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Today, we will talk about these THREE stories:

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Text-to-video just stopped being a toy.

OpenAI’s Sora can generate up to 60-second high-definition videos from simple text prompts, with consistent characters and cinematic camera motion, according to OpenAI’s technical overview. Early demos showed complex scenes crowded streets, detailed physics, multi-angle shots produced without a physical camera crew. Multiple analysts estimate generative video could impact portions of the $2.8 trillion global media and entertainment market over the next decade.

What stands out is how fast this jumped from glitchy clips to near-production quality. You can almost hear the quiet click of Premiere timelines being replaced, late at night, laptop fans spinning while one person does what used to require 20. This is less about cool AI demos and more about collapsing production costs.

Studios won’t disappear tomorrow. But if 30% of B-roll, ads, training videos, and explainer content can be generated instead of filmed, whole layers of freelance work thin out first. Everything else gets squeezed.

If a single prompt can now replace a shoot day, the real question is who still gets paid when the lights are on but the cameras never roll?

The assistant is no longer just answering questions.

Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet scored at or above leading models on coding benchmarks like HumanEval and outperformed earlier Claude versions by double-digit percentage margins, according to Anthropic’s release notes. Its “Artifacts” feature lets users generate, edit, and iterate on code, documents, and even simple apps in a live side panel. Developers report using it for full-function feature builds, refactors, and debugging sessions that previously took hours.

What bothers me is how quietly this changes hiring math. When one senior engineer, late at night with Discord buzzing and coffee cooling beside the keyboard, can ship what used to take a small team, companies stop posting junior roles first. This feels less like productivity enhancement and more like compression of the ladder.

Yes, senior oversight still matters. But if AI handles scaffolding, boilerplate, tests, and documentation, the “learn by doing” phase shrinks. And that’s where most people enter the industry.

If entry-level work disappears before new pathways form, the real question is where the next generation of builders is supposed to start.

Search is breaking in slow motion.

Perplexity AI reportedly crossed millions of monthly active users in under two years, positioning itself as an AI-native answer engine rather than a link directory. Unlike traditional search engines, it provides direct answers with cited sources, real-time web browsing, and follow-up context in a single interface. Investors have valued the company in the multi-billion-dollar range amid rapid growth, according to public funding reports.

What stands out is how different the behavior feels. Instead of scanning 10 blue links at 11 p.m. with your phone glowing in the dark, you get a synthesized answer instantlyand you move on. This is less about search and more about decision compression.

Google still owns distribution. But if users begin trusting summaries over source-hunting, traffic models, SEO strategies, and entire content businesses get reshaped. Quietly.

If people stop clicking links and start accepting synthesized answers, the real question is who controls what information survives the summary layer.