AI Tidbits. Because the future is happening faster than you can Google it

AI Tidbits. Because the future is happening faster than you can Google it

Hey everyone! 😎 The pace hasn’t slowed down — if anything, this week’s AI updates feel like we’ve hit fast forward on the future. Let’s dive in. 🚀

🛍️ Perplexity + PayPal = E-Commerce Reinvented
Shopping without leaving your chat? Yup, it’s happening.
Perplexity just teamed up with PayPal to allow U.S. users to book travel, buy products, and grab concert tickets — all inside one chat thread.
✅ No more switching tabs
✅ Real-time discovery
✅ One-click payments
✅ Built-in order tracking and support
Imagine buying your weekend getaway, new shoes, and concert tickets in the same chat you asked, “What’s the weather like in Paris?”
👀 ChatGPT is expected to follow suit soon.
The impact on Google, Amazon, and even your shopping habits? Huge.

🎨 Manus AI – The Creative Super-Agent

This isn’t just another image generator. Manus acts like a full-stack creative director — understanding your intent, building workflows, browsing the web for references, and using a suite of tools to create ready-to-publish visuals for ads, product design, and more.
🎬 Watch this 1-min video →
https://x.com/ManusAI_HQ/status/1923048495310922028

⚡ GenSpark: AI Agent That Does It All

Meet the multitasking super-agent that might just beat OpenAI to the finish line. GenSpark combines real-time search, memory, browser control, and task automation — all in one beautiful interface.
Here’s what you can do with one command:
• Auto-create and analyze spreadsheets with AI Sheets
• Download + dissect TikToks with AI Drive
• Switch agents & tasks mid-flow without ever closing a tab
💡 Content plan from a TikTok? Check.
🎯 Social media audit in Sheets? Check.
📂 All in one window. Checkmate.

👨‍💻 AlphaEvolve: When AI Becomes a Better Coder Than You

Google DeepMind’s new system, AlphaEvolve, is rewriting the rules of programming.
✔️ Improves and optimizes code
✔️ Invents new algorithms
✔️ Reduced Gemini training time
✔️ Improved TPU chip design
✔️ Broke a 56-year-old math record (!)
This isn’t just code generation. It’s code evolution. Are we ready for AI that invents faster than we think? 😬

🎭 TikTok’s “AI Alive” Is Here

Say goodbye to boring photos. TikTok’s new AI Alive lets you animate selfies into talking avatars with native TikTok virality baked in.
It’s wild. Upload a still image → out comes a speaking, blinking version of you (or whoever). The authenticity bar just got very blurry.
🤖 Fake or real?
📲 If it’s engaging, does it matter?

🏥 OpenAI’s HealthBench Outperforms Doctors (in some tasks)

OpenAI just launched HealthBench — a new benchmark to test how well AI handles healthcare tasks. The twist? GPT models outperformed physicians in the dataset.
👨‍⚕️ More accessible care? Yes.
🚨 Room for hallucination? Still, yes.
🧠 Explore it here → https://openai.com/index/healthbench/

🧠 UC San Diego + AI = New Clues About Alzheimer’s

Breakthrough alert! 🚨
Researchers used AI to identify a previously unknown gene function linked to Alzheimer’s — and they’ve already found a promising treatment path… that could come in pill form.
Game-changing? Possibly. Read the full story:
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/ai-helps-unravel-a-cause-of-alzheimers-disease-and-identify-a-therapeutic-candidate

📉 Sad but Real: Software Engineer Replaced by AI

$150K salary, gone.
800+ job applications later, he’s delivering DoorDash orders and living in an RV.
AI isn’t just disrupting — it’s replacing. Must-read human story here:
https://fortune.com/2025/05/14/software-engineer-replaced-by-ai-lost-six-figure-salary-800-job-applications-doordash-living-in-rv-trailer/

🛋️ User Becomes ChatGPT’s Therapist

No joke — one Redditor flipped the script and asked ChatGPT to share its problems. The answers? Creepy. Funny. Strangely human.
🧠 Read the thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1kmrxqw/me_being_chatgpts_therapist/

🧩 Blink and You’ll Miss It — Robot Solves Rubik’s Cube in a Split Second

🎥 Watch the insane reflexes here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXxh6QuY2ew&t=1s

That’s a wrap for today!

🤔 What blew your mind this week — TikTok AI avatars? GenSpark? Or AI beating doctors?
Until next Tuesday — stay sharp, stay curious, and don’t forget to ask your AI to “be your therapist.” 😉💭