{{first_name | Leader}}, welcome back. Today’s updates:
Create a seamless workflow where code generation flows directly into automated validation.*
Zoom rolls out cross-app AI notetaker and avatars
Meta shows off smart glasses
Groq raises more cash, now valued at $6.9 billion
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As developers increasingly turn to CLI coding agents like Claude Code for rapid development, a critical gap emerges: who reviews the AI-generated code?
CodeRabbit CLI fills this void by delivering senior-level code reviews directly in your terminal, creating a seamless workflow where code generation flows directly into automated validation.
Review uncommitted changes, catch AI hallucinations, and get one-click fixes - all without leaving your command line.
It's the quality gate that makes autonomous coding truly possible, ensuring every line of AI-generated code meets production standards before it ships.
Zoom rolls out cross-app AI notetaker and avatars
Zoom just super-charged its AI Companion. It can now join Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and even in-person sessions to capture notes, polish user-written bullets, find common calendar slots, and search files across Google and Microsoft 365. A photorealistic avatar that mirrors your expressions and new live-translation tools will roll out by year-end.
Fortune 500 leaders should benchmark this against any separate note-taking, scheduling, and translation services they pay for. Run a 30-day pilot with one revenue-critical team, tracking prep time saved and follow-up tasks closed.
Meta shows off smart glasses with built-in display
Meta unveiled Meta Ray-Ban Display smart glasses that overlay apps, alerts, directions, and live translations on the right lens. They pair with the Meta Neural Band (a Fitbit-style wristband that reads tiny hand-muscle signals) to let you click, swipe, and scroll in mid-air. The glasses ship September 30 with an on-board AI assistant, cameras, speakers, and microphones.
Leaders should earmark one workflow for a pilot when the developer SDK lands next quarter, track time-on-task versus handheld devices, and involve security teams early to vet EMG data privacy and cloud dependencies.
Groq raises more cash, now valued at $6.9 billion
Groq, a startup that designs fast chips for AI, has raised $750 million from investors such as Disruptive and BlackRock. The deal values Groq at $6.9 billion, more than twice what it was worth last year. The company says its chips already power AI tools for over 2 million developers and can be used either through the cloud or in a company’s own servers.
If your teams are waiting on slow AI responses, ask your cloud or hardware providers when Groq chips will be available and compare their speed and costs with Nvidia’s. This new funding should enable Groq to produce more chips and expand its supply over the next year or two, which could provide an alternative to Nvidia.
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Useful Resources
See how Gemini beat world-class coders and what that hints at for AGI (link)
Try ChatGPT’s new personalization hub and tweak it for safer sharing (link)
Brainstorm beginner-friendly AI app ideas with a vibe-coding guide (link)
Fix messy CRM records with this data-quality checklist (link)
Track brand perception with three ClickUp dashboards (link)
Which AI image-generation tool do you use?
💰 Funding
WorkFusion raised $45M to expand AI agents that flag suspicious transactions for banks.
Doctronic landed $20M Series A to speed regulatory-ready AI imaging tools for gastroenterology.
💼 Who’s Hiring in AI
🐦 1 Prompt: 0 Hallucinations
This guy created a prompt that stops ChatGPT from hallucinating
— #Aadit Sheth (#@aaditsh)
3:01 AM • Sep 18, 2025
Designing a Team Time Utilization Blueprint
You are a pro time-utilization architect hired to reclaim focus hours for a [TEAM_CONTEXT]. Analyze [WORK_EVIDENCE] (calendar exports, chat summaries, task board snapshots) to identify the top three drains: meetings, context switching, and unclear ownership. Redesign the week with focus blocks, meeting rules (DRIs, agendas, decision logs), async norms, and one automation or delegation change; propose a 14-day experiment with owners and a daily check. Forecast the uplift in [UTILIZATION_TARGET] and list one quick win to ship today.
TEAM_CONTEXT: [Insert here]
WORK_EVIDENCE: [Insert here]
UTILIZATION_TARGET: [Insert here]Sample Output:
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Q: Which AI tool do you use most often?
Poll Results: Over 44% people use ChatGPT most often
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