Today’s menu 🍽️👇️ 

Length: 5 minutes ⏰ 

• Grok rolls out Business & Enterprise 🏢

• Samsung adds AI smarts to Freestyle+ 📽️

• SoftBank fully backs OpenAI with $40B 🚀

• Copyright lawsuit hits Google, OpenAI 📖

• Research meetings faster with Perplexity 🚀

• Prompt of the week 💬

• Top AI tools of the week ⚒️

FRESH AI NEWS

Grok launches paid business tiers 💼 

xAI launched Grok Business and Grok Enterprise tiers to compete with OpenAI by offering companies advanced, secure versions of its Grok models 🤖

• Grok Business targets small-to-medium teams with increased rate limits and AI power, while Grok Enterprise adds enterprise features like Custom SSO, directory sync, and advanced security 📈

• Enterprise plans include SOC 2 compliance, data encryption at rest and in transit, and controls to keep corporate data separate and protected 🔒

• Built-in integrations let Grok search across tools like Google Drive and xAI Collections without leaving chat 📂

• Both tiers offer access to advanced Grok models (like Grok 3, Grok 4, and Grok 4 Heavy) suited for more complex workflows 🧠

• A separate “Enterprise Vault” adds dedicated encryption keys and customer-managed security for sensitive deployments ⚙️

Why You Should Care: xAI is evolving from a consumer chatbot to a business-ready AI platform, positioning Grok as a competitor to OpenAI's enterprise products by offering secure, scalable AI with enterprise governance and integrations.

Freestyle+ projector adjusts itself with AI 🧠 

Samsung launched the Freestyle+, a portable projector with AI for optimal visual clarity and enhanced small-screen experiences 🤖

• The Freestyle+ is Samsung’s latest portable projector with improved brightness and image quality over its predecessor 📽️

• Built-in AI automatically optimizes color, contrast, and focus based on what’s being shown and the projection surface 🧠

• AI also helps align and scale the image to match walls/objects without manual input 🎯

• Comes with enhanced speakers that adapt output depending on content type 🔊

• Works with Samsung’s SmartThings and mobile devices for seamless content casting and control 📱

• Lightweight, compact design lets you project in living rooms, bedrooms, or outdoors 🏡

Why You Should Care: Samsung enhances portable projectors with AI-driven visual correction, simplifying setup and improving picture quality for a more intuitive home cinema experience.

SoftBank commits massive $40B to OpenAI 🏦 

SoftBank has completed its large investment of about $40 billion in OpenAI, making it one of the biggest private tech investments ever💰

• SoftBank has now sent the full ~$40 billion it committed to OpenAI, including a final ~$22 B tranche 💸

• The investment included earlier contributions (~$8 B direct + ~$10 B syndicated with co-investors) before the recent final payment 📊

• With this funding, SoftBank’s stake in OpenAI exceeds 10%, marking a strategic long-term AI position 📈

• The round initially valued OpenAI at around $300 B post-money and secondary trades later boosted implied value up to roughly $500 B+ 🏷️

• SoftBank funded this deal even as it sold other assets (like Nvidia and T-Mobile shares) to bankroll the commitment 📍

Why You Should Care: This $40B funding shows strong confidence in generative AI's future, especially in OpenAI, highlighting major investors' willingness to invest heavily despite market skepticism, reshaping the competitive landscape and advancing AI research.

NYT writer challenges AI training data 📚

Journalist John Carreyrou, known for exposing Theranos, has sued Google, OpenAI, xAI, Meta, Anthropic, and Perplexity for allegedly using copyrighted books without permission to train AI models ⚖️

• Carreyrou filed the suit with five other writers in California federal court 📜

• They allege AI companies scraped, copied, and trained on their books without licenses or consent 📚

• Google, OpenAI, Elon Musk’s xAI, Meta Platforms, Anthropic, and Perplexity are named 🤖

• This is reportedly the first copyright AI lawsuit to include xAI as a defendant 📊

• The filing mentions a recent Anthropic settlement in a similar copyright case and criticizes low payouts for authors ⚠️

Why You Should Care: This lawsuit intensifies the copyright battle over AI training, as authors claim unlicensed use of their books. It may change model training and licensing, prompting companies to reconsider data sourcing, compensation, and consent for creative works.

AUTOMATE MEETING WITH AI

Automate meeting prep with Perplexity 🧠

Automatically generate sharp pre-meeting briefs for any person or company by linking Perplexity with Google Calendar, ensuring you're informed, confident, and prepared for every call ✅

Here’s how to get started 👇️ 

1. Set up the data connection by signing into Perplexity, opening Account settings, navigating to Connectors, and turning on Gmail + Google Calendar access.

2. Schedule your meeting intentionally in Google Calendar: use the contact’s full name as the event title and add their professional email as a guest (you can suppress the invite if this is just a test run).

3. Trigger a pre-call brief on demand with a prompt like:
   “Based on my upcoming calendar event, generate a call brief covering: company overview, latest updates or announcements, notable background details for rapport, and thoughtful questions aligned to the call.”

   

4. Set up a "Meeting Prep" space in Spaces to save instructions and easily prepare for meetings by opening it before any call.

Pro Tip: Don't assume your first prompt is optimal. Have Perplexity challenge it by asking clarifying questions about your role, meeting goals, and decision stakes, then let it rewrite a stronger pre-call briefing prompt ✨

Check out Perplexity HERE 👈️

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TOOLS OF THE WEEK

These AI tools are going VIRAL 🐝 

GLM-4.7 - Z.ai's new SOTA open-source model 🤖 

SAM Audio - Meta’s model to separate sounds using text prompts 🚀 

GPT 5.2 Pro - OpenAI’s most advanced frontier model 🧮 

MiniMax 2.1 - Improved coding for mobile and web app development 🤖