🍭 The Truth, Trimmed by Tech 🤖

Good morning! Somewhere, a chatbot just summarized the world in six sentences.
And someone believed it. Deeply.

Let’s dive in 👇

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• A major newsroom builds its own AI brain instead of renting one

• Why getting news from chatbots may quietly shape what people believe

• A plug-and-play prompt for emails that feel human but still convert

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💌 Email Campaign That Feels Human But Converts

A prompt that turns ChatGPT into your email marketing copywriter, using the Friend-Expert framework. Warm, conversational copy that still positions your brand/product as a credible authority.

Use it to:

• Write emails that feel like a helpful friend and an expert in the field

• Build rapport and drive action without sounding like a corporate robot

Workflow:

1. Click this link (Prompt).

2. Paste it into your model.

3. Replace the #’s with your own audience, offer, key value points, customer pain points, and call to action

4. Get an email campaign sequence that feels friendly and authoritative

   Try the prompt on Snack Prompt

Al Jazeera
📰 Builds Its Own AI Brain

The Bite:
Al Jazeera just launched The Core:
An in-house AI model designed to support how its newsroom works.

From research and translation to data analysis and content prep.

Unlike most chatbots, The Core is trained and deployed inside Al Jazeera’s systems.
With their editors still making the final calls.

The goal is scale, consistency, and helping journalists handle more information.
All that without losing editorial control.

This puts Al Jazeera in a small but growing group:
Major media orgs building AI especially for journalism, not just bolting it on.

Snacks:

• Built with Google Cloud for infrastructure, but customized internally

• Handles research, transcription, translation, and data-heavy reporting

• Designed to keep humans in the loop at every editorial step

• Similar direction to AI efforts at Reuters, Bloomberg, and the NYT

• Meant to be a shared newsroom system, not a reporter-side toy

Why it Bites:
This is journalism accepting reality instead of fighting it.

AI is already inside newsrooms; the difference is whether it’s invisible, fragmented, and uncontrolled, or deliberate and owned.

By building its own model, Al Jazeera keeps a few key things closer to home, such as:
Institutional memory, editorial standards, and accountability.

That matters when AI starts influencing what gets surfaced, emphasized, or ignored.

Zoom out and this looks less like “AI adoption” and more like a new baseline:

Serious media companies running their own intelligence layer…

While everyone else rents one.

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People
❓️Are Getting Their News From AI Now

The Bite:
More people are using AI tools to get their news.

By asking chatbots to summarize, explain, or answer questions about current events.

This shift doesn’t just change how people consume news.

It can quietly change what they believe.

When AI summarizes the world, it decides:

• what context matters

• what gets emphasized

• and what disappears entirely.

That makes AI less like a neutral middleman…

and more like a new editorial layer.

Snacks:

• People increasingly ask AI for news explanations instead of articles

• AI summaries often compress nuance into a single narrative

• Subtle framing choices can shift opinions over time

• Users tend to trust AI answers, even when they’re incomplete

• Unlike journalists, AI systems don’t explain their editorial logic

Why it bites: 
News used to come from institutions you could name, critique, or cancel.

Now it’s coming from systems that feel neutral, helpful, and invisible.

When AI becomes the interface to reality influence doesn’t look like bias.
It looks like convenience.

A clean answer. A confident tone. No opposing view unless you explicitly ask.

Zoom out and this isn’t just a media problem. It’s a power shift.

Whoever controls how AI summarizes the world controls how people understand it.

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🧠 You Need to Know

📰 People Are Getting Their News From AI And It’s Changing Minds
→ Studies show AI-generated news summaries can subtly shift opinions by prioritizing certain angles and sources.

🧠 New AI Model ‘The Core’
→ Al Jazeera rolled out an in-house AI system to power research, analysis, and newsroom workflows.

🧬 Medicus Partners With Reliant AI on Clinical Trials
→ The new platform uses AI to speed up clinical trial data analysis and research insights.

🍳 Samsung Teases Gemini-Powered AI Vision for CES 2026
→ Samsung plans to unveil AI features built with Google Gemini for smarter, food-aware appliances.

⚡ Boom Supersonic Helps Power AI Data Centers
→ Boom is repurposing jet engine tech to generate massive power for energy-hungry AI data centers.