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Hey fam 👋 Luis & Rui here with your Monday AI coffee break.
Stripe just dropped over $7 billion on an AI startup that was worth $1.3 billion in May, ChatGPT ads go live across Europe today, and Claude quietly started designing proteins that actually work in a lab.
Grab your coffee!
(3-minute coffee break ☕)
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AI News around the world 🌍
💰 Stripe is buying AI model router OpenRouter for over $7 billion, roughly 5x its valuation from just three months ago. (continue reading)
📣 ChatGPT ads land in 31 European markets today, OpenAI’s biggest rollout yet, shown only to free and Go users. (continue reading)
🧬 Claude designed working protein binders for 14 of 15 targets, roughly double the success rate of typical lab campaigns. (continue reading)
📧 Claude can now send Gmail replies and move, share or delete your Google Drive files on any paid plan. (continue reading)
🖥 Meta AI just got a Mac app that reads your screen and plugs into Google Workspace, Instagram and Ads Manager. (continue reading)
Trending AI Tools 🛠
🕸️ Bright Data Scraper Studio: Build web scrapers with one sentence, no code or proxy setup. Self-Healing fixes them when sites change, and you keep the code.
🔍 Needle: Scans Reddit, Hacker News, GitHub, and LinkedIn to surface people actively asking for what you sell.
💻 Surfil: Sits on your machine beside Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot to cut token spend, block risky tool calls, and give agents memory that survives sessions.
🎧 Vosko: Clones your voice and dubs one video into dozens of languages, keeping the original tone and background audio so global versions still sound like you.
Tutorials 📝
Career & Capital 💼
AI Job Board
🧪 Apple: Staff Research Scientist, Siri Innovation Studio – $216,200 to $324,800 (view job)
🎯 Zillow: Principal Applied Scientist, Agentic AI – $181,800 to $305,700 (view job)
📈 Deutsche Bank: Research AI Transformation Lead – $360,000 to $460,000 (view job)
Investments in AI
🧱 Databricks, the data and AI platform behind Lakebase and Genie, closed $5 billion at a $190 billion valuation led by Coatue, with Blackstone and MGX joining. (link)
🚀 Lovable, the platform that turns prompts into working software, raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation. (link)
🎬 Higgsfield, the AI image and video platform, raised a $400 million Series B led by DST Global at a $5.4 billion valuation, quadrupling its worth in eight months. (link)
Prompt of the Week 🧠
Referral Engine → Turn your happiest customers into a predictable referral pipeline.
Most founders get referrals by accident, then wonder why the flow dries up. This prompt turns word of mouth into an actual system with a specific moment to ask, a script that names who to refer, and a tracker so nothing leaks.
Prompt:
You are a growth advisor who builds referral systems for small businesses. Be blunt and specific, never generic. MY CONTEXT - What we sell and to whom: [PRODUCT/SERVICE + IDEAL CUSTOMER] - Average deal size or price point: [AMOUNT] - How customers find us today: [MAIN CHANNELS] - Recent happy customers and what they praised: [3-5 NAMES/ACCOUNTS + THEIR EXACT WORDS IF YOU HAVE THEM] - Referrals we get per month right now: [NUMBER, OR "ALMOST NONE"] - Do we ask for referrals today, and how: [YES/NO/SOMETIMES + DESCRIBE] DO THIS 1. DIAGNOSIS: The top 3 reasons referrals are not happening in MY specific business, based only on the details above. No textbook advice. 2. MOMENTS: The 2 highest-signal moments in my customer journey to ask. For each, say what must already be true for the ask to land, and what makes it backfire. 3. SCRIPTS: For each moment, a copy-paste message under 90 words in plain language. It must name a specific type of person to refer, never "anyone who might need this". 4. INCENTIVE: Three options (no incentive, reward for the referrer, reward for the new customer). Recommend one and justify it against my price point. 5. TRACKER: A simple table of fields to log every referral, plus a 30-day weekly cadence of exactly who I contact. 6. RISK: The one way this makes us look desperate, and how to avoid it. Output in that order with clear headers. Under 700 words. No preamble.
Where to use it: Best for founders, agency owners, consultants and B2B service businesses with at least a handful of genuinely happy customers.
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