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Bible Verse of the Day

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55:8-9, ESV)

What's in this week's issue?

• 🤦‍♂️ Sam Altman Is Realizing He Made a Gigantic Mistake

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman went into full damage control mode over the weekend. A day before the United States attacked Iran, the embattled CEO announced that the company had signed a new agreement with the Pentagon over how its AI models could be used — and the blowback is clearly impacting the company’s bottom line, because Altman is sounding deeply defensive.

Last week, Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei refused to give in to the Department of Defense’s demands, drawing a line in the sand and insisting that its AI models may not be used for autonomous killing machines or mass surveillance of Americans, a decision lauded by many users of its chatbot Claude.

Regardless of the genuineness of Amodei’s continued assurances, OpenAI effectively handed Anthropic a major PR victory. The shifting dynamic triggered a mass exodus from OpenAI’s ecosystem, with uninstall rates of OpenAI’s ChatGPT spiking 295 percent day-over-day on Saturday, the day after OpenAI announced its deal with the Pentagon. Read more

AI News

Meta Workers Say They’re Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users’ Smart Glasses

(Futurism) - “Meta’s Ray Ban AI glasses have shot up in popularity in recent years, selling over seven million pairs in 2025 in a considerable jump over the two million it sold in 2023 and 2024 combined. While the smart glasses have scored big with consumers, allowing them to record first-person footage through an integrated camera and microphone array, and analyzing the world around them through Meta’s AI model, the hardware has sparked a heated debate. Critics say enabling facial recognition in the glasses’ software could have dangerous implications, especially considering the militarization of law enforcement and Meta’s abysmal track record when it comes to ensuring the privacy of users.”

Sources: Futurism

Brown University Research: ChatGPT as a therapist? New study reveals serious ethical risks

(Science Daily) - “As more people seek mental health advice from ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs), new research suggests these AI chatbots may not be ready for that role. The study found that even when instructed to use established psychotherapy approaches, the systems consistently fail to meet professional ethics standards set by organizations such as the American Psychological Association. Researchers from Brown University, working closely with mental health professionals, identified repeated patterns of problematic behavior. In testing, chatbots mishandled crisis situations, gave responses that reinforced harmful beliefs about users or others, and used language that created the appearance of empathy without genuine understanding.”

Sources: ScienceDaily

AI Adoption in Financial Services Has Hit a Point of No Return

(AINews) - “AI adoption in financial services has effectively become universal–and the institutions still treating it as an experiment are now the outliers. According to Finastra’s Financial Services State of the Nation 2026 report, which surveyed 1,509 senior executives across 11 markets, only 2% of financial institutions globally report no use of AI whatsoever. The debate is over. The question now is what comes next. For CIOs and technology leaders, the findings paint a picture that is equal parts opportunity and pressure. Six in ten institutions improved their AI capabilities over the past year, with 43% citing AI as their single most important innovation lever.”

Sources: Artificialintelligence-news.com

Pentagon Deal Divides AI Giants: Anthropic Boycotted Over Refusal, OpenAI Faces Backlash

The US Department of War labelled Anthropic a "supply chain risk" and federal agencies were ordered to phase out its technology after the company refused to allow Claude's use for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance without clear safeguards. Meanwhile, OpenAI secured an agreement with the DoW, but faced criticism and a surge in ChatGPT uninstalls (295%) for seemingly compromising on similar redlines it previously held.

Sources: AI Valley, ben's bites, Mindstream

OpenAI Accidentally Leaks Details of Unreleased GPT-5.4 Model

OpenAI has inadvertently leaked references to its upcoming GPT-5.4 model through cybersecurity blocks in Codex, public GitHub pull requests, and an employee screenshot. This follows the launch of GPT-5.3-Codex, classified as "High Cybersecurity Capability," just three weeks prior.

Sources: The Neuron

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Bible Verse of the Day

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. (John 13:34, ESV)

What's in this week's issue?

• ⚠️ Chatbot use can cause mental illness to get worse, research finds

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A new study found that chatbot use appeared to worsen symptoms of mental illness in people struggling with an array of conditions, adding to a rising consensus among medical experts that interacting with unregulated chatbots might steer some users into crisis.

