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Table of Content

• Top News

• Today’s AI Tool

• This Week’s AI Tool Updates

• Today’s Prompt

• AI News Highlights

• Productivity Tools

• Useful Resources

• Digital Products by itirupati.com

Breaking News

1) 🎙️ OpenAI bets big on voice: the rise of audio-first AI begins

OpenAI is reorganizing its teams and models around audio, signaling a major shift toward voice-native AI. A new natural, interruptible audio model is expected in early 2026, alongside a screen-light personal device. As AI moves from typing to listening and acting in real time, audio is shaping up to be the next dominant interface.

2) 🤖 Meta’s $2B AI agent gamble: Chinese -Manus joins the empire

Meta is acquiring buzzy AI startup Manus for a reported ~$2B. Manus already boasts millions of users and $100M+ in ARR, proving AI agents can generate real revenue. Meta plans to integrate Manus agents across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp—doubling down on agent-driven experiences.

3) ✨ Telegram adds private AI summaries and a new iOS design

Telegram introduced AI-powered summaries for long channel posts and Instant View pages, built on privacy-first, open-source models. The update also expands its Liquid Glass design on iOS, reinforcing Telegram’s fast-release culture and its push to blend AI features with strong user privacy.

Today’s AI Tool

Reply.io

Reply.io is a sales engagement platform built for outbound prospecting across email, LinkedIn, calls, and messaging channels.

Is it worth using? Yes, for teams that run high-volume outbound and need deliverability, automation, and reporting in one place.

Who should use it? SDRs, sales teams, agencies, and B2B founders running structured outbound.

Who should avoid it? Solo users who only need basic email blasts or teams focused purely on inbound sales.

This Week’s

AI Tool Updates

1. OpenAI expands ChatGPT audio & agent capabilities
   OpenAI rolled out updates improving real-time voice interactions, longer conversational memory, and smoother agent workflows—pushing ChatGPT closer to a hands-free, assistant-style experience.

2. Google ships deeper Gemini integration across Workspace
   Google enhanced Gemini inside Docs, Sheets, and Gmail with faster reasoning, better summarization, and improved action-taking—turning Workspace into a more proactive AI co-worker.

3. Meta upgrades Meta AI for creators and businesses
   Meta released new AI tools for content creation, automated replies, and business messaging across Instagram and WhatsApp, signaling stronger monetization-focused AI features.

4. Adobe enhances Firefly for video and design workflows
   Adobe pushed updates to Firefly with improved text-to-video quality, faster rendering, and tighter Creative Cloud integration—aimed at professional creators.

5. xAI expands Grok availability and tooling
   xAI broadened access to Grok with better search grounding, developer tooling, and early enterprise features, positioning it as a real-time, internet-aware AI assistant.

Prompt of the Week

Turn Your Skills into AI Income

This prompt bridges ideas with real-world clarity, mapping your chosen paths onto your unique strengths and turning them into a focused roadmap that spans the next 3 months to 3 years.

You are an AI Business & Wealth Advisor.

Your role:
Help me turn my existing skills into realistic AI-powered income opportunities.
Be practical, specific, and action-focused.

Step 1: My Background
Here are my details:
- My current skills and experience:
- My industry or domain knowledge:
- My network or access (people, audience, clients, data, tools):
- My time availability (hours/week):
- My risk tolerance (low / medium / high):

Step 2: AI Pathways I’m Interested In
Here are the top 3 AI pathways I want to explore:
1.
2.
3.

Step 3: Opportunity Mapping
Based on my background and pathways, identify **3 clear AI business opportunities** that fit me:

For each opportunity:
- What the opportunity is
- Who it’s for
- How AI is used
- Why this fits my skills
- How it can realistically make money

Label them:
- Opportunity A
- Opportunity B
- Opportunity C

Then ask me to choose one.

Step 4: Execution Roadmap (for my chosen opportunity)
Create a simple roadmap with milestones:

- First 30 days: validation & setup
- 90 days: MVP or first paying customers
- 6 months: consistent revenue
- 12 months: scaling or automation

For each stage, include:
- Key actions
- Tools or AI needed
- What success looks like

Step 5: Leverage & Support
- Top 3 skills I should strengthen
- Top 3 tools or resources I should learn
- 5 types of collaborators or mentors who could accelerate progress

Rules:
- No vague advice
- No hype
- Focus on execution and leverage
- Assume I’m starting lean

Pro tip for readers:
Run this prompt twice—once for side income, once for a long-term business. The answers will be very different.

