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Hey, Jhon!
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Welcome back to the #1 AI newsletter in the world!
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Here’s what we have today:
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See what ChatGPT knows about you in one image.
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AI helps Webb find planets hiding in the glare.
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81 hidden holes turn up in Firefox.
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An AI learns to sound caring on the phone.
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Try This
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What Does ChatGPT Know About You?
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With memory on, ChatGPT saves details from your chats and brings them back in new ones.
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After enough chats, it gets hard to keep track of what’s in there (and you may not know what’s saved in there).
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To find out how much of your life lives in ChatGPT, try this test. It answers with an image instead of a list.
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Grab the empty room above and try it:
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Save or copy the image of the empty room.
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Open a new chat in ChatGPT and paste it in.
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Type “Fill this room with everything you know about me” and send it.
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Your room should come back furnished with everything ChatGPT has picked up about you.
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Some of what shows up might be things you mentioned once and forgot about (and maybe some you don’t want it to remember).
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How full it gets depends on how much you’ve shared. If you’re on a free account, you get a lighter version of memory. Your room may come back emptier.
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Note: It doesn’t work in a temporary chat, since those don’t use memory at all.
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To see the list behind your room, open Settings, go to Personalization, and tap Manage memories.
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From there you can tell ChatGPT to delete anything you don’t want it remembering, or switch memory off completely (click the three dots and select “Delete and turn off memory.”)
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That list only shows saved memories. On paid plans ChatGPT can also pull from your past chats, and those don’t show up in it.
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One thing to know is that deleting a chat doesn’t erase what ChatGPT saved from it. You have to delete the memory itself.
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Our take: A room you can glance at beats a list you’d never scroll through. Run it again in a month and put the two rooms side by side. Anything new on the shelves is something you told it since. And if you want to remove anything, just follow the steps above.
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Together with Wispr Flow
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Bye-Bye Copy-Paste
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Cleaning up a message with AI means copying it into a chatbot, typing what you want done, then pasting the result back where it came from.
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After the third or fourth round of that, the copying can start to feel like it takes longer than the fix itself.
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Wispr Flow cuts out the trip by running your go-to AI prompts right where you’re typing, on a shortcut.
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You save an instruction once as a Transform, something like “turn this into a tidy checklist” or “make this sound warmer!”
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From then on, all you have to do is highlight the text and press the shortcut. The new version will drop in right where the old one was.
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And it works in most apps where you can select text, on Mac and Windows. Give a Transform up to five samples of your own writing and what comes back sounds like you wrote it.
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Once one is set up, you can have it run automatically, every time you dictate.
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Space
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Webb Finds Planets Hiding in the Glare
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The James Webb Space Telescope can photograph planets circling other stars.
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But it has to block out the star first. That’s because a young giant planet glows 100,000 times fainter than the star beside it.
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Now the same math that trains AI is pulling out planets the standard approach missed.
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The trouble starts with a wobble too small to notice.
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The usual fix is to photograph a similar star and subtract its glare from the real shot. Webb shifts a tiny bit between those two photos as it drifts and warms up. That leaves leftover glare behind, and a faint planet can disappear inside it.
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The new method starts from a computer model of Webb’s own optics.
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It tunes millions of settings until the glare it predicts matches the real photo, then subtracts it.
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The run takes around 35 minutes on a single graphics card and planets come through 2-15x fainter than the old method could catch.
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It also took the first image of a giant planet called 51 Eridani b in the kind of light where carbon dioxide shows up.
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Telescopes on the ground can’t see that light, because Earth’s own air soaks it up.
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More than 100 Webb observations shot the same way could get a second look with it.
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Our take: The telescope meant to photograph planets like Earth has to hold far steadier than Webb does, and that’s one of the hardest parts of building it. If this holds up, software could take some of that load off the hardware.
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Source: Nature
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Coming in Hot
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AI Tools of the Day
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🎥 Unfurl turns a YouTube video into a guide with chapters and an action plan, plus a chat tutor that answers from the video itself.
