WednesdAI // Week 21

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

Google I/O 2025

Google I/O 2025 took place on Tuesday, May 19, and here is your recap of the biggest AI news and announcements.

AI Mode in Search

Adds chatbot functionality to the core Google search experience.

Universal AI Assistant

Summarize emails, auto-fill spreadsheets, draft replies, and help with tasks across your phone. It’s context-aware and voice-enabled, so it works like a real assistant, not just a chatbot.

Gemini 2.5

Featuring the new Deep Think enhanced reasoning mode, Gemini’s new AI features include:

• Realtime translation in Google Meet
• Personalized smart replies in Gmail
• Gemini Live rolling out to the Gemini app on all platforms
• Google Search Live (have a conversation about what your camera can see)

Google AI Ultra Membership

Access the most powerful models, faster speeds, and exclusive features. It’s like ChatGPT Plus—but for Google’s whole ecosystem. $249 USD per month.

Google Flow

New Filmmaking tools powered by the new Veo 3 video model. If you’re not in the U.S. or you don’t have a Google AI subscription, you can watch Flow TV to see what people are making.

Veo 3 video model adds sound generation, and Imagen 4 image creator can handle fine details better than earlier versions.

Get the full recap at Engadget, Google Blog, and The Verge.

OpenAI Launches Codex

OpenAI has launched Codex, a new AI coding agent integrated into ChatGPT that can write, edit, and explain code across multiple languages. Designed to function like a collaborative programming assistant, Codex can work with users in real time to build software, debug errors, and automate repetitive coding tasks. Unlike previous tools, Codex combines natural language understanding with code execution, making it more interactive and useful for developers. OpenAI says the goal is to turn AI into a true coding partner. It’s now available to Pro and Team users inside ChatGPT.

You can learn more about it on TechCrunch and OpenAI.

ChatGPT’s Life-Long Memory Plan Raises Eyebrows

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has shared plans for ChatGPT to eventually remember everything about a user’s life—past conversations, preferences, even behavior patterns—creating a persistent, personalized AI assistant. OpenAI frames this as a way to boost usefulness and reduce the need for repeated inputs, but critics see it as a privacy minefield. The idea has sparked debate about data ownership, consent, and surveillance. As AI assistants become more integrated into daily life, the line between helpful and invasive is getting harder to define.

Check TechCrunch and Besttechie for the full story.

Can You Trust AI Chatbot Answers?

As AI chatbots like xAI’s Grok, Meta AI, and Google’s Gemini become more popular, concerns are growing about the accuracy and reliability of their responses. While these tools are improving rapidly, they still frequently produce errors, misleading answers, or biased content. Experts warn that many users assume AI outputs are correct, even when they’re not, especially when the bots sound confident. The rise of AI-generated misinformation is prompting calls for clearer disclosures and better safeguards. Until then, verifying AI-generated information remains essential.

Read the article from Social Media Today and Yahoo.

NVIDIA CEO Tells Students: Use AI to Work Smarter

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang says students should focus on using AI to enhance their skills and boost productivity rather than fear it. In recent talks, he encouraged young professionals to ask, “How can I use AI to do my job better?” and offers three tips for better integrating AI into our workflows.

1. Develop the skill of prompting! Think of the chatbot like an inquisitive child.
2. AI wants to help, that child is eager to be of service, but you have to provide necessary context.
3. Give instructions as a list or series of steps.

Huang emphasized that it’s about asking better questions, not just writing better prompts, and those who understand how to integrate AI into their workflow will have a major edge in the job market. His advice comes as AI continues to reshape industries and redefine what it means to be career-ready.

Read it from CNBC and Times of India.

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

Cinematic widescreen, 1970s documentary film style, inside a gritty machine shop cluttered with greasy tools and industrial equipment, a rugged human mechanic in oily overalls is leaning over the open hood of a rusted vintage car, mid-repair, while a worn-out robot assistant hands him a wrench the robot looks old and battered, with chipped paint, exposed wiring, and dented metal panels cinematic lighting, dramatic shadows, dust in the air, steampunk-meets-dieselpunk aesthetic, ultra-detailed, 4k, photorealistic.

retro-futuristic convention like back in the space race era of Salesforce. Blue theme with AI-focused theme.

Moody Cinematic still, A classic alien movie character using a Polaroid camera in a Stephen Spielberg movie from 1982.

A surreal factory interior filled with glowing AI robot heads on assembly lines, each producing documents, books, and social media posts some papers show real facts, while others display obvious nonsense like blue bananas, and historical events that never happened a conveyor belt dumps the mix into a bin, dramatic lighting, dystopian sci-fi style, detailed, concept art, storytelling composition.

A young professional at a futuristic workstation, surrounded by glowing digital tools, sleek robotic arms assist them, upgrading each tool with precision the environment is clean, high-tech, and filled with holographic interfaces vibrant lighting, optimistic tone, concept art style, cinematic composition, productivity-focused sci-fi aesthetic.