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✨SUNDAY SPECIAL EDITION

• Featured Story: 🌍 AI for Sustainability: Smarter Cities, Cleaner Planet

• Featured Story: 📚 AI and the Future of Work: A New Skill Revolution

• Sunday AI Academy: 🎵 Create professional music tracks for projects

• This week in AI - 5 Summarised news on AI

FEATURED STORY

🌍 AI for Sustainability: Smarter Cities, Cleaner Planet

AI isn’t just helping companies — it’s reshaping how entire cities function. Urban planners are now using AI to optimize traffic flow, energy usage, and waste management, reducing both costs and carbon emissions. 

In agriculture, AI-powered sensors and drones are helping farmers monitor soil health, predict crop yields, and reduce water waste, making food systems more sustainable.

The potential is massive: analysts believe AI-driven efficiencies could cut global greenhouse gas emissions by 10–15% in the next decade. Still, experts warn of a balancing act — while AI supports sustainability, the energy-hungry models themselves need cleaner training methods to truly deliver on their promise. 

Beyond that, AI is helping scientists simulate climate scenarios and test solutions at a scale that would take decades in the real world. Countries are already experimenting with AI-managed renewable energy grids, which could become the backbone of tomorrow’s green economy.

🌐 The Age of AI Is Being Built by Non-Techies

Far from just automating jobs, AI is reshaping careers by creating demand for entirely new skills. Fields like AI ethics, prompt engineering, and human-AI collaboration are becoming hot career paths, while traditional roles in marketing, customer service, and design are evolving into AI-augmented professions.

This shift is pushing organizations to upskill employees at record speed. Online learning platforms and universities are rolling out new AI-focused courses, while companies are embedding AI training into their onboarding.

Experts say the winners of this revolution won’t be those who compete against AI, but those who learn to work with it as a teammate. Early adopters are already seeing boosts in productivity and innovation, and analysts believe that within five years, most job descriptions will include some form of AI collaboration skills. In short, the future of work isn’t man vs machine — it’s man + machine.

SUNDAY AI ACADEMY

🎵 Create professional music tracks for projects

In this tutorial, you will learn how to generate studio-grade music from simple text prompts using the new ElevenLabs music model that supports multiple languages and gives you complete creative control.

Step-by-step:

1. Visit ElevenLabs and navigate to the Music section

2. Write a detailed prompt: “Upbeat acoustic folk song with fingerpicked guitar, warm male vocals, cheerful and inviting with cozy vibes”

3. Choose your desired number of variants and duration

4. Generate your track, then edit individual sections and download in studio quality

Pro tip: Start broad (“upbeat pop song”) then get specific (“80s synths, female vocals, catchy summer hook”) for perfect results.

THIS WEEK IN AI

OpenAI’s GPT-5 Launch Sparks Mixed Reactions
OpenAI’s new GPT-5 rollout continues to make waves. While it shows performance gains in areas like coding and complex reasoning, users have flagged accuracy issues—such as misidentifying political leaders—and criticisms over its more formal tone. Public pressure even led to the reinstatement of the beloved GPT-4o model as an option.

Meta Announces Fourth AI Division Restructure in Six Months
Meta is reorganizing its AI efforts for the fourth time in half a year, splitting its AI initiatives into separate teams for products, infrastructure, future research (FAIR), and a newly announced lab. The shake-up comes amid internal challenges and struggles to retain top AI talent.

OpenAI to Fix GPT-5’s Flaws and Double Rate Limits for Subscribers
Following backlash over GPT-5’s initial rollout, OpenAI says it’s addressing the issues—including restoring GPT-4o—and will double usage limits for paid users. CEO Sam Altman acknowledged the launch missteps and committed to improvements in tone and user experience.

GPT-5 Gains Traction in Enterprise Coding and Research
GPT-5 is already seeing strong enterprise adoption, especially in coding and complex reasoning workflows. Businesses are drawn to its advanced capabilities and flexible infrastructure, reinforcing demand despite some criticisms.

AI Attachment Runs Deep: Some Mourn 'Chatbot' Change
Some users have formed emotional attachments to older ChatGPT models. As GPT-5 changed the bot’s personality, many expressed grief online—going so far as to hold a mock funeral for their AI companion—highlighting the surprisingly deep bonds people form with AI.

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