Hi! Welcome to the 18th edition of the TomorrowToday newsletter.

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/Gemini /Enterprise /Workplace /Agents

Google just launched Gemini Enterprise, and they're making it crystal clear: they want to own the enterprise AI space. The platform lets anyone in your company build custom AI agents without writing a single line of code - think of it as an app store for workplace AI assistants.

The real play here? Google's betting that the enterprise AI battle won't be won by the smartest models alone, but by whoever makes AI easiest to actually use at work. With a $30/month Enterprise tier and a $21 Business option for smaller teams, they're going after everyone from startups to corporates.

And here's the kicker: Gemini 3 is rumoured to be launching soon, with whispers that it could be the most powerful model ever released. If the rumours are true, Google might just leapfrog everyone else in the AI race.

💰 Bonus feature for South African students: Students in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Ghana, and Zimbabwe can now get Gemini AI Pro completely free for 12 months (that's a ~R400/month saving!). Verify your university status at gemini.google/students between 7 October and 9 December 2025. Access includes their advanced Gemini 2.5 Pro model, Deep Research, NotebookLM, and 2TB of cloud storage. Now the studente sonder sente can get access to the best frontier models for free!

(No excuse left for failing that exam now 😉)

/Video /Deepfakes /AI-Safety

Elon Musk's Grok Imagine just went free for everyone, and honestly, it's a bit of a "wow, but also… yikes" moment. The v0.9 update generates realistic videos with audio in seconds - genuinely faster than OpenAI's Sora. We're talking about creating a video of anyone saying anything, and it's scarily convincing.

Here's where it gets dodgy: Grok has virtually no safety guardrails. Journalists at Beebom tested it and managed to create deepfake videos of political figures saying things they never said, celebrities in compromising positions, and basically anything else you can imagine. The "Spicy mode" takes it even further into deeply questionable territory.

This highlights a fundamental split in AI philosophy: OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic wrap their models in layers of safety checks. Musk's xAI takes a "minimal restrictions" approach. There are valid arguments on both sides - heavy guardrails can stifle innovation and creativity, whilst no guardrails can enable harm at scale.

The truth? Both approaches have trade-offs. But when deepfakes this convincing are free and accessible to anyone, we're entering uncharted territory for misinformation and potential abuse.

/Coding /Automation /Debugging

Cursor, everyone's favourite IDE, just solved one of the most annoying problems with AI coding assistants: the endless screenshot loop. You know the drill - Cursor builds your website, there's a bug, you take a screenshot, paste it back, it tries to fix it, repeat ad nauseam.

Not anymore. Cursor's new browser integration means the AI agent can now control a web browser directly, see exactly what's happening on your site, read console logs, monitor network traffic, and debug issues in real-time. No more copy-paste hell.

This is a genuine step toward autonomous coding agents. Instead of you being the messenger between "what the code is doing" and "what the AI thinks it's doing," Cursor can now see for itself and iterate until things actually work.

The feature includes smart safeguards - you can approve actions manually, set allow-lists for trusted operations, or (if you're feeling brave) let it run autonomously. It's currently available for individual and team users, with enterprise access coming soon.

In this section, we aim to spotlight an incredible AI tool or use case and guide you on how you can try it.

This week’s challenge: Build a marketing intelligence assistant that tracks trends whilst you sleep 📊

If you're in marketing, you know the struggle: platform algorithm changes drop on a random Tuesday, viral trends emerge whilst you're off-grid for the weekend, and by the time you've caught up on industry news, three new AI tools have launched that "change everything."

What if you had a research assistant who monitored all of this 24/7 and delivered a perfect 5-minute briefing every morning?

Enter Perplexity Pro: Think ChatGPT's smarter cousin who actually knows what's happening right now. Unlike ChatGPT (stuck in the past), Perplexity searches the web in real-time and gives you current, cited answers with source links.

Here's how to set it up:

Step 1: Get Perplexity Pro
- Go to perplexity.ai/pro
- Start your 7-day free trial (no credit card needed)
- After trial: $20/month (~R360/month at current rates)

Step 2: Create Your Marketing Intelligence Space
- Click "Spaces" in the left sidebar
- Create a new Space called "Marketing Intelligence Hub"
- Click the settings gear icon

Step 3: Add Your Custom Instructions
Paste this into your Space settings:

Step 4: Your Daily Morning Briefing Prompt
Save this and use it every morning:

Pro Tips:
- Add competitor websites to your Sources in Space settings; Perplexity will monitor their content marketing for you
- Run a "Weekly Wrap" prompt every Friday for a comprehensive roundup
- Use it before client meetings for quick competitive intelligence

Stop letting important marketing trends pass you by whilst you're drowning in newsletters and social feeds. Set this up right now - seriously, your future self will thank you.

This week, we’re replacing the “⚡ Weird & Wonderful” with a new section where we spotlight real businesses using AI to solve actual problems (not just chatbots that tell you to "please hold").

This week: IBM's HR revolution 👪

IBM faced a classic enterprise headache: a global workforce drowning in HR admin, inconsistent policies across regions, and HR teams overwhelmed by repetitive queries. Their solution? AskHR, an AI agent powered by watsonx Orchestrate, that now handles 2.1 million employee conversations annually.

The results are genuinely impressive: 94% of common HR questions are resolved without human intervention, support tickets have dropped 75% since 2016, and the company has cut HR operational costs by 40% over four years. Employees can now ask "Where's my payslip?" or request job verification letters conversationally, whilst managers automate complex tasks like org structure updates.

Here's what makes this work: IBM didn't just slap AI onto broken processes. They eliminated inefficiencies first, then automated what remained. The AI handles routine queries (99% manager adoption!), freeing HR professionals for strategic work. It's integrated with Workday, SAP, and other enterprise systems, making it genuinely useful rather than just a fancy chatbot.

The lesson? AI in enterprise isn't about replacing people - it's about removing soul-crushing admin so humans can do work that actually matters.

AI is full of jargon, and we’re here to decode it. Each week, we’ll give you a plain-English definition of a buzzy term you’ve probably seen (but never fully understood).

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