Oh goodness, I have to laugh! I'm not sure if the universe is giving me signs to stop or what, yes another bout in the hospital, my brother found me on my bedroom floor after 3 days unconscious. 100% totally clear tox screen, hospital again, then back surgery, then a car accident (I wasn't driving) and dad had a heart attack..........I can't make this stuff up! Maybe instead of the book "The perils of Pauline" it should just be: 1) Laura’s Perils, Purpose, and Power, OR 2) The Trials and Triumphs of Laura OR 3) Laura’s Life Unscripted OR 4) Laura’s Story: Still Standing...Quick vote? Somewhere there has to be some money made in this rodeo of Life!!!

From Daniel Chou on FB. A video tutorial, and a G docs link to the detailed prompt sequence to generate the content. 👉🏼Get it here

We’re excited to introduce GPT‑5.5, our smartest and most intuitive to use model yet, and the next step toward a new way of getting work done on a computer. GPT-5.5 is now available in the API, Codex, and ChatGPT. GPT‑5.5 understands what you’re trying to do faster and can carry more of the work itself. It also uses significantly fewer tokens to complete the same tasks, making it more efficient as well as more capable. To get the most out of GPT-5.5 in the API, check out our API prompt guide and migration guide, or use the command: [$openai-docs migrate this project to gpt-5.5] to kick off a plan to migrate your API integration via Codex.

Let me know if anyone uses this tool and has done this? AI TRAINING 📺 Build an automated ad generator with this tool The Rundown: In this guide, you will learn how to turn a product photo into a finished video ad using ElevenLabs Flows. It's a new workflow builder that bundles image, video, voice, and music in one place. Step-by-step: 1. Open ElevenLabs, click ElevenCreative > Flows, then hit + New Flow. Name it [product line] ad template so you can reuse it 2. Add an Image Generation node and upload product 1-3 product shots. Prompt with a scene, like: “The product (see references) on a white pedestal, studio product shoot, soft morning light, photorealistic product shot” 3. Add a Video Generation node, drag a line from the image node's output into the video node's start frame, and prompt: “Slow cinematic push-in on the product, soft morning light drifting across the scene, shallow depth of field” 4. Click Run on the video node > Run till here to generate an image and video in one go. Then, swap out image/video prompts, and quickly iterate on creatives Pro tip: For audio, add a Text-to-Speech or Music node and connect it to a Mix Audio node alongside the video. You can also try this on other products by duplicating the canvas and swapping in new images.

MICROSOFT 🎨 Microsoft AI’s image model climbs leaderboards Image source: Microsoft The Rundown: Microsoft's AI Superintelligence team just released MAI-Image-2, a text-to-image model that landed at No. 5 on the Arena AI leaderboard — marking the strongest release yet for Mustafa Suleyman’s lab. The details: - Arena.ai ranked MAI-Image-2 at No. 5 overall, trailing just Gemini (several variants) and GPT Image-1.5 with strong upgrades in photorealism, 3D, and art. - The biggest jump from its predecessor came in text rendering, up 115 points, with drastically improved performance on posters, slides, and infographics. - MAI-Image-2 is free to try in Microsoft's MAI Playground for U.S. users, with Copilot, Bing, and API access on its Foundry platform rolling out soon. - The release comes amid Microsoft’s AI leadership shuffle, with Suleyman shifting away from Copilot to focus solely on frontier model work.