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Welcome to another edition of AI PlanetX.
Scientists use AI to design working viruses; OpenAI readies its first ChatGPT speaker; Anthropic strengthens biology safeguards.
Inside This Edition: 💎
Hottest AI News
Top AI & SaaS Tools
AI Tutorial: Create YouTube Research Agent
Top AI & Tech News
AI Art Spotlight
Prompt of the Day: Prompt Tells You Who You Really Are
Featured AI Video
Course of the Day: AI and Machine Learning
Hottest AI News
AI & Science
Scientists Used AI to Design 16 Working Viruses Never Seen in Nature
AI has crossed a line in biology. Stanford and Arc Institute researchers used genome language models to design complete, working viruses from scratch—the first such breakthrough, published in Science. Lab-tested.
Details:
Evo 1 and Evo 2 learned from more than 2 million phage genomes, then were fine-tuned on 14,466 Microviridae sequences to design versions of ΦX174, a bacteriophage that infects E. coli C
Of 285 synthetic genomes tested, 16 produced viable phages. Several outperformed natural ΦX174 in fitness tests, while one was novel enough to qualify as a fresh species
AI-made phage cocktails overcame ΦX174 resistance in three E. coli strains within 1–5 passages. Researchers used nonpathogenic hosts and excluded human-virus sequences from training
The promise is huge for phage therapy, but so is the dual-use risk. Evo is open and experts say biosafety, DNA screening and governance must catch up.
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OpenAI
OpenAI’s First ChatGPT Speaker Could Cost Up to $400 at Launch
OpenAI’s first consumer device is taking shape. Reports say its ChatGPT-powered smart speaker could cost $300–$400, arrive in 2027, and use a portable doughnut design unlike Echo-style devices at home.
Details:
The screen-free device is about hockey-puck size, made from premium metal and built to move around the home. It may include cameras, microphones, lights, sensors and moving parts
It is being developed with Jony Ive’s LoveFrom after OpenAI bought his io startup for $6.5 bn. The goal is a more humanlike AI companion that can use ChatGPT, control devices
The timing is complicated by Apple’s trade-secret lawsuit against OpenAI and two former employees. Apple alleges stolen hardware secrets; OpenAI denies those claims
The bigger test is demand. Smart speakers have struggled financially and OpenAI may ask users to pay premium prices for AI they already use elsewhere.
Top AI & SaaS Tools
DigiParser (Life-time Deal): AI-powered document extraction tool that turns PDFs, images, and emails into structured data without templates or manual setup
Wan3.0: Video generation model supporting reference, editing, replication, and driving, generating 30-second videos with consistent characters
Anywear: Try on clothes from Zara, ASOS, Amazon, and almost any other store using your own photo — so you can see how they look before you buy [F-R-E-E]
Boson: Turns a photo and text or audio into a talking avatar, with a Workspace to test voice agents
Shieldstral: Mistral’s 3B open-weights multimodal safety classifier that uses natural-language policy questions at inference time to output a calibrated yes/no moderation score
Blu Dot surpasses 2,000% ROAS with self-serve CTV ads
Blu Dot used Roku Ads Manager to drive incredible results for its furniture sales event. Its strategy hinged on custom audiences and retargeting, where intent was strongest.
“Roku has been a top performer,” said Blu Dot’s Claire Folkestad. “We have seen…CPMs lower than any other CTV partner we've worked with.”
AI Tutorial
How to Make a YouTube Research Agent in 10 Minutes
If you spend hours digging through YouTube for research, this guide will fix that. In 15 minutes, you will build a Gumloop agent that watches channels, reads transcripts, and delivers a ranked brief automatically.
Create Agent
Go to Gumloop and create a fresh agent. Name it something clear like "Video Brief Builder" or "Niche Monitor."
Enable Apps
In the right-hand "Apps" panel, turn on:
YouTube — so the agent can search channels and read transcripts
Google Sheets — so results are logged automatically
Write Core Prompt
Tell the agent exactly what to monitor and deliver. Example:
"Build me a YouTube monitor for [industry]. Check [channels or search terms], find videos from the last [timeframe], read the transcript, and return a brief with title, URL, 3-5 takeaways, significance, follow-up ideas, usefulness score, and a 'what changed' summary. Log everything to a Google Sheet."Tighten Scope
Start small so the agent returns signal, not noise.
One niche, 3-5 trusted channels or 1-2 search queries
A 24-48 hour lookback window
Lock Brief Template
Set a consistent output format.
Require a direct source link and a 1-5 usefulness score for every video
Include fields for title, URL, takeaways, significance, follow-up ideas, and "what changed"
Run and Review
Trigger the agent, then launch Google Sheet. Check that every row has a working link, concrete takeaways, and a usefulness score.
Iterate and Expand
Once the briefs are solid, widen your scope gradually. Add channels or topics one at a time and test each change before scaling.
Note: Set the agent on a schedule instead of running it manually; consistency beats perfect timing.
Top AI & Tech News
Anthropic improved Fable 5’s biology safety classifier to cut false positives and let it answer more health and educational questions instead of handing them off to Opus
OpenAI made GPT-5.6 Luna the default free model, removed text-chat limits for Free and Go users, kept separate media limits, and added Think button
A New Mexico court ordered Meta to pay an additional $567 million in a child safety case, bringing total fines to $942 million
Trump criticized Congress for trying to regulate the AI industry “out of business,” highlighting the growing debate in Washington over how to oversee AI
AI Art Spotlight
Create Your Own Photo Like This Using the Prompt Below:
France — Kylian Mbappé — Mortal Kombat meets Devil May Cry “9:16 poster, Mortal Kombat intensity with Devil May Cry’s gothic action flair, Kylian Mbappé as a stylish demon-slayer in French blue, sweeping cape-like motion, dramatic slash effects, high-contrast backlight, World Cup 2026 emblem integrated, bold typographic treatment, ultra-detailed facial realism.”Model: Nano Banana 2 / ChatGPT Images 2.0
Prompt of the Day
The Prompt That Tells You Who You Really Are
This prompt asks for a clear, honest portrait of who you are based on what has come up in your conversations. Framed as a stranger finding your phone after you have died, it invites a warm but unsparing answer about your personality, values, work, ambitions, habits, strengths, and flaws.
Featured AI Video
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AI Course of the Day
AI and Machine Learning
This Simplilearn course takes learners from the basics to advanced machine learning topics, covering supervised and unsupervised learning, regression, classification, clustering, and model evaluation. It also introduces the fundamentals of artificial intelligence, showing how data-driven systems make predictions and decisions.