Today’s menu 🍽️👇️ 

Length: 5 minutes ⏰ 

• ChatGPT uninstalls jump 295% 📉

• Nvidia invests $4B in photonics 🚀

• Apple may use Google for AI Siri⚡

• Anthropic boosts Claude memory 🤖

• Launch your AI phone assistant 📱

• Prompt of the week 💬

• Top AI tools of the week ⚒️

FRESH AI NEWS

ChatGPT deletes surge after DoD deal⚡

ChatGPT saw a 295% spike in mobile app uninstalls after news broke that OpenAI signed a deal with the U.S. Department of Defense, triggering one of the biggest consumer reactions to an AI partnership yet 📉

• U.S. ChatGPT mobile app deletions surged day-over-day on Feb. 28, far above the normal ~9% daily uninstall fluctuation 📉

• The spike followed OpenAI confirming a deal allowing its AI models to be used within Pentagon systems, which sparked ethical concerns among some users 🪖

• One-star reviews reportedly rose 775%, signaling coordinated dissatisfaction rather than routine churn ⭐

• ChatGPT installs dropped about 13% immediately after the news, reversing prior growth momentum 📲

• Anthropic’s Claude saw download increases and climbed App Store rankings as some users switched apps 📈

• “Cancel ChatGPT” trended across social platforms as critics argued AI shouldn’t support military applications 🔥

Why You Should Care: This rare instance shows AI business strategy impacting consumer behavior significantly. It highlights a tension: AI companies seeking government contracts may face trust issues with consumers. As AI becomes essential for civilians and governments, public perception is becoming a key competitive factor.

Nvidia pushes $4B photonics plan 🔬 

Nvidia is investing $4 billion into photonics technology, using light instead of electricity to move data, aiming to remove one of AI’s biggest bottlenecks: chip-to-chip communication speed 💡

• Nvidia is pouring billions into optical interconnect and photonics research, targeting next-gen AI infrastructure 💰

• Photonics uses light signals instead of electrical wiring, dramatically increasing data transfer speed between GPUs 🌈

• As AI clusters grow to tens of thousands of GPUs, traditional copper connections become slower and power-hungry ⚡

• The tech is designed for massive training systems where GPUs must constantly exchange data during model training 🧠

• Optical communication reduces heat and power consumption critical as data centers face energy constraints 🔌

• Nvidia sees photonics as foundational for future AI systems beyond current GPU architecture improvements 🚀

Why You Should Care: AI progress now focuses on speeding up data transfer to keep GPU clusters efficient. Nvidia is betting on photonics to overcome hardware bottlenecks and maintain its lead as AI scales to trillion-parameter models and large data centers.

AI Siri may rely on Google cloud 🤖

Apple is reportedly exploring using Google’s cloud servers to power parts of its next-gen AI Siri, a surprising move that could deepen one of Big Tech’s most unexpected partnerships 🍎

• Apple is reportedly discussing running future AI-powered Siri workloads on Google data centers, rather than relying only on its own servers ☁️

• The upgraded Siri is expected to use Google’s Gemini AI models, making cloud collaboration a logical extension 🧠

• Reports suggest Apple’s Private Cloud Compute system is underutilized and smaller than rival AI infrastructures, pushing Apple to seek external scale 📉

• Leveraging Google’s mature cloud and AI hardware could help Apple catch up faster in the AI race without building massive new data centers ⚡

• Apple is expected to maintain strict privacy controls even if Google hosts infrastructure, with Apple retaining data-handling rules 🔒

• Apple has historically relied on third-party clouds, including Google, for parts of iCloud infrastructure 🤝

Why You Should Care: Apple's focus on on-device processing and privacy-first AI may shift as it considers using Google's servers, highlighting that even major tech companies might need rivals' infrastructure to compete in the AI era, making AI both a collaborative and competitive field.

Anthropic upgrades Claude AI memory ✨ 

Anthropic upgraded Claude’s memory system and made it available to more users, plus added a tool to import memories from rival chatbots, making switching to Claude much easier 🧠

• Claude’s memory feature, previously limited to paid tiers, is now available on the free plan, dramatically widening access 🧠

• A new tool lets users copy conversation context from competing chatbots so they don’t have to retrain Claude from scratch 🔄

• Users can transfer preferences, history, and workflow context, allowing Claude to immediately understand prior habits and needs 📋

• Anthropic provides a pre-written prompt users paste into their old AI, then upload the output into Claude’s memory importer ⚙️

• The update arrives as Claude gains traction through tools like Claude Code and newer Opus models 📈

• Memory remains optional and editable, reinforcing Anthropic’s privacy-focused positioning 🔐

Why You Should Care: AI switching costs are high as assistants lose memory when changing platforms. Anthropic addresses this by allowing users to retain their AI history, reducing friction and targeting those considering leaving ChatGPT or Gemini. The competition among AI assistants is moving from intelligence to ownership of long-term user context.

AI ASSISTANT WORKSHOP

Build an AI assistant with a number 📞

Learn how to create a phone-callable AI assistant that answers questions and manages information for you, combining ElevenLabs’ voice agents with a Twilio number so your assistant is reachable anytime, just like a real contact. ✅

Here’s how to get started 👇️ 

1. Navigate to Agents → Create Agent → Personal Assistant, choose a natural voice, set your location and greeting message, then connect sources like your website or calendar to give the assistant context.

2. Sign up for a Twilio account (includes trial credits), purchase a low-cost phone number, and copy the credentials shown in your dashboard, your number, Account SID, and Auth Token.

3. Return to ElevenLabs, open the Phone Numbers section, import your Twilio details, and assign the number to the assistant you created.

4. Dial the number from your phone and interact with the AI, it can respond using the information stored in its knowledge base, such as schedules, services, or FAQs.

Pro Tip: Treat the built-in knowledge base as reference material only. If you want real-time updates (like live calendar data or dynamic info), connect a webhook through automation tools like Make or n8n so the assistant can fetch current data during calls ✨

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TOOLS OF THE WEEK

These AI tools are going VIRAL 🐝 

GLM-Image - Z AI’s new open-source image generation model 🤖 

Claude Cowork - Claude Code’s agentic abilities, now available to Pro tier 🚀 

GPT 5.2 Pro - OpenAI’s most advanced frontier model 🧮 

Grok Imagine - xAI's image and video generation platform 🌌