🤖 AI as a Date? Nearly 20% of High Schoolers Say Yes!

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• ❤️‍🩹AI as a Date? Nearly 20% of High Schoolers Say Yes!

• 💥From Prompts to Power Crisis?

• 🛠Trending Tools

• 🥪Brief Bites

• 💰Funding Frontlines

• 💼Who’s Hiring?

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❤️‍🩹AI as a Date? Nearly 20% of High Schoolers Say Yes!

AI isn’t just changing how we educate; it’s reinventing how students, teachers, and parents engage with schooling at every level. This reinvention includes the rise of AI companions designed to provide emotional support by acting as your best friend, trusted therapist, or romantic partner.

Key Details:

• The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) conducted a national survey of 1,030 students, 806 teachers, and 1,018 parents from public middle schools and district high schools. They discovered that 86% of students, 85% of teachers, and 75% of parents use AI for both personal reasons and professional purposes.

• They also found that 43% of students use AI for friendship advice, 42% for mental health support, 42% to escape into a fantasy world, and 19% to simulate romantic relationships.

• When students engage in back-and-forth conversations with AI for personal reasons, nearly 31% say they do so using digital resources provided by their school. In other words, schools are inadvertently fueling or enabling the rise of AI companions.

Why It’s Important:

• There’s no substitute for human connection. We often confide in a best friend or a romantic partner because it’s in those moments of vulnerability and shared laughter that we find a sense of belonging. The main concern with AI companions isn’t that they’re human; it’s that they offer something easier than being human.

• AI companions offer connection without conflict and validation without vulnerability. By shortcutting the effort, friction, and reciprocation that genuine human connection demands, they dull our emotional resilience and weaken our social skills.

🩺 PULSE CHECK

NVIDIA

💥From Prompts to Power Crisis?

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang recently shared that the demand for computing power has grown “substantially” within the past six months. So, what’s driving this demand?

Key Details:

• Advanced AI models like Google’s “Gemini 2.5 Pro” have evolved from merely answering simple questions to performing complex workflows that require reasoning.

• They achieve this by utilizing Test-Time Compute (TTC), which allocates more computing power during AI inference: everything that happens after you enter your prompt.

• AI inference isn’t static anymore. With TTC, any prompt can trigger a multi-step reasoning process that requires more computing power. TTC relies heavily on GPUs: specialized computer chips capable of performing tons of mathematical calculations simultaneously.

Why It’s Important:

• We currently face a major bottleneck: the increased demand for computing power is growing faster than the world’s ability to supply the necessary electricity for it. In many regions, the power grid infrastructure isn’t designed to handle the sudden surge in energy consumption from advanced AI models.

• AI is projected to consume 653 terawatt-hours (TWh) by 2030, a staggering 8,050% increase from 2024. For context, that’s more than the annual electricity consumption of entire countries, such as Germany.

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⚙️The Rescue Plan!

We’ve all had that day. The kind where your mind races, your body feels drained, and even the smallest acts seem impossibly heavy. You’re not lazy, you’re just exhausted on every level: mentally, emotionally, and physically.

Instead of trying to power through the day, turn ChatGPT into your personal resilience coach to help you Rest → Recharge → and Recover.

For example, when your creative energy fades at the worst possible time, ChatGPT can help you identify and eliminate distractions, giving your imagination space to flourish.

Help me create a personalized "Bad Day Rescue Plan."

Situation Snapshot:
- EMOTIONAL STATE: {Describe How You Currently Feel}

- BEHAVIOR PATTERNS: {Explain How You Cope With Bad Days}

- PAST ATTEMPTS: {Describe What Hasn't Helped Before}

Instructions:
1) ASSESS: Help me identify the main triggers that worsen my bad days.

2) STRATEGIZE: Suggest five simple, practical, and actionable steps to help me recharge, reboot, and restore.

3) BOUNDARIES: Suggest limits to help me avoid burnout and preserve my energy to maintain balance on bad days.

Output Rules:
#1: Keep everything short, simple, and super doable.

#2: Include key takeaways to reinforce the main points.

#3: Use an encouraging tone to foster a supportive feeling.

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🥪BRIEF BITES

xAI introduced “Imagine v0.9,” a new video generation model with improved motion control, enhanced visual quality, and crisp audio generation.

Anthropic developed “Petri,” an AI-powered auditing tool that deploys AI Agents to stress-test frontier AI models by simulating thousands of conversations.

Google launched “Gemini 2.5 Computer Use,” which enables AI Agents to navigate your computer autonomously to perform actions on your behalf like typing, clicking, and scrolling.

Tencent released “Hunyuan-Vision-1.5-Thinking,” a new multimodal AI model equipped with reasoning abilities across text and images to interpret tables, charts, graphs, and diagrams.

💰FUNDING FRONTLINES

• Reo.Dev closed a $4M Seed Round for an AI-native GTM platform.

• Apiphani landed a $25M Series A to manage mission-critical apps.

• OncoC4 raised a $50M Series B to develop novel biological therapies.

💼WHO’S HIRING?

• Figure AI (San Jose, CA): Validation Engineering Intern, Winter 2026

• NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA): Research Scientist, Embodied Agentic AI, Entry-Level

• Tesla (Palo Alto, CA): Thermal Hardware Validation Engineer, Optimus, Mid-Level

• TikTok (San Jose, CA): Backend Sr. Software Engineer, TikTok LIVE, Senior-Level

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