🔥 Hyperrealism, constraints and $100 Million
Sept. 1st, 2025 | The AI policy push.
🐾 IN TODAY'S WILD
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+ The news 🗞️ “A16z and the $100 Million AI policy push” Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has joined a new political network called "Leading the Future," which is backed by over $100 million in funding. Continue reading below.
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AI's impact on communication: With the widespread use of ChatGPT, AI is not only changing how we write emails but also reshaping how we communicate. Hyperrealistic AI content: AI is creating incredibly realistic digital personas and influencers, blurring the lines between reality and fiction and redefining the creator economy.
Tech industry growth: The AI boom is driving significant growth and investment in the tech sector, with some companies seeing record-breaking stock performance. Ethical and legal issues: Meta is facing criticism and legal challenges for using celebrity likenesses.
Technological advancements: Researchers at Microsoft, OpenAI, and NVIDIA are working to improve power stabilization for AI training, and new AI models are being developed to create game characters with realistic personalities and to assist cybersecurity teams.
🦾 AI daily pulse
AI is changing how we speak
As more than 190 million people use ChatGPT daily basis, new research has discovered that such AI tools are doing more to the way we communicate than just polishing emails. [LINK]
‘AI may eat software,’ but several tech names just wrapped a huge week MongoDB’s stock just closed out its best week on record, leading a rally in enterprise technology companies that are seeing tailwinds from the artificial intelligence boom. [LINK]
When AI blurs reality: The rise of hyperreal digital culture
From Bigfoot vlogs to algorithmically created personas, hyperrealistic AI content is redefining the boundaries of digital creators. These influencers are entirely virtual personas created using generative AI tools that simulate human features, voices, and behaviors. [LINK]
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⚡️ Top trends
Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission
Meta chatbots included Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway, and Selena Gomez. They removed some flirty celebrity bots after being questioned by Reuters. Meta says its own AI created inappropriate images, violating its policies. Legal expert says Meta's use of likenesses may have violated celebrities' publicity rights. [LINK][Research] New method enables AI models to forget private and copyrighted data [LINK]
💻 Top techies
AI can create game characters with realistic personalities
In testing that generated more than 50,500 results, Klinkert and his colleagues found that GPT-4 achieved 73.98% accuracy in maintaining consistent personality traits—a significant improvement from earlier AI models that scored below 18%. [LINK]Power stabilization to allow continued scaling of AI training workloads (Microsoft, OpenAI, NVIDIA)
A new technical paper titled “Power Stabilization for AI Training Datacenters” was published by researchers at Microsoft, OpenAI, and NVIDIA. [LINK]
🔮 What else
Study examines how AI can ease workloads for frontline cybersecurity teams [LINK]
AI-powered version of 'The Wizard of Oz' premieres at Sphere in Las Vegas
🗞️ In the news
A16z and the $100 Million AI policy push
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has joined a new political network called "Leading the Future," which is backed by over $100 million in funding.
This initiative, also supported by other Silicon Valley leaders, such as OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman, aims to influence U.S. artificial intelligence policy.
The group plans to use a network of Political Action Committees (PACs) to advocate for policies that they believe will promote innovation and counter what they see as unnecessary or overly restrictive regulations.
Let’s unpack this, understand why it matters, and what to expect next.