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Welcome to another edition of AI PlanetX.
Trump launches ‘Genesis Mission’ for AI supremacy; FLUX.2 joins the image-gen wars; Sutskever says breakthroughs, not compute, will fuel AI’s next leap.
Inside This Edition: 💎
Hottest AI News
Top AI & SaaS Tools
AI Tutorial: Turn Any Script Into Cinematic Short Film
Top AI & Tech News
AI Art Spotlight
Prompt of the Day: Turn Raw Attention Into Marketing Empire
AI Video Tutorial
Course of the Day: Master AI-Powered Coding with Cursor
Hottest AI News
AI in Govt
Trump Launches Genesis Mission in Manhattan Project Style Push for AI Dominance
The White House has launched the Genesis Mission, a national AI program led by the Department of Energy to unite U.S. supercomputers, scientific data, and automated labs on a secure platform, as Washington races China for AI dominance.
Details:
The DOE will build an integrated AI platform linking supercomputers, cloud systems, robotic labs, and federal scientific data to automate experiments, simulations, and technology design in fusion, biotech, semiconductors, and quantum science
The order sets tight deadlines: 20 AI breakthrough opportunities in 60 days, a full map of federal computing resources in 90 days, and a working AI-driven science demo in 270 days
Approved national labs, universities, and selected private companies will use the platform, with strict cybersecurity, classification, privacy, and export-control standards protecting sensitive research
The Genesis Mission is a major overhaul of US research around AI, designed to squeeze decades of discovery into years and ready America for rising global competition.
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BFL
Black Forest Labs Launches FLUX.2 To Battle Nano Banana Pro And Midjourney
Black Forest Labs has launched FLUX.2, a production-focused AI image generation suite competing with Nano Banana Pro, Midjourney, and Google’s Gemini 3, offering reliable generation, precise editing, and strong enterprise controls.
Details:
The release includes five variants for all use cases: the high-performance hosted Pro, the tunable Flex for commercial teams, a powerful 32B-parameter open-weight Dev model combining generation and editing, a fully open-source Klein model coming soon
Technical upgrades support complex pro workflows, including multi-reference conditioning for up to ten images, better text rendering, and stronger 4-megapixel coherence. The open VAE also lets enterprises standardize their latent space and avoid vendor lock-in
Benchmarks show large gains in efficiency and quality. The Dev model wins decisively over open-weight competitors like Qwen-Image and Hunyuan in both generation and editing, making FLUX.2 a high-ELO, low-cost option
Black Forest Labs strengthens its open-core approach, combining commercial endpoints and open weights to support everything from local tests to full-scale production.
Top AI & SaaS Tools
Gumlet (Life-time Deal): Video hosting and streaming platform with DRM, viewing controls, customization, AI tools, analytics, and integrations—an alternative to Vimeo and YouTube
Questas: Turns a simple character idea into an editable, shareable, AI-illustrated choose-your-own-adventure story
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Dia2 2B: An open-source, real-time streaming text-to-speech model (1B & 2B) that generates contextual audio on the fly [F-R-E-E]
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Voice AI: Get the Proof. Avoid the Hype.
Deepgram interviewed 400 senior leaders on voice AI adoption: 97% already use it, 84% will increase budgets, yet only 21% are very satisfied with legacy agents. See where enterprises deploy human-like voice AI agents - customer service, task automation, order capture. Benchmark your roadmap against $100M peers for 2026 priorities.
AI Tutorial
How to Turn Any Script Into a Cinematic Short Film Using Runway
Turn your script into a cinematic short film without touching a camera. This guide shows the step‑by‑step workflow modern AI creators use—from structuring scenes to generating polished shots in Runway.
Script Breakdown Into Scenes
Divide your script into clear scenes, noting the setting, emotional tone, needed characters, and key objects for each so the AI has strong narrative direction before you describe individual shots.
Convert Scenes Into Instructions
Break each scene into smaller shot descriptions, writing what the camera sees moment by moment to translate the script into clear visual prompts for the AI.
Use Clear Prompt Formula
Follow a structured prompt format to maintain clarity:
Subject or character
Action or setting details
Camera angle or movement
Style, lighting, and mood keywords
Example replacement:
A solitary astronaut stepping forward, medium shot, slow dolly-in, cold blue lighting, retro sci-fi aesthetic.Create Visual Consistency
Use a fixed reference image for your main character or environment and repeat stylistic keywords (cinematic, 4K, shallow depth of field, sunrise lighting) to maintain visual continuity and avoid unwanted variations.
