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In today’s Daily Report:

• 🧠AI Could Outsmart Us by 2040?

• 🌍How the World REALLY Feels About AI

• 🛠Trending Tools

• 🥪Brief Bites

• 💰Funding Frontlines

• 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

AI DEBATES

🧠AI Could Outsmart Us by 2040?

Tech billionaire Elon Musk ignited debates around AI Singularity after estimating that xAI’s “Grok 5” has a 10% chance of achieving AGI.

Key Details:

• Human intelligence is a result of the information and knowledge our brains are “trained on” throughout our lives.

• This information and knowledge is formed by connections between the neurons in our brain.

• Our ability to connect, change, and activate these neurons influences our cognitive skills (e.g., attention, memory, and thinking).

• GenAI is built using a “digital brain” that utilizes “artificial neurons” to mimic the structure and function of our brains, but it lacks our self-awareness.

• It’s designed to recognize patterns within high-quality datasets and generate responses based purely on statistical relationships, not through an understanding of subjective experiences shaped by thoughts, emotions, and intentions.

• AI Singularity is a hypothetical idea where GenAI gains self-awareness and becomes more intelligent than humans in ways we can’t even comprehend.

Why It’s Important:

• Most AI experts believe there’s a 50% chance of achieving AI Singularity between 2040 and 2061. If achieved, it would lead to cycles of rapid, self-improving advanced AI systems that surpass human intelligence.

• As AI encroaches on our cognitive skills, we must rethink what defines our value. That means shifting your sense of self-worth from competence to character. In other words, it’s no longer just about how smart you are, but who you are.

🩺 PULSE CHECK

AI RESEARCH

🌍How the World REALLY Feels About AI

The Pew Research Center surveyed 36,961 citizens across 25 countries spanning six global regions to learn how people around the world view AI.

Key Details:

• 34% are more concerned than excited, 42% are equally concerned and excited, and 16% are more excited than concerned. Interestingly, the European Union (EU) ranks as the most trusted regulatory body to govern AI at 53% confidence.

• In many countries, those constantly exposed to AI are more likely to be “mainly excited” about the technology. For example, 39% of South Koreans familiar with AI are excited about the technology’s rapid adoption within society.

• Those aged 50 and older are more likely to express concerns about the increased use of AI in daily life. For example, 59% of older Greeks are more concerned than excited, compared to 18% of younger Greeks.

Why It’s Important:

• There’s a strong positive correlation between GDP Per Capita and AI awareness. In other words, those in wealthier countries have heard a lot about AI. For example, the GDP Per Capita in the U.S. is $86,000, and 47% of Americans have heard a lot about AI.

• Greater familiarity with AI often leads to more optimistic views on the technology’s potential. In short, when people experience AI’s benefits firsthand, they’re less likely to fear it and more likely to see the technology’s transformative potential.

PROMPT ENGINEERING TIPS

⚙️From Self-Doubt to Self-Trust!

That inner voice telling you you’re not good enough? It’s self-doubt: a lack of confidence in one’s own abilities. It’s often triggered by setbacks and comparisons. If left unchecked, it can keep you small, stuck, and silent.

Ever notice that when you finally take action, you start proving your inner critic wrong? That’s because your inner critic’s power lies in the unknown, the “what ifs.”

This simple prompt turns ChatGPT into your personal confidence coach:

• Context: I’ve been struggling with self-doubt around {Insert Specific Situation},

• Clarity: and I keep second-guessing myself because of {Insert Specific Limiting Belief}.

• Guidance: Can you develop a simple, actionable, and sustainable step-by-step mindset shift plan that helps me reframe my self-doubt into self-trust?

I've been struggling with self-doubt around {Insert Specific Situation}, and I keep second-guessing myself because of {Insert Specific Limiting Belief}. Can you develop a simple, actionable, and sustainable step-by-step mindset shift plan that helps me reframe my self-doubt into self-trust?

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🥪BRIEF BITES

Anthropic released “Agent Skills,” which provides instructions for AI Agents to become domain-specific experts who analyze, advise, and resolve.

Google launched “Google Maps Grounding,” which gives Gemini direct access to real-world geospatial data such as routes, addresses, and coordinates.

Uber introduced “Digital Tasks,” a new way for drivers to earn extra cash by labeling photos or recording spoken phrases to help train frontier AI models.

Adobe rolled out “Adobe AI Foundry,” which helps enterprises develop, document, and deploy custom GenAI models trained on proprietary assets.

💰FUNDING FRONTLINES

• Campfire raised a $65M Series B to automate financial reporting.

• General Intuition landed a $133.7M Seed Round for spatial reasoning breakthroughs.

• Lila Sciences closed a $350M Series A to pioneer scientific superintelligence.

💼WHO’S HIRING?

• Sigma (San Francisco, CA): Software Engineering Intern, Summer 2026

• HeyGen (Los Angeles, CA): Data Scientist, AI Video, Entry-Level

• Figure AI (San Jose, CA): Embedded Actuation Engineer, Mid-Level

• OpenAI (San Francisco, CA): Compute Infra. Strategy Lead, Senior-Level

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