“Someday, we’re going to look back and wonder how we ever got by without AI.”

—Derek Haoyang Li, Chairman and Founder at Squirrel AI Learning

A Rude Awakening: Why Being a Jerk to AI Gets You Better Answers

A new study from Penn State just flipped a core assumption in prompt engineering: politeness doesn’t improve accuracy. In fact, it might hurt it.

Researchers tested 50 multiple-choice questions rewritten at five tone levels—Very Polite to Very Rude. Accuracy climbed as civility dropped. The rudest prompts hit 84.8% accuracy. The most polite? Just 80.8%.

This doesn’t mean LLMs love being insulted. It just means they favor clarity. The more direct you are, the fewer ways the model can get it wrong. The study’s authors suggest that tone might be functioning as a proxy for precision. And in AI, precision is everything.

So, toss your GPT an occasional “thank you” if you’re so inclined. But when it comes to prompts, blunt is better than kind.

Gemini 3 on Deck

A leaked Google timeline suggests Gemini 3 may launch as early as tomorrow. And with Google’s history of launching new features on a Wednesday, experts say it’s a very real possibility.

The update looks to deliver three major advances worth noting:

• Smarter reasoning for complex tasks
  Gemini 3 is expected to handle multi-step logic with more precision. That means better support for research, analysis, and decision-making tasks that require consistent context and structured thinking.

• Multimodal capabilities that unlock content workflows
  Improved image interpretation and early-stage video generation could simplify tasks like content review, automated captioning, and visual storytelling. Teams in marketing, training, and communications should take note.

• Deeper integration across Google Workspace
  With Gemini already active in Gmail, the next step is likely real-time assistance in Docs, Sheets, and Calendar. This would turn basic tools into adaptive systems that surface insights, draft content, and streamline admin work.

If these updates deliver, Gemini 3 could shift from being just another model to being a foundational layer in how work gets done.

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  Designed to connect marketing activity to real outcomes, this platform helps teams see how spend, pricing, and channel mix influence performance. The goal is clearer decisions about what’s working, what isn’t, and where to shift budget for better results.
   

• Content Creation: Gamma
  Transforms ideas into polished presentations, websites, and documents using smart templates and drag‑and‑drop design. This tool helps teams and creators streamline content production and publish professional work quickly

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a massive outage yesterday affecting millions of users, and likely to cost billions in losses. 🆘

• Anthropic is making its user-friendly Claude Code available to anyone with a web browser or smartphone. 📱

• Napster (yes, that one) is back in the headlines over their…*checks notes*…holographic AI display? 👻