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👋 Hey fam—Luis & Rui here with your Thursday edition of The AI Break.
OpenAI just quietly flipped the switch on something that could change how every app handles images, and that’s only the first surprise we’ve packed into today’s three-minute read.
Three sips of coffee and you’re caught up—let’s go.
(☕ reading time —3 minutes)
🔑 Key Takeaways
🖼️ OpenAI’s new image API lands with Adobe & Figma integrations—see the first live demos
🛠️ Hands-on with Solda (AI SDR) and Splutter (no-code chatbots)
💡 Steal our “AI Hiring Assessment” prompt to vet talent in real-world simulations
🌎 AI News
🖼️ OpenAI Image Generation API – The new gpt-image-1 endpoint lets you ship Midjourney-style art in one call. → Read more
🎨 OpenAI Teams Up with Adobe & Figma – With this API release, Adobe and Figma are building real-time AI generation tools directly into their creative suites, streamlining design workflows.→ See it in action
👨💼 Anthropic: AI Employees Are Coming – Anthropic’s CISO says virtual AI “employees” could arrive in companies as early as next year — bringing both productivity boosts and major security risks.→ Full story
🧠 Claude’s Moral Compass – Anthropic analyzed 700,000 Claude chats and found its AI makes decisions based on its own “helpful, honest, harmless” ethics — even when users try to manipulate it. → Analysis
🎬 WhatsApp defends ‘optional’ AI tool that cannot be turned off – The Meta AI logo can’t be removed, prompting comparisons to Microsoft’s controversial Recall feature. → Details
🛠 Trending AI Tools
🔌 Forum Venture – Join The Forum Foundry — a 4-week NYC AI-focused residency to test ideas, prove demand, and build smarter. → Join here
💬 Splutter AI – Build a branded chatbot for your site in 5 min. → Launch
📄 Quip – Docs + sheets + chat with AI assists; ideal for remote product squads. → Explore
🎧 Observe.AI – Automate routine conversations with VoiceAI agents that speak, think, act like your best performing humans. → Demo
🎨 Our New AI ChatGPT Image Course is Here
We put this together to help you stay ahead of one of the biggest AI trends this year. It’s all about using ChatGPT 4o to create images for ads, content, and more — without needing design skills.
Our goal: help you save time, stand out, and make the most of AI in your work.
📝 Tutorials
💼 AI Job Board
🧑💻 AI Engineer @ Corner – $100,000 to $180,000 👉 view job
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🧑💻 AI Developer @ Bookedby – N/A 👉 view job
🧑💻 AI Researcher @ Optiver – $175,000 👉 view job
💰 Investments in AI
Lace raises $14M for AI-powered RevOps pipelines. → Story
Endor Labs lands $93M to secure AI-generated code. → Details
VanishID grabs $10M to protect your digital identity. → Coverage
HiringBranch scores $2.5M for AI hiring simulations. → Read more
💻 Prompt of the Week
Create an AI Hiring Assessment
You are a senior hiring strategist at a scaling SaaS company looking to assess a candidate's ability to leverage AI tools for making data-informed business decisions.
🧠 Your task:
Design a job simulation where the candidate must use AI tools (like ChatGPT, Excel with AI plugins, or Make.com) to analyze customer churn, propose a retention strategy, and generate a report for the executive team.
Your prompt must include:
A realistic business scenario:
E.g., “Our churn rate increased by 12% in the last quarter, particularly among customers on our basic plan. We suspect poor onboarding or lack of engagement is the root cause.”
Instructions and available tools:
Specify which tools they can use (e.g., ChatGPT for brainstorming, Excel for data analysis, Canva or Notion for visual reporting).
Deliverables:
A short executive summary with hypotheses and conclusions
A step-by-step retention strategy
A sample customer email or onboarding content proposal generated with AI
A screenshot or file demonstrating use of one AI automation (e.g., Make, Zapier, or a spreadsheet plugin)
Evaluation criteria:
Depth of analysis
Creativity and clarity in strategy
Effective use of AI tools (e.g., prompt engineering, tool selection)
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See you all on Monday 😉
That’s all for today’s AI Break 🚀 Thanks for spending part of your Thursday geeking out on the future with us.
If any of today’s tools or trends sparked an idea, hit reply — we’d love to hear what you’re building.
Until next time, keep learning, keep testing, and keep pushing what’s possible with AI.
Stay curious,
Luis & Rui
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