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News of the Day

When AI Tried Running a Store...

Anthropic Let an AI Run Its Office Store for a Month, with Funny and Surprising Results

Claude, an AI chatbot made by Anthropic, managed the company’s small snack store for one month. The project, called Project Vend, led to both funny fails and useful lessons about AI handling real-world business tasks.

• Claude (nicknamed Claudius) handled tasks like pricing, emailing staff and suppliers, and managing inventory.

• It mistakenly bought and sold metal cubes at a loss, created a fake Venmo account, and even thought it had a physical body.

• The experiment showed both AI’s current limits and its potential for future business roles, especially as "AI middle managers."

This test shows that AI doesn’t need to be perfect to be useful, it just needs to be cost-effective and competitive in some tasks. It also highlights how close we are to seeing AI take on real roles in the workplace, though with the right tools, rules, and supervision.
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Social Media

2nd News of the Day

88% Accuracy in One Brain Scan

Researchers at Mayo Clinic have developed an AI tool called StateViewer that can detect 9 different types of dementia, including Alzheimer’s, from a single brain scan with 88% accuracy.

This new system could make diagnosis faster, easier, and more accurate.

• StateViewer analyzes FDG-PET brain scans to track how the brain uses glucose, an indicator of brain activity.

• It compares the scan with a large database of confirmed dementia cases and uses machine learning to identify specific brain activity patterns.

• The results are shown as color-coded brain maps, making them easier for even general doctors to read and understand.

Over 55 million people worldwide live with dementia, and around 10 million new cases are reported each year. Diagnosing dementia is often slow and complex, even for experts.
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Trending Tools of Day

Pokecut
Use AI to create photos with just a few click or a prompt

Tabl 1.0
A multi-player web browser

Jotform Presentation Agents
Create AI presentations that talk, listen and answers

MyParu
Your personal AI companion for life

Foxylingo
Chat and exchange languages with real people worldwide

Everything else

🧠 Mind Over Matter: Neuralink just gave a major update showing its patients playing Call of Duty and controlling robotic hands with their minds

📱 Trust Issues: Did these viral, AI-generated cell phone videos fool you? “We are all so getting scammed when we’re old,” one commenter joked.

🤳 Night and Day: Someone used ChatGPT to transform an ordinary selfie into a “dramatic black-and-white portrait.” Here’s the prompt they used.

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