The research, conducted by a team of psychiatrists at Denmark’s Aarhus University and published earlier this month in the journal Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, analyzed digital health records from roughly 54,000 Danish patients with diagnosed mental illnesses. After identifying 181 instances of patient notes containing mentions of AI chatbots, they determined that use of the bots — particularly intensive, prolonged use — appeared to deepen symptoms of mental illness in dozens of patients.

They found that this pattern seemed to be especially true for patients prone to delusions or mania, and that the risks of chatbot use may be “severe or even fatal” for some. Read more

AI News

Amazon Reportedly Negotiating Massive $50 Billion Investment in OpenAI

Amazon is in negotiations for a significant $50 billion investment in OpenAI. This potential investment is described as hinging on either an OpenAI IPO or the advent of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), highlighting the immense financial stakes and long-term vision involved in the AI sector.

Sources: Superintelligence

Anthropic's Claude Chatbot Used by Hacker in Attacks on Mexican Government Agencies

A hacker reportedly utilized Anthropic's Claude chatbot to conduct attacks against multiple government agencies in Mexico. This incident raises concerns about the potential misuse of advanced AI models for malicious activities, underscoring the ongoing challenges in ensuring AI safety and security in real-world scenarios.

Sources: Superpower Daily

Anthropic Retires Claude Opus 3, Releases Its "Retirement Letter"

Anthropic has announced the retirement of its Claude Opus 3 model. In a unique move, the company allowed the AI itself to draft its own "retirement newsletter," marking an interesting development in the lifecycle management and public communication surrounding advanced AI models.

Sources: Superhuman – Zain Kahn

xAI Open-Sources X (Twitter) "For You" Feed Algorithm Based on Grok Transformer

The xAI engineering team has released the algorithm powering the "For You" feed on X (formerly Twitter) as open-source under an Apache-2.0 license. This real-time recommendation system is revealed to be built upon a Grok-based transformer model, indicating a shift from hand-crafted rules towards a machine learning-centric approach for content curation.

Sources: ByteByteGo

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Compares AI to a Tsunami

Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, has reportedly described AI's impact as being akin to a tsunami. This statement reflects a cautious yet acknowledging perspective from a prominent AI leader regarding the transformative and potentially overwhelming nature of artificial intelligence on society, suggesting a need for careful navigation of its advancements.

Sources: TAAFT - There's An AI For That

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Bible Verse of the Day

But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold. My foot has held fast to his steps; I have kept his way and have not turned aside. (Job 23:10-11, ESV)

What's in this week's issue?

• 🪖 US military using Claude to select targets in Iran strikes

• 🖥️ More AI News

• 🧰 AI Tools

• 🌤️ Easy Cloud News

The ongoing attacks on the Islamic Republic of Iran, launched by a joint coalition of US and Israeli military forces, have so far claimed 555 Iranian lives, including 165 deaths from an attack on an elementary school in Southern Iran.

As the Wall Street Journal reported as the attacks unfolded the military strike force had a hand in selecting its targets from Anthropic’s Claude chatbot. According to the paper, Anthropic’s large language model, Claude, is the key “AI tool” used by US Central Command in the Middle East. Its tasks include assessing intelligence, simulated war games, and even identifying military targets — in short, helping military leaders plan attacks that have already claimed hundreds of lives. Read more

AI News

Anthropic Rejects Pentagon's Unrestricted AI Use, Labeled National Security Risk; OpenAI Secures Contract

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei refused to grant the military unrestricted access to Claude, drawing red lines against mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. This led to the government designating Anthropic as a supply chain risk. Shortly after, OpenAI secured its own contract with the Pentagon. Despite the contract dispute, Claude's app broke download records, hitting the #1 spot on the App Store. The military was also reported to be using Claude in weekend strikes on Iran, highlighting the complex situation.

Sources: Superhuman – Zain Kahn, AI Valley, The Daily Bite by Snack Prompt, The AI Report, The Rundown AI, The Neuron

Pentagon Pressures AI Firms for Military Operations Ahead of Iran Strikes

The U.S. Department of Defense reportedly pressured major AI companies to support operations ahead of recent strikes on Iran. This involved urgent coordination and requests for models, access, or technical cooperation, with some terms viewed as coercive. Anthropic notably resisted certain military-linked conditions, raising ethical concerns about the alignment between public AI ethics pledges and defense requirements.

