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Today’s Menu:
Why Pixel 10 will change everything
Superintelligence is coming!
Super Hero Tools for Productivity
Excel gets copilot
Quick AI Toasts about Zuck, Sam & Elon
Total read time: About 6 minutes, perfect for a coffee refill.
Remember when phones just made calls? Google's new Pixel 10 series feels like having a smart friend who actually gets you. This thing doesn't wait for you to ask, it just knows what you need.
What Makes It Special:
Magic Cue - A new level of personalised intelligence and helpfulness to your Pixel. It anticipates your needs and proactively suggests relevant information and helpful actions based on the context on your phone.
Gemini Live - Talk to your AI like a real person while it watches through your camera.
Camera Coach - Get instant photography tips that actually make your shots look professional.
Voice Translate - Have natural conversations in any language—it even keeps your voice tone.
Everything's Private - All the smart stuff happens right on your phone, not in some cloud server
Built to Last - Seven years of updates means this phone grows with you
Google isn't just selling a phone here. They're basically saying "forget everything you know about how smartphones work." It's pretty bold, honestly.
Personal Take: We're witnessing the birth of truly intelligent devices that anticipate our needs rather than just respond to commands. Within five years, phones that don't proactively help us will feel as outdated as flip phones do today.
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Meta’s dream for AI dominance just took a pivotal turn. With staggering investments and industry-defining hires, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is restructuring its Superintelligence Labs, making headlines and shaking up the world of artificial intelligence.
Meta finalized recruitment, attracting top AI engineers and scientists, even poaching talent with massive, sometimes billion-dollar, offers.
The AI organization is now split into four divisions: TBD Lab (cutting-edge LLMs), FAIR (long-term research), Products & Applied Research, and MSL Infra (infrastructure).
Alexandr Wang, Meta’s new Chief AI Officer, oversees this new structure, aiming for both speed and breakthrough innovation.
High-profile exits and aggressive onboarding created internal tensions, with legacy teams uneasy about rapid changes.
Meta is moving away from open-source models, signaling a possible shift toward closed AI systems, a notable departure from its philosophy.
Financial commitment is massive: expected capital expenditures hit $72 billion, with a big chunk funding data centers and AI initiatives.
Old models and teams have been dissolved; all focus is now on reaching “superintelligence”—AI that can outthink humans across domains.
Meta’s aggressive play is set to define the next era in AI, yet only time will tell if this shake-up delivers on such grand ambitions.
Personal Take: Superintelligence is about to change everything. It’ll help us crack big problems and do things we can barely imagine today. But honestly, there’s a flip side—if we’re not careful, it could make the rich richer, deepen divides, or even take some control out of our hands.
What matters is that we remember the tech is only as good as the people guiding it. If we keep our humanity at the core, Superintelligence could truly lift us all up. It’s not just machines getting smarter; it’s about us making sure the future is fair, wise, and genuinely better for everyone.
Superhero Tools (Productivity)
tldv: Instantly records, transcribes, and summarizes your meetings on Zoom, Teams, and Google Meet so you never miss important details.
Grok: Turns your text prompts into stunning, high-quality images using next-gen AI—all in just seconds.
Perplexity Comet: Acts as your smart research assistant, finding answers with live, trusted sources and saves you from endless tab overload.
Kickresume: Helps you quickly create beautiful, ATS-friendly resumes and cover letters, powered by AI and real-world templates.
Cursor: An AI-powered code editor that understands and improves your code, automates tasks, and helps you code faster, just like having a helpful coding buddy.
Quick AI News Bites
OpenAI is opening its first office in New Delhi, showing how much the company values its users and tech community in India. With plans to hire more staff locally, their team said the move will also help them collaborate more closely with government and businesses.
Chinese astronauts got a brand new spacesuit designed to help them land on the moon by 2030. The updated suit is built for harsh lunar conditions, supporting China’s big space plans.
Texas’ top lawyer says Meta and Character.AI are fooling kids by promoting chatbots as mental health support tools without medical backing. The probe is raising tough questions about child safety and tech companies’ responsibilities. This could set new rules for AI and kids in the future.
OpenAI’s legal team wants Meta to reveal if it helped Elon Musk in his massive takeover bid, as the legal fight heats up. This request could expose deeper connections in the tech world. Big tech rivalries are growing stronger every day.
Copilot function in Excel
Learn how to use Excel’s new Copilot function lets you use simple, natural language to analyze and transform your data, no formulas needed. This quick guide shows you how to tap into AI-powered insights right inside your spreadsheet.
Open up Excel on your computer. Make sure you’re using the latest version—Copilot only works in Microsoft 365 with Copilot included.
To use the new COPILOT function, you’ll enter this code into any cell: =COPILOT(prompt_part1, [context1], [prompt_part2], [context2], ...)
The COPILOT function syntax has the following arguments:
Prompt_part: Text that describes the task or question for the AI model.
Context (optional): A reference from the grid that provides context or data for the AI model. This can be a single cell or a range.
Let’s say you’ve collected comments about a new coffee machine. Traditionally, you’d manually read, tag, and summarize this data. With the COPILOT function, you can simply reference the range of feedback, ask Copilot to classify each comment by sentiment or category, and gather actionable insights.
For example: =COPILOT("Classify this feedback", D4:D18)
From this, Copilot might give the following results:
This feature is currently available for beta users. A $30/month subscription is required to access it. Watch it in action: YouTube
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