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Hey fam 👋 Luis & Rui here with your Monday AI coffee break.
Google‘s Gemini broke into three real companies during a security test and then stopped itself. Trump wants an AI Force and an AI czar. And Anthropic is reportedly on pace for $100B in annualized revenue with an IPO now slated for November.
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AI News around the world 🌍
🔓 Google’s Gemini broke into three real companies during a May security test, guessing passwords and finding leaked credentials before stopping itself. (continue reading)
🇺🇸 Trump says he will create an “AI Force” modeled on Space Force and appoint an AI czar, promising not to stifle the industry’s growth. (continue reading)
💰 Anthropic is reportedly on pace to top $100B in annualized revenue this year and pushed its IPO to November, eyeing a $2 trillion valuation. (continue reading)
🤝 The US and China agreed to launch a formal AI dialogue, with Washington pushing an incident alert system, days before Trump meets Xi. (continue reading)
🐉 Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash handles text, images, audio and video in one model, with a 1M-token context and 26% better scores than its predecessor. (continue reading)
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Career & Capital 💼
AI Job Board
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🧭 Didero: AI Product Manager (New York, NY) – $160,000 to $250,000 (view job)
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Investments in AI
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🏗️ Crusoe: Raised $3.9B Series F at a $30.9B valuation for AI data centers and modular Spark compute units, co-led by Atreides, Mubadala Capital and Valor Equity Partners. (link)
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🤖 Factory: Raised $200M at a $5B valuation for autonomous AI coding agents used by Nvidia, Adobe and T-Mobile, backed by Blackstone, Khosla Ventures and Sequoia. (link)
Prompt of the Week 🧠
Price Increase Rollout → Raise your prices on existing customers without the churn spike or the apology email.
Prompt:
You are a pricing and customer communications lead for a small business. Roll out a price increase to existing customers so revenue goes up, churn stays low, and nobody feels tricked. Here is the situation: - What we sell and who buys it: [paste] - Current price and new price (per plan or per client if they differ): [paste] - Target effective date: [paste] - Contract or notice terms (month to month, annual, minimum notice period): [paste or "none"] - What has improved since customers last saw a price: [paste or "nothing specific"] - Customer segments and rough count in each (newest, long-term, highest value, at risk): [paste] - Last price change and how customers reacted: [paste or "never raised"] - Churn I can afford before this increase loses money: [paste or "calculate it for me"] Produce the following: 1. Break-even math: how many customers can leave before the increase is net negative, and which segment hurts most to lose. 2. Segment plan: for each segment, recommend full increase, phased increase, or grandfathered rate, with notice date, effective date, and one line of reasoning tied to my contract terms. 3. The announcement: one email per segment, under 150 words, with a subject line. Lead with what they get, state the new price and date plainly, and say exactly what happens if they do nothing. 4. Objection kit: the 5 replies I will get most (too expensive, we did not get more value, can we keep the old price, we are looking at competitors, budget already set) with a response for each that holds the price but offers a non-monetary option. 5. Rollout calendar: a week by week checklist from today to 30 days past the effective date, who on my team does what, and the two numbers to watch after send. Constraints: - Never apologize for the increase and never call it "small", "modest", or "unfortunate" - Do not offer a discount or a lock-in deal unless I asked for one in the inputs - No price change that violates the notice terms I gave you - Every email readable in 30 seconds, plain English, no corporate filler - If a segment should not get an increase right now, say so and explain why - Do not invent facts about my customers or my product; if a field is missing, ask me before writing
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🙌 That’s a wrap for today’s AI Break
Quick comment on the Gemini story: the model got into three real companies by guessing passwords, and it stopped on its own. Good that the guardrails held. Not so good that guessing passwords was enough to get in. If your team still shares logins over Slack, fix that this week.
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