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Today’s AI Menu

▪️ Search finds a voice, Apple questions AI thinking, China smuggles GPUs & more

▪️ Tutorial: How to build the best keyboard in the world?

▪️ 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

▪️ AI Special Edition: Apple says AI isn’t really thinking, an LLM disagrees

▪️ AI Daily Prompt

TODAY IN WORLD OF AI

🎧 Search just got a voice: Google’s AI-powered “Audio Overviews” are here

Google is reimagining the way we consume information this time, by turning your search queries into bite-sized podcast-style audio summaries.

The newly launched “Audio Overviews” feature, currently in testing, delivers 30-40 second conversational breakdowns by two friendly AI hosts right inside mobile Search results. Just tap under the “People Also Ask” section, and you’ll hear a casual, insightful dialogue answering your question whether it’s about noise-canceling headphones, investment strategies, or how deep the Mariana Trench is.

💡 Why it matters:

▪️ It's search you can listen to ideal for users multitasking on the move.

▪️ It hints at a future where search shifts from visual scroll to audio-first interaction.

▪️ Google is doubling down on AI’s potential to simplify, humanize, and personalize how we access knowledge.

In an age where screen fatigue is real and attention spans are stretched, could “Audio Overviews” signal the beginning of conversational search UX becoming the new norm?

Whether you’re a content strategist, SEO expert, or builder of next-gen digital tools, this is one shift worth tuning into.

THE AI INSTITUTE

How to build the best keyboard in the world?

🎯 Crafting Perfection: The $3,600 Keyboard Built Like a Masterpiece:

What happens when obsession meets engineering? You get the Seneca, a handcrafted $3,600 keyboard by Norbauer, built with aerospace alloys, polished brass, and buttery-smooth Topre switches. It doesn’t just click, it thocks with the elegance of rain tapping on glass.

This isn’t just a keyboard. It’s an experience. Designed for those who demand luxury in every keystroke.

The Hermès of typing has arrived.

FOOD FOR PRODUCTIVITY

5 tools for your productivity

🎧VoicePen AI: Convert audio or podcasts into blog posts instantly.

🖼️Invoke AI: Powerful open-source tool for creating images using Stable Diffusion.

📋TalkNotes: Turn your voice notes into structured meeting minutes and to-do lists.

📈Tether: Visual collaboration tool that uses AI to organize and prioritize product feedback.

🧾Detangle AI: Summarizes long legal or policy documents into plain language.

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EVERYTHING ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW

🏷️Tagged: Apple’s App Store is trialing AI-generated tags in the iOS 26 developer beta to boost app discoverability, automatically extracting keywords from screenshots and metadata, no manual tagging required.

💸Disrupted: DeepSeek has flipped the script on AI economics, unveiling a model that rivals top-tier systems while using just 5-10% of the compute and cost.

✈️Smuggled: In a cinematic twist, Chinese AI developers recently smuggled 80 TB of training data in carry-on luggage to Malaysia, renting hundreds of Nvidia GPU servers to outsmart U.S. chip export bans.

🚨Alarmed: AI-fueled cheating in the UK has surged dramatically nearly 7,000 students caught in the 2023–24 year, up from fewer than 2,000 the year before.

AI SPECIAL EDITION

🍎Apple just ignited an AI reasoning debate that’s anything but theoretical.

In a bold 53-page paper titled “The Illusion of Thinking,” Apple claims top AI models like OpenAI’s o-series and Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro aren’t truly reasoning, they’re simply pattern-matching at scale. When challenged with layered or abstract tasks, these models reportedly falter.

But the rebuttal? Even more fascinating. Titled “The Illusion of the Illusion of Thinking”and co-authored by a reasoning LLM itself, it argues Apple’s benchmarks are flawed and token-limited, misrepresenting what these models can actually do.

This isn’t just academic sparring, it’s a frontline issue for startups, enterprises, and developers who rely on LLMs for critical decisions.

AI PROMPT OF THE DAY

Prompt for creating an inventory turnover analysis model

Prompt: Create an inventory turnover analysis model in Excel or Google Sheets for a business. Include fields to input cost of goods sold (COGS) and average inventory, automatically calculate the inventory turnover ratio, and visualize monthly or quarterly trends. Add space for interpretation of results, with benchmarks and alerts for slow or fast-moving inventory. Ensure the model is easy to update and customize.

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Until tomorrow!

Shinky & the Hanoomaan AI team