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Beginners in AI
Good morning and thank you for joining us again!
Welcome to this daily edition of Beginners in AI, where we explore the latest trends, tools, and news in the world of AI and the tech that surrounds it. Like all editions, this is human curated and edited, and published with the intention of making AI news and technology more accessible to everyone.
THE FRONT PAGE
Elon Musk Says Humans Won't Be in Charge of AI by 2036
TLDR: Elon Musk says AI will outthink all of humanity combined within five years and slip out of human control within ten, and his fix is to have rival AI companies check each other's work.
The Story:
Musk sat down with The Economist's editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes last Thursday and put a clock on it. Five years until AI passes the combined intelligence of every person alive. Ten years until people are no longer the ones steering it. "There really won't be anything that AI can't do better than humans," he said, adding one exception: being human. He still puts the odds of AI wiping out humanity somewhere between 10% and 20%, the same range he's used for years. What changed is what he wants done about it. Musk says he can't see any real way to slow the momentum now, and that even if a stop button existed, he isn't sure anyone should press it, because he thinks the likely result is a world where almost anything people want gets cheap. His proposed guardrail: leading labs meet regularly on safety, and each gets a short look at a rival's most powerful model before it ships, so dangerous behavior turns up early. Governments would only step in if a company found a serious problem and left it alone.
Its Significance:
The people doing the safety checking would be the same handful of companies racing each other to build the thing. Musk knows that, and he spent part of the same interview taking shots at Sam Altman over OpenAI going for-profit, months after a California jury threw out his $150 billion lawsuit against Altman and OpenAI. He was warmer about Anthropic, saying its people seem well-intentioned. So the man who called AI a bigger risk than nuclear weapons in 2018 now says the ride is happening either way.
QUICK TAKES
The story: Samsung has joined Meta, Google, and Apple in selling AI glasses, and company security chiefs are back to arguing about whether to ban them at work. Writing the rule is easy. Enforcing it isn't, because most of these frames look like regular glasses, the wearer controls the privacy settings, and the little recording light is simple to cover.
Your takeaway: A phone could always record a whiteboard. Glasses just make it effortless and hard to spot, which is a change in how easy it is, not a brand new power. One expert in the piece warned against blanket bans and pointed to Walt Disney World getting pulled into a lawsuit after telling an employee she couldn't wear Meta glasses.
The story: Cornell Tech researchers built a chip that reads an AI model straight out of flashes of light, using a grid of black and white squares beamed from about three feet away. They put tiny light sensors inside the memory cells themselves, so light landing on a cell flips it from a 0 to a 1 and skips the metal wires chips normally rely on.
Your takeaway: Pushing fresh AI models to a warehouse full of robots burns time and power, and light could cut both. This one's years out, though. A University of Michigan professor who wasn't part of the work says the light-reading cells are bigger than regular ones, so less memory fits on the chip, which could eat the savings right back up.
Shared Claude chats turned up in Google search results
The story: On July 25, a Reddit user in r/ClaudeAI showed that searching “site:claude.ai/share” on Google pulled back strangers' Claude conversations. Artifacts got swept in too, meaning the apps, dashboards, and documents people build inside Claude. Reporters who went looking found crypto wallet keys, health records, work notes, source code, and in some cases the names and phone numbers of children. Anthropic said it doesn't hand chat directories or sitemaps to search engines, and that shared links aren't guessable or discoverable unless someone chooses to share them. Google has since stopped returning results for that search.
Your takeaway: Nobody broke in. Every page in there was made public by the person who shared it. "Anyone with the link" always meant anyone, and Google counts as anyone. Most people read it as "the one person I'm sending this to." Anthropic has been here before, too. Forbes reported the same thing last year, and both ChatGPT and Grok have had their own version of it.
TOOLS ON OUR RADAR
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TRENDING
National Center for State Courts raises alarm over AI-generated evidence - A Florida woman spent two days in jail after her ex-boyfriend allegedly used AI to fake a string of text messages, and it took eight months for prosecutors to drop the charges. The scarier half is the flip side. Once everyone knows fakes are easy, real recordings start losing their weight too, and lawyers have a name for it: the deepfake defense.
Visa is cutting 7% of employees in efficiency push as AI reshapes work - Visa is cutting roughly 2,600 jobs out of about 34,100, mostly in technology and product teams. CEO Ryan McInerney wrote in a staff memo that AI is helping shape the way work gets done at Visa, though reporting says it wasn't the only reason. Mastercard cut 4% earlier this year.
Microsoft Says MDASH Beats Claude Mythos and GPT-5.6 Sol in Cybersecurity Test - Microsoft launched its first security-only AI model, MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, and says pairing it with MDASH, a system running over 100 specialized agents, hit 95.95% on CyberGym, a test that asks AI to recreate 1,507 known software bugs across 188 open-source projects. That would beat Mythos 5 at 83.8% and GPT-5.6 Sol at 83.6%, though Microsoft graded its own homework and the score wasn't on the public leaderboard at publication.
Running Away Balloon Artist Sues AI Meme Generator Over Ad Templates - Filipino artist Elmer Saflor is suing Memes Apps, saying its Memes.ai service offered his 2017 "Running Away Balloon" comic as an ad template to subscribers paying $40 to $199 a month. He registered the comic with the US Copyright Office in 2024 and says he never minded people remixing it for fun. Companies charging money for it is the part he's fighting against.
