☕🤖 Google Just Dropped Its First AI Ad!
PLUS: Perplexity launches Perplexity Patents + Privacy Snapshot...
🚀 Be featured in our next issue. 👉 work with us here
Hey fam 👋 Luis & Rui here with your Monday dose of AI news.
From Google’s cinematic AI turkey ad to Perplexity’s new patents and privacy tools, this week shows how fast AI is moving from hype to real-world creativity.
Grab your coffee ☕ This one’s packed.
Let’s dive in!
(3-minute coffee break ☕)
🌎 AI News around the world
🦃 Google’s first AI ad stars a turkey - Google’s debut AI-generated holiday ad mixes humor and realism to avoid the uncanny valley. (Continue reading)
📜 Perplexity launches Perplexity Patents - An AI-powered agent that helps users search and understand patents using natural language. (Continue reading)
🔐 Perplexity introduces Privacy Snapshot - A new tool that gives users full visibility into how their data is used and stored. (Continue reading)
🎨 Adobe’s experimental AI tool can edit entire videos using one frame. (Continue reading)
🌍 Google Mixboard expands to 180+ countries - The interactive AI-powered music experiment is now available worldwide. (Continue reading)
🛠 Trending AI Tools
💬 Continua: Tame the chaos of your group chat with Social AI. Continua reminds, recalls, and acts -> all via text. No app needed. Just add (646)391-4086 to your chat.
💻 Base44: A platform helping teams build and deploy agents that automate business workflows securely.
⚙️ Orch: One chat-centric workspace, made Al-native to keep work context - chats, channels, calls, projects, tasks, docs, and media together.
🤖 Komos: A no-code AI automation platform that learns from recorded human workflows to streamline browser, document and web-data tasks.
📝 Tutorials
💼 AI Job Board
Oxford Knight – Principal Artificial Intelligence AI Engineer – $210,000 to $250,000 (view job)
Global Quant Firm – AI Research Scientist – $150,000 to $200,000 (view job)
Oxford Knight – Machine Learning Engineer – $200,000 to $300,000 (view job)
💰 Investments in AI
🧩 YC alum Adam raises $4.1 million to turn its viral text-to-3D tool into an AI copilot (link)
🎓 NVIDIA is reportedly investing up to $1 billion in Poolside (link)
💳 Bevel raises $10 million Series A from General Catalyst for its AI health companion (link)
💻 Prompt of the Week
Clarify Your Next 90 Days as a Founder
You are an executive coach helping a startup founder who feels pulled in too many directions.
Your task is to create a simple reflection framework that helps me identify my top 3 company priorities for the next 90 days.
The framework should:
1️⃣ Include 5 questions to clarify focus
2️⃣ Provide a scoring system to rank priorities by impact and effort
3️⃣ End with a 3-step plan to communicate those priorities to the team
#Tone
Clear, motivating, and practical, built for clarity and alignment.
#Format
Plain text, ready to use in a team meeting.🤖 Bring AI Into Your Company → The Right Way
Whether your team is already using AI or just starting to explore it, most companies hit the same wall → too many tools, not enough results.
Our AI Audit helps you change that.
We’ll review your current setup (or design it from scratch) and show you how to:
✅ Identify where AI can actually make an impact
✅ Cut unnecessary tools and costs
✅ Build efficient workflows powered by the right AI stackThink of us as your AI Growth Partner → helping you implement AI strategically, not chaotically.
👉 Book your AI Audit now and start scaling smarter with AI.
🙌 That’s a wrap for today’s AI Break
Thanks for hanging out → don’t forget to hit subscribe, drop your thoughts below and share this update with your fellow AI enthusiasts.
Luis & Rui
PS: Catch us on X @sousa_brothers for daily AI updates.
PPS: If you enjoyed today’s AI Break, sharing is caring 😉
Google's foray into AI generated advertising is a big deal for Alphabet's core revnue stream. If they can demonstrate that AI created ads perform as well as traditionally produced ones while cutting production costs dramatically, it could reshape the entire creative industry. The Mixboard expansion to 180+ countries also shows they're moving fast to establish mindshare in AI tools before competitors lock in users. Smart moves on both fronts.