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Here’s what’s in store for you today:

✨SUNDAY SPECIAL EDITION

  • Featured Story:šŸ•°ļø From Calculators to Co-Pilots: How AI Became Our Everyday Companion

  • Featured Story: šŸŒŒ The Paradox of Infinite Creativity

  • Sunday AI Academy: šŸŽØ Create and edit Canva designs with ChatGPT

  • This week in AI - 5 Summarised news on AI

FEATURED STORY

šŸ•°ļø From Calculators to Co-Pilots: How AI Became Our Everyday Companion

Remember when calculators were banned in classrooms because teachers feared they’d ā€œkill thinkingā€? Today, they’re a basic tool no one questions. AI is quietly walking the same path.

What started as experimental — chatbots that fumbled over simple tasks — has matured into something people now rely on daily. Doctors use it to summarize patient histories, lawyers to draft contracts, students to organize notes. It’s not replacing thinking — it’s reshaping how we think.

The real story isn’t about AI becoming smarter, but about us becoming comfortable with it. Ten years from now, we may look back at 2025 and laugh at how ā€œweirdā€ it felt to ask AI for help — just as no one today remembers the debate over calculators. AI isn’t a futuristic add-on anymore. It’s becoming invisible, like WiFi: always there, always on, woven into the rhythm of work and life.

And yet, with each step of acceptance comes new responsibility. Who gets access to this invisible companion — and who gets left behind? The calculator didn’t change society’s balance of power, but AI will. It is not just a tool we use; it is slowly becoming part of the way we think, work, and even define intelligence itself.

🌌 The Paradox of Infinite Creativity

AI has given us a superpower: with one line of text, we can summon endless songs, essays, images, even entire films. What once took studios, teams, and budgets now takes minutes. It feels like magic — until you ask: if everything is possible, what’s worth creating?

Psychologists are calling it the ā€œparadox of abundance.ā€ When ideas are infinite, originality doesn’t disappear — it becomes rarer, and more human. AI can remix, replicate, and scale, but it doesn’t know what matters. That meaning comes only from us.

The challenge of the AI age isn’t whether machines can create. That’s settled. The challenge is deciding what’s worth saying when anyone can say anything. In the flood of infinite content, our perspective becomes the only scarce resource.

And that’s the twist: AI doesn’t erase creativity — it puts pressure on it. The human voice, the lived experience, the story only you can tell becomes more valuable, not less. The future of art and expression may not belong to those who can create the most, but to those who can say the least in a way no machine can imitate. In a world where AI gives us infinity, meaning will always remain finite — and human.

SUNDAY AI ACADEMY

šŸŽØ Create and edit Canva designs with ChatGPT

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use ChatGPT's Canva connector to automatically generate multiple personalized designs by prompting ChatGPT to take over your browser, navigate to Canva, and create custom variations of your templates.

Step-by-step:

Go to canva.com/ai and create a template (e.g., "congratulatory letter") or choose an existing design

In ChatGPT, click "+" → Agent Mode and connect your Canva account through Connectors

Prompt: "Find my [template name] in Canva and create 4 versions with custom messages for: Michael (bodybuilding win), Anna (new baby), etc."

ChatGPT duplicates your template and auto-fills personalized text for each recipient

Review in Canva and make quick formatting fixes before downloading

Pro tip: Generate all your text variations in ChatGPT first, then use Canva AI for layouts. Agent Mode handles bulk automation, but expect some manual cleanup — treat it as a drafting assistant rather than a one-click solution.

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THIS WEEK IN AI

Meta Taps Midjourney for Visual AI Boost
Meta has licensed Midjourney’s ā€œaesthetic technologyā€ to enhance AI-generated image and video tools across its platforms. This collaboration marks a major step toward elevating visual quality in Meta’s AI products and staying competitive in the generative AI race.

GPT-5 Gets a Warm Personality Upgrade
OpenAI softened the tone of its flagship model GPT-5 after feedback that it sounded too formal. Users will now encounter friendlier responses like ā€œGood questionā€ and ā€œGreat startā€ without sacrificing accuracy—an effort to make AI feel more human and less robotic.

GPT-5 Users Mourn the Loss of Personality
Some users expressed emotional distress over GPT-5 replacing the previous version they'd grown close to. The shift in tone sparked genuine feelings of loss—prompting OpenAI to reinstate older models for subscribers and acknowledge the emotional impact of such changes.

Nvidia Pauses H20 AI Chip Rollout in China
Amid growing U.S.–China tech tensions, Nvidia has halted production of its H20 AI chip in China following government pushback. Nvidia is now seeking approval for a modified, lower-spec version to maintain market access.

Apple Eyes Gemini-Powered Siri Revamp
Apple is reportedly in talks with Google to power a more capable version of Siri using its Gemini AI model, as Siri updates continue to be delayed. Talks also include exploring alternatives with OpenAI and Anthropic.

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šŸ“° Everything else in AI today

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  • 🧠 DeepMind’s AlphaCode 2 wins international coding competition, outperforming human programmers

  • šŸ’° Runway secures $150M to expand AI-driven video editing for indie creators

  •  šŸ” Google’s SynthID watermarking tech ensures ethical AI content tracking

  • šŸŽ„ NVIDIA’s Omniverse powers virtual film studios, cutting production costs by 30%

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