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🤖 Trump Brings AI to Schools
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Golam Rabbani
April 25, 2025
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Today’s Insights:
AI Class Coming to K-12, OpenAI Research Lite & Perplexity’s Ad Play Exposed
AI Tool of The Day + 5 Hand-Picked AI Tools
Tutorial: How to Create Stunning VFX in minutes using AI
Prompt: Competitor Analysis using ChatGPT
5 Hand-Picked AI How-To & Guides
Read Time: Under 5 minutes
NEWS
Trump Brings AI to Schools
Trump just signed a big order to teach kids about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in schools, aiming to get them ready for a tech-filled future.
Key Takeaways:
AI education will be added to K–12 school programs.
Teachers will get help learning and teaching AI.
A “Presidential AI Challenge” will celebrate student projects.
Agencies must support AI training and research in classrooms.
It’s a team effort between schools, the government, and private companies.
Why It’s Important: AI is becoming a huge part of everyday life, and this move helps kids learn about it early so they’re ready for future jobs. It shows the U.S. wants to stay ahead in tech by preparing students now.
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🏆 AI TOOL OF THE DAY
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NEWS
OpenAI Drops Research Lite
OpenAI just launched a “lightweight” version of its deep research tool in ChatGPT, making advanced research faster, cheaper, and now available to more users—including free ones.
Key Takeaways:
The new tool is powered by OpenAI’s smaller o4-mini model.
It delivers shorter answers while keeping quality high.
If you hit limits on the full version, it switches to this lite mode.
Now available to ChatGPT Plus, Team, Pro, and free users.
Enterprise and education users will get access next week.
Why It’s Important: This update means more people can do serious research with ChatGPT without hitting limits, making AI-powered deep dives more accessible and affordable.
PRODUCTIVITY
5 Hand-Picked AI Tools to 10x Your Productivity
✅ Text AI – AI in your SMS, WhatsApp & Telegram. No downloads. No app-switching. Just add text ai to any chat (even groups) for instant help with plans, answers & recommendations.
✅ Genspark Super Agent – Your all-in-one AI assistant for daily tasks. From calls and slide decks to TikTok reels, it handles it all. Powered by 80+ built-in tools and rich datasets, it's fast, reliable, and highly steerable.
✅ A-Leads – The world’s first living Lead Intelligence platform. Say goodbye to bad data and bloated tools. Get verified B2B emails and numbers—no bounces, no dead leads. Just clean, high-converting outreach.
✅ Subtiled – Effortless AI subtitles, editing & translation in minutes. Generate captions with up to 97% accuracy using AI—right in your browser. Supports YouTube, MP4, MP3 & more. Instantly translate into 30+ languages.
✅ Recaploop - Boost meeting efficiency with AI . RecapLoop gathers post-meeting feedback from participants, tracks costs, analyzes it using AI, and delivers actionable insights to help you improve future meetings.
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NEWS
Perplexity’s Ad Play Exposed
Perplexity's CEO says their new browser will track everything users do online—not just inside the app—to serve ultra-targeted ads, sparking serious privacy concerns.
Key Takeaways:
The browser, called Comet, is set to launch in May.
It will collect user activity across the web to build detailed profiles.
This data will be used to sell “hyper personalized” ads.
Perplexity’s strategy mimics Google’s ad empire model.
A partnership with Motorola will pre-install the app on Razr phones.
Why It’s Important: This bold move shines a spotlight on the growing tradeoff between convenience and privacy in the AI era. With more companies following in Google’s footsteps, the battle over online tracking and user trust is only heating up.
🎓 THE AI ACADEMY
How to Create Stunning VFX in minutes using AI
Head over to Higgsfield AI and sign up for free.
Pick a motion control from the list — these define how your image will move.
Upload your image, then write a detailed prompt describing the scene you want to animate.
Example Prompt: A woman stares in shock as a skyscraper explodes in the background, the blast wave blowing her hair dramatically.
Click ‘Generate’ and let the AI do its magic.
In seconds, you'll get a high-quality video with cinematic effects — no editing tools required.
MORE AI & TECH NEWS
Everything else you need to know today
AI Action Flood
Over 10,000 public comments poured into the White House’s AI plan—spanning copyright, bias, and tariffs. The doc? A massive 18,000+ pages. The message? Everyone has strong opinions on how America handles AI.
Ziff vs. OpenAI
Ziff Davis, owner of IGN and CNET, is suing OpenAI for allegedly copying millions of its articles to train ChatGPT. The company claims its content was used without permission—despite blocking crawlers.
AI Behind the Scenes
Microsoft made a Surface ad using generative AI—and no one noticed. Released months ago, it blended AI-made visuals with real footage so smoothly, viewers didn’t blink.
Inside the AI Brain
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wants to “open the black box” of AI by 2027—making it possible to see how and why AI models make decisions, not just what they do.
Dropbox Gets Smarter
Dropbox's AI-powered Dash search just got a massive upgrade—now it understands more than just text, letting users search across audio, video, and images!
֎ PROMPT OF THE DAY
Competitor Analysis
Prompt: Prepare a comprehensive competitor analysis for the [industry/market segment], highlighting major players, their market positioning, strengths and weaknesses, pricing strategies, and unique selling propositions. Include recent developments, marketing tactics, and customer acquisition strategies. Recommend ways to differentiate a new or existing business in this space.
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Until next time,
Golam Rabbani - AI Educator, Founder & Investor
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