{{first_name | Leader}}, welcome back. Today’s updates:
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Perplexity launches AI-first web browser
OpenAI buys hardware startup for $6.5B
Microsoft touts $500M in AI savings
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NEWS UPDATES
Perplexity launches Comet, an AI-first web browser
Perplexity introduced Comet, a desktop and mobile browser that routes every search through the company’s answer engine, cites sources inline, and blocks ad trackers by default. Users can switch between “Answer” and “Explore” modes, pin research threads, and chat with PDFs without extensions.
For your team, Comet could trim hours spent toggling between Google, ChatGPT, and note apps. Pilot it with analysts or sales reps: if the built-in citations hold up, you might cut paid research tools and tighten data-privacy controls in one move.
OpenAI buys Jony Ive’s hardware startup for $6.5B
OpenAI closed a cash-and-stock deal to acquire Jony Ive’s stealth company, “LoveFrom Devices,” aiming to ship a purpose-built AI hardware line by 2026. Ive’s 80-person team will stay intact and work on voice-first terminals and wearables designed around GPT-5. The purchase adds industrial-design talent OpenAI lacked while deepening ties to Ive’s supply-chain partners in Asia.
Start mapping integration hooks for OpenAI’s on-device SDK now; preferred partners could gain early marketing slots when the hardware debuts.
Microsoft touts $500M in AI savings days after 9,000 layoffs
Internal memos reveal Microsoft offset half a billion dollars in cloud and ops costs by deploying Copilot and AutoGen agents across finance, legal, and HR. The announcement comes a week after the company cut 9,000 roles, many in overlapping functions. Leadership told managers to reinvest 20 percent of the savings in GPU capacity for new Copilot features.
Take note: the bar for AI ROI is now real cash savings, not pilot demos. Boards will ask how many head-hours your initiatives free up, and where to redeploy the dollars. Collect hard baselines before your next budget review.
BEST LINKS
Productivity Tools
🧑💻 Factory – Gives you autonomous Droids to code, fix incidents, and eliminate your engineering backlog.*
📆 Nuelink – Schedule and recycle social posts so your feeds stay active without manual work
📧 Seventh Sense – Send emails at each subscriber’s best-open time to lift engagement
🎥 Tavus – Record one video and automatically personalise it for every prospect by name
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Useful Resources
Master four core search types to sharpen Slack queries (link)
See how Rebrandly scaled support using Zapier’s AI tools (link)
Practice prompt engineering with this step-by-step guide (link)
Learn from Nvidia’s $4 T growth story and apply its playbook (link)
Create 8-second videos from a single image with Google Veo 3 (link)
STRATEGIC AI DECISION
Microsoft’s $500 M AI savings spotlight which board-level metric?
PS. You just read the answer in the news above :)
MARKET
💰 Funding
Sundial raised $23M to make data-driven decisions easier with AI dashboards.
Castellum AI secured $8.5M Series A to expand its AML and KYC agent platform.
💼 Who’s Hiring in AI
🐦 AI tool expenses cut!
This guy literally shows how to cut your AI tool expenses in 10 minutes
— #Aadit Sheth (#@aaditsh)
5:04 AM • Jul 9, 2025
PROMPT TUTORIAL
Designing a Business-Improvement Roadmap
You are a pro AI-strategy architect tasked with crafting a business-improvement roadmap. Pinpoint one pressing problem inside {KEY_AREA} and explain why solving it matters now. Tailor your plan to a {COMPANY_TYPE}, noting real-world constraints like budget, talent, and data maturity. Recommend a concrete AI solution, outline the first execution step, and quantify its effect on {SUCCESS_METRIC}.
Organization Type/Team: [Insert here]
Key Area: [Insert here]
Success Metric: [Insert here]
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