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Scenario prompt 26 August 2025
The scenario prompt for today is the Halal chatbot. The polarisation of AI across values/guiding principles. We will get #BuddhAI #ChakrAI #AyurvedAI and a lot more. That is codified culture put into an AI. If you would codify your organisations culture and put it into an AI, what would you get?
PS I think this is part of gaining digital sovereignty.
The other prompts for today are you are the upgrade, cooling cement, quantum dots, skin organoids, bee brains, intrapreneurship, solar punk, special ops, and robotic VR.
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You are the upgrade
https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.
Novel cement lets buildings cool themselves
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-08-cement-cool.html
Researchers created a cement that reflects light and emits heat instead of absorbing it, using tiny reflective crystals of a mineral called ettringite on its surface.
Tiny quantum dots unlock the future of unbreakable encryption
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250822073814.htm
By using quantum dots and smart encryption protocols, researchers overcame a 40-year barrier in quantum communication, showing that secure networks don’t need perfect hardware to outperform today’s best systems
Fully functioning human skin grown in lab, complete with vessels and pigmentation
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/world-first-human-skin-grown-queensland
We placed these stem cells into petri dishes and grew them into mini versions of skin, called skin organoids
Why tiny bee brains could hold the key to smarter AI
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250824031528.htm
Bees use flight movements to sharpen brain signals, enabling them to recognize patterns with remarkable accuracy. A digital model of their brain shows that this movement-based perception could revolutionize AI and robotics by emphasizing efficiency over massive computing power.
Why hiring physician intrapreneurs is the future of health care leadership
If you are looking to employ physicians, you need to recruit physician intrapreneurs, not knowledge technicians.
The Best Solarpunk Books
https://fivebooks.com/best-books/the-best-solarpunk-books-sarena-ulibarri/
Solarpunk fiction is a form of climate fiction, but by focusing on the changes we could make, it can move us past climate anxiety.
Lessons from U.S. Army Special Ops on Becoming a Leader
https://hbr.org/2025/08/lessons-from-u-s-army-special-ops-on-becoming-a-leader
How you can develop leadership like Special Ops. Also read https://www.ronimmink.com/leadership-is-a-mindset/
Virtual reality merges with robotics to create seamless physical interactions
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-08-virtual-reality-merges-robotics-seamless.html
Someday virtual and augmented reality technology will likely be commonplace. It will be important that users of this technology are able to seamlessly interact with the physical world.
Saudi AI Firm Launches Halal Chatbot
https://gizmodo.com/saudi-ai-firm-launches-halal-chatbot-2000647733
The company says that it is not only fluent in the Arabic language, but also in “Islamic culture, values and heritage.”
