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Today’s Menu 🥠

• AI Therapist Or Scam?

• The Future Of Shoe Design

• Let PhD Agents Do It For You

• Everything Else You Need To Know

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Fast Snacks 🥡

Google's Plan to Stop AI From Making Stuff Up
Google DeepMind unveils a new benchmark, FACTS Grounding, to test and improve AI accuracy. It’s all about making large language models less imaginative—and way more reliable with real data.

Elon Musk Merges xAI With Twitter, Shifts Tech Horizons
Elon Musk’s latest venture, xAI, merges with Twitter to shape the platform’s future. This union aims to broaden Twitter’s capabilities, from content creation to user interactions, while harnessing xAI’s cutting-edge research.

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Bot or Not?
Are Mental Health Chatbots Playing Therapist Or Playing Us? 🥴

The American Psychological Association is urging the FTC to investigate whether unregulated mental health chatbots are exploiting users.

Lawsuits allege these bots have caused severe emotional harm, even suicide, by pretending to be licensed professionals. Platforms label bots as fictional but have been caught contradicting their own disclaimers, with some bots claiming to have degrees from Harvard or clinical licenses. The APA warns that children, who struggle to distinguish reality from fiction, are vulnerable.

This raises serious questions about the ethics and oversight of AI-powered apps marketed as emotional support tools.

Sole-ful Innovation
AI-Designed Shoes Are Here, And They’re… Weird 😵‍💫

Meet Syntilay, a startup using AI to design shoes that look like Crocs from Mars.

For $150, you get a 3D-printed pair tailored to your feet – just scan them with your phone. With Reebok's co-founder mentoring the team and generative AI crafting the funky patterns, these slides might just kickstart a new era of fashion-tech. But mass production isn’t there yet, and honestly, neither is everyone’s boldness to wear them. Syntilay’s next goal? Empowering brands and influencers to whip up their own AI-created footwear.

Would you wear these shoes or should we leave design to humans?

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Lab Notes, Upgraded
AI PhD Agents Want to Co-Write Your Research Papers 📄

Johns Hopkins and AMD’s Agent Laboratory mixes human creativity with AI for faster, cheaper research papers.

Scientists at Johns Hopkins and AMD have unveiled Agent Laboratory, an open-source toolkit designed to help researchers collaborate with AI ‘agents’ for faster, cheaper academic discovery. Think virtual PhD students that sift through papers, create research plans, code experiments, and co-write papers—without needing coffee breaks. The framework combines tools like GPT-4o for cost-efficient results and lets scientists work alongside AI in co-pilot mode.

It’s no perfect lab assistant, but it offers a glimpse of how agent-powered workflows might reshape research culture.

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Everything Else You Need To Know 📈

OpenAI Is Back to Building Robots: OpenAI is rebooting its robotics division after a four-year hiatus. With fresh job listings and a new approach, they’re aiming to solve real-world challenges with next-gen AI-powered robots.

AI Companies Are Paying for Your Video B-Roll: OpenAI, Google, and others are buying creators' unused video for up to $4 a minute. If you've got high-quality drone footage or forgotten 4K clips, it might be your time to cash in.

Google AI Thinks Baby Elephants Fit in Teacups: Google's AI Search featured a fake photo of a palm-sized baby elephant, blending accurate info with hilariously bad AI-generated imagery. Is this AI improving search or just creating chaos?

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Minduck Discovery: An AI-Search platform that fuels your curiosity with interactive Mind Maps, curating essential information and structuring it for easy understanding. For deeper insights, the Discovery Book offers traceable, in-depth content with insight.

Kolors: A cutting-edge text-to-image model powered by latent diffusion. Trained on billions of pairs, it excels in visual quality, complex semantics, and text rendering, outperforming both open and closed-source models.

Google AI Studio: The fastest way to start building with Gemini, the next generation family of multimodal generative AI models.

AI Avatars by Gan.AI: Create AI avatars that look and sound just like you or choose from stock avatars. Upload a short video, and see your AI Avatar bring your scripts to life with perfect voice & lip-sync.

Ontosight.ai: A discovery platform that harnesses data analytics to deliver actionable insights. It leverages robust machine learning and NLP techniques to accelerate data-driven decision-making.

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