🍭 GPT-5: Too Friendly? 🤗

Good morning. Another day, another step closer to an AI that tells you your jokes are funny…even when they're not.

Let’s dig in.

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• GPT-5 gets warmer; too much?

• AI unlocks speech after 18 silent years

• ToolBox™: Music, Models, Visuals, and Assistants

• Everything Else: Grammarly, Google, NVIDIA, and Perplexity

Should AI Be Nice?
🤗 GPT-5 Wants to Be Your Friend Now.

The Bite: OpenAI just tweaked its latest model, GPT-5, to make interactions "warmer and friendlier."

CEO Sam Altman admitted the launch was bumpier than planned, leading the team to dial up the niceness.

Adding casual affirmations like "Good question" or "Great start."

Snacks:

• Niceness update: To make GPT-5 feel more approachable/less blunt.

• Internal tests claim no rise in sycophancy, just subtle warmth.

• User pushback: Some users questioning if friendliness is really needed.

• A study by OpenAI and MIT found at least 1% of users develop unhealthy attachments to ChatGPT.

• Altman acknowledged the issue at a recent dinner with journalists, hinting at bigger conversations around AI's role in human relationships.

Why it bites: Warm is good. Nice is nice.

But when it comes to AI, human-like connections could be a slippery slope.

We need AI that’s straight-up effective and doesn’t hesitate to correct us.

Not digital BFFs.

Sorry Elon, no Anime girlfriends for us.

Stay human, everyone.

AI Tools
🧰 ToolBox™

💇‍♀️ Restyle by Freepik —  Transform the style of your images, keep their structure.

🤳 PineAI — AI assistant that calls customer support, saving time on hold.

🕵️‍♂️ Indy AI by Contra — Connects to your LinkedIn and X, scans your extended network, and surfaces warm opportunities in your Contra feed. No job boards.

🎹 Video-to-Music (ElevenLabs) — Upload video → Get music that matches your scene, style, or vibe.

🤖 GPT-5 — New AI model from OpenAI
Better reasoning, code quality, and UX. Introduces enhanced agentic capabilities, making it a powerful collaborator and intelligent assistant.

Read our initial GPT-5 coverage here → HERE

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🍭 Steal This Prompt 🍭
🖼️ Design Grade Landing Page Design - By Howard Chen

Build a high-grade website hero section that looks straight out of a design agency moodboard.

Perfect for startups, portfolios, or anyone who wants their landing page to flex harder than their pitch deck.

1. Click this link for the prompt.

2. Paste into ChatGPT

3. Replace the #’s with biz/product name and tagline

4. Let it cook and you’ll get a design agency grade hero section.

   
   🍭 Try the prompt on Snack Prompt 🍭

AI For Good
🙏 AI Gives Woman Her Voice Back After 18 Silent Years

The Bite: Ann Johnson lost her ability to speak at 30 after a brainstem stroke locked her into silence.

Eighteen years later, thanks to an AI-powered brain-computer interface developed by UC Berkeley and UCSF, she's speaking again.

The system translates her neural signals into spoken words, restoring the voice she lost to paralysis.

Snacks:

• Silent for nearly two decades: Ann had communicated at just 14 words per minute, spelling words with an eye tracker.

• AI decodes neural activity from an implant. Turns thoughts into words.

• Privacy: Only activates when Ann deliberately tries to speak; it’s reading intentions, not random thoughts.

• Personalized voice: They recreated Ann’s original voice using audio from her wedding speech.

• Real-time speech synthesis: From thoughts to speech in 1 second.

Why it Bites: In a sea of "AI will change everything!" hype;
mostly about email, apps, and productivity hacks;

Here’s a story that hits different. 

This isn't about Cluely or cheating at life, it’s about restoring it.

If we're headed toward AGI, this might just be the hopeful, human moment we can root for.

Everything Else
🧠 You Need to Know

💹 Perplexity Adds Indian Earnings Calls

→ Perplexity now supports live transcripts of earnings calls for Indian public companies.

🎙️ NVIDIA Launches Major European AI Dataset

→ NVIDIA unveils Granary, the largest open-source speech dataset for European languages, plus new speech models.

📸 Google Photos Gets Creative AI

→ Google introduces a new "Create" tab with generative AI tools for enhanced image editing.

🩺 GPT-5 Dominates Medical Reasoning

→ GPT-5 achieves superior results in multimodal medical reasoning, surpassing human expert performance in recent studies.

📖 Grammarly’s Big AI Makeover

→ Grammarly updates its interface with AI-powered tools, including grading, proofreading, and plagiarism detection.

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