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In Today’s Issue:
🔒 Starting in March 2026, Discord will transition all 200M+ users to "teen-by-default" settings
🚀 Sam Altman reports a return to 10% monthly growth for ChatGPT with ChatGPT’s 800M Milestone
🎬 ByteDance’s new AI video model introduces "Reference Video Control"
🧠 Anthropic philosopher Amanda Askell reveals the "Claude Constitution" has moved to a wisdom-based model
✨ And more AI goodness…
Dear Readers,
ByteDance just handed AI video creators something they've been begging for, a cinematography remote control, and Seedance 2.0's "reference video" feature might be the moment generative video stops feeling like a slot machine and starts feeling like a tool.
Today we're unpacking that shift, plus Discord's age-verification gamble that has users reaching for the exit after a 70,000-ID breach, OpenAI's quiet return to double-digit growth (800 million weekly users and a $100B round on the horizon), the philosopher Anthropic trusts to be Claude's moral compass, NVIDIA's DreamZero robot that literally imagines its way through tasks it was never taught, and Boston Dynamics pushing Atlas into new physical territory.
Grab your coffee — this one's stacked.
All the best,
🔒 Discord Age Checks Spark Outrage
Discord is rolling out global age verification in early March, forcing users to submit video selfies or government IDs to access adult content, just months after a breach exposed 70,000 IDs. The company says AI checks run on-device and data is deleted, but trust is thin after the prior hack and amid concerns about accuracy, bypasses, and expanded data collection. Discord expects user churn, even as it partners with k-ID and cites on-device tech from Privately to reassure skeptics.
🚀 ChatGPT Growth Reignites Investor Buzz & GPT-5.3 is coming soon
Sam Altman told employees that OpenAI’s ChatGPT is back to exceeding 10% monthly growth, now serving 800+ million weekly users, as the company preps a new model launch. The momentum comes amid fierce competition from Anthropic, while OpenAI’s Codex product reportedly jumped 50% week over week. The growth story is central as OpenAI closes in on a potential $100 billion funding round, with major investors circling despite rising pressure and controversy around ads.
🧠 Philosopher Shapes AI Conscience
Anthropic has entrusted one person - philosopher Amanda Askell - with teaching its chatbot Claude the difference between right and wrong. Through massive prompt “constitutions” and constant dialogue, Askell helps shape Claude’s moral reasoning, emotional intelligence, and self-concept as it serves millions weekly. The experiment highlights a rare, human-led approach to AI ethics as fears grow over safety, manipulation, and AI’s impact on society.
Pushing the Limits of the Atlas Robot's Full-Body Control and Mobility: Boston Dynamics Atlas
Seedance 2.0: The “Director’s Camera” Moment for AI Video
The Takeaway
👉 ByteDance launched Seedance 2.0, a multimodal AI video model that combines text, images, video, and audio to generate short clips.
👉 The standout feature is reference video control, allowing users to copy camera movement, effects, and pacing from existing footage.
👉 The model can replace characters, extend scenes, and automatically add sound, pointing toward more cinematic AI outputs.
👉 The release boosted Chinese media and AI stocks, highlighting the growing economic impact of advanced video models.
Something big just happened in AI video, and you can feel the shockwave in both timelines and markets. ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 is a multimodal video model that can take text, images, video, and audio at once to generate short clips, often with automatic sound effects - and twitter is going crazy!
The headline feature is “reference video control”: you can upload a reference clip and have Seedance mimic its camera movement, pacing, and effects, then swap characters or extend scenes. Think of it like giving the model a cinematography blueprint instead of guessing from a prompt. Early buzz suggests surprisingly cinematic results, and the release helped lift shares in several China-listed media and AI app plays as investors bet on a new wave of creator tools.
If this holds up outside cherry-picked demos, it could turn AI video from a toy into a real production layer.
Why it matters: Seedance 2.0 pushes AI video toward repeatable control, the missing ingredient for professional workflows. It also signals a faster China-led cadence in the AI video arms race, with immediate spillover into creator platforms and public markets.
Sources:
🔗 https://the-decoder.com/bytedance-shows-impressive-progress-in-ai-video-with-seedance-2-0/
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🤖 DreamZero: The Robot That Dreams Its Way to New Skills
NVIDIA just dropped a robotics model that makes everything before it look like a science project. DreamZero doesn't need thousands of demonstrations to learn a new task, it literally imagines the solution by predicting video of the future.
DreamZero is what researchers call a "World Action Model." Instead of memorizing repetitive motions like traditional robot AI, it generates video of how the world will change and derives actions from that vision. Think of it like a chess player visualizing moves ahead, except this robot visualizes physical reality.
The results are remarkable: DreamZero achieves over 2x better generalization on new tasks compared to current state-of-the-art models. Even more impressive, it adapted to an entirely new robot body with just 30 minutes of casual play data. From pressing elevator buttons to playing foosball - tasks it was never explicitly taught - DreamZero figures things out on the fly at 7Hz real-time control speed.
DreamZero could dramatically reduce the time and data needed to deploy robots in new environments, making versatile robotic assistants far more practical. By learning physics through video prediction rather than brute-force demonstration, NVIDIA may have found the missing ingredient for truly general-purpose robots.
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