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Friday’s here, and so are rising temperatures, rising tensions, and rising defense contracts. As global conflicts escalate, AI companies are rushing into the defense sector, landing lucrative deals that raise both opportunity and concern. We break down who’s cashing in and what it means for the world. Also, is Meta AI a mess, and why is your data at risk, and should AI be mandatory in schools? Ohio State says yes—we dig into the debate

• 📰 News and Trends.

• Is Meta AI leaking your info

• 🧰 AI Tools - Summer Camps

• Pentagon Eyes Microsoft Copilot as AI Arms Race Heats Up

• Will AI be Mandatory for All Students

• 🧠 Learning Corner - How AI is created

📰 AI News and Trends

• Google DeepMind launched an artificial intelligence weather-forecasting tool that it said is better at predicting cyclones than existing systems

• AI is making health care safer in the remote Amazon where overburdened clinics and pharmacists use AI to catch dangerous errors this could become a big positive for remote areas worldwide

• Disney and Universal are suing Midjourney meanwhile…

• The TikTok parent's new model tops leaderboards for both text-to-video and image-to-video tasks, beating Google's Veo 3 and OpenAI's Sora

• Mattel is teaming up with OpenAI to create AI-enabled toys, but don't expect to unwrap a ChatGPT Barbie this winter holiday yet.

🌐 Other Tech news

• Congress Demands Answers on Data Privacy Ahead of 23andMe Sale

• Brazil is courting investors to develop its vast rare-earth deposits as it looks to become an alternative to China, the world’s biggest producer

• World Bank lifts ban on funding nuclear energy in boost to industry

• Shopify partners with Coinbase and Stripe in landmark stablecoin deal

• Bioengineered tooth "grows" in place to look and feel like the real thing

• US air traffic control still runs on Windows 95 and floppy disks

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Is Meta AI leaking your personal info

Meta's new standalone AI app is under fire for exposing users' private chats publicly, often without them realizing. The app includes a “share” button that makes it easy to post text, audio, or images from conversations with Meta AI, but many users appear unaware their content is going public.

Examples of what’s been shared publicly include:

• Audio clips about flatulence

• Legal questions including names of people involved in crimes

• Sensitive medical or legal information

• Home addresses and personal data

• Bizarre AI-generated images (e.g., Mark Zuckerberg with a pregnant belly)

The app doesn’t clearly explain privacy settings or warn users if their content will be posted publicly, especially for those logged in via Instagram with public profiles.

The App isnt doing very well, only 6.5 million downloads since its April 29 launch, which is a small figure for Meta. The company launched a tool with minimal privacy guardrails, and it’s quickly becoming a viral embarrassment full of sensitive disclosures and trolling content, raising serious concerns about user awareness and data safety. If all the data shared on Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram is at risk, this can be a fatal fail for such a tech behemoth. As we always say, be very careful what you share on social media.

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Pentagon Eyes Microsoft Copilot as AI Arms Race Heats Up

Microsoft is preparing to launch a secure version of its AI tool, Copilot, for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) by summer 2025. This AI assistant, embedded in Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, is being tailored to meet the DoD’s strict security and compliance standards, including deployment via GCC High, the U.S. government’s secure cloud platform.

Microsoft has not named the customer, but internal discussions suggest a client with over 1 million Microsoft 365 licenses is adopting Copilot—pointing strongly to the Pentagon, which employs 2.1 million military personnel and 770,000 civilian workers.

Strategic Context

The rising global and domestic security tensions are fueling a defense investment and companies eager to participate and get government contract. For example the recent Israel-Iran military escalation and nuclear threats, continued war in Gaza, National Guard deployments amid civil unrest in U.S. cities are acceleration this trend.

Tech Giants Fueling Defense Innovation

Beyond Microsoft, several companies are rapidly scaling their defense offerings, and alliances likr Anduril and Meta which partnered to design, build, and field a range of integrated XR products that provide warfighters, will become more common. Some examples:

• Palantir – Predictive AI, battlefield intel systems; over $1.9B in gov contracts

• Anduril – Autonomous drones, AI targeting; valued at $12B+

• Shield AI – AI copilots for fighter jets; used by Air Force and Navy

• Skydio – U.S.-made autonomous drones replacing banned foreign UAVs

• Amazon (AWS) – Secure hosting for CIA, DoD; part of $9B JWCC

• SpaceX (Starlink) – Satellite comms for Ukraine, missile tracking

• Rebellion Defense – AI for battlefield decision-making and simulation

• Epirus – AI-powered anti-drone energy weapons

As military AI adoption accelerates, Microsoft’s secure Copilot rollout marks a pivotal step in embedding generative AI into defense operations. It also underscores a how Big Tech is no longer just a vendor, it’s becoming part of the defense infrastructure.

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Will AI be Mandatory for All Students

Starting Fall 2025, Ohio State University will require every student to use AI in the classroom as part of a new initiative to build "AI fluency." The goal is for students to be "bilingual" in both their major and AI application, according to Provost Ravi Bellamkonda.

To accomplish this, students must take an AI skills seminar tailored to their major (e.g., using AI to draft lesson plans in education). Faculty like philosophy professor Steven Brown encourage open AI use, including ChatGPT-based assignments. OSU joins schools like Duke University, which now offers unlimited ChatGPT and its own “DukeGPT.”

Students love it, but some critics have voiced their opinions critics, they have shared that AI still suffers from factual errors, hallucinations, and lacks expert-level reasoning and it should be used with care. Some studies link AI use in education to lower grades and reduced critical thinking and mandatory adoption may normalize flawed tech as indispensable before long-term risks are fully understood.

OSU is betting big that AI will be essential to the future workforce—but not everyone agrees it's ready for the classroom.

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How AI is created by Andrej Karpathy