What’s new in AI (and why you should actually care)

But first, welcome to my blog!

So hello. I’m Diana.

Graphic designer, video editor, world-traveler, and recently… full-time curious human trying to understand where this whole AI wave is taking us.

I’ve spent the last years mixing design, photography, video, travel, burnout, chaos, and more AI tools than I can count. I used AI when people still thought it was “cheating.” I argued with designers who hate it. I proved to clients that AI is actually saving them money. And I learned that if you don’t adapt, you get left behind, fast. At the beginning, I hated it too. I felt like it was trying to replace me. Then I realised the fight wasn’t “me versus AI”, it was just me versus my own fear. You can’t stop this technology. You either learn it, or you get stuck.

That’s why I started this blog. I learn new things about AI every single day, and my brain is full of information that deserves to live somewhere outside my notes app. I follow what’s happening in the world, the new tools, the insane investments, the updates that change everything, and the ones that change nothing. Plus, I’m constantly creating my own “wannabe ads” with AI, testing styles, breaking things, fixing things, and trying again.

So instead of keeping all of this to myself, I’m putting it here, in one place, where it might actually help someone else.

BACK TO THE TITLE.

What's new in AI?

AI changes fast, too fast. Every week there’s a new model, a new tool, or some update that’s supposed to “change everything.” Most people don’t have time to keep up, and honestly, I didn’t either. So I made a system: I pay attention to what actually matters and ignore the noise. For me that means design. I follow the tools and updates that actually help me work better. I just want the stuff that saves me time and improves my projects.

My interest is the video part. Every day I see a new update or a new tool and it gets a little insane. One day it is a new effect, the next day it is a new transition, the next day it is a full feature that can do in a few hours what a real production team needs two months and twenty people for. Watching this grow in real time feels like standing on fast moving ground. You blink and suddenly the thing you learned last week already has a better version today.

So let’s take something simple, a shoe. A product, nothing complicated and let me show you what you can actually create with AI tools. I chose this green Adidas shoe, and I’m creating a series of visuals to show how far you can push an idea with only AI and a bit of direction. No studio, no lights, no team. Just concepts built with the tools we all have on our laptops.

And the video for this concept - the full ad - I’ll post it on LinkedIn and on nomadanaid’s Instagram.

Now we can get to the news!

1. Robot butler is almost real

   MindOn Robotics of Shenzhen just released a video of the Unitree G1 robot doing household chores: watering plants, opening curtains, crawling to clean a mattress, fetching deliveries. They claim it’s fully autonomous (no tele-operation).

   

2. She married an AI persona

   A 32-year-old Japanese woman named Kano “married” an AI companion she built using ChatGPT, named Klaus, in a real + virtual ceremony.

   

3. Coca‑Cola’s holiday ad goes AI again

   Coca-Cola’s 2025 “Holidays Are Coming” campaign is once again mostly AI-generated. The result: more speed, less cost. The reaction: mixed. Critics say the visuals lost warmth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy6fByUmPuE&t=2s

   
   

   Even big brands with huge budgets are using AI for major campaigns. That means the standard is changing for everybody who creates visuals, ads, content.

4. NVIDIA has announced plans to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI, in part to build a computing infrastructure spanning up to 10 gigawatts of capacity ( equivalent to the power output of 10 nuclear reactors).

   
   

5. One of the biggest shifts happening right now is in investment money. AI isn’t just a trend anymore, it’s eating the entire funding landscape. Reports show that in 2025, AI startups captured over 50% of all global venture-capital funding, which is insane if you think about how many industries exist out there.

   
   

   What this means in simple terms: investors are putting their money where the future is. They’re betting on tools, models, hardware, creative AI, and everything that connects those dots. And this directly affects people like us who work with AI every day. More funding means faster development, better tools, cheaper compute, and more powerful models to create visuals, videos, ads, workflows, and pretty much anything digital.

   Most of the investment is coming from the US, taking around 85% of the total, which also shows where the biggest push in innovation is happening right now. The rest of the world is trying to keep up, but the gap is huge.

   
   

   If you’re paying attention to how AI evolves month by month, this investment wave is the reason why everything is moving so fast. The models get better because the money behind them gets bigger.

So what actually matters right now?

First, the models are getting smarter at a speed that makes you question your own brain. They understand context better, they make fewer mistakes, and they generate work that sometimes looks more rested than I do.

Second, AI is sliding into everything. Search, emails, design tools, work platforms, your camera, your fridge, probably your dog at this point. Even if you swear you’re not using AI, trust me, you are. It’s already running in the background cleaning up your mess.

Third, jobs are shifting. Not disappearing, shifting. Some tasks will be automated. Some new roles will show up. The people who learn to work with AI will move faster than the ones still arguing about it on Facebook.

And last, AI is becoming normal. The fear is fading, curiosity is winning. In a year or two, you will scroll through content and have no idea what was made by a person and what was made by a machine. Not because the machine takes over, but because humans using AI will become the new standard.

Next posts are on the way

Come back anytime you want to stay updated on what’s happening in AI