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GM! It’s Brett again. This is all you need to see to understand where AI is heading.

There’s a clear pattern - every new tech looks like what it replaces.

• Microsoft Word = a typewriter on your computer

• Google Docs = Microsoft word in a browser

Same thing is happening now.

People have a hard time imagining things they haven’t experienced. And they wouldn’t even know how to use something totally new.

So when designing AI products, it's super important to ensure that whatever you're building looks and feels like the thing it's replacing.

So the next Notion will look like Notion. The next Gmail will look like Gmail. And so on.

🏠 AI

AI browser war continues…

Last week, Microsoft joined the AI browser race, rolling out Copilot Mode in Edge, going head-to-head with Perplexity’s Comet, The Browser Company’s Dia, and Opera’s Neon.

Basically, it's a browser that gets you. Instead of juggling twenty tabs, Copilot lets you chat, search, and navigate in one neat interface. It can even peek across your tabs to give context-rich help - like comparing vacation rentals or tweaking recipes.

It's still experimental, opt-in only, and free. Microsoft promises you’re in control, but giving an AI the keys to your browsing history is bound to raise eyebrows.

The bottom line - Browsers are leveling up fast. AI, privacy, productivity, everything's in play. We’re watching the browser evolve from a static tool to an active collaborator. Chrome and Safari still lead on distribution, but the gap is closing. Expect a wave of agentic interfaces where your browser doesn’t just display the web.

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TECH

• India became the leading maker for smartphones sold in the US.

• Meta approached more than a dozen staffers at Mira Murati’s AI startup.

• Meta shares jump as AI fuels ad sales.

• Dating safety app Tea breached, exposing 72,000 user images.

• OpenAI launches Study Mode in ChatGPT.

AI

• OpenAI removed the discoverability checkbox & is now de-indexing previously shared links from search engines.

• Google rolls out Gemini Deep Think AI.

• xAI launches Grok Imagine - turns any text or image into a 15-sec video with native audio in seconds.

• Apple might be building its own ChatGPT like product.

SCIENCE

• Stanford medicine researchers built a team of virtual scientists to tackle real-world lab problems.

• Head and neck cancer, notoriously hard to treat, might have a new weakness - timing.

• mRNA vaccines for HIV trigger strong immune response in people.

• A quantum computer goes to space.

CRYPTO

• PancakeSwap maintains lead as largest DEX by spot volume in July.

• Lido lays off 15% of workforce.

• Ark Invest buys $30M in Coinbase shares.

• Bitcoin rebounds near $115,000.

🏃‍♀️ QUICKIES

Raise, Mergers & Acquisitions: 

• Anthropic in talks to raise fresh capital at $170B valuation.

• Amazon invests in 'Netflix of AI' startup Fable that lets you make your own shows.

• AI data analyst startup Julius raised $10M seed round.

• UC Berkeley dropouts raised $28M for their AI marketing automation startup.

Stat: 3 billion. That’s how many iPhones Apple has shipped since the first one launched in 2007, according to Tim Cook.

Rabbit Hole: AI is polytheistic, not monotheistic (Balaji)

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😳 Where to put demos in your prompt?
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🚀 Meta’s Personal Superintelligence vision.

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The Urgency Trap

Ever found yourself ignoring a $5,000 task just to reply to a “what’s for dinner?” text?

That’s not bad discipline. It’s just your brain being hijacked by urgency.

It’s called the Mere Urgency Effect. We’re wired to chase what feels time-sensitive even if it’s totally unimportant. That’s why fake deadlines and red buttons work so well in marketing.

So flip it.

Set fake deadlines for real work. Make your calendar send reminders with countdowns. Break big tasks into timed 30-min sprints.

The goal isn’t pressure. It’s momentum.

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❓️ AI GENERATED OR NOT

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

🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Yeah (~30%)

🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜️⬜️ Nope (~70%)

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