Meta Just Launched TikTok for AI-Generated Videos (Nobody Asked For This)

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OpenAI just launched ChatGPT Pulse, which works while you sleep to create personalized morning briefs. Pulse offers users five to ten briefs that can get them up to speed on their day, and is aimed at encouraging users to check ChatGPT first thing in the morning, much like they would check social media or a news app.  Instead of scrolling through social media first thing in the morning, you’d check your Pulse tab for reports on anything from sports updates to important emails. In their demo, reports included soccer news, Halloween costume ideas, and kid-friendly travel plans.

It’s only available to people paying $200 per month for ChatGPT Pro right now. The company says it wants to offer Pulse to all users eventually, but needs to make it more efficient first. Pulse can connect to your Gmail and Google Calendar to surface important emails or create meeting agendas.

If you have chatted with ChatGPT about your interests before, it remembers those too. OpenAI says this is just the start, eventually they want Pulse to actually do things for you, like making restaurant reservations. But for now, it’s a smarter way to start your day than doom-scrolling.

Meta just announced “Vibes,” a new feed that’s basically TikTok but every single video is AI-generated. Think TikTok or Instagram Reels, but every single video you come across is essentially AI slop. 

Mark Zuckerberg shared some examples on Instagram; fuzzy creatures hopping on cubes, a cat kneading dough, and an ancient Egyptian woman taking a selfie. You can create videos from scratch, remix what others made, add music, and post them to the Vibes feed or share on Instagram and Facebook.

The reaction from users was… not great. The top comment on the post reads: “gang nobody wants this,” while another popular comment says: “Bro’s posting ai slop on his own app.” 

This is pretty ironic timing. Earlier this year, Meta said it was cracking down on “unoriginal” Facebook content and told creators to focus on authentic storytelling instead of low-value videos. Meanwhile, other platforms like YouTube are actively fighting AI-generated spam content.

For now, Meta is partnering with AI companies like Midjourney to power Vibes while they work on their own AI models. The feature is available in the Meta AI app and on meta.ai. It’s hard to see who this is for, especially when people are already complaining about too much AI-generated content cluttering up social media. But Meta seems determined to catch up in the AI race, even if it means flooding the internet with more artificial videos nobody really wants to watch.

Y Combinator just launched “Early Decision,” a new program that breaks Silicon Valley’s long-standing dropout culture. The program allows them to apply while still in school, get accepted and funded immediately, and defer their participation in YC until after they graduate.

This is a big shift for YC, which has historically been associated with college dropouts like Drew Houston (Dropbox), Steve Huffman (Reddit), and the Collison brothers (Stripe). The message used to be pretty clear, do YC now or miss your chance.

“It’s designed for graduating seniors who want to do a startup but also want to finish school first,” said YC managing partner Jared Friedman. So a student could apply in fall 2025, graduate in spring 2026, then join YC’s Summer 2026 batch.

The idea came from talking to students during university visits. Many wanted to start companies but weren’t willing to sacrifice their education to do it. YC realized they were missing out on talented founders who were more cautious about dropping out.

They’re highlighting Spur as a success story - two co-founders who applied through Early Decision in fall 2023, graduated in May 2024, joined YC’s Summer 2024 batch, and have since raised $4.5 million for their AI testing tools.

This move helps YC compete with other programs trying to attract young talent, from the Thiel Fellowship to Big Tech internships. It’s also a sign that the accelerator is maturing - recognizing that some of the best founders might want to finish what they started before diving into startup life.

The dropout mythology isn’t dead, but YC is finally offering an alternative path for students who want both their degree and their startup dreams.

Emergent, a company built by twin brothers Mukund and Madhav Jha, just raised $23 million to turn regular people into app creators. The platform allows non-technical users to create an app using prompts.

For instance, for Instagram creators, but instead of making videos, people are making apps. The idea is that you tell Emergent what you want to build, and it handles all the technical bits, managing APIs, deployment, bug fixes, and backend infrastructure.

The reporter tested it by building a pet vaccine tracker. The whole process of building and auto-testing the app took me less than half an hour, and I got a satisfactory first version of the app out of it. The AI agent asked smart questions about features and automatically added useful screens that weren’t even requested.

Mukund said that more than 1 million people have built over 1.5 million apps since the tool’s launch last year. The funding round was led by Lightspeed, with backing from Y Combinator and big names like former a16z partner Balaji Srinivasan and Google’s Jeff Dean.

The challenge for “vibe coding” platforms is keeping people engaged beyond the initial novelty. Lots of people try building apps as an experiment, but maintaining them is harder. Emergent handles deployment and infrastructure to make ongoing maintenance easier.

The space is getting crowded, companies like Canva and Figma are adding app-building features, and several startups are competing for the same non-technical audience. But Emergent’s edge seems to be in actually delivering working apps that go beyond simple prototypes.

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