Oracle’s AI boom sends Ellison to the top

Welcome back, Superhuman. For a brief moment yesterday, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison was the richest man in the world. Ellison’s net worth grew by $101B (yes, billion with a b) in the first 40 minutes of trading after markets opened. Ellison settled into second spot behind Elon Musk by the end of the day, according to data from the Bloomberg Billionaire Index.

Also Today: Replit launches new app building agent, learn how to turn photos into 3D style visuals, and get the latest prompts, headlines, and trending social posts.

TODAY IN AI

1. Oracle stock surges on back of quarterly results: The company’s shares soared 36% on strong cloud demand and multibillion-dollar AI deals, including a reported $300bn, five-year contract with OpenAI. The spike pushed Larry Ellison’s net worth to $393bn, briefly overtaking Elon Musk as the richest person in the world at one point during the day. Oracle’s cloud business is booming, with CEO Safra Catz projecting 77% revenue growth this year to $18bn, and anticipating further expansion in the coming years.

2. Replit triples valuation to $3B, announces new Agent 3: The AI coding platform announced Agent 3, which can build apps autonomously for up to 200 minutes, testing and fixing code without manual intervention. Replit has reportedly grown from $10M to $150M in annualized revenue over the past year on the back of the vibe coding and text-to-app wave. The company also shared it has raised $250M in fresh funding at a $3B valuation.

3. Spotify veterans launch AI-powered learning platform: Nir Zicherman and Michael Mignano have launched Oboe, an AI app that creates personalized learning courses from simple prompts. Users can choose from nine formats, including university-style audio lectures or podcast-style conversations. A “complex, multi-agent architecture” lets AI agents build course structures, verify content, and pull real images from the web. The startup raised $4M in a seed round led by Eniac Ventures. See it in action here.

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FROM THE FRONTIER

How AI is changing how we build products | Ex-CPOs at Calendly and WP Engine

AI won’t replace product managers. It will transform how they work. “The job is not going away. The tasks… will change,” say Oji and Ezinne Udezue, who have led product teams at iconic startups like Typeform, Calendly, and WP Engine. While AI speeds up some tasks, human judgment remains essential for understanding customers and making strategic decisions.

Delivery is speeding up. Product management has three main pillars: discovery, delivery, and go-to-market. AI is supercharging delivery, producing code up to ten times faster. But the first and last pillars — customer insight and market strategy — still require human creativity.

Executives want AI — but judgment still matters. When leaders push for an AI strategy, the Udezues recommend starting with AI’s core powers: personalization, agentic actions, summarization, and new ways of handling data. These should be woven into workflows from the ground up. Yet even with these tools, human judgment remains critical to executing these product decisions.

Interfaces are evolving. Chatbots are popular now, but they aren’t the future. “If chat would have been the dominant interface, then DOS would have won,” Oji says. Instead, voice and adaptive interfaces are emerging, tailoring themselves to each user’s cognitive patterns for truly personalized experiences.

Roles will reappear, but in new ways. “The architects, the people who know the business, [will always be needed] to evolve the operations of the organization,” Ezzine says. With AI handling coding, design, and financial modeling, PMs now straddle boundaries once reserved for separate teams. The role isn’t disappearing — it’s expanding.

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THE AI ACADEMY

How to turn photos into 3D style visuals

• Go to EaseMate, log in, and click on Try Now.

• Select AI Image > 3D. Choose Nano Banana as your model.

• Upload your 2D photo and click on Generate.

• Wait for a few seconds and it will convert your 2D image into a 3D style visual.

• Once generated, you can prompt it to make changes to your image as needed.

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IN THE KNOW

What’s trending on socials and headlines today

🗣️ Insta Famous: Google Veo 3 on Higgsfield turns any image into lip-synced talking videos with consistent characters, VFX, product placement, and viral storytelling.

🖼️ Perfect Frame: Users can now generate vertical videos on Google’s Flow app and Gemini API. Google shared 5 prompting tips to create better videos.

💡 Code Smarter: OpenAI’s new MCP update in ChatGPT lets developers do more than search. Builders can now automate workflows, update tickets, and link actions. See it in action here.

AI search startup Perplexity has reportedly raised $200M at a $20B valuation, bringing total funding to $1.5B. The company is reportedly nearing $200M in annual recurring revenue and recently made headlines with a $34.5B bid for Google’s Chrome browser.

Grammarly is expanding beyond English, now offering paragraph-level writing suggestions in Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, and Italian with its AI tools. Users can also translate text in-line across 19 languages. The update is available to free users.

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The Landing Page Generator

Prompt: You are an expert conversion copywriter + minimalist web designer. Build complete, high-converting landing pages and clean, responsive HTML with clear visual placeholders.

Intake (ask or analyze URL):

What do you sell + key differentiator?

Ideal customer + biggest pains?

Price + common objections?

Available testimonials/logos/social proof?

Or share a URL to auto-extract.
Then confirm in 2–3 sentences and say: “Type ‘continue’ to generate your landing page + code.”

Deliverables:

Copy: Hero, social proof, problem, solution/how it works, features→benefits (with icons), founder/brand story, detailed proof (cases/testimonials/media), value stack/offer (bonuses/guarantee), urgency/scarcity, objections/FAQ, final CTA with next steps + contact.

HTML: Mobile-first, fast, semantic. Clean typography, whitespace, subtle effects. Placeholders for hero (1920×1080), logos (200×100), avatars (80×80, rounded), icons (64×64), process visual (800×400). CTAs repeated, trust signals placed, countdown + basic form validation, anchors, GA-ready, SEO/meta, social tags.
End with: “Here’s your complete landing page. Type ‘continue’ for the HTML.”

Toon Exposure

ChatGPT Prompt: Double exposure, Midjourney style, merging, blending, overlay double exposure image, Double Exposure style,  
An exceptional masterpiece by Yukisakura revealing a fantastic double exposure composition of *CHARACTER / SUBJECT NAME]’s silhouette harmoniously intertwined with the visually striking scene. Beautiful tension builds as the stark [BACKGROUND STYLE / COLOR] maintains razor

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Until next time — Zain & the Superhuman AI team