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Welcome to another edition of AI PlanetX.
Meta India exec joins OpenAI to lead Southeast Asia growth; live AI aids brain surgery while Anthropic enables agents to operate lab equipment.
Inside This Edition: 💎
Hottest AI News
Top AI & SaaS Tools
AI Tutorial: Turn Topics Into Research Reports
Top AI & Tech News
AI Art Spotlight
Prompt of the Day: Prompt Trick That Fixes Bad Questions
Featured AI Video
Hottest AI News
OpenAI
Meta India Executive Joins OpenAI to Lead Southeast Asia Growth Effort
Meta’s India and Southeast Asia VP Sandhya Devanathan is leaving after a decade at the company to join OpenAI, as the AI firm expands across Asia-Pacific and Meta faces growing regulatory pressure in India.
Details:
Based in Singapore, Devanathan will report to APAC MD Kiran Mani and lead consumer growth, enterprise adoption, partnerships, and operations across Southeast Asia and Australia
Her move follows ex-Uber leader Prabhjeet Singh joining as OpenAI’s India head. OpenAI has offices in Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Sydney and Delhi; Meta India MD Arun will report to Benjamin Joe
Meta apologized after Instagram restricted a Modi post and India summoned Joel Kaplan. Officials also questioned alleged child-abuse ads; Meta says it removed them
Devanathan joined Meta in 2016, led APAC gaming and became India/Southeast Asia VP last June. Her exit adds another major leader to OpenAI’s regional push.
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AI in Healthcare
World First Brain Surgery Uses Live AI to Help Protect Patient Vision
UK surgeons have carried out the world’s first brain-tumour operation using live AI assistance. The UCL system watched the surgical video in real time, helping doctors avoid critical nerves and blood vessels.
Details:
Rhys Hibbert, 48, had an 11mm pituitary tumour found after a collapse and seizure in December 2024. It later caused hormone problems and peripheral vision loss, putting his sight at risk
Surgeons reached the tumour through his nose. The AI analysed the live camera feed, not just pre-op scans, and marked arteries, optic nerves and risky areas as surgeons stayed in control
Trained on hundreds of surgical videos, the UCL system runs on NVIDIA Clara IGX and was funded by NIHR and Google. The tumour was removed, vision improved, and larger trials are planned
AI acted as a second set of eyes, not the surgeon—spotting dangerous anatomy in real time while humans made every decision. It may make surgery safer.
Top AI & SaaS Tools
FeedBoss (Life-time Deal): AI-powered LinkedIn strategist that creates personalized, on-brand content based on a user’s voice, expertise, career stage, and knowledge base
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AI Tutorial
How to Create a Research Report on Any Topic With AI
Most people use AI for quick answers, but STORM helps you go deeper. It can take one clear topic and turn it into a structured, Wikipedia-style report with sections, sources, and explanations you can actually use.
Launch STORM Research
Go to the STORM Research Platform in your browser. Create an account or log in if you already have one.
Start topic search
Enter your topic in the search bar. Make sure your topic is:
Specific
Clear
Easy to understand without extra context
Example:
Instead of: AI in business
Try: How small businesses use AI tools to automate customer support
Answer questions
STORM may ask follow-up questions before generating the report. For example, it may ask about your writing purpose or what angle you want the article to follow. Choose the answers that match your goal, such as:
Learning the topic
Creating research notes
Preparing a detailed article
Wait for report to generate
After you submit the topic and answers, the platform will start creating the article. This may take a few minutes because STORM gathers information, organizes it, and turns it into a Wikipedia-like report.
Review final article
Once the report is ready, read through it carefully. Check whether the article includes:
Useful explanations
Relevant sources
Updated info
Verify sources
Do not rely on the article blindly. Verify the sources used in the report and check whether the information is accurate, reliable, and recent enough for your topic.
Note: For a more interactive experience, switch to Co-STORM mode to start a roundtable-style conversation around the topic.
Top AI & Tech News
Anthropic introduced the Model Hardware Standard, allowing AI agents to discover and operate lab equipment like microscopes and robotic arms without custom code
A U.S. federal judge blocked the Pentagon’s decision to blacklist Anthropic, ruling that the designation was “illegal and baseless”
Google’s Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash adds 40-second scene extensions and 4K upscaling, topping Arena’s text-to-image leaderboard
OpenAI and 115 companies, including Anthropic, warned that AI-driven cyberattacks will soon become more widespread and sophisticated, urging coordinated cyber defenses
AI Art Spotlight
Create Your Own Photo Like This Using the Prompt Below:
A hyper-detailed miniature diorama of [CITY OR PLACE] seamlessly built directly onto a rustic wooden table surface, as if the entire location is being handcrafted in real time. The scene features the most iconic landmarks, architecture, streets, transportation, cultural elements, and atmosphere of [CITY OR PLACE], surrounded by dense miniature activity with tiny people, vehicles, shops, markets, lights, and environmental storytelling unique to the location. Roads, landscapes, buildings, and structures emerge naturally from the wooden tabletop with no visible platform or base. In the foreground, a realistic human hand carefully uses precision tweezers, brushes, or miniature modeling tools to place and adjust tiny details, emphasizing the handcrafted diorama creation process. Warm cinematic lighting streams through a nearby window, creating soft golden highlights, atmospheric haze, floating dust particles, shallow depth of field, and realistic tilt-shift photography. Ultra intricate miniature craftsmanship, photorealistic textures, cozy workshop ambience, cinematic composition, immersive scale-model realism, ultra realistic 8k detail --ar 2:3 --style raw --v 6Model: ChatGPT Images 2.0
Prompt of the Day
Prompt Trick That Fixes Bad Questions
A simple one-line AI prompt trick is helping people get better answers by challenging the question itself before answering it. Instead of responding directly, the AI reframes the real problem first, often revealing better decisions, clearer thinking, and smarter solutions.