AI Weekly #84: AI in Payments, Claritee & More Tech News!

Spotlight of the Week💡

Trending in AI

AI in Payments: The New Era of Instant Cross‑Border Settlements

Tired of waiting days for costly international payments to clear? This guide shows how AI can slash settlement times to seconds, cut fees, and boost security making cross-border transactions as fast as sending a text.

Key Insights:

• AI cuts settlement times from days to under 15 seconds by automating compliance checks, fraud detection, FX rate optimization, and routing

• Businesses save 30–50% in operational costs, while real-time AI fraud detection prevents up to $10B in losses annually

• Machine learning predicts currency shifts, saving 1–3% on conversions, and digital adoption in Asia & Africa fuels 30% of market growth

Unlock safer, faster, and cheaper global payments without the paperwork headache.
👉 Explore the full guide here

AI News Flash 🗞️

AI Insights

Co-founder of Elon Musk’s xAI departs the company

His new firm will focus on investing in AI safety research and startups that aim to advance humanity and explore fundamental scientific questions.

Apple Plots Expansion Into AI Robots, Home Security and Smart Displays

This device will offer features like smart home control, video calling, media playback, and likely user personalization via facial recognition.

Sam Altman calls AI talent market 'most intense' of his career

This highlights Altman’s warning that chasing fame over skill could hinder finding the rare talent needed for true AI breakthroughs.

Google’s Gemini AI will get more personalized by remembering details automatically

These updates are initially available on the Gemini 2.5 Pro model in select regions and will expand to other versions and markets soon.

Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offer false medical info

These findings raise urgent ethical and regulatory concerns about AI safety and oversight as Meta continues to deploy generative AI across its platforms.

Anthropic nabs Humanloop team as competition for enterprise AI talent heats up

The move brings seasoned AI engineering and product talent into Anthropic’s fold, reinforcing its competitive edge in a heated war for enterprise AI expertise.

NotebookLM Breakthrough 👨🏻‍💻

AI Riddle 🧩

I’m not a camera, yet I see; not a painter, yet I draw; not a child, yet I hallucinate. What am I?

AI For Learning 📖

Applications of TinyML

This six-week intermediate online course (2–4 hrs/week) teaches real-world TinyML applications like keyword spotting, visual wake words and gesture recognition with code examples in embedded systems, guided by Harvard and Google instructors.

🎥 The AI That Moves Differently 

The Pacaso Perspective 💫

Big investors are buying this “unlisted” stock

When the founder who sold his last company to Zillow for $120M starts a new venture, people notice. That’s why the same VCs who backed Uber, Venmo, and eBay also invested in Pacaso.

Disrupting the real estate industry once again, Pacaso’s streamlined platform offers co-ownership of premier properties, revamping the $1.3T vacation home market.

And it works. By handing keys to 2,000+ happy homeowners, Pacaso has already made $110M+ in gross profits in their operating history.

Now, after 41% YoY gross profit growth last year alone, they recently reserved the Nasdaq ticker PCSO.

Invest for $2.90/Share

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Laugh Out Loud😅

Tools For Presentation🌟

AI For You

• Claritee – AI tool for visualizing ideas and creating project wireframes.

• Slidesgo – Platform offering ready-to-use, customizable slide templates.

• SciSummary – AI that condenses scientific papers into quick, summaries.

• PopAI – AI assistant for presentations, data analysis, and content creation.

• FlexClip – Easy online video maker with templates, editing, and AI tools.

AI Riddle Answer🧩

I’m not a camera, yet I see; not a painter, yet I draw; not a child, yet I hallucinate. What am I?

Answer: A generative vision model is an AI trained on massive image and text datasets to understand visual concepts and create new images, It can interpret prompts, blend styles, and invent details, producing realistic or imaginative visualseven ones that never existed.

Those who move while others wait create the biggest shifts. By the time it’s obvious, catching up is too late.🔁