Good Morning, AI Enthusiast! 

Today’s energy? Focused. AI just went back to school…….literally. OpenAI dropped “study mode,” turning ChatGPT into your new favorite tutor while Google followed suit with its own academic tools.

Let’s break it down.

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• Top Stories Including: Chip Happens: Trump Teases New Tariffs on Semiconductors and Fed-Approved and Ready to Prompt

• The 16 hour AI MASTERMIND - Aug 9-10th

• Perplexity Accused of Sneaky Scraping

• Study Mode Activated: Your New AI Study Buddy

• AI Image of the Day: AI’s First Day of School

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Top Stories

OpenAI Models Hit AWS: OpenAI just made a power move by partnering with Amazon Web Services for the first time, releasing two open-weight models that are now available via AWS's Bedrock and SageMaker platforms. This signals a major shift in cloud alliances, giving AWS a much-needed leg up in the generative AI race, especially as Microsoft has long been OpenAI’s main cloud partner. For OpenAI, it's a strategic flex expanding reach, pressuring Microsoft in ongoing partnership talks, and upstaging Meta in the open-source game.

Chip Happens: Trump Teases New Tariffs on Semiconductors: Trump announced plans to slap tariffs on semiconductors as early as next week, adding another twist to an already volatile year for the chip industry. While the U.S. is still ramping up domestic production through CHIPs Act funding, delays like Intel’s Ohio plant highlight how slow that progress is. Meanwhile, the administration is also weighing changes to AI chip export rules a move that could shake up global supply chains and heat up the U.S.–China tech war even further.

Fed-Approved and Ready to Prompt: The U.S. government just approved OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic as official AI vendors for federal agencies, streamlining access through a new pre-vetted contracting platform. This move follows recent executive orders pushing AI growth and mandating that federal tools remain secure, high-performing, and free from “ideological bias.”

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Perplexity Accused of Sneaky Scraping 🤔 AI's Messy Data War Just Got Louder

Cloudflare just called out AI startup Perplexity for crawling and scraping content from websites that explicitly said no. In a research post Monday, Cloudflare claims Perplexity disguised its identity and ignored robots.txt rules, the web’s polite “do not enter” sign, to keep harvesting content. They even allege Perplexity used fake browser headers to sneak in like a Chrome user.

Perplexity’s response? Denial. The company called Cloudflare’s post a “sales pitch” and said the bot in question wasn’t even theirs then later admitted it might be from a third-party tool they use. This isn’t the first time Perplexity’s been in hot water either. Last year, Wired accused them of plagiarism, and their CEO couldn’t even define it

The fight boils down to a growing dilemma: Should AI agents be treated like bots… or like humans browsing the web on your behalf? Some argue AI fetching public content is totally fair game. Others (including many site owners) argue it’s stealing traffic and potentially ad revenue without consent.

With bot traffic now outpacing human activity online (yep, over 50%), and models getting hungrier for fresh data, this debate is only getting messier. Cloudflare says OpenAI plays by the rules, and they’re urging the industry to adopt a new standard, Web Bot Auth, to verify legit AI bots.

One thing’s clear: The web’s open-door policy is being rewritten in real-time and nobody can agree on the new rules.

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Study Mode Activated: Your New AI Study Buddy

OpenAI just dropped “study mode” inside ChatGPT and yep, it’s going all-in on students. This new feature acts more like a tutor than a homework machine, asking Socratic questions, generating quizzes, and building custom study plans. Meanwhile, legacy platforms like Chegg and Macmillan are scrambling to stay relevant by injecting AI into their own services. The catch? Most of those come with a price tag, while tools like ChatGPT remain free (for now). Students are adapting in all kinds of ways some blending AI with old-school tools, others staying skeptical. Professors, on the other hand, are shifting tactics: more in-class assignments, more handwriting, less digital loopholes. The education system isn’t rejecting AI, it’s just figuring out how to survive its pop quiz.

AI Image of the Day: AI’s First Day of School

That’s a Wrap for Today 👋

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