Today’s menu 🍽️👇️ 

Length: 5 minutes ⏰ 

• Meta adds Manus to its AI arsenal ⚙️

• AI faced its moment of truth in 2025 🔍

• Preparedness role opens at OpenAI 🧪

• Design CRM workflows faster with Notion AI ⚡

• Prompt of the week 💬

• Top AI tools of the week ⚒️

FRESH AI NEWS

Manus joins Meta in surprise AI deal 💥 

Meta has decided to buy Manus, a rapidly expanding AI startup that specializes in automating complex tasks. Manus's technology will be added to Meta's AI system 🤝

• Manus builds autonomous AI agents that can perform complex tasks like research, coding, and data analysis with minimal prompting 🤖

• Meta plans to integrate Manus’s technology into its products, including Meta AI and other consumer/business services 📍

• Manus was founded in China and moved its headquarters to Singapore; Meta has signaled it will sever China ties post-acquisition 🌍

• Manus had millions of users and significant revenue before the deal, with strong adoption and growth 📈

• Meta says Manus will continue operating its existing subscription service even after the acquisition 📦

Why You Should Care: Meta is making a big move in AI by buying a company that focuses on AI agents that can take action, not just respond. By adding these capabilities to its platforms, Meta could turn its services into smart assistants that can perform tasks, not just create text, posing a challenge to competitors in the growing AI agent field.

2025 humbled artificial intelligence 🧠 

In 2025, the AI industry's early-year excitement and high valuations gave way to tempered optimism, realism, and reset expectations 📉

• Startups raised eye-popping rounds with little to show, and giants poured trillions into promises of AI dominance 💸

• New models and infrastructure upgrades provided incremental gains, not the revolutionary leaps of earlier years 📊

• Capital flows tied to chips, cloud deals, and circular economics sparked debate about sustainability 🏗️

• Lawsuits, mental-health controversies, and regulatory pushes highlighted the real social costs of AI ⚠️

• Companies focused more on business models and integration over headline-grabbing model releases 📏

Why You Should Care: In 2025, excitement about AI shifted to critical appraisal as investors, regulators, and the public questioned its real value. Hype cycles slowed, scrutiny increased, and the industry faced economic, ethical, and practical questions about AI's actual impact.

OpenAI hires Head of Preparedness ⚠️

OpenAI seeks a Head of Preparedness to anticipate and mitigate emerging AI risks as its models become more powerful. 🧠

• OpenAI posted the job for a Head of Preparedness within its Safety Systems team to track, evaluate, and reduce risks from advanced AI capabilities 📍

• The role includes threat modeling across cybersecurity, biological misuse, and mental-health impacts tied to AI deployment 💼

• The position offers around $555,000 per year plus equity, reflecting how critical the company views it 🪙

• CEO Sam Altman said it’s a “stressful job” with deep-end immersion from day one, underscoring the complexity of emerging AI harms 🧩

• This hiring follows advancements in AI models, raising concerns about misuse, security vulnerabilities, and unintended societal effects 📈

Why You Should Care: OpenAI is shifting focus from pure innovation to risk anticipation and mitigation, ensuring responsible progress and demonstrating to regulators and the public its commitment to safety infrastructure.

TURN IDEAS INTO CRM FLOW

Create smart CRM pipelines in Notion 🤖

Discover how to quickly create a full sales CRM in Notion with the help of AI. No need for manual databases or constant adjustments ✅

Here’s how to get started 👇️ 

1. Launch Notion and prep your canvas by heading to Notion.so, opening a blank page, triggering Notion AI, and minimizing the sidebar so you can focus on the build

2. Tell Notion AI what outcome you want, not what to click. For example:

   “Design a lead management system that tracks prospects from initial outreach to closed deal, with fields for contact method, lead category, touchpoints, conversion status, and loss reason.”

3. Approve the AI's suggested setup as it automatically creates databases, views, and features like pipeline stages, follow-up alerts, and status rules.

4. Fine-tune the CRM to match your sales motion by renaming properties, swapping toggles for checkboxes, adding deal value, or creating filtered views for hot leads and stalled prospects.

Pro Tip: Think of prompts as instructions for an operations manager. Focus on asking for results and processes, like Kanban boards, reminder systems, or sales stages, instead of just features. Notion AI creates better systems when it knows how you work. ✨

Check out Notion AI HERE 👈️

PROMPT OF THE WEEK

Design an AI Content Production Studio 📈 

Simply paste this prompt:

“Create an automated content studio that produces one pillar video + 4 repurposed assets per week across YT, LinkedIn, X, Instagram. Input: brand voice, 6 existing content pieces, target KPIs. Deliver: content pillars, editorial calendar, AI toolchain (script → voice → video → captions → thumbnails), templates for briefs & approvals, cost per asset, quality-control checklist, repurposing matrix, analytics dashboard, and a 30/60/90 day rollout plan.”

🔧 Pro Tip: Ask for “sample prompts for each stage (ideation, scripting, CTA optimization) and A/B test ideas.”

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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 🚀 

Kling 2.6 - Kling's new AI video model with native audio capabilities 🎥 

ChatGPT Images - OpenAI’s upgraded image generation system 🤖