| Hi, AI Enthusiast! | Welcome back to the #1 AI newsletter on the planet. | Here’s a glimpse into what we have today: | OpenAI employees average $1.5M pay. Perplexity CEO warns on-device AI threatens data centers. Plaud launches new AI pin and desktop notetaker. Google's tool rewrites textbooks around how you learn. AI police report turns officer into a frog. James Cameron's unfiltered take on AI's real danger.
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| Breaking News | The Latest AI Developments | 💰 OpenAI’s $1.5M Average Pay | A new WSJ report reveals OpenAI employees earn an average of $1.5 million when combining salary, bonuses, and stock options. That’s roughly 7× what Alphabet pays. The talent war is getting expensive. | ⚠️ On-Device AI Threatens Data Centers | Perplexity’s CEO says packing AI onto local chips could make trillion-dollar data center investments obsolete. He calls it “the $10 trillion question” and says Apple and Qualcomm are positioned to benefit if edge AI adoption accelerates. | 👂 Plaud’s New AI Pin and Desktop Notetaker | The wearable pin captures 20 hours of audio with 64GB storage and includes a clip, lanyard, magnetic pin, and wristband. The new desktop app takes on Granola and Fathom by auto-detecting meetings and transcribing via system audio. |
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| AI Worth Watching | | Google built a tool that rewrites textbooks around how you actually learn. | Learn Your Way takes any PDF and turns it into interactive lessons. You tell it your grade level and interests, and it adapts the content. If you’re into music, Newton’s laws get explained through sound waves instead of generic examples. | From there, you choose the format: mind maps, audio lessons, quizzes, narrated slides. Same material, different paths. | Google tested it with 60 high schoolers. Three days later, the group using the tool scored 11% higher on retention. Not a huge sample, but enough to pay attention. | It’s free on Google Labs. Still experimental, but worth bookmarking if you’re someone who learns better outside the textbook format. | |
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| Notable AI | Notable AI Tools | 🤖 Amplift is a marketing agent that combines social listening, influencer marketing, GEO, and content production, helping you find what people are saying, what to fix, and what to publish next. |
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| | AI Finds | Beyond the Feed | 🐸 AI Report: Cop Turns Into Frog | A Utah police department is using AI to auto-generate reports from bodycam footage. One report claimed an officer shapeshifted into a frog. The explanation is both funny and concerning. | 🎨 Grok Imagine Prompting Guide | xAI upgraded Grok Imagine, and this guide breaks down how to get cinematic results. The trick: stop describing objects and start directing scenes like a filmmaker. You can apply this to any AI image generator. | 🧬 Pancreatic Cancer Breakthrough | Northwestern researchers discovered pancreatic tumors hide from the immune system by coating themselves in sugar. A new antibody blocks that trick and reactivated immune cells in mice. | 🎬 James Cameron on AI's Real Danger | The Avatar director thinks AI weaponization is heading toward a nuclear-style arms race. He also calls AI-generated actors “horrifying.” Worth reading if you want a Hollywood legend’s unfiltered take on where this is all going. | 📋 Vibe Kanban Manages Your AI Agents | If you’re running multiple AI coding agents (Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex), this open-source tool lets you manage them from one dashboard. Track tasks, review output, run agents in parallel. 5.9k GitHub stars. |
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| | Outlaw Echo is an AI image generator built to push visual creation to its limits. | It treats every prompt like a cinematographer would treat a film frame: lighting, composition, texture, depth, focal planes. The result is images that feel like stills from a movie that doesn’t exist yet. | Works best for cinematic scenes, hyper-detailed portraits, moody atmospheres, and anything where you want the AI to stop cutting corners on realism. | If your image generations keep coming back flat or generic, this is worth a spin. | |
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| Prompt of the Day | Precision Text Editor | Important Note: You’ll need to click the button to get the complete prompt. | | If you’d rather view this prompt in Notion, click here. | This prompt turns AI into a rigorous, user-friendly editor that cleans up grammar, phrasing, and clarity while protecting your voice for any type of text. |
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| That’s all for today! CES kicks off Tuesday, so expect a flood of announcements. We’ll cut through the noise and bring you the ones that matter. Don’t forget to share your favorite finds with friends, family, and colleagues! 🛠️ | | For the latest AI scoops, follow us on X, LinkedIn and YouTube. | | Signing off, | — There’s An AI For That |
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