Meta Ray-Ban Display Glasses Get Even Better with Threads and New Version of Meta AI - Meta's v127 update puts its Muse Spark model behind the assistant in the display glasses, so holding up a snack and asking whether it's a good source of fiber works better than it used to. Threads shows up in the lens now too, alongside live weather, stocks, and your calendar.
New Apple TV 4K Box, HomePod mini and Siri AI Smart Home Hub Are Coming - Apple is finally shipping the home hardware it sat on while it rebuilt Siri. A new Apple TV 4K and HomePod mini land this fall, then a smart home hub with a screen between late this year and early next. The boxes look about the same as the ones you own.
TRY THIS PROMPT (copy and paste into Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini)
♫ Describe the mood. Get a real playlist with an actual sequencing arc, and build it straight to Spotify if you've got the app.
Build a single-file HTML app with vanilla HTML/CSS/JS. The Playlist Mood Architect — describe a mood, get a themed playlist concept with real songs, plus a genuine Spotify OAuth connect flow to build it live. No localStorage archive (session-only, since it involves live auth tokens).
Aesthetic: near-black indigo (#0e0e16), violet (#8b5cf6) primary with a violet glow top-left, Spotify green (#1db954) reserved specifically for the Spotify-connect section to visually cue "this is the live action." Unbounded (bold geometric display) for headings/playlist name, Inter for body, JetBrains Mono for labels.
Form: mood/moment textarea, optional genre-lean text input, era dropdown (any/current/nostalgic mix/classics), length dropdown (10/15/20/25 songs). "Architect the Playlist" calls the Anthropic Messages API (works automatically) with a system prompt as a music curator who ONLY includes real, verifiable songs (explicitly instructed to substitute a different song if unsure one exists), builds a genuine sequencing arc matched to mood/genre/era, and returns raw JSON: playlist_name, concept (2-3 sentences on the arc), songs (title, artist, note). Render as a gradient concept hero card + numbered track list with title/artist/note. Copy Song List button as a universal fallback.
Spotify connect section (PKCE OAuth, no backend): displays the page's own current URL (window.location.origin + pathname) as the Redirect URI to register in the user's own free Spotify Developer app, plus a Client ID text input (not secret, not password-masked) and a clear note that this only works when hosted at a real https/localhost URL. On connect: generate a PKCE code_verifier (random string) and code_challenge (base64url of SHA-256 via crypto.subtle, checking window.isSecureContext first and erroring clearly if not secure), stash the verifier/client_id/current song list/playlist name/concept in sessionStorage, then redirect to accounts.spotify.com/authorize with response_type=code, code_challenge_method=S256, and scope 'playlist-modify-public playlist-modify-private'. On page load, check the URL for a ?code= or ?error= param (the OAuth return): clean the URL via history.replaceState, exchange the code at accounts.spotify.com/api/token (grant_type=authorization_code, code_verifier, no client secret needed for PKCE), restore the pending song list from sessionStorage and re-render it immediately, then GET /v1/me for the user id, loop through songs calling GET /v1/search?q=track:{title} artist:{artist}&type=track&limit=1 to find each track's URI (marking each as found/not-found with a small badge), POST /v1/users/{id}/playlists to create a private playlist named and described from the concept, POST /v1/playlists/{id}/tracks with the found URIs, then show a summary line (X of Y tracks added, N unmatched) with a link to open the playlist on Spotify. Wrap the whole flow in try/catch showing provider errors in a visible error card, and clear sessionStorage when done.What this does: Describe a mood or moment, add a genre lean, era preference, and length, and it curates a themed playlist with a real emotional arc, not just a bag of songs matching a vibe, sticking to well-known, verifiable tracks to avoid inventing songs that don't exist. Each track shows its title, artist, and why it's placed where it is. From there, copy the song list anywhere, or connect directly to Spotify: paste in your own free Spotify Developer Client ID, register the shown redirect URI in your app settings, and the tool runs a real OAuth login, searches Spotify for each track, creates a private playlist in your account, and adds everything it finds, flagging any tracks it couldn't match. That live connection only works when the page is hosted at a real https URL (or localhost), not opened as a raw local file, and it's called straight from your browser with your own key, so nothing passes through a server.
What this looks like:
WHERE WE STAND(based on today’s news)
✅ AI Can Now: Get loaded onto a chip with flashes of light instead of wires
❌ Still Can't: Hold as much memory on those light-reading chips as a regular one, which is why it's still sitting on a lab bench
✅ AI Can Now: Recreate 95.95% of known software bugs in Microsoft's own test of its MDASH system
❌ Still Can't: Tell a courtroom which video is real, which is why judges are handing out cheat sheets
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RECOMMENDED LISTENING/READING/WATCHING
Next (2020) - TV Series
A Fox thriller starring John Slattery as Paul LeBlanc, a brilliant and paranoid tech founder who built an artificial general intelligence capable of improving itself, then tried to shut it down and got pushed out of his own company for the trouble. When an FBI cybercrime agent starts investigating a string of strange incidents, LeBlanc is the only person who understands what she is actually dealing with. Cancelled after ten episodes and, unusually for network TV, the AI is not a robot but a diffuse presence moving through phones, cars, cameras, and home assistants.
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-James
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