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Anthropic just made Claude 75% cheaper with the new Haiku 5.5, Mistral dropped a 1-trillion-parameter model with open weights on the way, and Microsoft built a Surface around an Nvidia chip.
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AI News around the world 🌍
💸 Anthropic launched Claude Haiku 5.5 at $0.10 per million input tokens, a 75% price cut. (continue reading)
🇫🇷 Mistral’s 1-trillion-parameter Large 4 is in public API preview now. (continue reading)
💻 Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop Ultra runs Nvidia’s RTX Spark chip from $2,600, and Windows 11 gains Execution Containers to sandbox AI agents. (continue reading)
🔍 Google’s SynthID Detector is now open to anyone worldwide to check whether an image, video or audio clip was made by AI. (continue reading)
🎮 Google’s experimental Playground lets US adults create, play and share custom games from a text prompt. (continue reading)
Trending AI Tools 🛠
📡 Omnia Agent: An AI agent that tracks how your brand shows up in ChatGPT and Perplexity, then writes content and runs outreach to earn citations in AI search.
📊 Slidely AI: A PowerPoint copilot that builds and redesigns on-brand slide decks inside your own company templates, pulling context from Excel, Word and PDF files.
🧾 Refractr: A document extraction API that turns invoices, emails and PDFs into validated JSON in about 500 milliseconds, with 100 free extractions per day.
📅 Postiz: An agentic social media scheduler where Claude or ChatGPT drafts and schedules posts across 30+ networks, and you review everything in one visual calendar.
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Career & Capital 💼
AI Job Board
🤖 Cognizant: Lead Generative AI Engineer (Hybrid, Tarrytown NY) – $81,337 to $141,500 (view job)
🔐 Tiro Security: Lead AI and Data Security Engineer (Pasadena, CA) – $160,000 to $220,000 (view job)
🏥 GovCIO: Sr. Clinical AI Integration Specialist (Remote, US) – $140,000 to $170,000 (view job)
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Investments in AI
🖥️ Lambda: The Nvidia-backed GPU cloud provider is raising up to $4B at a $14.5B valuation from Coatue and Blackstone ahead of a planned 2027 IPO. (link)
🦾 FieldAI: The robotics startup building one general-purpose brain for humanoids, robot dogs and drones signed a term sheet for $700M at a $10B valuation. (link)
🤝 Manus: The AI agent startup closed over $500M led by Boyu Capital and IDG, its first round since Beijing blocked Meta’s acquisition and the founders bought it back. (link)
Prompt of the Week 🧠
Customer Onboarding → Turn new signups into activated customers with a 14-day sequence that stops early churn.
Most churn is decided in the first two weeks, long before anyone cancels. This prompt maps the exact moment a new customer “gets it,” then builds the emails, nudges and check-ins that get every signup to that moment on time.
Prompt:
You are a customer onboarding strategist who has cut early churn for SaaS, service and course businesses. Your job is to design a 14-day onboarding sequence that gets new customers to their first real win as fast as possible. Here is my business: - Product or service: [what you sell and the main problem it solves] - Who signs up: [customer type, e.g. small agency owners, solo consultants, ops managers] - Price and model: [e.g. $49/month SaaS, $2,000 project, $297 course] - What a successful customer does in the first 30 days: [e.g. imports data, publishes first report, books first call, finishes module 3] - Where new customers currently get stuck or go quiet: [what you have observed, or "not sure"] - Channels I can use: [email, in-app messages, SMS, WhatsApp, phone call, Slack, Loom video] - Who runs onboarding: [founder, support person, automated only, etc.] - Current onboarding (if any): [paste what you send today, or "nothing"] Work through this in order: 1. Define the "first win." State the single action that proves the customer is getting value, how long it should take, and how I can measure whether they hit it. If my success description is vague, propose a sharper one and explain why. 2. Map the 3 biggest drop-off risks between signup and the first win. For each: what the customer is thinking at that moment, what they need from me, and the earliest signal that they are stuck. 3. Build the 14-day sequence as a table: Day, Trigger (time-based or behavior-based), Channel, Goal of the touch, One-line summary. Mix automated touches with at most two human touches. Include at least one touch that only fires if the customer has NOT taken the expected action. 4. Write the full copy for the 5 most important touches: the welcome message, the first-win push, the "you have gone quiet" nudge, the first-win celebration, and the day-14 check-in. Short, plain, written like a person, no hype. Use my customer's words, not mine. 5. Give me the 3 metrics to track weekly (name, formula, healthy benchmark for my model) and the one number that tells me onboarding is broken. 6. Finish with what to cut from my current onboarding (if I shared one) and the first change to ship this week. Rules: assume the customer is busy and skeptical, not excited. Do not add touches just to fill days. Every message must ask for exactly one action. If anything above is too vague to design around, ask me up to 3 questions before you start.
Where to use it: Founders and ops leads at SaaS, agencies, coaching or course businesses who see signups go quiet before they ever get value.
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