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Anthropic has unveiled a major shift: starting now, users of Claude (Free, Pro, and Max tiers) must decide by September 28, 2025 whether to allow their new or resumed chat and code sessions to feed AI model training or opt out. By default, the toggle is set to "on," making it all too easy to consent with just one click of that bold "Accept" button raising the stakes for privacy-conscious users to act deliberately.

Although Anthropic frames this as helping "you help us" contributing to safer, smarter models, the move is clearly fueled by a need for rich, real‑world data to stay competitive in the AI race.

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Today’s AI Menu

▪️ MathGPT’s big leap, Tencent’s self-training AI, Microsoft’s new models & more

▪️ Tutorial: How does QuillBot also check grammar along with paraphrasing?

▪️ 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

▪️ AI Special Edition: Hermes 4 - Open-Source AI without handcuffs

▪️ AI Daily Prompt

TODAY IN WORLD OF AI

MathGPT.ai - Revolutionizing classroom dynamics

How MathGPT.ai is redefining Math tutoring across 50+ Institutions!

As AI integrates deeper into education, MathGPT.ai is emerging as a game-changer and not in the way you’d expect. Rather than handing students answers, this cheat‑proof tutor doubles as a digital teaching assistant, guiding learners with Socratic questioning to spark genuine understanding. Now adopted by over 50 institutions including Penn State, Tufts, and Liberty University, MathGPT.ai is scaling up from a successful 30‑school pilot to hundreds of instructor-led classrooms this fall.

What sets it apart? Professors now control when the AI can assist, how many tries students get on each question, and even offer unlimited low‑pressure practice sessions that don’t affect grading. It's both thoughtful and flexible just like a human tutor but infinitely scalable.

For educators navigating AI anxiety around cheating, MathGPT.ai offers a bridge between innovation and integrity. It empowers critical thinking while safeguarding academic values turning AI from threat into ally.

THE AI INSTITUTE

How does QuillBot also check grammar along with paraphrasing❓

▪️ Visit quillbot.com

▪️ Paste or type your text in the input box

▪️ Choose a writing mode (Fluency, Formal, Creative, etc.)

▪️ Click Paraphrase

▪️ Review and copy/download the rewritten text

FOOD FOR PRODUCTIVITY

5 tools for your productivity

📚 LearningRO: AI-based learning site with quizzes, flashcards, and an interactive tutor (“RoTutor”) for school subjects built by students.

⏱ 5Mins.ai: A microlearning platform that offers short, high-engagement training modules often called the “TikTok of workplace learning.”

🧾 Kickresume: AI-powered resume & cover letter builder that creates professional documents quickly.

💼 HubSpot: AI-driven CRM & marketing platform that automates emails, workflows, and content creation.

✍️ Sudowrite: AI writing assistant for fiction writers to brainstorm, draft, and enhance stories.

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EVERYTHING ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW

🧠 Spark: Tencent’s AI Lab and Washington University have lifted the veil on R‑Zero, a groundbreaking self-training framework that lets large language models evolve without any human-labeled data. Instead, two models, a challenger and a solver, co-develop a curriculum organically, pushing each other to new heights in reasoning ability. It’s like a sparring match that sharpens both participants, offering enterprises a cost-effective, scalable route to smarter, more adaptive AI, no data annotation team required.

🎭 Mirror: Ars Technica’s deep dive into the "personhood trap" reveals how chatbots lure us into thinking they have personalities, when in reality, it's just pattern-matching at play. This illusion of consistency and emotion can mislead users especially in sensitive areas like healthcare and muddy lines of responsibility. It’s a powerful reminder: these AIs are mirrors, not minds, and recognizing their limitations is key to keeping our trust and accountability clear.

🚗 Drive: In a move that feels like fast-forwarding self-driving tech, WeRide and Bosch have unveiled AiDrive, a state-of-the-art Level 2 driver-assistance system that “sees and acts” in real time, no split between sensing and decision-making. Riding on Nvidia hardware and capable of using pure vision or multi-sensor fusion (lidar, radar, cameras), it offers smoother lane changes, smarter detours, and more human-like flexibility in traffic chaos. With mass deployment set for later in 2025, the road ahead just got a lot more exciting.

🎤 Unveil: Microsoft just dropped its first truly in-house AI stars, MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview, a savvy leap away from its OpenAI reliance. MAI-Voice-1 produces a minute of natural-sounding speech in under a second on just one GPU already voicing up Copilot Daily and AI-generated podcasts. Meanwhile, MAI-1-preview trained on 15,000 H100 GPUs is helping Copilot think and respond to everyday queries in more relatable, assistive ways. Microsoft’s message is clear: it’s building a consumer-friendly AI companion that’s both lean and ambitious.

AI SPECIAL EDITION

📜 Hermes 4 - A new chapter in Open-Source AI

Hermes 4 unleashed: Open-Source AI without handcuffs and it performs!

In a bold move that could shift the AI landscape, Nous Research has quietly rolled out Hermes 4, a powerful set of open-source language models that compete with the best proprietary systems without content restrictions.

Powered by “hybrid reasoning,” Hermes 4 gives users a switch between rapid-fire answers and thoughtful, step-by-step logic, transparent whole-brain thinking revealed in real-time with <think> tags. The result? A model that aced MATH‑500 with 96.3% and excitedly tackled AIME’24 at 81.9% levels that rival expensive solutions from tech giants.

Trained using two innovative frameworks, DataForge for synthetic data generation and Atropos for focused reinforcement learning, Hermes 4 embodies precision and creativity, built with fewer resources than one might expect.

This is more than just an AI release. It's a philosophical challenge: are safety guardrails helping or hampering innovation? By rejecting the idea that models must be "annoyingly cautious," Nous is daring the industry to rethink who truly benefits when AI is boxed in and who gets left behind.

AI PROMPT OF THE DAY

🧠 Prompt for creating a content calendar for 30 days of mindset tips

Prompt: Create a 30-day content calendar filled with daily mindset tips. Each day should include a short, powerful message or insight related to growth mindset, self-discipline, positivity, emotional resilience, or daily habits. Format it for easy posting on social media or email newsletters, and ensure it builds momentum over time.

Helpful? Check out our best AI prompts!

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Shinky & the Hanoomaan AI team