South Korea AI Investment Surges as Seoul Unveils 728 Trillion Won Budget

Futuristic digital illustration of South Korea’s AI investment plan with parliament building and AI holograms

With a record 728 trillion won budget focused on artificial intelligence, South Korea is betting big on sovereign AI development. Social media is already buzzing about the audacious plan. South Korea’s AI investment plans exploded across Reddit and X overnight as the nation’s ministry revealed a budget blueprint unlike anything Asia has seen. Posters on […]

Toki AI Avatar Generator Turns a Single Photo into a Lifelike Talking Video

Screenshot-style illustration showing Toki AI turning a photo into a talking avatar video

Rising startup Toki AI unveiled a new avatar generator that can transform any photograph into a realistic talking video, complete with facial expressions and lip‑synced speech. Users are already flooding TikTok with their creations. Within hours of its midnight announcement, Toki AI’s avatar generator had TikTok and YouTube brimming with uncanny talking heads. A single […]

Cognizant to Deploy 1,000 Context Engineers to Industrialise Agentic AI

Illustration of context engineers feeding structured knowledge into AI systems

IT giant Cognizant has teamed up with Workfabric AI to create a new job category — context engineers — who will convert corporate knowledge into structured inputs for AI agents. The move has developers buzzing about a whole new career path. A LinkedIn post went viral this morning: “Forget prompt engineers — the hottest AI […]

Pollo AI Debuts Google Nano Banana: A Playful Name for a Powerful Image Generator

Futuristic banana-themed AI model generating consistent digital images

Generative AI platform Pollo AI has unleashed Google Nano Banana, a new model delivering ultra‑fast image creation and editing with unprecedented character consistency. Paid users have unlimited use — and the name alone is sparking memes. “Which flavour would you like — Gemini 2.5 Flash or Nano Banana?” That joke is circulating in AI art […]

OpenAI’s gpt‑realtime and Realtime API Push Voice AI to the Next Level

Illustration of gpt-realtime AI handling speech, images and phone calls in real time.

OpenAI’s gpt‑realtime and Realtime API Push Voice AI to the Next Level OpenAI’s newly launched gpt‑realtime model and the Realtime API promise more natural conversation, tool‑calling, image inputs and even phone calls. Early adopters on GitHub are calling it a game‑changer. OpenAI’s latest upgrade had developers refreshing their API dashboards at midnight. gpt‑realtime isn’t just […]