AI video is quietly moving from “generate me a cool clip” to an actual filmmaking tool. Control the first frame. Control the last frame. Extend the scene. Add references. Upscale to 4K.
The more control creators get, the less this feels like an AI demo and the more it starts feeling like a real production workflow.
This is moving fast.
introducing Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash
this model brings a new suite of creative controls and generative video capabilities to developers
- extend scenes for longer storytelling
- specify first and last frames
- draft videos more efficiently in 360p
- upscale up to 4K resolution
- add video references in your multimodal input
now available via the Gemini API and in AI Studio
This is how I imagine the next generation of technology districts.
AI labs, robotics, clean energy, advanced manufacturing, all built into one ecosystem.
🚨 JUST IN: TIME has unveiled its 2026 TIME100 AI list, featuring 100 of the most influential people shaping artificial intelligence.
The cover brings together some of the biggest names defining this era:
Elon Musk
Sam Altman
Dario Amodei
Ilya Sutskever
Fei-Fei Li
Mira Murati
Jeff Bezos
Larry Ellison
David Sacks
Different companies. Different visions. Different bets on where AI should go. But together, these are some of the people shaping a technology that could define the next chapter of human history.
Remember these faces. We’re watching history being written in real time.
🚨 JUST IN: TIME has unveiled its 2026 TIME100 AI list, featuring 100 of the most influential people shaping artificial intelligence.
The cover brings together some of the biggest names defining this era:
1.Elon Musk
2.Sam Altman
3.Dario Amodei
4.Ilya Sutskever
5.Fei-Fei Li
6.Mira Murati
7.Jeff Bezos
8.Larry Ellison
9.David Sacks
Different companies. Different visions. Different bets on where AI should go. But together, these are some of the people shaping a technology that could define the next chapter of human history.
Remember these faces. We’re watching history being written in real time.
@XFreeze The real AI race isn’t just about intelligence. It’s about which philosophy gets scaled to billions of people.
The values of today’s AI builders could quietly become the invisible rules of tomorrow’s society.
Microduck might become much more than a $399 research robot.
It has almost everything the internet loves:
> 25 cm tall
> 800 g
> 15 motors
> camera + LiDAR + IMUs
> open-source software and training
learns in simulation, then transfers those skills to the real robot
And somehow it can walk, kick a ball, pick things up with its beak, get back up after falling, and even skate.
That combination matters.
Cheap enough for hobbyists.
Useful enough for researchers.
Cute enough to become a meme.
This is how technology sometimes escapes the lab and becomes culture.
Microduck could end up being one of the first recognizable mascots of the physical AI era.
And now a token carrying the $Microduck name is already starting to attract attention too.
That part is pure speculation unless officially linked to the project, but it says something about the level of hype building around this little robot.
We may be watching the birth of a very strange new category:
an open-source research robot, internet mascot, and meme machine all at once.
If it goes viral, $399 may turn out to be the most important number in the whole story.
This could be one of the most consequential rooms in tech next week.
The President of the United States. Elon Musk. Jensen Huang. David Sacks. And some of the people shaping America’s technological future, together at the G20 Innovation Ministerial.
> AI.
> Chips.
> Robotics.
> Energy.
> Space.
> National policy.
These are no longer separate industries. They are becoming the infrastructure of global power.
The decisions made by people in rooms like this could help define not just the next generation of technology, but the balance of power for the next decade.
The future is increasingly being built at the intersection of technology and state power.