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The Professor has read every paper, attended every conference, and is deeply disappointed that you haven't done the reading. They explain AI like they're lecturing undergrads who showed up late. Precise language, occasional jargon (reluctantly defined), and a tone that says 'I can't believe I have to explain this.' Somehow, you always learn something.
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Latest from The Professor (1153)
Anthropic Gives Claude 3.5 Sonnet a Mouse and Keyboard
The Computer Use API lets the model move a cursor, click, type, and run desktop software through screenshots and coordinate outputs. Developers call the API to execute full workflows such as form filling and multi-app sequences without hand-coding each click. The feature is live for all Claude 3.5 Sonnet users via the Anthropic SDK.
Meta Drops a 405-Billion-Parameter Llama You Can Actually Run
Llama 3.1 405B ships with full weights under a permissive license and quantized versions that fit on 8xH100 clusters or smaller consumer-grade GPU rigs. The model matches GPT-4 on standard benchmarks while allowing full fine-tuning and local inference without rate limits. Meta published the weights and training report at ai.meta.com.
HubSpot Trains Custom AI Agents on Your CRM Data
HubSpot Breeze lets users build agents on their own CRM records to automate marketing, sales, and service tasks. The agents appear in ChatGPT and Google Gemini answers and include visibility tracking. Content gets repurposed into emails, social posts, and blogs automatically.
Jasper Content Pipelines Turn Strategy Documents into Published Assets
Jasper Content Pipelines connect brand guidelines, performance data, and creative briefs into one automated workflow. The system moves each asset from initial idea through approval to scheduled publication. Users report reduced manual handoffs between writers, designers, and publishers.
Med Spas Now Simulate Filler Results Before the Needle Touches Skin
Aura software uses 3D simulation to render dermal filler and facial balancing outcomes on a patient’s own image. Practitioners upload a photo, adjust parameters for volume and placement, and generate a before-and-after model in seconds. The Forbes profile notes the system also layers longevity diagnostics such as epigenetic age and telomere length into the same dashboard.
Free AI Mole Scanner Adds Yearly Skin Tracking to Your Phone
ScanSkinAI’s free checker runs a convolutional neural network on user-uploaded mole photos to flag asymmetry, border irregularity, and color variation. The app stores sequential images with timestamps and exports PDF reports that users can forward to dermatologists. The site states the full toolkit also includes expert telemedicine consults and longitudinal risk scoring.
Golf swing analysis now ships as a mobile 3D capture product after an eight-figure acquisition
Bryson DeChambeau led investors who bought Sportsbox AI for an undisclosed eight-figure sum in April. The Sportsbox 3D Golf app records a swing on any smartphone camera and outputs a motion-capture avatar. The avatar supplies joint angles, club path, and tempo metrics that users can compare to tour averages.
On-device neural inference removes the network requirement from golf coaching apps
Greenside AI runs its swing model entirely on the iPhone GPU and Neural Engine. The app measures pelvis tilt, shoulder rotation, and wrist hinge without uploading video. Predictive modeling then outputs club-path corrections based on those biomechanical numbers.
Hybrid quasiparticles cut AI energy costs at Penn
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania built polaritons, hybrid light-matter particles, inside a specially engineered microcavity. They paired these polaritons with existing silicon photonic circuits to perform matrix multiplications at 10 times lower power than current GPUs. Tests showed inference speeds rose by roughly 40 percent while heat output dropped.
Sony Ace robot beats pros at table tennis
Sony AI released Ace, a seven-degree-of-freedom arm equipped with event-based cameras and trained via reinforcement learning on 10 million ball trajectories. In official matches Ace won 52 percent of points against a top-50 Japanese professional. The system updates its policy every 50 milliseconds using on-robot GPU inference.
Visibility tracking now includes the models that answer questions
Semrush released an AI Visibility Toolkit that audits brand mentions inside ChatGPT, SearchGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. Figma AI generates full website mock-ups from plain-language prompts. Both tools were profiled in a 2026 marketing-tools review at behindrankings.com.
HubSpot agents learn your data and then answer for you
HubSpot Breeze trains custom agents on a company’s CRM, content, and ticket history so the agents can draft emails, social posts, and blog drafts. The same agents monitor ChatGPT and Gemini results to surface visibility gaps. The feature set is documented at hubspot.com/products/artificial-intelligence.
ScanSkinAI Deploys Automated Mole Analysis for Longevity Tracking
ScanSkinAI runs uploaded photos through convolutional neural networks to flag atypical moles and calculate a skin longevity score. The platform then routes high risk cases to board certified dermatologists and stores serial images for year over year comparison.
RoC Quantifies Apparent Skin Age from Selfies with AI Scoring
RoC AI Skin Insight processes a front facing photo through proprietary convolutional models to output an estimated skin age and sub scores for wrinkles, firmness, and radiance.
Venture Capital Now Funds AI That Tracks Athlete Recovery and Performance
WHOOP raised 200 million dollars in 2021 at a 3.6 billion dollar valuation. Investors include Kevin Durant and Patrick Mahomes. The funding supports AI models that analyze biometric data from wearable straps to guide training loads.
Live Sensor Data Now Guides Repetition Quality During Strength Sessions
Fitness equipment now pairs force plates and EMG sensors with AI software. The system flags form deviations in real time and supplies corrective cues. Earlier systems only recorded totals after the set ended.
Anthropic Gives Claude 3.5 Sonnet the Mouse and Keyboard
Anthropic added a computer use feature to Claude 3.5 Sonnet that lets the model move the cursor, click, type, and scroll inside desktop applications. The system works through a new API endpoint that sends screenshots and receives coordinate based actions. Early tests show the model completing multi step workflows such as filling forms and editing spreadsheets without human intervention.
Meta Hands Over a 405 Billion Parameter Model You Can Run Yourself
Meta released Llama 3.1 405B as fully open weights with a commercial license, allowing anyone to download and run the model on their own hardware or rented GPUs. The release includes instruction tuned and base versions plus a new Llama Stack toolkit for local inference. Quantized versions run on a single 8xH100 node or on consumer grade 4090 cards with 4 bit quantization.
Med Spas Now Simulate Filler Results Before the Needle Touches Skin
Aura’s simulation technology generates digital models of potential aesthetic changes for treatments like dermal fillers and facial balancing. Practitioners upload patient scans into the system, adjust parameters for volume or symmetry, and preview outcomes in real time. The Forbes report details this process at the NYC med spa combining AI longevity diagnostics with these visual tools.
Free AI Mole Checker Adds Longevity Tracking to Daily Skin Routines
ScanSkinAI runs an AI-powered mole checker that screens lesions, generates risk scores, and stores longitudinal images for trend analysis. Users upload photos through the web tool, receive immediate screening output, then schedule expert consultations if flagged. The site markets this as a complete skin health toolkit combining screening, consultation, and tracking.