🍭 Gemini Goes for Gold 🥇

Good morning. If you’re reading this on your phone, Meta wants you reading it on your face instead.

Let’s dig in.

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• Meta’s glasses

• Gemini makes a historic moment in AI

• How To Pitch and Present like a Pro

• And Everything Else

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👓 Meta Tries To Make Smart Glasses Real (Again)

The Bite: Meta rolled out Ray-Ban Display: smart glasses with a tiny screen in the right lens, bundled with a wrist Neural Band so you can pinch and swipe the air like a magician.

$799, in U.S. stores Sept 30. Cool demo, a few hiccups.

Google Glass walked, tripped and landed on it’s face, so this could jog.

We’d love to be wrong this time.
But if you’re over the age of 25, you likely remember how many times they’ve tried to make smart glasses a thing…

Snacks:

• The Glasses: On-lens display for quick peeks; messages, calls, captions, directions. Plus camera, mics, speakers.

• Every pair includes the EMG Neural Band wrist controller.

• Battery/Case: ~6 hours mixed use; case pushes total toward 30 hours.

• Band rated up to 18 hours and water-resistant.

• Where To Buy: Limited to select U.S. retailers at launch (Best Buy, LensCrafters, etc.).

• Privacy Ping: There’s a recording LED, but expect watchdogs to worry anyway.

Why it Bites: Real use-cases are live captions, translate, maps, etc…

It’s a big if, price and adoption land.
Until then, “neat party trick” energy.

When these things nail accessibility and everyday utility, then we’ll talk.

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Give any logo a soft, fur-textured remix.

Think: plush. tactile. scroll-stopping.

Upload the texture reference first, then your logo second. 
In that order.

Style and prompt inspired by @gizakdag

1. Click this link (prompt)

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3. Click copy

4. Paste into ChatGPT

5. Upload our texture reference

6. Upload your logo

7. Press enter and watch it grow fur.

   
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🧠 You Need to Know

🎧 ElevenLabs Drops Studio 3.0 With Video Support

→ New editor: voiceovers, music, sound effects, voice isolation, and voice changer.

Automatic captioning, speech correction, and multiplayer commenting.

🛡️ Irregular Raises $80M to Secure Frontier AI Models

→ Sequoia and Redpoint led the round, valuing the firm at about $450M.

Funds will expand simulated risk testing and evaluations for frontier models.

📊 Service Leaders Report ROI From Domain-Specific AI

→ Neuron7 survey of 125 service leaders finds 12% live in production, 34% deploying.

Priorities: ROI, faster resolutions, information access, and self-service.

🤝 Nvidia to Invest $5B in Intel, Teaming on AI Infrastructure and PCs

→ Nvidia will buy Intel common stock at $23.28 a share, pending approvals.

Companies will collaborate on data-center platforms and PC chips.

📱 Gemini Tops U.S. App Store After ‘Nano Banana’ Image Model

→ The August launch of the Nano Banana image editor boosted downloads.

Gemini hit No. 1 on Sept. 12, surpassing ChatGPT on the U.S. App Store.

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🧰 Pitch and Present Like a Pro

🖼️ Gamma — AI Presentations
→ Create decks, docs, and sites instantly in the browser.

🤖 Genspark — AI Designer
→ Coordinates agents to research and design Sparkpages with citations.

🧑‍🎨 Chronicle — Cursor-for-Slides
→ Turn rough ideas into polished presentations with tasteful templates.

📊 DeckSpeed — Agentic Slides
→ Generate professional, personalized slides from a conversation.

🎥 Rally — Demo Studio
→ Record, narrate, and edit product demos and updates collaboratively.

Historic AI Moment
🥇 DeepMind’s Gemini Just Went Gold

The Bite: DeepMind says an advanced Gemini 2.5 “Deep Think” hit gold-medal level at the ICPC World Finals in Baku on Sept 4, solving 10 of 12 problems under contest rules.

It even cracked one gnarly ducts-and-reservoirs puzzle no human team solved.

Historic-moment energy? Yes.

But we’ll see if 2025 us was being dramatic when 2027 us looks back.

Snacks:

• The Setup: ICPC = five hours, 139 top student teams, and only four walked away with gold.

• The Rules: Gemini ran under official ICPC settings, but kicked off 10 minutes after the humans.

• The Score: Knocked out 10 of 12 problems in 677 minutes—would’ve placed 2nd overall.

• The Flex: Solved “Problem C” (reservoirs + ducts) that stumped every human, using dynamic programming and other nerdy math tricks.

• The Catch: This wasn’t app-store Gemini—DeepMind used a special build with mystery compute.

• The Vibes: DeepMind’s hyping it like Deep Blue and AlphaGo; skeptics say chill, but admit it’s a legit coding feat.

Why it bites: Expect more of this.

Frontier models will keep racking up “firsts,” but it’s background noise if they still can’t remember your whole support FAQ or ship reliable, boring workflows.

Wake us when the ICPC brain also nails your daily ops.