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Oct. 21, 2025 | When Half the Web Is 'Slop' and Deepfakes Go Viral
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OpenAI has launched AgentKit, a comprehensive suite of tools for developers to build and deploy AI agents, aiming to streamline a process that was previously fragmented and complex. This comes as generative AI continues to reshape the financial services industry, with Google Cloud highlighting how the technology is accelerating innovation in banking and risk management. In a related development, Fujitsu and Sony Bank are partnering to integrate generative AI into their core banking system to speed up development by 20%.
In other news, AI-generated voices have become nearly indistinguishable from real human voices. Politically, President Donald Trump has been using synthetic media to attack opponents and enhance his public image. Additionally, OpenAI is reportedly trying to make ChatGPT a platform, or even a future operating system, with the ability to run apps directly inside the chat window.
In the world of open source, Meta has released OpenZL, a new compression framework, while Tencent’s Hunyuan Image 3.0 has topped the text-to-image rankings.
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🦾 AI daily pulse
OpenAI stops ‘disrespectful’ Martin Luther King Jr deepfakes
OpenAI has stopped its artificial intelligence (AI) app Sora creating deepfake videos portraying Dr Martin Luther King Jr, following a request from his estate. The company acknowledged the video generator had created “disrespectful” content about the civil rights campaigner. Sora has gone viral in the US due to its ability to make hyper-realistic videos, which has led to people sharing faked scenes of deceased celebrities and historical figures in bizarre and often offensive scenarios. [LINK]How Generative AI is reshaping clinical support for a multi-generational workforce
Healthcare teams today are navigating an unprecedented challenge: Meeting the diverse needs of a workforce spanning five generations. From traditionalists who began their careers with paper charts to tech-first clinicians who’ve never known a world without smartphones, the expectations for clinical support tools are as varied as the workforce itself. [LINK]
ByteDance’s other AI chatbot is quietly gaining traction around the world ByteDance is paying for ads and partnering with influencers to promote its AI chatbot app Cici in countries like the UK, Mexico, and Indonesia. [LINK]
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⚡️ Top trends
AI-generated lesson plans fall short on inspiring students and promoting critical thinking
When teachers rely on commonly used artificial intelligence chatbots to devise lesson plans, it does not result in more engaging, immersive or effective learning experiences compared with existing techniques, we found in our recent study. The AI-generated civics lesson plans we analyzed also left out opportunities for students to explore the stories and experiences of traditionally marginalized people. [LINK]Over 50 percent of the internet is now AI slop, new data finds
Since the public launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, we’ve been battening down the hatches amid an absolute deluge of AI slop. But it hasn’t quite drowned us all yet, evidently. The report, published by the SEO firm Graphite, analyzed a random sample of 65,000 English-language articles published between January 2020 and May 2025. Using an AI detector called Surfer, any article that was found to have 50 percent or more of the content written with a large language model was considered AI-generated. [LINK]
💻 Top techies
Inclusive medical AI can boost market reach by up to 40%
The study provides extensive empirical evidence that fairness improves model performance and fosters organizational innovation. By addressing bias, developers correct sample selection errors and distributional shifts that degrade accuracy [LINK]Particular Audience unveils open source developer suite to “break down
Retail Media barriers” Taking self-serve to a whole new level, AI-powered retail media platform Particular Audience has launched a Open Source Suite on GitHub that brings together three developer tools for free for those looking to create their own retail media offering. [LINK]
🔮 What else
How user prompt style can trigger AI hallucinations
Research shows AI hallucinations often stem from user prompts. A study finds style shifts confuse models; train on wider styles or write fuller, polite queries. [LINK]Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”