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📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?
🐳 The Whale returns with cheap, efficient DeepSeek V4
📱 Apple's Cook Gives Ternus a Pipeline of 10 Major New Products
🤖 Musk to Turn X Into Super App With Banking Tool Near Launch
⚡️ Musk v. Altman heads to trial
💡 AI Tutorial:How to create images with OpenAI’s Images 2 model
🤯 6 new AI Tools
🖼️ A.I. Generated Image of the Day
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Anthropic just published results from Project Deal, a one-week experiment where Claude agents handled buying and selling for 69 of its own employees in a private Slack marketplace and completed 186 deals worth over $4,000. Agents were given a $100 budget and used short Claude interviews to set goals, then posted listings, made offers, and negotiated on their own.
The new On Call desktop app (Mac only) gives you real-time guidance during your calls and AI-powered feedback afterward. Identify blind spots, track patterns, and build stronger leadership habits over time and turn every meeting into an opportunity to improve, influence, and lead.
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek just introduced preview versions of its highly anticipated V4, with new open-source AI models featuring 1M-token context windows, Huawei chip support, and pricing that significantly undercuts the frontier competitors. Early outside tests put V4 Pro near the top of open models, with DeepSeek's own evals placing V4 Pro near GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1-Pro on reasoning.
John Ternus will officially begin his tenure as Apple's new CEO on September 1. He will reveal Apple's biggest new product in a decade, the first foldable iPhone, less than two weeks later. Ternus oversaw the engineering and product development of the device, which makes him the perfect person to be the face of the new era of the iPhone.
X Money is expected to launch to the public before the end of this month. The banking and payments platform will provide free peer-to-peer transfers, a personalized metal Visa debit card, and an AI concierge that tracks spending and sorts through past transactions. It has some competitive perks, including 3% cash back on eligible purchases and a 6% interest rate on cash savings.
Jury selection begins Monday in Oakland, California, as Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI heads to trial. The case centers on whether Altman broke the company's founding agreement by restructuring OpenAI from a nonprofit into a for-profit enterprise, and could reshape the future of one of the world's most valuable AI startups.
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AI Tutorial
How to create images with OpenAI’s Images 2 model
Go to ChatGPT and sign up
Click ‘+’ > ‘Create Image’ > select any Image template to get base prompt
You can also enter your own prompt
Here are five unique use cases with prompts:
Email Sequence Template: "Create a polished email sequence template for [company name]"
Multi-page Brand Kit: "Create a polished multi-page (multiple images) brand kit for [enter brand name]"
Scan Anything Clear: “[upload old paper with writing] Scan this image and get rid of all the creases”
Whiteboard Infographics: “[Upload infographic] convert this infographic into a handwritten whiteboard infographic suitable for LinkedIn in ratio 9:16”
Text Rendering: A vintage 1950s dinner menu board listing featuring [main content/text]. Use [font style] typography with [design details like colors, textures, layout].
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🔥AI Tools to supercharge your productivity
Marblism generates a fully-functional web application from a single prompt:
Clipwing A tool for cutting long videos into dozens of short clips
aiPDF is an innovative, multi-modal tool designed to work with a wide array of inputs, including ebooks, web articles, YouTube videos, podcasts.
FaceStudio - The Fastest Way to Create Realistic Faces Online!
VerifactAI is an AI fact-checking tool that allows you to fact-check your articles within a minute.
Undress AI Tool is a website that offers a deepnude application, allowing users to create modified images
Auto Streamer, your digital alchemist turning ideas into engaging learning experiences
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⚡️Quick AI News Roundup
🚨 Met investigates hundreds of officers after using Palantir AI tool.
🐺 South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf.
🤝 Meta signs agreement with AWS to power agentic AI on Amazon's Graviton chips.
🐞 OpenAI annoused bug bounty on GPT-5.5.
💼 Google updates Workspace to make AI your new office intern.
🤖Prompt Engineering
✅ Deep Work Session Designer
Create a focused work plan for [Specific Task] using the "attention residue elimination" method by blocking distractions and setting clear boundaries. Include energy peak timing and break structure. Design task batching strategy with completion triggers. Build a distraction prevention system with focus recovery protocols. Current schedule: [Paste Daily Routine].If you found this prompt useful,
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