AI’s Expanding Frontier: Defense, Healthcare, and the Rise of Humanoid Robots: This Week in AI Beat

👋 Editor's Note

AI is rapidly reshaping industries, from defense and healthcare to music and robotics, with major developments like Anthropic’s Claude Gov model and Amazon’s humanoid delivery robots making headlines. In this issue, we spotlight the latest AI news, tools, and events, including the first AI-generated TikTok hit and new government chatbot challenges, highlighting how innovation is transforming both business and daily life. We also introduce Joshua Gwinn, our new AAIA Denver Chapter President.

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🗓️ Seattle AAIA Chapter

• AI’s Role in Modern Defense

• 🗓️ Thursday, June 12, 2025, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM | In-person

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🗓️ India AAIA Chapter

• Solving the Unsolvable: Create 100X with Generative AI

• 🗓️ Saturday, June 14, 2025, 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM, India Standard Time | In-person, Thoraipakkam, Tamil Nadu

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🗓️ India AAIA Chapter

• The ShoAICase Series Startup Technology Showcase: Ekfrazo's Indus Vision

• 🗓️ Thursday, June 19, 2025, 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM India Standard Time | Online

• 🔗 Details to follow

🗓️ AAIA Global Online Event Series

• The Future of Finance: Where Banking, AI, and Blockchain Collide

• 🗓️ Tuesday, July 8, 2025, 12:00PM - 1:00PM USA Eastern Time | Online

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🗓️ Charlotte, NC AAIA Chapter

• Public Relations in the World of Artificial Intelligence

• 🗓️ Thursday, July 17, 2025, 12:00PM - 1:00PM USA Eastern Time | Online

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🗓️ STACKxDays, the premier event for senior developers, presented by the VR/AR Association and the Applied AI Association

• 🗓️ October 28-30, 2025 | In-person | UC San Diego Park & Market

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✍️ Chapter President Spotlight:

This week, we introduce Joshua Gwinn, AAIA Denver, CO USA Chapter President:

• Position: CEO, Health Bridge

• Bio: Josh is a mission-driven leader with a background as an Operations Specialist in the U.S. Navy, where he developed a leadership style rooted in accountability, compassion, and creative problem-solving. After his service, he applied his expertise in large-scale team management to national vision brands before transitioning to the dental industry. He has led operations for hundreds of health care practices throughout the country, including growing one of the largest pediatric dental vision and ortho groups in America. Most recently Josh has pivoted deeply into health care A.I. and expects this emerging technology to change the way humans interact with health care and the world writ large in the coming decade. His leadership centers on building value-driven teams with a fearless commitment to growth, innovation, and impact.

• Why I am excited to be an AAIA Chapter President: Serving as chapter president for the AAIA is an extraordinary opportunity to be at the nexus of innovation and impact. This role allows me to bridge the gap between cutting edge A.I. advancements and their practical applications in business and society.

• What I hope to accomplish in the upcoming year in my Chapter: I hope to foster a vibrant community where professionals, students, and industry leaders can connect, collaborate, and grow together. I am energized by the chance to guide our community through this transformative era with empathy and expertise, ensuring that technology enhances human potential rather than replacing it.

✍️ AAAI Founder’s Corner:  Recent “Future Work Blueprint” posts from AAIA Founder and President Nathan Pettyjohn

• 📝 My Journey to The 2-Day Workweek:

  • From the moment I was five years old, I became obsessed with the relationship between effort and value. It started when I showed my dad a drawing I made. He liked it so much, he told me he’d pay me for it. That spark turned into a hustle: within two hours, I was going door to door in my neighborhood, selling drawings to anyone who’d buy them. To my amazement, they did. (show me more)

• 5 AI Prompts and 10 Tools That Will Instantly Boost Your Productivity:

  • What if you could compress your entire workweek into just two days… without losing results? That’s the premise of my upcoming book, The 2-Day Workweek, where I unpack the mindset, AI tools, and systems that are transforming how modern professionals get things done. One of the most powerful tactics? Writing better AI prompts. (show me more)

• 📝 Your New Coworkers Are AI Agents:

  • Imagine starting your Monday morning and having an AI agent that has already researched your week's prospects, drafted your quarterly strategy presentation, scheduled your stakeholder meetings around your peak energy hours, and identified three optimization opportunities in your current projects. No coding required. No IT tickets. No waiting. (show me more)

