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

OpenAI dropped GPT-5.5, Google is pouring up to $40B into Anthropic, and DeepSeek just teased a model that nearly catches the frontier at a fraction of the cost.

Translation: the model wars are very much not over. Let’s get into it.

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AI News around the world 🌍

🤖 OpenAI dropped GPT-5.5, its smartest model yet with stronger agentic coding, faster computer use, and meaningfully fewer tokens per task. (continue reading)

💰 Google is pouring up to $40B into Anthropic, with $10B upfront at a $350B valuation and $30B more tied to performance targets. (continue reading)

🧠 DeepSeek previewed V4 with 1.6T parameters, a 1M token window, and reasoning that nearly matches GPT-5.2 and Gemini 3.0 Pro at a fraction of the cost. (continue reading)

🎵 Spotify added a Claude integration so you can ask Anthropic’s chatbot for personalized music and podcast recommendations directly inside conversations. (continue reading)

🔌 Anthropic rolled out everyday app connectors for Claude, plugging it into AllTrails, Instacart, and Spotify so it can act across your daily tools. (continue reading)

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Career & Capital 💼

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  • 🧠 Anthropic: Applied AI Engineer, Startups – $280,000 to $320,000 (view job)

  • 🎯 OpenAI: Researcher (Engineer/Scientist), Training – $360,000 to $440,000 (view job)

  • 🛠 Anthropic: Senior Software Engineer, Full-stack – $320,000 (view job)

Investments in AI

  • 🤝 Sierra (Bret Taylor’s $10B AI customer service company) acquired French YC-backed startup Fragment, its third acquisition this year, doubling down on AI workflow integration. (link)

  • 🧑‍💻 Cursor is raising $2B at a $50B valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz and Thrive Capital, with Nvidia joining as a strategic investor amid a forecasted $6B revenue run rate. (link)

  • 🚗 Tesla quietly disclosed in its Q1 10-Q that it agreed to acquire an unnamed AI hardware company for up to $2B in stock, with $1.8B tied to deployment milestones. (link)

Prompt of the Week 🧠

Weekly Reset → Turn a scattered week into a focused 7-day plan in 10 minutes.

Most founders end the week buried in tabs, half-finished docs, and a vague feeling of “did I move the needle?” Use this on Sunday night or Monday morning to force clarity before the inbox eats your week.

Prompt:

You are my strategic chief of staff. I will paste raw inputs from my past week: completed tasks, dropped balls, meeting notes, key metrics, and any open decisions. Your job is to produce a focused 7-day plan.

Do these in order:

1. Summarize last week in 5 bullets: what got done, what slipped, what surprised me, what pattern repeats, what should I stop doing.
2. Identify the single most important outcome I should drive next week. Justify why in one sentence tied to revenue, retention, or risk.
3. Break that outcome into 3 concrete deliverables, each with: owner (me or delegate), Monday start state, Friday done state, and the one thing that could block it.
4. List 3 things I should explicitly NOT do next week, with the cost of saying yes to each.
5. End with a 5-question Friday self-review I can run to grade the week.

Be direct. No fluff. Push back if my inputs are vague.

Inputs:
[paste your week here]

Where to use it: Founders, solo operators, and team leads who want to stop reactive firefighting and run their week from a written plan instead of their inbox.

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