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• 1. 💻 Build AI apps that are ready to deploy with Retool
• 2. ⚖️ RSL 1.0 standards make AI firms pay for scraped content
• 3. 💼 Train to become a high-paid AI Consultant with Innovating with AI
• 4. ⏱️ How AI cut bid prep time for contractors
• 5. 🪐 Aetherflux plans orbital AI data centers
• 6. 🪄 Figma adds AI image editing tools
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TOGETHER WITH RETOOL
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Latest in AI
RSL 1.0 standards make AI firms pay for scraped content
🚨 Our Report
The RSL Collective has officially launched Really Simple Licensing 1.0 (RSL), a web standard that allows publishers to dictate licensing and compensation rules to AI companies used to train AI. Over 1,500 media organizations currently support RSL, including major publishers like The Associated Press, Vox Media, The Guardian, and BuzzFeed, with web infrastructure giants Cloudflare and Akamai backing the implementation.
🔓 Key Points
RSL expands the existing robots.txt framework, giving publishers granular control over AI usage while maintaining traditional search visibility, solving Google's current all-or-nothing approach to AI opt-outs.
Major web infrastructure providers like Cloudflare and Akamai can automatically block non-compliant AI scrapers that refuse to pay licensing fees, giving RSL enforcement power beyond voluntary compliance.
The standard arrives as Google faces a European Commission antitrust investigation for using publisher content in AI search features without offering publishers the ability to refuse such usage.
🔐 Relevance
This move gives publishers long-sought leverage over how their content is used in AI products. It could reshape negotiations between media companies and AI developers, especially as the European Commission investigates Google’s use of publisher data in AI search results.
Partner Perspective
Hiring With Confidence in the AI Era
Partner Column exclusively available in this edition of The AI Report
By Karen Odash — Labor And Employment Attorney at Fisher Phillips
“Employers must treat hiring as both a talent function and a security function.”
TOGETHER WITH INNOVATING WITH AI
‘AI consultants are getting paid $900/hr’ –Fortune
Fortune Magazine interviewed Innovating with AI’s founder to discuss a crazy stat – AI engineers are being deployed as consultants at $900/hr.
Why did they interview Rob?
Because he’s already trained 1,000+ AI consultants – and IWAI’s exclusive consultant directory has driven Fortune 500 leads to graduates.
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Case Study
How AI cut bid prep time for contractors
Bob the Builder AI, a US startup for small construction firms, faced slow manual bidding that delayed projects and reduced profit margins.
The challenge stemmed from paper-based estimating and compliance tasks, which created backlogs and prevented contractors’ ability to compete for work.
The team built an AI assistant that drafts bids, reviews contracts, and auto-fills compliance forms using natural language processing.
Early users report significant time savings and faster bid turnaround, helping contractors secure more projects and improve workflow.
AI News Story
Aetherflux plans orbital AI data centers
California-based Aetherflux announced “Galactic Brain,” a project to build solar-powered AI data centers in orbit. The company says continuous solar exposure and advanced cooling systems will take away the energy and infrastructure limits faced by Earth-based facilities.
The first demonstration satellite is slated for 2026, with a full constellation of computing nodes targeted for early 2027. Satellites will beam power and processed data to ground stations via infrared lasers.
Founder Baiju Bhatt, who previously co-founded Robinhood, said the move aligns with Aetherflux’s goal of creating “an American power grid in space.” The initiative signals growing interest from tech giants exploring orbital compute as AI workloads surge.
AI News Story
Figma adds AI image editing tools
Figma launched object removal and image expansion capabilities, aiming to reduce switching between design tools. The platform handles basic image edits internally rather than requiring exports to external editors.
Figma enhanced its lasso tool for precise object selection, erasure and isolation. Users can adjust lighting and color while preserving background elements. An image expansion feature helps designers adapt creatives across formats by automatically filling backgrounds when converting between banner sizes.
Figma consolidated all image editing capabilities into a single toolbar with prominent background erasure ability, noting it's the platform's most common tool. The tools arrive as rivals Adobe and Canva have offered similar capabilities for years, marking Figma's catch-up in AI-powered editing.
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