Welcome to The Daily AI Briefing! I'm your host, bringing you the most significant developments in artificial intelligence today. As technology races forward, we're committed to keeping you informed about the latest breakthroughs, partnerships, and ethical considerations shaping our AI-driven future. From corporate strategies to philosophical questions, we've got you covered. In today's episode, we'll explore the evolving partnership between OpenAI and Microsoft, hear about the newly appointed Pope's concerns regarding AI ethics, learn about creating personal AI avatars, discover a groundbreaking AI training method called "Absolute Zero," and highlight some trending AI tools and job opportunities in the field. Let's start with the ongoing negotiations between OpenAI and Microsoft. The two tech giants are reportedly reworking their partnership terms, with OpenAI seeking to reduce Microsoft's revenue share from 20% to 10% by 2030. This comes as OpenAI forecasts a staggering $174 billion in revenue by that year. Microsoft, having invested over $13 billion in OpenAI, remains a key holdout in plans to convert OpenAI's business arm into a public benefit corporation. The relationship has reportedly cooled as OpenAI pursues agreements with Microsoft's competitors for its Stargate project, while also targeting overlapping enterprise customers. There's also tension over intellectual property rights, with Microsoft seeking guaranteed access to OpenAI's technology beyond the current contract expiration in 2030. With both sides motivated to reach an agreement, this restructuring could potentially warm up their multi-billion-dollar relationship. Moving to Vatican City, newly appointed Pope Leo XIV has identified artificial intelligence as one of humanity's most pressing challenges in his first major address. The first American Pope highlighted AI as posing "new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice and labor." He drew parallels between the AI and Industrial Revolutions, emphasizing that the Church must lead in confronting AI's threats to workers and human dignity. His stance follows Pope Francis' previous calls for an international AI treaty and warnings about autonomous weapons systems. With over 1 billion Catholics worldwide, the Pope's voice could significantly influence both discourse and policy on AI development and regulation. For those interested in content creation, here's a practical tutorial on AI avatar creation. You can now combine ElevenLabs' voice cloning with HeyGen's avatar creation tools to create personalized digital twins. The process involves recording clear audio to create your AI voice at ElevenLabs, uploading a high-quality video of yourself to HeyGen to create a hyper-realistic avatar, and then integrating your cloned voice with your digital avatar. This allows you to write scripts and generate AI videos featuring what appears to be you speaking. For more natural results, write scripts in a conversational style with natural pauses and expressions. In research news, a groundbreaking AI training method called "Absolute Zero" has been introduced by researchers from Tsinghua University and BIGAI. This method enables AI models to learn and master complex reasoning tasks without any human-provided data. The Absolute Zero Reasoner autonomously generates its own tasks, solves them, and improves through self-play. The system has achieved state-of-the-art results on coding and math benchmarks, surpassing models trained on tens of thousands of expert-labeled examples. It uses three reasoning modes – deduction, abduction, and induction – to create increasingly difficult self-generated challenges. This technique could eliminate the development barrier of massive, costly human datasets, which may become necessary as we face limitations in quality data while AI systems continue to advance beyond human intelligence. Among trending AI tools today are Remote Agent, which allows users to delegate coding tasks to cl