Google Veo 3.1 is finally here

👋 Good morning or evening, wherever you are. It’s Wednesday.

Introducing Veo 3.1 and Veo 3.1 Fast (learn more):

• Model update (richer native audio and enhanced i2v)

• Guide generation with ‘Ingredients to video’

• Create longer videos with ‘Scene extension’

• Control your video with ‘First and last frame’

Curious about how we got here? Watch How a Moonshot Led to Google Deepmind’s Veo 3

OK let’s keep going ↓

🔥 Creative pulse

This AI video is pure madness. It’s the best AI Naruto fan film ever made.

It takes me way back to when I used to read the manga, and I can tell you they did it justice. Wow.

Created by Alberto Borderas and the team at Blue Horizon, the work speaks for itself.

Watch the video. Posted on LinkedIn.

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💡 Here’s what you should know

• Apple M5 redefines on-device AI performance

  Built on 3nm architecture, M5 delivers 4x faster AI compute than M4 with neural accelerators in every GPU core and major gains across CPU, Neural Engine, and memory bandwidth.

• Apple’s AI search lead leaves for Meta as competition intensifies

  Ke Yang, recently appointed to lead Apple’s new AI-driven search initiative for Siri, is leaving to join Meta, reflecting the growing pressure among Big Tech firms to secure top AI talent.

• Arm and Meta unite to scale efficient AI worldwide

  The collaboration aligns Arm’s power-efficient compute with Meta’s AI infrastructure and open-source tools like PyTorch, optimizing performance from data centers to on-device intelligence for billions of users.

• Claude Haiku 4.5 compresses frontier AI efficiency

  Anthropic’s new small model matches Claude Sonnet 4’s coding ability at one-third the cost and twice the speed, enabling real-time agents, rapid prototyping, and multi-model orchestration across Claude 4.5 systems.

• Nscale and Microsoft partner on 200,000-GPU AI expansion

  The deal positions Nscale as a core supplier in Microsoft’s global AI buildout, deploying 200,000 Nvidia GB300 GPUs across hyperscale sites in Texas, Portugal, Norway, and the UK to power Azure’s next wave of AI infrastructure.

• Oracle brings full-stack AI agents to Fusion Cloud Applications

  At Oracle AI World, the company unveiled embedded AI agents across finance, HR, supply chain, and CX, plus a new AI Agent Marketplace and developer studio that let partners and customers build, deploy, and automate enterprise workflows at scale.

• Oracle debuts AI Agent Marketplace for enterprise deployment

  The new marketplace lets Fusion customers install partner-built agents from IBM, Infosys, KPMG, and others directly into their workflows, accelerating adoption of secure, validated AI solutions across industries.

• Alta partners with Poshmark to bring AI styling to secondhand fashion

  The AI personal styling app will integrate Poshmark’s luxury resale items, letting users virtually style preowned pieces with their existing wardrobes and marking Poshmark’s first major collaboration with an AI platform.

💰 The numbers

• BlackRock, Nvidia, and Microsoft will acquire Aligned Data Centers for $40B, one of the largest data-infrastructure takeovers in history, giving the group massive AI-compute capacity across North America.

• Nscale signed a $14B multi-year supply deal with Microsoft to deliver 200,000 Nvidia GPUs, expanding capacity for hyperscale AI workloads across Europe.

• Meta will invest $1.5B to build a new AI data center in El Paso, Texas, its third in the state, scaling to a 1-gigawatt site powered by 100% renewable energy by 2028.

• Liberate raised $50M at a $300M valuation led by Battery Ventures to expand its agentic AI systems automating sales, service, and claims for insurers worldwide.

• Viven raised $35M in seed funding led by Khosla Ventures and Foundation Capital to build AI-powered digital twins that let employees query unavailable co-workers through personalized LLMs.

• Jack & Jill raised $20M in seed funding led by Creandum with angels from Anthropic, Lovable, and ElevenLabs to scale its autonomous AI recruitment agents across Europe and the US.

• Dedalus Labs raised $11M in seed funding led by Kindred Ventures and Saga Ventures to help developers build complex AI agents across any model or tool in just five lines of code.

🧠 Thought starters

3 things to think about…

1.) AI just helped uncover a new potential cancer therapy.

Google DeepMind and Yale released a 27B-parameter Gemma model that can understand the language of individual cells. The model, called Cell2Sentence-Scale, generated a testable hypothesis that blocking a specific enzyme (CK2) could make tumors more visible to the immune system, a prediction later confirmed in lab experiments.

This signals a turning point in scientific discovery. The model was not trained to treat cancer; it learned the logic of cellular behavior, proposed a new idea, and scientists proved it correct. The future of research may be driven by human-validated AI intuition rather than purely human-led experimentation.

2.) Japan just drew a boundary around its creative economy.

The government formally asked OpenAI to stop using anime and game characters in Sora 2, calling them “irreplaceable treasures.” This goes beyond copyright. It’s a move to protect national creativity in an era where culture can be replicated by code.

Every nation that exports culture will face the same question. How do you stay AI friendly while protecting the assets that define your identity?

3.) High frequency trading was the first act. What’s happening now is different.

The New York Stock Exchange now processes 1.2 trillion order messages a day, triple what it did just four years ago. Algorithms trade faster than the human brain can blink, and AI has become both the market’s engine and its guardian. The speed of money is now the speed of computation.

😂 Meme of the day

Thanks for reading,

Eddie

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