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🚀 Reddit sees AI search as a major opportunity
📱 Meta is building a standalone app for AI videos
🧑💼 OpenAI launches Frontier to manage AI like workers
🧠 Claude Opus 4.6 launches with massive context
🎬 Amazon uses AI to speed up TV and film production
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🚀 Reddit sees AI search as a major opportunity ↗️LINK
Reddit says AI-powered search is a major growth opportunity, with Reddit Answers jumping from 1 million to 15 million weekly users in 2025 as people turn to AI for complex, opinion-driven questions.
CEO Steve Huffman argues Reddit’s strength is answering questions without clear right answers, and the company plans to blend traditional search navigation with generative AI into a single experience.
Starting in Q3 2026, Reddit will use AI to personalize the platform for all users, logged in or not, while its content-licensing business continues to grow, reaching $36 million in non-ad revenue in Q4.
📱 Meta is building a standalone app for AI videos ↗️LINK
Meta is developing a standalone app for Vibes, its AI-generated video feed that lets users create TikTok-style vertical videos using prompts, after seeing strong early traction inside the Meta AI app.
The new app would give Vibes a dedicated home, making it easier to add features and create a more focused, immersive experience without cluttering the main Meta AI app.
Meta sees AI-generated images and videos as a major future engagement driver, and a standalone Vibes app would help it compete more directly with OpenAI’s Sora as AI video becomes harder to avoid online.
🧑💼 OpenAI launches Frontier to manage AI agents ↗️LINK
OpenAI unveiled Frontier, a new platform that lets companies manage AI agents like employees, complete with identities, permissions, guardrails, and performance-style evaluation.
Frontier connects AI agents directly to existing company systems so they can work with files, run code, and use tools without requiring organizations to rebuild their infrastructure.
The launch deepens OpenAI’s enterprise push, with early customers reporting major productivity gains and Frontier designed to work alongside ChatGPT Enterprise while supporting agents from other AI providers.
🧠 Claude Opus 4.6 launches with massive context ↗️LINK
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6, its most powerful model yet, built for complex, multi-step knowledge work with a 1 million–token context window and the ability to generate up to 128,000 tokens in a single response.
The model emphasizes agentic workflows, letting teams control reasoning depth with four effort levels to balance speed, accuracy, and compute cost, and is already used internally for long-running coding sessions.
Claude Opus 4.6 now powers real workflows across spreadsheets, presentations, and coding tools, while leading key benchmarks and dramatically improving long-context retrieval accuracy over prior versions.
🎬 Amazon uses AI to speed up TV and film production ↗️LINK
Amazon is launching an internal AI Studio at Amazon MGM Studios to cut costs and speed up production, with a closed beta starting in March and early results expected by May.
A small “two-pizza team” led by Albert Cheng is building AI tools for time-consuming tasks like keeping characters consistent, blending AI with live action, and working with existing creative software — while humans stay in control.
The move fits Amazon’s wider AI push as production costs rise and Prime Video cuts staff, with shows like House of David already showing how AI can expand scale without replacing creators.
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