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Main Idea:

Last week I hosted a YPO event and (very briefly!) shared the stage with Arthur Brooks (picture at the bottom of this email 🤓). He made a brutal point: humans often “solve” a problem by creating a bigger one. We killed boredom with smartphones. Congrats. Now we’ve got anxiety, addiction, and teens in crisis. We’re about to replay this with AI. The promise is less drudgery and more high‑value work. Love it. But regulation is veering into headline theater. California just passed the first broad AI law. Today it’s one state. Tomorrow it’s fifty different rulebooks. That’s not safety—that’s chaos. And it won’t make us more competitive than countries moving in lockstep. At minimum, we need clear, federal, bipartisan guardrails—not a whack‑a‑mole of state mandates.

Here’s the play:

-Plan for compliance sprawl. Map where you operate, what data you touch, and which state rules could hit first. Appoint an owner. -Lobby up the chain. When you meet influencers and policymakers, push for federal, harmonized standards that protect safety and competitiveness. PS: Keep reading for hot-takes on headlines, AI tools, and a personal story + pic Nano Banana 🍌 continues to rack up the photo wins!

📰 AI News Worth Knowing

📜 California fires the first AI shot. I favor smart guardrails—but a 50‑state patchwork will be a mess and a competitive drag. Do you think China is doing it this way? Not a chance. Read Here 🎯 Meta will mine chatbot chats for ads. Starting Dec 16, your conversations with Meta’s AI will shape the ads/content you see—no full opt‑out. Creepy? Yes. Also a sign: brand dollars are shifting from SEO/clicks to in‑model placement. If you’re in marketing, start pitching it. Read Here 🛡️ Autonomous AI cyberattacks are coming. Analysts warn attackers will target people and processes, not just software bugs. If your security is still “firewall + antivirus,” you’re exposed. Read Here 🎭 Deepfakes are mainstream now. Satire, attacks, persuasion—welcome to the new reality. One fake CEO video can crater trust in a day. Prepare a takedown + comms playbook before you need it. Read Here 🎓 Textbooks that adapt to each student. Google’s research on NotebookLM shows how to layer multimedia + personalization onto course content without breaking quality. Prof friends: this is your pilot project. Read Here

🛠️ AI Tools You Need to Try

🎬 Sora 2 (custom videos from ChatGPT). What it is: A next‑gen video generator that’s more realistic, controllable, and physics‑aware. How to use it: MAFO! This is nuts. Try it 🛰️ Perplexity Comet Browser. What it is: A browsing co‑pilot that summarizes pages and fetches context as you research. How to use it: Competitive scans, RFP research, and meeting prep—open tabs, ask questions, export notes. Try it 🧰 Unburdn’s Vault. A curated library of AI tools mapped to Crawl → Walk → Run stages. Great cheat‑sheet for leveling up your team’s stack. Explore Here.

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From the Field: 🎤 Full‑Circle at DU

I got to introduce Arthur Brooks at a YPO event hosted at the University of Denver—where I was a student 20 years ago and now serve as chair of the business school’s Executive Advisory Board. Humbling. The lesson: invest back into the places that built you—it compounds, in community and in business. Thanks for reading. 🙏 Copyright (C) 2025 AI for the Rest of Us LLC dba Unburdn. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe