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Meta AI Revolution: New Tools And Top Talent From OpenAI

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2 months ago

June 26, 2025

WhatsApp has started rolling out the new feature to generally help users manage unread chats more easily. This information is confirmed by the official blog account of WhatsApp. As per the blog post, the update leverages Meta AI to generate short summaries of unread messages, allowing users to understand conversations at a glance without opening each message.

The feature runs on Meta’s Private Processing technology, which ensures that summaries are generated entirely on the user’s device. Neither WhatsApp nor Meta can access the messages or the AI-generated summaries. The process remains private, with no indication within chats that the feature was used.

Message Summaries is turned off by default and can be enabled manually. Users can manage which chats are summarised through the Advanced Chat Privacy settings, offering control over where AI tools are applied.

The rollout begins with English-language support for users in the United States, with wider availability expected later this year. The feature adds to Meta’s growing focus on integrating AI into its platforms.

Meta’s New AI Tools for Ads

At a big advertising event in 2024, Meta (the company that owns Facebook and Instagram) showed off some cool new AI tools. These tools help businesses make better ads and earn more money.

How Meta’s AI is Already Helping

Meta’s AI tools are working really well. When businesses use Meta’s smart ad system called “Advantage+”, they make 22% more money from their ads. Another AI tool helps get 5% more people to buy things.

New AI Features for Making Ads

Making Videos from Pictures This new tool takes several photos and turns them into a video automatically. It can add text and music too. This helps businesses make more interesting video ads without hiring expensive video makers.

Video Highlights This tool finds the most important parts of a video ad. When people watch the ad, they can jump straight to the good parts instead of watching the whole thing. The AI picks out key moments that show the product or brand.

Brand Consistency Tools For the first time, businesses can use AI to make sure all their ads look the same. The AI can automatically use the right colors, fonts, logos, and style across all ads. It can even translate ads into different languages while keeping the brand looking consistent.

Making Ads More Fun and Interactive

Custom Stickers Meta is testing special stickers that go on the “Shop Now” or “Learn More” buttons in ads. These stickers can show products or slogans to make people more likely to click on them.

Virtual Try-On This feature lets people see how clothes would look on different body types using AI. Instead of just seeing clothes on one model, customers can see how items might look on people who are more like them.

Real Success Stories

Avimee Herbal (a beauty company) used Meta’s AI to refresh their old ads. They spent 62% less money and got 1.8 times more sales.

Big Basket (a grocery delivery service) tested the AI catalog ads and was happy with how well they worked.

These new AI tools help businesses make better ads without spending as much time or money. They also help customers have a better experience when they see and interact with ads online.

Apart from the above news, Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Meta (Facebook’s parent company), has hired three top AI researchers from OpenAI. This news came out on Wednesday in The Wall Street Journal.

Just a few days before this news, Sam Altman (the boss of OpenAI) complained that Meta was trying to steal his workers. Now it looks like Meta actually did succeed in getting some of them.

Who Got Hired?

Meta hired three researchers named:

Lucas Beyer
Alexander Kolesnikov
Xiaohua Zhai

All three of them used to work at OpenAI’s office in Zurich, Switzerland. OpenAI confirmed that these three people left the company, but they wouldn’t say much more about it.

What Will They Work On?

These three will join Zuckerberg’s special team that’s trying to build something called “superintelligence.”

What is Superintelligence?

Think of superintelligence as AI that’s smarter than humans at everything. Right now, we don’t have this yet.

Here’s how AI levels work:

Current AI: Good at some specific things (like ChatGPT writing text or recognizing photos)
AGI (Artificial General Intelligence): As smart as humans at most things
Superintelligence: Smarter than humans at everything

We’re still working toward AGI, and superintelligence would come after that. It’s like the ultimate goal for AI companies – building computer systems that can think better than people can.

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YouTube rolls out new AI-powered tools for Shorts creators

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1 month ago

July 24, 2025

Amit

YouTube has officially announced the new AI-driven creation tools for generating the unique and best Shorts, according to a recent blog post by the platform.

The new features include a Photo to video converter, generative effects, and access to an AI playground for experimenting with creative outputs.

Photo to video tool

The Photo to video tool allows users to transform still images from their camera roll into animated Shorts. Users can select a photo and apply creative suggestions that add motion, such as animating landscapes, objects or group pictures.

This feature is being rolled out across the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, with more regions expected to follow later in the year. For your information, it is available for free.

Both the Photo to video and generative effects are powered by Google’s Veo 2 technology. YouTube said Veo 3 would be integrated into Shorts later this summer.

The feature is currently available in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and can be accessed by tapping the create button, followed by the sparkle icon.

YouTube noted that AI-generated content will include SynthID watermarks and clear labels to indicate that it was created using artificial intelligence.

According to the blog post, the new tools are designed to make the creative process more accessible, while preserving transparency about AI use in content creation.

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Google Expands Firebase Studio with AI Tools for Popular Frameworks

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1 month ago

July 23, 2025

Amit

Google has officially released a series of updates to Firebase Studio aimed at expanding its AI development capabilities and deepening integration with popular frameworks and Firebase services.

For your information, the released features were unveiled at I/O Connect India.

At the core of the update are AI-optimised templates for Flutter, Angular, React, Next.js, and general Web projects. These templates enable developers to build applications in Firebase Studio using Gemini, Google’s AI assistant, with the workspace defaulting to an autonomous Agent mode.

“We’re unveiling new updates that help you combine the power of Gemini with these new features to go from idea to app using some of your favourite frameworks and languages,” said Vikas Anand, director of product management at Google.

Firebase Studio now supports direct prompting of Gemini to integrate backend services. Developers using App Prototyping Agent or an AI-optimised template can simply describe the desired functionality, and Gemini will recommend and incorporate relevant Firebase services, including adding libraries, modifying code, and assisting with configuration.

“You can get assistance from Gemini to help you plan and execute tasks independently without waiting for step-by-step approval,” said Jeanine Banks, vice president and general manager, Developer X at Google.

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Nvidia, AMD to Resume AI Chip Sales to China in US Reversal

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2 months ago

July 16, 2025

Amit

Nvidia reportedly plans to resume sales to China that’s become part of a global race pitting the world’s biggest economies against each other. The company’s announcement on Monday comes after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met with President Donald Trump at the White House last week.

AMD AI Chip Plan For China

AMD also planning to restart sales of its AI chips to China. “We were recently informed by the Department of Commerce that license applications to export MI308 products to China will be moving forward for review,” the company said in a statement to CNN. “We plan to resume shipments as licenses are approved. We applaud the progress made by the Trump Administration in advancing trade negotiations and its commitment to US AI leadership.”

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Bloomberg in an interview Tuesday that the Nvidia export controls have been a “negotiating chip” in the larger US-China trade talks, in which the two countries have made a deal to lower tariffs charged on one another.

NVIDIA

The same day Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that the resumption of Nvidia’s AI chip sales to China was part of the trade agreement with Beijing on rare earths. “We put that in the trade deal with the magnets,” he told Reuters, referring to rare earth magnets.

“In order for America to be the world leader, just like we want the world to be built on the American dollar, using the American dollar as a global standard, we want the American tech stack to be the global standard,” Huang told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in an interview that aired Sunday. “We love that the internet is created by American technology and is built on American technology, and so we should continue to aspire to that.”