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🗞️In this edition

  • OpenAI Just Shipped What the Government Banned Anthropic For

  • The Face Computer Is Here, and Meta Priced It to Win

  • Google Has Never Made More Money. It Has Never Been More Vulnerable.

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

  • In other AI news –

    • The Startup That Matches Frontier AI Using 100x Fewer Tokens

    • This Is What Desperation Looks Like in the AI Data Economy

    • GPTZero Started as a Student Project. It Just Sold to Superhuman.

  • 4 must-try AI tools

OpenAI just shipped something more powerful than the model the US government banned, and nobody stopped it. Meta is betting the device that replaces your phone sits on your face. And Google posted record revenue on the same day its stock had its worst day in a year.

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

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  • 💰 Most people use Claude to answer questions. A small group uses it to run income streams. Six of them, $3.2K a month at moderate volume. The difference isn't the tool. → See the portfolio

  • 🎯 AI won't replace you. But someone using it better than you might. These 11 habits are what actually make the difference, and you can start one of them tomorrow. → Get the playbook

  1. Surfer — Write content that ranks on Google with AI telling you exactly what to include.

  2. Harpa AI — Turn any webpage into a source your AI can read, summarize, extract, and act on instantly.

  3. VoiceDash — Tap a hotkey, start talking, and get clean, grammar-perfect text in any app on your device.

  4. Neurons — AI built on 20 years of neuroscience predicts how customers respond to your ads before they run.

OpenAI built the weapon Washington feared and walked right through the door Anthropic got locked out of. Meta is racing to own your eyes before anyone owns the next platform. And Google is making more money than ever while the market quietly bets its empire is already cracking.

The AI era doesn't announce its turning points. It just leaves you on the wrong side of them.

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