Today’s menu 🍽️👇️ 

Length: 5 minutes ⏰ 

• The wearable that might beat Apple vision 🔥

• Paul Pope's radical take on AI and war ⚔️

• The secretive AI startup that shook the industry 🕵️‍♂️

• The death of work-life balance in tech ⏳

• The best AI companion for your online meetings ✨ 

• Prompt of the week 💬

• Top AI tools of the week ⚒️

FRESH AI NEWS

Meta reveals its Oakley smart glasses 🥽

Meta officially reveals its second generation smart glasses with Oakley titled the Oakley Meta HSTN, designed for performance wear and aimed at "athletes and fans alike" making a significant move beyond their partnership with Ray-Ban🏃‍♂️

• The smart glasses double the battery life of the Meta Ray-Bans and can record 3K video AI, reflecting major technical advances over earlier versions🕶️
  

• The new frames have open-ear Bluetooth speakers, five onboard microphones and speakers to speak with Meta AI and take calls, send messages and play music from your phone🎥
  

• The full lineup will arrive this summer, Meta says, with glasses starting at $399, while the Limited-Edition Oakley Meta HSTN will be available for preorder starting July 11 for $499 USD🎧
  

• There are touch controls on the side of the frames where you can adjust volume and interact with the integrated AI features✨

Why You Should Care: Meta just doubled down on smart glasses as the future of wearable computing by partnering with Oakley to target athletes and active users. With twice the battery life and 3K video capture, these glasses might finally bring smart glasses into the mainstream among sports fans and fitness enthusiasts. This action puts Meta ahead of Apple's reported smart glasses and stands a chance to make them the performance wearables leader before rivals catch up.

Scale AI's 30-year-old billionaire co-founder’s shocking confession 💼 

Scale AI cofounder Lucy Guo, the world's youngest self-made female billionaire with a $1.2B net worth, has ignited controversy by telling Gen Z and millennial workers that "if you feel the need for work-life balance, maybe you're not in the right work"🔥

• Guo has a draconian schedule- rising at 5:30 AM to do high-intensity exercise, working till midnight, and manning customer support personally to clock 5-minute response times across her businesses💪

• Her philosophy aligns with a growing movement among tech founders who argue "7 days a week is the required velocity to win right now" and that 996 schedules have become the startup standard rather than an exception🚀

• Despite 90-hour workweeks, Guo still manages 1-2 hours every day for family and friends, indicating the secret is squeezing in life rather than fleeing from work you dislike👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

• Venture capital industry leaders and top CEOs are openly supporting extreme workweeks, with Google's Sergey Brin recommending 60 hours a week as the career advancement "sweet spot"📈

Why You Should Care: Guo's words capture a generation gap in technology: while Silicon Valley goes extreme on work hours, younger employees demand balance. With AI placing bigger bets, her "love it or leave it" philosophy could codify hiring strategies, prioritizing hustle over endurance and remaking success in today's business.

Cartoonist Paul Pope is more worried about killer robots than AI plagiarism 🤖

Renowned comic book artist Paul Pope has emerged from a decade-long hiatus to share his unique perspective on AI threats, stating he's more concerned about autonomous weapons than copyright infringement. Pope told that he's "less concerned about having some random person create some image based on one of my drawings, than I am about killer robots and surveillance and drones" 🎨

• Pope uses AI on daily basis for research and story structure but doesn't rule out creative applications, describing it as "a tool" while acknowledging "it's completely conceivable" that comic book artists could soon be replaced by AI📚

• Unlike many artists fighting copyright wars, Pope takes a pragmatic view. He compares AI art generation to music sampling rather than direct piracy⚖️

• Pope predicts we're "probably about two years away" from mass robot automation in warfare and civilian life, pointing to current battlefield drones and robot-staffed businesses⚔️

• Pope calls for an "AI for peace" like the "Atoms for Peace" movement, fearing "bad actors" are creating AI without thinking through implications as they compete to get to market first☮️

Why You Should Care: As the creative world fights with AI firms over copyright, Pope is part of a rising class of artists who prioritize existential AI threats over economic ones. His outlook reframes the conversation from "will AI take my job?" to "will AI systems get out of hand?" This might shape the way the creative industry thinks about AI regulation.

