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TikTok Channels Its Inner Facebook!
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The app that made you dance is now trying to help you find your roommate. But is TikTok ready to be your new campus directory?
TikTok’s new Campus Verification lets students add their school and grad year to their profile
You can browse classmates, filter by year, and sort by who’s most followed
Verification runs through UNiDAYS and covers 6,000+ universities
It’s a throwback to Facebook’s Harvard-only days—except now it’s powered by short-form content and influencer culture. TikTok says it’s about “belonging,” but privacy concerns are already bubbling up 👀
✅ If you’re a student, this could be a fast way to find your people. Just be mindful of what you’re sharing—and who’s watching.
Microsoft’s new COPILOT() function lets you talk to your spreadsheet like it’s ChatGPT, turning formulas into full-blown AI prompts.
Type “Summarize this sales data” into a cell and Copilot will do it—live, dynamic, and auto-updating
Supports sentiment analysis, emoji tagging, and classification tasks right inside Excel
Available to Microsoft 365 Copilot subscribers, with early adopters already using it to automate reports and insights
This isn’t a sidebar feature—it’s baked into Excel’s core engine, making AI-native spreadsheets the new normal.
✅ For finance, ops, and data teams, it’s a game-changer. ⚠️ But governance and hallucination risks are real, especially in high-stakes workflows.
👀 Tip: If you’re testing this, start with low-risk datasets and build trust before scaling.
Sam Altman says OpenAI released open-weight models to stop the world from defaulting to China’s. That’s not just competition—it’s a geopolitical chess match.
China’s DeepSeek and Alibaba’s Qwen are gaining traction fast with open-source models under permissive licenses
Altman admitted: “If we didn’t do it, the world was gonna be mostly built on Chinese open-source models”
OpenAI’s new GPT-OSS models are its first open weights since GPT-2, built for low-cost, real-world performance
This isn’t just about transparency—it’s about who sets the foundation for global AI development.
✅ If China’s models become the default, the values baked into them could shape everything from research to regulation 👀
Tip: Watch for more “open” moves from US labs—not just to compete, but to keep influence.
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Yesterday’s Poll:
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