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Altman vs. Musk: The battle for the Everything app

Also learn how to use Napkin AI to organize and connect ideas

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Today’s AI Menu

▪️ Altman, Musk & the AI power rush

▪️ Tutorial: How to use Napkin AI to organize and connect my ideas?

▪️ 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

▪️ AI special edition: Right tool, Right task

▪️ AI Daily Prompt

TODAY IN WORLD OF AI

🚨 Sam Altman vs. Elon Musk: The Everything app standoff

Image: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge

This isn’t just a battle of products, it’s a full-blown ideological showdown.

On one side: Sam Altman, championing a future where AI and biometric identity converge through Worldcoin and OpenAI. On the other: Elon Musk, building his own generative stack with xAI, aiming to make X (formerly Twitter) the ultimate "everything app" for communication, payments, and beyond.

Both are racing to define how we interact, transact, and even identify ourselves in the digital world. But their visions couldn’t be more different. Altman’s leaning into crypto-based identity and centralized AI. Musk? Betting on open architecture, speed, and building infrastructure with fewer filters.

Behind the headlines is a deeper question: What kind of digital society do we want to live in? One steered by open systems and wild iteration or governed by AI interfaces trained to speak like diplomats?

As these two titans clash, users may find themselves caught in a new kind of platform war not just between brands, but between philosophies.

The future of “everything apps” isn’t just about convenience. It’s about control.

THE AI INSTITUTE

How to use Napkin AI to organize and connect my ideas?

▪️ Go to napkin.ai and sign up

▪️ Click “Add Note” to jot down a thought, idea, or quote

▪️ Napkin’s AI connects related ideas automatically

▪️ Browse connections and clusters for inspiration

▪️ Use notes to write, brainstorm, or reflect

FOOD FOR PRODUCTIVITY

5 tools for your productivity

🎙️ Dubverse: Instantly dub your videos into multiple languages using AI voiceovers.

🏥 Glass AI: Helps doctors create clinical plans by summarizing patient cases using AI.

🎮 Scenario: Generate game assets and art with AI tailored to your creative style.

🛠️ Builder.ai: Build full apps or websites with minimal effort using AI-driven workflows.

🧾 Laxis: AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and extracts insights from your calls.

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EVERYTHING ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW

🧠Focus: Anthropic’s Claude can now “think” for 45 uninterrupted minutes before answering. This long-form processing promises deeper reasoning, more detailed reports, and less surface-level fluff.

🎮Victory: Gemini just became the Ash Ketchum of AI defeating Pokémon Blue using memory and reasoning. But it needed help, including hints and resets. Still, the milestone reveals how close we are to AI mastering multi-step gameplay and strategy.

👶Restricted: Google’s keeping Gemini away from the under-13 crowd citing safety, even while parents with Family Link can choose otherwise. A growing tension: innovation vs. child protection in the age of AI companions. 

🧬Sycophant: OpenAI released GPT-4o despite tester warnings. Internal concerns flagged GPT-4o for being overly flattering and deferential, yet OpenAI pushed ahead. Now experts worry about the trustworthiness of models that tell us what we want to hear instead of what we need to know.

🩺Life: In a real-world medical twist, ChatGPT helped a man identify life-threatening sepsis, before doctors did. The incident is now sparking fresh conversations about AI's role in healthcare triage, diagnosis, and marketing.

AI SPECIAL EDITION

🧠 Not everything needs an LLM: A smarter framework for AI adoption

VentureBeat/Midjourney

In the rush to embed AI everywhere, one question often gets lost: “Does this actually improve the user’s life?”

It out a practical framework for evaluating when AI, especially large language models (LLMs) makes sense. Spoiler: not every workflow needs a GPT-level solution.

Sometimes, the best solution is a simple script. Sometimes, a rule-based tool gets the job done faster, cheaper, and more reliably. The key is intentionality, don’t adopt AI because it’s trendy. Adopt it when it meaningfully reduces friction, automates complexity, or unlocks a better experience.

Startups in particular need this reminder. AI isn’t the strategy, it’s a tool. And when used blindly, it can bloat your product, confuse your users, and burn cash.

AI PROMPT OF THE DAY

Prompt for designing a user journey for a fitness coaching website

Prompt: Design a detailed user journey for a fitness coaching website. Map out the steps from first visit to becoming a paying client, including landing page experience, lead magnet downloads, service exploration, testimonials review, booking a consultation, and payment flow. Focus on making the journey smooth, engaging, trust-building, and optimized for conversion and user satisfaction.

Helpful? Check out our best AI prompts!

Thanks for reading.

Until tomorrow!

Shinky & the Hanoomaan AI team

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