OpenAI Hires Black Hole Physicist

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Prize-winning physicist joins OpenAI; Anthropic’s Claude gets smarter for business, Manus 1.5 boosts AI collaboration and app building.

• Hottest AI News

• Top AI & SaaS Tools

• AI Tutorial: Create Professional Infographics in 2 Minutes

• Top AI & Tech News

• AI Art Spotlight

• Prompt of the Day: Discipline Transformation Prompt

• AI Video Tutorial

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Hottest AI News

OpenAI

Prize-Winning Physicist Joins OpenAI's Scientific Research Team

OpenAI is making a serious play for scientific credibility with its latest high-profile hire, signaling the company's ambition to move far beyond consumer chatbots into cutting-edge research.

Details:

• Prize-winning physicist Alex Lupsasca has joined OpenAI’s science team under Kevin Weil’s “OpenAI for Science” initiative. He’ll stay at Vanderbilt University while guiding how OpenAI applies its models to theoretical physics. Once doubtful of AI’s role in research, Lupsasca says GPT-5 solves astrophysics problems in minutes

• OpenAI faces growing competition in AI-for-science. DeepMind’s AlphaFold transformed protein prediction and explores fusion energy, while Anthropic launched its own research program. OpenAI hopes to boost its credibility and compete directly, building on work with U.S. National Labs

• Weil says GPT-5 already performs “limited novel scientific research.” He calls current models only the beginning: “The AI model you’re using currrently is the worst you’ll ever use.” Lupsasca will collaborate with academics as OpenAI pushes AI from assisting research to conducting it

This shift turns OpenAI from a consumer AI company into an “everything company,” aiming to lead in areas from social video to science and transform how discovery happens.

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Anthropic

Anthropic's ‘Skills’ Feature Makes Claude Smarter for Business Workflows

Anthropic launched "Skills" for Claude, letting businesses build reusable knowledge packs the AI can auto-use. It moves beyond prompt engineering to deliver consistent, shareable expertise, with early users seeing up to 8x productivity gains.

Details:

• Skills use “progressive disclosure,” showing Claude only skill names first, then loading relevant knowledge automatically. Each Skill can hold unlimited context—procedures, code, and docs—organized in folders. It works the same across all Claude platforms

• Companies report big gains. Rakuten cut finance workflows from a full day to one hour by automating spreadsheets and reports. Canva and Box are adding Skills to enhance content creation and document handling, showing clear ROI enterprises expect from AI

• Anyone can use it. Non-technical users receive simple creation tools, while developers have full API control. Pre-built Skills handle tasks like Excel or PowerPoint creation, and teams can share custom ones

This launch intensifies Anthropic's competition with OpenAI in the AI coding market, addressing the critical problem where effective AI use depends on individual expertise that can't be scaled.

Top AI & SaaS Tools

• Skillplate (Life-time Deal): AI-powered platform for creators to quickly launch, sell, and manage courses, communities, and other paid digital products

• Outchat: Build, brand, and monetize AI chats end‑to‑end—everything from setup to payments in one platform [F-R-E-E]

• Google AI Studio: Latest update merges Chat, GenMedia, and Live into a single UI, streamlining how you use them together [F-R-E-E]

• KAYAK AI: Find and book trips by asking natural questions—e.g., “Show me a budget-friendly boutique hotel in Kyoto near a subway station”—instead of using filters [F-R-E-E]

• alphaXiv: NotebookLM for arXiv - turn dense AI papers into clear, conversational summaries with context, motivations, SOTA links, and key insights [F-R-E-E]

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AI Tutorial

How to Make Professional Infographics Without Canva or Photoshop

If you’ve ever struggled to make your reports, notes, or research look professional, Gemini has a hidden feature that changes everything. You can turn any content into an infographic in under 2 minutes — no design skills needed.

1. Visit Gemini

   Go to the official Gemini site and create an account. You’ll need to sign in with your Google account.

2. Go to Gemini Canvas

   Once logged in, tap on the Tools menu and choose Canvas. This is where you’ll generate content in visual formats like infographics, web pages, or reports.

3. Upload or Start Fresh

   • If you already have a document (like a report, blog post, or notes), upload it directly.

   • If not, you can start with a blank canvas and give Gemini a clear prompt.

4. Write Prompt

   Tell Gemini what kind of content you want summarized or visualized. For example:

   • “Summarize the latest developments in renewable energy technology and their business implications.”

   • “Build a content marketing calendar for Q2 2025 with trending topics and optimal posting schedules.”

   Keep prompts short, specific, and outcome-focused.

5. Let Gemini Generate

   Gemini will first create a structured written output — this might include text, bullet points, statistics, or short summaries.

6. Choose Infographic Format

   At the top-right corner, Press Create → Infographic.

   Gemini will convert the written summary into a visually formatted infographic layout, including sections, icons, and headings.

7. Customize and Preview

   Use the Preview mode to check how the infographic looks. You can:

   • Adjust text, titles, and visuals.

   • Switch between light or dark themes.

   • Rearrange sections if something looks off.

8. Edit or Copy Code

   If you want deeper customization, tap on the Code tab to tweak the layout or copy the HTML code.

9. Download and Share

   Finally, download the finished infographic or share it directly from Gemini. You can also generate different versions (for example, one for LinkedIn and one for Instagram) by adjusting the layout size or orientation.

Note: If your document is long, summarize it first using Gemini or another AI tool. Feeding it shorter, high-impact content helps it organize sections logically in your infographic.

Top AI & Tech News

• Manus 1.5 release delivers a quicker, smarter agent with larger context, full‑stack web app building, and collaboration features

• Pew’s survey of 28,000 adults across 25 countries finds global AI nervousness outpacing optimism about the technology

• Cognition launched SWE-grep and SWE-grep-mini—models that speed up code context retrieval 10x while matching top-tier accuracy

• OpenAI’s Sora 2 adds Storyboards for planning and extends video generation up to 25 seconds, improving workflow and output control

AI Art Spotlight

Prompt (Replace “[Subject]” with your chosen topic):

A hyper-detailed isometric blueprint schematic of a [Subject], rendered with intricate white lines on a dark blue background with a subtle grid overlay. The schematic should include an exploded view revealing complex internal components, cross-sectional cuts, multiple detailed callouts with technical annotations and labels, auxiliary top-down and front-on views, and a dedicated section for detailed specifications and project information, all designed to mimic authentic engineering drawings.

Model: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana)

Prompt of the Day

Discipline Transformation Prompt for Daily Progress

This prompt turns the AI into a world-class mentor who builds identity-level discipline by diagnosing the psychological patterns that derail follow-through, reframing discipline as identity plus systems rather than willpower, and designing custom protocols that make disciplined behavior automatic.

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