🎙️ Alex Fink, Founder and CEO of The Otherweb

Alex Fink, Founder and CEO of The Otherweb, shares how his AI-powered platform is combating misinformation, transforming how news is consumed and created, and redefining the future of journalism through transparency, customization, and responsible AI.

Today’s Headlines:

• OpenAI Launches GPT‐4.1: Faster, Smarter, and Built for Scale - OpenAI has introduced a new generation of AI models—GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and GPT‑4.1 nano—through its API, promising faster, smarter, and more cost-effective performance for developers. With improvements across key capabilities like coding, instruction following, and long-context comprehension, the GPT‑4.1 family sets new benchmarks in real-world AI deployment.

  
  
  

  
  

• DeepSeek Open-Sources Custom Inference Engine Built on vLLM - DeepSeek has open-sourced its proprietary inference engine, furthering its commitment to transparency and innovation in the AI community. The move follows the company’s successful Open Source Week, during which it released key tools and models, and aims to accelerate deployment for advanced systems like DeepSeek-V3 and DeepSeek-R1.
  
  
  
  
  

• Apple’s On-Device AI Training Raises Privacy Concerns Amid Familiar Methods - Apple is preparing to roll out a new training method for its upcoming Apple Intelligence platform, powered by on-device analytics and a privacy framework known as Differential Privacy. The opt-in system, launching in iOS 18.5, will allow Apple to improve AI tools without directly accessing user data—but its similarity to a previously scrapped detection system is drawing renewed scrutiny.
  
  
  
  
  

• Trump Plans Semiconductor Tariffs, Targeting Phones and Laptops - Just days after electronics and computers were temporarily exempted from tariffs, President Donald Trump announced plans to impose new duties on semiconductors and the entire electronics supply chain—a move that could once again hit smartphones, laptops, and other tech products with significant costs.
  
  
  
  
  

• AI Won’t Save Journalism ... But It Might Save Journalists Who Learn to Use It - AI isn’t going to save journalism. But used right, it could help preserve what matters most about it: time, accuracy and human focus. Journalists who learn to use AI as a tool—not a crutch—will have the edge, says Otherweb founder Alex Fink.

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Today’s AI in Action: Create conversational branches to explore ideas

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Google AI Studio's new branching feature to explore different ideas by creating multiple conversation paths from a single starting point without losing context.

Step-by-step:

• Visit Google AI Studio and select your preferred Gemini model from the dropdown menu.

• Start a conversation and continue until you reach a point where you want to explore an alternative direction.

• Click the three-dot menu (⋮) next to any message and select "Branch from here."

• Navigate between branches using the "See original conversation" link at the top of each branch.

Pro tip: You can create branches at key decision points to compare different AI approaches to the same problem without starting over.

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