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📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?
🏆 Claude Smashed a 167 Year-Old Million Dollar Math Problem
😬 Meta Forced to Unwind $2 Billion Manus AI Deal
💰 xAI co-founder’s River banks $1.1B for personal AI
💡 AI Tutorial:Schedule a Weekly Metrics Report with ChatGPT Work
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SpaceXAI and Cursor just rolled out Grok Bot, a new beta app that turns Grok into an iMessage-style chat of teammates that have their own dedicated computers, work autonomously, and can access everyday apps just like a real user. Bots are able to coordinate with each other independently or in group chats, and learn from workflows and improve over time.
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An unreleased Claude cracked a Riemann barrier no mathematician passed in 167 years. Bernhard Riemann claimed in 1859 that all the non-obvious zeros of his zeta function sit on one vertical line.Norman Levinson proved 33% of those zeros sat on the line in 1974 and forty-six more years of work reached only 41.6%. Claude Code carried the search for a day and a half, where 650 dead ideas came before the answer of 67.2%.
Gemini has reached 1 billion monthly active users (MAU). It is the fastest Google product to have managed that feat. Gemini is now in virtually every Google product and service and is core to Google's flagship search experience. The 1 billion MAU metric only refers to users who have opened the Gemini app or visited the Gemini web interface.
Last December, Meta announced it acquired Chinese AI developer Manus for $2 billion. The deal swiftly attracted scrutiny from China and the U.S. with officials investigating whether it violated foreign investment rules. In April, Chinese regulators demanded Meta unwind the acquisition and now Manus has announced it will “soon resume operating as an independent company.”
Former xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin just raised $1.1B for River AI, his two-month-old startup focused on building open-source AI that is trained, tuned, and controlled by the individual instead of a major corporation. Before xAI, which he left a year ago after helping co-found the startup with Elon Musk in 2023, Babuschkin worked at OpenAI, Tesla, and Google.
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AI Tutorial
Schedule a Weekly Metrics Report with ChatGPT Work
Switch to ChatGPT Work on the desktop app, web, or mobile. (Available on all paid plans)
Connect your reporting data directly. Ensure you have installed the Data Analytics plugin to help ChatGPT create better data visualizations and reports.
Provide context and examples: Share your key performance indicators (KPIs), targets, and a sample template/example of the report style you want to generate.
Review and adjust the first draft: Allow ChatGPT to process the data, review its initial draft, and refine the prompts or guidelines as needed until you are happy with the output.
Once you're happy with the result, schedule it to run on a schedule (e.g., every Thursday morning).
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⚡️Quick AI News Roundup
🐧 OpenAI shipped a ChatGPT desktop app for Linux, completing its desktop lineup.
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Identify 5 key mental models relevant to learning [subject/skill]. For each model, explain its application and suggest a practical exercise to internalize it. My learning goal is: [state your learning objective]. Present the results in a table with columns for "Mental Model", "Application", and "Exercise".If you found this prompt useful,
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