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Zain Kahn
July 15, 2025

Welcome back, Superhuman. What do billionaires and college freshmen have in common? Apparently, both turn to AI for late-night study sessions. Google just rolled out a big NotebookLM update packed with expert-curated notebooks to help you do the same.

Also Today: Learn how to create professional PDFs from simple text, and get the latest prompts, headlines, and social posts.

TODAY IN AI

Meta’s first supercluster could come online as soon as next year. Source: Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook

1. Meta’s superintelligence push takes shape: With a hand-picked dream team in place, Meta is now zeroing in on its AI infrastructure needs. Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the company is pouring “hundreds of billions” into massive supercluster data centers, some the size of several Manhattan neighborhoods. But there’s a catch: To cover those sky-high costs, reports suggest Meta might follow in the footsteps of OpenAI and pivot to a closed-source strategy – which would be a major blow to solo founders, nonprofits, and researchers.

2. Windsurf has a new home after whirlwind weekend: Just days ago, Google announced it had poached top talent from Windsurf, throwing the future of the vibe coding startup into jeopardy. That all changed on Monday, when Cognition, the company behind popular AI programming platform Devin, swooped in with a surprise acquisition. By combining their efforts, the new team hopes to outmaneuver big tech rivals with agents that can perform complex coding tasks independently.

3. Apple scrambles to get its AI plans back on track: With its foundation models chief headed to Meta, Apple shareholders are itching for the iPhone-maker to make a big move. One idea that insiders have floated: Instead of building a proprietary LLM from scratch, Apple could acquire French AI startup Mistral, which specializes in frontier open-source models. While Apple tends to avoid risky acquisitions, it might just be the shakeup it needs to get back in the game.

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Sad, but true: In today’s fast-moving workplace, no one is reading your PDF (or that 47-slide deck).

But with Guidde, you can send a narrated How-To video for any workflow, training topic, or idea—in 5 minutes or less:

  1. Add Guidde’s no-cost plugin to your browser

  2. Upload a PDF, slide deck, screen recording, etc

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  4. Publish it everywhere and optimize for engagement over time

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FROM THE FRONTIER

NotebookLM unlocks new way to learn from experts with AI

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang just revealed his No. 1 use for AI, and the answer might surprise you: “My primary use case for AI is doing research and being my tutor,” he said in a clip that’s now going viral. “It’s helping me become better informed in a lot of different fields I’m otherwise relatively new at.”

If, like Huang, you turn to AI for research help, Google’s AI-powered study tool, NotebookLM, just got a major update that you might be interested in. For the first time, you can access expert-curated notebooks covering a wide variety of topics.

Here’s a quick sample:

  • Science-backed parenting advice for the digital age, courtesy of psychology professor Jacqueline Nesi

  • Evidence-based longevity research from cardiologist Eric Topol

  • An Economist report on the biggest market, tech, and political trends this year

  • Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the works of Shakespeare

What study tools are included? Each notebook contains AI-powered mind maps as well as the podcast-like AI Overviews the platform is known for. If you’re having trouble wrapping your head around a challenging concept, you can even ask questions about it and get AI-generated responses.

This builds on last month’s update, which introduced the ability to make your notebook public. So far, around 140,000 public notebooks have been created and shared, unlocking new ways to explore topics you might not know much about.

THE AI ACADEMY

How to create professional PDFs from simple text

  • Go to Grok and sign up.

  • Type a detailed prompt outlining the type of document you're creating (resume, research paper summary, or invoice). Be specific about content, format, and tone.

Sample Prompt: Create a professional CV for a Software Designer with 5+ years of experience. Highlight skills in UI/UX, design systems, prototyping, Figma, and collaboration with developers. Include work experience, education, portfolio links, and a brief personal summary. Create a PDF.

  • Grok will generate a preview of your document.

  • You can make changes by sending follow-up prompts or editing the LaTeX code directly via the Code button.

  • Once you're satisfied, click the Download button to save the final PDF.

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IN THE KNOW

What’s trending on socials and headlines today

📈 Prompted Profits: A Redditor claims they used ChatGPT and Grok to make trades for them, achieving a 100% win rate in two weeks. Meanwhile, investor Deedy Das tried something similar on Polymarket.

✍️ Takes a Village: A Redditor asked for help finding a good AI prompting guide. In response, fellow users have been leaving comments with practical tips, and they’re actually some of the best I’ve seen in a while.

🌪️ Calming Chaos: The viral AI ASMR videos keep getting weirder, with the latest ones featuring tsunamis, tornadoes, and volcanoes.

🤳 Smoke and Mirrors: AI filmmaker Lu Huang just shared seven life-like influencer videos made by combining Google’s Veo 3 and Higgsfield’s new Soul ID.

Anthropic announced a new Canva integration, letting you generate images and designs directly inside Claude. The startup also released a new directory that lets you view every tool on offer and easily “connect your favorites.”

A new Stanford study suggests chatbots aren’t ready to take over for therapists, and in fact, may cause harm by reinforcing patients’ negative thoughts and “responding inappropriately about 20% of the time.”

Amazon Web Services unveiled a new programming platform called Kiro that makes vibe coding smoother by catching your mistakes on the fly and generating diagrams and task lists to map out your process.

PRODUCTIVITY

5 New AI Tools to Boost Your Productivity

  • 📲 Bland*: End-to-end infrastructure for enterprise-ready conversational AI, try out Bland.

  • 🖼️ Z.ai: Generate presentations, professional writing, or complex code.

  • 💬 Kimi K2: Open-source AI chat platform, outperforms GPT-4.

  • 🎨 Magic Animator: Animate your designs in seconds with AI.

  • 📅 Planori: Create, track, and share plans with AI.

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PROMPT STATION

Get Unstuck in Your Career

Prompt: "I want to become irreplaceable at work. Analyze my current role, responsibilities, and team dynamics.

Then:
- Identify the 3 highest-leverage skills that will make me indispensable in my position
- Break down each skill into sub-skills I can build
- Create a 90-day mastery plan with weekly milestones and daily actions
- Include learning resources, tools, and checkpoints to measure progress

Format output into a table with columns for Day, Task, Skill Focus, Time Required, and Outcome"

Follow-Up Questions:
You can tell ChatGPT to ask these first to tailor the plan:
1. What is your current job title and industry?
2. What are your main responsibilities?
3. What type of work do your teammates rely on you for most?
4. What are your career goals in the next 12 months?

Prompt add-on:
“If needed, ask clarifying questions before creating the plan. Then begin only once you have enough context.”

Source: godofprompt

Celestial Cruise

Source: leitelei

ChatGPT Prompt: Ultra-realistic cinematic shot from a low-angle perspective ON Saturn's rings. A 1960 red Ford Mustang  on the textured surface of Saturn's outermost MAIN ring.Add one more car on the another visible ring. The rings curve dramatically into the foreground and connect visibly to Saturn's equator in the mid-background, showing only the planet's lower hemisphere with clear atmospheric bands. Cars appear tiny compared to the ring particles (1:100 scale), emphasizing Saturn's colossal size. No detached rings - only one continuous ring system physically attached to the planet. Deep space background with distant stars. Hyper-realistic lighting: reflections on metallic car surfaces and ice crystals in the rings. Shot on 70mm IMAX film, add a slight surreal filter to the image ,add people from 1960 from paris and add street lights also

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