🍭 OpenAI’s New Device Might Kill the iPhone 📱

Good morning. OpenAI just bought the guy who made your iPhone and Google just dropped 12 tools that make your debugger smarter than your boss.

Let’s dig in.

What’s Cookin’:

• OpenAI bets big on hardware with Jony Ive

• Google’s new dev tools

• Small Teams, Big Leverage

• 5 tools from AI manga to Slack for agents

• Steal This Prompt: Panini Trading Cards

Post Smartphone Era
📴 OpenAI: Ditch Your iPhone

The Bite: OpenAI just dropped $6.5 billion, worth of their private equity stock,
to acquire IO; A hardware startup founded by ex-Apple design legend Jony Ive.

Their goal? Build the ‘iPhone of the AGI era’.

Yes, seriously.

More Context: Ive is responsible for designing Apple's most iconic products, including the iPod, iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air

So yeah…
He’s low-key responsible for your 16 year old’s mushy TikTok brains…


Snacks: 

• IO’s team of 55 joins OpenAI; LoveFrom, Ive’s design studio,
  stays independent but leads design on the OpenAI side

• Devices could include wearables like pendants or glasses for real-time AI interaction

• Altman: “We’ve been waiting for the next big thing for 20 years”

• Ive: “I shoulder a lot of responsibility for what phones have done to us”

• The deal comes as OpenAI pushes for $11.6B in projected 2025 revenue—and more acquisitions
  

Why it bites: Altman teaming up with the guy who designed your iPhone isn’t everything that meets the eye.

It’s a $6.5B bet that AI-native hardware will finally matter.
And Zuck is watching 👀 

Most people still talk to ChatGPT on a screen.

But Altman and Ive are chasing “ambient AI”; always-on, context-aware tech that feels more like a sixth sense than a screen.

Big promise. Bigger price tag.

If it works, it could mark the end of the smartphone era.

If not?

At least it’ll look stunning in a design museum next to Google Glass.

🍭 Steal this Prompt
Break the Frame with Custom Panini Cards

Create your own mid-kick, mid-explosion Panini-style soccer card.

The subject bursts out of the 2D frame in full cinematic glory: ball flying, fragments shattering, motion blur maxed out.

1. Hit this link (prompt + reference image included)

2. Grab the reference image from the listing

3. Paste the prompt into GPT 4o

4. Watch your subject break out of the frame!

One prompt. One card. Collector energy. 👇

🍭 Try the prompt on Snack Prompt 🍭

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Big Biz
🏋️‍♂️ Small Teams, Big Leverage

The Bite: Big teams talk about alignment. Small teams just… align.

If you don’t need 3 approvals to test an idea, you can build things that actually ship.

Not because you’re smarter but because you’re not waiting.

Most solopreneurs aren’t out-executing the enterprise.
They’re just skipping the meetings.

Snacks: What Solos (and small teams) Get Right

• They move before the market moves

• They don’t need buy-in to test an idea

• They feel the pain directly and build accordingly (feel problem → solve it)

• They don’t wait for trust. They earn it with what they ship

This isn’t about agility.
It’s about ownership.

Solos don’t need a green light because they never asked for one.

Why it Bites: Someone recently picked up a free automation.
Simple workflow, nothing wild.

They used it to book their first sales call.

But here’s what actually mattered:

They didn’t just demo the product.
They demoed the confidence behind it.

Because they’d already internalized the objections:

→ “Will this break something?”
→ “Can I control it?”
→ “What if I can’t see what it’s doing?”

The deal closed.

Not because of tech.
Because of trust.

And because no one was there to tell them “Wait for legal to approve the deck.”

That’s your edge.

Enterprises stall because they want certainty before action.
Solopreneurs act to create certainty.

That gap — between permission and conviction — is where all the leverage lives.

Tool Box
🧰 Trending AI Tools

📊 Querri – Data, cleaned and answered

→ No code, no team, no stress. Querri transforms your messy data into insights at the speed of curiosity.

🧠 Den – Where your agents live

→ Slack meets Notion for AI. Den gives you one home for chats, docs, and all your agents.

🎨 Stitch – Ideas → UI → Code

→ Drop in a prompt or sketch, get frontend code + Figma-ready designs. Built by Google Labs with Gemini 2.5 Pro under the hood.

📚 Mangaka.app – AI manga in a click

→ Turn your scripts into manga with cinematic layouts and pro-level panels—no drawing tablet required.

🤖 daemo – Secure AI-to-Database SDK

→ Build AI agents that talk to your database like a human—with safeguards that make sure they don’t act like one on Red Bull.

Google I/O
🤖 They Just Handed Devs a Whole New AI Toolbox

The Bite: Google I/O dropped more tools than a Home Depot. From instant UI generation to on-device LLMs that can even translate dolphin sounds.

This year was all about making agentic apps and AI-first workflows the default for devs.

Snacks:

• Stitch turns a prompt or sketch into real UI + code — Figma-ready

• Live API gets native audio, 24-language support, proactive listening

• MCP + URL Context bring deeper tool integrations and web awareness

• Chrome DevTools now has AI assistance — literally debug with a prompt

• Firebase Studio builds full-stack apps from prompts + Figma mocks

• Gemma 3N runs on 2GB RAM, and yes, they trained one to talk to dolphins

Why it Bites: Forget autocomplete. Google wants you building agents that talk, design, and ship apps before your coffee cools.

But it’s not just about speed. The real shift is that every layer of the dev stack, from Figma to backend, is now “agent-friendly” and AI-native.

Picture this: Prompt → Stitch (UI) → Figma (Clean up) → Firebase Studio → Done

If you’ve ever “vibe-coded” you know it never goes as planned.
But at least now you won’t be switching from tool to tool. One ecosystem.

The tools are becoming the agents.
Or… Are the agents becoming the tools? 🤔

It’s exciting. It’s overwhelming.
And yes, it’s a little dystopian.

But if you’ve ever rage-quit CSS or wished your debugger could just fix it for you, welcome to the future.

Push code like nobody’s watching.

Build Responsibly…. or not?

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