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Control, sustainability, and autonomy are all shaping where AI goes next. These are today’s updates.
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Musk sues OpenAI and Microsoft for damages
OpenAI outlines scalable business model strategy
Astral launches autonomous AI agent for marketers
Tools, resources, and a prompt to teach ChatGPT how you write. ⬇️
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Elon Musk filed a lawsuit seeking up to $134B from OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming wrongful gains tied to his early funding, recruiting, and credibility support. He argues those contributions materially enabled OpenAI’s rise, while OpenAI has rejected the claims and disputed the damages calculations.
OpenAI outlined how its revenue grows alongside delivered intelligence, linking compute spend to subscriptions, API usage, and newer commerce and advertising surfaces. Between 2023 and 2025, compute usage increased about 9.5× while revenue scaled roughly 10×, crossing $20B in annual recurring revenue. Growth has been driven by ChatGPT becoming a daily tool across work and personal use.
Astral introduced an AI agent that can browse the web, click through tools, and post across channels to execute full marketing workflows. The launch followed a $1.2M pre-seed round, and an announcement video quickly reached millions of views, reflecting strong interest in autonomous marketing agents.
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🐦 15 lectures. 1 hour of video.
Teach ChatGPT How You Write
When to use this?
When you want ChatGPT to consistently write emails, memos, posts, or docs the way you do.
You are learning my writing style.
I’ll paste examples of my writing below.
Your job:
Identify my tone (direct, conversational, formal, blunt, etc.)
Note sentence patterns I use often
Capture words or phrases I avoid
Summarize style rules you should follow when writing for me
Confirm understanding by rewriting a short sample in my voice
After this, apply these rules to all future writing unless I say otherwise.
Writing samples:
[paste 2–5 examples of your writing]Correct Input Style:
Paste real writing, not polished examples.
Emails, Slack messages, LinkedIn posts, or memos work best.
P.S. Get more such prompts in the Prompting Playbook (free for you)
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