Today’s Headlines:

• OpenAI's 12 Days of Shipmas: Day 12: o3 preview & call for safety researchers - OpenAI’s final day of ‘12 Days of Shipmas’ introduces Deliberative Alignment, a groundbreaking approach to AI safety, and an Early Access program for researchers to test next-generation models. These innovations aim to improve model safety, resilience, and collaboration with the broader safety community.

  Be sure to check back daily to see what OpenAI has in store—new releases will be added to this article as they're announced.
  
  

• Arizona Approves AI-Taught Online Charter School: A First in Education - The new online-only institution, Unbound Academy, represents a groundbreaking approach to education, offering a model that condenses academic instruction into just two hours daily, while using the rest of the day for teaching life skills, all supported by advanced AI-driven platforms.

  
  

• Ukraine Leverages Vast Drone Video Data to Train AI for Modern Warfare - This trove of data, collected since 2022, is being used to train AI models to make battlefield decisions, such as identifying targets, developing combat tactics, and evaluating the effectiveness of weapons.
  
  

• Google Search to Introduce a Dedicated ‘AI Mode’ for Enhanced Queries - Google is reportedly working on a new "AI Mode" for its search engine, offering users a more interactive, chatbot-style search experience.
  
  

• Apple Faces Criticism Over AI Notification Summaries in iOS 18.2 - The feature uses generative AI to summarize groups of notifications from apps, providing users with quick updates on what they missed. However, reports of significant inaccuracies have sparked public outcry and calls for the feature’s removal.
  
  

• How AI Will Help Insurers Tackle Weather Risks in 2025 - Advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) offer new ways to prepare, predict, and mitigate losses more effectively. Specifically, technologies like computer vision are reshaping how insurers assess risk, support policyholders, and respond to disasters.
  
  

• Anthropic Shares Detailed Best Practices for Building Effective AI Agents - Drawing from extensive collaborations with customers across industries, the company provides valuable guidance for developers seeking to create efficient and reliable agentic systems.

• Apptronik and Google DeepMind Team Up to Revolutionize Humanoid Robotics - This collaboration aims to develop general-purpose humanoid robots capable of assisting people in dynamic and challenging environments, with the potential to be one of the first humanoid robots to integrate general AI for reasoning and communication, enabling meaningful interactions with humans.

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AI In Action: Quick Tutorials

In this section, you'll find short, practical tutorials that walk you through using the latest AI tools, helping you quickly unlock their full potential.

Today’s AI in Action: Turn your articles into video podcasts

HeyGen’s new ‘Podcast‘ feature allows users to turn an article, research paper, or document into an engaging two-person video discussion with AI avatars (similar to NotebookLM but with real faces).

Step-by-step:

• Visit HeyGen's website and select "Video Podcast" from the dashboard.

• Upload your content (PDF up to 20MB or website URL).

• Pick two AI presenters and customize video settings (duration, aspect ratio, captions).

• Click submit and get your video in minutes.

Pro tip: Well-structured content leads to more natural-sounding discussions. You can use an AI tool like ChatGPT to structure content into a better script beforehand.

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• mentor: Break down your goals and tasks, stay accountable, and make progress with mentor AI.
  

• jumble: Enhancing self-awareness and growth using journaling. Distraction free journaling insights. Data Privacy.

• Not Class: A tool for students to skip through the long lectures on YouTube and get the specific segments of content they need.
  
  

• Ai Studios: Generate videos from text using AI avatars. Disclosure: AiNews.com uses Ai Studios for their Ai Alicia & Ai Michael videos. Use AiNews.com’s referral link to try out their Ai video features.
  

• Descript: Descript is a new kind of video editor that’s as easy as a doc. Descript’s AI-powered features and intuitive interface allows businesses using video for marketing, sales, and internal training and collaboration a breeze. Use AiNews.com referral link to get started.

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Careers in AI: Top Picks

Explore leading career opportunities in the artificial intelligence industry. 'Careers in AI: Top Picks' brings you the latest job openings from top companies, helping you advance your career in AI. We will update this section as we discover new career opportunities from reputable companies.

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Master AI: Courses & Resources

Explore the world of artificial intelligence with our curated selection of courses and resources designed to elevate your skills and expertise in AI. We will update this section as we discover new courses in AI.

• Google AI Essentials: With Google AI Essentials, you’ll learn how to use generative AI tools to help speed up daily tasks, make more informed decisions, and develop new ideas and content. Receive a sharable certificate to add to your LinkedIn profile.

• Google Cloud Skills Boost: Elevate your career with Google Cloud certified skills. Choose your learning path, build your skills, and validate your knowledge. All in one place.

• DeepLearning with OpenAI: Learn from industry-leading experts and get hands-on experience with the latest generative AI tools and techniques in an hour or less. Explore prompt engineering, AI agents, retrieval augmented generation, and more.

• IBM Skills Build: Power your future in tech with job skills, courses, and credentials - for free.

• IBM AI Courses: Power up your knowledge and learn from IBM experts on your own time. Discover courses that can give you a head start in areas like generative AI, machine learning, and more. Begin your journey today to enhance your skills while you earn a valuable digital credential in AI from IBM.

• Amazon’s Best Free AI Training Courses to Boost Your Career: A recent LinkedIn study revealing that 44% of business leaders intend to ramp up their use of AI in the next year. Upskill yourself to understand generative AI, with these completely free courses, some of which take less than 15 minutes to finish.

• LinkedIn Learning: Develop the critical skills you need to advance your career from the only learning platform informed by the world’s largest talent marketplace.

• Get on the waitlist for Section's AI bootcamp: Lead your team through the age of AI. We’ll help you get comfortable using AI in day-to-day work, integrate AI into your team strategy, and start leveraging AI for problems big and small. All in 8 weeks.

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