🏀📺 $2K NBA Ad. Made by AI. WTF?!

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A fully AI-generated ad just aired during the NBA Finals—for $2,000 in production costs. $2,000… Let that sink in. Imagine the implications - and opportunities! No more six and seven-figure budgets needed to produce killer ads!

This week’s stories are proof that we’ve officially entered the “WTF is happening?” phase of AI. From humanoid robots dancing on national TV to Barbie getting an OpenAI upgrade, tech is moving faster than we could have ever imagined, and then some!

Here’s what’s going on... 👇🏼

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🏀🎬 $2K NBA Ad > Your $250K Agency?
Kalshi ran a fully AI-generated ad during the NBA Finals… for just $2,000. Built using Google’s Veo 3, it proves big results no longer need big budgets. The ad wars are about to get a lot more interesting—and a lot more automated. (🔗 Link)

🧠⏳ AGI Predictions Are In — Place Your Bets
Experts are publicly calling their shots on when AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) will arrive—some say as soon as 2027. The smartest minds in AI are finally putting numbers on the board. Who’s right... and who’s way off? (🔗 Link)

🤖🎤 Boston Dynamics Robots Just Auditioned on Live TV
Yep, real robots. Dancing. On America’s Got Talent.
Boston Dynamics’ newest demo shows off humanoid bots moving with freakish rhythm—and winning over the crowd. Sci-fi is officially prime-time. (🔗 Link)

🧸💬 Mattel + OpenAI = The Smartest Toys Ever Made
Mattel is exploring toys powered by OpenAI—think Barbies that talk back, learn your kid’s personality, and adapt their responses. The age of “learning toys” is about to get a whole new brain upgrade. (🔗 Link)

🎧🔍 Google’s Search Results Are Starting to Talk
Google is testing audio overviews—short narrated summaries of search results. Search once ruled by text is turning into something you can listen to. Welcome to the sonic era of SEO. (🔗 Link)

💻🧑‍💻 Engineers Are Vibing… While AI Eats Their Jobs
Software engineering was once untouchable. But as AI tools now write clean, production-ready code, devs are shifting from builders to curators. Vibe culture meets the coding apocalypse. (🔗 Link)

📲🧪 TikTok Doubles Down on AI Ad Tools
TikTok just released more AI tools to help advertisers generate, test, and launch campaigns faster than ever. With script generators, voiceovers, and auto-editing built in, it’s DIY marketing on AI steroids. (🔗 Link)

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