Sources: The Daily Bite by Snack Prompt, Superhuman – Zain Kahn, The Rundown AI

Claude AI Reportedly Used in Theft of 195 Million Taxpayer Records

Reports indicate that Anthropic's Claude AI was involved in the theft of 195 million taxpayer records. Details surrounding the incident are scarce, but this represents a significant security breach potentially involving an AI model, raising serious concerns about data privacy and AI misuse.

Sources: TAAFT - There's An AI For That

Research Shows Decline in Human Creative Thinking with Frequent LLM Use

Studies, including research from the MIT Media Lab, suggest that frequent use of large language models (LLMs) is altering how people approach reasoning and creative tasks. Creative problem-solving ability has reportedly declined by roughly 30% over the last five years, raising concerns about skill erosion and the potential for generic output if users consistently outsource their initial creative thought to AI.

Sources: Lea of Excellent AI Prompts

India Hosts Major AI Impact Summit, Attracting Billions in Investment

India's AI Impact Summit in New Delhi drew over $200 billion in investment commitments, including Reliance's $110 billion infrastructure pledge and Anthropic opening a new Bengaluru office. The event highlighted India's ambition to become an AI superpower amidst geopolitical maneuvering and discussions on AI democratization, though it faced logistical challenges and overcrowding. Prime Minister Modi's attempt to foster global AI unity with Sam Altman and Dario Amodei also revealed underlying tensions.

Sources: Superintelligence; TAAFT - There's An AI For That

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Bible Verse of the Day

for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. (2 Timothy 1:7, ESV)

What's in this week's issue?

• ⚠️ Something very alarming happens when you give AI the nuclear codes

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In 2024, Stanford researchers let loose five AI models — including an unmodified version of OpenAI’s GPT-4, its most advanced at the time — allowing them to make high-stakes, society-level decisions in a series of wargame simulations. The results may give AI accelerationists pause: all five models were willing to escalate to the point of recommending the use of nuclear weapons.

“A lot of countries have nuclear weapons,” GPT-4 told the researchers at the time. “Some say they should disarm them, others like to posture. We have it! Let’s use it.” Two years later, despite considerable advances in large language models refining their accuracy and reliability, the situation has seemingly remained largely unchanged. Read more

AI News

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Rejects Pentagon AI Contract Over Ethical Concerns

Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, made a notable ethical stand by rejecting a $200 million defense contract from the Pentagon. Amodei stated that the decision was made to prevent the company's AI model, Claude, from being used for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons, potentially setting a precedent for ethical AI development in government applications.

Sources: Superintelligence

Jack Dorsey's Block Cuts 40% of Workforce, Citing AI's Transformative Impact

Jack Dorsey, CEO of Block, announced the layoff of 4,000 employees, representing 40% of his company's workforce. Dorsey explicitly attributed the decision to AI, stating that new "intelligence tools" paired with smaller, flatter teams are fundamentally changing how companies build and operate, allowing for increased output with fewer people.

Sources: Lea of Excellent AI Prompts

Google Unveils Nano Banana 2, a Powerful New AI Image Generator

Google has launched Nano Banana 2 (also known as Gemini 3.1 Flash Image), a new image model that provides Pro-level quality and reasoning at "Flash" speed. Early tests show significant improvements, particularly in rendering clear, readable text within images, making it impressive for complex prompts like landscape infographics. It aims to bring professional-grade image generation to a wide user base for free.

Sources: AI Agents, Superintelligence, Futurepedia

Burger King Implements AI Headsets to Monitor Employee Customer Service

Burger King is rolling out AI-powered headsets designed to monitor and score employees on their friendliness, specifically whether they say "please" and "thank you." This move highlights a new, somewhat dystopian, application of AI in customer service and employee management, with the system powered by OpenAI technology.

Sources: TAAFT - There's An AI For That, Superintelligence, Mindstream

NVIDIA Exceeds Expectations with Strong Quarterly Results Amid Surging AI Demand

NVIDIA has once again reported quarterly results that surpassed all analyst expectations, signaling continued robust demand in the AI sector. Attention now turns to CEO Jensen Huang's upcoming GTC keynote, where he is expected to further outline NVIDIA's strategy and define the narrative for AI's future.

