WednesdAI // Week 18

A lot of news about AI filmmaking advancements and new policies around AI technology so let’s dive right in.

 
Welcome to WednesdAI – Pixel Dreams’ weekly update with top stories from the rapidly evolving world of Artificial Intelligence.

This Week’s News

OpenAI’s Practical Guide to Building Agents

OpenAI has released a practical guide on how to build AI agents—systems designed to autonomously perform tasks for users. It covers key elements like tool selection, orchestration, instruction design, and safe deployment practices. For business leaders and creative professionals alike, the guide offers a roadmap to thinking beyond simple automation toward full AI workflows. As agents grow more common across industries, understanding how they’re built today could define tomorrow’s competitive edge.

Get the full guide.

Neuralink Patient Types Using Only His Thoughts

Smith, who lost his ability to speak due to ALS, used a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) to control a computer and recreate his original voice through AI. The achievement shows how emerging AI technologies are restoring autonomy, communication, and creative power to those previously sidelined. For anyone working with AI today, it’s a vivid reminder that AI isn’t just about productivity—it’s about human empowerment.

You can learn more about it on Teslarati.

Public Comments to the White House on AI Policy

The White House collected public feedback on upcoming AI regulations, and the responses show huge battles brewing over copyright, data privacy, and international trade. Big tech companies, creatives, and citizen groups are clashing over what ethical and legal boundaries should be placed on AI. For businesses, these policies could change everything from how content is created to how data is used. Knowing where regulation is headed means you can prepare—not scramble.

Read the White House news release.

Adobe Proposes Metadata Standard for AI Training

Adobe has proposed a metadata standard that would allow creators to tag images for AI training permission, similar to how websites use robots.txt for search engines. This move could protect artists and brands by making it easier to control whether their work trains AI models. For creatives and marketers, it signals a future where ownership rights are finally being acknowledged in the AI training race. Controlling your IP may soon be as easy as ticking a box.

Check TechCrunch for the full story.

WWF Denmark AI-Generated Campaign

WWF Denmark used AI tools to launch a stunning ad campaign showing the hidden environmental costs of everyday consumer goods. Created with simple ChatGPT prompts, the campaign highlights how buying choices destroy animal habitats around the world. It’s a powerful reminder that AI can be used not just for business—but for storytelling that drives ethical action. For creative professionals, it’s a case study in how to use new tools to make a meaningful impact.

Read the article from Famous Campaigns.

Videos of the Week

The images accompanying the news items in this article were generated in Midjourney using the following prompts:

Vintage surrealism blended with 70s kitsch, a team of AI agents as anthropomorphic calculators trying to organize a chaotic desk full of bouncing paperclips and dancing staplers, top-down composition, warm tungsten side lighting, whimsical facial expressions on all objects and agents.

Retrofuturistic pop surrealist style blended with Danish minimal claymation, a cheerful man in pajamas controlling a computer with a swirling cloud of thought bubbles shaped like movie editing scissors, homely living room setting, cozy morning window glow, in the background, a friendly AI in a bow tie offers popcorn to an amused house plant.

Psychedelic cartoon style blended with mod fabric patterns, a chaotic picnic on the White House lawn where tech robots, artists with giant pens, and privacy advocates dressed as overstuffed file folders are play-wrestling over slices of data pie, wide-angle sunny day scene, rainbow-colored plaid shadows, all participants with exaggerated grins.

Retro space race illustration style blended with whimsical botanical prints, an artist and a marketer in playful astronaut suits are planting oversized image tags like flowers in a surreal moon studio, dramatic upward perspective, silvery studio spotlights, curious AI robots peeking out from behind potted cacti marked with permission tags.

Vintage circus poster aesthetic blended with delicate botanical etching, an audience of curious animals in tiny spectator hats watching an elephant dramatically pull consumer products from a magician’s hat, front stage point of view, spotlighted ring, audience of birds and rabbits giggling as a penguin juggles light bulbs and plastic bottles.