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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicts that "powerful AI" could arrive by 2026, with the potential to transform healthcare and achieve a century’s worth of progress in just a decade. While the exact timeline is uncertain, the ambitions are not. Let’s unpack...

Today’s Summary:

• 🚀 Anthropic CEO predicts powerful AI by 2026

• 💡 AI startups transforming mental healthcare

• 🎥 Adobe’s new AI tools for video

• 🌀 OpenAI releases Swarm framework

• 🩻 Microsoft launches medical imaging AI

• 🎞️ Runway adds video transitions

• 🛠️ 2 new tools

TOP STORY

Anthropic CEO predicts “Powerful AI” by 2026

The Summary: Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic (the company behind Claude AI) predicts that “powerful AI” could arrive as soon as 2026. In a new essay, he paints an optimistic picture of how AI might transform medicine and science. He predicts Powerful AI could cure most diseases, treat mental illness, and increase human life expectancy.

Key details:

• Prefers "powerful AI" over "AGI" to avoid sci-fi vibes

• Defines it as AI systems smarter than Nobel winners in many areas

• Predicts AI will compress a century of progress into just 5-10 years

• Anthropic is seeking investors for a $40 billion funding round

Why it matters: Amodei's predictions show the ambitious goals of top AI companies. By discussing the uncertainty of AI timelines, he invites more conversation about what these changes could mean for the future.

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HEALTHCARE

AI Startups transform mental healthcare

The Summary: New AI startups are stepping into the mental health sector, an area seeing massive disruptions, from therapist matching and speech analysis, to chatbot support and therapy assistance. The latest cohort backed by Google’s AI for Health program is using AI to scale and personalize their services.

Key details:

• O7 Therapy (Egypt) matches patients with therapists using AI

• Callyope (France) monitors mental health through AI speech analysis

• HearMe (Poland) provides round-the-clock AI chatbot mental health support

• Thalia Psychotherapy (Kenya) helps therapists analyze patient conversations with AI

Why it matters: Innovative AI solutions have the potential to improve access to personalized mental health support. These innovations combine AI with clinical expertise, to create scalable and accessible mental health services, especially for underserved populations.

ADOBE

Adobe unveils AI tools for Video Production

The Summary: Adobe's Firefly Video Model brings AI-powered video generation to creative professionals, with a focus on commercial safety through licensed content training. Features include text-to-video generation, image-to-video conversion, and enhanced control over camera settings and aesthetics.

Key details:

• Generates 5-second video at 720p and 24 fps from text or image inputs

• Premiere Pro Extend feature adds 2 seconds to existing footage at 720p or 1080p

• Trained exclusively on licensed content for commercial safety

• Includes Content Credentials for transparency in AI generated assets

• New Photoshop AI features: Remove tool, improved Generative Fill, Generative Expand, Generate Similar, Generate Background

Why it matters: Adobe's entry into AI video generation could reshape the professional creative industry by providing powerful, time-saving tools. The focus on licensed content training may set a new standard for AI development in creative applications.

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QUICK NEWS

Quick news

• OpenAI releases Swarm framework for multi-agent orchestration

• Microsoft launches new medical imaging AI models

• Runway video AI adds video transitions between two images

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• WPS Office - AI-Powered Office suite

• Latitude - Open-source prompt engineering platform