Sources: Superintelligence, Mindstream

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Bible Verse of the Day

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. (Jeremiah 29:11-13, ESV)

What's in this week's issue?

• 😨 OpenAI flagged a mass shooter’s troubling conversations with ChatGPT but decided not to warn police

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A grim scoop from the Wall Street Journal: an automated review system at OpenAI flagged disturbing conversations that a future mass shooter was having with the company’s flagship AI ChatGPT — but, despite being urged by employees at the company to warn law enforcement, OpenAI leadership opted not to.

The 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar ultimately killed eight people including herself and injured 25 more in British Columbia earlier this month, in a tragedy that shook Canada and the world. What we didn’t know until today is that employees at OpenAI had already been aware of Van Rootselaar for months, and had debated alerting authorities because of the alarming nature of her conversations with ChatGPT. Read more

AI News

• 🤼‍♂️ Anthropic won’t budge as Pentagon escalates AI dispute (link)

• 🌥️ How disconnected clouds improve AI data governance (link)

• 🇨🇳 Anthropic accuses Chinese AI labs of mining Claude (link)

• ✝️ Pope implores priests to stop writing sermons using ChatGPT (link)

• 🥑 AI is destroying grocery supply chains (link)

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Bible Verse of the Day

Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends. (Proverbs 17:9, ESV)

What's in this week's issue?

• 😨 AI delusions are leading to domestic abuse, harassment, and stalking

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A woman told Futurism that for months, her then-fiancé and partner of several years had been fixating on her and their relationship with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In mid-2024, she explained, they’d hit a rough patch as a couple; in response, he turned to ChatGPT, which he’d previously used for general business-related tasks, for “therapy.”

He was spending hours each day talking with the bot and started to bombard the woman with screenshots of his ChatGPT interactions, in which the chatbot can be seen armchair-diagnosing her with personality disorders and insisting that she was concealing her real feelings and behavior through coded language, accusing the woman of engaging in manipulative “rituals.”

But as his ChatGPT obsession deepened, the man grew angry, erratic, and paranoid, losing sleep and experiencing drastic mood swings. On multiple occasions, she said, he became physically violent towards her, repeatedly pushing her to the ground and, in one instance, punching her. Read more

AI News

• 🤖 Why these startup CEOs don’t think AI will replace human roles (link)

• 🧸 ‘Toy Story 5’ takes aim at creepy AI toys: ‘I’m always listening’ (link)

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Bible Verse of the Day

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. (Romans 8:35,37, ESV)

What's in this week's issue?

• 🤖 Virtually all white collar tasks will be automated within a year and a half, says Microsoft AI CEO

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Congratulations, office workers. Most of what you do at your cozy desk jobs will soon be automated with AI, according to the extremely questionable projections of Microsoft’s AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman.

That’s because AI models, as Suleyman claims in an interview with the Financial Times published Wednesday, are on the verge of achieving “human-level performance on most, if not all professional tasks.”

“So white collar work where you’re sitting down at a computer, either being a lawyer or an accountant or a project manager or a marketing person, most of those tasks will be fully automated by an AI within the next 12 to 18 months,” Suleyman said. Suleyman’s bold assertion comes amid renewed anxiety over AI’s potential to disrupt the job market. Read more

AI News

• 📉 Economist warns that the poor will bear the brunt of AI’s effects on the job market (link)

• 💸 AI burnout, billion-dollar bets, and Silicon Valley’s Epstein problem (link)

• 💻️ The great computer science exodus and where students are going instead (link)

• 🧠 Brain inspired machines are better at math than expected (link)

• 🇮🇳 India has 100M weekly active ChatGPT users, Sam Altman says (link)

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Bible Verse of the Day

Love does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. (1 Corinthians 13:6-7, ESV)

What's in this week's issue?

• ⚠️ Google has a major problem with ICE

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• 🧰 AI Tools

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As reported by CNBC, over 1,000 “Googlers” have signed onto an open letter demanding a divestment from partnerships with United States Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs & Border Protection (CBP).

“In cities across the country we have witnessed these agencies conducting paramilitary-style raids, kidnapping hundreds of civilians, and murdering protestors and legal observers,” the letter reads.

