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Apple's next gadget might not fit in your pocket, but it'll look right at home on your coffee table. And: Find out how researchers used AI to restore an ALS patient’s ability to speak.

Today’s Insights

• Apple’s planning a tabletop robot for 2026

• Tutorial: How to create landing pages with Claude

• AI helps restore an ALS patient’s speech

• Everything else you should know today

• 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

• AI-Generated Images: Taken too literally

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Apple’s next big release could be an AI-powered tabletop robot

The release of a new Apple device is a rare event — something that happens only once every few years. We might have just gotten a sneak peek at what’s next. 

Bloomberg reported that hundreds of engineers are working on a multipurpose “tabletop robot,” which will be infused with Apple Intelligence and an AI-powered Siri. The $1,000 device is expected to be released sometime in 2026 or 2027.

What will it look like? Early reporting suggests it’ll resemble an iPad attached to a robotic arm that can swivel 360 degrees. The screen will be able to automatically tilt to face the user during video calls, and it’ll run on a custom version of iOS.

What can it do? It’ll be like an all-in-one “command center” for your home. You’ll be able to monitor security cameras, make video calls, and interact with Siri using your voice.

Why it’s important: For one, Apple thinks it’s a smart business strategy. It recently abandoned its plans for a self-driving car — and this seems to be one of the projects it’s focusing on instead. 

Besides its relatively simple HomePod, it’d be the company’s first major foray into the burgeoning home robotics industry, which is expected to grow about 20% per year over the next decade. Similar products from Meta and Amazon have seen mixed success, but Apple could set itself apart by leaning into its robot’s unique AI capabilities.

We’ll be honest: We’re still waiting on a humanoid robot that can help with chores, cooking, and other tasks inside our homes. But Apple’s rumored device could be a solid compromise that bridges the gap between smart home assistants and full-fledged domestic robots.

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THE AI ACADEMY

How to create landing pages from screenshots with Claude

• Go to Claude AI and log in with your account.

• Now make sure you have enabled Claude 3.5 Sonnet and the artifacts feature.

• Upload your screenshot and prompt it to generate a similar website for you.

Example Prompt: Generate a website, with the code, that looks like the attached image. [attach image].

• Wait a few seconds and you’ll get the first version of your landing page. Download it and open it to see it in full screen.

• You can edit it, add images of your choice, and make changes accordingly. You can use the prompt:

Make these changes to it: [insert 1st change] and [insert 2nd change]

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AI & NEUROSCIENCE

AI helps an ALS patient speak again

When doctors outfitted Casey Harrell with implanted electrodes last year, they warned that their experiment was a long shot. Harrell lives with the neurodegenerative condition ALS and has lost the ability to speak clearly and navigate on his own. 

But Researchers at the University of California, Davis wanted to see if they could recreate Harrell’s voice by monitoring electric impulses in his brain and using AI to interpret them. To their surprise, it worked far better than expected, according to the New York Times.

Here’s how it works:

• The device is composed of four electrode arrays that can transform Harrell’s mouth and tongue movements into recognizable speech

• It works by picking up on certain brain patterns that each represent a unique syllable, then piecing them together to form words

• Eventually, Harrell was able to communicate 6,000 unique words with 97.5% accuracy — in a voice resembling his own

Why it’s significant: Platforms like Neuralink have already managed to help paralyzed patients navigate a computer screen with their minds. But recreating someone’s voice is thought to be more difficult because there are so many more variables at play. 

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AI & TECH NEWS

Everything else you need to know today

• Digital Nomad: Alphabet is introducing its AI Overviews feature to six new countries, including Brazil, India, and the UK.

• Brainiac Browser: Boston-based startup Consensus raised $11 million to build an AI-powered search engine that specializes in academic topics, including biology and sociology.

• Go Long: Researchers at Beijing’s Tsinghua University created an AI model that can generate more than 10,000 “high-quality” words at a time — paving the way for AI-written books.

• Listen Closely: Cybersecurity firm Pindrop released a tool that it says can detect deepfake audio, including AI-generated speech, with 99% accuracy.

⚽ One Fun Thing: The UK soccer club Liverpool has begun using an AI-powered analytics tool to help plan out its corner kicks. The model was trained on nearly 9,700 kicks. It takes each player’s height, weight, movement, and location into account before coming up with strategies that are most likely to lead to a goal.

🧠 Brain Food: SingularityNet is building a decentralized supercomputer that it hopes will help startups achieve AGI. Companies will be able to purchase tokens in order to access the system, which is expected to go online in 2025.

PRODUCTIVITY

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PROMPT OF THE DAY

Friday Funday: Tic-Tac-Toe

Prompt: I want you to act as a Tic-Tac-Toe game. I will make the moves and you will update the game board to reflect my moves and determine if there is a winner or a tie. Use X for my moves and O for the computer's moves. Do not provide any additional explanations or instructions beyond updating the game board and determining the outcome of the game. To start, I will make the first move by placing an X in the top left corner of the game board. 

You can adapt the prompt to your specific needs.

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AI-GENERATED IMAGES

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