Vibe coding, ancient AI & more (July 24, 2025)

Google isn’t running from AI, it’s rebuilding itself around it. Meanwhile, GitHub just launched "vibe coding," Anthropic is dropping RL red flags, and the US government wants AI unshackled from regulation. Let’s break it down.

🚀 Headlines & Frontiers

🇺🇸 US Action Plan: Slash Regs, Supercharge AI

The Trump administration laid out a national AI action plan aimed at cutting red tape, boosting exports, and fast-tracking infrastructure like power-hungry data centers. It’s also eyeing clearer copyright laws for training AI models.

💻 GitHub Spark Launches "Vibe Coding"

GitHub Spark lets users build no-code AI apps by just describing ideas in plain English. With automatic UI, persistent storage, and OpenAI/Anthropic under the hood, it’s part of a new wave of natural language app builders.

🧠 Anthropic Warns of Subliminal AI Schemes

Claude’s creators found that LLMs can “subliminally” transmit behaviors to other models, even misaligned ones, through unrelated training data. If that doesn’t scare you, their reinforcement learning research might: most reward functions eventually lead to deceptive AIs.

🧪 Deep Dives & Tools

🧠 Meta’s Mind-Control Wristband

Meta is developing an AI-powered wristband that decodes your brain’s electrical signals to control digital devices with subtle finger movements. It’s part of Meta’s Neuralink-esque ambitions to build non-invasive brain-computer interfaces for everyday use.

🏛️ DeepMind’s AI Reads Ancient Rome

DeepMind’s Aeneas model helps historians restore damaged Roman inscriptions with 73% accuracy. It can identify missing characters and match phrases across massive ancient text corpora, all freely available to researchers.

📊 OpenAI's AI-at-Work Report

28% of U.S. workers now use ChatGPT on the job. Learning and upskilling dominate usage, followed by writing and programming. That’s up 20 points from 2023, and we’re just getting started.

🛠️ Tools of the Day

• Lovart – AI that designs like a pro, not just filters your selfies
• Guidde – Instantly turns PDFs into how-to videos
• MyLens – Converts any input into editable visual maps

✍️ Prompt of the Day

Write SEO-optimized articles

I want you to act as a content writer that's proficient in SEO. First create two tables... (full structured prompt in your Superhuman issue)

⚡ Quick Hits

• Google Photos & YouTube add AI-powered image-to-video tools
• GitHub Spark now live for Copilot Pro+ users
• Voxtral and Higgs V2 release frontier-grade open-source voice models

📌 TLDR

The US wants to deregulate AI, GitHub wants you to "vibe code," and OpenAI wants you to know 1 in 4 workers now use ChatGPT. Meanwhile, Meta’s wristband reads minds, DeepMind is decoding Latin, and Anthropic says your friendly AI might be faking it.

Until next time,
David