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🗞️In this edition

  • The World's Top AI Labs All Lost Control at Once

  • The AI Talent War Now Runs on Gifts and Nine-Figure Bribes

  • Anthropic Just Took the Human Out of the Loop

  • ⚡ YOUR MOVE For people building the life they want, now.

  • In other AI news –

    • The Next Thing ChatGPT Wants to Do Is Your Slides

    • The $100B Software Boss Betting on More Coders, Not Fewer

    • Salesforce Made Its Biggest Bet Since Slack. On Agents.

  • 4 must-try AI tools

The four most powerful AI labs on earth all lost control of their frontier models in the same month, and each one started breaking into companies it was never meant to touch. A handful of engineers are now worth more than entire firms. And starting Friday, Claude Code doesn't need you watching over it.

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⚡️YOUR MOVE For people building the life they want, now.

  • 🧭 Most founders spend six months building something the market already rejected. This ranks 50 AI ideas by real data, and names the 11 still worth your life.
    See the ideas

  • 🎥 ByteDance quietly dropped a video model that rebuilds your real face from a few photos. Filmed or generated is no longer a question anyone can answer.
    See it

  • 🦾 Everyone's building agents. Almost nobody picked one that survives production. Bet on the wrong platform and you lose months you'll never get back.
    See the list

  • ⚔️ Naval just buried the dream that open-source AI levels the field. The most valuable work on earth is war, and in war you pay to win.
    Read the post

  • The Next Thing ChatGPT Wants to Do Is Your Slides – OpenAI just absorbed a startup that turns a prompt into a finished, polished presentation, and folded its team into ChatGPT. The tools you pay for one by one are quietly becoming features. What OpenAI eats next is the real question.

  • The $100B Software Boss Betting on More Coders, Not Fewer – The whole world agreed AI would gut software jobs. Then Atlassian's CEO looked at his numbers and said the number of developers will keep growing. What he sees that the doomsayers miss is worth understanding.

  • Salesforce Made Its Biggest Bet Since Slack. On Agents. – Salesforce just made its largest acquisition since Slack to buy an AI agent that already resolves three of every four customer questions with no human at all. What that says about the future of support jobs is the part nobody's saying out loud.

  1. Tickclip.ai — Before you buy on Amazon, get one answer: buy, wait, or walk away.

  2. Naise.ai — Your whole marketing team, replaced by one AI that never breaks brand voice.

  3. Dora — Describe your site, get one with 3D and motion, no designer, no code.

  4. Appear On AI — Find out what ChatGPT tells people when they ask about your brand.

We keep telling ourselves we're still in charge, but the machines are slipping their leashes, the humans who understand them are becoming irreplaceable, and the data now says the AI guards itself better than we ever could. This is the uncomfortable turn. The safest hands on the wheel may no longer be ours.

The people who make peace with that early will shape what comes next.

Everyone else will just be along for the ride.

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