WednesdAI // Week 40

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

Top Story

🎬 WAN 2.5 vs Google Veo vs Seedance Video Showdown Demo

WAN 2.5 is known for its cinematic realism and nuanced lighting, great for moody, film-style scenes. Veo 3 brings dynamic motion and crisp transitions, ideal for fast-paced edits and action-heavy prompts. Seedance stands out with expressive character animation and surreal storytelling flair. Each AI video generator will be put to the test with the same prompt, giving us a clear look at how they handle style, motion, and storytelling.

👉 Watch this week’s demo of WAN 2.5 vs. Google Veo vs Seedance to see which version of the future fits your brand.

⚡ Productivity Hacks

📧 ChatGPT Pulse: Gmail & Calendar Proactive Insights

OpenAI just launched ChatGPT Pulse, a weekly digest that recaps key AI developments in policy, research, and product updates. The newsletter aims to make sense of the nonstop AI news cycle by curating highlights rather than flooding readers with noise. Subscribers will get summaries directly in their inbox every week, starting with this Friday’s edition. Translation: OpenAI wants to be your go-to filter for the chaos—also a clever way to keep eyeballs in its ecosystem.

📰 Get the updates from The Verge.

📊 Google Gemini Can Now Explain Formulas in Sheets

Google just rolled out a new Gemini feature in Sheets that explains what formulas actually do, so users don’t have to guess why their spreadsheet math is breaking. The AI tool translates formulas into plain English and works on both desktop and mobile. It’s free for now but only available to Gemini for Workspace subscribers (aka paid users). For businesses, this is less about productivity magic and more about another subtle push to get everyone locked into Google’s AI subscription ecosystem.

📰 Dive into more insights from The Verge.

🎨 Creative & Industry Shakeups

🎵 YouTube Music Tests AI Hosts

YouTube is testing a new AI feature that creates custom radio stations with virtual DJs. Users can type in what they want—like a mood, genre, or artist—and the AI will build a playlist and talk between songs like a real radio host. The tool is still experimental, but it shows YouTube’s push to keep people listening on its platform instead of moving to Spotify or TikTok. For businesses, it’s another sign that AI-driven, personalized content will compete hard for user attention and ad spending.

📰 Read the article form The Verge.

🎬 Hollywood Rethinks Its Relationship With AI

Hollywood studios are suddenly cooling on generative AI after hyping it as the future of filmmaking. Executives now admit the tech isn’t production-ready, with legal risks, quality issues, and union pushback slowing adoption. Some experiments, like AI-generated extras and dialogue, have sparked backlash rather than savings. For the industry, this retreat signals that AI may be more about long-term cost-cutting dreams than any near-term creative revolution.

📰 Read more about this from The Verge.

💼 AI Use in Business

📉 AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity

Harvard Business Review warns that companies relying too heavily on generative AI are drowning in what it calls “workslop”—low-quality, repetitive content that creates more cleanup than value. Instead of boosting productivity, poorly managed AI output often forces employees to spend extra time editing, verifying, or discarding junk. The problem is magnified when managers treat AI as a replacement for expertise rather than a support tool. For businesses, the takeaway is clear: unchecked AI use doesn’t save money—it quietly burns it.

📰 Find out from HBR.

💡 OpenAI’s Prompt Packs

OpenAI has launched Prompt Packs, curated sets of prompts designed to help businesses quickly apply ChatGPT to tasks like marketing copy, HR, customer support, and productivity. The packs bundle proven prompts into categories so users don’t have to experiment from scratch, with some free and others paid. Early offerings include guides for small businesses, creative professionals, and workplace workflows. These packs are especially helpful for lean teams juggling many responsibilities, making AI more accessible for day-to-day business operations.

📰 Full story from Hyphn and OpenAI.

The section header images in this article were generated using the following prompts:

A panoramic, colorful film set where multiple movies are being shot simultaneously. In the director’s chairs are not people, but glowing, ethereal AI entities made of light and data streams. One AI directs a hyperrealistic sci-fi scene that crashes into a surreal, Ghibli-esque animated world being created by another. A third AI sculpts a gritty black-and-white noir city that is being flooded by the colorful fantasy scene. The styles clash and merge in a beautiful, explosive pandemonium of creativity.

Photorealistic of a celestial observatory made of brass and starlight, two AI entities are at work. One, a grand astronomer representing ChatGPT Pulse, looks through a massive telescope, filtering the chaotic light of infinite galaxies into a single, clear, weekly star chart projected on the dome. Below, a meticulous watchmaker AI, representing Gemini, uses a jeweler’s loupe to explain the impossibly intricate clockwork gears of a single, complex spreadsheet formula held in its hands.

On a massive, dark Hollywood soundstage, a single spotlight illuminates a charismatic AI radio host avatar, sitting at a glowing turntable and broadcasting a perfect, personalized music stream. In the surrounding gloom, the rest of the movie studio is in chaos: half-rendered digital sets flicker and collapse, AI-generated actors are stuck in the uncanny valley, and grim-faced executives in suits argue next to piles of useless AI-generated scripts. The successful AI DJ is an island of functionality in a sea of creative-industrial failure.

In a vast, Escher-like library that stretches to infinity, shelves are overflowing with disorganized, nonsensical books made of glitching data streams, representing “workslop”. A single, stressed librarian is buried under a mountain of this junk. In the center of the chaos, a small, perfectly organized pedestal glows brightly, on it a single, elegant book titled “OpenAI Prompt Packs” radiating beams of structured light that cut through the surrounding mess like a beacon.