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🐳 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
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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 ops hire that onboards in 30 seconds.
Viktor is an AI coworker that lives in Slack, right where your team already works.
Message Viktor like a teammate: "pull last quarter's revenue by channel," or "build a dashboard for our board meeting."
Viktor connects to your tools, does the work, and delivers the actual report, spreadsheet, or dashboard. Not a summary. The real thing.
There’s no new software to adopt and no one to train.
Most teams start with one task. Within a week, Viktor is handling half of their ops.
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.
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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With Constant Contact’s automation tools, your emails, texts, and offers go out at the right time, every time — without you having to lift a finger.
Want to show your customers you care about them? Use an automaton template to send birthday messages. Working on driving sales? Set up an abandoned cart email automation to gently urge almost-shoppers to become actual shoppers. Looking to bring lapsed customers back into the fold? Send automations with offers and promos to entice them to buy again. You can even create custom automation paths that work best for your business.
It couldn’t be easier. Just set up automatic triggered messages based on your customers’ behavior, and watch those messages run while you focus on everything else.
Travel News Zone, if you’re ready to save time and put pesky administrative tasks on autopilot, give Constant Contact’s marketing automation tools a try.
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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.
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Break down [Complex Concept] into its core components using the simplification technique. Create an explanation as if teaching it to a 12-year-old. Include 3-5 key points and 1-2 everyday analogies. Present the result as a mind map with brief explanations for each branch.If you found this prompt useful,
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