Google’s 3 New AI Tools

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What do making movies, fighting cancer, and running your business have in common?

Turns out… AI. And Google.

While the internet was busy swooning over Sora’s cinematic tricks, Google quietly rolled out three updates that feel less like sci-fi and more like, “Wait, I could actually use this.” 

One helps you direct scenes. 

One might help cure cancer. 

One wants to automate your least favorite tasks. 

Ready to dive in?

In today's email

• AI that helps you direct videos

• A model that found a cancer clue

• No-code agents for your workflow

• What it all means — and how to try it

• + New AI Tool

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Quick News 

🎭 AI Will Say Anything to Win. When pitted against each other in sales, elections, and social media, “aligned” AIs like Qwen3 and Llama-3.1 started fibbing their way to the top — despite being trained to tell the truth. Stanford researchers found that competition made them chase likes and approval over facts, with lies surging by up to 188%. Even tools meant to keep them honest, like feedback training, sometimes made things worse.

🔥 ChatGPT Gets a Little...Spicier. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman just teased a more expressive ChatGPT — including an optional mature mode for verified adults, set to roll out by December. After feedback that the assistant felt too “restricted,” OpenAI plans to loosen content limits while adding safeguards like age checks. It’s a direct response to the rise of flirtier rivals like xAI’s Grok — and a big leap into the booming AI companion space.

📉 The AI Content Wave Has Peaked. A new Graphite study shows AI briefly outwrote humans online in late 2024 — but that surge has stalled. After analyzing 65,000 articles, researchers found AI's web dominance peaked last November, only to level off as folks realized machine-made content flops in search rankings. Now, we’re in a weird détente: half-human, half-AI, fully content-saturated.

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Google 
Edit Films, Fight Cancer, Run Companies

While everyone’s distracted by shiny demos, Google quietly dropped three practical AI upgrades — all purpose-built for different corners of the real world: storytelling, science, and productivity. 

Veo 3.1 brings precision control to video generation, giving creatives tools for smooth transitions, scene stitching, and character consistency. 

C2S-Scale 27B, developed with Yale, decoded cell behavior and found a real, working cancer pathway — using a drug no one had linked to the immune system. 

And Gemini Enterprise is Google’s big swing at workplace AI, combining no-code tools and prebuilt agents to help teams automate and scale without needing developers.

Each of these moves signals a clear shift: AI is starting to embed itself in how we create, solve, and scale.

AI Video Grows Up

Google’s newest video model, Veo 3.1, is designed for storytelling, not just spectacle. 

It lets creators guide generation with up to three reference images, so characters stay consistent across shots. You can now specify how a scene should start and end, and Veo will generate smooth transitions — complete with synced audio. 

For longer work, a new stitching feature builds coherent videos up to 60 seconds, segment by segment.

Behind the scenes, benchmarks show 50–60% better coherence than earlier versions. It's already being integrated into Flow, Vertex AI, and Gemini apps, giving creators studio-quality tools without the studio overhead.

A New Cancer Pathway

In one of the most promising signs of AI's scientific potential, Google and Yale’s new model, C2S-Scale 27B, just found a novel cancer treatment pathway — and it actually works in living cells. 

The model was tasked with making tumors more visible to the immune system. Its answer? Silmitasertib, a drug never before linked to immune detection.

It wasn’t just a hunch. 

Lab tests confirmed that tumor cells treated with the combo became 50% more visible to immune responses. The model was trained on billions of cellular interactions, reading them like language — a feat made possible by the Gemma framework’s open-source biological AI research.

AI That Does Work, Not Just Talks About It

Google’s Gemini Enterprise is designed to help teams actually do things with AI — no prompts or dev teams required. 

It bundles together prebuilt agents (for research, coding, support, etc.), lets anyone create new ones with a drag-and-drop builder, and connects to business data securely across platforms.

You also get access to a growing Agent Marketplace, and full Workspace/Google Cloud integration. 

Pricing is competitive: $21/user/month for Business, $30 for Enterprise — lining it up directly against Amazon’s QuickSuite and Microsoft’s Copilot.

What’s the Deal for You?

AI is shifting from tools you use occasionally to infrastructure you work with daily. 

That means less hype and more hidden automation — things just work better, if you know how to plug in.

These three launches represent clear use cases you can act on right now:

• 🎬 Making videos? Tools like Flow with Veo 3.1 let you guide how scenes look and move — no film school needed. Drop in your visuals and see what AI builds.
  

• 🧬 Into science or health? C2S-Scale 27B shows AI can read cells like language. You don’t need a lab coat — just start exploring how models and biology connect.
  

• 🏢 Run a team? Gemini Enterprise helps you build AI agents for tasks like support or research — no coding required. If you’re not testing this, others probably are.

The best advantage you can have now is not knowing everything — it's knowing what’s possible and having the curiosity to try it.

Instead of asking “What can AI do?”, ask this:

👉 What’s one annoying task I do weekly that AI could either speed up, structure, or eliminate?

Then test a tool. Build a flow. Try an agent. Even a 1% gain repeated over time will outperform passive learning.

And if you get hooked? 

Learn a bit of prompt design, workflow mapping, or yes — even how cells work. The future is showing up fast, and it rewards those who play.

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A playground for your imagination (and low-key prompt skills).

Each send, we give you a customizable DALL·E prompt inspired by a real-world use case — something that could help you in your business or job if you wanted to use it that way. But it’s also just a fun creative experiment.

You tweak it, run it, and send us your favorite. We pick one winner to feature in the next issue.

Bonus: you’re secretly getting better at prompt design. 🤫

👑 The winner is…

Last week, we challenged you to test GPT-4o’s visual generation skills with this prompt.

Here’s the WINNER:

Congrats to Yuri for his creation!🥳

Want to be featured next? Keep those generations coming!

🎨 Prompt: The Solar Coliseum

Design a massive, open-air arena built in the center of a desert, powered entirely by solar energy. The structure is made from reflective alloys and curved photovoltaic surfaces that shimmer in the sunlight. Inside the coliseum, an AI-hosted event is underway, visualizing the future of [a modern challenge or concept] through light projections and kinetic sculptures. Sunbeams pierce through high tension cables that stretch across the sky like harp strings.
Style: hyper-realistic sci-fi render, high sunlight contrast, architectural symmetry, vast environmental scale, crisp metallic materials, dramatic sky.

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