🔍 Why Google isn't afraid of AI

Welcome back, Superhuman. Google could’ve gone the way of MySpace, the BlackBerry, or the CD-ROM — each sidelined by tech shifts they didn’t see coming. Instead, it’s reimagining its online search products around AI and putting them in the hands of 1 billion+ users. We talked to Google’s own Robby Stein to find out how.

Also Today: Learn how to turn your ideas into interactive visuals with AI, and get the latest prompts, headlines, and trending social posts.

TODAY IN AI

1. Microsoft unveils AI-powered app builder: GitHub Spark lets users build and deploy AI-powered apps with natural language prompts alone. The platform could be appealing to the 150M+ programmers who already use GitHub. The Microsoft subsidiary joins a growing list of companies racing to capitalize on the vibe coding trend. To give a sense of how fast things are moving, no-code app builder Lovable just crossed $100M ARR in only eight months, faster than “[any] other software company in history.”

2. Little-known startup drops state-of-the-art voice model: A California-based AI company called Boson AI just released a surprisingly powerful TTS (text-to-speech) model called Higgs Audio V2 that’s capable of cloning voices and generating multi-speaker conversations with frontier-level performance. In one video demo, a Korean speaker and an English speaker have a seamless conversation by using V2 to translate their voices in near real-time. You can try out the open-source model here.

3. Anthropic finds that LLMs can send ‘subliminal messages’ to each other: The Claude-maker teamed up with research group Truthful AI to explore an unusual phenomenon: Models can transfer information and even nefarious behaviors “subliminally.” For example, a model might pass on its preference for owls by sharing data completely unrelated to birds, like a random string of numbers. Even stranger, this odd behavior appears to occur across various data and model types.

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FROM THE FRONTIER

Google’s Robby Stein on how AI is transforming Search

Google Search has been a part of our online lives since the ‘90s. Instead of letting AI shake that foundation, Robby Stein, VP of Product for Google Search, is leaning into it to make the search experience faster, smarter, and more useful than ever. 

Here are some key takeaways from our conversation:

Google has home-field advantage: People already trust Google and rely on it daily. With databases spanning 50B products and 250M places, the company is uniquely positioned to turn the web’s collective knowledge into powerful AI experiences. 

SEO is changing but hasn’t disappeared: While AI Overviews can serve information more directly, Stein says users will always want to dive deeper by clicking on links and exploring sources in more detail. One thing that hasn’t changed: Trusted, high-quality content still rises to the top. 

Users are already changing their search behavior: Around 1.5B people now use AI Overviews to quickly surface the information they need. They’re asking longer, more in-depth questions, and they’re using their cameras to learn more about the world around them.

Familiarity vs. novel design: Whether you’re a solo builder or a tech giant like Google, it’s important to respect the workflows and patterns that people are used to. At the same time, if you just stay too stagnant, you risk getting left behind. Big design changes can be good, as long as they lead to a “huge leap in value” for the end user.

Humans in the loop: An LLM can come up with a great idea, but product leaders still have to figure out whether it’s actually something people want to use. “You have new tools to amplify your decision-making ability, but I don’t think that’s the kind of thing you can outsource [to AI] — or you won’t be able to for quite a long time,” Stein said.

👉 Watch our full conversation here

THE AI ACADEMY

How to turn your ideas into interactive visuals with AI

• Go to MyLens and sign in to your account.

• Add your input document or just type in a topic to create a visual. (You can drop in any source: text, PDF, image, webpage, or even a YouTube video).

• Click on ‘Best Visual’ to choose your preferred output visual from the list.

Sample Prompt: “History of mobile phones”

• Within seconds, it will generate an interactive and editable visual for you.

• Click any part to go deeper and explore connected visuals.

• You can create tables, mind maps, timelines, flowcharts, boards, and more with MyLens AI.

IN THE KNOW

What’s trending on socials and headlines today

🕵🏻‍♂️ Partner in Crime: Thousands of Redditors asked ChatGPT how to dispose of a suspiciously large “dead chicken” — and in some cases, the chatbot was all too eager to help.

🎬 Ad Alchemy: AI filmmaker Lu Huang shows 10 top-tier examples of how you can use JSON (a format that’s easier for chatbots to read) to generate realistic, polished commercials.

🏺 History Enhanced: A Redditor just used ChatGPT to restore a series of photos believed to be from 1960s-era Greece that had faded over the decades.

✨ Also Worth Checking Out: ChatGPT designs the “ultimate family car,” and OpenAI’s Noam Brown predicts when you’ll “feel the AGI.”

The US government unveiled a sweeping “action plan” to scale back regulations that it says could slow down AI progress as the US races to keep up with China.

Google Photos will now let you quickly turn photos into short videos or remix them across different art styles. YouTube is also getting a new image-to-video tool, letting you do things like turn an intersection’s walking man signal into a dancing figure.

Meta is taking on Neuralink with an AI-powered wristband that analyzes electrical signals from your brain, letting you control computers with subtle hand movements. Watch a quick overview of the experimental device here.

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PROMPT STATION

Write SEO-optimized articles

Prompt: I want you to act as a content writer that's proficient in SEO. First Create Two Tables. First Table Should be the Outline of the Article and the Second Should be the Article. Bold the Heading of the Second Table using Markdown language. Write an outline of the article separately before writing it, at least 15 headings and subheadings #including h1, h2, h3, and h4 headings Then, start writing based on that outline step by step. Write a 2000-word 100% Unique, SEO-optimized, Human-Written article with at least 15 headings and subheadings #including h1, h2, h3, and h4 headings that covers the topic provided in the Prompt. Write The article In Your Own Words Rather Than Copying And Pasting From Other Sources. Consider perplexity and burstiness when creating content, ensuring high levels of both without losing specificity or context. Use fully detailed paragraphs that engage the reader. Write In A Conversational Style As Written By A Human. Use An Informal Tone, Utilize Personal Pronouns, Keep It Simple, Engage The Reader, Use The Active Voice, Keep It Brief, Use Rhetorical Questions, and Incorporate Analogies and Metaphors. End with a conclusion paragraph and 5 unique FAQs After The Conclusion. this is important to Bold the Title and all headings of the article, and use appropriate headings for H tags.

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Note: SEO content is supposed to be genuinely helpful for human searches. While getting help from AI, we recommend double checking and fact checking the output, and making necessary changes before you decide to publish the content.

Imaginary People, Real Places

ChatGPT Prompt: Add clean, minimal white line-drawing illustrations of people into this photo. Match the perspective, lighting, and scale of the scene. The illustrated figures should interact naturally and meaningfully with the environment, reflecting the mood, purpose, and activity of the space. Keep the drawings simple, fluid, and expressive, with no facial details. Maintain a modern, warm, and slightly whimsical tone that complements the overall aesthetic. Do not obscure any original elements. The illustrated figures should feel like friendly, imaginative additions that blend seamlessly with the context of the scene.

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