🌍 Toxic Air? Musk Under Fire!

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Today’s Insights:

• Musk’s AI Pollutes Air, Microsoft Drops Recall & Manus Hits $500M Value!

• AI Tool of The Day + 5 Hand-Picked AI Tools

• Tutorial: How to build apps and websites in minutes with AI

• Prompt: Follow-up Email for Recent Purchase using ChatGPT

• 5 Hand-Picked Resources & Guides

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NEWS

Musk’s AI Pollutes Memphis Air

Elon Musk’s AI company xAI is being accused of secretly running dozens of polluting gas turbines in Memphis without proper permits, sparking outrage among residents ahead of a big public hearing.

Key Takeaways:

• xAI allegedly ran 30+ methane gas turbines without air permits.

• Secret flyers were sent to neighborhoods to downplay pollution concerns.

• New thermal images suggest most turbines were active, despite claims.

• Memphis residents, especially in historically Black areas, are demanding answers.

• A major health department hearing is set to let both sides speak up.

Why It’s Important: This story matters because it highlights the clash between tech expansion and community health. Residents near the supercomputer site already face high pollution risks, and now they’re fighting for transparency and cleaner air.

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NEWS

Microsoft Drops Recall - Your PC Remembers for You!

Microsoft launches Recall, an AI-powered feature that snapshots your PC activity, alongside new natural language Windows search and a “Click to Do” tool—now live for Copilot Plus PCs.

Key Takeaways:

• Recall screenshots everything you do to improve searchability.

• It’s opt-in now after major security and privacy overhauls.

• Windows search now supports natural language queries.

• Click to Do lets you interact with text and images on-screen.

• Some features are delayed for AMD and Intel Copilot Plus PCs.

Why It’s Important: This marks a huge shift in how we interact with PCs—turning vague memories into searchable actions. But with powerful AI features comes new privacy trade-offs users must carefully manage.

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NEWS

Manus Hits $500M Value!

Chinese AI startup Manus just raised $75 million at a whopping $500 million valuation, with plans to expand globally — even though their product still needs some polishing.

Key Takeaways:

• Manus AI raised $75M in a new funding round led by Benchmark.

• The company’s valuation jumped 5x compared to its last round.

• Expansion plans include entering the U.S., Japan, and the Middle East.

• Manus builds AI agent tools to complete tasks automatically.

• Their early demos were impressive but still a bit glitchy according to tests.

Why It’s Important: Big investments like this show how hot the race for powerful AI agents is — and even newer players like Manus are grabbing attention (and cash) to build the future of automation.

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How to build apps and websites in minutes with AI

1. Sign In & Start Chatting

   Head to Lovable, sign in, and say what you want to build. For example: “Create a landing page for my AI art tool.”

2. Customize Your Build

   Upload files (like Figma, images, or PDFs) or import public content. Lovable handles the structure—just tweak what you need.

3. Publish or Remix

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MORE AI & TECH NEWS

Everything else you need to know today

1. Browser Wars Begin

   Perplexity’s CEO, Aravind Srinivas, is launching a new AI-powered browser called Comet to take on Google. He sees browsers as the secret weapon to build smarter AI assistants that can act, not just answer.

2. AI Overviews Exploding

   Google’s AI Overviews, summarizing search results, now reach 1.5 billion users monthly. While it cuts into publisher traffic, it's a big win for Google’s search engagement and revenue—ads are even popping up in these AI summaries.

3. AI in Air Mobility

   MIT Lincoln Laboratory is using AI to streamline air logistics for the U.S. Air Force. The Conversational AI Technology for Transition (CAITT) project helps the 618th Air Operations Center analyze chat data, speeding up mission planning.

4. xAI's $20B Funding

   Elon Musk's xAI Holdings is raising $20 billion, which could push its value to $120 billion. This funding round, if successful, would be the second-largest in startup history.

5. OpenAI's AI Talent at Risk 

   OpenAI’s Kai Chen, key in developing GPT-4.5, faces deportation due to a green card denial. This highlights the challenges foreign talent faces in the U.S. amidst tightening immigration policies.

֎ PROMPT OF THE DAY

Follow-up Email for Recent Purchase

📚 TUTORIALS & GUIDES

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