Why Google's $14B AI Investment Just Panicked Playing a Kids Game

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🔥 Top News of the WEEK: Google's AI panicked playing a children's game 🤯

🎬Marketing Corner: TikTok just became an AI video factory

💼 AI Job News Corner: LinkedIn finally made job search not suck

 🔍AI LAUNCHES : Which AI is making people rich!

🧠 Friday’s Lunch and Learn: Top 5 AI Tools You Should Try This Week

🍹 MOCK MARGARITA : THE ROCKING AI CORNER

🎮 Google's AI Had a Pokémon Panic Attack (I'm Not Making This Up)

This is the most hilarious AI story of the week, and it's 100% real.

Google DeepMind just published a report admitting that Gemini 2.5 Pro literally panics when playing Pokémon. Like, actual simulated panic attacks.

Here's what happened:

• Researchers have been watching AI models play Pokémon on Twitch (because apparently this is what scientists do now)

• When Gemini's Pokémon get close to fainting, the AI starts making terrible decisions

• The panic causes "qualitatively observable degradation in the model's reasoning capability"

• Twitch chat viewers can PREDICT when the AI is having a breakdown

The best part? Claude (Anthropic's AI) tried to commit virtual suicide by intentionally getting all its Pokémon killed, thinking it would teleport across a cave. It doesn't work that way, but watching an AI try to off itself in a children's game is peak 2025 content.

Why this matters: If advanced AI models panic playing a 25-year-old Game Boy game, what happens when they're managing your business processes? 🤔

Source: TechCrunch

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🌮 TACOS DISH: MARKETING CORNER

📱 TikTok Just Became an AI Video Factory

TikTok just dropped Symphony Creative Studio – their new AI video generation playground that's about to change everything.

Three new tools that'll blow your mind:

1. Image-to-Video: Upload a photo, get a TikTok-style video

2. Text-to-Video: Write a prompt, watch magic happen

3. Showcase Products: Turn product photos into viral-ready content

The breakdown:

• Designed specifically for brands and advertisers

• Fully integrated with TikTok's ecosystem

• WPP (giant ad agency) is already integrating it into their platform

• This is basically Runway or Pika but built FOR TikTok

Hot take: This is TikTok's play to become the Adobe of social video. While everyone's fighting over ChatGPT, TikTok quietly built the future of content creation.

Smart marketers are already testing this. Dumb ones are still manually editing videos like it's 2019.

Source: TikTok Newsroom

🌮 SALSA DISH: JOB NEWS CORNER

💼 LinkedIn Finally Made Job Search Not Suck

LinkedIn just dropped AI-powered job search that actually understands human language.

What's new:

• You can search like "Find recent software engineer roles in Silicon Valley"

• No more keyword gymnastics

• Free for all users (shocking, I know)

• Uses fine-tuned LLMs to understand context

Why this is huge: LinkedIn's old search was like asking a robot to find you love – technically possible, but you'd probably end up disappointed.

Now you can search like a human instead of like a corporate keyword bot.

🌮 TACOS DISH: TOP LAUNCHES

🔥 AI Tools Making People Rich This Week

1. Glean (Just Raised $150M)

• Enterprise AI search that actually works

• Searches across all your company's data

• Series F funding = they're printing money

• Link: glean.com

2. Vivago 2.0 (Just Launched)

• All-in-one AI creative assistant

• Web and mobile apps

• Makes creativity accessible to everyone

• Link: vivago.ai

3. Essential AI

• Just launched Essential-Web v1.0

• US-based startup getting attention

• Focus on web-based AI applications

🥑 GUACAMOLE DISH : AI SPEED ROUND

PRODUCTIVITY BOOST: Top 5 AI Tools You Should Try This Week

OpenAI Kills GPT-4.5 API: Developers have until July 14 to migrate. RIP to another preview model that barely got to live.

Perplexity Adds Scheduled Searches: You can now automate your research obsessions. Set it to search "AI news" daily and get results emailed to you.

MiniMax's Hailuo 02: New AI video model that can handle complex scenes like gymnastics. Quality is getting scary good.

Microsoft's Code Researcher: New AI tool that can trace system crashes and suggest fixes. Your debugging nightmares just got easier.

ChatGPT Record for macOS: 120-minute recordings with auto-transcripts. Premium users only, because OpenAI loves paywalls.

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That’s a wrap

👏 THANK YOU

That's a wrap, AI adventurers! 🚀

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Stay curious (and slightly caffeinated),

Neel Chief AI Chaos Coordinator

P.S. - I'm genuinely curious: What's the weirdest thing AI has helped you with this week? Hit reply and tell me. I read every response (my AI assistant reads them, but I trained it to have good taste).

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