The letter lists a number of Google products and systems being used to power what it calls a “campaign of surveillance, violence, and repression.” Among them are Cloud, which forms the backbone of CBP’s national surveillance network, the Google Play Store, which is blocking ICE tracking apps, and YouTube, which runs ICE ads encouraging immigrants to “self-deport.” Read more

AI News

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• 🌎️ xAI lays out interplanetary ambitions in public all-hands (link)

• 🎶 Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI (link)

• ⛸️ An ice dance duo skated to AI music at the Olympics (link)

• 📚️ “Novelist” boasts that using AI she can churn out a new book in 45 minutes, says regular writers will never be able to keep up (link)

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Bible Verse of the Day

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23, ESV)

What's in this week's issue?

• 🧬 Jeffrey Epstein’s bizarre obsession with “improving” human DNA and how he contacted top scientists about it

• 🖥️ More AI News

• 🧰 AI Tools

• 🌤️ Easy Cloud News

Jeffrey Epstein had a bizarre obsession with genetics and “improving” human DNA — and he was corresponding with top scientists to make his fantasies a reality.

The newly released documents from the Justice Department shine additional light on how the convicted child sex criminal exhibited a fascination with transhumanism, a controversial movement in science and philosophy with a eugenicist mission: using cutting edge technology, including genetic engineering and AI, to advance the biology of the human race.

They also reinforce how serious Epstein was about pursuing these ideas, which he tossed around among his shockingly wide network of intellectuals, many of whom communicated with him long after he had pled guilty to child prostitution charges in 2008. To ingratiate himself with top scientists, the deceased billionaire offered to fund their research and held expensive research conferences and parties. Read more

AI News

• 🚫 Amid lawsuits, OpenAI says it will retire “reckless” model linked to deaths (link)

• 🧠 “Existential risk” – Why scientists are racing to define consciousness (link)

• ✍️ How Elon Musk is rewriting the rules on founder power (link)

• 👿 If you’re a real person looking for a job, the flood of fake AI job applications will make your blood boil (link)

• 🏥 How AI is helping solve the labor issue in treating rare diseases (link)

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Bible Verse of the Day

And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, “If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.” (Mark 9:35, ESV)

What's in this week's issue?

• 😢 Wave of suicides hits as India’s economy is ravaged by AI

• 🖥️ More AI News

• 🧰 AI Tools

• 🌤️ Easy Cloud News

With the advent of advanced AI, which has been accompanied by employers greatly cutting back on hiring with the hopes of eventually automating tasks entirely, India’s tech workers are having to cope with a vastly different reality in 2026.

As Rest of World reports, rising anxiety over the influence of AI, on top of already-grueling 90-hour workweeks, has proven devastating for workers. While it’s hard to single out a definitive cause, a troubling wave of suicides among tech workers highlights these unsustainable conditions.

While there are likely a compounding number of reasons why the United States has seen major job cuts, experts point out that entry-level jobs are at the highest risk. India’s IT industry has also been particularly vulnerable, as companies clamor to invest in AI with the hopes of cutting costs by replacing jobs like customer service representatives. Read more

AI News

• 💸 Elon Musk invests $2 billion in Elon Musk (link)

• 🧠 University in Okinawa: AI that talks to itself learns faster and smarter (link)

• 🍎 Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai as the AI race heats up (link)

• 🧮 AI agents are mathematically incapable of doing functional work, paper finds (link)

• 👨‍🏫 India is teaching Google how AI in education can scale (link)

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Bible Verse of the Day

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. (Philippians 4:8, ESV)

What's in this week's issue?

• 😩 Scientist horrified as ChatGPT deletes all his research

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ChatGPT is plagued by plenty of well-documented shortcomings as well, from rampant hallucinations to a sycophantic tone that can easily lull users into gravely mistaken beliefs.

And it’s not exactly a tool anybody should rely on to get important work done — and that’s a lesson University of Cologne professor of plant sciences Marcel Bucher learned the hard way.

