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Hello again, human brain, and welcome back to your daily munch of AI news.

Here’s what’s on the menu today:

• Your brain on AI? Not pretty🤤

  Microsoft says AI kills critical thinking skills.

• Your future robot runs on NVIDIA🤖

  It unveiled its humanoid robot strategy.

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MAIN COURSE

Is AI making us dumb?🤤

A new Microsoft study suggests AI tools are weakening our critical thinking skills.

What's going on?

Microsoft researchers found people with higher confidence in Gen AI showed less critical thinking. This can lead to diminished skill for independent problem-solving.

Who's most at risk?

Beginners and students. One study found university students under pressure used ChatGPT more frequently, which increased procrastination and decreased their grades.

Is there an upside?

Some research shows positive effects. A different study found students using ChatGPT in classwork had improvements in critical and creative thinking compared to non-users.

What determines the impact?

How we use AI matters most. The impact of AI on cognition depends on how we use it and on who is using it.

What's the best approach?

Using AI actively and consciously while understanding its limitations is key. When used correctly, these tools could enhance our ability to think and reflect independently.

What don't we know?

Most research is short-term, leaving long-term cognitive effects uncertain. There hasn't really been enough time to see the kind of impact these tools will have on our cognition.

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NVIDIA builds robot souls🤖

NVIDIA unveiled its comprehensive strategy for physical AI at GTC 2025. The aim is to position itself as the essential infrastructure provider for humanoid robots.

What's the vision?

NVIDIA is creating an ecosystem for robots that can understand/interact with the real world.

How does it work?

The company's strategy centers on “three computers:”

1. A training computer that builds robot brains using real and synthetic data

2. A simulation computer (Omniverse) where robots learn in virtual environments

3. A deployment computer that runs these algorithms in physical robots

What’s the advantage?

Rather than building robots themselves, NVIDIA is providing the “chips, libraries, models, and data pipelines” that developers need.

Who's using it?

GM for manufacturing, GE Healthcare for autonomous imaging, Uber Freight for logistics, and more. All of these rely on NVIDIA's simulation and computing platform.

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Think Piece 🧠

Which AI companies changed their safety pledges? The Midas Project monitors how OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and more quietly rolled back their safety commitments.

Startup News 💰

ElevenLabs launched Actor Mode in Studio. It lets you guide AI voices using your own voice for precise control over speech delivery.

ERNIE 4.5 beat GPT-4.5 in an AI chess battle. It dominated with a decisive 3-0 sweep, including an impressive 10-move checkmate.

Research 👨‍🔬 

UI-R1 — a reinforcement learning framework for enhancing multimodal large language models’ reasoning capabilities in graphic user interface (GUI) action prediction tasks.

ReaRec — an inference-time reasoning framework for sequential recommendation models, enhancing predictions through implicit, multistep reasoning.

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