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Hey, Jhon!
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Welcome back to the #1 AI newsletter on the planet!
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Here’s what we have today:
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Google glasses are here with Gemini inside.
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Nvidia’s founder steps down after 33 years.
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AI beats every human at a crossword championship.
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Ring’s new camera comes with propellers.
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Glasses
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Google Glasses Finally Launch
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Google is taking a second swing at glasses more than a decade after their first try at them, and this time they look like something you’d wear.
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Warby Parker and Gentle Monster designed the frames. Unless you look closely, they pass for a regular pair.
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The big difference is that Gemini lives inside them. There’s also a small camera in the frame and speakers near your ears.
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To activate the AI, you can say “Hey Gemini” or tap the side. Then it looks at whatever you’re looking at, and talks back.
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Here’s where that comes in handy:
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Finding out what breed that dog is or what kind of tree you’re walking under, without stopping to take a photo.
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Checking your calendar while you look at a poster for an event.
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Adding something to your grocery list while it’s right in front of you.
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Getting Google Maps directions in your ear and taking calls without touching your phone.
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Hearing a translation in real time, in more than 70 languages.
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If the camera is the first thing you’re wondering about, Google saw that coming. A light comes on whenever it’s recording. If you cover the light, the recording stops (like the Ray-Ban Meta AI Glasses).
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Other people’s faces get blurred before Gemini sees anything. Google says none of it goes into your Gemini history or gets used to train their models.
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They work with iPhones and Android phones, and a charge lasts up to nine hours.
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Warby Parker has them in more than 360 stores if you want to try a pair on first.
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Our take: Gemini on your face changes which questions feel worth asking. Where you’d normally pull your phone out to find out what kind of tree you’re walking under, you don’t have to anymore. When asking doesn’t cost you much, you start asking about everything. That habit is where these earn their place on your face.
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Source: Google
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Together with OpenArt
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A Music Video for the Song You Already Made
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A finished song can sit in a folder for months. Without a video, there’s not much you can do with it on the apps you scroll every day.
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Making one yourself takes generating clip after clip, then lining every shot up with the beat by hand.
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OpenArt turns your track into a full, high-resolution music video.
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You drop the song in, and it maps out your verses and chorus. Then it plans each shot around your lyrics and the rhythm of the track, and shows you that plan before anything gets made.
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Change any shot you don’t like, and the finished video comes back with smooth motion and lip sync that matches your vocals.
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It can be a simple lyric video, or a full story built around your song.
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Leadership
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Nvidia’s CEO Resigns After 33 Years
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Behind the chatbot on your phone sits a data center full of chips, and a lot of those chips come from Nvidia.
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Jensen Huang started the company in 1993 and ran it for 33 years. Now he’s out. Nvidia’s board accepted his resignation as CEO and from the board itself, effective right away.
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His finance chief, Colette Kress, takes over for now while the board looks for someone permanent. She’s been at Nvidia since 2013 and keeps her finance job as well.
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The board also named its first-ever chair, Harvey Jones, who has been on it since the company’s first year.
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Nvidia didn’t officially say why Huang left. His exit comes days after reports about his personal life.
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Under Huang, Nvidia’s chips turned out to be what AI needs to learn and run. They’re also a big reason the company has grown into one of the most valuable in the world.
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Kress said she plans to build on the foundation he created.
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Our take: Your chatbot won’t feel a thing tomorrow, since Nvidia plans its chips years in advance. Whoever gets the job will steer the hardware that sets how fast the AI you use keeps getting better. How that goes only time will tell.
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Source: Nvidia
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SE Visible In Focus
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Your AI Visibility Score Has a Backstory
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Ask AI for the best option in your field, and your name might come up. A competitor’s might come up instead.
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A visibility score tells you which one happened. It won’t tell you why.
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SE Visible by SE Ranking shows what shapes your brand’s AI answers and where to act next.
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It tracks what ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google’s AI answers say about you, then traces each answer back to the sites and pages it was built from.
