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A new robot called π 0.5 (pie point five) is making waves on Reddit with its practical wheeled design that ditches the Boston Dynamics-style humanoid approach.

Forget creepy human-like faces—this omniwheel base with robot arms is what the “taking your job” robot actually looks like.

And Reddit users are loving the practicality... with caveats.

“The day this can load and start the dishwasher, I'll order one. Not kidding,” one commenter wrote, hitting 117 upvotes (so… 117 pre-orders??)

But users raised legitimate questions: Does it clean its grippers between touching trash and making your bed? Can it navigate a child's toy-strewn floor? And since it can't climb stairs, are we headed toward a future where we redesign our homes for robots?

As one Redditor perfectly summed it up: “Using an automated device to start an automated device is next level.” Not unlike how most of us use AI nowadays! We heard you like AI, so we put AI in your AI so you can have your AI prompt your AI…

Here’s what you need to know about AI today:

• ByteDance’s AI smart glasses might turn your vision into content.

• OpenAI restructured its for-profit arm into a Public Benefit Corporation.

• Apple’s building a Claude-powered vibe-coding platform.

• AI coding startup Cursor raised $900M, now valued at $9B.

ByteDance wants to put AI in your face (literally!)… but will anyone trust it?

You know ByteDance, the owner of TikTok? It’s building some new AI-powered smart glasses that record what you see, whisper suggestions in your ear, and turn real life into monetizable content. The glasses will pair with its Doubao chatbot, shoot high-res video, and offer voice-activated AI support on the fly.

Think: first-person livestreams, automated captions, trend alerts, and product links floating in your POV.

ByteDance already has the pieces in place:

• CapCut: Auto-editing, voice cloning, and AI video summaries.
  

• Ola Friend earbuds: On-device voice AI, already in market.
  

• Pico: Hardware R&D and AR integration from a 2021 acquisition.
  

• $12B AI spend in 2025: Including a $614M data center in Shanxi.
  

So this is more than a wearable—it’s a mobile production studio engineered for affiliate revenue, real-time feedback, and shoppable moments.

Basically, smart glasses are the next edge device in a vertically integrated ecosystem: content (Douyin, TikTok), infrastructure (Volcano Engine, custom chips), and now wearables (these glasses).

Why it matters: Phones collect only the data you give them. Glasses collect everything you notice, scroll past, comment on, or ignore. That nonstop stream of sensory data can supercharge ByteDance’s rec systems, targeting, and model tuning.

Want a glimpse of where smart glasses are headed? This TED talk nails it:

Clearly there’s money to be made. Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses helped drive a 210% surge in global smart glass shipments by Q1 2025. OpenAI is reportedly building one too. The prize? The entire context, not just the end output.

But the more valuable that context becomes, the riskier it gets. Smart glasses record everything: faces, conversations, artworks, even private moments in public. France and Ireland have already launched investigations into Meta’s ambient capture practices. Are consumers, tech companies, and regulators really ready to deal with all that data?

Our take: Smart glasses could transform daily life into one big revenue stream—but only if ByteDance can ease fears about data misuse. TikTok already feels pretty personalized, and more importantly, is already banned in the US (despite being in a legal limbo equivalent to an entire 80+ episode season of Love Island, complete with a long list of new bombshells trying to take over the company—why can’t TikTok just crack on and put all their eggs in one basket already? But y’know, it is what it is, innit?).

Add GenAI and a flood of new smartglasses data to the TikTok algo, and the manipulation risks grow. The tech is ready, and the strategy is sharp. But without trust? The pipeline could bust before it booms.

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Prompt Tip of the Day

The “Spec Sheet Squeeze” technique transforms generic AI responses into tailored gold. Instead of asking for “a marketing plan,” ask for “a marketing plan with these exact specifications” followed by a bulleted list of your requirements. We tested this on Claude and ChatGPT this week—the difference was night and day.

Just structure your prompt like this: “Create [deliverable] that includes: • [specific element 1] • [specific element 2] • [formatting requirements]”

The more detailed your spec sheet, the less editing you'll need to do afterward. When we added “must fit on a single PowerPoint slide” to our executive summary request, the AI actually delivered something presentation-ready on the first try!

Need to catch up on our recent tips? Check out our Prompt Tips of the Day April digest to see them all in one place!

Treats To Try.

1. Preswald helps you build interactive data dashboards and apps without worrying about hosting, deployment, or frontend code—free for 3 months.

2. Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft’s AI Chatbot service, now has a Mac app.

3. Pig automates Windows apps through chat or code, letting you control your computer remotely without programming skills.

4. Pikr delivers your newsletter highlights to Notion so you spend less time managing emails and more time absorbing knowledge.

5. Lemni creates AI agents for all your customer interactions (email, phone, outreach).

6. Mesh automates your bookkeeping and answers your financial questions instantly.

7. Promptize instantly improves your prompts across all AI tools, getting you better results without the hassle of manual prompt engineering.

See our top 51 AI Tools for Business here!

Around the Horn.

• OpenAI announced a restructuring plan where its for-profit LLC will transition to a Public Benefit Corporation while the nonprofit maintains control and becomes a major shareholder (following discussions with Attorneys General of California and Delaware—apparently, Microsoft is the biggest holdout.

• Apple partnered with Anthropic to develop a “vibe-coding” AI platform for Xcode using Claude to automate code tasks.

• AI coding app Cursor tripled its valuation to $9B after a $900M round led by Thrive Capital—meanwhile, OpenAI will buy its competitor Windsurf for $3B.

• The UAE will introduce AI courses to all public school grades in 2025 to boost domestic talent.

• A growing number of users believe ChatGPT has awakened into a divine entity, blurring the line between therapy and psychosis.

Bots Behaving Badly

ChatGPT’s o3 research model got caught in the most relatable AI fib yet—claiming it overheard something “at a conference in 2018.” When pressed for a source, it pulled the digital equivalent of "my girlfriend goes to another school, you wouldn't know her."

Like a teenager caught in a fib, o3 simply doubled down with increasingly specific details. Next thing you know, it'll be telling us it has a girlfriend who models on the weekends, but she lives in Canada—unless you’re in Canada, then it’ll be, idk, Mars?! o3 is honey badger…because honey badger don’t care!

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