OpenAI's plan for the Intelligence Age

Welcome back, Superhuman. Sam Altman believes superintelligence (when it arrives) will reshape society enough to demand a new social contract. His ideas: A 4-day workweek, a public wealth fund, universal access to AI tools, and much more.

Today: Learn about OpenAI’s suggested policy ideas, how to add AI agents to your calls with Pika Labs, and get the latest prompts and trending social posts.

TODAY IN AI

1. OpenAI publishes new policy ideas as society nears the Intelligence Age: OpenAI’s paper suggests new policy ideas that address three main goals: distributing AI’s abundance, creating safeguards to reduce risk, and ensuring widespread access to AI capabilities. Specific ideas range from a 4-day workweek to portable benefits that follow workers between jobs. Read all of OpenAI’s new policy ideas here.

2. Meta plans to open source its next AI models: Meta is reportedly preparing to release its first models built under new Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang, with plans to drop open-source versions down the line. It will be the first real test of Meta's AI capabilities since spending $14.3B for a 49% stake in Scale AI and building out its superintelligence team.

3. OpenAI and Anthropic are growing revenue fast, but burning cash faster: A new WSJ report shows that both OpenAI and Anthropic are facing rising costs from training new AI models. OpenAI expects to burn a total of $85B in 2028 before reaching profitability in 2030, while Anthropic projects 2026 as its biggest loss year, with profitability expected by 2029.

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FROM THE FRONTIER

CEOs are stepping aside rather than lead through the AI-transformation era

Three exits. In a single quarter, the CEOs of Walmart, Coca-Cola, and Adobe have all announced they're stepping down — each citing AI as a key reason. It's an early signal of just how profoundly AI is set to reshape industries in the years ahead.

In their own words. Adobe's Shantanu Narayen was the most direct, framing his exit around how "the next era of creativity is being written right now — shaped by AI." Walmart's Doug McMillon told staff he wanted to hand the role to someone "faster" as the company moves into agentic commerce. Coca-Cola's James Quincey said it was "time to put someone else on the field for the next wave of growth." The same admission — echoed across three very different industries.

What this means. One read? These announcements could just be convenient timing for seasoned C-suite executives eager to exercise stock options and step into comfortable retirements. Or, it could be a major signal that we’re entering a period of top-to-bottom restructuring across corporate America.

The opportunity. Brace for immense change over the next few months and years. AI is ushering in new roles that didn’t exist before, billion-dollar companies run by a single person, and, yes, the potential for mass layoffs too. Change is intimidating — but it also creates life's biggest opportunities.

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How to do live video calls with AI agents

• Go to Pika AI Self and create your living avatar.

• For other agents, you can download the Skill on GitHub here.

• Go to ‘Skills and Connections’ > ‘Real-time Video Chat’ > ‘Try Now’

• Now simply invite them to a Google Meet using a meeting link.

• Your Pika Self will join the call and carry on conversations with your personality and taste.

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PROMPT STATION

Extract Repeatable Strategies

Prompt: Act as a pattern extraction specialist trained in elite after-action reviews. Your goal is to reverse-engineer a business success into repeatable principles. Break the success into 3–5 phases, then identify the 2–4 key decisions in each phase that drove outcomes. For each decision, explain the conditions that made it work, whether it was deliberate or intuitive, and what would have happened if the opposite choice was made. Then separate situation-specific factors from recreatable ones. From the recreatable elements, distill 4–7 clear, actionable principles. Combine these into a Repeatable Success Protocol (step-by-step checklist). Stress-test it with 2–3 scenarios requiring adaptation. Avoid vague insights, luck-based explanations, or generic advice—focus only on causal, transferable mechanisms. Include 1–2 near-miss lessons.

Use this context:
Success: [describe]
Timeline: [key phases]
Team/Resources: [details]
Your Theory: [why it worked]
Differentiators: [what was different]

Typographic brand poster design

NanoBanana Prompt: [BRAND NAME]. Act as a World-Class Editorial Designer.

PHASE 1: DYNAMIC SUBJECT LOGIC.
- Subject Selection: Autonomously analyze [BRAND NAME].
- Layering (The Sandwich Effect): Interweave the subject with background shapes. Some parts of the car/person must be hidden behind geometric blocks, while other parts (wheels, limbs, props) must overlap them to create 3D depth.

PHASE 2: GRID & GEOMETRY.
- Layout: A clean 2x2 grid composition. 
- Overlays: Superimpose large, bold geometric arcs and circles over the grid. 
- Visual Balance: Place one iconic product prop (e.g., a floating key fob for cars or a ball for sports) in a separate quadrant to balance the subject.

PHASE 3: SOPHISTICATED MUTED PALETTE.
- Color Direction: DO NOT use aggressive neon or oversaturated colors.
- Palette: Identify the core colors of [BRAND NAME] and shift them to a "Sophisticated Muted" spectrum. 
- Tones: Use desaturated, earthy, or "dusty" versions of the brand colors (e.g., instead of hot pink, use dusty rose; instead of bright mint, use sage green; instead of royal blue, use slate blue). 
- Finish: Matte, flat color blocks with zero gradients.

PHASE 4: PHOTOGRAPHY & LIGHTING.
- Subject Style: High-end commercial studio photography.
- Lighting: Soft, diffused studio lighting with gentle highlights. No harsh shadows.
- Integration: The subject must feel physically embedded into the graphic grid.

PHASE 5: MINIMALIST BRANDING.
- Logo: Place a clean, single-color [BRAND NAME] logo in the center of one background block. No taglines, just the iconic symbol.

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