🤯The TikTok AI Study Trend

Hey TEDchats Fam!

Happy Friday! Remember when study sessions meant endless hours hunched over textbooks, fighting to stay awake? Nowadays, all you need to do is upload your notes to an AI that narrates itself while teaching you through generated videos.

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From PDF to Brainrot: A Study Trend You Didn’t See Coming

AI tools like Memenome and Coconote are cashing in on TikTok’s ‘PDF to Brainrot’ craze, turning study material into engaging ASMR-style videos or gameplay clips. Students upload their textbooks, and a monotone AI voice reads the text over oddly satisfying visuals like Minecraft parkour or soap cutting. The term 'Brainrot' reflects how these videos, while captivating, can feel almost mind-numbing. While it sounds like a clever study hack, questions arise about data privacy and ad transparency (watch the craze here).

Oops! OpenAI Deletes Key Evidence in Copyright Battle

OpenAI engineers accidentally erased crucial data requested by The New York Times and Daily News in their copyright lawsuits, potentially delaying their cases (see lawsuits here and here). Although most of the data was recovered, its folder structure and file names were lost, rendering it unusable for tracing how copyrighted articles were used in AI training. In an ironic twist, attorneys for the publishers have asked OpenAI—the very company they’re suing—to use its own tools to locate the missing data, arguing it is best equipped to find the News Plaintiffs’ works (read the attorneys’ full letter).

Robots to the Rescue in Greenhouses

Four Growers, a YC-backed startup, is addressing greenhouse labor shortages with its innovative produce-harvesting robot. Using stereo cameras to assess ripeness and a robotic arm to pick only ready produce, the machine helps prevent waste. Alongside the robot, the company employs AI tools for yield forecasting and crop management, streamlining farm operations. Initially focused on tomatoes, the Pittsburgh-based startup plans to expand to cucumbers and other crops. With $9 million in fresh funding, Four Growers aims to scale production, venture into outdoor farms, and redefine agricultural labor (see Four Growers’ announcement).

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Dream It, Film It—AI Video Backgrounds Come to YouTube Shorts: YouTube Shorts just got an AI boost with Dream Screen, letting creators turn text prompts like "a winding path through lush greenery" into animated video backgrounds using Google DeepMind’s Veo model. This cinematic feature is now rolling out in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand (see YouTube’s announcement).

China's DeepSeek-R1 Challenges OpenAI’s Reasoning AI: A Chinese lab has introduced DeepSeek-R1, a reasoning AI model competing with OpenAI’s o1. Created by DeepSeek, the model uses planning and self-checking to answer complex queries, often taking seconds to respond. However, users on X have noted that it shares o1’s difficulties with logic-based tasks like tic-tac-toe (see DeepSeek’s announcement).

Meta Snags Salesforce AI Leader for a New Business AI Push: Meta has tapped Clara Shih, Salesforce’s former AI CEO, to lead its new Business AI group. Leveraging Meta’s Llama models, the initiative aims to enhance Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp with AI tools like ad solutions, signaling a deeper push into AI-driven business innovation (see Shih’s announcement).

$160M Fund Fuels AI Innovations in Climate and Energy: Blue Bear Capital has closed its $160M Fund III to support AI-powered solutions in energy, infrastructure, and climate challenges. The fund backs innovations in sustainable energy, electric grids, and climate industries like storm protection and pollution reduction, emphasizing software over hardware as the key driver of transformation (see Blue Bear Capital’s announcement).

Apple’s Siri Gets a Conversational Makeover with LLMs: Bloomberg reports that Apple is developing a next-gen Siri using advanced large language models (LLMs) to rival AI like Google’s Gemini Live. Scheduled for a spring 2026 release, it promises natural interactions and seamless app integration. Meanwhile, Apple is bringing third-party AI, including ChatGPT, to Apple Intelligence this December (read more).

U.S. Congress Urges Action on AI Dominance: The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission is raising alarms over China's AI ambitions, urging a significant initiative to bolster American AI advancements. While China races toward superintelligent AI, its models still lag months behind U.S. efforts (see official announcements).

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