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Good morning, byte-sized brainiacs! 🧠⚡
AI is moving faster than your group chats — and today’s brew is steaming.

Google just leveled up Gemini again (seriously, slow down), Anthropic is getting cozy with U.S. intelligence agencies, and a British foot scanner might detect heart problems before you even feel them.

Grab your ☕, kick back, and let's plug into the future 👇

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🚀 Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro Just Got Buffed (Again)

Google is in its release-early, release-often era.

The tech giant just rolled out a preview update to Gemini 2.5 Pro, calling it the “most intelligent model yet” — and the benchmarks back it up.

📊 The Details:

• Performance leaps across coding, STEM, image tasks, and reasoning

• Now topping user-preference charts like LMArena and WebDevArena

• Fixed earlier issues in creative writing and other non-code tasks

• New “thinking budgets” in the API give devs more control over costs & latency

• Public preview now live via Gemini API, AI Studio, and Vertex AI

⚡ Why it matters:
This isn’t just a model update — it’s a release model update strategy update. Google is adopting a drip-feed style, pushing major improvements out faster and more frequently. Expect AI models to evolve in real time now, not on yearly refresh cycles.

🏛️ Anthropic Goes Full NSA with Claude Gov

Anthropic just dropped Claude Gov — a tailor-made AI built for the U.S. military, defense, and intelligence community. And yes, it’s already being used at the highest levels of classified operations.

🕵️‍♂️ The Details:

• Tuned specifically for defense docs, espionage, and foreign language analysis

• Reduced refusal rates on sensitive, classified queries

• Better at parsing government data and cybersecurity threats

• Comes with ethical carve-outs (no disinfo, cyber attacks, or weapon designs)

⚠️ Why it matters:
AI is no longer just for Silicon Valley startups. It’s in the war rooms and spy networks. But this also raises major concerns — the deeper labs like Anthropic go into gov contracts, the harder it becomes to balance safety and ethics with billion-dollar deals.

🦶 Your Ankles Might Save Your Heart

A wild new foot scanner from Heartfelt Technologies might just be the next big thing in home healthcare. It predicts heart failure up to 13 days in advance — just by watching your ankles swell.

❤️ The Details:

• Wall-mounted device scans 1,800 images per minute of your feet

• Uses AI to detect fluid buildup — an early sign of cardiac distress

• In trials, it predicted 5 of 6 hospitalizations with nearly two weeks’ warning

• Over 80% of patients kept the scanner after the study ended

🩺 Why it matters:
This is proactive medicine at its finest. No wires, no check-ups — just passive monitoring that could save lives. Expect more smart devices like this as the medical world shifts from treatment to prevention.

📰 Other News You Should Know

📢 ElevenLabs launched Eleven v3 — adds emotional speech, multi-speaker convo, and support for 70+ languages.
📃 Dario Amodei argued in the NYT against Trump’s proposed AI bill that would block state-level regulations.
🕵️‍♀️ OpenAI exposed 10 disinfo campaigns using ChatGPT, including 4 tied to China.
🧱 X (formerly Twitter) updated its TOS to ban training AI models with its API or content.
🔊 Bland AI launched a new ultra-realistic TTS system for voice cloning and support.
🚗 Volvo added AI to seatbelts — they now auto-adjust based on your size and speed.
🚁 Walmart & Wing to expand drone delivery to 100+ stores, aiming for 30-min doorstep drops.
🔍 Perplexity AI now integrates SEC data to help investors dig deeper (without a Bloomberg terminal).

💻 Mastery tools of the day

• Modify Video - Luma Labs’ new tool for restyling videos

• AvatarFX - Character’s new image-to-video tech to bring images to life

• Suno - Upgraded song editor, creative sliders, and extended song uploads

• Jots - Accelerate goals and improve skills with an AI-powered journaling app

• Kimi Chat - An AI assistant for productivity, helping with research, coding, and creative tasks

💡What else are we reading and seeing?

• LLMs are mirrors of operator skill

• AMC Networks Inks Deal With AI Company Runway

• What a developer needs to know about SCIM

• AI will replace all the jobs!” Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing

• One thing Tesla and Comma.ai overlooked in self-driving

• Apple says its App Store helped generate $1.3T in billings and sales, most without a commission

That’s your AI hit for today.

Stay sharp, stay curious,
— The Not So Artificial Team 🤖🧠

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