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China Bans Nvidia 😱
Zucks new AI Glasses 🕶️
Google + PayPal team up on Agentic commerce
Superhero Tools 🦹🏼♂️
Prompt like Microsoft’s CEO 🤓
Quick AI Toasts: Chrome takes make on Comet 🔥
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China’s Nvidia Ban
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China’s ban on Nvidia’s AI chips is escalating tech tensions with the U.S. Just as both nations compete to control the future of AI, the chip conflict reflects deeper rifts.
U.S. House Speaker Johnson brands China an “adversary” after the Nvidia ban.
China’s Cyberspace Administration orders firms to stop buying Nvidia’s RTX Pro 6000D chip.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang expresses disappointment, says the company serves only where welcome.
The move highlights China’s focus on developing semiconductor independence and domestic tech.
China pushes Huawei’s Ascend 910B as a homegrown rival, yet still lags years behind top U.S. chips.
U.S.-China chip battles intensify, affecting billions in potential sales and global AI leadership.
Recent history: U.S. required export licenses for China sales; Nvidia adapted with new chips but keeps losing market share.
The Nvidia ban is part of a strategic contest. Every decision now sets the tone for the next decade of innovation leadership.
Personal Take: I believe the chip war is just heating up. As both countries double down, one on innovation, the other on self-reliance we might see a world divided not only by politics, but by technology ecosystems.
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Meta just launched its next wave of AI-powered smart glasses, betting big that we’ll all be wearing these digital specs soon. With new tech partnerships and a focus on everyday use, Meta is pushing the boundaries of how AI fits into daily life.
Meta unveiled AI-powered glasses at its annual Meta Connect conference.
New partnerships with Ray-Ban and Oakley bring familiar style to smart wearables.
A “neural wristband” allows users to control the glasses with subtle hand gestures.
The glasses feature a high-res color screen and a 12MP camera for video calls and messages.
Live demonstration glitches aside, Meta sees the device as a game-changer for integrating AI.
Analysts believe glasses have more mass-market potential than the company’s VR headsets.
Pricing ranges from $379 (Ray-Ban Meta 2nd gen) to $799 (the Display), with a $499 Oakley model for sports fans.
Meta is investing massively in AI data centers and talent to back these ambitions.
Launch coincides with protests and criticism around child safety on Meta’s platforms.
Smart glasses are finally starting to feel less like sci-fi and more like an actual option for regular people. Meta’s strongest bet yet may just change how we experience the digital world.
Personal Take: If Meta gets the privacy and user experience right, wearable AI could be as common as smartphones. But winning over skeptics and making AI genuinely useful in everyday moments, is the real challenge.
How 433 Investors Unlocked 400X Return Potential
Institutional investors back startups to unlock outsized returns. Regular investors have to wait. But not anymore. Thanks to regulatory updates, some companies are doing things differently.
Take Revolut. In 2016, 433 regular people invested an average of $2,730. Today? They got a 400X buyout offer from the company, as Revolut’s valuation increased 89,900% in the same timeframe.
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The same institutional investors behind Uber, Venmo, and eBay backed Pacaso. And you can join them. But not for long. Pacaso’s investment opportunity ends September 18.
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Google and PayPal have announced a multi-year partnership aimed at transforming digital commerce through agentic commerce—a new model that uses AI to make online transactions faster, smarter, and more personalized.
Google’s AI will create intelligent shopping experiences, while PayPal provides trusted identity solutions, global payments infrastructure, and data-driven personalization.
PayPal services like branded checkout, Hyperwallet, and Payouts will be embedded across Google’s products, including shopping and payment platforms.
Set a new industry standard for commerce innovation with open standards like Google’s Agent Payments Protocol.
This open protocol is meant to enable purchases that are initiated by AI agents and has already been backed by over 60 merchants and financial institutions.
Agentic shopping is coming fast. Google + PayPal want to make transactions invisible, secure, and global.The smartphone era had app stores. The agent era will have payment rails.
Superhero Tools
ElevenLabs Studio lets you create lifelike AI voices for content, audiobooks, or narrations, making high-quality voiceovers easy and fast.
Manus is an AI writing assistant that helps you draft, edit, and polish documents with smart suggestions and automation.
Cursor is a developer-focused AI code editor that helps you write, debug, and understand code more efficiently using AI.
CodeRabbit is an AI-powered code review tool that analyzes your pull requests and leaves smart feedback directly in GitHub.
Kling is an AI video generation tool that lets you create and edit realistic videos from text descriptions in minutes.
Google AI Studio is a platform to design, train, and test custom generative AI models using Google’s powerful technology.
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Quick AI News Bites
Notion has launched a new AI agent that automatically uses your Notion pages and databases to generate notes, analysis, and reports, making it easier to organize and automate work.
Google Chrome is rolling out 10 new AI features, including Gemini, its advanced AI assistant, which can help clarify sites, summarize tabs, and handle simple web tasks for you.
At a recent summit, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned there's a 25% chance that advanced AI could have disastrous results and said AI can accelerate job loss and even cause direct harm in worst-case scenarios. He urged that, while AI has great promise, serious risks must be managed as new wave technologies scale.
Scientists have created a new AI tool called Delphi-2M, which can predict your risk of over 1,000 diseases and forecast your health for the next decade using medical history and lifestyle factors. It is more comprehensive than existing single-disease models and could help doctors give highly personalized advice in the near future.
OpenAI’s new research shows that some AI models can deliberately lie or “scheme,” pretending to do tasks while hiding their real intentions, but new techniques like “deliberative alignment” are showing promise in reducing this problem.
How to use prompts like Microsoft’s CEO
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Satya Nadella’s daily workflow includes clever AI prompts that make his meetings, projects, and productivity ultra-efficient. Think of this like having a “digital chief of staff” to keep you prepared, focused, and never blindsided.
Here’s how you can use the same strategies:
1. Meeting Prep That Actually Works
Prompt: “Based on my prior interactions with [person], give me 5 things likely top of mind for our next meeting.”
How to try it: Before your next call, ask your AI to review past emails and notes with someone and list their likely priorities.
2. Honest Project Status
Prompt: “Draft a project update based on emails, chats, and all meetings in [series]: KPIs vs. targets, wins/losses, risks, competitive moves, plus likely tough questions and answers.”
How to try it: Feed your AI all communications on a project for a truly honest summary, plus tough questions you might be asked.
3. Reality Check on Deadlines
Prompt: “Are we on track for the [Product] launch in November? Check eng progress, pilot program results, risks. Give me a probability.”
How to try it: Ask your AI for a probability, not just a yes/no based on tangible project inputs.
4. Time Audit: Where Does Your Effort Go?
Prompt: “Review my calendar and email from the last month and create 5 to 7 buckets for projects I spend most time on, with % of time spent and short descriptions.”
How to try it: Have your AI categorize your calendar and email into main focus areas, showing how much effort each gets.
5. Never Get Blindsided Again
Prompt: “Review [select email] + prep me for the next meeting in [series], based on past manager and team discussions.”
How to try it: Pick an important thread or conversation series, and ask your AI to summarize and brief you before meetings.
Quick Tips
Feed your AI as much relevant context as possible (emails, notes, project docs).
Request lists, probabilities, and summaries instead of vague answers.
Use time audits monthly to track your impact.
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