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• 🔥 Top News of the WEEK: OpenAI's o3 Just Learned to "Think With Images"

• Marketing Corner: How AI Made This Marketer $17K in 24 Hours (Steal the framework!!)

• 💼 AI News Corner: Starbucks’ Mood-Matching Playlists and more

• 🧠 Friday’s Lunch and Learn: AI Tools You Need to Try This Weekend

🍹 MOCK MARGARITA : THE ROCKING AI CORNER

🚨 OpenAI's o3 Just Learned to "Think With Images"

What just happened: OpenAI dropped its most advanced model yet—o3—with a capability that's genuinely mind-blowing: the ability to "think with images." This isn't just recognizing what's in pictures; o3 can understand complex diagrams, interpret sketches, and reason through visual information in ways previous models couldn't touch

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Why it matters:

• Engineers can sketch rough ideas and have AI understand and expand on them

• Students can snap photos of complex diagrams and get intelligent explanations

• Designers can iterate through visual concepts with AI that "gets" visual language

• Medical professionals can analyze images with AI that understands anatomical relationships

Already being used by: Architects at Foster + Partners, researchers at Johns Hopkins, and (somewhat controversially) financial analysts examining visual market data at Goldman Sachs.

Check it out here

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🌮 TACOS DISH: WACKY AI TOOLS & TIPS

1. AI-Generated April Fools’ Pranks Backfire—Here’s How to Avoid Looking Dumb

Google’s AI fell for a fake story about Cwmbran having the “world’s highest roundabout density” (thanks to a journalist’s prank). Hack this:

• Use Originality.ai to fact-check AI content before publishing.

• Viral tip: Add “/sarcasm” or “/joke” tags in prompts to avoid accidental misinformation.

2. Starbucks’ Mood-Matching Playlists Are Coming to Your Ads

Starbucks’ AI now curates playlists based on customer moods (sales ↑18%). Steal this:

• Use Soundraw.io to generate emotion-matched jingles for TikTok ads.

• Pair with Uizard’s AI emotion-detection UX tools to personalize landing pages5.

3. Steal This Campaign:

🌮 SALSA DISH: MARKETING CORNER

🎥 How AI Made This Marketer $17K in 24 Hours

If the stats are anything to go by, AI isn't just changing marketing—it's revolutionizing it. According to the new 2025 State of AI in Marketing Report:

• 93% of marketers using AI generate content faster

• 68% report increased content marketing ROI

• 90% say AI accelerates decision-making

• 79% highlight improved efficiency as the top benefit

But the real story isn't in these numbers. It's with people like Sarah Mendez, a solo digital marketer who used AI to launch a campaign that generated $17,000 in 24 hours for her client's SaaS product.

Her exact playbook:

1. Used Claude 3.5 Sonnet to analyze 200+ customer testimonials and identify key pain points

2. Generated 50+ ad variations with targeted messaging using Meta's new AI Copy Analyzer

3. Deployed Amazon's Nova Reel to create short-form videos that maintained visual consistency

4. Let Google's Firebase Studio build a custom landing page optimized for conversion

What's next: Industry insiders predict the gap between AI-powered marketers and traditional marketers will only widen in 2025, with Gartner forecasting a 32% productivity difference by year-end.

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Ultimate Voice AI Agent Prompting guide (download here):

🥑 GUACAMOLE DISH : FRIDAY’S LUNCH AND LEARN

5 AI Tools You Need to Try This Weekend

1. SubMagic – Create viral short videos in 5 minutes with this all-in-one AI editor that's generating insane engagement rates

2. Nova Reel – Amazon's new video generation tool creates up to 2-minute clips with consistent style throughout (no more mid-video style whiplash)

3. Crescendo AI – This new social media content analyzer predicts which posts will go viral with 78% accuracy, based on your specific audience

4. GPT-4.1 nano – OpenAI's smallest model yet still packs a punch but fits on mobile devices for lightning-fast responses

5. Orion Privacy Shield – The first consumer app built on NYU's breakthrough encryption tech, letting you use AI without exposing your data

Keep crushing it,

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That’s a wrap

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Keep crushing it (while your AI crushes those token prices),

Neel (@alternativeai9)

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