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Today’s Menu 🥠

• Hugging Face’s Smolagents

• $7 Billion Loophole

• Odd AI Benchmarks

• Everything Else You Need To Know

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OpenAI Users' 2025 Wish List
Users have expressed desires for AGI, AI agents, memory upgrades, longer context windows, and an "adult mode" to reduce content moderation. Many features OpenAI plans for 2025 were not included in users' wish lists.

Billionaires Bet Big on 3 Surprising AI Stocks
AI is the golden goose of tech, but Wall Street billionaires are swiping left on Nvidia and cozying up to three surprising stocks: Broadcom, Taiwan Semiconductor, and Amazon. Are these stocks 2025’s biggest winners, or are billionaires just rolling the dice? Time will tell.

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AI, But Make It Smol
Hugging Face’s Smolagents Makes AI Agents Super Simple

With just a few lines of code, developers can create agents that use Python directly to perform tasks smarter and faster.

Smolagents supports diverse language models, integrates easily, and even adds security features for peace of mind when running AI-generated code. It's designed to cut complexity by 30% while maintaining top-tier performance. Whether you’re a code minimalist or just curious about AI, this one’s worth a look.

Plus, tiny things are just inherently cooler, right?

Chip Hustle
ByteDance's $7B Plan to Outsmart US Chip Rules

ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, is poised to invest a cool $7 billion in Nvidia AI chips through offshore data centers

All of this to sidestep strict US export restrictions that ban advanced chips from being sent to China. ByteDance’s co-founder, Zhang Yiming, is pulling all the stops: negotiating with data centers across Southeast Asia and beyond to secure Nvidia's latest tech.

But the US isn’t sitting idle—new rules could throw a wrench in this plan.

Together with Meshy.ai
3D Made Easy - Text, Image, or Both to Stunning Models

Meshy AI is an AI-driven platform that converts text prompts or images into detailed 3D models within seconds. It supports various art styles, integrates with tools like Blender, and simplifies 3D content creation for all skill levels.

Test Your Skill
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Vomit On His Sweater Already, AI Spaghetti
Will Smith, Spaghetti, and AI’s Weirdest New Benchmarks

AI benchmarks are getting downright bizarre. We now have tests like making Will Smith eat spaghetti or building Minecraft castles.

These unofficial benchmarks are entertaining and easy to understand, which is why they’ve gone viral, even though they’re not exactly solid measures of AI's real-world reliability. Experts suggest focusing on how AI impacts us long-term rather than obsessing over narrow tests—but let’s be honest, watching AIs play Pictionary makes for excellent internet content.

Who needs seriousness when spaghetti footage exists?

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Everything Else You Need To Know 📈

Retro Vibes, Modern Magic: At the Bratislava Month of Photography festival, 'The Diffusionists,' a photo series by Kai Brüninghaus, grabbed attention. Why? It was created entirely by AI. With a retro-futuristic 1930s vibe, the collection features portraits and snapshots that look like they came straight out of an old Kodak Brownie camera. Think vintage-filter-meets-robot-artistry.

Reclaiming Humanity in an AI-Driven World: In "Going Against the grA.I.n," Joe Bernstein explores the impact of AI on personal autonomy, warning that reliance on algorithms can erode individuality. He suggests to embrace life's clutter to foster creativity, identify unique human skills, engage in manual processes to appreciate experiences, protect personal data to maintain unpredictability, and break routines to rediscover spontaneity.

Top 6 AI Security Trends to Monitor in 2025: Key trends to watch include the mainstream use of AI coding assistants, which may introduce vulnerabilities; the rise of AI-generated content leading to sophisticated phishing attacks; increased regulatory scrutiny on AI data privacy; the need for robust AI model governance to prevent misuse; the potential for AI-driven cyberattacks; and the importance of securing AI supply chains.

Toolbox
5 Trending AI Tools

Debate AI: Designed to enhance users' debating skills by providing real-time feedback and insights. It serves as a virtual coach, assisting individuals in refining their argumentation and critical thinking abilities.

VocAdapt: Language learning with personalized content and adaptive vocabulary tools, making acquisition seamless. It integrates new words into your reading, watching, or listening experience.

Lovable: GPT Engineer got 50,000+ users in 140 countries and 5/5 stars in 2024. Now we launch Lovable: the world's first AI Full Stack Engineer. Ship apps with auth, data storage, and AI - 20x faster than writing code.

SEObot: Automates content creation and optimization, helping busy founders enhance their website's search engine performance. It integrates seamlessly with popular CMS platforms and supports multiple languages.

CapCut Commerce Pro: A content production platform designed for e-commerce marketing. Effortlessly generate shoppable video ads, product images, and social content — all from a product link.

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