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🗞️In this edition
Anthropic's Cheapest Model Just Learned to Do Opus-Level Work
Meta Can Now Decode Your Thoughts Into Text. No Surgery Required.
Google Just Handed Creators an End-to-End Media Machine
⚡ YOUR MOVE For people building the life they want, now.
In other AI news –
Datadog Just Bought Its Way Into Frontier AI Research
Why $7M Just Went to a Startup Challenging a $6B Giant
Every Investor Passed on Their Chip. Now It's Worth $5 Billion.
4 must-try AI tools
The gap between the best AI and the affordable AI just narrowed to almost nothing. A company that already knows your habits is learning to read your thoughts without touching your skull. And Google just made creating anything so cheap the number will surprise you.
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Anthropic's new Sonnet writes a failing test, fixes the bug, then proves the fix worked, all in a single pass.
It performs near Opus level at a fraction of the price.
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Meta just built an AI that translates raw brain activity into full sentences with no surgery at all.
For millions who can't speak, it could change everything.
They just dropped an image model that generates in four seconds for three cents, then hands off to a video model in the same workflow.
⚡️YOUR MOVE For people building the life they want, now.
🧠 200+ company brains built, and the number one predictor of success isn't technical skill. It's something most people wouldn't guess. The brain builds itself once you understand this. → See the lessons
🔭 The first fortunes of the AI era aren't being built by companies. They're being built by single people with one skill and a laptop. That skill is still wide open for most people. → See the skill
🛠️ Someone built a free Claude skill that walks you through anything you don't know how to do, step by step. Type one command and it teaches you from A to Z. → Get the skill
🎯 The board deck said transformation. The engineering org looked identical to six months ago. 72% claim production AI, almost none have the layer that actually makes it work. → See what's missing
Datadog Just Bought Its Way Into Frontier AI Research – Datadog watched every enterprise struggle to turn its own data into AI that actually improves. Then it bought the startup that claims to have cracked the hardest part.
Why $7M Just Went to a Startup Challenging a $6B Giant – Duolingo turned language learning into a game worth $6 billion. A London startup just raised $7M on the belief that the whole approach misses the point, and 3 million users already agree.
Every Investor Passed on Their Chip. Now It's Worth $5 Billion. – Two Harvard dropouts spent 2023 nearly broke, pitching a chip every major investor rejected. Today it's booked a billion dollars in orders, and Karpathy, Hinton and Thiel are all on the cap table.
Gamma App — Type your topic and AI builds a polished, interactive presentation in seconds.
Krisp — Every call sounds professional and every meeting gets documented, automatically.
Consensus AI — Search 200 million research papers and get AI summaries of what the science actually says.
6Sense — Know which accounts are ready to buy before your competitors even know they exist.
Anthropic made near-frontier intelligence cost pennies. Meta learned to pull sentences straight from the brain without surgery. And Google collapsed the cost of creation to almost zero. The tools are getting more powerful and more intimate at the same time.
The question is no longer what AI can do. It's how close you're willing to let it get.
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