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GM! It’s Brett again. Had a life-changing moment last week.

Was at a restaurant and decided to ask the servers and waitstaff their names and say them out loud when I interacted with them - "Thanks Anna!" "What do you recommend, AC?"

It sounds small, but something shifted. Every time I said someone's name, I felt more alive. Turns out, giving love to others is the fastest way to feel it yourself. And remembering/saying people's names is the easiest way to give love.

🏠 AI

The Agent

OpenAI dropped their boldest feature yet - ChatGPT Agent, a general-purpose AI assistant that can actually execute digital tasks for you.

It’s the kind of thing half of AI Twitter was trying to raise money for - and OpenAI just shipped it as a feature.

The pitch: ChatGPT can now make your slide decks, manage your calendar, run terminal commands, and even shop online autonomously.

Early reviews say it's smart but sluggish - the agent spent almost an hour searching Etsy for lamps, ultimately failing to add items to the cart properly. Plus, despite OpenAI touting shopping capabilities, ChatGPT can’t actually complete transactions on your behalf. It just guides you through checkouts like a patient, but powerless intern.

Still, it crushes benchmarks. It scored 41.6 on Humanity’s Last Exam (double previous models) and hit 27.4% on FrontierMath (the toughest math test around), massively outperforming earlier versions.

But more power equals more risks. OpenAI now classifies this model as having "high biological and chemical capability," implementing stringent safeguards like real-time monitoring, disabled memory (to prevent prompt injection attacks), and active refusal of sensitive tasks like financial transactions or anything sketchy.

The big picture - ChatGPT Agent is a leap toward truly autonomous AI, but practical use still feels beta, which is expected. With AI browsers coming in, expect rapid iterations - and loads of improvements toward autonomous AI.

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🤝 THE LATEST IN…

TECH

• Dorsey’s 2nd new app in a week uses your iPhone to track vitamin D.

• OpenAI launched Bio Bug Bounty for ChatGPT agent.

• MIT engineers designed an interface, allows users to teach robots new skills.

• Perplexity in talks with phone makers to pre-install Comet.

AI

• Perplexity partnered with Airtel, India’s second-largest telecom operator, to offer all 360M subscribers a free 12-month Perplexity Pro.

• Netflix starts using GenAI in its shows and films.

• Reflection AI launched Asimov: an agent for code comprehension.

• After launching raunchy AI companion, xAI to launch a kid-friendly “Baby Grok.”

• Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code - without telling users.

SCIENCE

• Google’s using 2B Android phones to detect earthquakes worldwide.

• Erythritol, a popular sugar substitute linked to brain cell damage & stroke risk.

• One pregnancy shot slashes baby RSV hospitalizations by 72%.

• Cancer DNA is detectable in blood years before diagnosis.

CRYPTO

• Brahma taps Euler Finance for decentralized lending.

• Jack Dorsey's Bitcoin-centric Block Inc to join S&P 500.

• China-based Conflux blockchain plans offshore yuan stablecoin, 3.0 upgrade in August.

🏃‍♀️ QUICKIES

Raise, Mergers & Acquisitions: 

• Unify has raised $40M in Series B funding led by Battery, with backing from OpenAI, Thrive, Emergence, and others.

• Bedrock Robotics emerged from stealth with $80M in seed and Series A funding to build autonomous systems for the $13T global construction industry.

• Lovable becomes a unicorn with $200M Series A just 8 months after launch.

Stat: 10 million. That’s the number of Facebook accounts deleted in 2025 as Meta cracks down on impersonators and fake profiles.

Rabbit Hole: Hidden technical debt in AI (Tomasz Tunguz)

🛠️ FOUNDERS CORNER

The best resources we recently came across that will help you become a better founder, builder, or investor.

💥 Nia is an MCP server that gives 10X context to coding agents.

😱 Persuading AI to comply with objectionable requests
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🎯 Context Rot - How increasing input tokens impacts LLM performance

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🚨 AI’s real limit isn’t chips - it’s electricity ~ Eric Schmidt
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🚀 How this L’Oréal-owned brand built a $2B brand by blending education & entertainment.

🔥 Monday Motivation: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code

🎯 THE 80 / 20

Simple tricks to get a ton of value with minimal effort for work and life.

Clone Your Context

If you work with an EA (or plan to), here’s the real unlock - have them join as many recurring meetings as possible. Not just for note-taking. But so they absorb how you think, how you prioritize, and how you communicate.

Once they get context, they can triage your inbox, respond to routine stuff like scheduling or biz dev emails, and escalate only what matters. That’s hours saved - daily.

Even better, they’ll start spotting team wins, morale dips, and small fires before you do.

You’re not hiring a task robot. You’re building a second brain. Feed it inputs to learn. Then trust it to run on its own.

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❓️ AI GENERATED OR NOT

Last week’s answer: If you guessed AI-generated… you were right.

🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️⬜️ Yeah (~71%)

🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Nope (~29%)

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