{{first_name | Leader}}, welcome back. Today’s updates:
One company cut training time by 80% using Guidde*
OpenAI’s CapEx Plan Tops $115B Through 2029
Cisco & Nvidia Launch “Secure AI Factory”
OpenAI to Build Job Platform to Match AI Talent
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Global manufacturer replaced two-week finance manuals with five-minute video guides, proof is in the metrics:
80% faster content creation → teams churn out 5× more tutorials, killing bottlenecks
5 languages covered → staff from Manila to Costa Rica learn in their own tongue
100% satisfaction in training surveys → support tickets fade as employees self-serve
OpenAI Spending to Rise to $115B Through 2029
Internal forecasts seen by Fortune show OpenAI expecting to spend up to $115 billion on data-center build-outs and chips over the next four years, more than triple Meta’s planned AI capex. Funding is set to mix Microsoft-backed debt, long-term power contracts, and a new customer pre-purchase program.
The race for compute will tighten GPU markets and long-term power PPAs. Finance teams should explore multi-year usage commits now, or risk higher per-token costs and capacity throttles later.
Cisco & Nvidia Launch “Secure AI Factory”
Cisco will bundle its networking stack with Nvidia GPUs and software so enterprises can run agentic-AI workloads on private data, on-prem, or in sovereign clouds. A joint reference design lands next quarter, promising plug-and-play connectors for Splunk, Snowflake, and ServiceNow. Early pilots cut model-deployment time from weeks to hours, Cisco says.
Turnkey AI factories slash the integration burden—and yank data gravity back inside your firewall. Ask infra leads to size the bundle against current GPU colocation costs before locking 2026 hardware budgets.
OpenAI to Build Job Platform to Match AI Talent
OpenAI is quietly piloting an AI-jobs marketplace that will let engineers, data scientists, and safety researchers list profiles and get matched to companies needing frontier-model skills. Early screenshots show GPT-powered résumé parsing and salary insights, with a full launch expected later this year.
The service could drain LinkedIn’s most sought-after talent pool and intensify the bidding war for experienced AI staff. Ask HR to track the platform’s rollout and refresh retention offers before recruiters shift their searches there.
Productivity Tools
Factory: Ship faster with autonomous agents, Droids, that turn tickets into pull requests.*
Regie.ai: Uses generative AI to automate sales outreach and prospecting tasks.
Neuron AI: Run blazing-fast LLMs offline on Apple devices; zero data leaves.
Supaboard.ai: Ask natural-language questions, get BI dashboards auto-built in seconds.
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Useful Resources
Learn why creator partnerships now outperform classic ads—and how to start small (link)
Explore ChatGPT’s newest brainstorming mode that maps sources as you type (link)
See how Atlassian’s $610 M browser deal rewires knowledge-worker flow (link)
Benchmark 10 standout B2B marketing plays you can copy this quarter (link)
Compare five AI-native CRMs before your current contract renews (link)
Where does AI deliver real value in 2025 business-scenario planning?
💰 Funding
Ketryx secured $39M Series B to automate life-science regulatory compliance with AI.
FriendliAI raised $20M seed-extension to scale its low-latency inference platform.
💼 Who’s Hiring in AI
🐦 Coding Agents 101
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3:03 PM • Sep 5, 2025
Designing a Surreal Photorealistic Landscape Prompt
You are a pro visual director tasked with crafting a hyperreal, cinematic landscape. Render a wide [BASE_LANDSCAPE] beneath a clouded blue sky, and raise a monumental [SURREAL_MASS] in the distance with lifelike material textures, geological striations, and believable scale; blend natural vegetation at the base to fuse real and surreal. Use photorealistic detail, soft [LIGHTING_MOOD], realistic shadows, high micro-texture, and depth of field for immersion; keep the scene strange yet beautiful. Output a single, tight scene description followed by a style line: “Photorealistic, surreal, cinematic lighting
Base Landscape: [Insert here]
Surreal Mass: [Insert here]
Lighting Mood: [Insert here]Sample Output
[BASE_LANDSCAPE] wind-brushed meadow
[SURREAL_MASS] glass honeycomb cliffs
[LIGHTING_MOOD] overcast golden hour
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