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OpenAI just landed Microsoft’s nod to convert its for-profit arm into a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), while its nonprofit wing keeps control of operations worth over $100 billion in nonprofit stake alone.

The shift, still needing regulatory approval, could open doors for more investment and even an IPO. Microsoft remains deeply involved still the top cloud provider and getting “preferred access” to OpenAI’s tech.

This unusual governance setup with OpenAI’s nonprofit controlling the new PBC raises big questions: Can innovation, profit, and mission all coexist without blowing apart under real-world pressure?

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Today’s AI Menu

▪️ AI misinformation risks, Gmail’s upgrade, Microsoft’s rStar2, Nokia’s 6G hub & more

▪️ Tutorial: How to use Notta.ai to transcribe meetings or videos and export clean, accurate text?

▪️ 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

▪️ AI Special Edition: iPhone 17 just got spyware-tough

▪️ AI Daily Prompt

TODAY IN WORLD OF AI

Internet detectives misusing AI to find Charlie Kirk’s alleged shooter

What happens when fascination with justice collides with sloppy AI? The recent case of Charlie Kirk’s alleged shooter shows the risk. The FBI released blurry photos, and within hours, internet sleuths used AI upscaling to “enhance” them. But these aren’t just sharper images, they're new fabrications. AI doesn’t uncover hidden truth in low-resolution data; it guesses what might be there. In this instance, people have created wildly divergent “enhancements” from altered clothes to exaggerated jawlines that clearly diverge from what the original evidence shows.

This isn’t just about mistaken selfies or bad memes. When AI-enabled speculations get treated like evidence, real people’s lives and public trust are on the line. False certainty can out-pace fact, especially in politically charged or criminal contexts. What looks like clarity may be illusion.

So what do we do? First: demand transparency. Platforms and users must flag AI-generated or AI-altered content clearly. Second: strengthen digital literacy everyone should know that in AI upscaling, “sharpness” doesn’t equal “truth.” Finally: ensure that media, law enforcement, and tech firms coordinate to prevent viral misinformation from undermining justice.

THE AI INSTITUTE

How to use Notta.ai to transcribe meetings or videos and export clean, accurate text❓

▪️ Go to Notta.ai and sign up (web, mobile, or extension).

▪️ Upload a video or audio file (or use live meeting recording).

▪️ Choose the spoken language so transcription is accurate.

▪️ Let Notta auto-transcribe; then edit or correct any parts needed.

▪️ Export or download the transcript in formats like TXT, DOCX, SRT, PDF, etc.

FOOD FOR PRODUCTIVITY

5 tools for your productivity

🧩 Brancher.ai: Build AI-powered apps in minutes without coding connect AI models with ready templates.

🎨 Pixlr: Easy online photo editor with AI tools for touch-ups, background removal, and creative effects.

📊 Softr: No-code platform to create portals, dashboards, and internal tools with drag-and-drop.

📅 Hive: Team and project management tool with tasks, automation, proofing, and time tracking.

✉️ Lavender.ai: AI email coach that improves reply rates by scoring and personalizing your emails.

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EVERYTHING ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW

📨 Sync: Gmail’s rolling out a new Purchases tab, think of it as your personal order HQ. It will pull together your Amazon (and similar) confirmations and shipping updates, making them easy to find instead of letting them get lost in your inbox.

💡 Sharper: Microsoft unveiled rStar2-Agent, a framework that trains reasoning models that are lean yet powerful delivering near state-of-the-art results with far less hardware, data, and training time. It’s like teaching someone to solve puzzles quickly instead of brute forcing through every step.

📡 Foundational: Nokia has opened a huge campus in Oulu, Finland (nicknamed the “Home of Radio”) to accelerate tests of 5G/6G and build infrastructure that keeps pace with the coming AI supercycle. With real-world labs + sustainability baked in, this is more than R&D, it’s the nervous system for future connected tech.

⚠️ Unsettling: DeepMind’s latest study exposes a critical bottleneck in vector search, a backbone of many modern AI systems. Turns out, single-vector embeddings hit a hard limit when queries demand retrieving sets of related documents, not just one. The fallout? RAG systems relying purely on this approach may be more brittle than we expected.

AI SPECIAL EDITION

Apple’s latest iPhone security feature… Memory Integrity Enforcement

Apple just raised the bar in device security again. With its new iPhone 17 and iPhone Air models, Apple introduced Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE), a feature aimed squarely at closing one of the most exploited backdoors in mobile devices: memory corruption vulnerabilities.

Why does that matter? Because many spyware tools including “mercenary spyware” and forensic exploits rely on bugs in memory handling to break in. With MIE, Apple is forcing those tools to work harder, raising the cost, technical barrier, and risk. Experts suggest these phones may now rank among the most secure mainstream devices available.

Of course, this isn’t an instant “hack-proof” shield and pushing out new features into the developer ecosystem always takes time. Still, for individuals, enterprises, governments, and anyone concerned about privacy and surveillance, MIE is a big deal. It shifts the landscape.

If you’re evaluating mobile security, now might be the time to consider upgrading. And for app developers: integrating support for MIE isn’t just an optional extra, it may become essential. In a world where spyware and zero-day exploits proliferate, raising the defenses changes more than individual risk, it shapes the game itself.

AI PROMPT OF THE DAY

🚀 Trending blog post ideas for 2025 in digital marketing

Prompt: List 10+ trending blog post ideas for 2025 in the digital marketing niche. Cover emerging topics like AI in marketing, voice search SEO, creator economy trends, zero-click content, email automation, privacy-first marketing, and short-form video strategies. Ensure topics are relevant, future-focused, and SEO-friendly.

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Thanks for reading.

Until Sunday!

Shinky & the Hanoomaan AI team