TechCrunch's AI newsletter, This Week in AI, has reached an inflection point, prompting a change in its format to better cope with the deluge of AI-related news. The newsletter's team, acknowledging the challenge of covering every announcement, controversy, academic paper, trend, open model release, lawsuit, and more, has decided to make its content more concise while maintaining a regular cadence.

The reason behind this change is the sheer volume of AI news, with major players like OpenAI, Google, and Elon Musk's xAI gearing up to launch significant new products. This month alone, OpenAI is engaged in a 12-day press engagement, while Google and xAI are preparing to unveil major AI products. The AI news cycle has become overwhelming, making it difficult for the small team behind This Week in AI to cover every development.

Despite the changes, the newsletter's goal remains the same: to provide readers with a comprehensive overview of the AI landscape. The team is committed to delivering a more digestible newsletter, and they invite feedback from readers to ensure the new format meets their needs.

In other AI news, a well-known test for artificial general intelligence (AGI) is nearing completion, but its creators argue that this progress highlights flaws in the test's design rather than a genuine breakthrough in research. Meanwhile, Amazon has announced the establishment of a new R&D lab in San Francisco, the Amazon AGI SF Lab, focused on building "foundational" capabilities for AI agents.

OpenAI's video generator, Sora, has launched for most subscribers to OpenAI's ChatGPT Pro and Plus plans, although users in Europe were excluded. China's market regulator has reportedly opened an antitrust probe into Nvidia's acquisition of Mellanox, an Israel-based company working on high-performance chips for supercomputers.

Yelp has introduced AI-powered review insights, which analyze the sentiment of reviews and highlight them by category. Google has signed a deal to invest $20 billion in renewable energy, sufficient to power several gigawatt-scale data centers. Reddit has debuted its conversational AI feature, Reddit Answers, which provides users with curated summaries of relevant responses and threads across the platform.

X (formerly Twitter) has gained a new image generator, Aurora, courtesy of xAI, Elon Musk's AI startup. The model is tuned for "photorealistic rendering" and can be found in X's Grok assistant. A team of computer scientists from Ai2 and UC San Diego has created an AI model that can predict 100 years of climate patterns in just 25 hours, using a series of transformations to predict future patterns.

A new video-generating model out of MIT CSAIL and Adobe Research, called CausVid, can start playing videos the moment it begins to generate them, providing a preview of the finished clip. The researchers plan to release an open-source implementation soon. Finally, a group of artists who leaked access to Sora last November has published a series of essays explaining their actions, which they claim were motivated by a desire to denounce the exploitation of creatives for R&D and public relations.