Today’s menu 🍽️👇️ 

Length: 5 minutes ⏰ 

• Meta reveals next-gen AI glasses 🔥

• Google faces pushback from Reddit 🚨

• Macroscope makes coding easier💡

• Produce photo-illustration hybrids using AI ✅

• Prompt of the week 💬

• Top AI tools of the week ⚒️

FRESH AI NEWS

Meta unveils glasses plus controller 🖐️

Meta introduced the Ray-Ban Display smart glasses with a built-in display in one lens and a new wireless wristband controller, aiming to give users quick access to AI tasks without pulling out their phone 😎

• Small display sits in the right lens to show notifications, directions, live translations, Meta AI prompts 📱

• Wristband reads subtle hand and finger movements using EMG (muscle signal tech) so you can swipe, pinch or tap without touching the glasses 🤚

• The bundle with glasses plus Neural Band costs $799. Available from September 30. Battery life: ~6 hours mixed use; the band lasts ~18 hours. EMC water resistance rating applies 💵

• Display turns on only when needed (“glanceable”) so it’s less distracting. Display brightness varies (30-5000 nits) to adapt indoors/outdoors. Lightweight frame, but battery life still limited ⚙️

Why You Should Care: This launch represents a new form factor for wearables that blends convenience, AI assistance and hands-free interaction. It signals a push from Meta to make AI tools more ambient and less disruptive in daily life.

Reddit pressures Google on AI deal 📢

Reddit is in early talks with Google to renegotiate its AI content licensing deal, aiming to earn more as its data becomes more central to AI tools and search products 🤝

• Reddit has a $60 million per year deal with Google for access to Reddit content for training Google’s AI models and improving Google Search 💵

• Reddit wants future deals where compensation increases as Reddit content grows more valuable to AI answers and search features 🔄

• The company is looking for terms that embed Reddit content more tightly in Google’s AI features and search tools, not just licensing but strategic use 🛠️

• Content licensing is becoming a meaningful piece of Reddit’s revenue mix. Bloomberg estimates licensing could bring in ~$140 million in 2025 📈

Why You Should Care: Reddit is pushing terms that reflect how essential its user-generated content has become in the AI era. This negotiation could reset how platforms monetize “free content” and shift power in AI licensing deals.

Fix bugs faster with Macroscope 🚀

Macroscope launched an AI tool to help engineers and product leads quickly understand massive codebases, catch bugs in pull requests, and track dev progress. All in one dashboard 📉

• It maps your GitHub repo using abstract syntax trees to understand code structure and context 📚

• Macroscope flags bugs in pull requests and generates natural-language summaries of code changes 🌐

• Project leaders get realtime insights: what got done, who contributed, productivity trends, all without endless meetings 📊

• Costs $30 per active developer/month, supports enterprise scale, and is already used by firms like XMTP, United Masters, and Bilt 💵

Why You Should Care: Macroscope helps shrink the time developers spend figuring out what changed in a codebase. It also bridges technical-nontechnical gaps so product folks can stay in sync with engineering without being buried in details.

MIX REALITY WITH ART

Produce photo-illustration hybrids using AI ✅

With this prompt, AI image generators such as Freepik and Ideogram can produce images that seamlessly combine photography and illustration ✅

Here’s how to get started 👇️ 

1. Choose any AI image generator (e.g. Ideogram).

2. Use this prompt for reference:
   
   "Blending of editorial photography and illustration, model, illustration fashion outfit, surreal environment of vibrant bold illustrations blending with the subject, flowers, smoke, flames and sparkles, half photography and half illustration".

3. Generate your image and check out the results.
   

4. You can also include 'mix of photography and illustration' in the prompt, and apply 'subtle' and 'digital art' parameters to make the result even better.

Pro Tip: Got an EPUB or audiobook instead of a PDF? Convert it first. Both NotebookLM and ChatGPT do their best work with PDFs, giving you cleaner summaries and sharper study guides ✨

Check out Ideogram HERE 👈️

PROMPT OF THE WEEK

AI-Powered Customer Retention Strategy 📈 

Simply paste this prompt:

“Develop a retention strategy for a SaaS company using AI. Include churn prediction models, personalized onboarding flows, automated customer success check-ins, and loyalty program design. Provide a monthly action plan with KPIs.”

🔧 Pro Tip: Ask for “a risk vs reward analysis of retention tactics.”

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TOOLS OF THE WEEK

These AI tools are going VIRAL 🐝 

Tripo 3.0 - Turn text or images into production-ready 3D assets 🎨

Poke - Intelligent AI assistant embedded into text messages 👋

Qwen3-ASR - Alibaba’s new speech recognition model 🗣️

Higgsfield Ads 2.0 - Create realistic custom AI product placement ads 🤖