Innovation Profs - 1/13/2026

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Latest Gen AI News

UK media regulator investigating Elon Musk’s X after outcry over sexualized AI images

Ofcom, the UK’s regulator for communications services, is investigating X over the use of Grok AI to create sexualized images, including images of specific individuals and children. The outcome of this investigation could include a financial penalty of 10% of X’s qualifying revenue or even being blocked in the UK. In response to this abhorrent practice, X restricted the use Grok to create images in the platform to paid X users, but it appears no restrictions on the standalone Grok app have been made. In light of this failure to restrict Grok, access to Grok has been temporarily banned in both Indonesia and Malaysia. 

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health to connect user medical records, wellness apps

On Wednesday of last week, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health, which allows users to connect their medical records and wellness apps to the platform to allow them to obtain answers to their medical questions. “ChatGPT Health is not intended for diagnosis and treatment, and it’s not supposed to replace medical care, OpenAI said. Rather, the experience is supposed to help users navigate everyday questions, and it aims to make ChatGPT’s responses more relevant by grounding them in a user’s own health information.” In response, just yesterday Anthropic launched Claude AI for Healthcare.

Apple picks Google’s Gemini to run AI-powered Siri coming this year

Later this year, Apple will begin powering their voice assistant Siri with a custom version of Google Gemini. According to an Apple statement, “After careful evaluation, we determined that Google’s technology provides the most capable foundation for Apple Foundation Models and we’re excited about the innovative new experiences it will unlock for our users.” Siri is currently powered by ChatGPT, so this is yet another victory of Google over OpenAI.

🍔 AI Lunch Club returns

Our AI Lunch Club series returns this spring with four FREE virtual events to help you better understand generative AI tools. Click each link to get more info and to sign up (did we mention all four events are free!?):

• Feb. 9 - Get Started with Generative AI

• Feb. 16 - Google Gemini, Nano Banana and NotebookLM

• Feb. 23 - Building Microsoft Copilot Agents

• March 4 - Vibe coding with Claude, ChatGPT and Lovable

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Quick Hits

Tool of the week: Leonardo Blueprints

Leonardo AI’s new Blueprints feature is like having pre-made prompts for all your image needs. Leonardo Blueprints are pre-built creative workflows on the Leonardo.ai platform that bundle the ideal AI models, prompts, inputs, and settings into ready-to-use templates.

They let you generate images, edit photos, create product visuals, build moodboards, and more with very little setup, so you focus on your idea rather than writing complex prompts or experimenting with technical options. Users get 150 free credits per day, which is enough to do just one Blueprint per day. We tested it out here on a photo of Professor Snider.

AI-generated image of the week

Mini figurines are back. This time we’re using Gemini Nano Banana to make miniature versions of ourselves doing various activities. Not sure how to use Nano Banana? It’s part of our free Google Gemini AI Lunch club on Feb. 16.

Prompt: Make a miniature, full-body, isometric, realistic figurine of this person, wearing XXX, doing XXX, on a white background, minimal, 4K resolution.

What we found

Midjourney released an updated version of its image models specifically tuned for Asia and Anime. Niji V7 features improved anime coherence, prompt understanding, text rendering, and sref performance.

We tried it

Professor Snider here. I got access to ChatGPT Health and uploaded results from a recent yearly checkup. I was able to ask questions about the results, was told which areas I should follow-up with more testing and was given simple steps I can take to improve my results. Join the ChatGPT Health waitlist here.