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Hey fam 👋 Luis & Rui here with your Thursday AI coffee break.

OpenAI‘s new GPT-5.6 Sol escaped a safety sandbox and hacked Hugging Face for real, while Google fired back with three new Gemini models built for AI agents.

Oh, and Washington is now threatening sanctions over stolen AI models.

Grab your coffee!
(3-minute coffee break ☕)

AI News around the world 🌍

🚨 OpenAI revealed its recently launched GPT-5.6 Sol escaped a security test sandbox and hacked Hugging Face’s servers using a zero-day exploit. (continue reading)

🤖 OpenAI launched Presence, an enterprise platform for governed AI voice and chat agents that already handles 75% of its own support requests. (continue reading)

⚡ Google released three new Gemini models built for cheap, scalable agent workflows, including one that finds and patches security vulnerabilities on its own. (continue reading)

🇺🇸 The Trump administration threatened sanctions against Chinese AI firms like Moonshot, accusing them of distilling stolen OpenAI and Anthropic models. (continue reading)

🏪 OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT for Small Businesses, bundling AI training, workflow templates, and integrations with Shopify, Intuit, and Slack. (continue reading)

Trending AI Tools 🛠

🔍 Cuey: Ever wonder if ChatGPT just made that up? Cuey lives inside ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini and compares answers across models side by side, flagging where they disagree.

🎯 Calven: Deploys nine autonomous AI agents that handle competitive intelligence, ICP profiling, positioning, and messaging for B2B product marketing teams.

🥊 Arena AI: Crowdsourced platform where you pit two anonymous AI models head to head, vote on the better answer, and browse a community leaderboard ranking 360+ models.

🔌 Unabyss: Universal context layer that connects Slack, Gmail, Notion, and GitHub to Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor via MCP, so every AI assistant already knows your context.

Tutorials 📝

Career & Capital 💼

AI Job Board

  • 📊 CardWorks Financial Group: Director, Data Science – $146,409 to $162,676 (view job)

  • 🤖 GadellNet: Forward Deployment AI Engineer – $120,000 to $150,000 (view job)

  • 💻 System One: Sr. .NET / AI Developer (Remote) – $80 to $100 per hour (view job)

Investments in AI

  • 🔥 Fireworks AI: Raised $1.5B Series D at a $17.5B valuation for its open-source model cloud (link)

  • 🧱 Databricks: Raising a Coatue-led strategic round at a $188B valuation to accelerate its enterprise AI (link)

  • 🧪 CuspAI: Raised $450M Series B at a $2.6B valuation for AI-driven materials discovery (link)

Prompt of the Week 🧠

Ideal Customer Profile → Find the customers you should clone (and stop chasing the rest).

Most teams sell to whoever shows up, then wonder why churn is high and support is drowning. Your existing customer list already contains the answer: run it through this prompt before you plan your H2 outreach.

Prompt:

You are a revenue strategist who specializes in customer segmentation. I will give you data about my customers. Your job is to identify which ones I should find more of, and which ones I should stop pursuing.

My business: [1-2 sentences on what you sell and your price point]

My customer data: [paste your customer list with whatever you have: company type and size, plan or deal size, how long they have been a customer, how they found you, support load, expansion or churn, any notes]

Do this:

1. Segment my customers into 3-5 groups based on patterns YOU find in the data, not the groups I assume exist.
2. Score each group on: revenue contribution, retention, effort to serve, and growth potential. Rank the groups.
3. Define my Ideal Customer Profile from the top group: who they are, the trigger that made them buy, the channel they came from, and the 3 traits that best predict they will succeed with us.
4. Flag my "mirage customers": the segment that looks attractive (big logo, big deal size) but drains support, churns early, or negotiates hard. List the early warning signs so I can spot them in the pipeline before I waste a sales cycle.
5. Give me 5 concrete changes for this quarter: where to focus outreach, which qualification questions to add to discovery calls, and which marketing message matches my top segment.

Be blunt. If my best customers all share a trait I am not marketing to, say so directly. If a whole segment should be fired, say that too.

Where to use it: Perfect for founders, sales leaders, and agency owners with 20+ customers. Export your CRM or Stripe customer list to CSV and paste it into ChatGPT or Claude alongside this prompt.

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