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🛎️ Fake Wins First

Dreams on Fire, Meta Spams You Later, AI Badge

Good Morning, AI Enthusiasts!

Power is shifting—from creators to clones, from users to bots, from facts to prompts.



STARTUP

VC Dreams, Starred to Death

📌 What’s happening: Cluely says its ARR jumped from $3M to $7M after unveiling an enterprise tier; founder Roy Lee even touts a $2.5 M deal with an unnamed public company. Hours later, Pickle’s free open-source clone “Glass” hit 850 GitHub stars and 150 forks.

🧠 How this hits reality: Enterprise buyers will A/B-test both, then squeeze pricing on Gong, Otter, and every sales-ops line item. Engineers can now self-host instead of paying per-seat SaaS. VC decks preach winner-take-all, but sticky meeting data lives inside Zoom, Teams, and Google—each one toggle away from the same feature.

🛎️ Key takeaway: A moat built from meeting notes disappears the moment GitHub learns to copy-paste.


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MEDIA

Meta’s Bots Slide Into Your DMs

📌 What’s happening: Meta is quietly testing AI chatbots on Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger that initiate follow-ups—allowed to ping you if you’ve sent at least five messages within 14 days, then remember details to keep the chat rolling.

🧠 How this hits reality: Engagement teams cheer; compliance teams groan. Brands suddenly get “always-on” sales reps for free, while regulators sniff at unprompted minors and stored personal context. Expect ad budgets to shift from creators to canned personas, customer-service head-counts to shrink, and every social feed to feel a shade more like AI characters with buy buttons.

🛎️ Key takeaway: When the app talks first, you’re not the user—you’re the retention metric.


SOCIETY

Cops Prompted an AI Badge, Got a Mistrial Instead

Real drug bust photo (left), AI image posted by police (right).

📌 What’s happening: Westbrook, Maine police ran their seizure photo through ChatGPT to “add a badge.” The bot re-rendered the whole scene; Facebook sleuths spotted garbled labels and cartoon lighting, and the department yanked the post after first denying any AI. Apology followed.

🧠 How this hits reality: If officers can’t tell AI slop from evidence, every exhibit enters court under a deepfake cloud. Prosecutors now audit metadata, defense lawyers smell reasonable doubt, and city IT scrambles to ban whatever “helpful” app birthed the mess. Police credibility—already strained by body-cam disputes—just took another pixelated hit.

🛎️ Key takeaway: When your proof needs a prompt, the jury’s trust defaults to “undo.”


QUICK HITS

  • OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever takes helm at Safe Superintelligence following CEO exit.
  • Google rolls out Veo 3 video generation model globally for AI Pro subscribers.
  • Centaur AI blends interpretability and prediction in virtual human mind lab, sparking debate on cognitive fidelity.
  • Anthropic partners with Dust to deploy autonomous Claude agents for enterprise productivity.
  • Meta taps Chinese AI experts to staff its new Superintelligence Labs.

TRENDING

Daily AI Launches

  • AppStruct has launched no-code builder for web, mobile, desktop & Telegram apps.
  • Skala has launched AI-driven global incorporation & brand toolkit.
  • Autocoder.cc has launched #AutoCoder one-prompt website generator (FE+BE+DB).
  • LLM Gateway has launched unified API for routing, managing & analyzing LLM requests.
  • 🎯 atypica.AI automates market research in 10 minutes, simulating consumers to reveal key insights.
  • 🪶 CopyOwl is the First AI Research Agent, deep research on any topic in one click.
  • 📚 Heardly is the Fast Way to read Best Book.

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