OpenAI Built TikTok for... Someone?

I’ve been reading Dan Heath’s Reset, and early on he talks about the Miracle Question. It asks you to think about what you would notice if a miracle took place overnight and helps identify the actionable things you could do to make that “miracle” a reality.

I realized my miracle, from a work perspective, would be minimizing busy work and dealing with minutiae to free up more creative energy and strategic thinking. Less bug fixes and ticket writing, more deep thought, research, and creativity.

I’m not implying that AI is a miracle technology. It can be both useful and infuriatingly vapid at times. (No, I didn’t need you to redo all my types when I asked to find and replace a string.) But using the Miracle Question technique can be a helpful way to focus how I use new tools to make more time for the work I enjoy.

That said, let’s dive into some of the new tech from this week.

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Introducing Sora 2
OpenAI
Sora 2 is the latest iteration of OpenAI’s video model. It boasts better physics and audio, plus a stand-alone app that’s essentially a TikTok clone for AI-generated content where you can clone yourself and other users (with their permission). Early on, it’s pretty much the Wild West of copyright violations. What’s most interesting is the ability to quickly remix another video. I’m a bit skeptical about this taking off with a wider audience. Are people really interested in a nonstop feed of AI-generated slop? Will this be more than a neat parlor trick to show friends? Whatever the case, OpenAI certainly seems to be setting up its ecosystem to serve ads at some point.

Meta is also getting in on the AI feed.

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Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
Along with releasing their latest model, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Anthropic dropped an 🎥 (1:41) Imagine with Claude, which they tout as an experimental way of designing software. It builds software on the fly based on user interaction and prompts. I used it to build a text-based golf simulator game and later had it add another app for tracking scores. Both “apps” shared context with each other.

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I Tested ChatGPT As My Cofounder for a Week – Here's Everything I Learned
The AI Daily Brief
This video gives a general overview of ChatGPT Pulse, Sora 2, and Claude Imagine in 20 minutes. It’s a good summary if you’re short on time and want something to watch or listen to in the background.

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Ollama Web Search
Ollama
Ollama, an open-source tool for running LLMs locally, released a web search API that allows users to connect their local models to the web for more up-to-date information. The article includes examples of building a mini search agent and connecting with MCPs. This opens up interesting use cases for working with LLMs locally.

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Telex Turns Everyone into a WordPress Block Developer
WordPress.com
Matt Mullenweg announced Telex at this year’s WordCamp US as part of his State of the Word talk. Telex is an AI integration geared specifically toward creating custom WordPress blocks. It potentially opens up new possibilities for users to create custom blocks within their WordPress sites and has a standalone site where you can test it out in live WordPress playground environments.

It performed well enough on one of my go-to development test cases, being more limited by the WordPress playground itself than the code it generated.

Thanks for reading,
Jason