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab closes on $2B at $10B valuation 💰

Thinking Machines Lab, the mysterious AI startup co-founded by OpenAI's previous chief technology officer Mira Murati, raised a $2B seed round at a $10B valuation, making it one of the largest seed rounds in AI history💰

• Six-month-old Thinking Machines is now worth $10B. A16z is leading the $2B round; minimum ticket size is $50M🚀

• Murati left her post as CTO of OpenAI in September 2024 and founded the company just 6 months ago in February 2025➡️

• San Francisco, CA-based startup is dedicated to creating AI systems that are human-understandable, controllable, and aligned with human values🤝

• The company is extremely secretive with no publicly disclosed products or technical specifics regarding their AI creation🔐

Why You Should Care: A $10B valuation for a 6-month-old firm with zero product indicates how much faith investors have in Mira Murati's vision and OpenAI track record. This huge funding round might speed up the competition in the AI arena and confirms the sheer value investors have in top AI people. If Thinking Machines delivers on their promise of "human-aligned" AI, they could become OpenAI's biggest competitor while addressing growing concerns about AI safety and control.

TRANSCRIBE YOUR MEETINGS

Never take meeting notes again (and save hours on admin tasks)

Anyone managing multiple projects or working with remote teams knows how messy online meetings can get. You spend an hour talking, barely reach any decisions, and then realize you need a follow-up meeting just to figure out what was even agreed on, because no one took proper notes 🤷 

That’s where Notta comes in.

Notta is an AI-powered note-taker that joins meetings and captures everything. It’s like having a super-reliable assistant who never misses a detail, even when everyone else is zoning out 😴 

Here’s how to get started 👇️ 

1. Head to www.notta.ai/en and sign up for a free plan (to test it quickly) or use code EDGE10 for 10% off a paid plan (to use it properly).

2. Integrate Notta with your calendar to auto-join your meetings, or just copy & paste the link to the meeting you want it to join.
   
   

   

3. Access live notes as Notta transcribes the conversation right in front of you.
   
   Bonus: You can even get a live translation of the transcript, making it possible to hold fully bilingual meetings if you need to.
   

4. When the meeting is done, Notta automatically saves the transcript with speaker names and timestamps. Select a recording to view the AI summary and play back any segments you want to hear again.

5. View the action points list that Notta has generated and assign people and due dates, if applicable.
   

   

   
   

6. Export this list to productivity tools like Slack, ClickUp, and Notion - or set up an integration to automatically save notes and assign tasks where you need them.

7. Forgotten something you discussed weeks ago? Just ask the AI chat, and it will search all your stored notes and find the information you need.

What sets Notta apart from other AI transcription tools is its unparalleled accuracy of 98% (even if English is not your first language), its live transcription, and its ability to translate into 58 different languages 🌐 

With Notta, teams can stop worrying about who’s taking notes and focus entirely on the conversation. Meetings become more productive, and admin work gets cut down significantly.

Try Notta for yourself here and use code EDGE10 for 10% off your first payment ✅ 

Check out Notta HERE 👈️

PROMPT OF THE WEEK

The Strategy Architect Prompt (Use GPT-4o) ✍️

“You are a top-tier strategy expert with elite consulting experience. A client from the [INDUSTRY] space has engaged you to deliver a high-impact market analysis worth $300,000.”

Here is your task:

1. Provide a sharp overview of the current dynamics shaping the [INDUSTRY] landscape
   

2. Highlight major trends, risks on the horizon, and game-changing technologies or models
   

3. Evaluate the 3–5 leading players: What are they offering, how are they positioned, and what gives them an edge (or holds them back)?
   

4. Apply business analysis frameworks like SWOT, Five Forces, and value chain mapping to uncover vulnerabilities, advantages, and strategic leverage points
   

5. Summarize it all into a crisp one-pager with clear, bold recommendations for a new entrant or scaling business looking to gain traction fast

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TOOLS OF THE WEEK

These AI tools are going VIRAL 🐝 

Cursor - An AI powered code editor designed to boast developer productivity 📈

Typefully - Create, schedule, and publish engaging Twitter threads ✍️

Ideogram - Generate artistic text-based images and visuals for marketing, branding, and creative content 🎨 

Vibeo - Automates the collection and editing of video testimonials 📽️