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OpenAI hit back in its trade-secret fight with Apple, claiming an ex-employee handed its device plans to Apple’s leadership.

Anthropic replaced git with its own system after AI agents pushed code merges past 30,000 a day. And Facebook now lets you tell its algorithm what you want to see, in plain words.

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AI News around the world 🌍

🍎 OpenAI fired back in its Apple trade-secret fight, claiming a former employee took 100+ confidential files and presented its device plans to Apple leadership. (continue reading)

🌱 Anthropic swapped git for Scion, its own version control system, after agent-driven code merges jumped from 2,500 to over 30,000 a day. (continue reading)

🎙️ xAI launched Grok Voice 3.0, claiming the top speech-to-speech benchmark score, and it already handles about 20,000 Starlink support calls a day. (continue reading)

📱 Facebook now lets you shape your Feed and Reels by describing your interests in plain words, with AI updating recommendations in real time. (continue reading)

🗳️ Anthropic rolled out midterm safeguards for Claude, adding official voting info and election night results plus classifiers that catch fake news sites. (continue reading)

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Career & Capital 💼

AI Job Board

  • 🏨 Hyatt: Director AI/ML Platforms and Shared Services (Chicago, IL) – $176,300 to $235,000 (view job)

  • 🎓 Auburn University: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, Artificial Intelligence (Auburn, AL) – $115,000 to $165,000 (view job)

Investments in AI

  • 🚀 Modal: Raised a $750M Series D at a $15.75B valuation, led by Accel with Kleiner Perkins joining, for cloud infrastructure that runs AI apps and agents, now past $1B in annualized revenue. (link)

  • 💡 Salience Labs: Closed a $125M Series B led by Bullhound Capital, with AMD Ventures and Intel Capital joining, for photonic chips that link thousands of GPUs using light. (link)

Prompt of the Week 🧠

Black Friday Offer Builder → Design a holiday offer that lifts revenue without training your customers to wait for discounts.

Prompt:

You are a direct-response marketer and pricing strategist helping a [business type, e.g. 8-person B2B SaaS / Shopify skincare brand / solo consultant selling a course] plan its Black Friday / Cyber Monday offer. Be practical and protect margin. Do not default to "just discount everything."

Business snapshot:
- What we sell and the price points: [list main products or plans with prices]
- Gross margin per product: [e.g. 70% on software, 45% on physical products]
- Customer segments: [e.g. active customers, lapsed customers, email subscribers who never bought, free trial users]
- Size of each segment: [rough numbers]
- What we did last holiday season and how it went: [describe it, or write "first time"]
- Revenue goal for the BFCM window: [e.g. $20K over 5 days]
- Things I refuse to do: [e.g. no discounts above 25%, no discounting the annual plan, no countdown gimmicks]
- Channels we can use: [e.g. email list of 4,000, Instagram, existing customer in-app messages]

Step 1: Offer options
Give me 4 different offer structures that fit my business (for example: bundle, bonus instead of discount, tiered discount by spend, early access for existing customers, annual upgrade deal). For each one, show: who it's for, the exact offer in one line, the estimated margin after the offer, and the main risk.

Step 2: Pick the winner
Recommend ONE primary offer and explain why it beats the others for my goal and margins. Show the math: how many orders or upgrades I need to hit my revenue goal at that offer.

Step 3: Segment plan
For each customer segment, tell me which version of the offer they get (or if they should get nothing), and why. Flag any segment where a discount would just give away money we'd have earned anyway.

Step 4: Campaign calendar
Lay out a day-by-day plan from one week before Black Friday through Cyber Monday: what goes out, on which channel, to which segment, with a one-line subject line or hook for each.

Step 5: Guardrails
List the 3 biggest ways this promo could backfire for a business like mine (for example: margin erosion, refund spikes, customers learning to wait for sales) and one specific fix for each.

Step 6: The week after
Give me a short plan for the 7 days after Cyber Monday to turn new buyers into repeat customers instead of one-time bargain hunters.

Keep everything specific to my numbers. If something I gave you is missing or unclear, ask me before guessing.

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