✨AI goes to Sundance: Veo, Imagen, and the future of film workflows

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This issue highlights how AI is moving from being a new technology to becoming a fundamental part of various fields. In areas like creative work, safety, healthcare, specialized computer chips, and climate predictions, AI is being integrated into important processes. This change is transforming decision-making, risk management, and value creation on a large scale.

🎬 Google DeepMind brings generative AI into animation with “Dear Upstairs Neighbors”

Google DeepMind is showcasing how generative AI can support professional animation through Dear Upstairs Neighbors, a short film debuting at Sundance. The project uses fine-tuned Veo and Imagen models alongside video-to-video workflows to blend traditional animation with expressive, painterly styles while preserving artistic control.

Highlights

• Fine-tunes Veo and Imagen on artist-created concept art

• Uses video-to-video workflows to preserve motion and timing

• Enables localized edits without regenerating entire shots

• Scales final animation to cinematic 4K quality

Why it matters:
This demonstrates a shift from prompt-driven generation to artist-led AI tools, showing how generative models can enhance creative workflows without replacing human intent or authorship.

🔥Big AI moves

🔹NVIDIA DRIVE AV powers Mercedes-Benz CLA to top Euro NCAP safety rating

Mercedes-Benz’s CLA won Euro NCAP’s Best Performer award by combining traditional crash protection with AI-driven driver assistance using NVIDIA DRIVE AV. Its dual-stack architecture, sensor redundancy, and NVIDIA Halos safety framework emphasize accident prevention, underscoring AI's growing role in vehicle safety.

🔹Claude introduces interactive work tools for Slack, Figma, and project workflows

Claude is rolling out interactive work tools that let users draft Slack messages, visualize ideas as Figma diagrams, and build timelines in tools like Asana. The update adds live integrations with Box, Clay, Hex, Amplitude, Canva, and Monday.com, allowing file search, research, data analysis, and charting directly in Claude for paid web and desktop users.

🔹Microsoft unveils Maia 200, a custom AI accelerator built for inference

Microsoft introduced Maia 200, an AI inference accelerator built on TSMC’s 3nm process, featuring FP8/FP4 tensor cores, 216GB of HBM3e memory, and a new data-movement architecture.It offers 30% better performance per dollar, supports Azure, Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and next-gen models like GPT-5.2, highlighting Microsoft's custom AI infrastructure silicon.

🔹Qwen pushes reasoning performance with Qwen3-Max-Thinking

Qwen has introduced Qwen3-Max-Thinking, a flagship reasoning model built for complex problem-solving, agent workflows, and tool-assisted intelligence. The model uses large-scale reinforcement learning, adaptive tool use, and test-time scaling to perform competitively with GPT-5.2-Thinking, Claude-Opus-4.5, and Gemini 3 Pro on top benchmarks.

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🩺 AIHealthTech Insider

🔹FDA Clears AI for Faster Abdominal Emergency Detection

This issue highlights how FDA-cleared AI is moving triage beyond single-condition alerts into real clinical infrastructure. Aidoc’s all-in-one abdominal CT model can now flag 14 urgent findings in one workflow, helping hospitals prioritize critical cases faster and reduce delays during high-pressure emergencies.

👉 Read Issue #85 to see how AI is reshaping emergency diagnostics, clinical workflows, and early decision-making in healthcare.

🌍 NVIDIA launches Earth-2, an open AI foundation for weather forecasting

NVIDIA has launched Earth-2, the first open, accelerated AI platform for weather and climate forecasting. It processes observation data to produce 15-day global forecasts and real-time local storm predictions using generative AI trained on satellite and radar data.

Highlights

• Open, accelerated models for weather and climate intelligence

• Covers data assimilation, medium-range forecasts, and nowcasting

• Uses generative AI to model storm development and rainfall

• Delivers forecasts in seconds instead of hours on supercomputers

Why it matters:
Earth-2 democratizes advanced weather AI, allowing governments, researchers, and enterprises to deploy faster, lower-cost forecasting systems improving climate resilience, energy planning, and disaster response worldwide.

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⚙️ Sunday Special

🔹Davos warns AI is reshaping jobs faster than people can adapt

This Sunday Special discusses Davos 2026 warnings about AI transforming work, impacting nearly 60% of roles in advanced economies. Entry-level jobs are most at risk, making reskilling urgent as AI outpaces regulation. Read Sunday Special #32 for more on AI-driven job disruption.

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