🔥 1. OpenAI’s Quiet Power Move — Project Meteor

OpenAI is reportedly working on “Project Meteor,” a lightweight enterprise AI assistant that could embed directly into dashboards like Notion, Salesforce, and Excel.

🍏 2. Apple Intelligence Is Real — And It’s Subtle Genius

Apple’s WWDC revealed its approach: privacy-first, context-aware, and human-centered.

• On-device summarization of messages, notifications, and calendar events
• Cross-app writing tools (think “Rewrite in a new tone” in Mail or Safari)
• GPT-4o-powered features — but only when you allow it

📱 Siri finally got smart — and it didn’t shout about it.

🏗️ 3. Infra is Hot — Not Chatbots

VC funding is shifting from flashy front-ends to infrastructure and tools:

• Modular's Mojo now benchmarks 30–80% faster than Python for LLM workloads
• OctoML is helping companies optimize LLM costs with quantization
• Together AI is becoming the Stripe of open-source models

💡 The arms dealers of AI are quietly winning.

🔁 4. The Prompt Engineer Era is Over (Sort Of)

Job postings for “Prompt Engineer” are down 42% YoY. But there’s a shift, not a collapse:

• “AI Systems Operator”
• “LLM Pipeline Designer”
• “AI Solutions Lead”

📊 These roles combine domain knowledge + workflow design + soft coding.
🧠 Upskill suggestion: learn LangChain, AirOps, or Unstructured.

⚡ 5. Claude 3.5 Sonnet: The Tool You Should Be Using Right Now

Anthropic’s latest release quietly beats GPT-4o in many real-world tasks:

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• Reads + summarizes PDFs with high precision
• Better context retention in long documents
• No login required at claude.ai

🧪 Use it to rewrite reports, simplify contracts, or brainstorm product ideas.

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Instantly turn raw text into slide decks using GPT-4 or Claude.
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📈 Market Moves — Follow the Capital

• $500M in fresh capital poured into AI hardware, including edge chips for offline inference
• Adobe acquired RunwayML for ~$700M to future-proof its video pipeline
• KPMG + Microsoft launched a co-built LLM solution for finance and audit

🧠 Big consulting + AI = the new tech-industrial complex.

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