OCTOBER 21, 2025

• PromptCraft: Liven Up Any Topic, Draft an Investor-Ready Business Plan, and an AI Coding Wingman for People Who Can't Program
• NewsDive: A Case Study in Why AI Agents Are So Hard to Implement​
• THE HEADLINES: Microsoft Drops Digital Defense Report for 2025; OpenAI Considering a 'Sign In with ChatGPT' Feature Similar to Google's, Pulls Plug on Sora MLK Videos; Facebook Wants to See Pics You Haven't Uploaded Yet
• Tool Spotlight:

Liven Up Any Topic, Draft an Investor-Ready Business Plan, and an AI Coding Wingman for People Who Can't Program

• Six prompt angles that enliven any topic: Reddit post sharing six reframing prompts—hidden story, alien anthropologist, conspiracy version, survival skill, logical extreme, and human-nature wrap-ups. These pattern interrupts add perspective and specificity, making dull subjects engaging. Combine angles for deeper analysis or humor-based insight.
• Single prompt to draft investor-ready business plan: Copy-paste prompt that turns ChatGPT into a business strategist. It outputs an executive summary, market analysis, marketing and sales strategies, financial projections, and an action plan. Fill in your venture’s basics and iterate; useful starting point rather than guaranteed investor-grade output.
• VISION framework for structured, self-correcting reasoning: A six-phase framework—Vision, Identity, Steps, Input Anchors, Output guidance, and Navigate—designed to make LLMs reason with structure and self-evaluate. Includes a fill-in template and example. Best for research, technical writing, and agents where consistent reasoning beats ad hoc prompting.
• Feedback processing workshop prompt: A ready-to-use prompt lesson helping users process criticism constructively: emotional preparation, signal-vs-noise analysis, action planning, and resilience. Provides role specification, formatting guidance, and a ‘Yielding’ clause to drive clarifying questions before advice—ideal for coaching AI toward calmer, more actionable feedback workflows.
• AI coding wingman prompt for non-programmers: Prompt lesson for non-programmers to collaborate with coding AIs. Teaches how to describe requirements, review and test outputs, iterate fixes, and choose platforms. Emphasizes clarifying questions, practical testing, and debugging support so you can ship simple automations or apps without learning to code first.

A Case Study in Why AI Agents Are So Hard to Implement

(And, in Some Cases, Impossible)

This is not my full-time job, though I do treat it like one.

My take is that AI is simply too important to ignore, no matter what sector you’re in or specific trade that you ply. Therefore, the need to talk about it will always be there, at least until I’m reasonably sure the robots aren’t going to enslave us.

My goal: to make sure you and I are ready for the changes ahead so we’re not one of the inevitable have-nots struggling to find their place in a world where AI can replace every meaningful skill that they have.

Staying ahead of where AI is going requires using it now. And use it, I do.

It’s perfect for first drafts, wrapping my brain around difficult problems, and creating digital written or visual assets that can be applied in a variety of contexts.

It’s also useful in helping me not sound like such an a**hole when I really want to. I use it in all sorts of modalities — text, video, audio, analysis — but the one area I’ve yet to breach is that of the AI agent.

Truth is, I can’t stand talking about AI agents.

And that’s probably because I don’t have any real use for them. Believe me, it would be cool if I did, but allow me to walk you through why it’s darn near impossible to even fool with them right now.

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HIGHLIGHTS: Microsoft Drops Digital Defense Report for 2025; OpenAI Considering a 'Sign In with ChatGPT' Feature Similar to Google's, Pulls Plug on Sora MLK Videos; Facebook Wants to See Pics You Haven't Uploaded Yet

1. Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2025
2. AI Tool Interprets Echocardiograms in Minutes, New Yale Study Finds
3. OpenAI may soon let you ‘sign in with ChatGPT’ for other apps
4. Uber is turning its app into an AI training ground
5. How a Gemma model helped discover a new potential cancer therapy pathway
6. AI writing hasn’t overwhelmed the web yet
7. Apple sued over use of copyrighted books to train Apple Intelligence
8. IEA: Renewables have cut fossil-fuel imports for more than 100 countries
9. OpenAI suspends MLK deepfakes on Sora after ‘disrespectful’ videos
10. Facebook’s new button lets its AI look at photos you haven’t uploaded yet
11. Pinterest’s ‘tuner’ lets you dial down the amount of AI content — but not entirely
12. Introducing Scenes: your new way to tell stories on c.ai
13. Meta is adding more parental controls for teen AI use
14. New York bans AI-enabled rent price fixing
15. GOP turns Schumer print quotes into AI-generated video of him saying shutdown good for Democrats
16. Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video
17. What It’s Like Using Squarespace’s Blueprint AI to Design a Website
18. ByteDance’s Other AI Chatbot Is Quietly Gaining Traction Around the World
19. AI Scribe May Ease Administrative Burdens for Clinicians
20. Oversharing with AI: How your ChatGPT conversations could be used against you
21. In the age of AI, communicators have a new audience: Machines
22. Scale AI alum raises $9M for AI serving critical industries in MENA
23. IBM and Groq Partner to Accelerate Enterprise AI Deployment with Speed and Scale
24. Troy University SBDC launches regional initiative to introduce AI to rural Alabama businesses
25. ‘AI Homeless Man’ TikTok prank sparks parental panic, juvenile arrests
26. Lyu urges protections against AI scams in Assembly testimony
27. AI Is Changing What High School STEM Students Study
28. The man betting everything on AI and Bill Belichick
29. What’s Your Edge? Rethinking Expertise in the Age of AI
30. Adobe launches a foundry service that builds custom generative AI models for enterprises
31. Cloud Outages Will Increase ‘More And More’ Due To AI Usage After AWS Outage Rocks Over 1,000 Companies, Says Tech CEO
32. How education can transform disruptive AI advances into workforce opportunities
33. AI-generated ‘poverty porn’ fake images being used by aid agencies
34. The FTC Is Disappearing Blog Posts About AI Published During Lina Khan’s Tenure
35. Kyndryl Readiness Report: AI delivers early returns, pushing enterprises to a tipping point
36. AI language models killed the Turing test: do we even need a replacement?

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