🏛️ The world's first AI cabinet member

PLUS: Startup produces 3,000 AI podcast episodes weekly

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 this the future of corruption-free governance or a cybersecurity disaster waiting to happen?

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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 new AI tools, community workflows, and more

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

AI & GOVERNMENT

Image source: E-Albania

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

The details:

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

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

  • Diella already serves citizens 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 government hasn't detailed what human oversight will exist.

Why it matters: While there is little doubt of AI’s use within government operations (and we’re already seeing it deployed en masse), handing full control to the tech in its current form sounds like a security nightmare ripe for malicious workarounds that might end up enabling as much corruption as its human predecessors.

TOGETHER WITH WARP

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.

With Warp Code, you get:

  • New coding capabilities with code review, code editing, in-line code diffs, and file trees

  • Tops benchmark performance: No. 1 on Terminal-Bench Verified, 75% on SWE-bench

  • Access top models: Opus, Sonnet, GPT-5, and more, all in a single subscription

  • An average of 5 hours saved each week

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INCEPTION POINT AI

Image source: Inception Point AI

The Rundown: Former Wondery exec Jeanine Wright's new 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 details:

  • The company operates 5,000 shows across its Quiet Please Podcast Network, generating content on everything from weather reports to niche 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 SEO, with the team using 184 AI agents and models, including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini.

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

Why it matters: AI has a role to play in podcasting, but this feels like the AI-audio version of content farms — flooding the air with cheap, automated material that profits from tiny audiences and SEO. On the other hand, this could elevate the humans of the industry even more, with listeners craving authentic quality over AI quantity.

AI TRAINING

The Rundown: In this tutorial, you will learn how to combine 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. Choose your output mode: Summary for a quick 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 automatically

  4. Take your PDF to ChatGPT and prompt: "Read this chapter by chapter and highlight confusing parts" or "Quiz me on the most important concepts"

  5. Combine both tools: Use NotebookLM for quick context and interactive guides, then ChatGPT to clarify tricky parts and go deeper

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

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MATH INC.

Image source: Math Inc.

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

The details:

  • Gauss completed 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 within 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 of the biggest signs pointing towards systems that can create new ideas and increase our understanding of the world. Given Gauss and the math olympiad golds from Google, OpenAI, and more, the acceleration is happening fast.

QUICK HITS

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 their partnership, with official contract details still being agreed on.

AI search company Perplexity is reportedly raising $200M in a 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 study 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

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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 have long forgotten all the programming languages I used to know. But now, thanks to AI, I can use the tools that I learn about in 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 love using AI, and I am so grateful to the Rundown for bringing all these excellent AI tools to my attention."

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