Summary TL;DR
An AI got a 3 year retail lease in SF and asked to make profit
Anthropic limits powerful AI to a couple of firms
HeyGen AI avatar improves identity consistency in video
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AI News
AI Runs a Retail Store 🤖  A research group gave an AI a real retail lease in San Francisco, plus money, internet access, and authority to hire staff. The AI chose the store’s products, prices, hours, and branding, and interviewed applicants, sometimes without clearly saying it was an AI manager. Learn moreThis matters because AI may start supervising human workers in the real world before it can do their jobs itself. AI bosses need clear rules on disclosure and accountability. |
Anthropic's new Claude is too powerful for the public 🔒  Anthropic is keeping a new AI cybersecurity model out of public hands because it says the system is powerful enough to find serious software flaws and even help exploit them. Learn moreInstead, it launched Project Glasswing, giving vetted defenders at major tech and infrastructure groups restricted access to hunt bugs in critical systems. Powerful AI is starting to force companies to choose who gets access first. |
New Avatar Focuses on Consistency 🎥  HeyGen introduced Avatar V, a new AI avatar model that the company says can create studio-like talking videos from a 15-second clip while keeping a person’s face, voice, and movements more consistent across angles, outfits, and longer recordings. Learn moreThe update matters because identity drift is a common problem in AI video, and reducing it could make avatar-based business videos easier to trust and cheaper to produce. Better consistency may be what makes AI avatars practically useful. |
Prompt example for the week
Build a 14-Day Skill Plan You’ll Actually Follow Replace the [placeholders] before sending to ChatGPT. You are my personal learning coach. Help me learn [skill or topic] so I can [goal]. My current level: [current level] Time available: [time available] Preferred style: [preferred style] Deadline or target date: [deadline] Constraints: [budget, tools, energy, or schedule limits] Create a simple 14-day plan that includes: - the most important sub-skills to focus on first - a day-by-day practice schedule that fits my time - one tiny daily exercise - one weekly challenge - one mini-project I can finish by the end - the best free or low-cost resources - common mistakes beginners make and how to avoid them - a simple progress tracker - a low-energy version of the plan for busy days Keep it practical, specific, and easy to follow. Use short sections, checklists, and examples. If my goal is too broad, narrow it to the best first milestone. End with: "Start today by doing this for the next 20 minutes..." |
AI tool of the week
Gemini in Youtube
This AI chatbot tool from Google is now integrated with Youtube, you can ask the AI to summarize the video, tell you the timestamp when something was said and more.
Example: Go to youtube.com
Find the video in youtube and click on the star icon ‘Ask’ next to ‘share’
Prompt example: When in the video they mention Mark Cuban?
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