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Hey fam 👋 Luis & Rui here with your Monday edition of The AI Break.
Today we’re kicking off with OpenAI’s brand-new Codex that turns plain English into production-ready code, plus xAI’s Grok just got supercharged with richer system prompts for deeper, more natural conversations.
Grab your coffee—this is a big one (3-minute coffee break☕)
🔑 Key Takeaways
💻 Write code 2× faster with OpenAI Codex’s natural-language-to-code magic
🤖 Deepen your AI chats in minutes using xAI’s expanded Grok system prompts
🐦 Craft a viral tweet with our prompt of the week
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🌎 AI News Around the World
🔥 Introducing Codex by OpenAI, an AI system that writes code from plain-language prompts → Learn More
🤖 xAI’s Grok expands system prompts for richer, more context-aware AI conversations → Read More
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💻 Prompt of the Week
Create Viral Twitter Post
Use these three viral tweets as inspiration: {EXAMPLE_1}, {EXAMPLE_2}, {EXAMPLE_3}.
Given this content: {YOUR_CONTENT}, brainstorm 20 distinct angles that could make a tweet about it go viral, draft 20 corresponding tweets, write a five-sentence critique for each draft, summarize in ten sentences which elements drove viral potential, then combine the strongest ideas into one final tweet you’re sure will go viral—and present that final version.
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