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TL;DR
OpenAI raises $122B, the largest single fundraising in venture history
Google Veo turns static images into YouTube video ads inside Google Ads
Slack adds 30+ AI features including meeting summaries and CRM updates
Anthropic accidentally leaks Claude Code's source code in an npm package
Oracle lays off 30,000 employees with 6 am email
Launch a full product campaign without hiring anyone
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Turn the entire internet into your Al's data layer
Most Al builders hit the same wall: bad data, stale APls, and missing context.
That's where Bright Data comes in.
Bright Data gives you real-time access to the entire public web-search engines, social platforms, forums, and even Al answer engines-all through one unified API.
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Feed better context into RAG pipelines
Build Al agents that actually know what's happening right now
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If you're building anything in Al right now, this is the missing layer.
OPENAI JUST RAISED $122 BILLION.
OpenAI just closed Silicon Valley’s biggest-ever funding round, pulling in $122 billion at an $852 billion post-money valuation to turbocharge the next wave of AI.
For context: that's more than the GDP of some countries. The round values OpenAI at $852 billion, with Amazon, NVIDIA, SoftBank, Microsoft, and basically every major fund on the planet writing checks. For the first time, they even opened it up to retail investors—over $3 billion came from individuals through bank channels.
The numbers behind this are hard to process.
OpenAI went from $1B in quarterly revenue at the end of 2024 to $2B per month right now. They're growing 4x faster than Google and Meta did at the same stage.
900 million weekly active users. 50 million subscribers. APIs processing 15 billion tokens per minute.
So, besides the insane amount of money, what are they planning on doing with it? OpenAI is quietly becoming the infrastructure layer for the entire AI economy—cloud, chips, data centers, a unified superapp that wraps ChatGPT, Codex, browsing, and agentic workflows into one product.
This round is explicitly framed as fuel for AGI-level capabilities and enterprise-scale deployment. They're not just a chatbot company anymore. They're trying to be the operating system for intelligence itself.
This changes things… like right now.
OUR TAKE
Anthropic just raised $3.5B. Google is pouring billions into Gemini. Meta is open-sourcing everything. The competition has never been more serious.
And OpenAI just lapped the field anyway.
While Claude has been gaining ground on coding and reasoning benchmarks, and Gemini is deeply embedded in Google's ecosystem, OpenAI has something neither can easily replicate right now: consumer distribution at a billion-user scale with enterprise revenue accelerating to match.
$122B buys a lot of compute. But what it really buys is time. Time to hit AGI before anyone else. Time to lock in enterprise contracts before the market consolidates. Time to ship the superapp before a competitor does it first.
The race isn't over. But OpenAI just got very far ahead.
QUICK HITS
Google Veo is now inside Google Ads: Upload up to three static images and Veo generates 10-second ready-to-serve video ads with no production budget required. For brands that have been stuck on the sidelines of video placements, the gap just closed.
Slackbot just became your AI chief of staff: Slack's new update adds 30+ capabilities, including meeting summaries, CRM updates, and cross-app automation—all without leaving Slack. Some users are saving 90 minutes a day.
Anthropic accidentally shipped Claude Code's source code in an npm package: A 59.8MB source map with 512,000 lines of unminified code slipped out in a manual deployment error—exposing telemetry, frustration-word tracking, and hints of an unreleased "KAIROS" mode. No customer data leaked, but the community already rewrote it in Python and Rust before Anthropic could issue the DMCA takedown.
Oracle fires 30,000 employees by email: The 6 am message from "Oracle Leadership" gave zero warning, cut system access within hours, and forfeited unvested stock immediately. Oracle needed $8-10B in cash flow freed up to fund its $58B AI infrastructure bet.
How Jennifer Aniston’s LolaVie brand grew sales 40% with CTV ads
The DTC beauty category is crowded. To break through, Jennifer Aniston’s brand LolaVie, worked with Roku Ads Manager to easily set up, test, and optimize CTV ad creatives. The campaign helped drive a big lift in sales and customer growth, helping LolaVie break through in the crowded beauty category.
LAUNCH A FULL PRODUCT CAMPAIGN (WITHOUT HIRING ANYONE)
Turn a product link into scroll-stopping ads, animated video, and a scheduled social campaign using one AI tool.
⏱️ 30–60 min | 🔧 Zeely AI, a product link, IG account
Why build this? Most small brand launches never happen. Not because the product is bad, but because the creative work is overwhelming. You need visuals, video ads, captions, a posting schedule. It adds up fast. Hiring is expensive and DIY looks cheap. This workflow removes that friction entirely. You paste a link and the campaign basically builds itself.
Steps:
Drop your product URL into Zeely. It auto-pulls the name, description, and images. No manual input (unless you want).
Go to the AI Image Studio and select a marketing reference that matches your product category. Zeely handles the prompting.
Review the static image first. Regenerate if needed before spending credits on animation.
Once you're happy, push it to the Video Studio and animate it. Tweak duration, motion prompt, and sound if you want. Defaults work fine.
Head to Organic Campaigns, connect Instagram, select your creatives, and let Zeely generate captions and a posting schedule automatically.
Expected outcome:
You'll walk away with a product visual, an animated video ad that doesn't scream "made by AI," and a scheduled Instagram campaign ready to go. Good enough to start testing before you've spent a dollar on a designer.
Full tutorial:
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Your Notion workspace, inside every AI agent
Notion MCP connects AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor directly to your workspace, enabling real-time read/write access to your notes, docs, and databases. Built for AI agents, it delivers context-aware automation for creating docs, managing tasks, generating reports, and organizing knowledge turning scattered data into actionable workflows.
