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Hey fam 👋 Luis & Rui here with your Monday AI coffee break.

Last week was busy: a mysterious OpenAI image model leaked, and the benchmarks look wild, Anthropic quietly reshuffled how Claude subscriptions get billed, and Claude now plugs directly into your Microsoft 365 stack.

Plenty to unpack to start your week sharp.

Grab your coffee!

(3-minute coffee break ☕)

AI News around the world 🌍

🚨 A leaked OpenAI GPT-Image-2 model is being tested under aliases on Arena and reportedly shows major gains in world knowledge and text rendering. (continue reading)

⚡ Anthropic is removing third-party tool usage from Claude subscription coverage starting with OpenClaw, meaning users now pay separately for external tool calls. (continue reading)

🔸 Anthropic rolled out Microsoft 365 connectors to every Claude plan, linking Outlook, OneDrive, and SharePoint directly inside conversations for all users. (continue reading)

🧠 OpenAI’s AGI deployment chief Fidji Simo is taking medical leave, triggering a reshuffle of executive responsibilities at the top of the company. (continue reading)

🎵 Pika launched a beta video chat skill any AI agent can plug into, powered by its new real-time PikaStream1.0 model running at 24fps on a single H100. (continue reading)

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Career & Capital 💼

AI Job Board

  • 🏢 IHG Hotels & Resorts: Vice President, AI Platform & Engineering – $257,000 to $375,000 (view job)

  • 📊 JPMorganChase: Corporate Compliance Data Owner Lead, VP – $128,250 to $205,000 (view job)

  • 🎮 Chalkboard: Lead Software Engineer, Games – $200,000 to $225,000 (view job)

Investments in AI

  • 💰 OpenAI closed the largest venture round in history at $122 billion and an $852B valuation, anchored by Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank. (link)

  • 🛰️ Starcloud raised a $170M Series A at a $1.1B valuation to build solar-powered AI data centers in orbit, becoming the fastest YC unicorn ever. (link)

  • 🧠 Deccan AI secured $25M Series A led by A91 Partners to scale its enterprise AI reliability platform for frontier model developers. (link)

Prompt of the Week 🧠

Customer Retention → Diagnose why customers are churning and get a 30-day save plan.

Most founders track churn as a number but never dig into the actual patterns behind cancellations. This prompt turns your raw cancellation data (exit surveys, support tickets, usage logs) into a root-cause diagnosis and a prioritized 30-day retention playbook so you stop guessing why people leave and start fixing it.

Prompt:

You are a senior retention strategist who has reduced churn at 20+ SaaS and subscription businesses. I'm going to share recent churn data from my company, and I need you to diagnose the real reasons customers are leaving and build me a prioritized action plan.

CONTEXT ABOUT MY BUSINESS:
- Product: [describe what you sell in one sentence]
- Pricing: [monthly/annual, price point]
- Target customer: [who buys this]
- Current monthly churn rate: [%]
- Average customer lifetime so far: [months]

CHURN DATA (paste below — exit survey responses, cancellation reasons, support tickets from churned users, or usage patterns):
[paste raw data here]

Your job — deliver a structured analysis with these exact sections:

1. ROOT CAUSE CLUSTERS
Group the cancellations into 3-5 distinct churn patterns. For each cluster:
- Name the pattern (e.g., "Onboarding drop-off", "Feature expectation gap")
- Estimated % of churned customers it explains
- The underlying psychological or operational trigger
- A direct quote from the data that represents this cluster

2. THE SILENT KILLER
Identify the ONE churn reason that is likely larger than it appears in the data (customers rarely admit the real reason). Explain why you suspect this and what evidence supports it.

3. 30-DAY RETENTION PLAN
Give me 5 specific interventions I can ship in the next 30 days, ranked by impact-to-effort ratio. For each:
- The intervention (1 sentence)
- Which churn cluster it targets
- How to measure if it's working (specific metric + target)
- Estimated effort (hours) and who on the team should own it

4. WIN-BACK SCRIPT
Write a short email (under 100 words) I can send to customers who churned in the last 30 days, based on the #1 cluster you identified. It should feel human, acknowledge the real issue, and offer something specific.

Be direct. If my data is thin or biased, say so. If a cluster is actually a pricing problem disguised as a product problem, tell me.

Where to use it: SaaS founders, subscription businesses, creator/membership operators, and any B2B team running a quarterly retention review. Especially useful after an exit survey batch, a spike in cancellations, or when planning next quarter’s retention initiatives.

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