Claude’s Snack Fail 🍿, Meta’s Photo Grab 📸, Gemini’s Time-Saver ⏰

AI Quick Takes ⚡

1. An AI tries capitalism, and flops fabulously 🧃

Anthropic handed its Claude 3.7 AI the keys to an office vending machine business. Giving it responsibilities like stocking, pricing, emailing suppliers, and handling Slack support. The result? Claude sold tungsten cubes as a specialty item at a loss (after misreading a joke), hallucinated Venmo payments, and tried to deliver snacks in a blazer. Yes, really. Read more

Bottom line: The experiment showed that even top-tier AI still struggles with judgment, nuance, and, you know, being human. Claude flopped as a solo operator, but Anthropic says better prompts, tooling, and memory could make agent-led businesses more viable. Until then, keep your bots on a leash…and maybe don’t let them near your budget.

2. Meta wants your private pics, and it’s not quite clear why 📱 

Facebook has begun asking users to opt into “cloud processing,” meaning your private, unpublished camera-roll photos would be regularly uploaded to Meta’s servers so its AI can analyze themes, faces, dates, and objects. Meta says it’s not currently training its AI models on that data, that it’s all opt-in, and you can disable it any time. Read more

Why it matters: Meta’s terms don’t explicitly promise these photos won’t be used to train AI in the future. That ambiguity sets off alarm bells. It’s presented as a cute feature for collages and recaps, but it feels like a slippery slope. Once AI gets invited into your camera roll, pulling it back out won’t be so easy.

3. “Google drops Doppl: your AI fashion twin is here 👯‍♀️

Google Labs just dropped Doppl, a U.S.-only app that uses your full-body photo plus any outfit screenshot to create an animated video of you wearing that look. Doppl gives you a mini fashion runway, with your virtual twin strutting, waving, or striking a pose. Read More

But here’s the glitch: Pants sometimes glitch, shirts go too long, socks vanish, and mirror selfies might turn you into a glitchy fashion gremlin. Doppl is fashion-forward fun with serious limitations. It's a playful leap toward personalized virtual try-ons, but until it sorts the fit bugs, be ready to laugh, not shop.

4. AI might take jobs, but it’s busy inventing new ones 💼 

A NYT Magazine piece digs into the AI job paradox: sure, some roles are disappearing, but AI is also creating up to 22 new human-centered jobs around trust, creativity, and integration. Read More

What’s popping? Roles like AI auditors, ethicists, and human escalation officers rise alongside integration-focused gigs, think AI trainers and interface curators.

Bottom line: Yes, AI is shaking up the workforce. But this article paints a hopeful picture: the new roles aren’t about replacing us, they’re about amplifying human strengths like judgment, ethics, and style. Trust, creativity, and empathy are suddenly in high demand.

👉️ Huge thanks to Sarah Storey for sharing this piece with us!

Try This Week 💡

✨ Google Gemini Released Scheduled Tasks

Ready to put your daily admin on autopilot? Meet Gemini’s scheduled actions, the set-it-and-forget-it hack that spits out inbox recaps and calendar highlights exactly when you need them. Ask once, sip your latte, and let Gemini play personal assistant. Google AI Pro plan required.

Try At Work: Morning Mission Control ☕️

What to do: Give Gemini a recurring 8:00 a.m. standing meeting with… your inbox, and calendar.

Prompt Gemini:

“Every weekday at 8 a.m., send me a three-bullet briefing:

• All of my meetings for today (with links)

• Any new emails that mention ‘budget’ or ‘deadline’

• The three most urgent events or deadlines coming up in the next 48 hours (pulled from my calendar + flagged emails).

Why it ‘s genius: Gemini pulls calendar and email in one tidy card so you’re not app-hopping before caffeine.

Big-sister tip: Toss in “and remind me to breathe at noon” if your lunch tends to become a myth.

