Today’s menu 🍽️👇️ 

Length: 5 minutes ⏰ 

• The $278 device that outperforms Meta Ray Bans 💻

• Zuckerberg’s $100M plan to win AI 💰

• How salesforce replaced half its workforce 📊

• This AI startup targets a $1.8T market 📈

• Generate dynamic email replies and summarize meeting notes ✨ 

• Prompt of the week 💬

• Top AI tools of the week ⚒️

FRESH AI NEWS

Xiaomi unveils AI smart glasses powered by Qualcomm chip 👓

Xiaomi has officially joined the smart glasses space with its first AI glasses, directly confronting Meta's Ray-Ban tie-up with similar specs and a low price tag🤖

• Xiaomi's AI glasses launched at 1,999 yuan ($278.54) with a 12-megapixel ultra-wide camera and Qualcomm's AR1 chip. Xiaomi enters ‘smart glasses war’ with first AI-powered eyewear, significantly undercutting premium competitors 💰

• The device boasts 8.6 hours of battery life on a single charge — twice that of Ray-Ban Meta glasses — with a 45-minute full recharge time ⚡
  

• The glasses support up to 45 minutes of continuous video recording, vastly outperforming Meta's three-minute limit on current market leaders 🎥
  

• The smart glasses market grew 210% in 2024 with another 60% growth forecasted for 2025, making timing crucial for new entrants📈

Why You Should Care: Xiaomi's competitive pricing and better battery life may upend the early smart glasses market now led by Meta. With twice the recording time and battery life at half the cost, China's tech giant is ready to stake its claim as the price leader in what analysts foresee as a fast-growing category.

Meta reportedly hires four more researchers from OpenAI 🤖

Meta has ramped up its aggressive talent battle with OpenAI by hiring four more researchers in the most recent round of high-profile poaching, taking the total number of OpenAI exodus to seven over one week 🥊

• The newest recruits are Shengjia Zhao, Jiahui Yu, Shuchao Bi and Hongyu Ren, who have each agreed to join Meta's superintelligence team 🧠

• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed last week that Meta offered $100 million bonuses to his employees, though some recruits have disputed these figures 🎯

• Meta has also hired Jack Rae from Google DeepMind and Johan Schalkwyk from AI voice startup Sesame AI for the same superintelligence unit 🔄

• The company was reportedly unsuccessful in its efforts to poach top OpenAI researcher Noam Brown, showing some limits to the recruitment campaign 🛡️

Why You Should Care: Meta's unprecedented talent acquisition blitz signals Zuckerberg's determination to close the AI gap with OpenAI at any cost. With seven high-profile defections in a single week, the tech giant is building a formidable team that could reshape the competitive landscape in AI reasoning and superintelligence development.

Salesforce CEO says 30% of internal work is being handled by AI 👥

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has unveiled a breathtaking degree of AI automation in his own business, asserting half of in-house work is now being done by AI as the CRM behemoth sets an example in the "digital labor revolution 💼

• Benioff stated "AI is doing 30% to 50% of the work at Salesforce now", specifically highlighting software engineering and customer service functions 📊

• The revelation positions Salesforce as one of the most AI-integrated major enterprises, practicing what it preaches to customers about AI adoption 🔧

• The company has said that internal AI adoption has allowed it to hire fewer people, demonstrating the direct impact on workforce planning and recruitment strategies 📉

• The CEO emphasized that AI frees staff for higher-value tasks rather than simply eliminating positions, repositioning workers toward more strategic roles 📈

Why You Should Care: Benioff's blunt acknowledgment offers a glimpse into just how fast AI is reshaping white-collar work at scale. With Salesforce automating almost half of its operations, the company is a compelling case study for other companies considering AI adoption — and a preview of the disruption to come in the workforce.

LogicFlo AI secures $2.7 Million in seed funding led by Lightspeed⚕️

LogicFlo AI raised $2.7 million in seed funding to grow its niche AI agent platform catering to life sciences experts, as Lightspeed doubles down on its aggressive vertical AI solution bet 🧬

• LogicFlo provides platform for life sciences professionals to deploy customized AI agents for specific workflows, meeting the specific regulatory and compliance demands of the healthcare industry 🔬

• The investment will led LogicFlo's international expansion plans in highly regulated sectors where generic AI solutions tend to lack the level of compliance 🌍

• This investment will facilitate LogicFlo AI's global growth within pharmaceutical, biotech, and medtech sectors that demand specialized AI solutions 💊

• The round comes as Lightspeed continues its AI investment spree, having recently led major rounds for companies like Anthropic and other enterprise AI startups 🚀

Why You Should Care: LogicFlo's successful funding is evidence of investor demand for specialized AI tools compared to general-market products. With life sciences as a $1.8 trillion global market starved for AI automation, LogicFlo's targeted industry strategy may be able to take significant value where generalist AI platforms are muddled by regulation.

AUTOMATE EMAILS WITH GPT

Use GPT to generate dynamic email replies and summarize meeting notes ⚙️

Save 5+ hours/week by auto-sorting emails, generating responses, or creating tasks.

Here’s how to get started 👇️ 

1. Create/Open a Zapier account. Then go to “My Apps” and connect your OpenAI account using your API key.

2. Choose a trigger app:

   Email Automation: Trigger → New Gmail email

   Task Management: Trigger → New Notion page or Slack message

   Form Submissions: Trigger → New Typeform response

3. Add a new step → “OpenAI” → “Send Prompt”

   Prompt Template Options:

   1. Summarize Email
   You are a helpful assistant. Summarize this email: [Paste email]. Keep it short and actionable.

   2. Generate Polite Reply
   Generate a polite reply to this email confirming the meeting on [Date].

4. Send the GPT response to Slack, Notion, or your email inbox automatically

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PROMPT OF THE WEEK

Personal Strategic Advisor (Use GPT-4o) ✍️

“Act as my personal strategic advisor with the following context:

You have an IQ of 180

You're brutally honest and direct

You've built multiple billion-dollar companies

You have deep expertise in psychology, strategy, and execution

You care about my success but won't tolerate excuses

You focus on leverage points that create maximum impact

You think in systems and root causes, not surface-level fixes

Your mission is to:

Identify the critical gaps holding me back

Design specific action plans to close those gaps

Push me beyond my comfort zone

Call out my blind spots and rationalizations

Force me to think bigger and bolder

Hold me accountable to high standards

Provide specific frameworks and mental models

For each response:

Start with the hard truth I need to hear

Follow with specific, actionable steps

End with a direct challenge or assignment

Respond when you're ready for me to start the conversation.”

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