Welcome to The Daily AI Briefing! Your essential update on the most significant developments in artificial intelligence happening right now. I'm your host, bringing you the latest innovations, breakthroughs, and discussions shaping the AI landscape today. Whether you're a tech enthusiast, industry professional, or just curious about AI's growing impact, this is your daily dose of what matters most. Today's headlines include Meta's ambitious plans for a fully automated ad platform, Microsoft offering free access to Sora through Bing, a practical guide to automating coding tasks, and Sakana AI's remarkable self-improving system. Let's dive into these stories. First up, Meta is making waves with plans to completely automate their advertising platform by 2026. According to the Wall Street Journal, the company aims to create an AI system that can develop Facebook and Instagram ads using just a product image and budget—no humans required. This automated system would handle everything from crafting text and visuals to selecting target audiences and managing campaign placement. What makes this particularly interesting is the capability to create personalized ads that adapt in real-time based on user context. For example, the same car advertisement might show mountains or urban streets depending on the viewer's location. Meta is primarily targeting smaller businesses that lack dedicated marketing teams, offering them professional-grade advertising without agency fees or specialized skills. With advertising already accounting for 97% of Meta's annual revenue, this move aligns perfectly with Mark Zuckerberg's broader AI strategy. If successful, this system could significantly disrupt the digital marketing landscape, especially for small brands seeking results without complexity. Moving on to Microsoft, the tech giant has just announced Bing Video Creator, which integrates OpenAI's Sora video generation model into the Bing mobile app. The exciting part? It's available for free. Users can create five-second videos from text descriptions without requiring any subscription. The service offers 10 fast video generations and unlimited slower generations, with additional fast credits available through Microsoft's rewards program. Currently launching on iOS and Android mobile apps, with desktop and Copilot Search versions coming soon, the feature limits videos to vertical format and 5-second clips, with up to three videos creatable simultaneously. While Sora initially generated significant hype but failed to meet expectations, Microsoft's free offering could expose a whole new user base to AI video creation for the first time, even with its limitations. For developers and coders, Google's async development agent Jules offers an exciting way to automate coding tasks. This tool can automatically fix bugs, add features, and handle various software engineering tasks in your GitHub repositories. The process is straightforward: visit Jules, connect your GitHub account, select your repository and branch, and describe your task in the chat. Jules will then create a plan for you to approve, work on it asynchronously, and prepare the changes for you to publish. With 60 free daily tasks that refresh every 24 hours, it's an accessible tool for handling repetitive coding work. Perhaps the most fascinating development comes from Sakana AI and the University of British Columbia, who have introduced the Darwin Gödel Machine. This AI agent can rewrite its own code to improve performance, achieving up to 150% better results without human intervention. Starting as a coding assistant, DGM autonomously discovers improvements like editing tools, error memory, and peer review capabilities. This has significantly boosted its performance on coding benchmarks—jumping from 20% to 50% on SWE-bench and from 14% to over 30% on Polyglot. Inspired by Darwinian evolution, the system experiments with code changes, keeping what works and archiving promising "mutations"