Today’s menu 🍽️👇️ 

Length: 5 minutes ⏰ 

• OpenAI strikes another loop deal 🔄

• Apple AI chief resigns after Siri ❌

• Nvidia unveils AI for self-driving 🚗

• Create AI video for free

• Prompt of the week 💬

• Top AI tools of the week ⚒️

FRESH AI NEWS

OpenAI signs another circular deal 🌀

OpenAI's investor-loop agreement involves exchanging models and support for equity in a backer-linked firm, which critics liken to internal value circulation rather than a true partnership 🔍

• OpenAI is getting equity in Thrive Holdings. In return, OpenAI will supply Thrive’s portfolio companies with engineers, AI models, and services 🤝

• Thrive Holdings is supported by Thrive Capital, which is already a major investor in OpenAI 🏢

• Because the investor and the investee are intertwined (OpenAI ↔ Thrive ↔ Thrive Capital ↔ OpenAI), critics argue this is less new growth and more a loop of mutual enrichment 🔄

• Use AI from OpenAI to rapidly scale traditional service-based firms like accounting or IT services 🚀

• Observers worry these deals inflate valuations or create an illusion of growth, as success relies on integration with OpenAI's resources, which may not scale beyond closely connected companies ⚠️

Why You Should Care: Circular deals blur the lines between investment, partnership, and customer relationships, complicating the assessment of genuine business growth versus financial engineering. For AI industry observers, this raises the question: Is there a real AI boom, or just a boosted-value echo chamber driven by overlapping interests?

Apple AI leader quits over Siri 📉 

John Giannandrea, Apple’s senior AI chief, is stepping down after years of delays and criticism around Siri and broader AI rollout failures 💻

• Apple says Giannandrea will leave his post and serve as advisor until officially retiring in spring 2026 📉

• Amar Subramanya, a veteran AI engineer formerly at Microsoft and Google, will become Apple's new VP of AI 🧩

• The move follows frustration over delays in a "smarter Siri" and slow progress on AI features under "Apple Intelligence." 🕑

• Teams previously under Giannandrea, such as AI infrastructure, search/knowledge, and ML research, will be reassigned to other senior executives, indicating a broader shake-up 🔄

Why You Should Care: Apple's leadership change underscores the pressure to deliver consumer-ready AI, signaling that falling behind in generative AI is unacceptable. This suggests Apple may accelerate efforts to compete with Google and Microsoft in the AI era.

Nvidia boosts self-driving AI research ⚡

NVIDIA just unveiled a set of open-source AI models and development tools aimed at speeding up research and development in autonomous vehicles and physical AI 🤖

• NVIDIA introduced Alpamayo-R1, described as the world’s first open, industry-scale reasoning vision-language-action (VLA) model focused on autonomous driving research 🚗

• NVIDIA released a "Cosmos Cookbook" with guides, workflows, resources, and tools for developers to adapt and fine-tune models for AV research or applications 🧰

• Alpamayo-R1 and related resources are on GitHub and Hugging Face for researchers, startups, and academic labs to explore autonomous-driving AI 🔓

• This release advances NVIDIA's "physical AI" goal, applying AI to real-world environments such as robots, vehicles, and mobility, beyond text/image tasks 🌐

Why You Should Care: This is an important move to make autonomous-driving research more accessible. By providing open models and tools, NVIDIA makes it easier for small teams, not just large car companies or well-funded labs, to develop, test, and improve self-driving and AI systems.

AI VIDEO CREATION

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Here’s how to get started 👇️ 

1. Visit Krea.ai, click the “AI Video Generation” tab, and you’ll enter the workspace where you can craft videos using prompts + images.

   

2. Describe what you want to include, like the setting, actions, mood, style, or changes.

3. Now, you can add text prompts to define the scene between different scenes, set the mood, and separate different parts of a video.

   You can even import images from your end for the model to take inspiration

   

4. After you’ve described your needs to Krea, you can also import the video using the “Download” button, and even upscale it!

Pro Tip: For best results, use a clear reference image and specific camera instructions like "slowly move in," "use a wide shot," or "add soft rim lighting." Krea enhances your video with a professional, film-like quality using these cinematic terms ✨

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PROMPT OF THE WEEK

AI Workforce Automation Blueprint 📈 

Simply paste this prompt:

“Perform a full automation audit for a 20–100 employee business. Break down each department (sales, marketing, finance, HR, support, operations) and list tasks that AI can automate. Recommend the best tools, estimated time saved, implementation steps, workflow diagrams, and ROI predictions. Deliver a 90-day automation rollout plan.”

🔧 Pro Tip: Ask for “before-and-after workflow maps to visualize efficiency gains.”

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TOOLS OF THE WEEK

These AI tools are going VIRAL 🐝 

Nano Banana Pro - Google’s new image AI with improved text rendering 🍌

Gemini 3 - Google’s new top-ranked AI model 🏆

Math V2 - DeepSeek’s open-source mathematical reasoning model ⚡

Vidi2 - ByteDance’s AI video editor with spatio-temporal grounding 🚀