Today’s Headlines:

• CSU Becomes First AI-Powered Public University System in the U.S. - The California State University (CSU) system is set to become the nation’s first and largest AI-powered public university system, a groundbreaking initiative that will provide AI-driven learning, research, and professional development and teaching tools—including ChatGPT—to students, faculty, and staff across all 23 CSU campuses.
  
  
  

• New Bill Could Fine Americans $1M for Downloading Chinese AI App DeepSeek - A newly proposed bill could make it illegal for Americans to download DeepSeek; this bill aims to block AI technology imports from and exports to China, citing national security risks.
  
  
  

• OpenAI’s AI Models Are Now More Persuasive Than Most Reddit Users - OpenAI's latest AI model, o3-mini, has reached a new milestone in persuasive writing, ranking as more persuasive than 82% of randomly selected human responses from Reddit’s r/ChangeMyView forum.
  
  
  

• Government’s AI-First Strategy Aims to Modernize Federal Operations - Thomas Shedd, a former Tesla engineer and now the director of Technology Transformation Services (TTS), has introduced an “AI-first strategy” aimed at modernizing the federal government’s approach to technology.
  
  
  

• Hollywood’s AI Dilemma: OpenAI’s Sora Sparks Debate - As filmmaker Nik Kleverov, one of the first seven Sora artists announced by OpenAI last spring, noted, “Yes, AI tools are allowing creatives to rapidly iterate and substantively explore ideas that would otherwise not have been made. However, we're finding that a lot of the same parts of the creative human-led storytelling go into it. One interesting shift is that "post" has become more central to the entire process, where things are both starting and ending with post-production.”

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Today’s AI in Action: Build a personal AI automation tool

Learn how to build your own AI automation running locally and privately using N8N's automation platform and Ollama's language models, such as DeepSeek.

Step-by-step:

• Install Docker Desktop and Ollama, then set up N8N using Docker commands found here.

• Download a language model through Ollama (7B or 14B size recommended).

• Create a new N8N workflow with a chat trigger and AI Agent node.

• Select your Ollama model and add Window Buffer Memory for conversation context, then start chatting!

Pro tip: Use "host.docker.internal:11434" as your base URL in N8N to ensure smooth communication between N8N and Ollama.

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