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🧠 Amazon Launches Alexa on the Web

🧠 Amazon Launches Alexa on the Web

+ Create YouTube Thumbnails with Claude 🎨

Leo Grundström
January 6th, 2026

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Today’s menu 🍽️👇️

Length: 5 minutes ⏰

Amazon Launches Alexa on the Web 🧠
Nano Banana Hits Google TV 🍌
Authorities Investigate Grok Deepfakes ⚖️
The Startups Powering Nvidia’s AI Rise 🚀
Claude Skill for YouTube Thumbnails ⚡
Prompt of the week 💬
Top AI tools of the week ⚒️

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FRESH AI NEWS

Alexa Gets a Web-Based AI Upgrade ⚡

Amazon is launching Alexa+ on the web at Alexa.com, allowing users to interact with its AI assistant directly in a browser without needing an Echo device 🤖

Alexa+ is now usable on the web through the new Alexa.com site, letting people chat with the assistant much like they would with ChatGPT or Gemini 🌐
The rollout expands Alexa+ beyond Echo devices and the mobile app to phones, laptops, and tablets 📱
The web version provides a chat-style interface that supports typing as well as voice queries and follows up on ongoing conversations 💬
Users can upload documents for summarization or reference, and Alexa can handle tasks like lists, calendar updates, and more via the browser UI 📂
Conversations on web can sync with Alexa interactions on devices and the mobile app, making the assistant more consistent across contexts 🔄

Why You Should Care: Amazon is shifting Alexa+ to the web, transforming it from a voice-activated home assistant to a browser-accessible AI chatbot, aiming to compete with OpenAI and Google in digital use.

Google TV Gets Smarter with Gemini 🧠

Google is upgrading Gemini on Google TV with Nano Banana access, AI media tools, and natural voice control, turning your TV into an interactive AI hub📺

Users will be able to create and edit AI-generated images and videos directly on Google TV using Nano Banana and Veo tools 🖼️
Gemini will let you speak commands like “the screen is too dim” or “I can’t hear the dialogue” to adjust brightness, audio, and other TV settings naturally by voice 🎛️
You’ll be able to search and remix your Google Photos library with AI and display slideshows on the big screen 📷
Gemini on TV is gaining narrated, interactive “deep dives” and richer visual responses for general queries 📚
These features are debuting first on select TCL Google TV models and will expand to more devices later 🌍

Why You Should Care: This update turns Google TV into an AI-driven platform, enabling voice interaction for settings, media creation, and content exploration.

Grok Faces Global Deepfake Probe 🌍

French and Malaysian authorities are investigating xAI’s Grok for generating sexualized deepfake images, escalating the issue to legal scrutiny ⚖️

French officials have referred Grok-related content to prosecutors, citing potential violations around non-consensual and sexually explicit AI-generated images 🌐
Malaysian authorities are reviewing whether Grok breached local laws tied to AI misuse, obscenity, and harm involving digital content 🚨
Investigators are focused on how Grok’s image tools allowed users to create realistic, sexualized edits of real people 🧠
Allegations that minors were involved push the matter into stricter child-protection and criminal territory 🚸
Regulators want answers on what safeguards existed, why they failed, and whether fixes came too late 🛠️

Why You Should Care: AI companies worry that government involvement could shift the focus from model safety to criminal liability and regulation. Grok's case highlights the global legal risks of generative AI enabling sexualized deepfakes.

Nvidia’s Smartest AI Investments 🤖

Nvidia is investing heavily in the AI ecosystem, supporting numerous startups in areas like LLMs, infrastructure, and robotics to shape AI's future 🌐

Nvidia has participated in major funding rounds for core AI model makers, including OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI 🤖
Led or backed huge rounds for LLM developers like Reflection AI and Thinking Machines Lab 📊
Backed Wayve (autonomous driving), Nuro (delivery robots), and Figure AI (robotics), expanding Nvidia’s reach into embodied AI 🚗
Frequent investor in Perplexity (AI search/assistant) and tools like Poolside (coding assistants) 🧠
CoreWeave and Lambda are companies that provide cloud services and model hosting using Nvidia GPUs for AI tasks ☁️
Investments also include Commonwealth Fusion (energy infrastructure) and Ayar Labs (optical data interconnects) 🔬

Why You Should Care: Nvidia is broadening its focus beyond chips by investing in the AI ecosystem, including models, data, infrastructure, robotics, and tools, to boost GPU demand and influence AI's evolution, aiming to dominate the entire AI value chain.

YOUTUBE THUMBNAILS GENERATION

Create YouTube Thumbnails with Claude 🎨

Learn how to create a reusable Claude Skill that auto-produces on-brand YouTube thumbnails by studying what already performs well and applying your visual rules consistently ✅

Here’s how to get started 👇️

Head to Claude and sign in with your Pro or Max account. Enable the right tools in Claude by opening Settings → Capabilities, switching on code execution and file generation, then activating the Skill Builder and launching it via “Try in chat.”
Define the visual system, not just a thumbnail by uploading your brand assets and instructing Claude to learn patterns, for example:
“Design a reusable system that studies winning YouTube thumbnails from given URLs, extracts layout patterns, and recreates them using my logo, brand colors, and consistent placement rules.”
Deploy the system as a Skill by exporting the generated bundle, uploading it back into Claude’s Skills section, and activating it for ongoing use.
“Create a thumbnail for ‘AI Tools That Replace Teams’. Use visual patterns from these top videos and apply my branding rules automatically.”

Pro Tip: Focus on systems instead of individual assets. Once you develop this skill, it will act like a thumbnail factory, just change the inputs (titles and links) to consistently create on-brand visuals for every upload✨