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Here’s what’s in store for you today:

✹SUNDAY SPECIAL EDITION

  • Featured Story: AI in Healthcare — Transforming Medicine with Care and Caution

  • Feature Story: The Environmental Cost of AI —What We Need to Address

  • Sunday AI Academy - 🌍 Create marketing campaigns for global audiences

  • This week in AI - 5 Summarised news on AI

FEATURED STORY

AI in Healthcare — Transforming Medicine with Care and Caution

Artificial Intelligence is revolutionizing healthcare by enabling faster, more accurate diagnostics, personalized treatment plans, and virtual health assistants that improve patient outcomes.  

AI-powered imaging tools can detect diseases at earlier stages with greater precision, while chatbots and virtual assistants offer 24/7 mental health support and patient engagement. These innovations are making healthcare more accessible, efficient, and patient-centric than ever before.

However, these advances also raise critical challenges around data privacy, algorithmic bias, and the necessity of human oversight to ensure safety and fairness. Ethical considerations, discussed in journals like Harvard Business Review and Nature Medicine, stress that transparency and trust are essential as AI becomes embedded in clinical workflows. 

For patients, providers, and developers, understanding both the potential and limitations of AI is vital to harness its power responsibly, ensuring that these technologies translate into real-world health improvements without compromising ethics.

The Environmental Cost of AI — What We Need to Address

Artificial Intelligence is driving incredible technological advances, but it also has a significant environmental impact that often goes unnoticed. 

Training large AI models requires enormous amounts of electricity, sometimes comparable to the lifetime emissions of several cars. Many data centers rely on fossil fuels for power and consume vast quantities of water for cooling servers, raising concerns about resource strain, especially in drought-prone regions.

Moreover, the mining of rare earth minerals needed for AI hardware causes environmental degradation and water pollution, threatening ecosystems worldwide.

Studies from MIT Technology Review and researchers like Strubell et al. (2019) highlight the growing carbon footprint of deep learning models and the urgent need to develop energy-efficient algorithms

The rapid expansion of AI technology means that without conscious effort, these environmental costs could accelerate climate change and worsen water scarcity

To combat this, the industry must prioritize renewable energy-powered data centers, responsible hardware sourcing, and transparent reporting on AI’s ecological footprint. Only by balancing innovation with sustainability can AI truly be a force for good in the long term.

SUNDAY AI ACADEMY

🌍 Create marketing campaigns for global audiences

In this tutorial, you will learn how to transform campaign data into localized content and track your global marketing efforts using Canva’s AI-powered sheets and analytics tools.

Step-by-step:

  1. Prepare a CSV with Market, Product Name, Target Audience, and Language Code columns, then in Canva create a new Sheet and import your data

  2. Create a new “Headlines” column, select empty cells, go to Actions, and click "Fill Empty Cells" to auto-generate localized headlines for each market

  3. Add a “Campaign Status” column and use Actions to add a dropdown with different status options

  4. Use “Magic Insights” to get AI-powered analysis on anything you want from your spreadsheet

THIS WEEK IN AI

1. OpenAI Debuts ChatGPT Agent: Your AI Assistant Just Got Real

OpenAI has rolled out ChatGPT Agent, its most advanced AI yet — capable of completing multi-step tasks like creating presentations, ordering items, and running code. Available to Pro, Plus, and Team users, it integrates browsing, app connectors, and real-time controls, marking a major leap toward truly autonomous AI assistants.

2. Google Launches Web Guide, Reinventing Search with AI

Google introduced Web Guide, an AI experiment under Search Labs that restructures search results into topic clusters using its Gemini model. For example, a query like “solo travel in Japan” now returns grouped sections like travel guides, safety tips, and personal stories — making search feel more like an interactive guidebook.

3. Netflix Uses Generative AI in First TV Show Footage

Netflix has officially used generative AI in production for the first time. A building collapse scene in the Argentine series El Eternauta was completed using AI — 10× faster and more cost-effectively than with traditional visual effects. The move signals Netflix’s growing interest in AI-powered production tools.

4. Trump Unveils AI Action Security

The Trump administration released its AI Action Plan, emphasizing rapid data center expansion, deregulation of environmental policies, AI integration in defense, and open-source model development. Critics warn of legal risks and concerns around the plan’s stance on speech, neutrality, and privacy protections.

5. OpenAI & DeepMind Dominate Math Benchmarks

OpenAI and DeepMind topped the leaderboard in the International Mathematical Olympiad benchmark, showing strong performance in reasoning. Meanwhile, the AI community is urging caution as “AI agents” continue to gain hype — with many tools still struggling in real-world use despite big claims.

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