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In today’s WakeTheAI edition:

• Apple enters brain-computer interface race

• Google expands Gemini to all devices

• Prompt: Persuasion Mastery Framework

• TikTok launches AI Alive

• Cisco joins Saudi Arabia’s HUMAN AI push

• ChatGPT adds SharePoint connector for deep research

• Judge fines law firms $31K for filing AI-generated briefs

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🧠 Apple enters Brain-Computer interface race

Lazy Bits: Apple is entering the brain-computer interface space, partnering with Synchron to enable iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro control via brain implants. This move aims to make its devices more accessible to users with severe mobility impairments and could pave the way for a new human-device interaction era.

In-Depth Details:

• Apple is collaborating with Synchron, whose Stentrode device translates brain signals into digital commands, allowing users to navigate Apple devices without touch.

• The initiative targets users with conditions like ALS or spinal injuries, enabling them to interact with devices through Apple’s Switch Control feature using neural input.

• Unlike Neuralink’s direct brain implants, Synchron’s device sits in blood vessels near the motor cortex, using 16 electrodes to capture movement-intention signals non-invasively.

• Early testers can select icons and control iOS, iPadOS, and Vision Pro systems, though current navigation remains slower than traditional touch or cursor inputs.

• Neuralink’s N1 device, with over 1,000 electrodes inside the brain, offers higher data capture and faster cursor control, but Synchron’s approach is further along in regulatory pathways.

Lazy Conclusion: Apple’s move into brain interfaces signals its ambition to pioneer the next wave of human-computer interaction. While still early, this tech could shift interfaces from screens and gestures to pure intent, potentially giving Apple an edge in accessibility and immersive computing experiences.

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GOOGLE
🤖 Google expands Gemini to all devices

Lazy Bits: Google is supercharging Android with Gemini AI, expanding it beyond phones to watches, cars, TVs, headsets, and more, bringing always-on, multimodal assistance across the entire Android ecosystem.

In-Depth Details:

• Gemini is coming to Wear OS smartwatches, enabling voice-first assistance for reminders, quick queries, and app-connected tasks when your phone isn't around.

• Soon on Android Auto and cars with Google built-in, Gemini will enable natural conversations, smart routes, message summaries, and instant translations.

• Gemini will land on Google TV later this year, helping users find age-appropriate content, show recommendations, and educational videos.

• Through Android XR and Samsung, Gemini will offer immersive planning, map exploration, and virtual travel experiences on headsets launching this year.

• Gemini Live’s camera, screen share, and voice features are now available across billions of Android devices, no advanced subscription needed.

Lazy Conclusion: Gemini is becoming the always-on AI for the entire Android ecosystem, making Google’s assistant more proactive, personalized, and integrated across devices, rivaling Apple’s ecosystem play with smarter, cross-device AI.

Persuasion Mastery Framework

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ChatGPT will build a convincing narrative tailored to your audience, anticipate likely objections, and equip you with clear, preemptive rebuttals, ensuring your argument is both influential and difficult to challenge.

Prompt:

Become a master rhetorician. Help me craft an argument to convince [insert audience, e.g., my boss, a skeptic] that [insert idea, e.g., remote work boosts productivity].

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Then, anticipate three counterarguments and refute them preemptively.

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• ChatGPT adds SharePoint connector for deep research, letting Plus, Pro, and Team users analyze internal data, synthesize insights, and cut info search time.

• TikTok launches AI Alive, turning photos into animated videos with effects in Stories, adding AI labels & safety checks to ensure content integrity.

• Cisco joins Saudi Arabia's HUMAIN AI push, aiming to build world-class AI infrastructure and expand AI partnerships across the Gulf and U.S.

• Judge fines law firms $31K for filing AI-generated briefs with fake citations, calling the undisclosed use of AI “flat-out wrong” and dangerous.

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