Learn Any Subject Faster with Gemini Study Notebooks 📓

Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,

In today's issue, we'll show you how to use Gemini's new Study Notebooks feature that creates a personalized learning space that adapts to your knowledge, quizzes you along the way, and helps you track your progress.

Let’s jump into it!

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• Nearly 200 Economists and Tech Leaders Warn About AI's Economic Impact

• Microsoft CEO Warns Companies: "You're Essentially Paying for Intelligence Twice"

• AI Tutorial: Study more efficiently with study notebooks in the Gemini App

• AI Tools to check out

• AI Findings/Resources

• The Latest in AI and Tech 💡

AI News

AI POLICY & ECONOMY

Nearly 200 Economists and Tech Leaders Warn About AI's Economic Impact

Nearly 200 economists, researchers, and technology leaders have signed an open letter urging policymakers to prepare for the rapid economic changes that advanced AI could bring over the next decade, as it becomes "radically more powerful."

Details:

• The statement, titled "We Must Act Now," warns that AI could transform the economy considerably faster than previous technological revolutions, bringing risks such as large-scale job displacement, as well as opportunities like major gains in living standards.

• The letter is signed by nearly 200 experts, including 15 Nobel Prize winners, along with leading researchers and chief economists from AI companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic.

• Rather than proposing specific regulations, the letter calls for greater research, improved economic data, and policies that encourage AI to augment human work rather than replace it — with the broader goal to "steer AI in a direction that complements humans and benefits society."

Tech leaders have long warned that AI could displace large amounts of human work, but economists have generally been skeptical, noting that past technological shifts played out more gradually. The letter, signed even by prominent AI skeptics like Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, signals that such concerns are becoming more widespread.

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MICROSOFT

Microsoft CEO Warns Companies: "You're Essentially Paying for Intelligence Twice"

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has cautioned businesses about relying too heavily on proprietary AI models, arguing that companies may be giving away valuable knowledge every time they interact with AI systems.

Details:

• Nadella says organizations effectively "pay twice" for AI: once through usage fees and again by sharing proprietary business knowledge through prompts, corrections, and workflows.

• He argues that AI model makers can then use that knowledge for themselves, potentially becoming competitors to their own customers.

• Nadella also questioned restrictions on AI model distillation, suggesting that if AI companies can train on publicly available data, it’s only fair that enterprises get to study (or “distill”) those models in return.

• As a solution, he encourages businesses to retain “ownership” of their data, build their own “proprietary learning environments” on the cloud, and use orchestration tools that make it easier to switch between different AI models instead of relying on a single provider.

These comments, urging enterprises to be wary of using proprietary models, are notable coming from the CEO of a company that has invested billions in both OpenAI and Anthropic. They also reflect a broader shift: more enterprises are turning to open-source AI models that run on their own infrastructure, offering greater control over costs, privacy, and sensitive data.

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AI Tutorial

Study more efficiently with study notebooks in the Gemini App

1. Open the Gemini app and select New notebook > Study and learn.

2. Tell Gemini what your learning goal is.

Example: "Help me learn about plant and animal cells for my biology test" or "Help me study for my calculus exam."

3. The chatbot will ask for additional information to customize your notebook. You can also click the Add files icon to upload your class notes or other study materials.

4. Gemini will give you a quick diagnostic quiz to find your exact knowledge gaps.

5. Once that's done, it will create short, bite-sized lessons to help you learn what you don't know.

6. Gemini builds an interactive learning dashboard tracking your progress across more than a hundred specific study goals, labeling them as "Strengths" or "Focus areas."

7. Your new notebook also connects with NotebookLM, so you can generate interactive flashcards, audio overviews, and more from your files. (Select the NotebookLM option in the top-right corner.)

AI Tools to check out

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AI Findings/Resources

👀 The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it

🤨 Why does OpenAI keep breaking up with Big Tech?

📱 Google to turn old phones into cloud servers

👉 How to avoid hitting usage limits on GPT-5.6-Sol

👻 Someone created a 'Ghost Font' that humans can read but AI can't

The latest in AI and Tech

Fidji Simo steps down from full-time role at OpenAI

OpenAI's No. 2 executive, Fidji Simo, is stepping down from her full-time position as OpenAI's CEO of Applications due to an extended medical leave and will transition to a part-time advisory role.

AI 2027 authors release AI 2040

The AI Futures Project has released AI 2040, a new report outlining five possible scenarios for how the global AI race could unfold over the next decade. The report's preferred "Plan A" proposes that the U.S. and China pause frontier AI training in 2029, expand global chip tracking, and increase transparency around advanced AI research.

Reve releases Reve 2.1

Reve's new 4K image model brings improved prompt comprehension, world knowledge, and foreign-text rendering.

Anthropic hires Monzo co-founder Tom Blomfield

Tom Blomfield, cofounder of British fintech company Monzo and one of the biggest names in UK tech, is joining Anthropic's compute team after he took a leave of absence from Y Combinator.

New York halts large data centers being built for a year

New York has become the first U.S. state to temporarily halt approvals for new large-scale data centers, with Governor Kathy Hochul issuing an executive order that applies to projects of 50 megawatts or more. The pause will remain in place while the state develops a new environmental review process, citing concerns over electricity demand, water use, and local impacts.

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