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Today’s AI Menu

▪️ Amazon hit a massive milestone, Capital one’s Agentic AI, Meta’s big reboot, founders’ new hustle & more

▪️ Tutorial: How to use Taskade for organizing tasks, notes, and team projects with AI?

▪️ 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

▪️ AI Special Edition: Why Agentic AI needs tough testing now?

▪️ AI Daily Prompt

TODAY IN WORLD OF AI

🤖Robots & models: Amazon’s AI double punch

“Scale is not just data, it’s deployment.”

Amazon just hit a massive milestone: deploying its 1 millionth robot and launching a new homegrown foundation AI model.

While headlines scream “robot takeover,” there’s a deeper startup lesson here:

✅ Innovation sticks when it’s stacked.
Robots alone are great. AI alone is powerful. But together? They amplify each other, smarter warehouses, faster delivery, better margins.

✅ Moats are built in layers.
Amazon’s physical robot fleet feeds real-world data back into its AI model training loop. That’s scale you can’t copy with an LLM alone in the cloud.

✅ Deploy or die.
Too many founders worship the ‘perfect’ model. But value is captured when code moves metal or reaches end-users. Amazon’s 1 million bots aren’t just hype. They’re moving packages today.

Takeaway for builders: Think beyond code. Where will your AI live? How will it interact with the messy physical world? The next unicorns will blend digital intelligence with physical execution.

THE AI INSTITUTE

How to use Taskade for organizing tasks, notes, and team projects with AI?

▪️ Sign up at taskade.com

▪️ Start a new project or choose a template (e.g., mind map, to-do list).

▪️ Use the AI Assistant to expand ideas or generate outlines.

▪️ Invite your team and collaborate in real time.

▪️ Export or track progress.

FOOD FOR PRODUCTIVITY

5 tools for your productivity

🧮Spell.so: Create smart forms powered by AI that answer user questions or perform calculations.

🖍️Draw Things: AI image generator that runs locally on your device for private and fast outputs.

📈Lamini AI: A developer-first platform for fine-tuning and deploying private LLMs at scale.

🧹AutoSlide: Turn raw notes or prompts into ready-to-use professional slides in seconds.

🎞️QuickVid AI: Turn blog posts or product descriptions into vertical videos in seconds.

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EVERYTHING ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW

💼Hustle: Startups are embracing a surprising new norm, founders juggling multiple gigs. Soham Parekh’s take? This multi-hat approach might be the secret sauce to surviving today’s relentless startup grind.

🚗Ignite: Capital One just pulled the wraps off Agentic AI, a state-of-the-art sales assistant designed to supercharge auto sales. Think of it as a digital co-pilot guiding every deal from test drive to signature.

🧠Reboot: Meta’s next big bet? Chasing AI superintelligence but critics say it sounds suspiciously like the Metaverse déjà vu. After a pricey flop in virtual worlds, Zuckerberg’s crew is swinging for a brainy comeback.

🔌Fuse: xAI just secured an air permit to run its monster supercomputer but neighbors fear the pollution fallout. Elon’s AI venture needs massive power, but at what cost to the environment?

AI SPECIAL EDITION

🧩Agentic AI: Trust needs testing

“Before autonomy, prove reliability.”

Everyone’s hyped about “agentic AI”, AIs that plan, act, adapt. But here’s the hard truth: without robust evaluation infrastructure, that hype can crash fast.

🔍Why this matters?

Big tech players: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind know that agents making autonomous choices can spark real-world chaos if they fail silently. Bad agents don’t just hallucinate, they act on those hallucinations.

🧠The new moat isn’t just a smarter agent. It’s trust.

That trust comes from rigorous, continuous eval: red teaming, scenario testing, stress-testing edge cases. Think aviation checklists for software.

🛠️Startup founders take note:
If you’re building agentic AI sales bots, autonomous research assistants, self-improving tools bake eval into your roadmap early. Treat it like DevOps for decision-making.

✅ Evaluate in public if you can, transparency builds user trust and attracts partners who want assurance, not just performance.

🚦Remember: The first players to deploy agents that don’t break things will win the real market share.

AI PROMPT OF THE DAY

Prompt for listing 5 solvency ratios to assess financial health

Prompt: List 5 key solvency ratios that help assess a company’s long-term financial health and ability to meet its debt obligations. For each ratio, include the formula, a short explanation of what it measures, and why it’s important for investors or analysts to monitor.

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Thanks for reading.

Until tomorrow!

Shinky & the Hanoomaan AI team