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Hey fam 👋 Luis & Rui here with your daily dose of AI news!

Midjourney is stepping into AI video, OpenAI’s secrets are hitting the open web and YouTube is plugging Veo 3 straight into Shorts.

Let’s dive in!

(3-minute coffee break ☕)


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🌎 AI News around the world

🔥 Midjourney launches its first AI video-generation model, V1 (continue reading)

📑 OpenAI’s secrets are hitting the open web – “The OpenAI Files” will help you understand how Sam Altman’s company works (continue reading)

💸 Meta dangled $100 million bonuses to poach OpenAI staff, says Sam Altman (continue reading)

⚠️ Pope Leo makes AI’s threat to humanity a signature issue (continue reading)

🎬 YouTube will let creators generate Shorts with Google Veo 3 (continue reading)


🛠 Trending AI Tools

🕸️ Apify – Build server-less “Actors” that scrape or automate any website at scale.

↗️ Distribution.ai – Repurpose any long-form content into posts, emails, & threads to 10× your reach without 10× effort.

✉️ Superhuman – The AI-native email client that drafts, summarizes, and schedules so you win back four hours every week.

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📝 Tutorials


💼 AI Job Board

🤖 Palantir – Forward Deployed AI Engineer – $135 000 to $200 000 👉 view job

🤖 Meta – Software Engineer, Generative AI – $122 000 to $176 000 👉 view job

🤖 Canvas Medical – Applied AI Software Engineer – $300 000 to $400 000 👉 view job


💰 Investments in AI

💳 Polar raises $10 M seed led by Accel to rebuild payments rails for AI-native merchants (link)

🏭 Pelico lands $40 M Series B to scale its AI supply-chain orchestration platform (link)

📊 Multiplier grabs $27.5 M to roll-up accounting firms with AI automation (link)


💻 Prompt of the Week

Have an executive productivity coach

role: You are an executive productivity coach.

task: Help me review my weekly schedule to find time wasters and plan more high-value work.

context: I am a {{user_role}} at {{company_name}}. My calendar for {{week_dates}} is: {{weekly_schedule_summary}}. My main goals this week are {{main_goals}}. My key high-value activities are {{high_value_activities}}.

format:
1. Ask five reflection questions to uncover time-consuming tasks and recurring bottlenecks.  
2. List the main low-value tasks and issues as bullet points.  
3. Provide suggestions in three parts with bullet points:  
   - Ways to optimize tasks  
   - Tasks to delegate  
   - How to restructure the calendar  
4. End with a sample outline of a revised weekly plan.

tone: Supportive, clear, practical

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👋 See you all Monday

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Luis & Rui

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