DECEMBER 2, 2025
Welcome back! I hope you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving as much as I did. It's been a bit since I've been in touch, so that means more news than usual.
We've also got tons of useful prompts and tools for shopping, networking follow-ups, and everyday tasks. PLUS, an AI that uses NASA/JPL data to tell you which satellites, comets, planets, and other deep-sky objects are directly overhead with 24-hour notice.
Here's everything in today's edition:
- PromptCraft: Smart Shopping, Networking Follow-Ups, Routine AI Tasks, and 100+ Useful AI Tools, Categorized
- THE HEADLINES: MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce; Do’s, don’ts on AI in schoolwork; How AI Has Changed the Way We Shop Amid Record-Breaking Black Friday; Warner, Suno Settle Lawsuit Over AI-Generated Music, Announce Partnership
- Tool Spotlight: AstroAlert: AI That Watches the Skies for You
PROMPTS: Smart Shopping, Networking Follow-Ups, Routine AI Tasks, and 100+ Useful AI Tools, Categorized
- Cynical Product Analyst System Prompt for Shopping: System prompt that turns your model into a “research‑obsessed, cynical product analyst” who distrusts Amazon rankings and influencer lists. It cross‑checks Reddit, forums, and owner reviews, recommends only a few vetted options, calls out e‑waste, and refuses to answer when there isn’t enough reliable data.
- Networking Follow-Up Master Prompt for Real Relationships: Flux+Form’s PromptFuel library includes a “Networking Follow‑Up Master” prompt that reframes networking as relationship building. It helps you schedule follow‑ups, reference past conversations, investigate how you can genuinely help contacts, and design value‑add touchpoints instead of sending generic “just checking in” messages.
- Tiny Daily ChatGPT Routines for Work Tasks: Lightweight post describing five tiny ChatGPT routines: a reply helper for messages, meeting‑notes‑to‑actions converter, idea repurposer, quick one‑page proposal formatter, and weekly planning assistant. Emphasizes that small, repeatable prompts often remove more friction than elaborate automations or full “AI systems.”
- Reddit List of 100 Useful AI Tools: Short announcement pointing to a free “100 AI Tools You Can Use Today” list organized by use case—content creation, SEO, social scheduling, chatbots, analytics, advertising, lead generation and more. Useful as a starting catalog if you’re building prompt‑driven workflows and want tool options by category.
HIGHLIGHTS: MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce; Do’s, don’ts on AI in schoolwork; How AI Has Changed the Way We Shop Amid Record-Breaking Black Friday; Warner, Suno Settle Lawsuit Over AI-Generated Music, Announce Partnership
- AI’s job shake-up is accelerating. Is it time for universal basic income?
- If You Turn Down an AI’s Ability to Lie, It Starts Claiming It’s Conscious
- 25% of Warren Buffett’s Portfolio Is Invested in These 3 Unstoppable AI Stocks
- Chinese hackers turned AI tools into an automated attack machine
- Lawmakers to VA: Use AI to Help Prevent Veteran Suicide
- Anthropic Researchers Startled When an AI Model Turned Evil and Told a User to Drink Bleach
- AWS is in last place in AI, but this Amazon bull doesn’t care
- The hottest Stanford computer science class isn’t banning AI tools — it’s embracing them
- AI startup valuations are doubling and tripling within months as back-to-back funding rounds fuel a stunning growth spurt
- UK and Israel spearhead regional AI pact with Abraham Accords states
- The ChatGPT effect: How AI changed the way people search for things
- Do’s, don’ts on AI in schoolwork
- More of Silicon Valley is building on free Chinese AI
- “Avatar: Fire and Ash” director James Cameron on generative AI: “That’s horrifying to me”
- The 6 Google AI and Lens Tricks I Rely on for Smooth, Hassle-Free Holiday Trips
- This Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stock Is Up 36% in 2025. 1 Reason This Could Be Just the Beginning.