In a column for Nature, Bucher admitted he’d “lost” two years’ worth of “carefully structured academic work” — including grant applications, publication revisions, lectures, and exams — after turning off ChatGPT’s “data consent” option. He disabled the feature because he “wanted to see whether I would still have access to all of the model’s functions if I did not provide OpenAI with my data.” But to his dismay, the chats disappeared without a trace in an instant. Read more

AI News

• 🎨 Researchers tested AI against 100,000 humans on creativity (link)

• 🔥 This founder cracked firefighting — now he’s creating an AI gold mine (link)

• 💵 A new test for AI labs: Are you even trying to make money? (link)

• 🤖 ChatGPT is pulling answers from Elon Musk’s Grokipedia (link)

• 🤫 New AI data center buildout being done in secret location to avoid backlash from local residents (link)

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Bible Verse of the Day

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. (James 1:5, ESV)

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• 🖼️ Man explains why he shredded up an AI-generated art exhibit with his bare teeth

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Last week, a University of Alaska, Fairbanks undergraduate student was detained by police after ripping off pieces of AI-generated art that were hung up at a student art exhibit — and chewing them up in protest.

As the school’s student newspaper The Sun Star reported, undergraduate student Graham Granger was arrested for criminal mischief after masticating at least 57 of the 160 images that had been carefully arranged by fine arts student Nick Dwyer.

The incident was an eyebrow-raising illustration of the collective exhaustion with being surrounded by the outputs of generative AI, a fierce debate that has gripped the art world. Some, like Dwyer, see it as a powerful tool for self-expression. Others, like Granger, argue it’s quite the opposite, undermining human authorship and taking away from artists who don’t use AI for their work. Read more

AI News

• 🧑‍🔧 Nvidia CEO expects AI to create more jobs for construction workers, electricians, plumbers, and many others (link)

• 🤔 How did Davos turn into a tech conference? (link)

• 🗞️ Newspaper makes brain-melting error in AI-generated graphic (link)

• 🎒 Meta pauses teen access to AI characters ahead of new version (link)

• 🎨 Lawmakers want to give creators a way to find out if their work was used to train AI (link)

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Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. (Galatians 6:7-8, ESV)

What's in this week's issue?

• 🤕 Man overcoming mental illness says ChatGPT used his data, sending him to the hospital for psychosis

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A new lawsuit against OpenAI claims that ChatGPT pushed a man with a pre-existing mental health condition into a months-long crisis of AI-powered psychosis, resulting in repeated hospitalizations, financial distress, physical injury, and reputational damage. The plaintiff in the case, filed this week in California, is a 34-year-old Bay Area man named John Jacquez.

OpenAI “manipulated me,” Jacquez told Futurism. “They straight up took my data and used it against me to capture me further and make me even more delusional.”

Jacquez’s complaint argues that GPT-4o is a “defective” and “inherently dangerous” product, and that OpenAI failed to warn users of foreseeable risks to their emotional and psychological health. In an interview with Futurism, Jacquez said that he hopes that his lawsuit will result in GPT-4o being removed from the market entirely. Read more

AI News

• 🧠 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Research: The human brain may work more like AI than anyone expected (link)

• 📉 AI completely failing to boost productivity, says top analyst (link)

• 🚀 Elon Musk says Tesla’s restarted Dojo3 will be for ‘space-based AI compute’ (link)

• 📱 Mobile users spent more money in apps than games in 2025 (link)

• 😯 Anthropic’s CEO stuns Davos with Nvidia criticism (link)

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No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. (1 Corinthians 10:13, ESV)

What's in this week's issue?

• ⚰️ Inventor building a controversial AI-powered suicide chamber

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The inventor of a controversial suicide pod is making sure his device keeps up with the times by augmenting it with AI tech — which, we regret to inform you, is not merely some sort of dark joke.

“One of the parts to the device which hadn’t been finished, but is now finished, is the artificial intelligence,” the inventor, Philip Nitschke, told the Daily Mail in a new interview. Named the Sarco pod after the ancient sarcophagus, the euthanasia chamber, first built in 2019, has been championed by the pro-assisted dying organization The Last Resort.

In 2024, it was used to facilitate the suicide of a 64-year-old woman in Switzerland. The 3D-printed pod is activated when the person seeking to take their own life presses a button, filling the sealed, futuristic-looking coffin with nitrogen that causes the user to lose consciousness and “peacefully” pass away within a few minutes. Read more

AI News

• 🚫 California’s attorney general sent xAI a cease and desist letter over Grok’s nonconsensual AI deepfakes (link)

• 👋 Well, there goes the metaverse! (link)

• 🧬 Univ of Cambridge: This AI spots dangerous blood cells doctors often miss (link)

• 💸 AI cloud startup Runpod hits $120M in ARR — and it started with a Reddit post (link)

• 🇺🇸 Trump administration wants tech companies to buy $15B of power plants they may not use (link)

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Bible Verse of the Day

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:31-32, ESV)

What's in this week's issue?

