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AI didn't take the weekend off. Neither did we. Here's every move that mattered last week: top stories, the pod, and tools for you before you’ve had your second coffee. Five minutes. Done.
📰 Catch Up On Your Reading
AI prices hit new record lows — Google launches Pics to challenge Canva and Adobe as model costs plummet across providers. → Read the full issue
OpenAI launches Astra model — ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all went down simultaneously as OpenAI unveiled its newest flagship. → Read the full issue
Anthropic ships cheaper Fable 5.1 — NYC bans student AI through 8th grade as Anthropic cuts costs on its storytelling model. → Read the full issue
ChatGPT faces tougher EU rules — Instagram limits reach of undisclosed AI profiles while Brussels tightens oversight on OpenAI. → Read the full issue
US struggles to tame runaway AI — Texas Governor freezes $30M in AI surveillance funding as federal regulation stalls. → Read the full issue
🎙️ Last Week's Podcast
⚡️ How an Aerospace Engineer Is Reengineering Financial Planning — Braden traded a PhD in aerospace acoustics for rebuilding how Canadians plan their money, explains why PWL built its own AI meeting note tool and data lake instead of buying off-the-shelf, and walks through Monte Carlo simulations, the six areas of a real financial plan, and what financial planning might look like by 2031.
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