AI’s Rewriting Medicine 🧬, Media 📰, and Your Next Selfie 📸

AI Quick Takes ⚡

1. AI Just Slashed Drug Development Time and Delivered Hope

Last week, we told you about Clairity, the AI tool catching breast cancer earlier than ever. This week? We’re stepping into the lab where AI helped create a brand-new medicine for a disease without a cure that impacts millions. Read more 

The scoop: Scientists at Insilico Medicine used AI to design Rentosertib, a drug for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a rare lung disease with no cure. In a clinical trial with 71 patients, those on the highest dose could breathe in about 100 mL more air after 12 weeks. That’s a win in a space where progress is painfully slow.

Why it matters: Traditional drug development can take over a decade and cost $2B+. This AI-designed drug made it to human trials in just 2.5 years. AI is coming for healthcare’s biggest pain points, and that is a part of the AI revolution we love to see.

2. Reddit to Anthropic: Stop scraping and start paying

Reddit, home to 100 million daily users and every niche convo you didn’t know you needed, is suing AI startup Anthropic (aka Claude’s creator). The accusation? Anthropic scraped Reddit over 100,000 times, even after being told to stop, and used the content to train its chatbot without permission or payment. Read more

The tea: Reddit has licensing deals with OpenAI and Google. But Anthropic? They allegedly skipped the handshake and went straight to copy-paste. Yikes.

Why it matters: As AI gobbles up data like it’s free samples at Costco, companies (and creators) are saying: enough. Lawsuits are flying…from The New York Times to musicians to comedians. The internet’s free-for-all era? It's on trial.

Big picture: AI needs massive amounts of data to learn, but the rules about who gets to use what are still fuzzy. These court cases will help decide if AI owes rent on the internet’s content and if your posts are part of the bill.

3. Google’s AI Just Nuked Internet Traffic (Publishers Are Panicking)

Google’s AI Overviews have been answering your search questions without clicks or links right at the top of the results page for a while now. But the new twist? Google just rolled out “AI Mode,” designed to tackle even more complex queries (think travel planning or finding the best running shoes for flat feet). And publishers? They're watching their web traffic vanish faster than Leonardo DiCaprio when his date hits 26. Read more

📉 The receipts:

• Business Insider: ↓ 55% in organic search traffic

• HuffPost + Washington Post: ↓ ~50%

• The Atlantic’s CEO: “Expect traffic from Google to drop to zero” (Mood: 😬)

Why it matters (for literally everyone):
Google is shifting from “search engine” to “answer engine.” The old internet model of clicks, links, and discoverability is being quietly rewritten by AI.

If you’re building a brand, running a business, or trying to be seen online, take a cue from the publishers now scrambling to stay visible. You still need to show up on the platforms Google’s AI pulls from, but relying heavily on them and the clicks they generate is risky. The smarter play? Build direct relationships: your own list, your own message, your own community.

4. One beach photo, zero privacy

Journalist Kelsey Piper shared what looked like a totally generic vacation pic: her son on a cloudy beach, flying a kite. No caption, no geotag. Just sand, sky, and nothing that screams Monterey Bay. But when she tested it with OpenAI’s newest model? It identified the exact beach: Marina State Beach.

Wait, what?! The AI didn’t need fancy tools or hidden metadata; it’s getting scarily good at pulling real-world info from the tiniest digital crumbs. It analyzed things like wave shape, shoreline slope, and lighting, turning a nondescript photo into a pinpointed location.

Bottom line: If AI can track your location from a single photo, we all need to rethink what we share, when we share it, and who might be watching.

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📔 Voice > Overthinking

One of our favorite low-effort, high-reward AI hacks? Using voice dictation with ChatGPT to offload your brain on a walk, in the car, or mid kitchen clean-up.

Our team member Katie swears by what she calls her “brain dump walks.” It’s part productivity, part steps goal, part talking-to-yourself-but-make-it-strategic. She hits that little microphone icon in ChatGPT and rambles into her phone about everything from a new business idea to the birthday gift she still hasn’t bought, the dentist appointment she forgot to schedule (again), and the other 572 tabs open in her brain.

Then she sends the transcript to ChatGPT and asks it to:

• Turn it into a prioritized to-do list

• Pull out the big ideas for a project outline

• Organize her week by urgency vs. nice-to-have

The result? Clarity without sitting still. (Or spiraling. Or buying another planner you won’t use.)

Try saying: “Hey ChatGPT, here’s a voice note with everything on my mind. Can you organize this into categories like tasks, reminders, and creative ideas?” Boom. Inbox zero for your brain.

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🫣 “Is it just me, or does using AI feel like cheating?”

Not just you. We’ve heard this from so many smart, capable, high-achieving women who say they feel a twinge of guilt when they use AI. Like they’re cutting corners or breaking some unspoken “do it the hard way” rule. Meanwhile, men? Bragging about their ChatGPT hacks like they just invented contouring on TikTok.

And there’s data to back it up.

📊 Harvard says: A 2025 study from Harvard Business School, Global Evidence on Gender Gaps and Generative AI, found that women are about 20% less likely to use generative AI than men. Why? Fear of being penalized or perceived as “cheating” plays a big role. The study pulls from 18 surveys and over 17,000 participants. TL;DR: It’s not in your head. It’s in the data.

💡 Enter: Good Girl Syndrome. A study from the Norwegian School of Economics found that high-performing female students were 18 percentage points less likely than their male peers to use ChatGPT. Why? Many internalized the idea that using AI = “cheating.” Researchers called it Good Girl Syndrome, that pressure to follow the rules, avoid shortcuts, and do everything “the right way.”

🔐 And SCU found: Women are more likely to worry about the ethical implications of AI use and more likely to avoid it unless institutions clearly say “this is okay.” When organizations set the tone, women feel safer claiming their tech power. (Read more from Santa Clara University’s Digital Dignity Day).

🧠 Cornell’s insight: A 2025 study titled Feeling Guilty Being a c(ai)borg revealed that guilt is often the first step on a path toward empowered, ethical AI use, especially for women who value transparency and skill-building.

The reframe: Guilt can be a growth signal.
→ Feel like you're cheating? That might be your values talking, wanting to use tech in a way that feels aligned.
→ Worried you’re not doing it ‘right’? That’s a sign you’re ready to build better AI literacy.
→ Hiding your AI use? Owning it openly can turn shame into strategy.

Bottom line: Using AI doesn’t make you a fraud. It makes you savvy. And when women bring their values to the table, the tech gets better for everyone.

Your Turn 🔁

Got an AI win? Found a tool that made your life 10x easier? Building something cool that deserves a little hype (or know a woman who is)? We want to hear it! You might just see your story in the next edition (with your permission, of course). Because when one of us figures something out, we all get smarter. Inspiration > gatekeeping. Let’s leverage AI together. 🫶 

She’s Shaping AI 👑

Mira Murati Is Building the Next Big Thing (Again)

After co-piloting the rise of ChatGPT and DALL·E as OpenAI’s CTO, Mira Murati is back with her own thing. It’s called Thinking Machines Lab, and it's aiming to build AI that’s more transparent, collaborative, and user-friendly. Read more

Her co-founders? A dream team of ex-OpenAI insiders. Her funding goal? A chill $2 billion. And yes, she’s doing all this before even launching a product.

If that sounds bold…it is. But when you’ve helped lead one of the most powerful AI platforms on Earth, we’re guessing the “wait and see” phase is optional.

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