🍭 Capitalism.exe: AI Edition 💰

Good morning. My To Do list today:

1. Understand trillion-dollar AI loops

2. Let Google teach the planet

3. Remember to touch grass at least once.

Let’s dig in. 👇

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• OpenAI + SoftBank launch Crystal Intelligence in Japan

• Google pushes AI tools into classrooms worldwide

• Google Finance gets AI-powered Deep Search

• Wikipedia tells AI firms to pay, not scrape

• ToolBox™: AI food scanner, avatars, translators, and more

_ToolBox™
🧰 5 BRAND NEW AI LAUNCHES

🥗 Emma
→ Scans any food label globally and explains ingredients in plain English — no more guessing what’s “healthy.”

🎥 Happyverse
→ Create an AI video avatar of yourself that talks, answers questions, and works 24/7.

🗣️ Talo
→ Live-translate calls, events, and streams in real time through app, bot, or API.

🧩 Thesys
→ Turns LLM responses into live UI elements like charts and forms — no front-end grind.

🎨 YouArt
→ Automate creative workflows with connected models and prompts for fast, production-ready assets.

OpenAI
🤝 OpenAI and SoftBank’s “Crystal Intelligence” Deal Looks… a Little Too Perfect

The Bite: OpenAI and SoftBank just announced a 50/50 joint venture in Japan called Crystal Intelligence meant to sell enterprise AI tools across the country.

On paper, it’s an international expansion win.

But here’s the weird part:
SoftBank is also a major OpenAI investor, meaning a big chunk of the money being “invested” here is… going in a circle.

Snacks:

• SoftBank pumps billions into AI companies, then does joint ventures with them, then buys their products.

• OpenAI gets revenue from those deals — which gets used to build more models that SoftBank will fund again.

• The circular flow keeps valuations high and books clean without necessarily proving market demand.

• It’s not fraud. It’s just finance playing ping-pong with the same dollar.

• Critics call it “value recycling.” Investors call it “strategic synergy.” Both might be right.

Why it Bites: A few weeks ago, we called OpenAI’s “Circular Deal” clever… and a little scary.

Now it’s just normal.

These circular deals create the illusion of booming AI demand, when what’s actually booming is AI’s internal economy:

One where investors, cloud providers, and model labs trade cash back and forth to keep the hype wheel spinning.

It’s capitalism.exe at work:
The same dollar getting reincarnated until someone asks if it ever built anything real.

Steal This Prompt
💬 Motivational Quotes & Messages

Need a weekly hit of “get your life together” without opening another fake-James-Clear thread?

This prompt spins out short, punchy motivational quotes and messages for everyday life. Perfect for Monday resets, launch weeks, or when your willpower is running on fumes.

Use it to:

• Auto-generate a “Monday Motivation” email you barely touched

• Turn your Notion dashboard into a low-key therapist

• Feed your socials an endless stream of bite-sized pep talks

1. CLICK THIS LINK FOR THE FREE PROMPT

2. Watch it cook a fresh batch of motivational lines tailored to your life, your team, or your burned-out group chat.

   
   🍭 Try the prompt on Snack Prompt 🍭

_{Everything Else}
🧠 You Need to Know

💰 Google Finance Adds Deep Search
→ Google’s new “Deep Search” feature in Finance uses Gemini to summarize market trends, analyze performance data, and answer natural-language investment questions.

🔍 Gemini API Gets File Search
→ Google launched a file-search capability in the Gemini API so devs can instantly query and ground model responses on uploaded PDFs, docs, or codebases.

🏭 Google Backs Oklahoma’s Tech Workforce
→ Google is funding new workforce programs in Oklahoma to train workers for data center and AI-related jobs, building a local tech talent pipeline.

🧬 404human.ai Launches ArcOS
→ A new AI-native operating system called ArcOS claims to “remember, align, and evolve” with users over time — pitching itself as a self-learning OS for human-AI collaboration.

📚 Wikipedia Tells AI Companies to Pay Up
→ Wikipedia called out AI firms for scraping its data without credit or cash, urging them to use its paid API instead to fund moderation, accuracy, and the site’s long-term survival.

_{AI in Education}
🧑‍🏫 Google’s Plan to Teach the World with AI

The Bite: Google just unveiled a global push to bring AI into classrooms.
Not as a replacement for teachers, but kinda like an invisible TA.

The company’s rolling out new tools for lesson planning, personalized feedback, and language learning, while launching partnerships in over 100 countries, from the U.S. to Northern Ireland.

The goal is to help educators spend less time grading and more time teaching humans.

Snacks:

• Google’s “AI for Education” plan builds on Gemini-powered tools inside Classroom, Docs, and YouTube Learning.

• Teachers can auto-draft quizzes, translate lessons, and generate personalized study materials.

• DeepMind’s Northern Ireland pilot is using AI to free up 10+ hours a week per teacher.

• Google pledged $25 million in grants to support responsible AI learning worldwide.

• It’s education meets automation — with Google quietly grading the graders.

Why it bites: If OpenAI’s circular deals are about money looping, Google’s education play is about data looping.

Every click, quiz, and hint becomes training material for the next generation of teaching models.

It’s a future where your homework teaches the machine that teaches your little brother.

The promise?
Smarter classrooms and lighter workloads.

The tradeoff?
Letting Google sit in on every lesson forever.