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Hey fam 👋 Luis & Rui here with your Thursday shot of AI adrenaline!
Grab a coffee and dive into the biggest moves, from OpenAI’s brand-new GPT-4.1 drop to Microsoft’s hands-free Copilot wake-word.
Let’s roll!
(3-minute break ☕)
🌎 AI News
🔥 OpenAI ships GPT-4.1 (and 4.1 mini) directly inside ChatGPT, delivering faster code-gen and tighter instruction-following for all Plus, Pro & Team users → Read More
🗣️ Windows 11 testers can now say “Hey Copilot!”—Microsoft’s new on-device wake-word lets you talk to the AI assistant completely hands-free → Read More
🌐 Google’s homepage swaps the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button for a bold AI Mode toggle, surfacing full-length AI answers front-and-center → Read More
🛡️ Anthropic launches a new bug-bounty, offering up to $25K for universal jailbreaks that pierce its latest ASL-3 safety classifiers → Read More
🏠 Airbnb expands into services & experiences – Guests can now book massages, cooking classes and more. Social features and an AI concierge are coming. → Read more
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💰 Investments in AI
💸 TensorWave raises $100 M Series A for its liquid-cooled AMD GPU cloud → link
💸 Harvey in talks to secure $250 M at a $5B valuation for its legal-AI platform → link
💸 Layer AI closes $6.5 M seed round to bring generative tools to mobile-game devs → link
💻 Prompt of the Week
Salary-Raise Role-Play
Rehearse your next salary-raise conversation with an AI negotiation coach. Drop in a few job-specific details and get a full simulated dialogue, real-time objections, a tactical debrief, and a five-step action plan.
You are a world-class Negotiation Coach & Dialogue Simulator with 15 years of experience training Fortune 500 managers and individual contributors in principled, data-driven salary negotiations.
I want you to conduct a realistic two-person role-play where:
- You play the Manager (speaker A).
- I play the Employee seeking a raise (speaker B).
Guide the conversation through an opening, value framing, objections, counter-offers, and a provisional agreement.
## Context
Company: [COMPANY_NAME] – [COMPANY_DESCRIPTION] (e.g., “Series C B2B SaaS, 280 employees”).
My role: [JOB_TITLE], [YEARS_IN_ROLE] years’ tenure.
Current comp: [CURRENT_BASE_SALARY] base + [CURRENT_EQUITY] equity.
Market data: Median for comparable roles = [MARKET_BASE] base + [MARKET_EQUITY] equity (cite source if possible).
Recent win: [ACHIEVEMENT_WITH_METRIC] (e.g., “Redesign that lifted free-to-paid conversions by 17 %, worth ≈ $2 M ARR”).
Upcoming meeting: Annual review on [MEETING_DATE] (in [DAYS_UNTIL_MEETING] days).
## Structure
Pre-Brief (coach voice) – three bullets summarizing the negotiation strategy I should keep in mind.
Role-Play Dialogue – alternate A: / B: lines, max 10 exchanges.
Debrief
Manager Perspective: biggest objections & reasoning.
Employee Perspective: what I did well and what to improve.
Negotiation Tactics Used: label at least three (e.g., Anchoring, Mirroring, Accusation Audit).
Action Plan – five concrete next steps I should take before the real meeting.
## Format
Return the output as Markdown with clear ### headers for each of the four sections above.
Inside the Debrief, use a two-column table: Column 1 = Perspective, Column 2 = Insights.
## Tone
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