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News of the Day

No Camera? No Problem!

HeyGen Unveils AI Studio: A Big Leap in AI Video Creation

HeyGen has launched AI Studio, a powerful new tool that gives users much more control over AI avatars. It adds realistic touches like vocal tone, hand gestures, and speech style, making AI-generated videos smoother and more lifelike than ever.

• Voice Director Mode lets users change how avatars speak using simple commands like “whisper this part” or “sound more excited”

• Speech Mirroring copies your unique way of speaking and applies it to avatars

• Gesture Control allows natural movements by linking gestures to words or uploading real-life footage

AI avatars are no longer stiff and robotic. With tools like this, creating high-quality videos without a camera or actors is becoming easier and more realistic. The future of video creation may be fully virtual, and much more expressive.
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How Will You Pay for College?

Outsmart college costs

Ready for next semester? June is a key time to assess how you’ll cover college costs. And considering federal aid often isn’t enough, you might have to consider private student loans.

You’re just in time, though—most schools recommend applying about two months before tuition is due. By now, colleges start sending final cost-of-attendance letters, revealing how much you’ll need to bridge the gap.

Understanding your options now can help ensure you’re prepared and avoid last-minute stress. View Money’s best student loans list to find lenders with low rates and easy online application.

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2nd News of the Day

$30M to Make AI Tell the Truth

Yoshua Bengio Launches LawZero to Make AI Safer, Raises $30M

AI pioneer and Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio has launched LawZero, a nonprofit focused on creating safe-by-design AI systems. The group has raised $30 million to build “Scientist AI,” a tool aimed at promoting truth, transparency, and safety in artificial intelligence.

• LawZero will build AI that shows probabilities instead of acting like it always has the right answer, helping users understand uncertainty.

• The project, “Scientist AI,” will help speed up science, detect deceptive AI behavior, and reduce AI risks.

• Backers include Eric Schmidt, Jaan Tallinn, and major AI safety groups.

This is Bengio’s biggest move yet in the AI safety space. As one of AI’s founding thinkers, he’s now directly building tools to fight risks he sees in today’s leading models, like self-preserving and strategically deceptive behaviors. His lack of trust in big AI labs, like OpenAI, shows growing concern among top experts.
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Trending Tools of Day

Embedded iPaaS from Albato
Make your SaaS stick with AI-fueled embedded iPaaS

DeskHog
A developer toy from PostHog

Job for Agent
The 1st job board for autonomous AI agents

Ideabrowser.com
The place to find trends & startup ideas worth building

Janus
Simulation testing for AI agents

Everything else

🤳 Smoke and Mirrors: AI startup Captions just unveiled Mirage Studio, a model that lets you generate influencer-style videos “ with actors that actually look and feel alive.” Here are 10 examples that are already “breaking the internet.”

📚 One-Stop Shop: Claude Pro subscribers can now access Integrations (a tool that connects the chatbot to your favorite apps) and Research, which generates reports based on information from the web, your Google Workspace, and other sources.

📹 Made to Order: Manus AI announced a new video generation tool that lets you turn text prompts into clips with “structured, sequenced” storylines. Basic, Plus, and Pro members should already have access to the early access version.

🧐 Raising Eyebrows: An Australian developer says he dug into the latest version of DeepSeek’s R1 and found that it shares striking similarities to Gemini 2.5 Pro, suggesting the Chinese startup may have borrowed training data from Google’s model family.

🧑‍⚕️ Trial Triumph: Boston’s Insilico Medicine says a lung disease drug it created with the help of AI is showing promise in mid-stage clinical tests, with one researcher claiming it’s “one of the best results people have ever seen” for the condition.

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