A new report found the heaviest AI spenders are actually growing headcount, not shrinking it.
Entry-level roles rose 12%, even as other studies show AI erasing thousands monthly. So who actually gets to ride this wave?
Today in the “Incredible AI” world:
The Heaviest AI Spenders Keep Hiring
OpenAI Made a Macro Pad, Not Magic
Meta's AI Reads Brains While Typing
How to Have Crystal Clear Calls Using AI
5 Super-Useful AI Tools You Should Try
Top AI-Generated Image of the Day
Read Time: 4 minutes
- LATEST DEVELOPMENTS -
AI Spending Sparks Unexpected Hiring Surge:
Turns out the companies pouring money into AI are also hiring like crazy. Entry-level roles included. The whole doomsday narrative just got harder to defend, and the numbers are doing the heavy lifting.
Things to Know:
The Headline Number: A new Ramp and Revelio Labs report says high-intensity AI spenders expanded headcount by 10.2%. That quietly contradicts doomsday predictions.
The Junior Job Surprise: Among these tech-forward firms, entry-level headcount actually rose 12%. Meanwhile Goldman Sachs reported AI erasing roughly 16,000 jobs each month.
Here Is the Catch: The data skews heavily toward VC-backed tech firms that were probably expanding anyway. So correlation and causation become genuinely blurry.
The Real Divide: Firms that only purchase subscriptions and run pilots showed no headcount gains. Sustained investment is what separates the winners long-term.
The takeaway is uncomfortable. AI might not be replacing workers so much as rewarding the companies that were already winning. The divide between the well-resourced and the rest just got a little wider.
OpenAI's First Hardware Is a Keypad:
Everybody is waiting for that sleek Sam Altman and Jony Ive device to reinvent computing. Instead, OpenAI's very first hardware drop is a tiny button pad. A glorified keypad, basically, for developers.
Things to Know:
What It Actually Is: OpenAI teased a Codex hardware accessory dropping July 15, created with keyboard company Work Louder. The caption promised shortcut upgrades.
The Tiny Detail: The silhouette resembles Work Louder's well-loved Creator Micro 2. It includes thirteen mechanical switches, a joystick, and a touch sensor.
Wait, Where Is Jony Ive: This is not the secretive Jony Ive super-device everyone keeps anticipating. That project remains hidden, with no confirmed launch timeline.
Why It Matters: A physical product means OpenAI sees enough repetitive Codex usage to justify dedicated buttons. Five million weekly users press constantly.
The future of AI hardware was supposed to look like glossy science fiction. Instead it showed up as a humble little square of buttons for developers. Sometimes the unglamorous tool actually sells best.
Everything is coming into focus.
Join beehiiv live on July 16th at 1PM ET for a first look at the future of audience-led business.
This isn’t just another feature launch (though there will be plenty of those). It’s a look at a more connected future for creators and brands that are tired of juggling disconnected tools, platforms, and data.
If you care about building an audience online, this is worth your time.
Meta’s AI Reads Typed Words From Brainwaves:
A computer just reconstructed full sentences straight from the magnetic fields leaking out of someone's skull while they typed. No implant, no surgery whatsoever. Sixty-one percent accuracy, up from a sad eight.
Things to Know:
What Meta Built: Meta's FAIR lab released Brain2Qwerty v2, which decodes typed sentences from non-invasive brain recordings in real time. No implant required.
The Numbers Are Wild: Brain2Qwerty v2 reaches 61% average word accuracy, dwarfing the 8% earlier non-invasive systems managed. Its best participant somehow reached 78%.
How It Pulls This Off: A MEG scanner captures the magnetic fields your neurons produce. A multi-stage deep learning pipeline reconstructs those into coherent text.
The Catch: This remains research, not a polished product. The MEG scanner requires a magnetically shielded chamber plus a perfectly motionless participant.
Accuracy climbs steadily with more data, so the surgical implant gap might eventually close without a scalpel. For people who cannot speak, that is everything. The line between thought and text keeps thinning.
- TRY THIS -
Let AI Fix Your Audio Before Your Next Meeting:
You are in the middle of an important client call and your neighbor decides that is the perfect time to start drilling. Or the dog barks. Or someone in the background is having their own full conversation. We have all been there, and it is not a great look.
Krisp is a Voice AI tool that removes background noise in real time, takes notes during your meetings, and converts accents for clearer communication. It works with every calling app you already use, Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, Slack, and anything else.
Here's how to use it:
Download and install Krisp: Sign up for free and install the desktop app on Mac or Windows. There is also a Chrome extension if you primarily use Google Meet in the browser. Setup takes a couple of minutes and no technical knowledge is needed.
Select Krisp as your microphone and speaker: Once installed, go to your calling app's audio settings and select Krisp as your microphone and speaker. That is all the configuration required. Every call you make from that point runs through Krisp automatically.
Let noise cancellation handle the rest: Krisp filters out background noise, echo, and cross-talk in real time on both ends of the call. The person you are speaking to sounds cleaner too, not just you. You can toggle it on and off mid-call if you ever need to.
Use Accent Conversion for clearer communication: If you or someone on your team speaks with a strong accent that sometimes causes misunderstandings, Krisp's Accent AI can convert your voice to a clearer, more neutral accent in real time without changing who you are or how you naturally speak.
Get AI meeting notes automatically: Krisp's built-in AI note taker records, transcribes, and summarizes your calls as they happen. After the meeting, you get a clean summary with action items ready to share or push to Slack, HubSpot, or Salesforce.
If you spend a good chunk of your week on calls and still deal with audio problems or scrambled notes afterward, Krisp takes both of those off your plate.
- DAILY POLL AND RESULT -
Today’s Poll:
Q) Should AI help plan content calendars?
Vote and find out the result tomorrow.
Yesterday’s Result:
Q) Is AI making online courses easier to launch?
A) Yes, content generation helps - 92% 👑
B) No, marketing still hard - 8%
- TOOLS OF THE DAY -
ElevenLabs: ElevenLabs turns any text into natural-sounding speech in 32 languages, with voice cloning built right in.
Grain: Grain automatically records, transcribes, and highlights the most important moments from your video meetings so you never miss a key point.
Motion: Motion builds your daily schedule automatically by combining your meetings, tasks, and deadlines into one optimized plan every morning.
Aragon AI: Aragon AI generates high-quality professional headshots from regular selfies, delivering studio-quality results in just a few minutes.
Cursor: Cursor is an AI-first code editor that can rewrite, explain, and generate code right alongside you as you work.
- AI IMAGE OF THE DAY -
Wild West Welcomes Its Furriest Gunslinger:
Prompt:
“A massive grizzly bear dressed as a rugged cowboy, wearing a leather hat, vest, and holster, strides confidently into a crowded Wild West saloon. Patrons turn to stare as warm lantern light spills across wooden floors and a busy bar. Dusty, cinematic atmosphere with rich detail. Digital art, painted illustration style, dramatic lighting, vivid colors, expressive characters, frontier western setting.”
Try this prompt in any decent AI image generator and let me know your result.
