| | Hi, AI Enthusiast! | Today, we've got ChatGPT launching ads to free users, a humanoid robot sprinting faster than most people can run, and a dev who built 50 projects in two months and came out with scars. Plus Anthropic eyeing a $350B valuation, Notion leaking an agent platform, and a desktop robot that uses your phone as its brain. | First time reading? Over 2.7 million readers trust TAAFT. Join us here |
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| Breaking News | The Latest AI Developments | 📣 ChatGPT Launches Ads | OpenAI is rolling out ads in the US for Free and Go tier users. They say ads won’t influence answers and your chats stay private from advertisers. Targeting uses signals like topic and past interactions, but no ads for under-18s or near sensitive topics. The ad-supported AI era is officially here. | 🏥 AI in Surgery Is Getting Messy | Reuters investigated AI-enabled surgical systems and found concerning patterns. One device saw FDA reports jump from 7 to over 100 after an AI add-on, with lawsuits alleging injuries including punctured skulls and strokes. Companies dispute causality. The stakes here are very literal. | 💰 Anthropic Closes In on a $20B Round | Anthropic is reportedly raising $20 billion at a $350 billion valuation. Billion with a B. Demand pushed the round bigger than planned, with Nvidia and Microsoft said to be major backers. Frontier AI is now in the sovereign-scale financing era, because compute bills don’t shrink themselves. |
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| Coming in Hot | AI Tools of the Day | 🎨 Image Editor Online lets you edit photos using nothing but prompts so that you don’t have to learn more complex tools like Photoshop. 🎥 PDF to Video AI transforms PDFs into explainer videos with AI-generated animations and narration for learning, marketing, or social media. 💬 GlobalGPT gives you access to top AIs like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Midjourney, and more, all in one place. 📊 Arka lets you ask your data anything and get AI dashboards with insights from 100+ connected apps in minutes instead of days. 📁 AI Renamer analyzes and renames your files with meaningful filenames automatically, ending the chaos of random numbers and letters. 🧠 Fabric stores everything you save and uses AI to find it quickly when you describe what you’re looking for, no folders or tags needed. 🤖 Apollo connects you to every open-source AI model or your own locally-hosted LLMs from one mobile app that keeps your data private. ⚡ Kilo Code lets you run AI coding agents across VS Code, JetBrains, CLI, and mobile with context that syncs automatically.
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| Today’s Spotlight | | Your open-source model works in the lab. Production is a different story. | Latency spikes, unpredictable costs, and infrastructure gaps show up fast once real users hit your endpoints. Nebius Token Factory gives you managed inference built for production workloads with: | Predictable latency and costs, even at scale. No surprises when traffic ramps up. Smart routing and optimization built into the stack. Models run faster without extra engineering work. Production-grade systems from day one. Skip the infrastructure wrangling.
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| | Interesting AI | | LOOI Robot is a desktop robot that uses your phone as the face and the brain. | That's the clever part. You buy the body, then drop in whatever smartphone you already have. Your robot upgrades every time you upgrade your phone. | It's pitched as a personality-forward companion with gestures and a "bionic behavior system," powered by ChatGPT. This is the kind of consumer robotics wedge that scale, because it doesn't ask you to pay for a full computer twice. | |
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| Notable AIs | Notable AI Tools | 💬 Hugo AI is a multi-channel customer support agent that connects to your CRM and knowledge base and handles complex conversations. | 🏈 Base44 turns plain English into full working apps with AI handling the interface, database, login, and hosting. They’re giving away $50,000 for the best apps, and submissions close tonight at 11:59pm PT. |
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| AI Finds | Beyond the Feed | 🏢 AI Will Make SaaS Irrelevant | Databrick’s CEO: SaaS isn’t dead, but the UI moat is. When the interface becomes natural language, winners look like data plus workflows. The $5.4B revenue run rate he mentioned is also interesting. | 🧩 Notion Is Building Agents 2.0 | A new leak says Notion is adding Workers, script execution, and GitHub connectors. If real, they’re quietly turning into an automation runtime. | 🏃 A Humanoid Robot Hits 22 mph | Walking demos are boring now. A humanoid called Bolt reportedly hit 22 mph, way past the old 9 mph record. When these robots get faster, the safety conversation will change overnight. | 🎬 ByteDance Just Leveled Up Again | Seedance 2.0 is here, and people are already comparing it to Sora and Veo. The watermark-free angle is the part to watch. | 💻 50 Projects in 2 Months (What Broke) | A dev went all-in on coding agents and came out with lessons. The brutal truth: agents sprint through 90%, then you pay the bill in the last 10. Also, burnout is real when you can build anything. |
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| Prompt of the Day | Voice and Style Developer | Important Note: You’ll need to click the button to get the complete prompt. | | If you’d rather view this prompt in Notion, click here. | This prompt helps you find, refine, and strengthen your unique writing voice. The system analyzes your existing writing to identify your natural tendencies, helps you understand what makes a voice distinctive, and provides exercises for developing your authentic style. |
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| And with that, today's newsletter comes to a close! As the week picks up steam, we hope these AI insights fuel your creativity. Reply and let us know what caught your eye. Don't forget to share your favorite finds with friends, family, and colleagues! 🦾 | | For the latest AI scoops, follow us on X, LinkedIn, and YouTube. | | Signing off, | — There’s An AI For That |
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