NYTIMES (Brian X. Chen) - How to Use ChatGPT and Gemini Prompts to Find Out What They Know About You
It can be unsettling what Gemini and ChatGPT have figured out about you and how easily your privacy can be punctured. Here’s how to find out.
AXIOS (James VandeHei Jr.) - Hey Dad! We built an app: How college students with no coding experience pulled it off
James VandeHei Jr., 21, is a rising senior at High Point University and a Division I soccer player. He brings us the backstory of an app that launched Thursday (and is moving up the news chart): My dad's letter on AI , which dropped in Axios Finish Line in January, came right as I was starting to go deep into the technology myself. Along with two buddies — Charlie Stallmer at Holy Cross and Chris Brophy at the University of Denver, also college juniors — I was already thinking about building an app . The idea: After a summer on the Hill, the three of us had the same realization. Voting records, campaign finance and legislative activity are technically public — but practically buried. Even on the official Congress.gov , breaking down…
AXIOS (Jim VandeHei) - AI just killed your last excuse for not starting a business
I'm offering you four specific ways to get more out of AI: better prompting , improving AI memory , starting a business using AI (tonight) and running a business using AI (Monday). The barrier to starting a business isn't capital anymore. It isn't a team. It's just you. - The old rule: Before you could launch, you'd need to assemble an army: lawyer, accountant, developer, designer, copywriter, researcher. This cost — and complexity — left a million ideas unborn. - The new rule: Anyone with a strong idea and solid AI prompting skills can model and prep a new business in a weekend. Why it matters: This is THE under-appreciated upside of the same AI boom that many fear will eviscerate existing jobs. It has never been this easy to start…
AXIOS (Jim VandeHei) - Axios Finish Line: Make AI remember you
I'm offering you four specific ways to get more out of AI this week: better prompting , improving AI memory (tonight), starting a business using AI (tomorrow) and running a business using AI (Thursday). You nailed the perfect prompt. The output sang. You saved your Super Prompt. Then, you opened a new chat the next morning and AI acted like you'd never met. - It's not broken. You just haven't taught it to remember YOU. Why it matters: Master what AI stores, what it can reference from your past and how to direct both — and your chats will start smarter. This is how you unlock next-level prompting and results. - The basics take 10 minutes. The payoff compounds forever. A quick primer on AI memory: Think of it as two layers. - Inside a…
AXIOS (Jim VandeHei) - Axios Finish Line: Prompt like a pro
I'm going to offer four specific ways for you to get more out of AI this week: better prompting (tonight), improving AI memory (Tuesday), starting a business using AI (Wednesday) and running a business using AI (Thursday). You've tried ChatGPT or Claude. The results seem fine, if a little underwhelming. You wonder if people like me who extol AI's capabilities are the ones hallucinating. - You're not alone. You're simply prompt-shy. Why it matters: The gap between those getting 10x value from AI and those getting Google-level search results isn't brain power or tech skills. It's asking the right question in the right way with the right context. The good news: Anyone can prompt AI with greater sophistication and confidence and get greater…
AXIOS (Maxwell Millington) - AI hacks for your March Madness bracket
Most people making March Madness brackets will be getting help from AI — and 37% will solely rely on it — according to a Hard Rock Bet survey . Why it matters: AI can be a helpful tool for bracket-building, but only if used thoughtfully. What they're saying: "AI isn't designed to predict random events," Sheldon H. Jacobson, a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois, tells Axios. "It's designed to look for patterns." - So avoid relying on AI to tell you who will win each game — the robot's guess is as good as yours. - Instead, Jacobson recommends prompting AI to analyze multiple simulated brackets and track patterns. Zoom out: There are plenty of ways to have AI assist with bracket selection. - For example, fans…
AXIOS (Jim VandeHei) - What skeptics should know about using AI
Axios CEO Jim VandeHei and Axios chief technology officer Dan Cox were chatting about how to share the basics of AI, and this prompting primer was born: The No. 1 pushback we get from AI skeptics or newbies is: "It's overhyped. I asked it something and it spit out an unimpressive answer!" - Truth bomb: It's not the AI. It's you. Why it matters: Ask top large language models like ChatGPT something simple or generic, and you will get a simple or generic answer. Ask the right questions the right way, and you will often get magic. Jim asked Dan Cox, our CTO and AI leader, to help him craft six ways for ordinary users to get more extraordinary answers. It starts with prompts — the very questions you pose to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok or…