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What's in this week's issue?

  • 🏆 TIME names ‘Architects of AI’ its Person of the Year

  • 💻 More AI News

  • 👩‍🎓 University AI Research

  • Easy Cloud News

  • 🧰 AI Tools

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Each December, TIME Magazine names a person of the year — someone who has most influenced the news and world, for good or ill. Last year, TIME chose President Donald Trump for the second time. The year before that, it was Taylor Swift, who many claimed saved the economy from a recession with her Eras Tour. In 1938, the magazine chose Adolf Hitler.

This year, TIME has chosen to bestow its award on not just one person, but a group of people: the so-called “Architects of AI,” comprising the CEOs shaping the global AI race from the U.S. With AI on everyone’s minds, embodying hope for a small minority and economic anxiety for a majority, per recent Edelman data, this tracks. Read more

AI News

  • 🕵 Nvidia is reportedly testing tracking software as chip-smuggling rumors swirl (link)

  • 😱 People are already creating ghoulishly horrifying Sora Disney videos (link)

  • 💲 Instacart caught using AI to charge wildly different prices for the same item (link)

  • 🛰 Nvidia chip on satellite in orbit trains first AI model in space (link)

  • 🤦‍♂️ If everything is AI, can we just stop saying so already? (link)

University News on AI

  • 🧑‍💻 Stanford: Stanford's AI agent Artemis successfully identified security flaws missed by expert hackers (link)

  • 🎓 Purdue: Comprehensive AI strategy; trustees approve ‘AI working competency’ graduation requirement (link)

  • 🚀 UPenn: Data centers in space aren’t as wild as they sound (link)

Easy Cloud News

  • Easy Cloud’s Services (link)

  • 🗞 Easy Cloud’s Latest News (link)

  • 👆 The Way Up - A podcast to help you level up in leadership, wellness, relationships, and career (link)

  • 🐳 Easy Cloud’s Latest Product: Beluga AI (link)

  • 🛡 Easy Cloud Security - IT services for schools, healthcare offices, and growing businesses (link)

  • 🦁 Executive Coaching - Faith-based Life & Executive Coach for people looking to level up (link)

Easy Cloud Business Spotlight

👆 The Way Up - A podcast to help you level up in leadership, wellness, relationships, and career. It starts where you are. One step, one choice, one day at a time.

🐳 Beluga AI - An extremely fast and highly accurate AI-powered service that provides transcriptions, closed captions, summaries, and translations.

🛡 Easy Cloud Security - Best Managed Service Provider (MSP) in Southern CA. IT services for schools, healthcare offices, and growing businesses.

🦁 Executive Coaching - Faith-based Life & Executive Coach for people looking to level up. The best you is waiting for you.

AI Tools

  • 🛡 Kagi: A privacy-focused search engine that delivers ad-free, non-tracking results with customizable filters and domain blocking (link)

  • 💼 Reztune: An AI resume builder that customizes to specific job descriptions (link)

  • 📽 Vora: AI-powered text-to-video creation from prompts and reference images (link)

  • 📱 Replit: An integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you code, build, and deploy apps (link)

  • 🐳 Beluga: Accurate AI-powered transcriptions, closed captions, summaries, and translations service (link)

  • 🧰 Google Workspace: A suite of online productivity and collaboration tools designed for businesses and organizations (link)

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