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French AI powerhouse Mistral AI is reportedly on the brink of a $14 billion valuation, fueled by a €2 billion funding round marking a meteoric leap from its €5.8 billion valuation in June 2024. This surge not only cements Mistral as one of Europe’s most valuable tech firms but also underscores the continent’s accelerating momentum in the global AI race.

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Today’s AI Menu

▪️ Mistral’s $14B leap, Apple + Google Siri pact, Instagram’s iPad debut & more

▪️ Tutorial: How to use Motion to create an optimized, AI-managed daily schedule?

▪️ 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

▪️ AI Special Edition: OpenAI’s guide to winning with AI

▪️ AI Daily Prompt

TODAY IN WORLD OF AI

🍏🤝🔮 Apple + Google Gemini & Siri

Moving from a fragmented accessory to a smart partner, Siri is about to enter a new era, possibly with a dose of Google’s Gemini power. Apple and Google have reportedly inked a formal testing agreement. Behind the scenes, Siri's makeover dubbed "World Knowledge Answers" would weave together web‑search, multimedia, and AI‑powered summaries to deliver richer, context‑aware responses.

Essentially, Apple may offload the brainwork of Siri’s search and summarization to Gemini, while still safeguarding access to your personal data using its own AI engines. This team-up could elevate Siri beyond simple voice commands into a smarter interface integrated across Safari, Spotlight, and more.

But here’s the twist: the AI‑supercharged Siri might only arrive around March 2026, with the iOS 26.4 release just as the dust settles from the iPhone 17 reveal. That delay raises the question: will users still feel the upgrade is worth the wait?

As technologists and product leaders, this is a fascinating crossroads, Apple leaning on a competitor to fuel its next wave of innovation.

THE AI INSTITUTE

How to use Motion to create an optimized, AI-managed daily schedule❓

▪️ Visit usemotion.com

▪️ Connect your calendar and add tasks.

▪️ Let AI schedule meetings and deep-work slots.

▪️ Adjust or approve the suggested plan.

▪️ Stay organized with AI managing your day.

FOOD FOR PRODUCTIVITY

5 tools for your productivity

🔍 Quizlet AI Tutor: Smart AI flashcards and personalized quizzes to help you learn faster ideal for students and self-learners.

✍ GravityWrite: A full-featured AI writing suite offering tools for blog posts, social media captions, SEO content, image prompts, and more in one creative platform.

🎵 Artlist: All-in-one creative asset library with royalty-free music, sound effects, AI voiceovers, videos, and templates perfect for content creators.

🤖 HeyGen: Generate AI avatars and produce video content with lifelike voices great for training, marketing, or personalized messaging.

🎶 Soundraw: Instantly create custom, royalty-free music tracks, mix genres, adjust mood and song structure, and use commercially without copyright issues.

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EVERYTHING ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW

🤝 Ascend: CoreWeave has snapped up YC-backed OpenPipe, adding its reinforcement‑learning toolkit to supercharge custom AI agent training. This strategic acquisition, following its Weights & Biases buy, positions CoreWeave not just as infrastructure provider but a full-stack AI powerbroker.

🎥 Revolutionary: After a 15‑year wait, Instagram drops a native iPad app that opens with Reels front and center. Think horizontal video streaming made luxurious with side‑by‑side DMs, Stories and a filtering "Following" tab on the expansive display. This is Meta’s bold pivot to claim the tablet throne in short‑form video.

📊 Stabilized: LangChain rolls out its 1.0 alpha (alongside LangGraph), offering a more unified agent design and lowering enterprise risk. Available in both Python and JavaScript, this signals confidence in the framework’s maturity and sets the stage for a full release later in October.

🖼️ Immersive: A new AI model lets you transform still photos into navigable 3D worlds but brace yourself: it demands significant GPU heft and comes with some visual caveats. Still, the leap toward explorable virtual environments hints at a future we’re just starting to touch.

AI SPECIAL EDITION

🤖📖 OpenAI’s enterprise AI playbook

OpenAI just unveiled a crisp and actionable enterprise playbook, Staying Ahead in the Age of AI: A Leadership Guide and it’s more than just theory. This guide distills lessons from real-world collaborators - Moderna, Estée Lauder, Notion, BBVA into five commanding principles: align, activate, amplify, accelerate, and govern.

The smartest insight? AI isn’t just cool tech, it’s a survival tool. Organizations must tie AI strategy directly to business value, not buzz. Moderna led the way by mandating 20 ChatGPT uses a day, embedding AI into company DNA.

Another standout: leaders need to role‑model AI usage. When executives demonstrate hands-on use like drafting contracts or analyzing trends, it normalizes experimentation and erases cultural inertia. It’s not about steering the ship; it’s about inviting the team aboard.

Why this matters today: frontier AI models are accelerating 5.6× more releases since 2022; costs have dropped 280×; AI’s adoption pace is 4× faster than desktop internet. Early adopters are already seeing 1.5× the revenue growth of peers. 

AI PROMPT OF THE DAY

🧘‍♀️📱 Prompt for designing an app interface for a meditation app

Prompt: Design a clean, calming, and user-friendly interface for a meditation app. Include essential screens like a home dashboard, guided session library, progress tracker, daily reminders, and a soothing sound or ambiance selector. Use colors, typography, and icons that promote relaxation, simplicity, and intuitive navigation.

Helpful? Check out our best AI prompts!

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Until tomorrow!

Shinky & the Hanoomaan AI team