🍭 4 Rules to Use AI Safely 🛡️

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🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• OpenAI rewrites the rules on equity to keep top AI talent

• A viral AI x Water stat falls apart and the real environmental risk

• A cozy “felt” prompt turning anything into soft, brand-ready visuals

• Five brand-new AI tools for APIs, video, meetings and kids (if you have)

Steal This Prompt
🧵 Felt It.

Make anything you can think of feel soft, 3D, and cozy.

Perfect for a fun brand moment, style boards, or just a creative flex.

Use it to:

• Create a fun brand moment

• Build style boards or pull off a creative flex

Workflow:

1. Click this link (Prompt).

2. Replace the word/subject you want to render with “felt” texture.

3. Generate and tweak until it truly feels soft.

   Try the prompt on Snack Prompt

OpenAI
🤑 OpenAI Drops the Vesting Cliff

The Bite:
OpenAI just removed the vesting cliff for new employees.

Instead of waiting months to earn any equity;
New hires now start vesting immediately.

The change quietly reshapes how risky it feels to join OpenAI;
Also signals how intense the fight for top AI talent has become.

Snacks:

• New hires no longer have to wait months before equity starts vesting

• The old 12-month cliff had already been cut to six and now totally dropped

• Change was shared internally by OpenAI leadership

• Goal: make offers more attractive in a brutal hiring market

• Similar pressure is hitting rivals across AI research and infra

Why it Bites:
This isn’t philosophical. It’s tactical.

AI labs are competing for a tiny group of people.

Immediate vesting lowers personal risk;
Especially for candidates leaving safe, high-paying roles elsewhere.

It says:
Come build here, and we won’t make you earn the right to take the leap.

But there’s a trade-off;
Faster vesting doesn’t guarantee loyalty, it just makes the offer cleaner.

OpenAI isn’t trying to reinvent compensation. They’re trying to win right now.

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🧰 5 BRAND NEW AI LAUNCHES

🛠️ ManyPI
Turn any website into a structured API you can feed into RAG pipelines, research tools, or internal dashboards.

🎥 Syllaby
Go from idea to publishable short-form videos with scripts, visuals, and scheduling handled end-to-end.

🤝 Lyra
Let meetings generate summaries, action items, and follow-up content automatically while the call is still happening.

💡 JustBlank
See how your brand shows up inside AI answers and generate content that actually gets cited by LLMs.

🧒 Little Answers
Explain complex questions to kids in clear, age-appropriate language without watering things down.

_Wired
🌊 You’re Thinking About AI And Water All Wrong

The Bite:
Part of the conventional narrative on how we talk about AI’s water footprint:
It’s flat-out wrong.

A big statistical flub had people believing data centers were drinking cities dry.

But reality is messier, location-specific, and often overstated.

Still, experts say the concern isn’t nothing;
It’s just not as simple as the clickbait numbers you’ve seen.

Snacks:

• A misread unit in Empire of AI led to claims a Google data center would use ~1,000x more water than an entire city.

• Data centers do use water mostly for cooling, but amounts vary wildly by design, tech, and climate.

• Indirect water tied to power generation can’t be uniformly compared.

• Comparisons to everyday industries show sometimes AI water use is smaller.

• Even experts say in drought-stricken regions, water impact can matter;
  It just isn’t a one-size-fits-all crisis.

Why it bites:
AI absolutely does use water, but how we talk about it matters.

A botched stat went viral because it fed a simple narrative: AI is thirsty = water crisis.

What people long for is clarity and context, not a scare line that doesn’t hold up.

Data centers’ water use is a real local concern in some regions;
But it’s not literally swallowing up municipal supplies everywhere.

What is true is that as AI infrastructure proliferates;
So do debates about environmental trade-offs.

Getting the basic numbers right is the first step toward anything resembling:
Responsible Policy or Meaningful Innovation.

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🧠 You Need to Know

🛡️ 4 Rules to Use AI Safely
→ Treat AI like public space, assume inputs aren’t private and more.

💼 OpenAI Removes the Vesting Cliff
→ New hires now earn benefits as the company battles for top AI talent.

💧 AI’s Growing Water Problem
→ AI data centers are consuming huge amounts of water, raising concerns.

🗳️ Europe Warns AI Could Undermine Democracy
→ The Council of Europe says unchecked AI threatens elections and democratic trust

👷 AI Jobs Aren’t Disappearing but Shifting
→ AI is killing some roles but creating new ones.