SEPTEMBER 26, 2025

• PromptCraft: Recipe Generator, Dream Interpreter, and 5 Prompts to Save Time as a Content Creator
• NewsDive: Where to Start with AI If You're Not a Techie
• THE HEADLINES: China Uses AI to Make Gay Couple Straight in Horror Film; Spotify Removes 75 Million Spam Tracks in Last Year; Microsoft Adds Anthropic Models to Go Beyond OpenAI
• Tool Spotlight: Envelope Puts Event Planning on Autopilot

Recipe Generator, Dream Interpreter, and 5 Prompts to Save Time as a Content Creator

• ​Accidental recipe generator (chef-grade): Template that elevates any dish with sections for ingredients (with qualities), equipment, technique cues (temperature, emulsions), troubleshooting, and classic variations. The omelette example shows how specificity upgrades both flavor and reliability.
• ​Five ChatGPT + Opus Clip creator prompts: Audience Translator, Viral Highlight Hunter, 30-day Content Calendar, Engagement Optimizer, and Hook War Room. Pairs scripting prompts with clip-extraction criteria to systematize ideation, editing, and distribution across short-form channels.
• ​Master Dreams Interpreter template: Structured role with variables, Socratic flow, and multi-theory lenses (Jungian, Freudian, cultural). Produces grounded interpretations plus gentle, practical actions and a short recap—framed for reflection, not prediction.

Where to Start with AI If You're Not a Techie

In the words ahead, it's my goal not only to tell you where you should start with AI if you're not a techie, but also where to go from there. To do that, however, I'll need you to fulfill one small part of the new social contract.

You'll need to know how to use the Internet.

If the Technophobia is so severe that you can't do that, I'm not sure anyone can help you.

But if you have an email account, a newish computer (last few years), and a Wifi connection, you should be fine.

Now that we've got that out of the way, let's begin. For me, it started with a simple question that I started asking about 15 years ago:

How Can I Be Replaced?

At the time, I didn't think I could be, and I was pretty sure of that answer. Then a tool called Automated Insights came along. Created by the great Joe Procopio and some other folks, it was a first-of-its-kind generative AI tool, great at writing paragraphs from structured data.

I was a small-time SEO copywriter and slightly bigger-than-small-time journalist in my local area. I knew Joe's bot couldn't replace me just yet, but I also knew the technology in 2010 was the worst it would ever be.

And since so much of what I did at the time was writing for structured data and pattern recognition, I knew I'd need to up my game or change directions if I wanted to stay gainfully employed.

What I didn't realize then was how easily the tech could scale across sectors to threaten knowledge work and, eventually, blue-collar jobs (especially when it's eventually integrated with spatially aware robots).

That realization didn't come until ChatGPT started stirring up the currents in 2022 and 2023.

By then, I'd found gainful employment and was living more comfortably. But I never lost sight of the question.

As someone whose eyes glazed over anytime someone spoke of code or programming languages, I knew I had to get a grasp on things if I wanted to be one of the people who foresaw the disruption to come and stayed in front of it.

So, I Opened a ChatGPT Account (and So Should You)

It was as simple as going to ChatGPT.com and connecting it to my email. From there, I was able to experiment with their free options. At the time, it was limited to GPT-3.5. File uploads and plugins followed.

Today, it's much more advanced with GPT-5 and its reasoning models, coding capabilities, and image/video creation. But at the time, the idea that a bot could talk to me like a semi-intelligent human and form its own sentences and inferences felt magic enough.

Why ChatGPT When There Are Other Options

Don't mistake me.

ChatGPT is where to begin, but it's not the be-all, end-all.

I recommend starting with ChatGPT because it's pretty much synonymous with AI.

It's what people think of when you mention it; thus, it will give you the proper starting point for this ecosystem and the culture that surrounds it.

Claude, Gemini, Grok, Mistral, Meta, DeepSeek - they all share the same basic (and many of the advanced) functionalities.

With some things, they're even better, and you should definitely be experimenting to find out where the best models excel for your specific purposes.

But ChatGPT is the measuring stick, and you're doing yourself a disservice if you want to get started with AI as a non-techie and don't have a ChatGPT account.

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HIGHLIGHTS: China Uses AI to Make Gay Couple Straight in Horror Film; Spotify Removes 75 Million Spam Tracks in Last Year; Microsoft Adds Anthropic Models to Go Beyond OpenAI

• ​Light raises $30M Series A to redefine finance for hypergrowth companies​
• ​Microsoft brings Anthropic AI models to 365 Copilot, diversifies beyond OpenAI​
• ​Accelerating adoption of AI for cybersecurity at DEF CON 33​
• ​Nscale raises $1.1 billion from Aker, other investors for AI buildout​
• ​Horror film digitally altered in China to make gay couple straight​
• ​Samsung Introduces TRUEBench: A Benchmark for Real-World AI Productivity​
• ​AI Will Soon Have a Say in Approving or Denying Medicare Treatments​
• ​Spotify Strengthens AI Protections for Artists, Songwriters, and Producers​
• ​Musk’s xAI to provide Grok chatbot to US federal agencies​
• ​TSMC, chip design software firms tap AI to help chips use less energy​
• ​Choice: the path to AI sovereignty​
• ​Databricks, OpenAI team up to deliver AI models for enterprise clients​
• ​Gemini Robotics 1.5 brings AI agents into the physical world​
• ​Spotify removes 75m spam tracks in past year as AI increases ability to make fake music​
• ​The A.I. Bubble Is Coming for Your Browser​
• ​RTX, Shield AI picked to give Collaborative Combat Aircraft autonomous capabilities​
• ​Bunkers, AI and attack drones: Inside the booming school security marketplace​
• ​Ford’s CEO: America is ignoring the ‘essential economy’ as AI eats entry-level white-collar jobs​
• ​AMD and Cohere Expand Global AI Collaboration to Power Enterprise and Sovereign Deployments with AMD AI Infrastructure​
• ​AI investors are in for a rude awakening​
• ​Applied Materials and GlobalFoundries Partner to Accelerate AI-Powered Photonics​
• ​Al Gore’s satellite and AI system is now tracking sources of soot pollution​
• ​AI startup Modular raises $250 million, seeks to challenge Nvidia dominance​
• ​Meta Poaches OpenAI Scientist to Help Lead AI Lab​
• ​AI vs. AI: Detecting an AI-obfuscated phishing campaign​
• ​When “no” means “yes”: Why AI chatbots can’t process Persian social etiquette​
• ​Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers now get Gemini CLI and Gemini Code Assist with higher limits.​
• ​UN leaders weigh AI's promise and peril​
• ​AI-cloning of Lara Croft’s voice has ‘Tomb Raider’ fans and actors up in arms​
• ​To Understand AI, Watch How It Evolves​
• ​Making public data more usable for AI developers with the Data Commons MCP Server​
• ​Google launches an AI-powered mood board app, Mixboard​

Envelope Puts Event Planning on Autopilot

Envelope is a newly launched AI agent for event planning that turns a one-sentence brief into a fully working event with a registration page, RSVP invites, tickets, and reminder emails—in seconds. Refine everything in a clean visual builder: brand the page and emails, add custom/conditional form fields for different ticket tiers, and take payments or run discounts with Stripe.

Built-in emailing, analytics, and custom domains make it great for individuals and teams, with time-savers like duplicating past events and embed forms. An API is in beta, Zapier integration is coming soon, and sponsor/venue discovery is on the roadmap. Launch promo: first 3 months free (code: PH3LAUNCH).

Learn more: https://envelope.so​

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