🍭 Classrooms, Cash & Code 👩‍🏫

Good morning. It’s Friday and the intern asked if…

“Dia is like Chrome but on Ozempic?”

Let’s dig in.

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• Melania Trump + AI Education

• Browser Co. Cashes In Big

• ToolBox™: Speed Run Content Creation

• And Everything Else: Veo3, DuckAI, xAI, DeepSeek, and Scale

Melania Trump + AI
🏛️ Tech Bro Party At The White House

The Bite: The White House held its second AI Education Task Force meeting, hosted by First Lady Melania Trump.

Google’s Sundar Pichai committed $150M in AI education grants (part of a broader $1B spend).

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna promised to train 2M U.S. workers in AI over 3 years.

Code.org pledged to reach 25M learners with new AI courses.

Melania leaned into parental metaphors (“treat AI like our children”) while cabinet members linked AI education to national security, rural America, and the energy grid.

Trump officials also used the stage to hammer “America First” AI themes, including anti-‘woke’ AI directives.

Snacks:

• Big Money: Google earmarks $150M for AI ed; IBM promises training 2M workers.

• Scale: Code.org aims to reach 25M students, teachers, and parents.

• Politics: Trump officials frame AI as patriotic duty, not just tech policy.

• Energy Angle: Dept. of Education warns AI education means nothing without more electricity supply.

Why it Bites: The pledges are big. Big dollars. Big programs.

But the framing matters too:
AI education is being wrapped in nationalism and anti-“woke” rhetoric.

Seems to be a bit more than just “teaching AI”.

Arguably, it’s a culture war entering the classroom.

We go into Melania’s “Presidential AI Challenge” in a previous issue.

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Steal This Prompt
🥷 Cyberpunk Fashion Mag - sref by @Morph_VGart

Turn anyone into a neon-lit fashion icon.

Think high-gloss magazine covers, but wired into the future.

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2. Replace the placeholder w/ a subject + an optional description

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4. Fire the photographer

5. Go viral

   
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Everything Else
🧠 You Need to Know

📸 Google Photos Adds Veo 3 Tools

Google Photos now integrates Veo 3, enabling AI features like animating still photos.

🧠 DuckDuckGo Adds Advanced Models To Plan

DuckDuckGo’s $9.99 plan now includes GPT-4o, GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4, and Llama Maverick.

🤖 DeepSeek Reportedly Building An AI Agent

DeepSeek is developing an AI agent after the Chinese AI company broke the internet in early 2025 with their open-source reasoning model.

🧑‍💼 xAI CFO Exits After Brief Tenure

xAI CFO Mike Liberatore departed around late July after joining in April.

⚖️ Scale AI Sues Ex-Employee And Mercor

Scale AI alleges trade-secret misuse and attempted poaching of major customers.

ToolBox™
🧰 5 AI Tools to Speed-Run Content Creation and Research

📧 Postel - Your unfair advantage for 𝕏 / Twitter growth
→ Build knowledge bases and create content from your knowledge base or external sources like YouTube videos, blogs, articles, etc...

📰 Verbite — SEO-ready drafts 
→ Publish-grade drafts with structure, internal links, and metadata baked in, so posts actually rank instead of dying in Docs.

🔥 Blazly SEO — content OS 
→ Plan keywords, generate briefs, and publish optimized posts from one workspace—ditch twelve scattered tools for one flow.

📓 NotebookLM — Workspace for Education 
→ Bring NotebookLM into classrooms to build grounded study guides from course materials instead of starting blank.

🔬 SciSpace Agent — research via 150+ tools 
→ Meticulous research agent wired into scholarly sources—search, summarize, draft, and cite without bouncing between tabs.

VCs Enter The Browser Wars
🤝 Atlassian Buys Arc Maker For $610M, Bets On Dia

The Bite: Atlassian will acquire The Browser Company for $610 million in cash.

The team says Dia, its new browser, keeps building under Atlassian while operating independently.

Arc’s development had already stopped.

The deal is announced and is expected to close in Q2 of 2026.

Snacks:

• Deal Size: $610M cash, announced Sept. 4.

• Structure: The Browser Company to operate independently within Atlassian.

• Products: Dia continues; Arc development previously halted.

• Quote: “Browsers weren’t built for work.” — Mike Cannon-Brookes.

• Strategy: Aim: AI-powered, SaaS-optimized work browser.

• Timeline: Closing targeted for 2026 Q2.

Why it bites: Atlassian already owns some of y’all’s workday (Jira, Confluence).

Now it wants your tabs.

If Dia pulls off the “work-native” browsing shill, it could turn the browser into a first-class productivity surface.

It’s an interesting move by the software giant as the AI-first browser wave, or as I’m calling it: The Great Browser Wars of 2025, is beginning to get crowded.

All the big players are either already in the ring, or announced they’re working on an AI first browser (or extension if you’re Anthropic).

I’m writing this on Perplexity Comet using Wispr Flow; you don’t think we’ll trying every single agentic browser that drops?

Don’t be surprised if every founder you know is spinning up Chromium forks with AI in 2026.