Monster Letter #4: Turn messy meeting notes into a quick follow-up (+ 5 more good things)

On Google's education blog, special needs teacher Eni Wulandari in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, shared how she uses Gemini on classroom Chromebooks. She makes simple visual guides so students who can't read still understand the activity, and students who can't write use voice prompts to create their own images and share ideas. She says it has “quite literally given a voice to those who cannot write.” It's one educator's classroom story, not a medical or therapy claim.

The Korea National Park Service built an AI model called Bandallens AI to identify animals caught on its roughly 1,300 park cameras. Going through 100,000 clips used to take people 208 days; the park service says the AI does it in about 8 hours. It knows 17 species so far, including Asiatic black bears, Siberian flying squirrels, wild boars and badgers (and yes, dogs and cats). It's a park service tool, not an app you can download.

Ever hear a song and wonder if it's a real person? YouTube Music started rolling out labels for songs made mainly with generative AI, like when an AI model created both the music and the vocals. The label sits right on the player page, and tapping it shows more about AI's role. The labels are coming to the main YouTube app too. It's still rolling out, and no detection system is perfect, so some tracks could slip through.