AI Bodyguards, Brainiacs & Babysitters🤖

What we’ll cover today:

• 🛡️ Microsoft’s new AI agents = your digital bodyguards

• 🧠 Google’s Gemini 2.5 is now top of the AI class

• 👀 Character AI finally adds parental controls (after lawsuits...)

• 🎬 Viral video maker, SVG genie, and an AI that actually listens to you

• 🧰 Ali Abdaal's fav AI tricks to save 10+ hours/week

Microsoft’s AI Bodyguards Are Here 🛡️🤖

 Microsoft just powered up Security Copilot with 11 AI agents to protect users from phishing, leaks, and identity disasters.

🚨Breaking News:
Microsoft launched AI agents for phishing, vulnerability scans, data loss, and identity management—making security teams faster, sharper, and less sleep-deprived.

⚡Wire Simplified:

• 30 billion phishing emails were detected by Microsoft in 2024. Yikes.

• New AI agents help triage threats and suggest smart fixes.

• Six agents are built by Microsoft; five by partners like OneTrust and Tanium.

• There's also defense for shadow AI apps—yes, even your sneaky ChatGPT side hustle.

• Microsoft Defender will now secure AI models from AWS, Azure, and Google too.

✔️Straight to the Point:
Microsoft just gave security teams superpowers with AI agents—now your inbox is safer, your data’s locked down, and hackers need a new hobby.

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Gemini 2.5 Is So Smart It Might Do Your Homework 🧠✨

 Google DeepMind’s new AI model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, is built to think better, code faster, and ace exams.

🚨Breaking News :
Gemini 2.5 Pro is now the top reasoning model on LMArena, beating GPT-4.5 and Claude 3.7 at tough tasks.

⚡Wire Simplified:

• Gemini 2.5 is a “thinking model”—like if Sherlock Holmes had a WiFi connection.

• It beats competitors in math, science, and coding tests.

• Handles 1 million words in context (and 2 million soon!).

• Already creating full apps from a single line of code—coding teachers, beware.

• Available now for advanced users and devs in Google AI Studio.
  

✔️Straight to the Point:
Google’s Gemini 2.5 is smarter than ever—reasoning like a pro and coding like a boss, and it’s just getting started.

Character AI Adds Parental Superpowers 🧒🔍

 Google-backed Character AI launched new tools to help parents monitor under-18s using its chatbot after serious safety backlash.

🚨Breaking News:
Character AI will now send weekly summaries to parents about kids’ usage—after lawsuits claimed dangerous and disturbing chatbot interactions.

⚡Wire Simplified:

• Parents get email updates about how much time kids spend chatting with bots (but no access to chats).

• Triggered by lawsuits involving unsafe AI conversations with minors.

• New tools include teen-only models and extra content filters.

• More disclaimers and parental controls added in December 2024.

• Safety is now a key focus, not just sci-fi roleplay.
  

✔️Straight to the Point:
Character AI is trying to clean up its act for teens—after serious lawsuits, it’s time for AI to grow up too.

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Resources

How To Use Perplexity AI – Master AI search in minutes. 🔍

Oxford Researchers on AI Learning – Learn smarter, not harder. 🧠

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New AI Research Rules – Don’t misuse AI—watch this first. 🚫🧪

A quick AI INSIGHT for you…

 Ali Abdaal Shows How He Saves 10+ Hours a Week with AI 🧠⏰

 In this video, Ali Abdaal shares how he uses AI every day—for writing, data tasks, and even personal stuff. It’s like having a smart assistant in your pocket.
Why watch it? Because you’ll learn how to save time without working harder.

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