Today’s menu 🍽️👇️ 

Length: 5 minutes ⏰ 

• OpenAI’s Sora Faces Early Challenges 📉

• Meta Plans Agentic Shopping Tools 🤖

• Google Adds AI Browsing to Chrome 🚀

• Anthropic Faces $3B Piracy Lawsuit 🚨

• Google Labs Is Packed With Free AI Tools 🧠

• Prompt of the week 💬

• Top AI tools of the week ⚒️

FRESH AI NEWS

Sora Struggles After Its Big Debut 🎬

After a strong start, Sora, OpenAI's AI-generated video app, is experiencing declines in downloads and in-app spending, indicating waning momentum 📉

• Sora’s mobile installs fell around 45% in January after dropping in December, compared with its peak launch surge 📉

• Consumer spending in the app declined more than 30% month-over-month, indicating less engagement from paying users 💸

• Once at the top of the U.S. App Store, Sora has tumbled down app charts as interest wanes 📱

• Rivals like Google’s Gemini and Meta’s AI video features are intensifying the battle for short-form AI video attention ⚔️

• Initial excitement over Sora's rapid rise is fading due to retention and monetization challenges 🧠

Why You Should Care: Sora's decline highlights that viral AI features alone can't sustain long-term engagement. To transition from novelty to daily use, stronger hooks, better content moderation, and effective monetization are crucial for AI-driven social platforms.

Meta Preps Big AI Rollout in 2026 🚀 

Mark Zuckerberg announces Meta's 2026 plans for agentic commerce and AI expansion, focusing on AI acting on users' behalf and deeper integration within Meta's ecosystem 📦

• Meta is working on AI agents that can handle commerce tasks, like finding, comparing, and purchasing products without manual input from users ✨

• These tools are expected to span Instagram, Facebook Marketplace, and Meta’s broader ecosystem 🧩

• Zuckerberg announced a major AI rollout in 2026, integrating intelligent features across apps and devices 🌠

• Expect tighter AI integration with VR/AR (Reality Labs), messaging, and content discovery interfaces 🔥

• The focus is on agentic workflows, where AI completes multi-step tasks instead of just answering queries 🌐

Why You Should Care: Meta is transitioning to AI agents that combine social, shopping, messaging, and immersive experiences, positioning it to compete with Google, OpenAI, and Amazon in AI chat, commerce, and workflow automation.

Google’s Gemini Upgrades Chrome 🔥 

Google is introducing AI-assisted "Auto Browse" in Chrome, allowing Gemini to navigate sites, read pages, and provide answers automatically 🧠

• When you ask a question that needs multiple pages or steps to answer, Chrome’s Gemini-powered auto browse will navigate, extract, and summarize for you 🧭

• It can navigate links, fill forms, scroll pages like a human, and provide insights in plain language 📄

• The tool pulls data from several web sources instead of a single page, synthesizing the best findings 🔎

• Gemini manages browsing tasks directly in the browser, eliminating the need for new tabs or different tools 🗣️

• Rolling out first on Chrome desktop, with plans for mobile support soon 📱

Why You Should Care: This advances search from links and snippets to actionable browsing automation, where the browser clicks and reads for you, paving the way for personal AI assistants to manage multi-step web tasks.

Anthropic Accused of AI Music Piracy 🔍

Major music publishers, including Universal Music Group and Concord, filed a $3 billion lawsuit against Anthropic for allegedly using over 20,000 copyrighted songs to train its AI models 🚨

• The suit alleges that Anthropic illegally pirated more than 20,000 copyrighted songs instead of licensed them for use in training its Claude AI models 🎼

• Publishers are seeking over $3 billion in statutory damages, making this one of the largest non-class action copyright cases in U.S. history ⚖️

• This complaint dramatically expands on an earlier case that originally covered only ~500 works 📂

• In some filings, Anthropic’s CEO and co-founder are individually named for allegedly authorizing or overseeing the unauthorized downloads 👥

• Evidence surfaced during earlier litigation suggesting torrenting of copyrighted material, fueling the broader piracy allegations 🔍

Why You Should Care: This lawsuit highlights increasing copyright disputes over AI training data, especially music rights. A ruling could alter how AI companies source licensed datasets and may encourage investment in authorized training libraries instead of using unlicensed material.

EXPLORE GOOGLE LAB

Explore Google Labs’ Free AI Playground 🔍

Learn how to use Google Labs' experimental AI tools to create visuals, videos, and marketing campaigns for your business without needing a full design or content team ✅

Here’s how to get started 👇️ 

1. Browse the Google Labs playground by visiting labs.google/experiments to explore the full collection of available AI tools and pick what fits your campaign goals.

2. Start with Pomelli for brand-ready campaigns. Paste your website link into Pomelli and let it analyze your identity, tone, and visuals. In a few minutes, it will generate ad concepts complete with graphics and short video assets.

3. Move to Flow to assemble motion content. Create opening and closing images using the image generator, drop them into the video workspace, and guide the transitions with a text prompt to form a cohesive clip.

4. Refine your visuals in ImageFX. Experiment with built-in style suggestions to improve your prompts, and lock the randomization “seed” so you can keep a consistent look across multiple images.

Pro Tip: Open the tool selector in ImageFX and choose MusicFX to create background music that fits the mood of your visuals. This is great for social media clips or short ads ✨

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TOOLS OF THE WEEK

These AI tools are going VIRAL 🐝 

GLM-Image - Z AI’s new open-source image generation model 🤖 

Claude Cowork - Claude Code’s agentic abilities, now available to Pro tier 🚀 

GPT 5.2 Pro - OpenAI’s most advanced frontier model 🧮 

Grok Imagine - xAI's image and video generation platform 🌌