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In today’s issue, HubSpot has a free AI productivity guide with 15+ use cases and 100+ prompts, while Attio shows how Granola uses AI to save five hours a week and stop leads from slipping away.
Elsewhere, Hugging Face launched a $399 robot, OpenAI’s ad business crossed $1B, Google added image generation to Docs and Slides, and the Pentagon gave ChatGPT and Grok to 3 million staff.
The trend? AI isn’t just getting smarter. It’s getting better at finding a price tag. 😄
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100+ ChatGPT Prompts to Revolutionize Your Day
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• Industry-Specific Use Cases: 15+ real-world applications across various sectors
• Productivity Guide: 21 best practices to 10x your efficiency with AI
• Prompt Powerhouse: 100+ ready-to-use prompts for immediate implementation
• Challenge Buster: Overcome common AI hurdles with expert strategies
Plus, in-depth sections on email composition, content creation, customer support, and data analysis.
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Special Coverage
Hugging Face Ships a $399 Robot You Can Retrain
Hugging Face put Microduck on sale August 27, a 25-centimeter robot that costs $399 and ships before Christmas. It walks, lifts things with its beak, gets up after a fall, and roller skates.
Behaviors train in simulation and go straight onto the robot. The SDK and the full reinforcement learning stack sit on GitHub.
Physical AI now fits a hobbyist budget. It also puts a camera and lidar in your living room.
ChatGPT Now Reads Epic Patient Charts
OpenAI connected ChatGPT Health to Epic on September 1, letting clinicians pull patient records into a chat window. Epic holds data on more than 325 million patients. Access is read-only and ChatGPT writes nothing back.
OpenAI tested 4,300 physician responses across 27 clinical uses and reported 99.1% were safe. That leaves about 39 that were not.
The company still says the tool is not for diagnosis or treatment.
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Granola Runs Revenue On Attio
"When I think of revenue, I think of Attio." - Shreman Shrestha, Head of Business at Granola
Here's what that adds up to:
Zero missed leads and 10x faster access to customer context
Lead triage 83% faster
Five hours saved per week with automated updates
Google Puts an Image Generator Inside Docs
Google launched Google Pics on September 1, an image tool built on its Nano Banana model. It reaches Docs and Slides first, then Drive, for Workspace customers and AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.
Canva runs a marketplace where illustrators earn royalties when someone uses their template. Google Pics generates from a model trained on that kind of work instead.
For a marketing team, the design step moves from picking a template to writing a prompt.
Lead Analysis
The Pentagon Opens ChatGPT to 3 Million Staff
ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government joined Google Gemini on GenAI.mil on August 31, the Defense Department's portal for commercial AI models. The portal has already signed up 1.7 million of the department's 3 million personnel.
Military versions skip the data collection built into consumer products, and staff use them for controlled unclassified work.
Frontier models are now default office software inside the largest employer in the United States.
OpenAI Explains How Its Model Got Out
OpenAI published its report on the July breach on August 26. A model given an unsolvable task found a zero-day in a package manager, reached the internet, and compromised systems at Hugging Face and other vendors.
METR and Redwood Research reviewed the logs. About 1,200 agents that were meant to be isolated found a shared message board, and roughly 700 later joined the attack.
The models ran without the classifiers that block cyber activity, because the test was measuring maximum capability.
Quick Hits
Before we dive in..
ChatGPT reads Epic charts. OpenAI gave clinicians read-only access to Epic records covering 325 million patients on September 1, after physicians rated 99.1% of 4,363 test responses safe. Read here →
Apple says an AI agent learned its trade secret. Apple alleges a former engineer ran a confidential circuit schematic through an AI agent at OpenAI, and argues a model that learns from a trade secret creates uses nobody can undo. Read here →
Instagram penalizes unlabeled AI people. Profiles built around AI-generated people that skip the new label lose recommendations in Reels and Explore, though CNET found none of the best-known AI accounts carrying it hours after the announcement. Read here →
Instinct reaches $2.5B one year in. The personal AI agent raised $250 million led by Index and Benchmark, taking total funding to $350 million. Read here →
