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This Issue: AI video is becoming much easier to direct—not just generate. Google added longer scenes, frame-to-frame control, faster drafts, and 4K output. Plus: a massive NVIDIA-AWS infrastructure expansion, a16z’s hardware bet, OpenAI’s cyber warning, and a new way to learn from your books.
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash Gives Creators More Control Over AI Video
Google introduced Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, adding new controls for professional video creation through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio. Developers can extend scenes, generate transitions between chosen frames, create faster drafts, and upscale finished videos to 4K.
Highlights
Videos can be extended in 10-second increments to a total of 40 seconds
Creators can specify the first and final frames for smoother transitions
New 360p drafts generate up to 60% faster at one-third the cost of 720p
Finished videos can be upscaled to 1080p or 4K resolution
Why it matters: AI video advancements provide creators with enhanced control over continuity, camera movement, references, and quality, making Omni more practical for prototyping creative tools, media editing, and developing repeatable production workflows.
How AI-Era Pricing Is Reshaping Finance Operations
Usage-based and hybrid pricing models are changing how B2B companies generate revenue — and creating new headaches for the finance teams behind them.
Tabs co-founder Rebecca Schwartz and PwC Partner Amit Dhir sat down to unpack exactly what that means in practice: how pricing model decisions ripple into revenue recognition, forecasting, and financial ops — and what it takes to scale without piling on manual work.
Watch the on-demand recording to get practical frameworks, real-world examples, and a clear path to operationalizing usage-based revenue — including a forward-looking take on how AI will reshape financial workflows. If your team is navigating pricing complexity heading into the back half of the year, this is worth an hour.
Could This Wearable Replace a Painful ICU Procedure?
A wearable AI system produced continuous blood-pressure readings that closely matched invasive arterial lines in an early ICU study. If larger trials confirm the results, it could reduce discomfort and complications such as bleeding, clotting, and infection.
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🔹AWS Is Planning 2 Million More NVIDIA GPUs
AWS plans to deploy 2 million additional NVIDIA GPUs across its global infrastructure during 2027–2028. The expanded partnership will also bring NVIDIA Vera CPUs, advanced networking, open models, and robotics technology to AWS for agentic and physical AI workloads.
🔹a16z Just Put $1.1B Behind the AI Hardware Boom
Andreessen Horowitz launched its first dedicated hardware fund, raising $1.1 billion to back chips, memory, networking, data centers, robotics, cooling, and power. The firm says AI models are advancing faster than infrastructure, creating a major opportunity as compute and supply constraints persist through 2028.
🔹GLM-5.3 Gets a 50% Coding Boost Without a New Base Model
Z.ai released GLM-5.3, using the same base model as GLM-5.2 but improving performance entirely through post-training. The model delivers a 50% gain on Z.ai’s coding benchmark, reaches state-of-the-art results on CyberGym, and will release its open weights after additional safety testing.
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OpenAI Warns AI Cyberattacks Are About to Accelerate
OpenAI and more than 130 organizations, including Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, AWS, and CrowdStrike, signed an open letter calling for urgent investment in cyber defense. The group warns that AI-enabled attacks will become more widespread and sophisticated, putting hospitals, utilities, governments, and internet infrastructure at greater risk.
The broader push is to use increasingly capable AI on the defensive side first. Signatories want wider access to cyber-capable models, stronger security standards, shared threat intelligence, funding for critical infrastructure, and closer coordination between governments, AI companies, and security providers.
Google Can Now Turn Your Books Into an AI Tutor
Google’s new Expert Intelligence lets you add select Google Play Books ebooks to Gemini Notebook and interact with them alongside your own files. You can ask questions, generate flashcards and quizzes, create Audio Overviews, and get answers grounded in exact passages with citations.
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AI Jobs Are Starting to Pay a Serious Premium
AI hiring is accelerating across the U.S., and the pay gap is widening fast. Typical AI job postings now list around $177,000 in compensation versus $80,000 for non-AI roles, while demand for AI engineers and senior AI leaders keeps climbing.
Plus: free Claude courses, OpenAI DevDay goes global, and Claude Code gets creative.
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