Google Joins Pentagon AI Race

Welcome to another edition of AI PlanetX.

Google signs Pentagon AI deal amid staff concerns; Musk claims OpenAI was his idea; NVIDIA launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open multimodal model 9× more efficient than rivals.

• Hottest AI News

• Top AI & SaaS Tools

• AI Tutorial: Produce Commercial-Style Ad with AI

• Top AI & Tech News

• AI Art Spotlight

• Prompt of the Day: CapCut Prompt for Video Editing

• Featured AI Video

• Course of the Day: How I Use LLMs by Andrej Karpathy

Hottest AI News

DeepMind

Google Signs Pentagon AI Deal As Employees Raise Concerns

Google has given the U.S. Department of Defense use of its AI for classified networks, allowing “any lawful government purpose.” The deal puts Gemini deeper into military AI work, despite employee backlash.

Details:

• Google’s deal follows Anthropic’s refusal to give the Pentagon the same terms. Anthropic sought limits on domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons; DoD pushed for wider AI use

• After Anthropic refused, DoD labeled it a “supply-chain risk,” a tag usually tied to foreign adversaries. Anthropic sued, and a judge gave it an injunction while the case continues

• OpenAI, xAI, and Google have moved ahead with Pentagon deals. Google included wording against surveillance and autonomous weapons, but reports say it is unclear if those limits are enforceable

Over 600 Google employees urged Sundar Pichai to reject classified military AI work. This shows the AI race is about power, ethics, contracts, and who controls the use cases.

The AI Playbook for Video Teams That Can't Slow Down

Wistia's new AI Video Marketing Trends report shows how marketers are using AI to handle the unglamorous work, so creative energy stays where it matters.

Marketing leaders across industries are using AI to reach broader audiences, move faster, and extend the shelf life of every video they make. The report breaks down how AI is improving speed and output quality, helping teams keep up with demand and raise the bar while they're at it.

Because when every channel needs video, you need leverage, not another meeting that could've been an email. AI clears the runway so ideas actually take off.

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OpenAI

Elon Musk Says OpenAI Was His Idea Before Altman Took Control

OpenAI’s courtroom battle with Elon Musk has begun in Oakland. Musk says OpenAI abandoned its nonprofit mission and became profit driven, while OpenAI says Musk wanted power after failing to control it.

Details:

• Musk is seeking $150B in damages for OpenAI’s charitable arm. He also wants OpenAI to return to nonprofit control and remove Sam Altman and Greg Brockman from leadership

• OpenAI’s lawyers say Musk pushed for a for profit path himself, wanted to become CEO, then sued after he failed. They say the 2019 shift helped fund compute and talent

• The judge warned Musk and Altman about using social media during the trial. Altman and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella may testify, and a verdict could arrive by mid May

This case could affect OpenAI’s IPO plans, public trust in AI, and who gets control as powerful AI systems become bigger businesses.

Top AI & SaaS Tools

• WriteVoice (Life-time Deal): Converts recorded voice notes into polished, app-ready text so you can dictate emails, posts, and memos and send them directly from any app

• Talkie: Researchers Nick Levine, David Duvenaud (ex-Anthropic), and Alec Radford (ex-OpenAI) demoed this 13B model trained on pre-1931 text to study how AI reasons without modern internet-era data [F-R-E-E]

• Xiaomi MiMo: Xiaomi is offering developers and creators a 100T token grant to build with their latest open‑sourced MiMo‑V2.5 models [F-R-E-E]

• LocalSend: Open-source tool for direct file transfer across iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad over local Wi‑Fi — no internet, no cloud, no accounts, no compression [F-R-E-E]

• Pika Agents: Customizable AI creative partners with a face, voice, and personality you design — let creators produce, refine, and ship multimedia (ads, videos, fashion films, scenes) through prompts

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AI Tutorial

How to Produce a Commercial-Style Ad with AI

Most people make AI ads by guessing, and that usually leads to random results. This tutorial shows a simple way to plan scenes, generate the right frames, and turn them into a polished TV-style commercial.

1. Ask Gemini to plan scenes

   Use Gemini to turn your commercial/video idea into two 5-second scenes.

   Ask for:

   • what happens in scene 1

   • what happens in scene 2

   • the visual style and flow between both scenes

   Example prompt:

   “Create a 2-scene plan for a 20-second commercial for [product]. Each scene should be 5 seconds long and feel cinematic, polished, and premium.”

2. Ask Gemini for frame prompts

   Once the scene plan is ready, ask Gemini to write prompts for the key frames you need.

   Get prompts for:

   • start and end frame of scene 1

   • start and end frame of scene 2

   Example prompt:

   “Based on these two scenes, write detailed image prompts for the start and end frames of each scene. Keep the style consistent and commercial quality high.”

3. Set up Higgsfield image gen

   Log in to Higgsfield, then go to Image > Create Image > Nano Banana 2. You will need a Basic or Pro plan.

   Use:

   • 4K quality

   • 4 variations

   • 21:9 ratio

4. Generate frames

   Create the start and end frame for scene 1, then create the end frame for scene 2. Review the results and download the versions that feel visually consistent.

5. Turn frames into video

   Go to Video > Kling 3.0 in Higgsfield. Upload the frames and add a short motion prompt for each scene.

   Example prompt:

   “Slow cinematic push-in, premium lighting, elegant product movement, realistic commercial style.”

6. Stitch everything together

   Download the generated clips and combine them in any video editor.

Note: If one frame looks great on its own but does not match the others, it is usually better to leave it out.

Top AI & Tech News

• NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Nano Omni — an open multimodal model (vision, audio, text) that's 9× quicker than competing open models

• Microsoft released World-R1: an RL framework that adds 3D physical constraints to text-to-video models for far more geometrically consistent simulations

• EU orders Google to open Android's AI so other assistants can compete with Gemini; Google calls it "unwarranted intervention"

• OpenAI said GPT-5.5, Codex, and Managed Agents are on Amazon Bedrock, announced one day after its latest Microsoft contract restructure

AI Art Spotlight

Create Your Own Photo Like This Using the Prompt Below:

A high-contrast film noir style vertical (9:16) poster using the reference image for the subject’s face, showing a man in sharp profile wearing a 1940s fedora and formal suit; lit with dramatic Rembrandt lighting, the lower half of his torso melts into long black ink drips and splatters creating a surreal bleed effect. Behind his head sits a bold solid red circle like a halo/rising sun against a clean off-white textured background. Use a strict palette of red, black, and cream with a premium editorial feel, shallow depth of field, strong negative space, and a somber, intellectual mid-20th century atmosphere.

Model: ChatGPT Images 2.0

Prompt of the Day

CapCut Prompt Pack for Quick Video Editing

This prompt collection gives creators seven practical, ready-to-use prompts that replace tedious editing with clear, production-grade instructions — covering editing blueprints, reference style breakdowns, script flow optimization, export settings, footage triage, final polish, and retention audits.

Featured AI Video

How I Created OpenClaw, the Breakthrough AI Agent | Peter Steinberger

AI Course of the Day

How I Use LLMs by Andrej Karpathy (Founding Member of OpenAI)

Hands-on tour of modern LLM tools (ChatGPT & peers): basics to practical tasks—writing/debugging, web search, long-form research, Advanced Data Analysis (Python & plotting), OCR/image understanding, voice/multimodal, autogenerated UIs, custom GPTs & memory, and developer integrations.