{{first_name | Leader}}, welcome back.
Today felt like a snapshot of where AI stands right now. Ambitious expansion, more personal tooling, and growing demand for boundaries.
These are today’s updates
Upgrade your existing tools with embedded AI*
SpaceX acquires xAI to build space-based compute
OpenAI launches Codex macOS agentic app
Firefox adds global toggle to block AI
Tools, resources, and a prompt to turn repetitive work into an automation. ⬇️
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SpaceX has acquired xAI, forming what’s now estimated to be the world’s most valuable private company at around $1.25 trillion. The merger brings xAI’s model development together with SpaceX’s launch and satellite infrastructure, with a long-term focus on building space-based data centers. Elon Musk has framed orbital computing as a way to bypass Earth-based limits around power, cooling, and land availability for AI.
OpenAI released a native Codex macOS app that supports parallel agentic coding, background task scheduling, and customizable agent personalities. Built on GPT-5.2-Codex, the app is designed for long-running development workflows and positions Codex as a direct alternative to tools like Claude Code. It allows developers to manage complex coding tasks without keeping everything inside a browser or IDE.
Mozilla is adding a “Block AI enhancements” toggle in Firefox that lets users disable all AI features or control them individually. The update applies to generative and assistant-style features embedded in the browser and reflects Mozilla’s emphasis on user choice and transparency as AI becomes more common in browsers.
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One Chart That Matters
Use of AI agents across industries
What is AI actually allowed to do in your organization today?
💰 Funding
Biorce raised $52.5M (Series A) to scale AI-driven drug discovery and biomedical research.
Day AI raised $20M (Series A) to expand its AI-powered productivity and workflow platform.
💼 Roles in AI
AI / Machine Learning Engineer, Intelligent Systems & Generative AI at Hudson Manpower (US)
Manager, Machine Learning Operations at Zefr (Remote)
🐦 LLMs Deep Dive
Turn This Repetitive Work Into an Automation
When to use this?
When you have a repeatable task and want AI to design the automation for you, step by step.
I’ll describe a recurring task we do manually.
Your job is to:
Break the task into clear steps
Identify which steps can be automated vs must stay human
Propose a simple automation flow using tools we likely already have
Specify inputs, outputs, and triggers
Give a first version we could set up in under a day
Keep it practical. No architecture diagrams.
Task description:
[paste the recurring task]P.S. Get more such prompts in the Prompting Playbook (free for you)
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Stay curious, {{first_name | leaders}}
PS. If you missed yesterday’s issue, you can find it here.