Set Up Runway Workflow
Open Runway, sign up or log in, and prepare two core inputs:
Your engineered shot-by-shot prompts
Your chosen reference image
Upload these into Gen-2 (or the relevant video model), keeping the same settings for each shot to avoid inconsistencies.
Add Motion Controls
Use Runway’s Motion Controls to elevate each shot:
Pan for horizontal movement
Tilt for vertical emphasis
Dolly in/out for emotional impact
Download, Organize, and Build Cut
Export the clips and organize them into labeled folders by scene and shot number, checking each for continuity, lighting match, and character accuracy before final assembly.
Final Assembly in Video Editor
Import everything into DaVinci Resolve or Premiere, rebuild the short in script order, then add dialogue, foley, SFX, and unified color grading with subtle audio transitions and consistent contrast/exposure so all AI shots feel cohesive.
Note: Runway reacts well to clear verbs, so prioritize actions like walking, turning, lifting, or observing to avoid static shots.
Top AI & Tech News
Safe Superintelligence founder Ilya Sutskever told the Dwarkesh Podcast that research breakthroughs, not just more compute, will drive the next wave of AI progress
Anthropic analyzed 100,000 Claude chats and estimates that broad AI adoption could add 1.8 percentage points to annual U.S. labor productivity growth
Nvidia downplayed Google’s TPU gains, claiming its chips are “a generation ahead” with better performance, flexibility, and interchangeability
Google’s Gemini 3 Pro set a record on Tracking AI’s offline IQ test with a score of 130, topping Grok 4 Expert Mode’s 126
AI Art Spotlight
Create Your Own Photo Like This Using the Prompt Below:
{
"prompt_title": "Hyper-realistic Close-up Portrait (Wet Skin, Golden Hour, Male)",
"style_and_quality": {
"rendering_style": "Hyper-realistic close-up",
"resolution": "8K",
"focus": "Extremely shallow depth of field (DoF)",
"aesthetic_effect": "Ultra-detailed cinematic effect, soft realistic contrast, golden tones and deep shadows"
},
"photography_equipment": {
"camera": "Hasselblad H6D-400c",
"lens": "100mm f/2.2 lens"
},
"composition_and_framing": {
"framing": "Close-up",
"subject_placement": "Captures only the left side of the face",
"key_focus_point": "Eye in absolute focus with a crisp catchlight"
},
"subject_details": {
"model_gender": "Man",
"facial_features_to_maintain": "Faithfully maintaining all facial features from reference photo, thick, well-defined masculine eyebrow, long wet lashes",
"skin_texture_emphasis": "Microtextural details, pores, light stubble texture if present, freckles, natural texture of wet skin",
"lips": "Natural, slightly parted, and wet lips; texture highlighted by directional lighting"
},
"water_and_texture": {
"skin_covering": "Skin covered in water droplets running down naturally",
"highlights": "Vivid specular highlights due to light angle, moist reflections on the lips and nose"
},
"lighting_setup": {
"type": "Simulated warm late afternoon light (Golden Hour)",
"main_source": "Large side softbox",
"fill_and_bounce": "Combined with a gold reflector",
"effect": "Soft yet intense glow on the water on the man's face, precisely highlights micro-details"
},
"hair_details": {
"placement": "Wet strands of hair fall along the right side of the face",
"interaction": "Clinging to the skin without altering any facial features"
}
}Model: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana)
Prompt of the Day
Prompt That Turns Raw Attention Into a Marketing Empire
This prompt turns your assistant into a ruthless strategic operator for marketing and distribution, built to weaponize the Eyeballs Method at scale.
It assumes you already have a massive content machine running – 100+ AI posters, 500 TikTok accounts, and thousands of daily posts – and forces the system to audit everything with precision: where attention leaks, where funnels break, where offers are weak, and where scale is capped.
Top AI Video Tutorial
The 11 Best F-R-E-E AI Tools of 2025
AI Course of the Day
Master AI-Powered Coding with Cursor
Cursor Learn is a hands-on training program designed to help developers master Cursor, the AI-powered coding environment that accelerates software creation. The course walks you through the full Cursor workflow, from setting up the IDE to using AI-assisted editing, fixes, refactoring, code generation, and repository-wide changes.