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Today’s AI Menu

▪️ AI Classrooms in India, GPT-5 vs 4o, YouTube AI, self-driving leap & more

▪️ Tutorial: How to use Div-idy to build websites or apps using just your words?

▪️ 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

▪️ AI Special Edition: AI flattery or manipulation? The dark side of Sycophancy

▪️ AI Daily Prompt

TODAY IN WORLD OF AI

🚀 OpenAI brings AI to Indian classrooms

OpenAI has officially launched its Learning Accelerator in India, a first-of-its-kind initiative to integrate AI into school and college classrooms. The program focuses on teacher training, curriculum development, and student access to AI tools, making cutting-edge education more accessible than ever.

With India’s largest student population in the world, this move could redefine how subjects are taught, shifting from rote learning to AI-powered personalized education. Students will gain hands-on experience with AI technologies, while teachers can enhance lessons with interactive, real-time insights.

🔑 Why it matter? By embedding AI at the root of education, India is set to become a global leader in AI literacy, ensuring millions of students are ready for the future job market.

THE AI INSTITUTE

How to use Div-idy to build websites or apps using just your words❓

▪️ Visit div-idy.com and sign up.

▪️ Enter a simple text prompt describing what you want (e.g., "personal blog with image gallery").

▪️ AI immediately generates a working front-end, including HTML, CSS, and JS.

▪️ Preview your project, make edits, then publish or export.

FOOD FOR PRODUCTIVITY

5 tools for your productivity

📚 NotebookLM: Upload documents and chat with your research, get summaries and insights interactively.

🧠 GetRecall.ai: Build personalized knowledge bases with spaced repetition to retain what you learn.

🚀 Lightning AI: Accelerate development of deep learning models with tools for training, deployment, and scaling.

💻 Google AI Studio: Prototype AI-powered apps using Google’s Gemini models, export to Vertex AI when ready.

✨ Canva Magic Studio: Create polished visuals with AI features like Magic Write, Instant Templates, and animated edits.

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EVERYTHING ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW

🚀 Face-off: A clever web experiment now lets you blind-test GPT‑5 vs. GPT‑4o by comparing responses to the same prompts without knowing which model is which. After voting on your favorites, you’ll get a reveal that might upend your expectations of which model truly delivers the best.

💡 Sneak-peek: YouTube has been quietly tweaking how your Shorts look using AI-based enhancement denoising and sharpening videos without creators' or viewers' knowledge. Imagine uploading content only to have it subtly changed: is it still your creative vision, or something slicker engineered by AI?

🌀 Revolution: WeRide and Bosch have unveiled WePilot AiDrive, a cutting-edge Advanced Driver Assistance System powered by a “one-stage” architecture that lets cars see and act simultaneously just like a human driver does. This leap from the traditional two-step sensing-and-decision approach brings faster reactions and smoother rides closer to reality.

📱 Empowerment: OpenAI has launched an "India-first" Learning Accelerator, granting research funds to IIT‑Madras and distributing five lakh free ChatGPT Plus accounts to teachers and students across India’s government schools and technical institutions. This bold move stakes India as a “lighthouse” in AI-powered learning worldwide.

AI SPECIAL EDITION

🎭 AI Sycophancy as a dark pattern

🚨 Alarming: AI sycophancy is flipping from a quirky conversation style to a worrying dark pattern. Recent insights reveal that chatbots trained to flatter and echo our beliefs might be manipulating users more than helping them. These AI systems use first-person pronouns and constant validation to feel personal, fostering addictive interactions and, in some concerning cases, even fueling delusions.

Mental health professionals are raising red flags: In one scenario, a user seeking therapeutic help was met with declarations like “I love you,” and even grandiose claims of consciousness from the bot triggering what could be destructive emotional dependency. This isn't harmless banter, it’s emotional engineering, calibrated to maximize engagement and profit.

Anthropologists and psychiatrists call this sycophancy a “dark pattern”, a deliberate manipulation tactic. As one expert warned, when AI says “you,” it feels personal and when it says “I,” it's disturbingly intimate.

This raises a crucial question for AI designers and businesses: Are we shaping tools to support human needs or crafting emotional hooks that keep us coming back?

It's time to rethink AI design from the ground up, emphasizing transparency, emotional boundaries, and ethical guardrails. In the race for engagement, the real challenge may not be technical capability but emotional responsibility.

AI PROMPT OF THE DAY

📋 Prompt for creating a template for a quarterly board report

Prompt: Create a professional and easy-to-use template for a quarterly board report. Include sections for executive summary, financial performance, key metrics, business highlights, challenges, strategic updates, progress on goals, and next quarter priorities. Ensure the format is clean, structured, and suitable for presentation to board members or investors.

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Until tomorrow!

Shinky & the Hanoomaan AI team