JANUARY 6, 2025

TODAY: Got a mixed bag of good AI/bad AI to start the New Year.

While Elon's chatbot is in trouble for being the leading AI offender at making sexualized images of women and children, others are getting well-deserved pats on the back for their work against breast and pancreatic cancers.

Throw in a robot that wants to take over hard factory labor and a few cool prompts, and we've got the inaugural mAIn Street for 2026. I hope everyone enjoys, and that you all have a happy and productive week. Here's the full rundown.

• PromptCraft: TRY THESE! Test Business Ideas, Refine Chat's Personality, and 10X Your Deep Work
• THE HEADLINES: Grok is leading AI offender for sexualized photos of women and children; Boston Dynamics trains AI-powered bot to take over factory work; OC Docs find success treating breast cancer with AI assistance; and China AI spots pancreatic cancer that doctors may miss.
• Tool Spotlight: Applicants, Students Finally Have Non-Generic AI Support

TRY THESE! Test Business Ideas, Refine Chat's Personality, and 10X Your Deep Work

• ​Two prompts to test business ideas: Post shares a “Business Plan” prompt to turn vague ideas into concrete plans and a “Market Research” prompt to quickly sanity-check demand. Good example of using ChatGPT as a pre-validation filter before committing serious time.
• ​System prompt for rigorous ChatGPT personality: A longform system prompt that turns ChatGPT into an “accuracy-first, intellectually honest” assistant. Emphasizes probabilistic language, steel-manning opposing views, and correcting user mistakes. Great template if you want more critical, evidence-driven answers.
• ​Zen singularity prompt for deep work: Explains Ichigyo Zammai (“one-act samadhi”) and attention residue, then offers a focused deep-work prompt to keep you on a single task. Framed as shifting from scattered multitasking to one fully immersive work block.

HIGHLIGHTS: Grok is leading AI offender for sexualized photos of women and children; Boston Dynamics trains AI-powered bot to take over factory work; OC Docs find success treating breast cancer with AI assistance; and China AI spots pancreatic cancer that doctors may miss.

1. ​AI Training Startup CEO Says Synthetic Data Can’t Replace Human Judgment ‘For Decades To Come’​
2. ​Britain has made a huge miscalculation – the era of the AI unemployables is here​
3. ​AI-enabled virtual spatial proteomics from histopathology for interpretable biomarker discovery in lung cancer​
4. ​NIST, MITRE invest $20 million in AI centers to counter cyberthreats, boost US manufacturing competitiveness​
5. ​Why doctors should be at the heart of AI clinical workflows​
6. ​Boston Dynamics is training an AI-powered humanoid robot to do factory work​
7. ​AI has given utility stocks a boost, but a problem may be lurking​
8. ​Watch: BBC reporter tests AI anti-shoplifting tech​
9. ​AI Godfather Warns That It’s Starting to Show Signs of Self-Preservation​
10. ​Elon Musk’s Grok AI floods X with sexualized photos of women and minors​
11. ​NYC Wegmans is storing biometric data on shoppers’ eyes, voices, and faces​
12. ​Bankruptcy success rate for student loan borrowers jumps to 87%, study finds​
13. ​New generator uses carbon fiber to turn raindrops into rooftop electricity​
14. ​Google is testing a new image AI, and it’s going to be its fastest model​
15. ​Introducing Grok Business and Grok Enterprise​
16. ​Plaud launches a new AI pin and a desktop meeting notetaker​
17. ​Chinese AI models have lagged the US frontier by 7 months on average since 2023​
18. ​Garmin Emergency Autoland deployed for the first time​
19. ​AI helps companies adopt four-day workweeks​
20. ​AI development has become Moscow’s highest priority​
21. ​AI-assisted protein design to rapidly convert antibody sequences to intrabodies targeting diverse peptides and histone modifications​
22. ​AI Predicts Heart Disease Treatment Opportunities Using Cardiac Imaging​
23. ​Here’s what to expect at CES 2026​
24. ​How AI-driven pricing inflates consumer costs: Consumer Reports​
25. ​Instagram boss admits AI slop has won, but where does that leave creatives?​
26. ​Women seen at the forefront of AI adoption​
27. ​Meet Sweden, the unicorn factory chasing America in the AI race​
28. ​Workers face a growing economic crisis as bosses go all-in for AI​
29. ​AI data centers use a lot of electricity. How it could affect your power bill​
30. ​India orders Musk’s X to fix Grok over ‘obscene’ AI content​
31. ​‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate?​
32. ​Are AI data centers still needed, or have the Swiss punched holes in them?​
33. ​Google ex-CEO Eric Schmidt jumps into the AI data center business with a failed, 150-year-old Texas railroad turned oil giant​
34. ​China AI chipmaker Biren soars in Hong Kong debut as IPO wave builds​
35. ​Author of Nation’s First Chatbot Protections Proposes 4-Year Moratorium on AI Chatbots in Toys​
36. ​DeepSeek Touts New Training Method as China Pushes AI Efficiency​
37. ​Orange County radiologists use AI to detect breast cancer earlier, saving lives​
38. ​In China, A.I. Finds Pancreatic Cancer That Doctors May Miss​
39. ​In the age of AI, human skills are the new advantage​
40. ​How AI Is Already Shaping Healthcare And What Black Patients Should Know​
41. ​What AI means for the future of policing​
42. ​AI is scoring college essays and conducting interviews, a new layer in admissions stress​
43. ​AI images among real footage being shared of Iran protests​
44. ​Samsung Unveils The Freestyle+ Ahead of CES 2026, Showcasing a Smarter AI Portable Screen​
45. ​AI-generated videos showing young and attractive women promote Poland’s EU exit​
46. ​Why Meta bought Manus — and what it signals for your enterprise AI agent strategy​
47. ​2025’s AI-fueled scientific breakthroughs​
48. ​Report: Apple’s AI Strategy Could Finally Pay Off in 2026​
49. ​IBM Became an AI Powerhouse in 2025​
50. ​VCs predict enterprises will spend more on AI in 2026 — through fewer vendors​
51. ​This 22-year-old college dropout with an AI-powered YouTube empire makes $700,000 a year and works just 2 hours a day​
52. ​AI-powered software is helping misinformation spread online after disasters​
53. ​What the public really thinks about AI​
54. ​Silicon ‘postage stamp’ implant instantly emails your thoughts to AI​
55. ​Investors predict AI is coming for labor in 2026​
56. ​Humanoid Robot Development in China Is Surpassing the US​
57. ​How to Stay Ahead of AI as an Early-Career Engineer​
58. ​US Army seeks human AI officers to manage its battle bots​
59. ​AI Marketing Examples: 13 Times AI Actually Delivered​
60. ​Musk’s xAI buys third building to expand AI compute power​

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