Meta Adds New AI Controls!

Welcome back, folks.

Meta's handing parents the AI supervision toolkit they didn't know they needed.

Between blocking chatbots and monitoring conversations, your teen's AI buddies are about to get a whole lot less private.

Let’s dive into the details. . .

Today in the “Incredible AI” world:

• Meta Rolls Out Smarter Teen AI Controls

• OpenAI Blocks MLK Jr. AI Deepfakes

• Claude Joins Microsoft 365 To Level Up

• How to Master Video Editing with AI

• 5 Super-Useful AI Tools You Should Try

• AI Image of the Day

Read Time: 4 minutes

- LATEST DEVELOPMENTS -

Meta Hands Parents Control Over Teen AI Chats:

Meta is rolling out new parental controls for teen interactions with AI characters. These tools will allow parents to block chats, monitor topics, and set limits. The features aim to improve safety and transparency.

Things to Know:

• What Parents Can Actually Do: Meta is rolling out controls that let parents block AI character chats entirely or pick specific ones to ban. Parents will also see conversation topics their teens discuss with AI.

• The Timeline and Availability: These features hit Instagram early next year in the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia. English-only for now, folks. Meta AI chatbot stays accessible, though, limited to age-appropriate content only.

• Why This Matters Now: Platforms like OpenAI, Meta, and YouTube are suddenly very concerned about teen safety. Lawsuits linking AI companies to teen suicides probably helped speed things up.

Teens currently interact with limited AI characters that follow PG-13 standards. Parents can set time limits on AI chats. Instagram is even using AI to catch kids lying about their age, which is honestly pretty meta.

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OpenAI Blocks MLK Jr. Deepfakes After Backlash:

OpenAI just hit the brakes on Sora's ability to generate videos of Martin Luther King Jr. after users got creative in all the wrong ways. Turns out, giving everyone a video generation tool means some people will absolutely ruin it.

Things to Know:

• What Happened: Some Sora users decided to create videos showing MLK making monkey noises during his famous "I Have a Dream" speech and wrestling with Malcolm X. Yeah, people went there.

• The New Policy: Families and estate owners can now request that their loved ones' likenesses be blocked from Sora. It's an opt-out system, which means OpenAI trained on everyone first, and now you have to ask them to stop.

• Who Else Is Affected: Robin Williams' daughter Zelda also asked people to stop sending her AI videos of her late father, calling them gross. Sora's feed is packed with AI versions of Bob Ross, Whitney Houston, and JFK, too.

So OpenAI is learning the hard way that some guardrails probably should've existed before launch. The company keeps saying they learn by shipping products, but maybe some lessons are worth learning earlier.

Claude Just Got a Microsoft 365 Superpower Boost:

Anthropic just dropped a bombshell. Claude can now peek into your Microsoft 365 apps. We're talking SharePoint, OneDrive, Outlook, and Teams. Your AI assistant just got a backstage pass to your entire digital workplace.

Things to Know:

• Microsoft Gets Friendly: Claude now connects directly with Microsoft 365 through a new MCP connector that's rolling out to Team and Enterprise subscribers globally. Your admin flips a switch, you authenticate, and boom.

• What Claude Can See: The AI can search SharePoint documents, analyze your Outlook email threads, and dig through Teams conversations without you uploading a single file. It reads your calendar, too. Efficiency just got scary good.

• Enterprise Search Arrives: Ask Claude about company policies, and it pulls answers from HR docs in SharePoint, email discussions in Outlook, and team guidelines all at once. One question, multiple sources, single answer. That's the pitch.

This moves Claude from chatbot to workplace sidekick. The MCP connector turns scattered data into a searchable context. For enterprises drowning in information, this could be the lifeline they didn't know they needed.

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- AI TUTORIAL -

How to Master Video Editing with AI:

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• Edit with ease: Edit your content just like a text document—cut, copy, paste, and delete. Changes you make to the text automatically update the audio/video.

• Overdub: Need to fix mistakes or add new text? Use Descript’s AI-powered overdub feature.

• Publish and share: Export your content to various formats or share it directly from Descript.

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- DAILY POLL AND RESULT -

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Vote and find out the result tomorrow.

Yesterday’s Result:

Q) Should AI have the power to make life-or-death decisions in healthcare?

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- AI IMAGE OF THE DAY -

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Prompt:

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Try this prompt in any decent AI image generator and let me know your result.

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