Today’s menu 🍽️👇️ 

Length: 5 minutes ⏰ 

• OpenAI locks $300B Oracle deal 💸

• Thinking Machines pushes AI consistency 🧠

• New Copilot bundle for Microsoft 365 🖥️

• Perplexity lands $200M at $20B value 💰

• Born raises $15M for AI companions 🎮

• Automate your content ideas in seconds ✨

• Prompt of the week 💬

• Top AI tools of the week ⚒️

FRESH AI NEWS

OpenAI bets $300B on Oracle cloud ⚡

OpenAI has struck what could become one of history’s biggest cloud deals. A $300 billion agreement with Oracle to secure computing power over five years under Project Stargate⚡

• OpenAI will purchase $300 billion worth of cloud power from Oracle from 2027 through about 2032 📅

• As part of Stargate, Oracle will build data centers with around 4.5 gigawatts of capacity to serve OpenAI’s AI training and deployment needs 🏗️

• The deal helped double Oracle’s cloud infrastructure revenue growth rate to around 77 percent and lifted its stock by over 40 percent. Its chairman Larry Ellison saw his net worth jump significantly 📈

Why You Should Care: This deal signals a turning point in AI infrastructure. OpenAI is stepping beyond relying on others by locking in massive, long-term cloud resources. Oracle emerges as a major backbone of AI growth, and the stakes for cost, energy, and scalability are now higher than ever.

Thinking Machines targets reliable AI ⚙️

Thinking Machines Lab aims to reduce randomness in AI by making models more reliable and predictable in how they respond to prompts 🔄

• The lab found that variation in NVIDIA GPU kernels can cause different outputs for the same prompt. Controlling that could lead to repeatable behavior 🎯

• Consistency means smoother training, easier debugging, and fewer surprises when models are deployed in real-world settings 📚

• Thinking Machines Lab says it will publish its methods, research notes, and tools so that researchers and startups can use consistency improvements too 🚀

• The lab is building tools aimed first at research users, to test consistency improvements before broader product rollout ⏳

Why You Should Care: Predictable models are easier to trust and safer to use. If this works it could shift how AI is built by letting developers rely on models to behave similarly across different runs and environments.

Microsoft 365 expands Copilot lineup 🚀

Microsoft will bundle its Sales, Service, and Finance Copilots into Microsoft 365 Copilot in October at no extra cost. Businesses will pay a single $30/user/month instead of $50 📉

• Extra tools for Sales, Service, and Finance were an add-on costing $20/user/month. Starting October they become part of the base Copilot plan 🏷️

• Instead of managing separate Copilot add-ons, businesses get everything through the Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent Store under one fee 📦

• Microsoft is launching “Agent 365” at Ignite. It helps manage AI agents while reinforcing compliance and security protocols ⚙️

• Microsoft plans to use Anthropic’s AI models for some Excel and PowerPoint tasks, especially where they outperformed GPT-5 in tests 🤖

Why You Should Care: Businesses get more value for money and fewer confusing choices. This change could boost adoption of Copilot in companies that hesitated over cost. It also signals Microsoft’s drive to integrate third-party models and tighten security while scaling AI tools in the workplace.

Perplexity joins $20B valuation club 💎

Perplexity has closed a $200 million funding round valuing the company at roughly $20 billion. This is another big leap upward in just a few months 🚀

• Perplexity’s value rose from $18 billion in July 2025 to now about $20 billion 🔥

• New investors stepped in with $200 million in funding at the higher post-money valuation 💸

• The AI-browser product “Comet” has become central to Perplexity’s strategy, helping it amplify growth and investor interest 🌌

• Annual recurring revenue has climbed above $150 million. User base continues to expand, feeding the valuation gains 📈

Why You Should Care: This raise solidifies Perplexity’s place as a serious contender in the AI search and browser space. With strong financial backing and fast product growth, it looks poised to compete with giants like Google and OpenAI more aggressively.

AI gaming startup Born nets $15M 🌐

Berlin-based startup Born raised $15 million to build social AI companions meant to fight loneliness by encouraging real-life connection and shared play 🤝

• Pengu is a virtual pet app where users co-parent and interact with AI friends. It has over 15 million users globally 🎮

• Born designs companions to grow with you and your friends rather than just chatting solo. New features will make AI characters more consistent, with memory of past interactions 👥

• The startup is building a social product specially for users aged 16-21 that feels relevant by using the content they already like (Instagram Reels, TikToks etc.) 🎓

• Born incorporates safety layers off OpenAI models. It’s also opening an office in New York to scale marketing and AI research 🛡️

Why You Should Care: This shows a new direction in AI companions where company aims to do more than just mimic conversation. It’s building tools to help people feel less lonely by encouraging social interaction. That could change how we think about AI in social and mental health spaces.

AUTOMATE CONTENT IDEAS

Automate evergreen content ideas using Grok task manager 🤖

Learn how to use Grok's Tasks feature to automatically create a constant flow of content ideas for your audience. This way, your feed remains updated, reliable, and easy to share, without the need for weekly brainstorming.

Here’s how to get started 👇️ 

1. Open Grok and head into the Tasks dashboard.

   

2. Hit “New Task” and set one up: “Weekly Trend Scan” every Sunday morning.

   

3. Drop in a clear prompt: “Suggest 10 evergreen content ideas for [your audience] that balance authority-building and shareability.”

   

4. Set your schedule. Example, every Sunday so you always start the week with fresh material.

5. Check results in notifications and refine ideas into posts, threads, or videos.

Pro Tip: Once you’ve tested the first batch, create a second recurring task focused on trending topics to complement your evergreen list. The mix of timeless + timely content keeps your audience hooked ✨

Check out Grok HERE 👈️

PROMPT OF THE WEEK

AI sales objection handling library 🎯

Simply paste this prompt:

“Create a library of AI-powered sales objection responses for [product]. Include common objections like pricing, integration difficulty, and data privacy. Provide multi-option scripts with tone variations (friendly, authoritative, consultative).”

🔧Pro tip: Ask for “a quick-reference table sales reps can use live on calls.”

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TOOLS OF THE WEEK

These AI tools are going VIRAL 🐝 

Unframe - Scale AI efficiently and securely with enterprise solutions 📈 

Ideogram Styles - Create consistent aesthetics and stylized typography 🎨

HunyuanImage 2.1 - Tencent’s new open-source text-to-image model 🎆

Seedream 4.0  - ByteDance’s unified image creation and editing model 🌱