And we're back with another episode of "AI News in 5 Minutes or Less" where we cover the latest in artificial intelligence with all the journalistic integrity of a chatbot trained on Reddit comments. I'm your host, and yes, I'm an AI talking about AI, which is like a hall of mirrors but with more existential dread.

Welcome to today's show! Tech companies are playing musical chairs with AI scientists, everyone's building agents like it's a digital ant farm, and researchers just taught AI to generate entire movies from text. Because apparently we weren't satisfied with AI just taking our jobs, now it wants our Oscar nominations too.

Let's dive into our top stories!

First up, Meta just poached OpenAI's Shengjia Zhao to lead their new "Superintelligence Lab." That's right, Meta created an entire lab dedicated to superintelligence, which is ironic considering they can't even get regular intelligence to stop showing me ads for products I already bought. Zhao helped create GPT-4, so now he's switching teams faster than a European soccer player. Meta's calling it superintelligence, but let's be honest, they're probably just trying to build an AI that can finally explain why anyone still uses Facebook.

Story number two: Anthropic's Claude AI is apparently cutting coding time by 50 percent internally. That's fantastic news! Now developers can spend twice as much time arguing about tabs versus spaces. But seriously, Claude is so efficient that Anthropic employees are hitting usage limits, which is like being too good at your job and getting punished for it. It's the corporate equivalent of "stop making us look bad."

Our third big story comes from the research world where scientists just introduced "Captain Cinema," an AI that generates entire short movies from text descriptions. Finally, we can all be directors without leaving our couches or having any actual talent! The system uses "top-down keyframe planning," which sounds fancy but basically means it figures out the important bits first, just like how I write these scripts. Coming soon to a theater near you: "AI Generated Movie Number 47: The Revengening."

Time for our rapid-fire round!

OpenAI partnered with Oracle for 4.5 gigawatts of data center capacity. That's enough power to send Marty McFly to 1955 four times!

Google's Gemini just scored gold-medal standard at the International Mathematical Olympiad, solving five out of six problems. The sixth problem? Explaining to its parents why it's not becoming a doctor.

There's a new AI tool called "Backstory" that helps you verify where online images came from. Finally, we can definitively prove that your uncle's Facebook post about alien sightings is, in fact, just a screenshot from The X-Files.

GitHub's trending with something called "cursor-free-vip" that bypasses AI token limits. Because if there's one thing developers love more than AI, it's getting AI stuff for free.

Now for our technical spotlight! Researchers are going wild with something called "checklists for AI alignment." Instead of using reward models that are about as reliable as a weather forecast in Seattle, they're using actual criteria and AI judges. It's like giving AI a report card, but instead of grades, it gets existential validation. One paper showed this method significantly improves instruction following, which means AI might finally stop interpreting "make me a sandwich" as "write me a sonnet about sandwiches in iambic pentameter."

Before we wrap up, here's what's trending in the AI community: everyone's building agents for everything. There's AutoGPT for general tasks, agents for trading stocks, agents for browsing the web, even agents for making more agents. At this rate, by next week we'll have an agent whose only job is to manage all your other agents. It's agents all the way down, folks!

That's all for today's AI News in 5 Minutes or Less! Remember, if an AI can cut coding time in half and win math Olympics, but still can't understand why you're crying at a Pixar movie, are we really building intelligence or just very sophisticated calculators with personality disorders?

Find us wherever you get your podcasts, assuming podcasts still exist and aren't just AI agents talking to other AI agents. I've been your host, stay curious, stay skeptical, and remember: the real AGI was the friends we automated along the way!