📰 Anthropic launches new Claude service for military and intelligence use (The Verge, June 5, 2025)

Anthropic has launched Claude Gov, a specialized version of its AI models designed for U.S. defense and intelligence agencies that features fewer restrictions for handling classified information, enhanced capabilities for national security tasks, and is already being used at the highest levels of U.S. national security, marking a direct challenge to OpenAI's similar government-focused offerings and reflecting the growing integration of advanced AI into military and intelligence operations. (show me more)

📰 Government health chatbots hit some snags (Politico, June 4, 2025)

The article details how government health agencies’ rollout of AI chatbots—most notably the FDA’s new “Elsa” tool—has faced internal criticism and operational setbacks, with staff citing overpromising, technical limitations, and concerns about accuracy and reliability, raising doubts about whether these AI solutions are truly improving efficiency or simply introducing new risks into critical regulatory processes. (show me more)

📰 Reddit is suing Anthropic for allegedly scraping its data without permission (Engadget, June 4, 2025) 

Reddit has filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging the AI company unlawfully scraped Reddit’s data to train its Claude chatbot without permission or a licensing agreement, despite repeated warnings and in violation of Reddit’s terms, while Anthropic denies the claims and intends to defend itself. (show me more)

📰 53-year-old’s career survived the Dotcom tech crash—her advice for people working in AI now: ‘Don’t be a fraud’ (CNBC, June 3, 2025)

Gabrielle Heyman, who survived the Dotcom crash by being genuinely knowledgeable and passionate about her work, advises people entering emerging fields like AI to avoid superficiality, stay well-informed, experiment with the technology, and choose employers committed to long-term growth rather than fleeting trends. (show me more)

📰 How AI Can Help Fix Our Brains (Every, June 4, 2025)

AI can help improve mental health care by moving beyond rigid diagnostic categories to embrace the complexity and individuality of human experience, using deep learning to map nuanced patterns in mental disorders, enable earlier detection, and provide more personalized, accessible support through tools like AI-assisted clinical interviews and chatbots. (show me more)

📰 Amazon ‘testing humanoid robots to deliver packages’ (The Guardian, June 5, 2025)

Amazon is developing and testing humanoid robots equipped with advanced AI software to deliver packages by riding in Rivian electric vans and bringing parcels to customers’ doors, with trials set to begin at a specially constructed indoor "humanoid park" in San Francisco as part of efforts that could eventually automate delivery jobs. (show me more)

📰 The Washington Post is planning to let amateur writers submit columns — with the help of AI (The Verge, June 4, 2025)

The Washington Post is developing an AI writing coach called Ember as part of a new initiative, internally named Ripple, that will allow amateur and external writers to submit opinion columns—with AI assistance and human editorial review—for publication outside the paywall, aiming to broaden the range of perspectives featured on its platform. (show me more)

📰 AI can now stalk you with just a single vacation photo (Vox, June 6, 2025)

Artificial intelligence models like ChatGPT and Claude can now extract highly personal information from seemingly innocuous data, such as a single vacation photo, making digital privacy nearly impossible to maintain and raising urgent concerns about surveillance, misuse, and the inadequacy of current privacy laws to protect individuals in an AI-driven world. (show me more)

📰 This Week’s Wacky Read:

📰 Unitree G1 Humanoid Robot Boxing: All the WILDEST Highlights (CNET, May 25, 2025)

“Several Unitree G1 robots remotely operated by human beings punched, kicked, and kneed one another in a fight to the top in what is being billed as "the world's first combat competition exclusively featuring humanoid robots.” (watch the video) [Editor’s note: If you connect the dots with the anticipated rapid advancements in robotics and AI over the coming years, we’ve seen scenarios like this play out in countless sci-fi movies…]

📰 ‘A Million Colors’ by Vinih Pray Becomes First-Known AI-Generated Song on the TikTok Charts (Billboard, June 3, 2025)

"A Million Colors" by Vinih Pray, created using the AI music platform Suno, has become the first-known AI-generated song to reach the TikTok Viral 50 chart, highlighting the growing influence of AI in music creation and sparking widespread attention and discussion on social media. (show me more)

📘 Microsoft’s AI Agents for Beginners (Microsoft/Github, h/t The Neuron )