 Pro update that shows improvements across the board on its already No.1 ranked predecessor, the tech giant’s rapid launches are setting a relentless new pace for AI model releases.
