In This Issue: Two Perspectives on Shaping Tomorrow

This week, we're featuring two standout interviews offering different but essential views on how AI and technology are reshaping the future:

Driving Tomorrow Episode: Preserving Legacies Through AI: Steve Endacott on Life’s Echo Learn how Steve Endacott’s new platform, Life’s Echo, is giving people the tools to tell their life stories, preserve their legacies, and create meaningful connections for future generations—a unique blend of genealogy and storytelling powered by technology.

HumanX Spotlight: Secure AI Adoption: James Pham, Co-Founder & CEO of Opsin Security, shares insights on safe and secure enterprise AI use. In this exclusive HumanX interview, Opsin Security shares how their solutions help enterprises integrate AI, including tools like Copilot, while prioritizing security and safety protocols.

Today’s Headlines:

• AI Agents’ Task Completion Capacity Doubling Every 7 Months - A new study from METR (Model Evaluation and Testing Research) sheds light on one of AI’s most critical frontiers: not how well models perform on benchmark tests, but how long and complex the real-world tasks are that AI agents can actually complete. Researchers found that the length of tasks AI models can autonomously complete with 50% reliability has been doubling every 7 months over the past six years—a measurable, exponential trend pointing to significant shifts ahead.
  
  

  
  

• Anthropic Warns of Escalating AI Security Risks Across Sectors - Anthropic has issued a series of escalating warnings about the national security risks emerging from frontier AI models. Across cybersecurity, biosecurity, espionage threats, and global policy, the company’s leadership is underscoring the need for urgent action and deeper cross-sector collaboration to manage AI’s rapid advancement.
  
  
  
  

• California Advances AI Leadership with New Policy Report, Anthropic Responds - Commissioned by Governor Gavin Newsom and crafted by top AI experts and academics, including Dr. Fei-Fei Li, Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and co-director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute, the report emphasizes the responsible development of frontier AI models, recommending evidence-based policies, transparency standards, and clear guardrails to balance innovation with public safety.
  
  
  
  

• Hollywood Creatives Oppose AI Copyright Expansion Proposals - More than 400 prominent Hollywood creatives—including actors, musicians, and directors—have signed an open letter urging the Trump administration to reject recent proposals from OpenAI and Google that would expand AI training on copyrighted works. The letter argues that the proposals would allow tech companies to "freely exploit" creative industries without proper licensing or compensation.

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AI In Action: Quick Tutorials

In this section, you'll find short, practical tutorials that walk you through using the latest AI tools, helping you quickly unlock their full potential.

Today’s AI in Action: Create your AI-powered Telegram assistant

In this tutorial, you will learn how to build a personal AI assistant on Telegram that can answer questions, remember conversations, and eventually connect to other services using n8n's automation platform.

Step-by-step:

• Create a Telegram bot - search for "BotFather" in Telegram, type /newbot, and save the API token you receive.

• Sign up for n8n (free 14-day trial) and create a new workflow with a Telegram trigger using your bot token.

• Add an AI Agent node after the trigger, connect it to your preferred AI model (like those from OpenAI), and use the message text as the prompt.

• Add a Telegram "Send Message" node to return the AI's responses to your chat using the chat ID from the trigger.

• Enable Window Buffer Memory in the AI Agent settings so your bot remembers previous conversations.

Pro tip: You can also expand the assistant’s capabilities by connecting it to calendars, emails, notes apps, and other services.

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