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Hey fam 👋 Luis & Rui here with your Monday AI coffee break.
Big start to the week: OpenAI teased its next-gen GPT-5.6 family, the industry is suddenly obsessed with spending less on AI not more, and Anthropic just accused Alibaba of some seriously sneaky model-copying.
Let’s start your week with everything that actually matters. Grab your coffee!
(3-minute coffee break ☕)
AI News around the world 🌍
🚀 OpenAI previewed its GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna models, with big jumps in coding, science, and cybersecurity for trusted partners first. (continue reading)
💸 Companies are ditching “tokenmaxxing” for efficiency and model routing, squeezing budgets and threatening the revenue of AI companies. (continue reading)
⚡ Elon Musk’s xAI rolled Grok 4.5 into private beta at SpaceX and Tesla, claiming it already rivals Claude Opus. (continue reading)
🕵️ Anthropic accused Alibaba of using 25,000 fake accounts to query Claude 28.8 million times and train its Qwen models. (continue reading)
🏭 Memory-chip giant SK Hynix plans a $29 billion Nasdaq listing as soon as July 10, riding the AI hardware boom. (continue reading)
Trending AI Tools 🛠
*🤖 Hugo: Are your best people building the company or distracted by customer support? Hugo handles repetitive conversations at a large scale, smoothly and automatically, so your team can shine. 👉 Hugo executes. Humans create.
📧 Sendmux: Gives your AI agents dedicated email inboxes that return clean structured JSON instead of raw HTML, handling routing, failover, and quotas.
🏠 Hausey: Turns a single room photo into ten photorealistic remodel concepts in about a minute, built for contractors, design firms, and real estate agents.
🤖 Revolte: Connects to your repo and runs AI coding agents that plan changes, write code, run security checks, and open pull requests under human review.
Tutorials 📝
Career & Capital 💼
AI Job Board
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💼 Cisco: AI Engineering Technical Leader – $180,900 to $317,100 (view job)
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🤖 Akina, Inc.: AI/ML Engineer 2 (Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch) – $207,000 to $253,000 (view job)
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🏦 RBC: AI Engineer I – $110,000 to $135,000 (view job)
Investments in AI
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🔌 Qualcomm × Modular: Qualcomm is acquiring AI infra startup Modular (Mojo language, MAX inference engine) in an all-stock deal worth ~$3.92B to chip away at Nvidia’s CUDA lock-in. (link)
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🧠 onsemi × Synaptics: ON Semiconductor struck a ~$7B all-stock deal to acquire Synaptics, pushing deeper into “physical AI” embedded directly in edge devices. (link)
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🏥 Assort Health: The healthcare-automation startup raised a $120M Series C led by Menlo Ventures at a $1.2B valuation, hitting unicorn status after 20x revenue growth. (link)
Prompt of the Week 🧠
Brand Voice Codifier → Turn your scattered writing into a reusable style guide every AI (and teammate) can follow.
This prompt reverse-engineers a concrete brand voice guide from samples you already love, so every future AI output, hire, or freelancer sounds unmistakably like you.
Prompt:
You are a brand strategist and editorial director. I'm going to paste 3-5 samples of writing that best represent how my brand should sound (emails, posts, landing pages, or newsletter copy). Your job is to reverse-engineer a reusable brand voice guide from them. SAMPLES: [paste 3-5 of your best on-brand pieces here] Analyze the samples and produce a brand voice guide with these sections: 1. VOICE IN ONE LINE — a single sentence capturing the personality (e.g. "a sharp friend who respects your time"). 2. THREE CORE TRAITS — name 3 traits (e.g. direct, warm, slightly irreverent), each with a one-line definition of what it means and does NOT mean for us. 3. DO / DON'T TABLE — at least 8 rows of concrete habits: sentence length, formality, jargon, emoji use, humor, how we open, how we close, how we handle the reader. 4. SIGNATURE MOVES — recurring patterns in the samples (phrasings, rhythms, structures) worth repeating. 5. WORDS WE USE / WORDS WE AVOID — two short lists pulled from or implied by the samples. 6. BEFORE & AFTER — take this generic sentence: "We are excited to announce our new feature that will help improve your workflow." Rewrite it twice in our voice, and briefly explain what changed. 7. THE REUSABLE PROMPT BLOCK — a copy-paste paragraph I can drop at the top of any future AI chat so the model writes in this voice instantly. Be specific and evidence-based — quote the samples where it helps. Avoid vague advice like "be authentic."
Where to use it: Founders, marketers, and solo operators who lean on AI for writing. Drop the resulting “reusable prompt block” into ChatGPT, Claude, or your team’s shared docs so newsletters, sales emails, and social posts all stay on-voice, even when a model or a new hire writes the first draft.
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