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🥷 Monday's AI Moves: New Tools and Breaking News!

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🥷 Hello AI Ninja,

Today we’re covering a cinematic AI video tool that turns simple prompts into Hollywood-style scenes, the AI tools trending right now, and the biggest headlines shaping the AI race.

Plus, a quick tutorial on using Perplexity to research anything in minutes, the top AI finance and forecasting tools, and brand new AI releases worth exploring.

Let’s get into it. 🚀

Today’s Lineup

  • 🥷 NINJA AI TOOL: Turn Prompts Into Cinematic Videos

  • 📈 WHAT’S POPULAR: Top Trending AI Websites & Tools

  • 🗞️ WHAT’S HAPPENING: Breaking AI News and Updates

  • 🎓 AI TUTORIAL: Use Perplexity to Research Anything

  • 🏆 BEST BY CATEGORY: AI Finance & Forecasting Tools

  • 🔥 HOT OFF THE PRESS: Brand New AI Tool Releases

Read time: 5 mins

Ninja AI Tool

🥷 Hollywood Should Be Nervous About This New AI Video Tool

Creating cinematic videos usually takes expensive gear, editing skills, and hours of work. Hailuo AI removes that friction.

It lets you turn simple prompts or photos into cinematic scenes with realistic motion and consistent characters, all from your browser.

Here is what stands out:

• Generate videos from text prompts or images
• Set the first and last frame and let AI create everything in between
• One click viral templates like Dance, Petpal, BabyForm, Ads, Horror, and ReStyle
• Create 4K images with Nano Banana Pro and convert them into videos
• Built in AI Agent that generates images, video, audio, and music for full short films
• Consistent characters and cinematic motion
• New users get 200 free credits

In practice, this is useful for creating social media content, prototyping ads, testing story ideas, animating still images, or building short films without editing software. It is fast, flexible, and surprisingly practical for everyday content creation.

Best for: creators, marketers, freelancers, indie filmmakers, and anyone experimenting with AI video.

Right now, the Annual plan is up to 60% off. The Max Plan also offers unlimited generation with the Hi Luo AI 2.3 model.

If you're curious, give Hailuo AI a try. I have also include 10 cinematic prompts you can copy and try with Hailuo right now.

If you want to see it in action, check out my recent Instagram reel on Hailuo AI.

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  • 7 high-impact AI strategies to accelerate your marketing performance

  • Practical use cases for content creation, lead gen, and personalization

  • Expert insights into how top marketers are using AI today

  • A framework to evaluate and implement AI tools efficiently

Stay ahead of the curve with these top strategies AI helped develop for marketers, built for real-world results.

Top Trending AI Tools

Here’s what’s trending right now based on usage and creator buzz.

  • Hailuo AI → AI video generator that turns prompts or photos into cinematic scenes with realistic motion and professional-quality visuals.

  • Cohere Transcribe → open-source speech recognition model that converts audio into highly accurate text across real-world speech scenarios.

  • Phota Studio→ photo editing and generation model that reimagines and enhances your photos while preserving your identity and real moments.

  • TRIBE v2 → simulates how the brain responds to sights, sounds, and language to predict neural activity and understand human perception.

Breaking AI News

  • Anthropic Leak Reveals Powerful New Model
    Why It Matters  A leaked frontier model raises fears that AI capabilities may grow faster than safety protections.

  • Judge Blocks Ban Targeting Anthropic
    Why It Matters The decision could shape how governments regulate AI companies and limit political pressure.

  • Mistral Raises $830M for AI Infrastructure
    Why It Matters Europe is building its own AI compute to reduce reliance on U.S. tech giants.

  • Eli Lilly Expands AI Drug Discovery Push
    Why It Matters AI designed medicines could help companies discover treatments faster and lower development costs.

  • Google Expands Gemini Live Translate Feature
    Why It Matters Real time translation could make AI useful in daily conversations, travel, and meetings.

  • xAI Loses Final Remaining Co-Founder
    Why It Matters Leadership turnover suggests xAI is still stabilizing as competition intensifies in AI.

AI Tutorial

How to Use Perplexity to Research Anything in Minutes

You don’t need to open dozens of tabs anymore. You can use Perplexity to research topics and get cited answers in one place.

Steps

  1. Go to Perplexity

  2. Sign in if you want to save your thread or use more features.

  3. Type your research question.

  4. Press Enter to generate an answer.

  5. Review the summary and numbered citations.

  6. Open the cited sources to verify key points.

  7. Ask a follow-up question to go deeper.

  8. Request a summary, bullet points, or a simpler explanation.

  9. Copy your notes or save the thread.

Example prompts:

"Summarize AI marketing trends in 2026"
"Give me 5 business ideas using AI automation"

Result:
You now have a quick research workflow that gives you a summarized answer plus linked sources you can verify yourself.

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BEST BY CATEGORY

Top 4 AI Finance & Forecasting Tools

Tool Name

Best For

Standout Feature

Price

Anaplan

Enterprise scenario planning

Connected AI forecasting engine

Custom quote only

Planful

CFO-led FP&A teams

Explainable finance AI assistants

Custom quote only

IBM Planning Analytics

Complex multidimensional forecasting

Built-in auditable AI forecasts

Public estimator available

Pigment

Fast collaborative planning

Real-time agentic modeling

Custom plan pricing

Brand New Releases

I slice through the noise to bring you the best and coolest new AI tools worth your time.

  • Agentplace → build, run, and continuously improve Claude Code–style AI agents in one centralized workspace.

  • Omma → create 3D experiences, apps, and websites by orchestrating multiple AI agents that work in parallel.

  • Flowershow → Publish your markdown files as a beautiful website in seconds, without coding or setup.

  • Splitsense → generates, tests, and optimizes website variations to turn your existing traffic into more revenue.

That’s a wrap!

I hope you had a great weekend. I’ll see you in your inbox tomorrow at 12PM Eastern Standard Time.

Brad Gaines @NinjaAiTools

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