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• Musk and Altman champion UBI

• •Workflow Wednesday #32 ‘The AI-Powered Workplace’

• •MIT AI creates antibiotics for superbugs

• • In other AI news –

  • •China ramps up computing power push in global AI race

  • •Anthropic launches Claude learning modes for students and developers

  • •Cognition secures $500M for AI code generation business

  • •Google debuts ultra-small Gemma 3 AI model for smartphones

• • 4 must-try AI tools

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Musk and Altman promote universal basic income for AI-driven future

♨️News –  Silicon Valley’s biggest tech leaders are pushing an old idea into the AI spotlight: universal basic income. Figures like Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Marc Benioff say that as AI takes over more jobs, the wealth it creates could be distributed directly to people, without the need to work. Supporters believe it could turn widespread automation into shared prosperity, while critics see it as unrealistic and potentially harmful.

👨‍💻Fast facts –

• .Universal basic income has been discussed since the 1960s as a way to address poverty and job losses from technology.

• Musk predicts a future of shared AI-generated wealth and Altman suggests giving everyone ownership in AI’s output through digital tokens.

• Benioff says AI already does half the work at Salesforce and points to stimulus checks as a model.

• Critics, including MIT’s David Autor, argue it is politically unrealistic and could mask the downsides of automation.

🤓OpenTools POV – This renewed push for universal basic income shows how AI is forcing a rethink of the connection between work and income. Whether it becomes reality or remains a theory, it highlights how deeply AI could reshape the global economy.

This Week in Workflow Wednesday #32: The AI-Powered Workplace

The Autonomous Notetaker: AI Meeting Intelligence with Fireflies.ai

Many of our readers have been asking about how to implement AI automation using Google Workspace apps as a base. In this workflow, we'll discuss how to create an AI note-taker that's integrated into your calendar and docs to help meetings not only run smoother, but to make sure you're on top of your work always.

Step 1: Connect Your Calendar

Inside Fireflies.ai, connect your Google or Outlook calendar so it can automatically detect upcoming meetings and join them without manual invites.

Step 2: Configure Meeting Behaviour

Under Settings → Meeting Settings, decide how Fireflies handles your schedule. For maximum coverage, turn on Auto-…...We break it down fully in this week’s issue, along with 2 other AI workflows

MIT scientists use AI to develop new antibiotics for drug-resistant superbugs

☕News – MIT scientists have used generative AI to design two new antibiotic candidates that may fight drug-resistant gonorrhoea and MRSA. The molecules were built atom by atom and showed strong results in laboratory and animal tests, but will still need years of refinement and clinical trials before they could be prescribed.

👨‍💻Fast facts –

• Drug-resistant infections kill more than a million people each year.

• AI examined 36 million compounds, including some not yet discovered.

• Two design methods were tested: building from chemical fragments and starting from scratch.

• The process excluded anything too similar to current antibiotics or toxic to humans.

• Only two of the top 80 gonorrhoea candidates could be manufactured into medicines.

🤓OpenTools POV –  This research signals a shift in antibiotic discovery, where AI is not just finding existing compounds but creating entirely new ones. Overcoming manufacturing and economic challenges will be key to turning these designs into life-saving treatments.

🙆🏻‍♀️What else is happening?

• China, No 2 in global computing power, accelerates build-out as AI race heats up // China has invested massive resources to build digital infrastructure and plans an even stronger push in the future

• Anthropic takes on OpenAI and Google with new Claude AI features designed for students and developers // Anthropic is launching new “learning modes” for its Claude AI assistant that transform the chatbot from an answer-dispensing tool into a teaching

• Cognition Cinches About $500 Million to Advance AI Code-Generation Business // Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund is the lead investor in the financing, according to people familiar with the deal

• Google unveils ultra-small and efficient open source AI model Gemma 3 270M that can run on smartphones // Yet, the model is still capable of handling complex, domain-specific tasks and can be quickly fine-tuned in mere minutes to fit an enterprise or indie developer’s needs

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