As the year comes to a close, I wanted to pause and simply say thank you. Thank you for being here. Thank you for your curiosity, courage, and creativity. Thank you for showing up for conversations that matter. Whether you joined us through the magazine, education, events, community spaces, or quietly followed along and learned in your own way you are part of a growing global movement shaping a more thoughtful, inclusive, and ethical future with AI. This year has reminded us that technology moves fast but wisdom, connection, and humanity are what truly guide progress. May this season bring peace, connection, and possibility. From all of us across the SHE IS AI global team, we wish you a safe, warm, and meaningful holiday season, and a hopeful start to the year ahead. 🎨 Image credit: @Hayat Ibrahim --> A gift to the world representing transparency, intentionality, and global sharing. The illuminated core and flowing ribbon reflect SHE IS AI’s commitment to education, leadership, and expanding access with care and responsibility. With gratitude, Amanda and the SHE IS AI Team

As we’re drawing close to the end of 2025 our eyes turn to what’s going to be relevant and how we can actually make money with AI in 2026. Everyone has a prediction. Most are contradictory. Almost none of them tell you what to actually do. As AI models, tools and platforms are getting dramatically faster, smarter, and more powerful personalizes and niche offers will be more and more in high demand. Do these things while everyone else chases shiny objects. 1. Strive to be a 1-person company - reduce your overheads and start relying heavy on AI automations, agents & assistants to run your business like a well oiled machine. Do this first so you can focus on connecting with new prospects, building relationships and fulfillment. 2. Choose what problems to solve - as AI companies become more sophisticated and start offering more (just look at how fats ChatGPT is becoming a operating system), start looking for painful micro problems that big tech giants will simply ignore because they are too small. For example don’t try to build the next Sora or VEO, you’ll never win. But what if you build a video tool that does virtual home walkthroughs for the real estate industry? Super specific and highly targeted but not broad enough for big tech to replace your app. Whatever the offer is think of how it can be hyper personalized for a specific industry, niche or pain-point. 3. Go after niches that are able and willing to pay to solve their pain points. I spoke to a friend recently and we brainstorming some offers she can launch in 2026 and she really wanted to work with teachers. But the more we dug in, the more she realized that teachers may be willing, but most like not able to pay for whatever solution she creates. Digging a little deeper a new solution started taking form and the target market emerged - churches. They have clear, painful problems AI can solve and they have the means to afford them. 4. Become more visible. Nobody has the excuse of “I don’t have time to create content” or I don’t know what to post” anymore.

As we move into the quieter rhythm of the holidays, I wanted to share something deeply aligned with what SHE IS AI stands for. This beautiful article by @Wren H. Peak - AI visual storyteller, UX designer, and SHE IS AI Ambassador is a reminder that emotion is not an extra in AI creativity… it’s the foundation. In The Heart Behind the Machine, Wren explores emotional design as the invisible architecture beneath meaningful AI art where intuition, lived experience, imperfection, and story guide the machine. AI may render the pixels, but we give them a heartbeat. This is a powerful read for anyone feeling reflective, creative, or called to slow down and reconnect with why they create not just what they produce. 💛 A gentle holiday invitation for this community: If you feel inspired over the break, I’d love to see you experiment with something emotionally driven: - a piece of AI art - a short reflection - a visual story - a prompt you loved - or even a “work in progress” that carries meaning Create from feeling, not perfection. Then, if it feels right, share it here in Skool so we can witness, support, and learn from one another. At SHE IS AI, we believe: - the human leads - ethics guide - technology amplifies, never replaces, the heart. - 📖 Read the full article on our blog: https://sheisai.ai/the-newsroom/the-heart-behind-the-machine-how-emotional-design-brings-soul-to-ai-creativity ✍️🎨 Written & illustrated by Wren Peak Thank you for being part of this community this year. I’m so grateful for the depth, care, and humanity you all bring. Amanda 💛

The AI arms race is officially heating up... After an internal "Code Red" triggered by Google’s powerful Gemini 3, OpenAI has launched its most advanced model yet — GPT-5.2 and it's already making waves across the AI world. 🧠 What's New with GPT-5.2? OpenAI has fine-tuned this release for speed, depth, and accuracy, launching three versions: 🚀 Instant – For fast, casual queries 🧩 Thinking For long documents, complex reasoning & deep workflows 🎯 Pro – For high-stakes, high-accuracy problem solving Early reports show major upgrades in: - Spreadsheets & presentations - Coding & technical reasoning - Long-context memory & step-by-step task completion - Reduced hallucinations and more reliable outputs 💡 Why it Matters: OpenAI is doubling down on performance and productivity putting the focus back on core intelligence and usefulness for creators, builders, and professionals like YOU. And yes, this is a direct answer to Google Gemini 3 beating them on recent benchmarks. The race is very real 👀 ✨ What Can You Do With It? ✅ Test it on your current projects ✅ Compare it to Claude or Gemini if you're multi-tooling ✅ Drop your use case in the comments (marketing, workflows, product builds, client work, etc.) 💬 Let’s Talk: What are you noticing? Better results? More intuitive outputs? 👇 Drop your thoughts, tests, or wins in the thread below