🍭 From Capital Hill to Chrome Extensions 🏛️

Good morning. Congress held another AI hearing yesterday. No riots, no robot takeovers. Would ya look at that?

Meanwhile, we’ve got our intern in Minnesota, strapped to a chair screenshotting competitor landing pages. HR doesn’t open these… assuming we even have HR.

And we’ve built something to help him.
(But more on that later.)

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What’s Cookin’:

• Tech leaders testify before Congress

• IBM launches AI agents for every cubicle and calendar invite

• Claude gets a web browser

• Can you spot the fake startup?

• And everything else you need to know…

  
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IBM
🦾 IBM Drops 400+ AI Tools

The Bite: IBM just went full enterprise anime arc. At its THINK event, it launched a tsunami of AI agents built to crawl through Slack threads, file invoices, and automate every boring task you’ve ever rage-quit.

Think: Slackbots with MBAs. (Get it? “think” — lol intern is on Friday vibes)


Snacks: 

• You can now build AI agents in under 5 minutes or pick from 150+ pre-trained specialists.

• IBM’s “Hybrid Integration” thing connects all your messy apps, APIs, and data messes without needing a consultant on retainer.

• Allegedly they can “unlock” your unstructured data. We’ve heard that before though…. our technical intern still got it added to his research list.

Why it Bites:

IBM isn’t chasing AI clout.
It’s chasing every CTO’s wallet.

While the open-source crowd argues about alignment, IBM is handing you 150 agents, a button that says “automate,” and a wink.

And here’s the thing: that’s what wins at scale.

If this works, most companies won’t need to “build AI.” They’ll just plug into Big Blue’s agent zoo and call it innovation.


Or they’ll just call Eder…

🍭 Steal this Prompt
Learn Enough to Be Dangerous (Fast)

Skip the fluff.

This prompt uses the 80/20 rule to extract the top 20% of insights that give you 80% of the value — in half the time and with twice the confidence.

1. Hit this link (prompt)

2. Pick a topic, person, industry, etc… to study

3. Copy + paste the prompt into ChatGPT 4o

4. Replace the “#insert topic” with your subject matter.

PS: Remember last week when we told you about Deep Research from OpenAI being free for unpaid accounts?

Now’s your time to try it with this prompt. 👇

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Congressional AI Hearing
🏛️ Space Race: AI Edition

The Bite:  AI leaders like Microsoft, CoreWeave, OpenAI, and more just testified before Congress yesterday.

The hearing, led by Texas Senator, Ted Cruz, named it; “Winning the AI Race: Strengthening U.S. Capabilities in Computing and Innovation.”

Our team has differing opinions on yesterday’s hearing, whatchu think? 👇


Snacks:

• Execs called for massive investments in AI infra, warning of future electricity shortages due to AI demand.

• They suggested a “light-touch regulatory framework” would avoid a fragmented, state-by-state patchwork of AI laws.

• Altman says "[AI will be] at least as big as the internet, maybe bigger”.

• Strong bipartisan agreement that the U.S. must accelerate AI development, especially to counter China’s ambitions

• The hearing overall was industry-friendly. Less government smackdown and more like a strategy sesh with extra lanyards.
  

Why it bites: The U.S. is going full “Space Race: AI Edition,” and positioning models and chips as the new moon landing. Valid.

And while the AI industry just got promoted to national-interest status (congrats, gentlemen), there’s a catch:

Oh, and let’s not forget: AI data centers could soon be eating 10% of U.S. electricity… because apparently, replacing feelings with inference takes a lot of power.

Didn’t think my utility bill could get higher.


The risk? A shiny new Cold War with better branding, looser brakes, and no global ref rules. The loudest voices are shouting growth, but someone should still whisper guardrails.


But let’s be clear: we’re not AI doomers.

At The Daily Bite we build with this stuff every day.

We’re pro-AI, pro-innovation, and yes, pro-regulation.

Just not the kind that’s scared of its own shadow.

We’ve seen what happens when policy leads with panic. (Europe, you ok?)

Pre-consequence regulation might feel responsible, but it risks strangling the very thing it’s trying to steer.

Tool Box
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Anthropic’s API now lets Claude fetch and cite live web data.

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Make an AI version of yourself, try on clothes virtually, and build your dream wardrobe.

The Sims, but drip-conscious.

🌊 Cascade by Windsurf
Slash commands that automate all your dev prompts. Want to deploy a site or set up a local env?

Say less. Literally.

📊 AI Sheets
Agentic data analysis for the spreadsheet-averse.

Skip formulas. Ask questions. Get answers. Feel smart.

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Test Your Skill
🔍 Spot the Fake Startup

Everything Else
You need to know 📈 

🛡️ Chrome adds Gemini Nano to block scams IRL

On-device LLM = real-time scam filter.

Scammy sites, fake notifications, and bad vibes now come with warnings — before you click.

🤥 Short prompts make AI hallucinate more

A new study says: “Keep it brief” = “Let it lie.”

Models like GPT-4o and Claude 3.7 perform worse when told to give short answers. Hot takes need nuance, folks. And Context

🌏 OpenAI launches data residency in Asia

Enterprise and Edu users in Japan, India, Singapore, and Korea can now keep data in-country.

Big win for compliance. Bigger win for OpenAI’s international flex.

💸 Google drops “implicit caching” for Gemini API

Supposedly saves you 75% on token costs.

Devs are hopeful but our team is still watching their usage like hawks. We’ll see…

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