Today’s menu 🍽️👇️ 

Length: 5 minutes ⏰ 

• GPT-5.1 gets warmer, more expressive 🤖

• SIMA 2 uses Gemini for virtual reasoning 🌐

• Anthropic invests $50B in AI infrastructure 💸

• NotebookLM adds Deep Research 📚

• Visualize workflows with Zapier Canvas 🛠️

• Prompt of the week 💬

• Top AI tools of the week ⚒️

FRESH AI NEWS

OpenAI makes GPT-5.1 more human 💬

OpenAI released GPT-5.1, a big update aimed at making ChatGPT seem more human, expressive, and emotionally aware, not just smarter 🚀

• GPT-5.1 lets users choose warmer, funnier, or more direct communication styles 🎭

• It responds with better empathy, tone-matching, and smoother conversational flow 🤖

• The model is trained to sound more human in phrasing, pacing, and expressions 🤝

• It remembers nuances in ongoing conversations for more consistent replies 🧠

• OpenAI says it performs significantly better in coaching, support, and personal assistant tasks 📞

Why You Should Care: GPT-5.1 pushes ChatGPT closer to human-like conversation, giving users more control over tone and personality while strengthening emotional and contextual intelligence.

Google upgrades SIMA 2 with Gemini AI 🚀

Google unveiled SIMA 2, an upgraded AI agent powered by Gemini that can reason, plan, and take actions inside virtual worlds. It’s a major step toward game-ready and real-world-ready agents 🕹️

• SIMA 2 uses Gemini to understand goals, rules, and environments before acting 🧠

• It doesn’t just chat. It moves, interacts, solves tasks, and navigates inside 3D worlds 🎮

   

• The agent trains in virtual spaces that mimic physics, puzzles, and open-ended challenges 🏗️

• SIMA 2 can adapt to different virtual worlds instead of learning only one environment 🌍

• The same reasoning engine could eventually power robots and automation systems 🤖

Why You Should Care: SIMA 2 shows how Gemini-powered agents are evolving from text bots to action-taking digital workers, moving AI one step closer to practical autonomy.

$50B AI data center plan from Anthropic 💾 

Anthropic revealed an enormous $50 billion plan to build next-generation data centers, signaling one of the biggest infrastructure bets ever made by an AI company 🌐

• Anthropic plans to build ultra-large data centers designed to power future Claude models 🏗️

• The company is expected to work with cloud and hardware partners to secure land, chips, and energy at unprecedented scale 🤝

• This level of investment hints that Anthropic wants to compete head-on with OpenAI and Google for top-tier AI capacity ⚡

• The mega-centers will require huge electricity supplies and next-gen GPUs or custom silicon 🔋

• Anthropic is clearly preparing for a world where trillion-parameter models and autonomous agents become the norm 📈

Why You Should Care: Anthropic’s $50B data center plan shows how aggressively the AI arms race is accelerating. More compute means more powerful Claude models and a push toward autonomous AI systems that depend on massive infrastructure.

Google NotebookLM expands file support 🗂️

Google upgraded NotebookLM with a new Deep Research tool and support for more file formats, making it far more powerful for creators, students, and researchers 🧠

• The new tool dives into your sources to generate multi-step answers, summaries, and insights with higher accuracy 🌟

• NotebookLM now supports more file types, giving users more flexibility with their research materials 📂

• The system can pull connections across long documents, datasets, and mixed media more reliably 📚

• Outputs now link back to exact source sections, helping avoid hallucinations and misquotes 🔗

Why You Should Care: This upgrade turns NotebookLM into a more serious research companion, helping users create polished outputs and understand their source material deeply.

MASTER ZAPIER CANVAS

Visualize & Automate with Zapier Canvas 🎯

Discover the comprehensive guide to mastering Zapier Canvas, a powerful visual workspace designed to streamline your workflow management. This innovative tool allows you to plan, design, and automate every aspect of your workflow seamlessly, all within a single, user-friendly platform ✅

Here’s how to get started 👇️ 

1. Sign in to Zapier.com and click “Canvas” from the left sidebar, then hit “New Canvas.” You’ll see a blank workspace where you can map out your ideas visually before automating them.
   

   
   

2. Click anywhere on the canvas to add a step. You can manually create blocks like “Lead Form,” “CRM,” “Email,” or “Slack Alert.”
   

   

3. If you don’t want to add every block manually, let Zapier’s AI Copilot set it up for you.

   Just type: “Create a lead management workflow from form to CRM to Slack notification.” Copilot will quickly create a comprehensive map of the process, complete with links, making it ready for automation.
   

   

4. Copilot will generate a visual diagram showing how leads move from form submission → CRM record creation, → Slack notification. You can click any block to preview the suggested actions or edit app details before turning it live.
   

   

5. If something’s missing, tell Copilot. For example: “Add an email follow-up step after Slack notification.” It will instantly add the new block and automatically reconnect everything.
   

   

6. Once your visual flow looks perfect, click “Convert to Zap.” Zapier will turn your whole canvas into working automations with triggers, actions, and app connections.

Pro Tip: Use Zapier Canvas in team meetings or client projects to show how automations will work before creating them. It's also great for brainstorming, documenting, and working together, especially if your teammates aren't technical ✨

Check out Zapier HERE 👈️

PROMPT OF THE WEEK

AI Licensing & IP Strategy 📈 

Simply paste this prompt:

“Develop a strategy for protecting and monetizing AI-generated assets (models, code, or datasets). Include licensing options and legal considerations.”

🔧 Pro Tip: Request an “sample IP clause for client agreements.”

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TOOLS OF THE WEEK

These AI tools are going VIRAL 🐝 

️Iconic Marketplace - ElevenLabs licensing platform for celebrity voices ⭐️

Sora 2 - OpenAI’s video AI, now adding watermarks with account IDs 🎬

Parallel Search - Web search tool built specifically for AI agents 🔎

GPT-5.1 - OpenAI’s upgraded model with personality customization 🤖