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🤖 May AI Roundup: What’s Smart, What’s Weird, What’s Next

  • May 8, 2025
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Welcome to your monthly dose of all things AI — where we unpack the breakthroughs, the bizarre, and the beautiful ways AI is shaping our world. Whether you're knee-deep in prompt engineering or just here for the robot jokes, we’ve got something for you.

🗞️ Big Headlines in AI

FDA Fast-Tracks with AI: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is rolling out AI tools across all departments to speed up drug approvals. Faster treatments, fewer bottlenecks, and yes, robots are officially joining the paperwork party.

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Text-to-Video AI Blossoms: A new generation of text-to-video tools is here, and it’s seriously impressive. Recent advances in “metamorphic video” capabilities are enabling AI to create complex, cinematic scenes from just a few lines of text. Think: your words, turned into movie-quality clips in minutes.

🔗 Catch the details
 

🚀 Moveworks Momentum

Moveworks and the AI Agent Library Craze
Moveworks said its AI Agent Marketplace will make it easier for organizations to think of new agentic use cases.

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Snowflake Cortex AI + Moveworks: We’ve brought Snowflake Cortex AI into our Agent Marketplace, enabling customers to surface deep data insights from their enterprise data stack — faster and more intelligently than ever.

🔗 Read the announcement
 

Stack Overflow + Moveworks: In a first-of-its-kind move, we’ve partnered with Stack Overflow to launch custom agents that deliver verified, community-backed developer answers directly in enterprise workflows.

🔗 Check out the partnership
 

🌟 AI for Good

Diagnosing Disease with AI: AI tools are helping doctors detect coeliac disease and multiple sclerosis faster than ever. In the UK, AI is also being trialed to predict diabetes up to 13 years in advance — early detection is no longer science fiction.

🔗 MS prediction with AI

 🔗 More on coeliac diagnosis
 

😂 Weird & Wonderful AI

The Clown Spa of East Hampton: A prank AI-generated wellness site offering “clown massages” (yes, that’s a thing) is making locals laugh, and question everything about spa culture. While I haven’t been able to 100% confirm that all of the clown images are AI-generated, I sure am hoping they are!

🔗 The full ridiculous story
 

NBC Resurrects a Voice with AI: NBC is using AI to bring back Jim Fagan’s iconic NBA voice for next season’s promos. Nostalgic? Yes. Creepy? Also yes.

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😄 And Just for Laughs...

Why did the AI break up with its training data?

It felt like it was being used. 🤖💔

 

💬 Community Corner

This month’s question for you:
What’s the most surprisingly helpful or hilarious AI use case you’ve seen lately?

Reply with your favorite AI moment & we might feature your answer next month!

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