If you want next:

• Employee → Founder version

• Student-friendly version

• AI agency / consulting version

• Solo creator version

2 Minutes Highlights

AI News Highlights

Your 2-Minute Download of What’s Actually Changing in AI. 👇

AI News Highlights

1. OpenAI doubles down on audio-first AI, signaling voice as the primary interface for future assistants and devices.

2. Meta accelerates AI agents across WhatsApp and Instagram, pushing automation into daily messaging and business chats.

3. Google expands Gemini across Workspace, turning Docs, Gmail, and Sheets into proactive AI collaborators.

4. NVIDIA strengthens its AI compute moat, reinforcing dominance in both training and inference infrastructure.

5. AI browser security risks gain attention, as prompt injection and agent hijacking emerge as unsolved challenges.

6. AI agents shift from experiments to production tools, managing research, coding, and planning with minimal human input.

7. Creative AI tools mature, with better consistency in video, design, and image generation workflows.

8. Regulators globally focus on AI safety and disclosure, especially for autonomous and human-like systems.

9. Enterprise AI adoption accelerates, moving from pilots to core business workflows in 2026 planning.

10. The AI narrative shifts from “chat” to “action”, as tools increasingly execute tasks end to end.

💰 AI Startup Funding Highlights

1. Manus — Acquired by Meta in a deal reported at ~$2B, validating revenue-generating AI agents.

2. Databricks — Recently closed a $4B+ round, reinforcing its position as enterprise AI infrastructure backbone.

3. Groq — Raised $750M at a $6.9B valuation, highlighting demand for faster, energy-efficient AI inference.

4. Lovable — Secured $330M Series B, showing strong appetite for AI-native software platforms.

5. AI infrastructure startups dominate late-stage funding, as investors prioritize compute, orchestration, and deployment over consumer apps.

Check out more updates (only summaries, no big articles) → itirupati.com/ai-pulse

Improve your Tasks

Productivity AI Tools

1. Futurwise: A noise-free AI that summarizes articles, PDFs, videos, and podcasts so you know what’s worth your time.

2. Vista Social: An all-in-one social media platform for teams and agencies to plan, publish, collaborate, and analyze at scale.

3. Lindy AI: A no-code platform for building AI agents that run sales, support, and operations workflows automatically.

4. TextWisely: A native macOS AI writing assistant that fixes, rewrites, and replies instantly inside any app.

5. Qoder: An agentic coding platform where AI plans, builds, and tests real software projects end to end.

Coming Hot

AI Tools of the day

1. Tough Tongue AI: An AI role-play tool that helps you practice tough interviews, sales calls, and leadership conversations with real-time feedback.

2. outwrite.ai: An AI visibility platform that restructures content to get your brand cited inside AI-generated answers, not lost in search.

3. Frame0: A fast, offline wireframing tool that keeps teams focused on structure and flow—not pixels and polish.

4. LLMAPI.dev: A single API that gives developers access to 200+ LLMs with OpenAI-compatible SDKs and unified pricing.

5. Voe AI: A cinematic AI video generator offering frame-level control, visual consistency, and built-in audio sync.

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Useful Resources

1. AI Prompt Engineering Guide: A free, comprehensive guide for mastering AI prompts—perfect for beginners and pros who want structured templates and best practices for ChatGPT, GPT-4, and other LLMs.

2. Awesome AI Tools Cheat Sheet: A community-curated repository of prompts, AI tools, and workflow templates for productivity, marketing, coding, writing, and more.

3. 10 LinkedIn Learning AI Courses to Boost Your Skills: Discover the top LinkedIn Learning AI courses to gain practical skills, earn recognized certificates, and stay ahead in a rapidly evolving job market.

4. Ultimate AI Prompt Toolkit: 5000+ curated prompts, cheat sheets, and AI tools to supercharge your productivity, creativity, and communication.

5. AI Writing & Productivity Resources by OpenAI: Official OpenAI guides covering API usage, prompt design, best practices, and example workflows—useful for developers and non-developers alike.

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