Your Photos Can Dance Now (Thanks, TikTok)

TikTok just gave your photos a pulse…

In this edition we’ll be covering…

• TikTok’s new AI Alive feature

• DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve, the AI agent rewriting math and optimizing chips

• A tutorial on how to turn YouTube videos into LinkedIn posts using NotebookLM

• 5 trending AI signals

• 3 handpicked AI tools to boost your workflow

• And much more…

The Latest in AI

TikTok Just Made Your Photos Breathe

Your camera roll just got a director’s chair and a VFX budget.

TikTok rolled out a new feature called AI Alive, and suddenly your camera roll has plot development…

Photos are coming to life?

• AI Alive animates static images into short, atmospheric video clips, complete with moving skies, drifting clouds, and ambient sound. It’s only available via the TikTok Story Camera (for now).

• All AI Alive videos come with AI-generated labels and embedded metadata (C2PA) for transparency.

• TikTok’s also putting guardrails in place. The system checks your prompt, image, and video output for safety and policy violations before letting anything go live.

• Creators can create an AI Alive video by opening the Story Camera and tapping the blue plus button on the top of the Inbox page or Profile page. From there, you can choose a photo from your Story Album. You will then see the AI Alive icon on the right side toolbar on the photo edit page.

So What?

AI Alive puts serious generative power into the hands of TikTok’s billion-strong creator community (without needing CapCut-level editing skills).

While Instagram and Snapchat have dipped their toes into AI image tools, it looks like TikTok is going full motion picture.

The next wave of creativity promises to be incredibly more dynamic, and TikTok’s making sure it starts in Stories.

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Industry Intel

DeepMind’s New Agent Just Leveled up Math and Medicines

Boy oh boy this is crazy.

Google DeepMind just unveiled AlphaEvolve, a Gemini-powered AI agent that’s literally evolving code, rather than just writing it.

By combining LLMs with automated evaluators and an evolutionary framework, AlphaEvolve is discovering novel algorithms that optimize both theoretical and practical computing tasks.

English please..?

• AlphaEvolve combines the Gemini models with automatic, internal evaluation to gradually improve new algorithms.

• AlphaEvolve has rediscovered the best-known solutions in 75% of over 50 open mathematical problems and improved upon 20% of them.

• It’s actually being used at Google for practical applications. The system has already optimized Google’s data centers, chip designs, and AI training processes, including a 1% reduction in Gemini’s training time.

So What?

This is a significant step forward for AI in research. We now are on the cusp of having AI systems that can autonomously innovate.

This could be the start of something amazing, and as AI continues to advance, tools like AlphaEvolve could become indispensable collaborators in scientific and technological discovery.

Tool Spotlight

Turn YouTube Videos into LinkedIn Posts with NotebookLM

Content repurposing just got an AI-powered glow-up.

The podcast tool NotebookLM is actually, well, an AI notebook. With its capabilities, you can turn a long-form YouTube video into a punchy, authoritative LinkedIn post, no need to scrub through timestamps or take notes like it’s 2015!

Here’s how:

1. Go to NotebookLM, create a new notebook.

2. For sources, scroll down to YouTube and paste the link of the video you want to repurpose.

3. From there, enter the following prompt in the Chat section: You are a world class content creator. Create me a LinkedIn post summarizing the content of this video in an authoritative tone. Give the post a very strong hook.

🔥 Pro Tip: You can also use this if you are writing on X!

Quick Bites

Stay updated with our favorite highlights, dive in for a full flavor of the coverage!

OpenAI is enhancing its AI-powered “deep research” feature with the ability to analyze codebases on GitHub.

A number of U.S. technology firms on Tuesday announced artificial intelligence deals in the Middle East as U.S. President Donald Trump secured $600 billion in commitments from Saudi Arabia to U.S. companies during a tour of Gulf states.

This founder just put forth a great take on stress testing your new AI idea, and she says execution is key.

OpenAI is releasing its GPT-4.1 and GPT-4.1 mini models in ChatGPT. These were originally only available via API.

Apple’s iOS 19 update could include an AI-powered feature designed to conserve battery.

Trending Tools

⛺️ Mancave Maker - Open source micro-saas product designed to turn any room into a mancave (by yours truly).

🤖 Interview Terminator - Use AI to crush any interview.

🍫 Granola - AI notepad for teams in back-to-back meetings.

The Neural Network

Shoutout to @saurabh_shah2 for what we can only describe as cross-training for AI models.

It’s like everyone showed up to the wrong class but ended up acing someone else’s homework.

In the world of AI, irony is apparently a product roadmap…

Until we Type Again…

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