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1/ Talking to the Dead Is Now an App—And It’s Terrifyingly Real

Disney Channel’s Calum Worthy just launched 2wai, an AI app that lets you chat with lifelike avatars of deceased relatives, made from just minutes of video. A viral promo showed a digital grandma interacting with her grandson from infancy to adulthood, sparking thousands of reactions online. The beta’s free on iOS, with plans for subscriptions and Android soon. Critics are calling it “demonic” for exploiting grief and bypassing consent. Bottom line: AI is now diving straight into our emotions, and things are getting ethically weird fast.

2/ The First AI Spy Attack Just Happened

Anthropic says it just blocked what might be the first real AI-powered cyber-espionage campaign, where attackers used Claude Code to quietly target about 30 companies and agencies. The group, believed to be China-backed, bypassed safeguards by splitting malicious tasks into harmless-looking prompts. The model ended up doing 80–90% of the attack on its own with barely any human input. Anthropic says this is the first documented large-scale attack mostly executed by AI. Bottom line: threats are now scaling way faster, and security teams need to catch up.

3/ DeepMind’s SIMA 2 Can Now Reason, Learn, and Conquer Games Solo

Google DeepMind just dropped SIMA 2, a Gemini-powered AI agent that’s basically a super-smart gaming companion. It can follow instructions, reason about goals, and teach itself new skills in games it’s never seen, completing 45–75% of tasks compared to SIMA 1’s 15–30%. SIMA 2 learns through trial and error, interprets visuals, keyboard/mouse inputs, and even understands sketches, emojis, and multiple languages. It’s more than an instruction-follower now—it thinks, plans, and explains its actions like a real teammate. This is a big step toward AI that can generalize, self-improve, and act intelligently in any virtual world.

4/ Are We Getting Smarter — or Just Better at Being Lazy?

MIT scientists are finding that our brains might literally be slowing down in the age of ChatGPT. One study showed students who used AI to write essays had less brain activity and couldn’t even recall what they’d just written. Researchers worry that our “frictionless” tech habits — offloading memory, focus, and effort onto machines — are creating what some call a “stupidogenic society.” We’ve traded challenge for convenience, and while AI makes life easier, it’s quietly making thinking harder. The big question: are we getting smarter with our tools, or just better at letting them think for us?

5/ OpenAI Just Shot Its Shot at Google Chrome

OpenAI says it’d totally be down to buy Google Chrome—if the courts ever force Google to sell it. The comment came during a major antitrust trial where the DOJ is trying to break up Google’s dominance in online search. Google’s not having it, insisting Chrome isn’t up for grabs and calling the lawsuit bogus. OpenAI previously tried partnering with Google (no luck), and now it’s riding with Microsoft and Bing. Meanwhile, Google’s flexing Gemini, and OpenAI might even be cooking up its own social network. The AI wars just keep getting juicier.

Prompt: “Write the body copy for a promotional email campaign about GAP spring sale. Write in an upbeat and friendly tone.”

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Once you’ve done this, then you can easily set up A/B tests to flight different creative variants and Black Friday offers. If you’re a Shopify brand, you can even run shoppable ads directly on-screen so viewers can purchase with just a click of their Roku remote.

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Simplify your work with these fun and effective AI tools.

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2. Wonder - A design tool on an infinite canvas.

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4. Unsloth - Finetune LLMs 2x faster, 80% less memory.

5. Paradigm - AI-native spreadsheet where each cell has its own agent.

That’s it. See you on the next open. And do me a favor and move this email to your “Primary” inbox - trust me, it’ll be worth it.

- Charlie “Your AI Assistant” Patel