Midjourney’s latest AI image editor

Welcome, AI enthusiasts.

The road between real and AI-generated images just got rather a lot blurrier, and it could be time to start out questioning every image we see online.

Midjourney’s latest editor just put mind-blowing image manipulation tools at everyone’s fingertips — but are we ready for the results? Let’s get into it…

In today’s AI rundown:

• Midjourney launches latest image editor

• OpenAI disbands AGI Readiness team

• Improve your website’s search engine marketing with Gemini

• Biden orders AI push with latest security safeguards

• 6 latest AI tools & 4 latest AI jobs

• More AI & tech news

Read time: 4 minutes

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

MIDJOURNEY

🎨 Midjourney launches latest image editor

The Rundown: Midjourney just debuted a brand new AI-powered web editor that enables users to simply modify, retexture, expand, and stylize each generated and uploaded images using text prompts.

The main points:

• The anticipated update enables features like expand, crop, repaint, and modify for each Midjourney-created and uploaded images using natural prompting.

• The brand new editor also works with Midjourney’s previous features like personalization, style references, and more.

• A brand new re-texturing tool allows users to vary points like lighting, texture, materials, and more while maintaining the unique shape of the image.

• Access is initially limited to yearly subscribers, 12-month members, and users with 10,000+ generations for testing before a broader roll-out.

Why it matters: In case you were already concerned about discerning between AI and ‘real’ photos, things are about to get rather a lot harder. This latest editor brings massive capabilities and use cases for creatives – but additionally unlocks a strong deepfake and manipulation tool that makes nearly every image should be questioned going forward.

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OPENAI

😵 OpenAI disbands AGI Readiness team

The Rundown: OpenAI is reportedly dissolving its AGI Readiness team, marking the most recent in a series of major division changes as senior advisor Miles Brundage departs the corporate and voices concerns in regards to the industry’s safety direction.

The main points:

• Brundage announced his departure alongside a lengthy blog post about his role, future, and the industry at large.

• He said that each OpenAI, other labs, and the world typically will not be able to handle increasingly powerful AI systems.

• Brundage noted that a part of the AGI Readiness team might be moving under latest Chief Economist Ronnie Chatterji, with the remainder distributed across other teams.

• The move follows May’s disbanding of the Superalignment team focused on AI control systems, coinciding with outstanding safety researchers’ exit.

Why it matters: For an organization that claims to emphasise AI safety, the continued tension, disbanding, and departure of its safety-focused teams actually sends very mixed signals. But when Brundage’s post is any indication, it is not just OpenAI that’s unprepared for what’s to come back — it’s all the world.

AI TRAINING

🚀 Improve your website’s search engine marketing with Gemini

The Rundown: Google Gemini’s video input feature allows you to use AI to investigate video recordings of your website and generate powerful search engine marketing improvements.

Step-by-step:

1. Access Google AI Studio and choose the “Gemini 1.5 Pro 002” model.

2. Record 5-10 minutes of video showing your website’s navigation, page load times, content structure, and key features.

3. Use this prompt: “Analyze these website videos. Provide search engine marketing recommendations for meta elements, content, speed, UX, and keywords.”

4. Follow up by asking it to offer you insights on technical search engine marketing and to suggest content strategy improvements based on the videos.

Pro tip: Include each desktop and mobile footage for more comprehensive search engine marketing insights. Moreover, we’ve written detailed prompts which you could copy and paste here.

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GOVERNMENT & AI

🇺🇸 Biden orders AI push with latest security safeguards

The Rundown: The White House just issued a brand new national security memorandum directing federal agencies to speed up AI adoption – while establishing clear boundaries for its use in sensitive government areas like defense and intelligence.

The main points:

• The memo outlined the federal government’s strategy for leveraging technology across national security departments while managing its risks.

• The directive prohibits AI from tasks like making autonomous nuclear weapons decisions, targeting systems without human oversight, and privacy violations.

• Biden highlighted the necessity for improvements to the U.S. AI chip infrastructure, also directing agencies to help AI labs in defending against foreign espionage.

• OpenAI published a blog alongside the memo explaining its stance on national security and the corporate’s partnerships and government initiatives.

Why it matters: AI safety and development are national security issues, and the US is finally acting on its most comprehensive try and craft guardrails to arrange for the evolution to come back. The memo’s emphasis on protecting private sector innovations also signals a serious shift in treating business AI as crucial national security assets.

NEW TOOLS & JOBS

Trending AI Tools

• 🎬 Runway Act-One – Generate expressive character performances using easy video inputs

• 🛍️ Vidify – Turn Shopify product images into AI-shoppable videos

• 🎥 Overlap – Transform any long video into clips, blog posts, and more

• 🧠 Figflow – AI companion that turns Figma designs into user stories in minutes

• 🎙️ PodLM – Generate AI podcasts with any content

Recent AI Job Opportunities

• 🛡️ Palantir Technologies – Physical Security Analyst

• 🛠️ OpenAI – Technical Program Manager, ChatGPT Infrastructure

• 🧠 Abridge – ML Platform Engineer (Staff/Senior)

• 🔬 Rad AI – Senior Machine Learning Research Scientist

QUICK HITS

AI chipmaker TSMC’S Phoenix plant reported superior chip yields in comparison with its Taiwan operations, boosting confidence in America’s domestic semiconductor strategy.

Anthropic unveiled Claude’s latest built-in evaluation tool, enabling its models to jot down and execute code directly in chat interactions.

Apple launched a $1M bug bounty ahead of its major AI cloud release next week, offering rewards to security researchers who can successfully hack and find vulnerabilities in its private AI infrastructure.

ElevenLabs added ‘Voice Design,’ a brand new feature enabling users to create AI-generated voices from natural text prompts.

OpenAI scientist Noam Brown revealed at TED AI that giving AI models 20 seconds to “think” can match the performance boost of scaling up training data 100,000x.

Chinese robotics startup EngineAI just introduced SE01, a life-size humanoid robot that has a way more human-like gait to its walk.

THAT’S A WRAP

See you soon,

Rowan, Joey, Zach, and Alvaro—aka The Rundown Team