The highlight reel of tech, AI, and business-served witty, weird, and wonderfully short.

“If AI can write code and spot cancer, maybe it can finally help me pick a restaurant.”

🏥 Tsinghua’s AI Hospital, China

Researchers at Tsinghua University in China have built a fully virtual hospital run by AI doctors.

Here’s more about this futuristic sci-fi movie-based hospital:

1. It’s not a real hospital you can walk into. It’s all on a computer, a simulation.

2. Inside this virtual hospital, there are 42 AI “doctors” across 21 medical departments like internal medicine, surgery, dermatology, etc.

3. These AI doctors treat virtual patients (computer-generated people with symptoms).

4. The AI doctors talk to each other, solve medical problems together, and even learn from each case, just like real doctors do.

This matters because:

1. It’s like giving AI an intensive medical internship, but much faster.

2. They trained the AI system with over 1.5 million simulated medical cases.

3. In just one day, these AI doctors gained as much experience as a real doctor would in decades.

4. The system could help test new medical tools, train real doctors, and eventually provide affordable healthcare solutions using AI.

This is not a replacement for real doctors—yet—but it’s a powerful training ground that could help AI become much better at supporting healthcare in the future.

—> AIR incubation

The “Set It and Forget It” Button for Marketers

Google Ads just dropped AI Max, the new “one-click wonder” for Search campaigns that’s about to make your digital marketer friend both excited and slightly nervous.

Here’s the Byte Size Buddy breakdown:

1. Keywordless Magic - Forget obsessing over every last keyword. AI Max uses Google’s AI to match your ads to search queries based on your landing pages and ad assets, scooping up long-tail and conversational searches you’d otherwise miss. It’s like Netflix recommendations, but for your ad budget.

2. Auto-Generated Everything - Headlines and descriptions? AI Max will whip up fresh ones on the fly, tailored to what users are searching for. If someone’s hunting for “4x6 picture frames” and you sell them, your ad will say exactly that manual tweaking is required.

3. Final URL Expansion - AI Max doesn’t just send users to your homepage and hope for the best. It’ll route them to the most relevant page for their query, with options to exclude URLS you don’t want showing up (no more paying for traffic to your blog’s “About Us” page).

4. Control Freaks Welcome - Don’t worry, you can still fine-tune things. Set brand inclusions/exclusions, target by geographic intent at the ad group level, and get transparency with beefed-up search term and asset performance reports. You can even kick out any AI-generated assets you don’t like.

5. Reporting That Doesn’t Suck - Finally, see which search terms, headlines, and URLs are driving conversions-not just impressions. Track, tweak, repeat.

   There’s more:

   • AI Max is rolling out globally in beta this month, with full API support coming in August.

   • It’s Google’s answer to “Can’t AI just do it for me?”-and, honestly, it kind of can.

   • If you ever wished your ad campaigns could run themselves while you sip coffee and pretend to “optimize,” AI Max is your new best friend. Just don’t let it name your next pet.

“How to Sound Like You Know What ‘Transformer Architecture’ Means at Parties”

If you want to stay ahead of the curve (or at least keep up with your intern), here are the hottest Genai courses that’ll have you talking embeddings and ethics in no time:

• Oxford’s AI Program: Once a cozy seminar for 50 execs, now a full-blown AI bootcamp with over 1,000 executives per year. You’ll get schooled in AI strategy, implementation, and why “digital transformation” is more than just a LinkedIn buzzword.

• Cambridge’s In-Person AI Course: Three days, all killer no filler. This intensive program fills up faster than a Taylor Swift concert, giving you hands-on AI experience- and probably a few new LinkedIn connections to humblebrag about.

• Google’s Generative AI Learning Path: Whether you’re a code ninja or just figuring out how to mute yourself on Zoom, Google’s got you covered. Start with the 45-minute intro, then level up to hands-on labs, skill badges, and enough “responsible AI” talk to impress your compliance team.

• LinkedIn’s Career Essentials in Generative AI: Learn how AI is shaking up every industry, and finally understand what your company’s “AI transformation task force” is doing.

Bonus: You can show off your new badge right on your profile. No matter your background- tech pro, business leader, or just someone who wants to drop “GANS” into casual conversation, there’s a course for you.

Upskill now, so you can tell your future AI overlords you tried.

🍔 Quick Bytes: This Week’s Oddly Delicious

• 🤖 Google’s Gemini Gets a Multimodal Makeover

  Gemini just levelled up again. Google’s flagship AI now lets you edit images, generate code, and even summarize your wildest voice notes, all in one app. The new “Gemini Everywhere” update means you can start an idea on your phone, finish it on your laptop, and have Gemini polish it for you.

  The future will be less app-switching, more actual productivity (or at least better memes).

• 🌐 OpenAI’s GPT-5 Rumors: What’s Coming?

  GPT-5 is reportedly in private beta, with early testers raving about its “near-human” reasoning and memory. Openai is teasing longer context windows, better fact-checking, and even “agent” capabilities (think: AI booking your flights, not just chatting about them).

  If this is true, your next virtual assistant might finally understand your calendar chaos.

• 💸 Apple Eyes AI Search: Bye Bye, Google?

  Apple is quietly building its AI-powered search engine, with some insiders saying it could launch as soon as this fall. The goal? Make Siri useful and keep more search ad dollars in Cupertino. Google, meet your new (old) rival.

  The real question: Will Apple Search finally help us find that one file from 2017?

• 📉 Meta’s Revenue Rocket & The Ad Fatigue Problem

  Meta just posted record-breaking revenue ($183B forecast for 2025), but users are complaining about ad overload. Instagram and Facebook feeds are now 1 in 3 posts sponsored, and Reels are starting to feel like late-night infomercials.

  Zuck says it’s “optimizing engagement.”

  Users say, “Where are my friends’ posts?”

📈 Some Trends

1. Brainpower, Upgraded Tech is getting into our heads. Neurological enhancement tools are decoding brain activity to boost learning, help with rehabilitation, and even give us new ways to interact with devices.

   The catch? It’s expensive, sometimes invasive, and comes with a side of “Black Mirror” vibes.

2. The Energy Arms Race AI eats electricity for breakfast, and the world’s biggest tech companies are betting big on nuclear power to keep the lights (and the servers) on.

   With renewable energy struggling to keep up, nuclear is making a comeback as the backbone for tomorrow’s data-hungry innovations.

3. From toothpaste to cloud gaming, everything’s a subscription. The twist? More companies are offering “pause” and “skip” features to fight churn.

4. Creator Monetization Goes Multi-Platform Spotify’s subscription payouts are making waves, but YouTube and Netflix are rumoured to be testing their direct-to-creator models.

   The future: upload once, earn everywhere.

The Final Byte

“AI might be taking over, but it can’t enjoy a good meme… yet”

– Probably not Musk, but he might retweet it.

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