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Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. The White House just flipped the script on AI policy with its AI Action Plan, trading a previously cautious approach for an all-out sprint toward technological supremacy.
Calling AI an “industrial revolution, information revolution, and renaissance all at once,” the U.S. is betting everything on deregulation and speed — but critics wonder who really benefits from the tech-giant-friendly approach.
In today’s AI rundown:
U.S. releases sweeping AI Action Plan
Google decodes ancient Rome with AI
Build social media campaigns with Claude’s Canva Connector
OpenAI’s copilot cuts medical errors in Kenya
4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
THE UNITED STATES & AI
🇺🇸 U.S. releases sweeping AI Action Plan
Image source: The White House
The Rundown: The Trump administration just released an AI Action Plan detailing 90+ policy actions to accelerate the country’s dominance in the sector, including details on AI infrastructure, regulation, and export policy shaped by 10K+ public comments.
The details:
The 28-page plan focuses on three pillars: accelerating innovation, infrastructure, and strengthening diplomacy while removing red tape.
Outlined actions include building new data centers, repealing legal barriers to AI growth, encouraging open-source AI, and incentivizing the tech’s adoption.
The plan also includes rooting out "ideological bias" in AI systems through new rules requiring government contractors to ensure their models are "objective."
The document called the AI boom an “industrial revolution, an information revolution, and a renaissance—all at once.”
Critics argue the blueprint was crafted for tech giants and removes public safeguards, failing to serve the needs of everyday people impacted by AI.
Why it matters: The AI policy shift under the new administration is real, with the Trump administration’s Action Plan pushing an all-in growth strategy that aims to use deregulation and massive infrastructure investments to secure the lead over China — even if it means stripping safeguards in the process.
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GOOGLE DEEPMIND
🏛️ Google decodes ancient Rome with AI
Image source: Google DeepMind
The Rundown: Google DeepMind just launched Aeneas, an AI system that helps historians restore, date, and decipher damaged Latin inscriptions and pinpoint their origins across the Roman Empire.
The details:
Aeneas analyzes text and images from inscription fragments, suggesting words and matching them to similar texts in a database of 176,000 ancient writings.
It attributes inscriptions to specific Roman provinces with 72% accuracy, dates them within 13 years, and restores damaged text at 73% accuracy.
23 historians tested the system and found its contextual suggestions helpful in 90% of cases, with confidence in key tasks jumping 44%.
The tool is freely available for researchers and can be adapted to other ancient languages, with Google DeepMind open-sourcing its code and dataset.
Why it matters: Between initiatives like Aeneas and the Vesuvius Challenge, AI is already taking on the massive challenge of helping piece together fragmented details of ancient texts — and there is plenty left to uncover. Expanded to other languages and writing, AI could help fill in immeasurable gaps in humanity’s past across the globe.
AI TRAINING
🎨 Build social media campaigns with Claude’s Canva Connector
The Rundown: In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an entire branded social media campaign using Claude with Canva’s Connector, automatically generating content across multiple platforms.
Step-by-step:
Connect Claude to Canva via “Search & Tools” and click “Add Connectors”
Create your hero post: “Make an Instagram post for [product] using [brand colors] with copy about [key message].”
Generate a matching banner: “Create a 16x9 banner for [same campaign] with identical branding and messaging.”
Build a presentation deck: “Create a 5-slide pitch deck with title, problem, solution, benefits, and CTA using [brand colors].”
Pro tip: Include specific brand language in your prompts for consistent content across your entire campaign.
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AI RESEARCH
🏥 OpenAI’s copilot cuts medical errors in Kenya
Image source: OpenAI & Penda Health
The Rundown: OpenAI partnered with Penda Health to conduct research on using AI copilots in medical clinics in Nairobi, Kenya, finding clinicians using the system made fewer diagnostic errors and treatment mistakes compared to those working without AI.
The details:
The AI Consult system monitors clinical decisions in real-time, flagging potential issues instead of dictating care — with the doctors fully in control.
The study encompassed nearly 40K patient visits, with clinicians using AI showing a 16% reduction in diagnostic errors and 13% fewer treatment errors.
All surveyed clinicians reported quality improvements, with 75% labeling the impact “substantial” and calling the tool a safety net and educational resource.
The study found the success hinged on three factors: capable models (GPT-4o), integration that avoided care disruption, and active, personalized training.
Why it matters: This is a great example of AI’s impact on healthcare in underserved areas, but also serves as a blueprint to factors (workflows, training, etc.) that helped the copilot become a success. As more clinics integrate AI, these lessons could help ensure new tools actually improve care without added complexity for frontline staff.
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📰 Everything else in AI today
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned of an impending “AI fraud”, saying the tech has defeated authentication methods widely used by banks and major institutions.
YouTube launched new AI tools for Shorts creators, introducing photo-to-video capabilities and Effects for quick transformations — both powered by Veo 2.
Google also rolled out AI-powered features in Google Photos, including the ability to transform photos into short videos and a new Remix editing tool.
Microsoft released GitHub Spark in public preview for Copilot Pro+ users, a coding tool that converts natural language into full-stack apps powered by Claude Sonnet 4.
Amazon announced the closure of its AI lab in Shanghai, China, citing strategic adjustments and U.S.-China tensions alongside cloud computing layoffs.
A new report from Pew Research found that Google users click on results/source links 50% less when browsing a page with an AI-generated summary.
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Rowan, Joey, Zach, Alvaro, and Jason—The Rundown’s editorial team
