Welcome to Get The Gist, where every weekday we share an easy-to-read summary of the latest and greatest developments in AI—news, innovations, and trends—all delivered in under 5 minutes! ⏱

In today’s edition:

• OpenAI’s Sora Video Generation Tool Gets Leaked

• Claude AI Can Now Mimic Your Unique Writing Style

• Spotify Gets Google Gemini Integration

• OpenAI Secures $1.5 Billion in Investment

• And more AI news….

Top Developments

OpenAI

OpenAI’s Sora Video Generation Tool Gets Leaked

The Gist: Artists leaked access to OpenAI’s Sora, its experimental video generator, protesting unpaid labor and minimal compensation for early testers. OpenAI paused access to address the controversy.

Key Details:

• Artists given early access to Sora claim they were used as “PR puppets” without fair compensation for testing and feedback.

• A group publicly shared a tool granting free access to Sora for three hours before OpenAI shut it down.

• OpenAI says artist participation in Sora’s alpha testing is voluntary and focuses on shaping features and safeguards.

• The protest highlights growing criticism of AI testing practices for lacking transparency and exploiting contributors.

Anthropic

Claude AI Now Mimics Your Unique Writing Style

The Gist: Anthropic’s Claude AI introduces custom styles, allowing users to tailor chatbot responses to their preferred tone and level of detail, enhancing personalization.

Key Details:

• Three preset styles—Formal, Concise, and Explanatory—help adjust tone and length for various writing tasks.

• Users can create personalized styles by uploading sample text and providing instructions for Claude to emulate their writing.

• The feature aims to streamline prompt engineering and deliver context-specific responses, such as professional emails or educational content.

• Similar customization options exist in competitors like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, highlighting a growing trend in AI personalization.

Google Gemini

Spotify Gets Google Gemini Integration

The Gist: Spotify users on Android can now use Google’s Gemini Extension to search for and play music with voice or text commands, though it comes with certain limitations.

Key Details:

• Gemini Extension lets users search for songs, albums, artists, playlists, and music for specific activities on Spotify using spoken or typed prompts.

• Requires linking your Spotify account to your Google account and works only in English with Spotify Premium for specific song requests.

• Available exclusively on Android, with no support for iOS, Gemini in Google Messages, or the Gemini web app.

• Gemini can’t create playlists or Spotify radio stations, limiting advanced functionality.

Quick Gist

Microsoft launched its Connected Experiences feature in Microsoft 365 apps, which automatically analyzes user data in Word and Excel to provide personalized suggestions (Read More).

In the Google search antitrust trial's remedies phase, Google has subpoenaed rivals OpenAI, Perplexity AI, and Microsoft to gather evidence on their search and advertising strategies (Read More).

The startup /dev/agents, has raised $56 million to develop an operating system for AI agents designed to enable mainstream adoption and facilitate more advanced interactions with technology (Read More).

Orange is partnering with OpenAI and Meta to develop AI language models for West African languages, starting with Wolof and Pulaar (Read More).

Black Forest Labs is seeking up to $200 million in funding from investors led by Andreessen Horowitz, potentially valuing the company over $1 billion (Read More).

OpenAI secured nearly $1.5 billion in investment from SoftBank, allowing employees to sell shares and significantly boosting its valuation to $157 billion (Read More).

THAT’S IT FOR TODAY!