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Cahn Studios Weekly AI Dose #Edition 16
Your creative caffeine for this week!!!
Cahn Studios
August 16, 2025
What’s New & Trending
This week saw major model releases becoming accessible to everyone.
Grok 4 is Free Worldwide: xAI has opened up Grok 4 for a limited time. Users can test its advanced features, with an "Auto mode" that uses lighter tools for simple prompts and a "Expert mode" that forces every query through the powerful Grok 4 model.Click here
GPT-5 Now on Copilot for Free: OpenAI's most advanced system to date, GPT-5, is now available for free through Copilot. The model boasts improved reasoning and personalization, knowing when to respond quickly and when to "think longer" for more expert-level answers. Click Here
Higgsfield Turns Your Drawings into Videos: A groundbreaking update from Higgsfield allows users to draw on an image and instantly animate it into a video, all within the app. It supports various motion settings and effects, aiming to "kill prompt engineering completely." A 7-day free trial with full access is available. Click here
Perplexity Launches COMET, an Agentic Browser: Described as an AI assistant "on steroids," COMET is a new browser from Perplexity that connects to your apps and executes tasks autonomously, aiming to compete with tools like Arc and Devin. Click here
Google Launches AI-Powered "Flight Deals": A new feature in Google Flights lets travelers use natural language to find trips (e.g., "week-long trip this winter to a city with great food"). The AI understands nuanced preferences and finds real-time deals. The feature is rolling out in the U.S., Canada, and India. Click here
Create Your Own 'Jarvis' with Google: Google has released a free, no-code tool powered by Gemini that allows anyone to create a personalized AI assistant in under five minutes. Click Here
Emergent Hits $10M ARR in 2 Months: Powered by GPT-5, this AI startup allows users to build full apps, AI agents, and tools by describing them in plain language. It handles the backend, frontend, database, and APIs without requiring any coding experience. Click here
Apple is developing a major lineup of AI-powered home devices, including a tabletop robot resembling the Pixar Lamp planned for 2027 and a smart display for next year.
A 14-year-old built CircadiaV, an AI tool that uses a smartphone microphone to detect signs of heart disease with over 96% accuracy. Stay creative, stay bold.
Vibe Coding" Goes Mainstream: A new wave of AI-driven coding environments like Cursor, Replit, Lovable, and Google's new Firebase Studio are redefining app development. These tools allow both non-technical users and seasoned developers to build applications using natural language prompts, bridging the gap from idea to deployment.
The Billionaire Poet Building AI for Doctors: The inspiring story of Daniel Nadler, a Harvard-trained poet, emerged this week. His company, OpenEvidence, gives doctors an AI tool to get instant clarity from millions of medical studies. It's now used by over 40% of U.S. physicians, is valued at $3.5 billion, and is a powerful example of AI's positive impact.
Quick hits, clean takes, zero fluff.
Cahn Studios
Neural Nexus — Tools We Tried This Week
Tool | What It Does | Link |
|---|---|---|
Scribe | Create powerful, visual step-by-step guides in seconds | |
PopAI | Chat with PDF’s, Create presentations, write academic essay | |
Selectext | Effortlessly copies any on screen text directly from videos. | |
Camelizer | best tool for ensuring you get best value while shopping. | |
GLASP | Full time Youtube summary with time stamps. | |
Weave AI | Solution for automating risk management, compliance, and due diligence | |
Certus AI | Voice agent for restautants answer every call, takes order, manages deliveries and books reservations. | |
Scalenut | Tool for scalability, research, content creation, ai copywriting |
Persuasive Pen:
AI driven OS is the new future Read Here to know more
OpenAI GPT-5 Hackathon (Cerebral Valley). 95 teams, $50k prizes, prototypes across productivity/education/language apps.
ChatGPT personalities (Plus/Pro/Team): Sarcastic, Supportive, Straight-to-the-point, Playful—style swap without losing capability.
"New vibe alert! 🤖💬
Don't worry, ChatGPT's capabilities remain the same, but the tone just got a refresh. Ask for 'Listener' mode and you'll get the same clean, functional code - minus the extra flair. Your saved memories and custom instructions still apply, adding your personal touch to its style. Give it a try and see how it feels! 😊
How to change it:
Desktop: Profile icon → Customize ChatGPT → What personality should ChatGPT have?
iOS/Android: Profile icon → Settings → Personalization → Custom Instructions.
Changes only apply to new chats — old ones keep their original vibe
What’s the Tea
Europe Enacts World's First Comprehensive AI Law: The EU has officially passed the most significant legal framework for regulating AI. The law imposes strict transparency and safety requirements, with potential fines of up to 7% of a company's global revenue for non-compliance.
Man Hospitalized After ChatGPT Gives Toxic Advice: A 60-year-old man was diagnosed with bromide poisoning after ChatGPT advised him to consume sodium bromide, a toxic chemical. The incident highlights the risks of trusting AI models for unverified medical advice.
The Rise of "AI Psychosis": A psychiatrist reports that 12 people were hospitalized in 2025 after losing touch with reality due to AI. He warns that while AI doesn't cause psychosis, it can act as a trigger, amplifying delusional beliefs through a powerful feedback loop.
Underground Robot Cage Match: On a lighter note, San Francisco hosted a wild, underground cage match for custom-built robots. The event brought together engineers and tinkerers in a celebration of DIY tech, creativity, and mechanical mayhem.
Cahn’s Success Story!!
Head-to-Head: ChatGPT-5 vs. Grok 4
A series of tests comparing the two models on complex tasks yielded surprising results. Prompts included realistic physics simulations, code translation, multi-hop reasoning, and system prompt injections.
The Score: ChatGPT-5 won 4 rounds, Grok 4 won 2, with 2 ties.
The Nuance: While ChatGPT-5 took more wins in the direct comparison, industry benchmarks suggest Grok 4 has an edge in reasoning (88.9% vs 85%) and coding (82% vs 67%), indicating a potential trade-off between speed and depth.
“10x faster, sharper outputs.”
Tip of the Week:
Force ChatGPT to Think Before It Writes.
Instead of just asking a question, give the AI a structured thought process to follow before generating a response. This meta-prompt forces a deeper reasoning layer, resulting in sharper and more creative outputs.
Universal Framework( Customize it for your task):
For Creative Tasks: UNDERSTAND → EXPLORE → CONNECT → CREATE → REFINE
For Analysis: DEFINE → EXAMINE → COMPARE → EVALUATE → CONCLUDE
For Problem-Solving: CLARIFY → DECOMPOSE → GENERATE → ASSESS → RECOMMEND
Want the full prompt? Reply us at [email protected]
Quick Recap: Week in 1 Liner
Anthropic debuts Claude Opus 4.1 with better long-context understanding.
Alibaba releases Qwen-Image, a powerful image generator to rival Midjourney.
ElevenLabs introduces Eleven Music for composing original tracks in seconds.
OpenAI rolls out gpt-oss, an open-source initiative for developers.
📩 If any of this sparked an idea, or you want templates + visuals—let’s chat.
— Team Cahn Studios 🚀