Episode 17
Is AI killing the planet?
🧠 Helpful AI Tip for the Week
Save time by using AI to summarize your week’s emails: feed your inbox content into a summarizer tool and ask for “top 3 actions I must take,” then add those to your calendar.
🍿 This week’s top AI stories
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince flew to the White House to negotiate for high-end AI chips — basically saying: “We’re building an AI empire, hold my latte.”
Meta’s founding AI rockstar announced he’s leaving Meta to launch a startup focused on “world-models” that learn like kids. Whoa, expectations: sky-high.
The AI boom’s dirty secret is becoming mainstream as massive energy costs and fossil fuel use are creeping back because of compute demand
🌟 Power moves by Her
The “godmother of AI” just made headlines as her startup World Labs (focused on spatial/world-models) is valued at over $1 billion.
🫣 Blooper Reel:
Gemma (a tool by Google) falsely accused a U.S. Senator of sexual misconduct, complete with made-up links. Trash the bedtime drama
A huge audit found 9% of new U.S. newspaper articles are partially or fully authored by AI — and almost none of them disclose it. Hello, transparency fail.