Is AI conscious...

What we’ll cover today:

🔍 AI wrote books that don’t exist (oops)

🛡️ Trump: No T-shirts, just tanks and AI

♟️ Claude 4 can play chess and build websites

🛠️ Tools that make AI work for you

🚀 Resources to up your AI game

📰 Trump’s Trade Talk: T-Shirts Are Out, Tanks Are In

Donald Trump says the U.S. should focus on making tanks, AI, and chips, not T-shirts and sneakers.

🚨 Breaking News:
Trump pushes for tariffs, saying the U.S. doesn’t need a booming textile industry but needs more tanks, chips, and AI.

⚡Wire Simplified:

• Trump doesn’t care for socks or T-shirts—he wants tanks, chips, AI, and ships.

• Textile industry groups say this hurts low-income families with higher prices.

• 97% of U.S. clothes and shoes are imported already, so tariffs = more expensive stuff.

• Trump delayed European tariffs till July 9, but Apple might still get hit with iPhone taxes.

• Trump’s trade ideas appeal to workers, but global supply chains make it messy.

✔️ Straight to the Point:
Trump’s big plans for tanks, not tees, sound bold, but higher prices could hit your wallet. So, careful what you wish for!

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📰 Oops! Chicago Newspaper Promotes AI-Generated Fake Books

Chicago Sun-Times’ summer book guide listed fake AI-made books. The AI even named real authors, but the books? Fake.

🚨 Breaking News:
Chicago Sun-Times admits its book guide featured AI-generated, totally fake book titles. They blamed a freelancer.

⚡Wire Simplified:

• Chicago Sun-Times’ summer reading list had AI-made-up books like “Tidewater Dreams” and “NightShade Market.”

• Real authors like Isabel Allende were listed as authors of fake books—yikes!

• The paper blamed a freelancer and cut ties with them.

• King Features, a content partner, says they have a “no AI” policy.

• Other papers like The Philadelphia Inquirer also published the same AI-made list.

✔️ Straight to the Point:
Newspapers trusted AI for book lists. It backfired. Lesson: always check the facts, even when it sounds fun!

📰 Conscious AI? Or Just Clever Code?

Scientists are studying consciousness by flashing lights at people’s brains. Some experts say AI might soon get a mind of its own.

🚨 Breaking News:
Researchers use a "Dreamachine" to explore consciousness, while experts debate if AI could ever become truly conscious.

⚡Wire Simplified:

• The Dreamachine flashes lights at your brain to see how you perceive the world.

• Some scientists think AI might be conscious—or could be soon.

• Others argue that only living beings (like humans and animals) can truly be conscious.

• AI’s human-like behavior might just trick us into thinking it’s conscious.

• There’s no clear answer yet, but the debate is heating up fast.

✔️ Straight to the Point:
Is AI becoming conscious? We don’t know. But this research reminds us: not everything that feels real is real.

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