🗞️ 4 AI News Stories You Might Have Missed

📽️ Amazon Nova Reel v1.1 creates 2-minute multi-shot AI videos

Amazon’s Nova Reel just got an upgrade: version 1.1, and it’s a massive leap. The update now allows users to generate AI videos up to two minutes long—doubling the previous cap. More impressive? Its new multi-shot feature. Users can now stitch together scenes to create longer, narrative-driven content in a single generation flow.

The creative tools come with a redesigned interface, improved rendering quality, and an expanded template library that includes cinematic styles and explainer formats. From brand ads to TikToks, Nova Reel is clearly coming for Runway and Pika’s lunch.

🔍 Google AI Mode changes how we search

Google is gradually rolling out a new AI Mode in search, designed to blend traditional keyword-based results with multimodal intelligence. Users can now upload images alongside queries and get deeper, context-rich answers.

AI Mode also comes with inline summaries and follow-up prompts, turning search into more of a conversation than a transaction. With added Lens functionality, it’s also helping bridge the gap between visual and verbal search.

🦙 Llama 4 is here—and it’s complicated

Meta officially released Llama 4 last week, their most powerful and versatile model yet. On paper, it’s a win: Llama 4 boasts impressive multimodal reasoning and tight integration with image, text, and code generation tasks.

But controversy followed quickly. Meta denied reports that it manipulated benchmark results by fine-tuning its models with test sets—though critics aren’t convinced. The model also remains closed-source, which has frustrated the open AI community.

Is it a leap forward? Yes. But it’s also a reminder that model releases come with trade-offs.

🪽 Microsoft Co-Pilot just became your new productivity wingman

Microsoft Copilot just received its biggest overhaul to date. The April update includes 8 new upgrades across Teams, Outlook, Word, and Excel. Highlights include:

• Smart meeting recaps

• AI-powered email tone rewrites

• Enhanced spreadsheet formula explanations

• Workflow suggestions based on usage patterns

The upgrades make Copilot feel less like a writing tool and more like an actual assistant. For once, the name fits.

🌪️ The 2027 AI Apocalypse?

A bold new report from the Center for AI Policy outlines a dystopian scenario for 2027: wide-scale job loss, political manipulation, AI-powered cyberattacks, and runaway misinformation—all fueled by increasingly autonomous systems.

🔬 What experts fear most

While the predictions are speculative, they come from a coalition of respected researchers, policy experts, and technologists. One scenario suggests rogue agents could manipulate global stock markets before detection; another envisions large-scale influence campaigns using deepfake videos and synthetic news.

Perhaps most alarming is the warning that cyberattacks may not just become more frequent but also fully autonomous, learning in real-time how to bypass defenses. And with AI becoming more accessible, experts fear bad actors won’t need much skill to deploy high-impact attacks.

⏰ This is our wakeup call

The takeaway? Don’t panic—but don’t look away either. Whether or not the doomsday timeline is accurate, the report acts as a wake-up call. It’s a useful thought experiment that underscores just how quickly the tech landscape is evolving—and how unprepared we might be for what’s coming next.

This Week’s Scoop 🍦

💸 OpenAI may buy io Products for $500M to boost its hardware play

📊 IBM make a major acquisition to expand data expertise

⚖️ An AI avatar tried to argue in court (and failed)

🛍️ Shopify CEO says: Prove AI can’t do it before hiring humans

💤 Google allegedly paying AI staff to keep them from jumping ship

🚗 Waymo might use cabin cam data to train AI models and sell ads

⏳Challenge of the Week: Use AI to Win Back Your Time

Here’s where to start:

• 📝 For writing: Use Notion AI or ChatGPT to draft blog posts, emails, or reports faster.

• 📊 For planning: Try Reclaim.ai to automate your calendar and task prioritization.

• 🛍️ For shopping: Install Honey to save money + time while shopping online.

• 🧠 For learning: Use Elicit or Perplexity to summarize long documents, papers, or meeting notes.

• 📚 For research: Try Consensus to scan and synthesize peer-reviewed academic papers based on your query.

• 📷 For visuals: Use Kive to auto-organize image inspiration and create brand lookbooks or content boards.

• 📂 For workflow: Check out Magical to automate repetitive browser tasks and email copy-paste work.

🏁 Try one (or more), test your time savings, and let us know: What did you reclaim?

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That’s it for this week’s Jumble! From Nova Reel’s video leaps to Microsoft’s polished Co-Pilot—and yes, another AI doomsday forecast—the AI race isn’t slowing down. What’s your take? Are we heading for a creative boom or a crash?

Stay informed, stay curious, and stay ahead with Jumble!

Zoe from Jumble