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AI’s no longer creeping into your life—it’s charging in, rewriting everything from cancer diagnosis to how you find emails. And yes, it might even be powering the next version of TikTok.
Today’s Upload
🧬 AI nails cancer detection with 99.26% accuracy
🧠 Tencent drops a reasoning model to rival GPT-4.5
🔍 Perplexity wants to acquire TikTok
📩 Gmail’s AI overhaul puts relevance first
👥 ByteDance’s InfiniteYou creates viral identity AI
Let’s get into it. 🚀
Image source: Daffodil International University and Charles Darwin University
🧬 AI Crushes Cancer Detection Benchmarks
What happened:
Researchers introduced ECgMLP, an AI model that detects endometrial cancer with 99.26% accuracy—blowing away human performance and current tools.
Key details:
Outperforms doctors (who average 78–81%) using microscopic tissue scans
Uses a custom attention mechanism to spot hard-to-see cancer patterns
Also excels in detecting colorectal (98.6%), breast (98.2%), and oral cancers (97.3%)
Why it matters:
This is one of the clearest examples of AI outperforming humans in life-saving tasks. Early cancer detection can drastically improve outcomes, and AI could soon make expert-level diagnostics globally accessible.
What it means for you:
Expect faster, more accurate diagnostics in healthcare—especially in underserved areas. This marks a huge win for AI in the health field and gives hope to people everywhere.
Image source: Tencent
🧠 Tencent’s Hunyuan-T1: China’s Best AI Yet?
What happened:
Tencent dropped Hunyuan-T1, a reasoning model that beats GPT-4.5 on benchmarks and introduces a hybrid Transformer-Mamba architecture for speed and efficiency.
Key details:
Matches or exceeds GPT-4.5 and DeepSeek R1, especially in math and Chinese language tasks
Uses Transformer + Mamba for better long-context reasoning
Up to 2x faster with lower compute demands
Costs: $0.14 per million input tokens, $0.55 for output
Why it matters:
China’s AI scene just closed the gap with the U.S. faster than anyone expected. This isn't just about tech—it's about global AI leadership.
What it means for you:
Get ready for even more competitive open models. Whether you're building, prompting, or deploying AI tools, expect faster, cheaper options from Asia.
Image source: Perplexity
🔍 Perplexity Wants to Buy TikTok
What happened:
AI search startup Perplexity published a legit proposal to acquire TikTok’s U.S. operations—complete with infrastructure, transparency, and feature upgrades.
Key details:
Wants to rebuild TikTok’s recommendation engine in the U.S. with open-source transparency
Would integrate Perplexity’s citation engine into TikTok videos
Plans to use Nvidia Dynamo to scale recommendation models 100x
The TikTok ban decision deadline is April 5
Why it matters:
This is either a masterclass in PR or the most unexpected AI play of the year. If it happens, it could merge video content with verified search results in a way we’ve never seen before.
What it means for you:
TikTok + AI search could become a hybrid of YouTube, Google, and Wikipedia. Meaning your TikTok could soon be surfacing in search results. If you're a creator or brand, get ready for a whole new type of discoverability.
Image source: Google
📩 Gmail’s AI Overhaul Makes Search Actually Useful
What happened:
Google’s finally bringing Gmail search into the AI age by prioritizing relevance over recency.
Key details:
New AI ranking system boosts emails from frequent contacts or commonly clicked threads
You can now add events straight from emails to your calendar
Part of a broader rollout of Gemini-powered upgrades
Why it matters:
We’ve all spent way too long hunting for the right email. This is a small-but-mighty update that shows how AI can quietly make work less annoying.
What it means for you:
Marketers, get ready: email visibility may depend more on engagement than timing. This could shift how you write, structure, and send campaigns.
Image source: ByteDance
👥 ByteDance’s InfiniteYou Goes Viral With AI Identity Control
What happened:
ByteDance (aka TikTok’s parent company) launched InfiniteYou, an AI model that can preserve your identity across poses, outfits, and scenes.
Key details:
Think: one selfie → dozens of realistic images of you doing different things
Trending on social media for its realism and flexibility
Opens the door to AI-generated influencers, content, and personal branding at scale
Why it matters:
This is deepfake tech with a glow-up. Instead of scary impersonations, we’re getting tools for people to extend their digital identity—authentically and creatively.
What it means for you:
Creators can now mass-produce branded content in their likeness. For marketers, this unlocks a new era of synthetic-but-personal influencer campaigns.
🎯 Key Takeaways
AI isn’t hype—it’s outperforming humans in healthcare, search, and reasoning.
China’s AI models are now global contenders. Ignore them at your own risk.
Gmail search is changing how people find your emails—optimize for engagement.
AI identity tools are here. Start thinking about how your digital likeness can scale.
Perplexity’s TikTok bid might sound wild, but if they pull it off, search + video could change forever.