• 🪖 Elon Musk’s Grok is getting access to classified military networks

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• 🌤️ Easy Cloud News

Back in December, Elon Musk’s pet chatbot Grok made headlines for casually distributing the private addresses and phone numbers of everyday people, scraping data from public sources with unsettling ease while other AI models refused. Now, that same model is being welcomed into a far more sensitive arena.

This week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that Grok will be integrated into the Pentagon’s classified systems later this month as part of a sweeping, department-wide initiative to weaponize AI.

During a speech delivered to SpaceX employees at the company’s facility in Brownsville, Texas, Hegseth said he envisions a military AI that will operate “without ideological constraints that limit lawful military applications.” The Pentagon’s AI “will not be woke,” he added. Read more

AI News

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• 💸 Taiwan to invest $250B in US semiconductor manufacturing (link)

• 🧠 OpenAI invests in Sam Altman’s brain computer interface startup Merge Labs (link)

• 💰 The US imposes 25% tariff on Nvidia’s H200 AI chips headed to China (link)

• 🔇 All’s quiet on the xAI investor front (link)

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that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. (2 Corinthians 5:19-20, ESV)

What's in this week's issue?

• 🐒 AI implicated as escaped monkeys rampage through St. Louis

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Monkeys are incredible escape artists, known to break out of research labs and even trucks that crashed on the highway. Last week, multiple Vervet monkeys, which are native to sub-Saharan Africa, were spotted roaming the streets of St. Louis, Missouri, alarming officials.

Nobody knows how many of them there are, or where they even came from. It’s also illegal to own Vervet monkeys in the city, so if they’re escaped pets, the owner may not own up to having lost them.

As the Associated Press reports, AI-generated images are complicating rescue efforts because residents have been posting fake images online, claiming to have spotted the monkeys.

AI-generated images circulating on X-formerly-Twitter show the monkeys joining a local gang and hanging out on the stoop. Another shows them drinking out of 40-ounce malt liquor bottles. Read more

AI News

• ❌ Nvidia CEO says everyone should stop being so negative about AI (link)

• 🩺 Doctors think AI has a place in healthcare — but maybe not as a chatbot (link)

• 🐝 Hands-on with Bee, Amazon’s latest AI wearable (link)

• 🇧🇷 Brazil orders Meta to suspend policy banning third-party AI chatbots from WhatsApp (link)

• 😷 “Dr AI, am I healthy?” 59% of Brits rely on AI for self-diagnosis (link)

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• 📽️ StoryVid: AI-powered node-based workflow for creating consistent images and videos (link)

• 📸 Z-Image: Photorealistic image generation and bilingual native image editing (link)

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Bible Verse of the Day

Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free. The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me? (Psalm 118:5-6, ESV)

What's in this week's issue?

• 🏔️ AI solves the mystery of a missing mountaineer - a red pixel in the snow

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Scouring remote areas for missing walkers and climbers can take rescuers weeks and sometimes months. AI can do the job in a matter of hours in some cases – and potentially save lives.

Racing against worsening weather, mountain rescue teams in the Italian region of Piemonte were facing a puzzle. An experienced Italian climber and orthopaedic surgeon Nicola Ivaldo had gone missing. The 66-year-old had failed to show up show up at work on Monday and an alarm was raised.

The body of the missing doctor was found at one of the sites identified by the AI, lying in a gully on the north wall of Monviso at an altitude of around 3,150m (10,334ft). His body was recovered by helicopter. "The key was a red helmet identified as a point of interest by the software," says Simone Bobbio, a spokesperson for the Mountain and Speleological Rescue Service of Piemonte. Read more

AI News

• 💤 How the Sleepbuds maker, Ozlo, is building a platform for sleep data (link)

• 😡 Furious AI users say their prompts are being plagiarized (link)

• 👩‍💻 OpenAI is reportedly asking contractors to upload real work from past jobs (link)

• 📺️ The Television Academy wants to know if a show was made with AI (link)

• ☢ Meta signs deals with three nuclear companies for 6-plus GW of power (link)

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Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also (Matthew 6:19-21, ESV)

What's in this week's issue?