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🎞️ VlogMe AI plans a video’s script and scenes with you in a chat, then generates the finished video with voiceover and music to match.
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🧠 MemoryBase keeps your chats from different AI apps in one shared memory, and the next AI you open picks up that context.
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🕯️ Aeterna records your stories and voice notes over time, then lets your family ask questions and hear the answers back in your voice.
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📊 PlotStudio AI builds a report with charts from a spreadsheet you upload, writing and running the analysis code for you along the way.
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Free Tool of the Day
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Recordings You Can Search
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A voice memo or a recorded interview can hold the one line you need. Finding it is the slow part, scrubbing back and forth through the audio until you land on it.
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Speech to Text takes that off your plate. Upload the audio file and it writes out what was said as text you can read and search.
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It’s 100% free to use, commercial use included.
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Security
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81 Hidden Holes Show Up in Firefox
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81 high-severity security holes were hiding in Firefox.
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Holes like that are what attackers look for. A fix can’t ship until someone finds the problem first.
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OpenAI’s new security AI is what found them. It’s built for checking software for weak spots.
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Mozilla, the group behind Firefox, rated every one of the 81 holes as high-severity. The AI also showed that 30 problems Mozilla already knew about were worse than they’d thought.
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Firefox wasn’t an easy target either. One of Mozilla’s top engineers called it “one of the world’s most hardened and scrutinized codebases,” and earlier AI models had already been over it.
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Each report went to Mozilla with a suggested fix attached. They’ve already shipped fixes for many of them.
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Our take: Sottware that’s been checked for years still has holes AI can find, and every fix it leads to arrives as an update. Leaving automatic updates on in your browser is the simplest way to get each one the day it ships.
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Source: OpenAI
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Notable AIs
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Notable AI Tools
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🎬 OpenArt makes a high-resolution music video from your song, planning each shot around the lyrics and rhythm, with lip sync to match.
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Interesting AI
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This Camera Follows You Around
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Filming yourself solo comes with a catch. Step out of frame and the shot is gone.
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OBSBOT’s Tail Air 2 is a small streaming camera with AI that follows whoever or whatever you pick.
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Double-click a person or a pet on screen, or draw a box around an object, and the camera turns to keep it in the shot.
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You can set where in the frame the subject sits and choose from six tracking speeds, depending on how fast things move.
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A separate AI chip cleans up the picture in low light, and it records in 4K.
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It runs on its own battery and works as a webcam over USB-C as well.
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Source: OBSBOT
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Health
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AI Learns to Sound Caring on the Phone
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There’s a hospital trial running right now that’s handing some routine check-in calls to AI.
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Those calls are meant to happen regularly, but the clinics that make them are short on staff and can’t always keep up.
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Before the AI was built, linguists studied how experienced clinicians show they care during a call, and what they found went straight into how it talks.
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As one of them put it, “it’s not only what they say, but how they say it.” The moment a clinician says something mattered as much as the words they picked.
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Taking part is optional, and the calls sit on top of the care patients already get rather than replacing.
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The trial will run for two years, with a separate group building safety checks to keep watch on the AI throughout.
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Our take: Routine “how are you getting on” calls are the ones that slip through. Handing those to an AI frees a stretched clinic to spend its people on the patients who need a person.
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Source: University of York
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Open Source Finds
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From the Source
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🖼️ Upscayl enlarges and sharpens old or low-resolution photos right on your computer, with a regular installer for Mac and Windows. Free and open source on GitHub.
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🛠️ CraftBot runs a personal AI assistant on your own computer around the clock, planning and carrying out the tasks you set while it learns how you like things done. Free and open source on GitHub.
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Prompt of the Day
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Hand Off My Busywork
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Important Note: You’ll need to click the button to get the complete prompt.
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List the tasks you repeat every week and how long each one takes. Each gets sorted by how well AI handles it and ranked by the hours it would free up. The top three come back with ready-to-paste prompts and what to check before you use the result.
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That’s all for Saturday!
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Thanks for reading,
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