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Filter for the sources that name a competitor but leave you out, and you’re left with a list of the places to show up.
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Puzzles
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Crossword Champions Lose to AI
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Cryptic crosswords are the puzzles where the clue is lying to you.
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Each one reads like a normal sentence, but tucked inside is a short definition plus a bit of wordplay. Take the sentence at face value, and you walk right into the trap.
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The people who are great at these compete at a championship that’s been running since 1970.
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This time, an AI called Darmok took a seat next to them.
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It solved all seven puzzles without a single mistake and beat every person in every round. The final took it 6 minutes 52 seconds. That put it 3 minutes 13 seconds ahead of the human champion.
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And partway through that final, the main AI model it relied on slowed to a crawl.
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Darmok switched to its backups and kept right on going.
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It runs each clue through three different AI models and writes in the answers it’s sure about first.
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Those letters give it a head start on the harder clues, the same way they would for you.
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On 1,261 daily clues published after its AI models were trained, it got 99.84% right.
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Our take: A cryptic clue is a sentence built to mislead, and double meanings like that used to be where AI failed. Cracking one takes reading what a sentence is up to, not only what it says on the surface. That’s the same skill you want from AI when your request is vague or a message isn’t what it seems.
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Source: arXiv
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Free Tool of the Day
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Take a Window Seat Anywhere
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A window seat is the best seat on the plane (for a lot of people), as long as the view outside is worth looking at.
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Window Seat lets you pick the view. Type any place or idea, like the northern lights or a city made of candy, and it comes back as a short cinematic video of it drifting past an airplane window.
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It’s 100% free to use.
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Interesting AI
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Ring’s New Camera Has Propellers
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Ring has been chasing an idea for the past six years. They first showed a flying indoor camera back in 2020, but it never made it to stores.
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Now they’re taking a shot at it again with the Drone Cam. This time there’s a release on the calendar.
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Instead of a camera in every room, you get one that flies to whichever room you need to see. It sits in its dock with the camera off, and when one of your Ring doorbells or alarms goes off, it takes off and heads over to take a look.
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Setting it up is a walk around your place. You carry the drone room to room, and it builds a floor plan from what it sees, then suggests a few spots worth checking on.
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After that, it finds its own way around your couch and shelves.
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You can also put it on a schedule. Or you can send it out from your phone whenever you want to see what’s going on at home.
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Ring admits the propellers are loud. That could work in your favor if someone’s in your house who shouldn’t be.
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Source: Amazon
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Coming in Hot
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AI Tools of the Day
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🎬 Supercut records your screen and camera on Mac or Windows, trims out your mistakes and filler words for you, then hands you a link to share the moment you stop recording.
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📅 Kleos plans a 30-day content calendar and drafts posts and articles in your voice, then publishes each one to LinkedIn or your website once you approve it.
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🧑💻 SysRound lets you practice system design interviews out loud with an AI interviewer who sketches on a shared whiteboard with you, then scores you against the bar for your level.
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🐙 OctoCheck audits the page you’re on in one click from Chrome and shows whether AI search tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity can read and cite it, with fixes ready to copy.
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💌 Merrylet paints you or your pet into a digital card for a birthday or a thank-you, drawn in the card’s own art style, then gives you a link to send that opens in any browser.
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Open Source Finds
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From the Source
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💻 Local Code is a private AI assistant for Mac, iPad, and iPhone that works on the files you choose and can run AI models right on your device, even offline. Free and open source on GitHub.
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🧵 ZigZag turns your artwork into embroidery stitches for your machine, and an AI agent can design alongside you. Its maker built it when their machine asked for a subscription. Free and open source on GitHub.
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Prompt of the Day
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Talk Me Through This Decision
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Important Note: You’ll need to click the button to get the complete prompt.
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Describe a decision you keep going back and forth on, and get walked through it one question at a time. It pulls out what matters most to you, scores each option against it, and names the fear or assumption keeping you stuck. You leave with a clear recommendation, the tradeoffs you’re accepting, and one first step to take.
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That’s all for Thursday!
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