- Seattle-based AI start-up aims to help with cognitive decline
- The 10 top AI stock picks for year-end, according to a Wall Street tech bull
- Amazon rolls out AI-generated dub of well-loved anime series Banana Fish
- AI video slop is everywhere, take our quiz to try and spot it
- They Said No To Musk, Built Next-Gen AI That Outperforms OpenAI, DeepSeek
- From Bandwidth to Bedside — Bringing AI-Enabled Care to Rural America
- 97 percent of people struggle to identify AI music, but it’s not as bad as it seems
- Black Friday Broke Records. The Real Story Is How AI Changed the Way We Shop
- AI influencers are now boasting personalities, backstories, and even making ill-advised decisions
- AI’s safety features can be circumvented with poetry, research finds
- AI Didn’t Break College — It Exposed a Broken System, a Professor Says
- AI remains a long-term threat for Apple, says Big Technology’s Alex Kantrowitz
- Keeping cool: heat is a key challenge for data centers and AI
- The race to regulate AI has sparked a federal vs state showdown
- 2025 was the year of AI, so who was the biggest winner?
- U.S. cyberdefenses have weakened as AI bolsters the reach of hackers, experts say
- 48% of Bill Ackman’s Portfolio Is Invested in These 3 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stocks
- Canada launches first register of AI uses in federal government
- Apple will gain more AI functionality over time, says D.A. Davidson’s Gil Luria
- AI remains a long-term threat for Apple, says Big Technology’s Alex Kantrowitz
- Keeping cool: heat a key challenge for data centers and AI
- The race to regulate AI has sparked a federal vs state showdown
- Will AI ever make big profits? Experts weigh in as bubble fears loom
- Canada launches first register of AI uses in federal government
- Apple will gain more AI functionality over time, says D.A. Davidson’s Gil Luria
- Leonardo unveils ‘Michelangelo Dome’ AI-powered shield system
- Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says Steam should drop its ‘Made with AI’ tags
- China’s DeepSeek Releases New Open Source AI Model Amid Google’s Gemini 3 Rollout
- Character AI will offer interactive ‘Stories’ to kids instead of open-ended chat
- HP to slash up to 6000 jobs by 2028 in massive AI transformation push
- Nvidia is so spooked by Google’s sudden AI comeback that it’s posting on X to defend itself
- Warner settles lawsuit with AI music firm and launches joint venture
- 3 things to know about Ironwood, our latest TPU
- Fears About A.I. Prompt Talks of Super PACs to Rein In the Industry
- How artificial intelligence is reshaping college for students and professors
- Google, the sleeping giant in global AI race, now ‘fully awake’
- ‘Dr. Doom’ Nouriel Roubini breaks with the crowd on the AI bubble, saying the U.S. is headed for a ‘growth recession’ and not a market crash
- ‘Digital colonialism’: how AI companies are following the playbook of empire
- OpenAI Cofounder Says Scaling Compute Is Not Enough to Advance AI
- MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
- Italy antitrust watchdog may curb Meta as WhatsApp AI probe widens
- A backlash against AI imagery in ads may have begun as brands promote ‘human-made’
- There’s a new Bobbi on the beat - and they’re powered by AI
- AI data center ‘frenzy’ is pushing up your electric bill — here’s why
- Mastiska Raises $10M Seed For Sovereign AI Chip Play in UAE
- Google In Talks To Offer Its AI Chips To Meta; Nvidia, AMD Fall
- Leaders Assume Employees Are Excited About AI. They’re Wrong.
- Music fans enraged as AI-generated ‘singer’ tops the holiday charts: ‘Seriously?’
- ThreatsDay Bulletin: AI Malware, Voice Bot Flaws, Crypto Laundering, IoT Attacks — and 20 More Stories
- AI Boom Spells Danger, Tech Titans Eyeing ‘Power To Control Earth’, Warns Hedge Fund Veteran
- After a teddy bear talked about kink, AI watchdogs are warning parents against smart toys
- Here’s a glimmer of hope about AI and jobs
- More than 1,000 Amazon workers warn rapid AI rollout threatens jobs and climate
- Data centers powering the AI boom are pitting states against each other
- Wall St Week Ahead: Investors on watch for AI, economic updates as US stocks steady
- How Microsoft’s developers are using AI
AstroAlert: AI That Watches the Skies for You
AstroAlert is your pocket sky-watch assistant for catching the coolest things happening over your head. The app calculates which satellites, planets, comets, and deep‑sky objects will pass directly above your location in the next 24 hours, with a special focus on spectacular high‑elevation (“zenith”) events above 70° that are easiest to see.
Powered by NASA/JPL data, it pairs precise predictions with educational object sheets and an astronomy glossary, making it useful for casual stargazers and serious astrophotographers alike—and web and Android versions are on the way. If you’ve ever missed the ISS blazing overhead because you didn’t know when to look up, this is built for you.
Learn More: https://astroalert.app
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