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📊 OpenAI boosts app analytics with $1.1B deal
+ Turn ideas into apps with Figma AI 📲
Leo Grundström
September 5th, 2025
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Today’s menu 🍽️👇️
Length: 5 minutes ⏰
OpenAI boosts app analytics with $1.1B deal 📊
Amazon makes shopping as easy as pointing 🤳
Google lets you fine-tune AI podcast tone ✍️
OpenAI launches AI-powered jobs platform 🧠
Veo 3 brings cinematic motion to snapshots 🚀
Create apps with creative ideas with Figma AI✨
Prompt of the week 💬
Top AI tools of the week ⚒️
How 433 Investors Unlocked 400X Return Potential
Institutional investors back startups to unlock outsized returns. Regular investors have to wait. But not anymore. Thanks to regulatory updates, some companies are doing things differently.
Take Revolut. In 2016, 433 regular people invested an average of $2,730. Today? They got a 400X buyout offer from the company, as Revolut’s valuation increased 89,900% in the same timeframe.
Founded by a former Zillow exec, Pacaso’s co-ownership tech reshapes the $1.3T vacation home market. They’ve earned $110M+ in gross profit to date, including 41% YoY growth in 2024 alone. They even reserved the Nasdaq ticker PCSO.
The same institutional investors behind Uber, Venmo, and eBay backed Pacaso. And you can join them. But not for long. Pacaso’s investment opportunity ends September 18.
Paid advertisement for Pacaso’s Regulation A offering. Read the offering circular at invest.pacaso.com. Reserving a ticker symbol is not a guarantee that the company will go public. Listing on the NASDAQ is subject to approvals.
FRESH AI NEWS
OpenAI reshapes leadership for app growth 🔄
OpenAI is ramping up its Applications division under new leadership and securing product chops with a major acquisition to supercharge ChatGPT and Codex development 🚀
Fidji Simo, formerly CEO of Instacart, became OpenAI’s Applications CEO on August 18 and is now scaling up the app team 👩💼
OpenAI is acquiring product analytics firm Statsig for $1.1 billion. Its CEO, Vijaye Raji, will become CTO of Applications, overseeing product engineering for ChatGPT and Codex 💸
Senior engineer Srinivas Narayanan is now CTO of B2B Applications, focused on enterprise and government solutions. Meanwhile, former CPO Kevin Weil is moving into VP of AI for Science 🏢
Why You Should Care: By building a dedicated app leadership team and integrating product analytics expertise, OpenAI is making a clear push to turn research breakthroughs into polished, scalable applications. Especially for enterprise and scientific audiences.
Amazon turns your camera into a cart 📸
Amazon just launched Lens Live, a new AI-powered visual shopping tool that lets you shop in real time by pointing your camera at anything 🛒
Point your phone’s camera and Lens Live auto-detects products, showing similar items in a swipeable carousel 📸
Tap an item to add it to your cart or wishlist. Right from the camera view 🛍
Under the carousel, get quick summaries and suggested questions about the products from Amazon’s Rufus AI 🤖
Real-time detection uses on-device vision models plus AWS SageMaker and OpenSearch to match what you see to Amazon’s massive catalog ⚙️
Why You Should Care: Lens Live reimagines shopping as a seamless visual experience. With AI-generated insights and instant actions all accessible through your camera, Amazon is blurring the line between seeing and shopping.
Google’s AI podcasts get a tone upgrade 🎙️
Google’s NotebookLM now lets you fine-tune the tone of its AI-generated podcasts. You can choose from engaging styles like Deep Dive, Brief, Critique, and Debate 🎙️
Pick from Deep Dive, Brief, Critique, or Debate to control whether the podcast is detailed, concise, evaluative, or multi-perspective 🎧
NotebookLM now offers multiple voice options to make the audio more engaging and natural 🗣️
Use the “Customize” button to guide what topics the AI hosts focus on or who they’re speaking to ✍️
With stability and quality improvements, NotebookLM’s podcast features are now fully supported and loss of the experimental tag signals Google’s commitment ✅
Why You Should Care: Customizable tones and voices turn NotebookLM from a static summarizer into a flexible audio storytelling tool. Whether you’re teaching, learning, or briefing, these formats let you tailor content for clarity, engagement, or analysis.
