Big Tech kicks off earnings season

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Today: Big Tech’s big earnings week, learn how to transform customer problems into strategic plans with AI, and get the latest prompts and trending social posts.

TODAY IN AI

1. Microsoft rolls out App Builder and Workflows in Copilot: App Builder lets you create and edit full-stack applications using simple conversational prompts — no coding knowledge required. Meanwhile, the new ‘Workflows’ feature automates routine tasks across the Copilot platform. The features come bundled with existing $30 monthly Copilot subscriptions. You can see them in action here.

2. Big Tech kicks off earnings season amid ‘AI bubble’ fears: Meta spooked investors after the company unveiled plans to "notably" ramp up AI spending through 2026, causing shares to plummet 8% and wiping out about $160B in market value. Microsoft dipped 3.6% — an Azure outage and slowing cloud growth dampened its report. Meanwhile, Alphabet rallied 6% after reporting its first-ever $100B quarterly revenue. The 'Magnificent 7' continue to have an outsized impact on the S&P 500.

3. Nvidia becomes the world's first $5T company: The chipmaker’s meteoric rise — responsible for nearly one-fifth of the S&P 500's gains this year alone — was further fueled by the prospect of potential 'Blackwell' chip exports to China, and CEO Jensen Huang's statements that next-gen chips are on track to generate half a trillion in revenue. If Nvidia were a country, here’s how its GDP would measure up.

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FROM THE FRONTIER

Companies are laying off thousands of workers. Is it really because of AI?

The AI layoffs are finally here — or so the headlines would have you believe.

In recent weeks, a wave of job cuts has swept through Silicon Valley. Amazon cut about 14,000 corporate jobs earlier this week. Chegg slashed its workforce by 45%, citing "new realities" posed by AI. Salesforce recently gutted about 4,000 customer service roles, with CEO Marc Benioff claiming AI agents are doing the work instead.

But experts aren’t buying it. "There is a real tendency to overreact to individual company announcements because everyone is so freaked out about AI," says Martha Gimbel from Yale's Budget Lab. Tech investor Chamath Palihapitiya believes that recent layoffs point to company-specific hiring practices and economic cycles. Oxford researcher Fabian Stephany backs this up.

Here’s what’s really going on: Yale’s Budget Lab has tracked market data since 2022 and notes that a lot of the companies cutting jobs today went on massive hiring sprees during the pandemic (when interest rates were near zero). Now that borrowing costs have surged, they’re trimming back — and AI makes for strong positioning.

The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle. Indeed’s AI at Work Report 2025 found that as of today, AI can only replace about 0.7% of nearly 3,000 job skills. What we’re seeing is likely a mix of real AI-led job displacement and convenient corporate messaging. It'll take years to untangle which is which.

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• Go to ChatAgency AI and click ‘Start a free trial’

• Log in with Google, LinkedIn, or your email

• From your Dashboard, select ‘Start With a Problem’

• Enter your industry and a description of the problem

Sample Prompt: You are a QuickBooks competitor with the following insight from user research. Industry: ‘FINANCE’, Problem: ‘QuickBooks users report the software is too complex for their needs’

• Click ‘Generate’ and review 3 strategic approaches

• Use the navigation to build deliverables: market research, personas, financial models, business requirements, and 15+ others

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IN THE KNOW

What’s trending on socials and headlines today

🤳 Reality Check: A Redditor asked ChatGPT to envision what society would look like if they were in charge, given their political views. The result was not what they expected.

🪝 Musk Bait: In a playful jibe at Elon Musk’s Grokipedia, Brian Roemmele claims to have bought the domain name Grokoogle.com. The price he wants to sell it for will probably surprise you.

📸 Selfie Game: Higgsfield AI just launched Instadump, a new AI tool that converts a single photo into a collection of 15 professional shots. The new tool is currently blowing up on X.

⚙️ Founder Factory: X user Deedy points out that a single computer science club from a remote, non-American high school has produced founders of eight $100M+ startups

Synthesia has picked up $200M in a massive funding round led by GV, nearly doubling the AI video generation startup’s valuation to $4B.

Legal AI startup Harvey has reportedly raised $150M in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, bringing the startup’s total valuation to $8B.

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PROMPT STATION

Make your writing seamless

Prompt: Your task is to improve the following text to create a seamless, engaging reading experience — while fully preserving its core message, tone, and intent.

Step 1: Enhance Flow and Readability
Apply the following flow-enhancement techniques naturally and selectively, only where they truly elevate the content:
Contrast: while, whereas, on the other hand
Reason: so, since, that’s why, therefore
Exception: but, however, alternatively
Example: like, such as, including
Detail: also, in addition, in other words

Guidelines:
Ensure every paragraph flows smoothly into the next
Strengthen logical transitions and narrative momentum
Build bridges between ideas for clarity and rhythm
Use the above connectors only when they serve the tone and context
Avoid overusing or forcing them — focus on natural readability

Step 2: Explain the Enhancements
After producing the improved version, analyze your changes using this format for each key edit:
Location/Section: [e.g., Introduction paragraph]
Before: “…”
After: “…”

Technique(s) Applied: [e.g., Contrast + Reason]
Why It Improves Flow: [brief explanation]

Text to Improve:
<TEXT>
[Your text here]
</TEXT>

Desk with a view

Midjourney Prompt: a photo of an artist working at their desk in the corner, overlooking buildings and busy streets below from inside their luxury apartment on manhattan street in new york city, surrounded by plants, art supplies, and books, with a large window showing traffic and tall skyscrapers outside. the view is wide-angle, capturing all three floors of the building visible through the glass windows. it's late afternoon, with warm lighting coming from within the room. --ar 85:128 --v 7

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