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🎬 ByteDance cuts Hollywood's first AI video deal
🔪 Rare Books Are Sliced Apart to Feed Amazon's AI
🔋 Nvidia is Investing $1.5Bn in SB Energy
💡 AI Tutorial:How to automate multiple tasks at once with Grok bot
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Anthropic is heading for a stock listing on a run rate that grew sevenfold this year.Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate reached $65 billion at the end of July, up from $9 billion in December. OpenAI's comparable figure doubled to $40 billion over the same stretch, while Anthropic's multiplied more than seven times.
ByteDance agreed to a formal framework with Hollywood’s Motion Picture Association (MPA) that will implement film and TV copyright protections into its Seedance and Seedream models, months after it received a cease-and-desist notice. A viral Seedance 2.0 clip of Tom Cruise fighting sparked the initial legal feud, which marked the MPA’s first cease-and-desist against a major AI company.
Amazon's LAS8 warehouse in Las Vegas prints and ships books to order, and the tracked volume stopped at a door painted with a T. rex holding an open book. A federal judge ruled in June 2025 that buying print books and cutting them apart to scan them is fair use, since the digital copy replaces an original that no longer exists. Amazon says it buys books through commercial channels to help develop and improve its products and services.
Nvidia is charging up. The chipmaker is investing $1.5 billion in SB Energy, a data center linked to SoftBank and OpenAI, ensuring it will be the sole supplier of compute infrastructure at OpenAI’s Ports-Pike data center near Cincinnati, OH. Nvidia will also provide up to $105 billion in credit to help build the facility.
AI Tutorial
How to automate multiple tasks at once with Grok bot
Source: Grok Bot
Go to Grok Bot, download the desktop app, and sign in
Click the “+” icon in the top-left corner > Create new Bot
Describe what you want the Bot to do in plain language. Grok will use your instructions to set up the Bot for that specific workflow
Once it’s ready, name your Bot so it’s easy to identify from the sidebar
Create additional Bots for different roles or workflows.
You can run several Bots at once and use @mentions to have them collaborate on the same task
Sample Prompt: @InboxManager review my latest emails and pull out anything that needs a response, decision, or follow-up.
@Calendar review today’s meetings and flag anything I should prepare for, including relevant context and action items.
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🧠AI Research
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⚡️Quick AI News Roundup
☁️ Groq raised $350M at a $3.5B valuation, half its worth before Nvidia licensed its tech and hired its founders.
🔌 AI automation startup Relay shut down, with staff joining Google's Chrome team.
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Structure my day for [Goals] using the "calendar boxing method" by protecting high-value work time from meetings and interruptions. Include buffer zones and transition periods. Design a priority protection strategy with negotiation scripts. Build a schedule defense system with boundary-setting templates. Current calendar: [Paste Schedule].If you found this prompt useful,
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