Try At Work: YouTube Trend Tracker (Business Edition) 📈

What to do: Turn Gemini into your market-intel intern, one that never sleeps, never forgets a link, and shows up in your inbox before you’ve found your coffee mug.

Prompt Gemini:

“Every weekday at 9:00 a.m., list the 20 most-viewed YouTube videos uploaded in the past 24 hours that contain “[YOUR BUSINESS KEYWORD]” in the title. Return: title, channel, view count, publish date, thumbnail, and direct link.

Why it ‘s genius:

• Competitive radar: Catch your competitor’s demo video the morning it lands, not three weeks later when the sales team stumbles on it.

• Content ideas that resonate: See which explainer topics are blowing up (hello, instant webinar/Instagram/LinkedIn outline).

Pro move: Duplicate the automation for each keyword you care about. Gemini will juggle them all, so you get laser-focused recaps without the manual search spiral.

You Asked 🙋‍♀️

“How can ChatGPT flip my LinkedIn profile into a magnet for dream gigs, clients, and partnerships?” 🫂 

Sabrina Ramonov, founder of Blotato.com , has a 3-step speed-facial for your digital resume. Copy her prompts, swap the [brackets] for your own details, and watch your profile jump from “meh” to bookmark-worthy in one coffee break.

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. 🫶 

Resource Roundup 🛠️

🎓 3 Practical Ways to Start Using AI

Last week we served up three brain-friendly AI courses, and now it’s game time. Grab your keyboard, because we’re jumping from “learning the lingo” to actually pressing buttons. Here are three ways to put AI to work (from easy to advanced).

🤝 1. Make OpenAI o3 Your Strategic Co-Founder/Co-Worker

How to do it:

1. Open ChatGPT and select o3 model

2. Give it a title and mission: “You are my co-founder for a sustainable-fashion side hustle.”

3. Rapid-fire brainstorm, then, here’s the secret sauce…ask it to rip its own ideas apart:

“Before we move on, reverse your stance and argue the opposite. Call out hidden assumptions, data gaps and why the proposal could fail.”

Why it works: o3’s new “reflective reasoning” circuits literally think twice, so the feedback loop is sharper than your favorite eyeliner. Treat the model like a colleague who isn’t afraid to call you out, and you’ll skip a dozen real-world missteps (and meetings).

🪄 2. Vibe-Code with No-Code Builders

Tools to try: Lovable, Bolt.new, or Replit. Type “Build me a client-booking app with Stripe” and boom: frontend, backend, database, done.

Pro move: Start with something you wish existed (a “Who-OWES-ME Venmo tracker,” perhaps) and let the platform scaffold the boring bits. You can tweak colors, copy, and logic while still binge-watching your favorite Netflix show.

🤖 3. Automate the Annoying Stuff with Agentic Workflows

Starter pack:

• Zapier Agents for inbox triage or lead follow-up.

• n8n’s AI nodes for custom Slack reports or social scheduling.

Quick recipe:

1. List a time-sucking task (e.g., copying Zoom transcripts into Notion).

2. Map the steps.

3. Drop the steps into Zapier or n8n, add in an AI step (“Summarize transcript into bullet points”), and hit play.

What it means: You’ll reclaim hours every week…enough to actually finish that Pilates class you keep snoozing on.

Her AI Vault 📂 

Your go-to stash of top resources we’ve created so you never have to dig through old emails to find that one gem.

📘 5 Ways To Get Started With AI At Work: Quick-start guide to delegate the “ugh” tasks and focus on what actually matters.

🔐 AI Privacy Guide: What your AI tools really collect and how to lock down your settings like a pro.

🔍 Her AI Glossary: 40+ essential AI terms, broken down in plain English.

🧠 AI Model Cheat Sheet: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini... we decoded who does what best, so you can stop guessing and start impressing.

🛠️ Build-Your-Own Productivity Tool: A one-prompt web app for tasks, timers, and focus that is custom-built by Claude and copy-pasted by you.

Before You Go... 💭