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Today’s AI Menu

▪️ Instagram privacy concerns, AI in Apple devices, key tech updates & more

▪️ Tutorial: How to use Soundraw to create your own soundtrack in minutes?

▪️ 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

▪️ AI Special Edition: From data flood to AI insight

▪️ AI Daily Prompt

TODAY IN WORLD OF AI

Instagram Map - Feature or privacy trap?

Instagram just unveiled its new Instagram Map, a location-sharing feature that’s setting off alarm bells across the internet. Initially hailed as an exciting way to “link up” with friends, the backlash is loud and clear.

The feature pops up in your DMs and lets you share your last active location with mutual followers if you opt in. But here’s the snag: people saw themselves on the map before consenting. That glitch sparked privacy outrage, particularly among creators and parents concerned about unintended exposure.

Instagram says location sharing is opt-in and off by default but users remain skeptical. As family-safety groups warn, giving apps a GPS passback can be more creepy than convenient. This isn’t just about selfies and check-ins, it’s about control in a world built to track us.

Think of this as Snap Map’s more unsettling cousin: same namespace, but less transparency. Before you post your next tagged story, ask yourself does convenience outweigh privacy? If you’re building digital products, this is a reminder: trust is earned, not assumed.

THE AI INSTITUTE

How to use Soundraw to create your own soundtrack in minutes?

▪️ Go to 👉 soundraw.io

▪️ Select genre, mood, and length.

▪️ AI instantly creates multiple unique tracks.

▪️ Edit instruments or sections you like.

▪️ Download and use anywhere, no copyright worries.

FOOD FOR PRODUCTIVITY

5 tools for your productivity

📱 AppMySite: Convert your website into a mobile app (no coding needed).

📅 Cal.com: Open-source alternative to Calendly, perfect for booking meetings and sessions.

🧠 Summarize.tech: Instantly summarize YouTube videos using AI.

🎞️ Runway ML: Create and edit AI videos with powerful tools like green screen, inpainting, and text-to-video.

🔁 Recast Studio: Repurpose videos, podcasts, and blogs into short social media posts using AI.

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EVERYTHING ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW

🎯 Targeted: Meta has rolled out fresh AI-driven ad guidelines for Facebook and Instagram, aiming to tighten controls while boosting personalization. The update promises smarter targeting without crossing privacy red lines though critics wonder if AI ad transparency will keep pace with its precision.

🍎 Embedded: Apple is bringing OpenAI’s GPT-5 straight into iOS and macOS, weaving advanced AI features natively into your iPhone and Mac. From drafting smarter emails to supercharging Siri, the integration could redefine how we interact with our devices daily.

🤖 Rollback: OpenAI has quietly restored older ChatGPT models after what CEO Sam Altman calls a “bumpy” GPT-5 rollout. The move is a rare public admission that even the AI leaders sometimes trip while running forward. It’s a balancing act innovating at breakneck speed while keeping the AI you trust stable and reliable.

🤝 Tradeoff: AI’s promise of unlocking new opportunities often hides a quieter truth: managed displacement. As automation quietly reshapes industries, many jobs aren’t disappearing, they’re morphing into roles controlled by algorithms.

AI SPECIAL EDITION

From Terabytes to actionable AI insights

Modern systems hum with data, terabytes of logs, metrics, and traces flowing across dozens of services. For engineers, finding a problem in that data glut is like searching for a needle in a digital haystack.

Enter AI-powered observability, a new architectural blueprint. A recent VentureBeat deep dive charts how cutting-edge platforms use Model Context Protocol (MCP) to link logs, traces, and metrics into meaningful patterns. Rather than hunting through dashboards, engineers receive context-rich alerts when anomalies strike with AI as the tracking dog.

This shift isn’t a luxury, it’s now essential for e-commerce giants, SaaS platforms, and fintech systems where minutes of downtime mean millions in lost revenue. AI observability turns raw telemetry into actionable intelligence, enabling proactive resolution rather than disaster-driven fixes.

Bottom line? If “You can’t improve what you can’t measure” is your mantra, then smart AI observability is your compass. It bridges visibility and insight empowering teams to stay ahead, not just react.

AI PROMPT OF THE DAY

Prompt for designing an Excel tracker for M&A deal pipeline

Prompt: Create an Excel-based M&A deal pipeline tracker that includes columns for target company name, deal stage (e.g., sourcing, due diligence, negotiation, closed), deal size, industry, expected close date, assigned team member, and notes. Include color-coded status indicators and automatic filters to help prioritize deals and track progress over time.

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Until Sunday!

Shinky & the Hanoomaan AI team