OpenAI brings AI recruiting to businesses 🏢
OpenAI is launching an AI-powered hiring platform, called OpenAI Jobs Platform, designed to match employers and workers more smartly, putting it in direct competition with LinkedIn 💼
The platform will use AI to connect employers and job seekers in more meaningful ways, aiming to match needs with skills 🧠
Beyond big corporations, the service will support small businesses and local government bodies seeking AI-enhanced recruiting tools 🌐
Fidji Simo, CEO of Applications at OpenAI, confirmed the mid-2026 debut as OpenAI diversifies beyond chatbots ⏳
OpenAI will also roll out AI certifications through its OpenAI Academy to help users demonstrate their hiring and prompt-engineering prowess 🎓
Why You Should Care: This move signals OpenAI's ambition to disrupt professional networks by using AI to modernize hiring. It also poses a strategic challenge to Microsoft-owned LinkedIn, blending OpenAI’s AI strength with talent discovery capabilities.
Google Photos adds AI photo-to-video tool 🎬
Google Photos now uses the advanced Veo 3 model to turn your still photos into short, high-quality video clips. Complete with realistic audio 📸
Create crisp, animated video clips from photos using Veo 3. Adding ambient audio, motion, and more than just visuals 🔊
The "Photo to video" tool is in the new "Create" tab of Google Photos on your phone. Just tap it, choose an option, and see your picture turn into a video.📱
Users get a set number of video generations per day, with higher caps for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers⏳
Each AI-generated clip includes SynthID and visible watermarks so you know it was computer-created 🔍
Why You Should Care: This upgrade makes Google Photos a creative center, allowing users to easily turn their memories into cinematic moments using advanced AI that adds motion and sound.
EDIT IDEAS INTO APPS
Turn ideas into apps with Figma AI 📲
Sketching wireframes, debating fonts, and manually connecting buttons can eat up weeks before you even test an idea. With Figma AI, you skip the grunt work. Drop in a simple text prompt and watch your concept transform into a full mobile app prototype. Complete with interactive buttons, layouts, and flows. Just in minutes.
Here’s how to get started 👇️
Head to Figma.com, log in, and click Make. A chat box pops up asking: “What do you want to make?”. This is where you describe your idea.
Describe the concept
Example: “Create an app for freelancers to track projects, send invoices, and manage deadlines.”
Guide the look with design cues.
Example: “Clean white dashboard with soft gray panels, navy blue typography, sky-blue highlights, and simple rounded icons for a professional but approachable feel.” Figma AI will automatically refine spacing, grid alignment, and component consistency.
Add more features.
Example: “Add a project timeline view with drag-and-drop tasks, invoice generator with PDF export, and deadline reminders via calendar sync.” The AI wires up the buttons and flows so it feels like a working productivity app, not just static screens.
Export your final image in high resolution, ready to post or use in designs.
Pro Tip: Think of Figma AI as a “prototype accelerator.” Use it to get 80% of the way instantly, then spend your energy refining the 20% that makes your product stand out ✨
PROMPT OF THE WEEK
Generate a customer persona library 🎯
Simply paste this prompt:
“Create a set of 5 detailed customer personas for a SaaS product selling to [target market]. Include demographics, goals, pain points, AI adoption levels, and preferred communication style. Present results in a table and short narrative form.”
🔧Pro tip: Ask for “visual persona cards” to make it slide-ready.
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TOOLS OF THE WEEK
These AI tools are going VIRAL 🐝
Respeecher TTS - Hollywood-grade AI voices, streaming in real time via API 🗣️
Wispr Flow - Vibe coding supercharged with voice 🔉
ElevenLabs SFX v2 - Create sound effects from text prompts 🎧
GenSpark AI Designer - Design anything with a single prompt 📝
Warm regards,
Leo Grundström / Founder of Daily AI Edge
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