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Today’s AI Menu

▪️ Sakana’s model evolution, Microsoft’s independence, cyber threats & more

▪️ Tutorial: How to use Looka for creating a complete brand kit?

▪️ 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

▪️ AI Special Edition: Windows 11 SSD panic debunked

▪️ AI Daily Prompt

TODAY IN WORLD OF AI

Sakana AI’s evolution in AI model building

Ever wish evolving your AI felt as natural as evolution itself? Enter Sakana AI’s M2N2, a groundbreaking twist on model merging that blends evolutionary principles with machine learning to bypass costly retraining.

Instead of painstaking fine-tuning, M2N2 taps into flexibility, it treats model parameters like building blocks, slicing and mixing them dynamically to craft smarter models. Think of it as combining two spices to create a bold new flavor, rather than endlessly adjusting one ingredient. This lets it retain strengths without expensive gradient updates or retraining datasets especially handy if original training data is locked away.

In early experiments ranging from image classifiers to language agents and diffusion models, this method delivered impressive results. M2N2 produced multi-skilled models that could handle math problems and web tasks in a single package. It even generated bilingual image models that understand both Japanese and English prompts. The emerging ecosystem is self-evolving, blending specialist talents from different models.

For businesses wrestling with AI scaling costs, M2N2 offers a compelling shortcut. It’s not just about saving training time, it’s about unlocking creative combinations that weren’t possible before. Intrigued? Imagine merging sales-savvy language models with reactive vision models to build AI that adapts in real time during a pitch. That’s the future.

THE AI INSTITUTE

How to use Looka for creating a complete brand kit❓

▪️ Go to looka.com

▪️ Enter your brand name and industry

▪️ Choose preferred logo styles and colors

▪️ AI generates logo options

▪️ Customize & download

FOOD FOR PRODUCTIVITY

5 tools for your productivity

🧠 Fyxer AI: An AI executive assistant that organizes your inbox, drafts emails, and generates meeting notes, saving you up to an hour daily.

🎬 Klap: An AI video editor that transforms long videos into short, engaging clips for platforms like TikTok and Instagram.

🎵 Udio: An AI music generator that allows you to create professional-quality songs from simple text prompts, no musical skills required.

📚 Alphana.ai: An AI content manager that clips, writes, and designs assets from videos, podcasts, or ideas, ideal for content creators and marketers.

📝 Teal: An AI-powered resume builder that helps you create ATS-friendly resumes and cover letters quickly and efficiently.

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EVERYTHING ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW

💻 Agentic: AI agents remain more fiction than reality. Although tools like Anthropic’s “Computer Use,” OpenAI’s “Operator,” and ChatGPT Agent aim to automate web browsing, form-filling, and research, their performance still falls short of the sleek "J.A.R.V.I.S." vision. The most solid progress? AI-generated code already accounting for up to 30% of output in some companies. The future’s bright, but the journey’s just heating up.

🛡️ Budgeted: Cybersecurity budgets are undergoing a radical shift: software now claims a whopping 40% share outpacing personnel costs driven by the urgent need to defend against AI-powered threats that strike in milliseconds. Real-time defenses at the inference layer are emerging as mission-critical for modern enterprises.

🔓 Independent: Microsoft just pulled back the curtain on its first in-house AI models, MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview signaling a strategic pivot to reduce reliance on OpenAI. MAI‑Voice‑1 brings expressive speech capabilities (powering Copilot Labs), while MAI-1-preview showcases Microsoft's growing design grit. It’s a clear recalibration toward autonomy in AI innovation.

🚨 Hijacked: Prompt injection attacks are evolving and so are the threats. Now, attackers can embed malicious instructions within otherwise benign inputs like text or images, tricking AI systems into bypassing safeguards. These “indirect” or multimodal injections are potent and hard to detect, raising red flags for developers and users alike.

AI SPECIAL EDITION

💻😱 Windows update SSD panic debunked

When alarm bells rang about a recent Windows 11 security update allegedly bricking SSDs, the tech world collectively held its breath. Thankfully, after thorough testing, the panic seems mostly unfounded. Phison whose controllers were under scrutiny put in over 4,500 hours and 2,200 test cycles trying to replicate failures. Spoiler: they couldn’t. No widespread complaints, no reproducible errors, just one isolated user report.

Microsoft chimed in shortly after: they analyzed telemetry, ran their own investigations, and found no link between the update (KB5063878 or KB5062660) and drive failures. In layman's terms - no, this update probably didn’t kill your SSD.

Still, as a best practice, users with heavy storage workloads were reminded to monitor their SSD performance and consider “use‑at‑your‑own‑risk” precautions like heat sinks especially on older or thermal-sensitive models.

In today’s hyper-speed social media world, scary headlines travel faster than facts. When dealing with hardware fears, it pays to wait for proper testing and official statements. Your SSD is probably safe just stay informed, stay cool (literally if you add a heatsink), and always back up critical data.

AI PROMPT OF THE DAY

🙏 Prompt for generating a post on how gratitude rewires our mindset

Prompt: Write a powerful social media or blog post explaining how practicing gratitude can rewire the brain and shift our mindset. Include simple neuroscience-backed insights, real-life examples, and a call-to-action encouraging readers to start a gratitude habit today.

Helpful? Check out our best AI prompts!

Thanks for reading.

Until tomorrow!

Shinky & the Hanoomaan AI team