Hey there! Shinky here, making AI simple, useful, and powerful for you.

Azure Alert: Microsoft’s Azure users may face noticeable lag after multiple undersea fiber cuts in the Red Sea disrupt key traffic routes through the Middle East especially for data flowing between Asia and Europe. The tech giant has rerouted traffic through alternate paths and by Saturday evening reported no lingering issues, though latency still lingers for some regions.

Master AI smarter, not harder. Grab your free AI course now!

Today’s AI Menu

▪️ ELIZA effect, Mobile AI wins, Gemini limits & Anthropic’s $1.5B blow & more

▪️ Tutorial: How to use Predis.ai to automate your social media content creation?

▪️ 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

▪️ AI Special Edition: Mistral AI - Europe’s homegrown challenger

▪️ AI Daily Prompt

TODAY IN WORLD OF AI

From ELIZA to ChatGPT: Why seeming is enough

Have you ever wondered how a simple conversation with a machine can feel deeply personal even though we know it’s not truly understanding us? A recent piece traces the lineage from ELIZA, the 1960s-era chatbot that mimicked a Rogerian therapist, to today’s ChatGPT revealing how appearing conscious is often more powerful than being conscious.

ELIZA, with nothing more than pattern matching, coaxed users to reveal their innermost thoughts, proving how easily we anthropomorphize algorithms. Fast forward to now: even with stunningly advanced features like persistent memory, our modern AI counterparts don’t need genuine awareness, they merely have to seem aware.

This illusion isn’t harmless. It shapes how we engage with AI trusting, confiding, even believing in its authority. It’s a reminder: as AI gets ever more lifelike, our reactions drive its influence. The takeaway? We must design with empathy and skepticism. When our tools feel alive, we must ask: are they guiding us or simply echoing our expectations? The ELIZA effect isn’t just history, it’s a blueprint for how AI shapes us as much as it mirrors us.

THE AI INSTITUTE

How to use Predis.ai to automate your social media content creation❓

▪️ Go to predis.ai and sign up.

▪️ Choose your content type (ad, UGC video, post).

▪️ Add your brand visuals or product details.

▪️ Generate and customize your content.

▪️ Schedule posts or export them for social platforms.

FOOD FOR PRODUCTIVITY

5 tools for your productivity

🖼️ PicWish: AI tool to remove backgrounds and enhance photos.

🌐 Relume: AI website builder with wireframes and copy generation.

📚 ResearchRabbit: Discover, organize & track academic research papers.

📖 OpenRead: AI-powered learning platform for smarter reading.

🔬 Scite: Smart citations tool to check how research papers are cited.

Tool Video of the Day!

EVERYTHING ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW

📱 Pocket-power: Google’s EmbeddingGemma, a compact yet mighty open-source model optimized for smartphones, laptops, even offline use has soared to the top of the embedding rankings among models under 500 million parameters. With its Matryoshka-style design offering flexible embedding sizes, it’s poised to supercharge on-device RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) apps and semantic search.

🖼️ Finally: Google has finally laid out exact Gemini usage limits, no more vague “limited access” warnings. Free users get 5 prompts, 5 Deep Research reports, and 100 generated images a day. Pro users upgrade to 100 prompts and 1,000 images, and Ultra plans soar to 500 prompts.

🤝 Symphony: In a fresh take on AI collaboration, Leif Eriksson introduces covenantal co-creation, a third way beyond using AI as a tool or being controlled by it. Here, human intuition, lived experience, and system-level AI logic dance together in transparent, iterative dialogue, a creative duet neither could perform solo.

⚖️ Landmark: Anthropic has agreed to a staggering $1.5 billion settlement with authors whose books were used without permission in AI training potentially the largest copyright recovery in U.S. history. Writers may receive around $3,000 per work, and Anthropic must destroy the pirated files but doesn’t gain future training rights.

AI SPECIAL EDITION

Mistral AI: Europe’s home-grown thunder

Meet Mistral AI, the Paris-born contender shaking up the generative AI scene. Founded in 2023 by former DeepMind and Meta researchers, this French startup is swiftly emerging as the open-source alternative to U.S. heavyweights like OpenAI.

Mistral’s AI assistant, Le Chat, isn’t just talk, it’s a full-stack experience. It offers multilingual reasoning, image editing, organized “Projects,” and a “Memories” feature that keeps track of your past conversations. On the enterprise side, they've built a flexible and privacy-conscious ecosystem through APIs and integrations with tools like GitHub, Atlassian, Stripe, Box and soon Salesforce and Snowflake.

Funding speaks volumes, too: from €1 billion raised by early 2025 to a whopping €2 billion investment now valuing Mistral at €12 billion (or roughly $14 billion).

Why does this matter? Because it signals a shift toward European AI sovereignty open, ethical, and competitive. Mistral isn’t just another AI player, it’s a statement: innovation can be global, inclusive, and challengingly powerful. And it's just getting started.

AI PROMPT OF THE DAY

📊 Prompt for creating an Excel sheet to track returns, errors, and defects

Prompt: Create an Excel sheet template to track product returns, operational errors, and defects. Include columns for item name, SKU, return date, error/defect type, reason, quantity, status, responsible team, and resolution date. Add filters, summary charts, and conditional formatting to highlight trends and recurring issues.

Helpful? Check out our best AI prompts!

Thanks for reading.

Until tomorrow!

Shinky & the Hanoomaan AI team