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Your Daily AI News – Episode 9: Energy Wars, Video Showdowns & Apple’s AI Illusion

Updated: Jul 16

📅 June 11, 2025 | 🎙️ Hosts: Noah McDonough & Rick Ninja


🎧 Watch the episode: Here


Episode 009
Episode 009

Highlights from This Week

AI vs. Bitcoin: Who’s Hogging the Grid?By the end of 2025, AI may use more electricity than Bitcoin mining. With AI already accounting for 20% of data center energy, the call for sustainable compute infrastructure is louder than ever.


Sora vs Flow – AI Video Face-OffRick pitted two generative video tools—OpenAI’s Sora and Google’s Flow—against each other using the same Starcraft-themed prompt. Flow pulled ahead with voice support and cinematic details, but both showed serious potential. Expect an audience contest soon...


Strange Bedfellows: OpenAI & Google Team UpIn a surprise twist, OpenAI is now using Google Cloud alongside Microsoft, Oracle, and Coreweave. This new partnership reflects rising demand—and shifting alliances—in the AI compute race.


Apple’s WWDC: Innovation or Imitation?Apple’s 2025 keynote dropped a UI refresh that looked suspiciously like Windows Vista. Add in a research paper critiquing AI’s flaws—right after announcing a $500B AI investment—and you’ve got a whole lot of mixed messaging.


Europe’s AI Arms RaceNvidia’s Jensen Huang says Europe is resolving its compute shortage with 20 new data centers and a GPU flood—including 18,000 Blackwell chips deployed by Mistral AI.


Superstar Researchers = New RockstarsAccording to Reuters, OpenAI, Google, and XAI are shelling out multi-million-dollar contracts to recruit AI’s top minds. This talent war isn’t just about pay—it’s about access, influence, and custom chips.


Tools We Explored

  • Sora – Gorgeous realism, but still lacks audio

  • Flow – Cinematic video with voice and subtle camera effects

  • Whisk (Google) – Combines subject, style, and scene for smarter prompts

  • Meta AI – Surprisingly slick for both images and short videos

  • Midjourney – Still top-tier for visual inspiration

  • DaVinci Resolve – The team’s preferred editor for its powerful AI enhancements


Key Takeaways

  • AI’s rising energy demand is shaping infrastructure policy and global investment.

  • Europe is quickly catching up to the U.S. and China in GPU firepower.

  • Apple may be falling behind in the AI arms race—and trying to reframe the narrative.

  • OpenAI, Meta, Google, and XAI are not just competing for users—they’re battling for the brains behind the models.

  • Video generation is heating up, and your prompts are about to matter more than ever.


What’s Next?

We're cooking up an audience video creation challenge using tools like Flow, Sora, or Whisk. Submit your best short prompt video—winner gets featured and maybe even a mystery prize...


Watch Episode 009 on YouTube

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