OpenAI has launched a major hiring offensive focused on Apple's hardware teams, according to The Information, while also forging production partnerships with iPhone manufacturers for its upcoming AI device portfolio.

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OpenAI’s hardware ambitions are being shaped by former Apple designer Jony Ive, and it sounds like both talent acquisition and manufacturing are coming from the old Apple playbook. With the secrecy and hype around the upcoming devices, the eventual release will be one of the most anticipated product launches in recent memory.

Mississippi poet Talisha Jones secured a multimillion-dollar contract for her AI-generated R&B persona Xania Monet, coming on the heels of the artist’s music debuting on Billboard’s charts and racking up 10M streams in the U.S. last week.

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We’re at a strange inflection point in AI and music, where the tech’s use is both controversial and still being identified. The latest music generation models have already reached quality levels imperceptible from professional tracks – meaning there’s likely already a flow of AI music blending into the streaming scene.

Research from NYU has found that frontier models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic can now pass all three levels of the CFA (chartered financial analyst) exam, including difficult Level III essay questions that eluded them two years ago.

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The leap from failing essay sections two years ago shows the huge shift in analytical capabilities, with reasoning models perfectly suited for the complex thinking process. With AI’s rise, human aspects like client relationships and contextual judgment will become bigger factors than research reports and investment rationales.

OpenAI just launched ‘ChatGPT Pulse’, a new preview feature that proactively generates personalized morning briefings while users sleep, initially available exclusively for Pro ($200/mo) subscribers.

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OpenAI’s personalization movement has been in the works for a while, but this feels like a new step forward — with ‘Pulse’ rolling many of the platform’s top traits like productivity, news, connectors, and life insights unique to each user into a curated morning roundup built for the proactive, agentic era of AI assistants.

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🍌 A GitHub library that has collected 90+ useful prompts for Nano Banana

⏱️ A user shared their ChatGPT cheatsheet with prompts that save them “over 8 hours a week.”

Prompt: "I am planning to launch the following strategy/project: [insert strategy/project outline]. Before I move forward, I want you to play the role of a critical thinking partner and run a pre-mortem. Imagine that the strategy has failed six months down the road. Walk me through what went wrong, considering potential risks, resource misalignments, timing issues, dependencies, and team coordination problems. Focus on identifying the most likely causes of failure from all possible angles (execution, market, internal operations, etc.). What key areas of risk should I be looking out for and addressing right now? Suggest preventive measures I can take or things I might have overlooked. Break down the specific steps that, if overlooked, could derail the project and how I can avoid them. Please be as detailed as possible, giving me specific examples and possible scenarios.”

Prompt: "You are a skilled data analyst. I will provide you with a dataset [describe the format: CSV, Excel, JSON, etc.]. Your job is to: Understand the data – summarize the key columns, data types, and what the dataset seems to represent. Analyze trends – identify patterns, correlations, or anomalies. Provide summary statistics (mean, median, max, min, etc.) where relevant. Visualize insights – suggest (or generate, if possible) appropriate charts or graphs (e.g., bar chart, histogram, scatter plot, line chart) to best illustrate the findings. Explain simply – communicate results in clear, plain language, as if explaining to a non-technical audience. Dataset: [Paste or describe your dataset here].”

Prompt: “A highly stylized 3D caricature of [enter name], with an oversized head, expressive facial features, and playful exaggeration. Rendered in a smooth, polished style with clean materials and soft ambient lighting. Minimal background to emphasize the character’s charm and presence”.

Prompt: “Create a stylish poster [2:3] aspect ratio featuring a miniature 3D model of [city], showcasing its key landmarks, bursting through a torn, horizontally laid-out physical world map, seamlessly integrated into the design. A white, sleek 3D rendering of the city’s name ‘[city]’, blends organically into the urban landscape. Use a dynamic camera angle and dramatic perspective for depth, with natural yet vibrant colors. Employ studio lighting for sharp, high-detail contrast, set against a clean white background. The image should resemble a professional DSLR photograph—crisp, high-resolution, and visually striking, merging realism with artistic flair”.

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