🍭 Runway Beats Google & OpenAI 🤯

Good morning. Somewhere out there, a studio exec is storyboarding a $200M sci-fi epic while a teenager is recreating it in Runway between homework assignments.

Let’s dig in. 👇

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• Pichai pushes for one national AI rulebook

• Runway’s Gen-4.5 outshines Big Tech video

• Google tests blending AI Overviews + AI Mode

• OpenAI catches heat for ad-like app prompts

• AWS drops new Nova models + custom builder

• ToolBox: fresh AI picks for the week

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📥 Skarbe
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🧪 Theysaid
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RunwayML
🎬 Runway’s Gen-4.5 Just Outpaced Google and OpenAI

The Bite: Runway dropped Gen-4.5, its newest AI video model — and it claims it now beats both OpenAI and Google on five major video benchmarks, including coherence, motion, and consistency over long shots . The team says this version is “more alive,” with sharper detail and smoother motion than anything they’ve shipped before.

It’s the latest reminder that the video race isn’t owned by Big Tech — not yet.

Snacks:

• Runway says it outscored Google Veo and OpenAI Sora on all five measured categories

• Benchmarks included fidelity, motion, temporal consistency, and prompt alignment

• New motion engine improves physics, limbs, and scene continuity

• Gen-5 is already in training, with “near-real” footage teased

• CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela says Runway is still “just getting started”

Why it Bites: Runway is the OG in this space — the indie studio that built the early tools everyone else copied. Now it’s beating trillion-dollar labs at their own video game. And the part Hollywood should actually panic about? Filmmakers don’t need permission anymore. You can shoot worlds, characters, and full scenes with a GPU and a dream.
Studios spent a decade outsourcing VFX. AI is about to outsource studios.

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Perfect for:

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🤯 Launch of Nebius Token Factory — AI at production scale

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A platform built for production-scale AI.

Token Factory powers dedicated inference, fine-tuning, and governed collaboration for open-source models like Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, and GPT-OSS — all with enterprise-grade reliability, compliance, and full visibility.

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🧠 You Need to Know

🔎 Google Fuses AI Overviews With AI Mode in Search
→ Google is testing a mobile feature that lets users jump from AI Overviews straight into AI Mode for conversational follow-up questions.

📱 Android 16 Rolls Out AI Notification Summaries
→ Android 16 adds AI-generated notification summaries, smarter notification grouping, more customization options, and new parental controls, starting with Pixel devices.

🛒 ChatGPT Traffic to Shopping Apps Jumps 28%
→ An Apptopia report says ChatGPT referrals to retailer apps rose 28% year-over-year over Black Friday, with most traffic going to Amazon and Walmart and overall share still small.

📲 OpenAI Faces Backlash Over App Suggestions in Chats
→ Users criticized ChatGPT after it suggested apps like Peloton in unrelated conversations; OpenAI says these were non-paid app discovery tests but admits the experience was confusing and is revising it.

☁️ AWS Launches Nova 2 Models and Nova Forge Service
→ AWS introduced four new Nova 2 AI models and Nova Forge, a $100,000-per-year service that lets enterprises build customized “Novella” models on their own data.

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🇺🇸 Sundar: ‘Regulate Smart or Lose to China’ (He’s… Not Wrong)

The Bite: Sundar Pichai says the U.S. needs to “get the balance right” on AI rules or risk falling behind China — and he’s not fear-mongering. With more than 1,000 state-level AI bills in motion, he warned that a patchwork of laws could slow innovation and make U.S. companies uncompetitive globally .

He wants national rules: one book, one referee, fewer surprises.

Snacks:

• Pichai says conflicting state laws will make it harder for U.S. AI companies to compete internationally

  He argues AI oversight “is better done at the national level”

  The U.S. and China are accelerating AI development with very different governance styles

  Pichai: countries must set guardrails together to avoid weaponizing AI

  He says AI’s benefits are huge — but so are risks if bad actors misuse it

Why it bites: Sundar is right… but he’s also playing chess while Congress is still downloading the app.

National rules would prevent a 50-state regulatory obstacle course. They’d also be a dream scenario for Big Tech: one place to lobby, one law to shape, one set of guardrails you can predict years ahead. And the irony? Google moved fast enough to cause half the regulatory panic in the first place — now it’s asking Washington to slow down, but in a “centralized, scalable, industry-friendly” way.

It’s the rare moment where incentives, geopolitics, and actual common sense line up.