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🔥 Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha announced, intensifying the competition for leading text-to-video AI.
📊 Lesson of the Week: Ensure your audience understands the “so what?” in your data visuals.
💡 Collection of top tech updates by 60 Minutes featuring breakthroughs, interviews, and emerging technologies.
⌨️ Weekly Tech Tip: Improved skills and baseline assessment in our latest tech updates
🚀 What’s New: Improved skills and baseline assessment.
📘 Book of the Week: “The Bezos Blueprint” by Carmine Gallo.
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Impressive Text-to-Video on the Horizon
Runway’s Gen-3 Alpha is a major advancement in video AI, offering high-quality, controllable video generation.
It excels in creating expressive human characters, understanding various artistic styles, and providing fine-grained control over video elements. Although not yet released, it’s a strong competitor for OpenAI’s Sora.
Additionally, Gen-3 Alpha is a step towards General World Models, aiming to create AI that understands and simulates real-world environments for greater reliability.
Lesson of the Week
Our Lesson of the Week is sourced from our skill, “Designing visual narratives.” Learn about the importance of making your key message clear in data visualizations to ensure your audience understands the “so what?”
Question of the Week:
You notice that a takeaway from the data visual is:
Select one:
A) Ratings increase after outages
B) Ratings drop after call volume spikes
C) Over 1000 cases have been resolved
D) Outages are becoming more frequent
See if you’re right–the answer is at the bottom!
Emerging Tech Updates
60 Minutes presents a collection of top tech updates from recent years, highlighting groundbreaking advancements and interviews with key industry leaders.
Segments include NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang on AI, breakthroughs in quantum computing and nuclear fusion, and discussions on AI’s future with experts like Geoffrey Hinton and Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
Other emerging technologies such as mental health chatbots, conversational AI, and innovative solutions in energy and transportation are also covered.
Weekly Tech Tip
Useful Keyboard Shortcuts
Want to boost productivity or show off your keyboard skills? Try out these keyboard hotkeys!
Mac Users:
- Select all: Command + A
- Close window/tab: CMD+W:
- Quit app: CMD+Q
- Spotlight: CMD+Space (short)
- Siri: CMD+Space (long)
- New tab: CMD+T
- New private window in internet browser: Shift+CMD+N
- Select address bar in internet browser: CMD+L
- Select tab by index: CMD+<Number>
- Screenshot/screen recording: Shift+CMD+5
- Emojis: Fn+E
- Cursor at beginning of line: Crtl+A (or CMD+Arrow left)
- Cursor at end of line: Ctrl+E (or CMD+Arrow right)
- Delete forward: Fn+Backspace
Windows Users:
- Select all: Ctrl + A
- Close window/tab: CTRL + W
- Quit app: Alt + F4
- New tab: Ctrl+T
- New private window in internet browser: Ctrl + Shift + N
- Select address bar in internet browser: Alt + D
- Screenshot/screen recording: Windows Key + Alt + R
- Emojis: Windows logo key + . (period)
- Cursor at beginning of line: Ctrl + Home
- Cursor at end of line: Ctrl + End
- Delete forward: Alt + Delete/Backspace
Additional Keyboard Shortcuts (Internet Explorer 11)
What’s New
We’ve refreshed several skills on our platform and improved a baseline skills assessment in our latest tech updates.
Book of the Week
Carmine Gallo’s “The Bezos Blueprint” explores Jeff Bezos’ leadership and communication strategies that propelled Amazon’s growth.
The book reveals how Bezos revolutionized team collaboration, innovation, and presentation, creating effective tools adopted by former Amazonians to launch their own ventures.
These insights offer a scalable model for enhancing writing, speaking, and motivating teams and customers.
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Lesson of the Week Answer:
B) Ratings drop after call volume spikes