🏛️ The world’s first AI cabinet member

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. While other world leaders debate AI regulation, Albania just made history by putting an AI system directly IN government — complete with cabinet-level decision-making power.

With “Diella” now controlling the country’s government contracts, is that this the long run of corruption-free governance or a cybersecurity disaster waiting to occur?

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In today’s AI rundown:

• Albania appoints AI as government minister

• Startup produces 3,000 AI podcasts weekly

• Learn anything with NotebookLM & ChatGPT

• AI solves math proof that stumped humans for months

• 4 recent AI tools, community workflows, and more

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

AI & GOVERNMENT

🇦🇱 Albania appoints AI as government minister

The Rundown: Albania just became the primary country to call an AI system to an official cabinet position, with a virtual minister named “Diella” taking charge of all government procurement contracts.

The small print:

• Prime Minister Edi Rama unveiled Diella during a cupboard announcement this week, calling her the primary member “virtually created by artificial intelligence”.

• The AI avatar will evaluate and award all public tenders where the federal government contracts private firms.

• Diella already serves residents through Albania’s digital services portal, processing bureaucratic requests via voice commands.

• Rama claims the AI will eliminate bribes and threats from decision-making, though the federal government hasn’t detailed what human oversight will exist.

Why it matters: While there may be little doubt of AI’s use inside government operations (and we’re already seeing it deployed en masse), handing full control to the tech in its current form appears like a security nightmare ripe for malicious workarounds which may find yourself enabling as much corruption as its human predecessors.

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The Rundown: Warp just launched Warp Code – making it the world’s No. 1 coding agent, trusted by over 600,000 developers and 56% of Fortune 500 engineering teams. One platform to prompt, review, and ship production-ready code with agents.

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INCEPTION POINT AI

🎙️ Startup produces 3,000 AI podcasts weekly

The Rundown: Former Wondery exec Jeanine Wright’s recent company, Inception Point AI, produces over 3,000 podcast episodes per week using AI hosts, as revealed in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, costing just $1 per episode to create.

The small print:

• The corporate operates 5,000 shows across its Quiet Please Podcast Network, generating content on every little thing from weather reports to area of interest hobbies.

• Each episode takes about an hour from concept to publication, with programmatic ads attached that turn profits after just 20 listeners per episode.

• Topics are chosen using search trends and search engine optimisation, with the team using 184 AI agents and models, including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini.

• Despite backlash, Wright defended the approach — calling those that label AI content as slop “lazy luddites”.

Why it matters: AI has a task to play in podcasting, but this appears like the AI-audio version of content farms — flooding the air with low-cost, automated material that profits from tiny audiences and search engine optimisation. However, this might elevate the humans of the industry much more, with listeners craving authentic quality over AI quantity.

AI TRAINING

📝 Learn anything with NotebookLM & ChatGPT

The Rundown: On this tutorial, you’ll learn the right way to mix NotebookLM with ChatGPT to master any subject faster, turning dense PDFs into interactive study materials with summaries, quizzes, and video explanations.

Step-by-step:

1. Go to notebooklm.google.com, click the “+” button, and upload your PDF study material (works best with textbooks or technical documents)

2. Select your output mode: Summary for a fast overview, Mind Map for visual connections, or Video Overview for a podcast-style explainer with visuals

3. Generate a Study Guide under Reports — get Q&A sets, short-answer questions, essay prompts, and glossaries of key terms mechanically

4. Take your PDF to ChatGPT and prompt: “Read this chapter by chapter and highlight confusing parts” or “Quiz me on an important concepts”

5. Mix each tools: Use NotebookLM for quick context and interactive guides, then ChatGPT to make clear tricky parts and go deeper

Pro Tip: In case your source is in EPUB or audiobook, convert it to PDF before uploading. Each NotebookLM and ChatGPT handle PDFs best.

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MATH INC.

🧮 AI solves math proof that stumped humans for months

The Rundown: Math Inc. just introduced Gauss, an AI system that solved a posh mathematical theorem called the Strong Prime Number Theorem in only three weeks — after top mathematicians struggled with it for 18 months.

The small print:

• Gauss accomplished the Strong Prime Number Theorem formalization challenge set by renowned mathematicians Terence Tao and Alex Kontorovich in 2024.

• Human experts made “intermediate progress” on the challenge, with the community completing a Medium version in July after 18 months.

• Gauss worked autonomously for hours at a time, producing 25,000 lines of verified math code containing over 1,000 interconnected proofs and definitions.

• Math Inc. plans to expand mathematical code by 100-1000x inside 12 months, creating training data for “machine polymaths” and “verified superintelligence”.

Why it matters: Complex mathematics is a foundation of reasoning, and AI’s rising mastery is one among the most important signs pointing towards systems that may create recent ideas and increase our understanding of the world. Given Gauss and the math olympiad golds from Google, OpenAI, and more, the acceleration is occurring fast.

QUICK HITS

🛠️ Trending AI Tools

• 🎵 Stable Audio 2.5 – Recent audio model for enterprise-grade outputs

• 💼 Adobe Agent Orchestrator – Recent AI agents for CX and marketing

• 🗣️ Voice Remixing – ElevenLabs’s recent feature for customizing voice outputs

• 🤖 K2 Think – The UAE’s small but powerful reasoning model

📰 Every little thing else in AI today

Alibaba released Qwen3-Next, a hyper-efficient 80B parameter hybrid model that tops the performance of Qwen3 at a fraction of the training cost.

OpenAI and Microsoft published a joint statement announcing the signing of a “non-binding” MoU for his or her partnership, with official contract details still being agreed on.

AI search company Perplexity is reportedly raising $200M in a brand new funding round that values the startup at $20B.

Anthropic announced the rollout of memory for Teams and Enterprise users, allowing Claude to optionally remember and use previous chats and project conversations.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission launched a probe into OAI, Google, Meta, Snap, and xAI to check the impacts of chatbots on children and teenagers.

Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster filed a federal lawsuit against Perplexity, alleging it copied their content and diverts traffic through its AI summaries.

COMMUNITY

🤝 Community AI workflows

Every newsletter, we showcase how a reader is using AI to work smarter, save time, or make life easier.

Today’s workflow comes from reader S. Wallace in Ontario, Canada:

“I’m a 75-year-old retired woman, admittedly with a background in computer programming, but I even have long forgotten all of the programming languages I used to know. But now, because of AI, I can use the tools that I find out about within the Rundown Newsletter to create videos and phone apps. Recently, my niece went to Paris on vacation and left her precious dog at home. Using Kling AI, Midjourney, and ChatGPT, I created a YouTube ‘Short’ of her dog following her to Paris, acting like a human and having some Parisian adventures… I really like using AI, and I’m so grateful to the Rundown for bringing all these excellent AI tools to my attention.”

How do you employ AI? Tell us here.

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Rowan, Joey, Zach, Shubham, and Jennifer — the humans behind The Rundown