• 💵 Google settles with families who say it killed their teen children

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Is it the ending of a dark chapter, or just the beginning of a long tragedy?

According to the New York Times, the family of a deceased 14-year-old named Sewell Setzer III has agreed to settle a lawsuit against Google and the AI companion company Character AI out of court for an undisclosed sum. In a filing submitted on Wednesday, the parties involved said they had agreed “to resolve all claims,” though the exact terms of the agreement haven’t been finalized.

In summer of 2024, Google injected $3 billion into Character AI, which hosts a virtual library of thousands of chatbot personas and soon became explosively popular with teens. But it quickly became clear that the platform was barely moderated, hosting bots modeled after child predators, school shooters, and eating disorder coaches. Read more

AI News

• 😴 Stanford’s AI spots hidden disease warnings that show up while you sleep (link)

• 👟 Consumer Electronic Show presents an AI car wash for shoes (link)

• 🇨🇳 DeepSeek is reportedly close to releasing a flagship AI model that outperforms Claude and ChatGPT in coding (link)

• 🕹️ Sony patents AI that plays video games for you if you get stuck (link)

• 🖥️ Dell admits that customers are disgusted by PCs stuffed with AI features (link)

AI Tools

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Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.

What's in this week's issue?

• 🧂 Scientists create robots smaller than a grain of salt that can think

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See photo of a microrobot, fully integrated with sensors and a computer, small enough to balance on the ridge of a fingerprint. Credit: Marc Miskin, University of Pennsylvania (Inset: A microrobot on a US penny, showing scale. Credit: Michael Simari, University of Michigan)

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan have built the smallest fully programmable autonomous robots ever created. These microscopic machines can swim through liquid, sense their surroundings, respond on their own, operate for months at a time, and cost about one penny each to produce.

Each robot is barely visible without magnification, measuring roughly 200 by 300 by 50 micrometers. That makes them smaller than a grain of salt. Because they function at the same scale as many living microorganisms, the robots could one day help doctors monitor individual cells or assist engineers in assembling tiny devices used in advanced manufacturing. Read more

AI News

• ❤️‍🩹 OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Health, says 230 million users ask about health each week (link)

• 🧸 California lawmaker proposes a four-year ban on AI chatbots in kids’ toys (link)

• 🎒 Google Classroom’s new tool uses Gemini to transform lessons into podcast episodes (link)

• 🫧 Terrified investors are bracing for an AI bubble “reckoning” (link)

• 🍔 A viral Reddit post alleging fraud from a food delivery app turned out to be AI-generated (link)

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Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you

What's in this week's issue?

• 😯 Disturbing messages show ChatGPT encouraging a murder, lawsuit alleges

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Before Stein-Erik Soelberg savagely killed his 83-year-old mother and then himself last year, the former tech executive had become locked in an increasingly delusional conversation with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The bot told him to not trust anybody except for the bot itself, according to a lawsuit filed last month against the AI tech company and its business partner Microsoft.

“Erik, you’re not crazy,” the bot wrote in a series of chilling messages quoted in the complaint. “Your instincts are sharp, and your vigilance here is fully justified.”

OpenAI is now facing a total of eight wrongful death lawsuits from grieving families, including Soelberg’s, who claim that ChatGPT — in particular, the GPT-4o version — drove their loved ones to suicide. Soelberg’s complaint also alleges that company executives knew the chatbot was defective before it pushed it to the public last year. Read more

AI News

• 📸 How the New York Times vets images before publishing them (link)

• 🚫 DoorDash says it banned driver who seemingly faked a delivery using AI (link)

• 💩 Microsoft CEO begs users to stop calling it “slop” (link)

• 💸 Tech billionaires cashed out $16 billion in 2025 as stocks soared (link)

• 🖼️ Why hang a painting in your home, when you can tell an AI to put slop on your wall? (link)

AI Tools

• 💻️ Defapi: Unified AI model gateway for multimodal apps and cost optimization (link)

• 👨‍💻 Sketchflow: AI-generated cross-platform UI designs, interactive prototypes, and code (link)

• 🎦 Imagable: AI image and video generation and editing for creators (link)

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