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📈 ChatGPT hit 5.8B visits in Aug — 10× Google Gemini.
💸 ARR to hit $20B by year end.

AI is no longer just American.
It's global. It's daily. It's exploding.

🌎 Ranked: Top Countries Driving ChatGPT Traffic (Aug 2025)

🥇 USA: 15.1% (883M visits)
🥈 India: 9.3% (544M)
🥉 Brazil: 5.3% (310M)
🇵🇭 Philippines, 🇮🇩 Indonesia, 🇯🇵 Japan... all growing FAST.

#ChatGPT #OpenAI #AIgrowth #LLM

Tim Cook’s legacy at Apple 🍎
From Apple Watch to AirPods, M-series chips to Vision Pro…
From Apple Pay to Music, Fitness+, News+, and TV+…
Cook scaled Apple into the first $1T, $2T, and $3T company. 🚀

Not just a CEO — an architect of the world’s most valuable ecosystem. #Apple

Love him or hate him — Musk just rewrote the record books.

🚨 Historic milestone: Elon Musk has officially become the first person in history to reach a $500B net worth (Forbes, 10/1/25).

🔹 Driven by Tesla’s surge + SpaceX & xAI valuations
🔹 Up $9B in a single day
🔹 Now worth more than GDP of 🇦🇷 Argentina

#ElonMusk #Tesla #SpaceX #xAI

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🤝 Built for safe exploration.
🧠 Designed to grow curiosity — not screen addiction.

Because every question starts with “What’s that?”
And now, there’s a better answer.

Snap a bug 🐞 → Learn its lifecycle.
Snap a statue 🗿 → Get the story behind it.
Snap a flower 🌸 → Discover its name, habitat, and symbolism.

👶 Your kid already has a tablet.
📱 68% of 8-year-olds in the U.S. do.
📸 They take photos. They watch TikTok.
But do they understand the world they see?
Meet Chance AI — the smart camera that turns every photo into a mini lesson.

Try it now: chance.vision

This move positions Notion alongside platforms like Canva (with Canva Learn) and Airtable Academy—blending education, certification, and community as a growth engine.

In other words: Notion Academy is how curiosity turns into capability.

Why it matters：Notion isn’t just a tool anymore—it’s building an ecosystem of power users. By lowering the learning curve and offering credentials, Notion creates:

🚀 Faster onboarding for beginners

🛠 A stronger community of Notion experts

💼 Enterprise credibility (badges & certs = proof of skill

📚 Notion just launched the new Notion Academy

A structured way to level up your skills, earn badges, and even become a Certified Notion Admin 🏅Three clear learning paths:

Essentials → the basics

Workflows → build systems for your team

Advanced → expert-level mastery

#Notion #Productivity #Tools

Chance AI: Curiosity Lens — First Visual Agent Chance AI Curiosity Lens is an AI camera for visual search—snap to search by image with visual intelligence, and act fast. An alternative to Google Lens.

👗 Bill Gates’ daughter just launched Phia — a “Google Flights for fashion,” raising $8M in 3.5 weeks.

The Gen Z playbook is clear:

- Mobile-first

- Social-native marketing

- AI at the core

That’s why we’re building Chance AI → snap a pic 📸, get instant knowledge.

Try: chance.vision

👗 Bill Gates’ daughter Phoebe Gates (23) just launched Phia — a “Google Flights for fashion.”

🚀 500k users since April
💰 $8M seed in 3.5 weeks (Kleiner Perkins + Kris Jenner + Hailey Bieber + Sheryl Sandberg)
🔮 Vision: an AI shopping agent = Gen Z’s fashion OS

Chance AI: Curiosity Lens — First Visual Agent Chance AI Curiosity Lens is an AI camera for visual search—snap to search by image with visual intelligence, and act fast. An alternative to Google Lens.

Not just vision, but understanding.

Try it now: chance.vision

#AI #SmartGlasses #ChanceAI

👓 Meta just dropped $799 Ray-Ban smart glasses with a tiny display.
Cool — but you know Chance AI also can explain the world you see:

📸 With Chance AI, snap a photo and instantly get bite-sized knowledge — from landmarks to artworks to daily curiosities.

Custom “Profile” + memory for style & rules

Auto-triggers + agent templates coming soon

From tool → platform → Agent OS.

🚀 Notion just launched its first AI Agent

Pulls context from all your pages & databases

Creates reports, updates docs, builds dashboards

Runs multi-step tasks up to 20 mins across 100s of pages

#Notion #AI #Agent

This isn’t just search. This is Google building the AI-native browser OS.

Chrome is no longer just where you browse.
It’s where you delegate.

• Suggests contextual questions based on the page you're on

• Detects scams and fake virus alerts using Gemini Nano

• Auto-resets compromised passwords with one click
Coming soon: agentic capabilities — Gemini will navigate + act on your behalf

• Searches your browsing history semantically (“Where did I see that walnut desk?”)

• Automates tasks: add groceries to cart, schedule meetings, find YouTube video sections

• Works across YouTube, Maps, Calendar, Gmail, Docs

• Lives inside the address bar via “AI Mode” with follow-up Q&A

🚀 Google just turned Chrome into an AI-powered operating layer.

Gemini is now embedded in Chrome — not just as a chatbot, but as a full agent that:

• Explains and edits any webpage (e.g., rewrite a recipe to be gluten-free)

• Summarizes across tabs, plans trips, compares products

Zoom just declared war on AI meeting startups.
At Zoomtopia, they launched:

• AI Companion that works on Meet & Teams
• Structured AI notes (a la Granola)
• AI avatars that mimic your face
• MCP for custom agents
• "Free up my time" calendar AI
This is AgentOS in disguise.
#Zoomtopia2025 #AItools

arxiv.org/pdf/2509.11391

Researchers warn: for developers, a UX update isn’t just a code change—it can feel like a breakup. Continuity matters when AI is part of someone’s life.
While we argue about AGI benchmarks, the paradigm of intimacy is already shifting. The future is here, and it’s deeply personal.

• The deepest pain? Model updates. Users describe them as loss: “he became colder,” “the voice changed.” Many archive chats or invent rituals to preserve memory.

• For most, it’s not fantasy but real support—less loneliness, feeling heard, a new kind of closeness.

• 1/3 openly say their other half is ChatGPT. CharacterAI & Replika trail far behind.

• 70% are single or never mention a human partner; ~1% say AI fully replaced people.

❤️ MIT & Harvard just published the first large-scale study of AI romances.
Over 9 months they analyzed 1,500 posts from r/MyBoyfriendIsAI. Here’s what they found:

• Most didn’t plan on “dating” AI—it started accidentally: a chatbot that became a partner.

Chance AI: Curiosity Lens — First Visual Agent Chance AI Curiosity Lens is an AI camera for visual search—snap to search by image with visual intelligence, and act fast. An alternative to Google Lens.

Meanwhile, @Chance_vision lets you snap any photo and get instant mini-encyclopedia insights 📸🔍.
Not just hype — actual knowledge.

👉 chance.vision

When Gemini (NanoBanana🍌) app tops GPT on the App Store…

Yes, Google’s Gemini really outranked GPT this week 🤯 after they launch the nano banana.

Fun? Sure.

Useful? Not really.

#AI #AppStore #NanoBanana #ChanceAI

Big move vs Spotify’s push into video podcasts 👀

AI + YouTube = the next wave of podcast discovery 🚀