SitDeck: Build CIA-level dashboards to monitor events

Welcome back, Superhuman. The Situation Deck is a viral AI intelligence tool that lets you build CIA-level custom dashboards powered by 180+ data sources — so you can track geopolitics, flights, elections, and much more in real-time. Also: Apple announced new devices with AI upgrades.

Today: Learn about Situation Deck, how to turn emails into client decks with AI, and get the latest prompts and trending social posts.

TODAY IN AI

1. Apple reveals iPhone 17e and iPad Air, both starting at $599 with major AI upgrades: Apple kicked off a week of product launches with two new devices — the iPhone 17e and a refreshed iPad Air — both priced at $599 and built to run Apple Intelligence on-device. The iPhone 17e features the A19 chip, 256GB base storage (double the previous generation), and AI features including Call Screening, Hold Assist, and Live Translation. The iPad Air jumps up to the M4 chip with 12GB of unified memory (up 50% from the M3 model), giving AI workloads significantly more headroom. Both are available for pre-order March 4, shipping March 11.

2. SitDeck lets you monitor any situation globally by compiling 180+ live data feeds: SitDeck is a free AI-powered intelligence tool built by entrepreneur Dan Ushman that pulls 180+ live data feeds — conflicts, earthquakes, flights, nuclear threats, cyber attacks, elections, shipping lanes, markets — into one customizable interface with 55+ drag-and-drop widgets and 70+ interactive map layers. Ushman originally built it as a personal side project but released it publicly after it exceeded his expectations. The launch post racked up 2M+ views, allegedly driving 7,000 signups in under 24 hours. It's free and available now. Learn more here.

3. Mark Cuban to judge an AI startup competition during NFL Draft week with a $1.275M prize: The Forge AI Prize is a new startup pitch competition that will be hosted during NFL Draft week (April 22) in Pittsburgh, where AI founders will compete live for a $1,275,000 prize — including $1M in AWS compute credits and a $275K investment from Magarac Venture Partners. The competition is geared towards startups building AI and robotics tools for sports and will be judged by business leaders Mark Cuban and Ed Stack.

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FROM THE FRONTIER

Anthropic called out China for copying its homework — but the legal ground is murky

Anthropic’s accusation. Last week, Anthropic accused three Chinese AI labs (DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax) of using 24,000 fake accounts and 16 million exchanges to run coordinated distillation attacks. The problem? Distillation is technically a legal training technique.

What is distillation? Distillation is when a smaller model is trained on the outputs of a larger, smarter model, helping it match performance for a fraction of the price. For example, Stanford and University of Washington researchers used distillation to replicate OpenAI's o1 reasoning capabilities last year for under $50. Both Anthropic and OpenAI believe Chinese labs are doing this at industrial scale — which explains the timing of open-source releases.

The 3-month lag. Open-source models have consistently trailed frontier models by 3 months on average. During that gap, competitors are likely using the frontier model's outputs as training data to replicate months of research for pennies on the dollar. As Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi puts it: distillation is "so extremely powerful and so extremely cheap, and it's just available to anyone."

Sparking a geopolitical showdown. Anthropic and OpenAI think China’s approach to distillation presents a national security threat: large-scale intellectual property (IP) extraction by a foreign adversary. But the legal ground is murky — especially when many frontier models were trained on data that wasn’t theirs in the first place.

THE AI ACADEMY

How to turn emails into client decks with AI

• Go to Claude, click ‘+’ > ‘Connectors’ > search ‘Gamma’ > Connect

• Do the same with Gmail + Notion

Prompt Claude: “Find my discovery call notes from [client] in Gmail. Pull their project brief from Notion. Create a campaign proposal deck.”

• Claude will search your Gmail, build a complete proposal deck, pull the project brief from Notion.

• To refine it, just open the Gamma link. Don’t use default templates.

• Create your brand style and save fonts, colours, logo placement.

Add this to your prompt: “Use my pre-saved style in Gamma.”

• Now every deck will be customized as per your preference.

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IN THE KNOW

What’s trending on socials and headlines today

🧠 Prompting 101: This viral graphic breaks down the anatomy of a good prompt into 8 distinct sections (12K bookmarks).

💪 Claude Cowork: Learn 17 best practices that make Claude Cowork significantly more powerful in this detailed post (1.3M views).

📝 Michael Truell’s Essay: Cursor’s CEO claims that we’re in the Third Era of AI Software Development in a viral essay that’s gotten 6.7M views.

💻️ Vibecoding: Learning the names of different parts of a website can drastically improve AI outputs for web design (1.6M views).

✏️ Handwriting Style: Nano Banana 2 can match your handwriting style in AI-generated images — just upload a sample of your writing.

🦞 Viral Chart: OpenClaw’s GitHub download chart is going viral for being a literal vertical line:

📺️ Morning Brief: An AI enthusiast uses OpenClaw to get a personalized daily news video — narrated by Angela Merkel.

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PROMPT STATION

The Full Presentation Builder

Prompt: “Act as a world-class presentation creator. Create a complete, slide-by-slide presentation on the topic: [insert topic]. Include title slides, key points, examples, data, metaphors, visuals suggestions, and a closing call-to-action. Structure it like a TED-level presentation with storytelling flow.”

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Commercial Tear Reveal Concept

NanoBanana prompt: A photorealistic, highly detailed commercial product photograph of a standard aluminum [Type of Soda Can] centered against a minimal, textured [Background Color] paper background, with subtle fibers visible. A single, continuous horizontal paper-tear strip runs across the entire width of the frame, seamless from the far-right edge to the far-left edge. The torn channel cuts through the metal body of the can and continues across the background on both sides with a barely perceptible and minimal diagonal slope towards the upper-left. The tear channel is significantly broader, revealing a dense, glistening, and vibrant layer of [Description of Fruit Segments/Sacs/Berries] tightly packed inside. Near the extreme far-left end of this tear, the paper is neatly rolled into a tight, realistic coil that occupies almost the entire left margin. The can features a newly designed, minimalist branding: the upper portion has a stylized, abstract line-art illustration of [Fruit Branch/Plant] in a contrasting [Ink Color], set against a subtle matte geometric [Pattern Type] pattern on the can surface. Below this, the brand name "[Brand Name]" is printed in an elegant, modern dark typography, with smaller technical text "330ml - NATURAL EXTRACT" and a small "Recyclable" logo. A small, detailed graphic of the fruit is located below the torn path. The lighting is soft and cinematic, casting delicate drop shadows beneath the torn paper edges and the large left coil. 8k resolution, macro details on fibrous paper and glossy fruit texture.

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Until next time — Zain, Theodore, & the Superhuman AI team.