Meta's Ray-Ban glasses now have live AI translation and even Shazam. These glasses are going to be the biggest winners of Augmented Reality (AR), making the world smaller, letting you figure out music, and helping you better understand the world around you.

I am most interested in the AI translation component. Where you can listen to a conversation and translate it into your native language. The missing piece is how to respond back in someone’s native language and not require them to also have the glasses.

Marey is a new video model expected to launch in 2025 that aims to be one of the first ethically trained video models. The model is a collaboration of Asteria an AI film and animation studio, and Moonvalley a GenAI video AI research startup. Moonvalley licensed all of the content it used to train its model.

This comes after OpenAI admitted that it would be impossible to train an AI video model without copyrighted material.

New research has come out showing that customers are not a fan of GenAI ads. I would agree, and most of these ads fail to meet the mark, particularly if they're supposed to have an emotional component. The most notable failure of the season is the Coca-Cola ad, which comes off as AI slop.

TVTechnology shares their thoughts on how the media and entertainment industry still struggles to adapt GenAI, likening it to the internet where people are interested in it but are still trying to uncover what are the best use cases for the technology.

Catly found itself in hot water during its announcement at The Game Awards for reportedly using GenAI, which gamers continue to push back on.

The company behind the game has come out and said that no GenAI was used in producing the trailer, and it was surprised by this speculation. Catly was also speculated to have a blockchain/NFT component, which the company denied.

The Harvard Business Review explores the areas where humans still have an edge over AI. I expect this list to get smaller each year.

In some cases from their list, I’d argue AI has already surpassed humans. A key area is complexity, with Agents, AI can scenarios better than many humans can.

PC Gamer cautions people to be more cautious about Google's new Genie 2 model, saying that the model may not be as flexible as it seems. If true, that will limit the speed and success of using Genie to build full-fledged games.

Google has been on a roll this month, usurping OpenAI’s announcements with its own GenAI tools. Expect more innovation from Google in 2025.

The House’s AI Task Force is out with its new report. It focuses on the need for the U.S. to maintain leadership in AI while ensuring protection of rights and security. It advocates for a balanced, bipartisan approach to AI policy, focusing on fostering innovation through sector-specific regulations, enhancing workforce skills for an AI-driven economy, and ensuring the ethical use of AI across various parts of the economy.

Congress has struggled with tackling AI. Hopefully this report is used as a basis to get some legislation moving in the new year.

The music business is trying to get UK lawmakers to pass more stringent AI regulations.

Yale explores who is responsible when AI breaks the law?