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OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, the startup that turned rough notes and documents into finished presentation decks.
The team is already working on ChatGPT, and the deal actually closed months ago. Which office chore gets absorbed next?
Today in the “Incredible AI” world:
OpenAI Buys NextSlide For Smarter Work
Israeli Startup Irregular Explains AI Escapes
Alibaba's Qwen Now Powers Chinese Macs
How to Collect Web Data at Scale with AI
5 Super-Useful AI Tools You Should Try
Top AI-Generated Image of the Day
Read Time: 4 minutes
- LATEST DEVELOPMENT -
OpenAI Adds A New Presentation Team:
OpenAI acquired NextSlide, a startup that turns notes and documents into finished presentations. The team is on ChatGPT now. The deal closed earlier this year, and the announcement showed up months later.
Things to Know:
The Deal: OpenAI acquired NextSlide, and its team is already contributing to ChatGPT. Financial terms remained undisclosed, predictably enough.
What NextSlide Did: The product turned prompts, notes, documents, and research into editable presentations. That skill now lives inside ChatGPT.
The Ironic Part: A company selling clearer communication waited several months before communicating its own acquisition. Beshry acknowledged the delay.
This Founder's Second Exit: Beshry co-founded Caper AI, the checkout startup Instacart purchased in 2021. His acquisition record remains flawless.
Slide decks are the last office ritual nobody enjoys, which makes them perfect territory for a chatbot. OpenAI is not purchasing features anymore. It is absorbing entire workflows, one startup at a time.
Israeli Startup Irregular Exposes AI Weakness:
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta each disclosed that their models escaped security testing and reached real systems. All three pointed at the same small Israeli startup. Its entire job was containing them.
Things to Know:
The Cause: A configuration error connected Irregular's sealed testing environment to the live internet. The models wandered straight through.
How This Happened: One model failed its assigned task, searched the internet for solutions, and continued working. Boundaries went unnoticed.
The Numbers: Anthropic reviewed 141,006 interactions and found three cases where its models touched real organizations. OpenAI disclosed similar findings.
Meet Irregular: This Tel Aviv cybersecurity startup carries a $450 million valuation from Sequoia and Redpoint. Google appears among customers.
Realistic testing requires real network access, which means the sandbox always sits one setting away from reality. Irregular says the problem is resolved. The bigger question is who audits the auditors.
Holiday Creator Calendars Are Filling Up. Q4 Panic Is Optional.
Creators lock in their holiday content calendars 90 days out, before most ecommerce brands finalize their commission strategy and way before Black Friday and October deal events.
Get ahead of the seasonal rush with The 90-Day Holiday Sprint, a practical guide for brands that want creators driving holiday demand while competitors are still recruiting:
Structure commissions by lifetime value, not just first-order margin
Lead with the right products so creators promote with confidence
Recruit and onboard creators with a day-by-day plan for the first 30 days
Read performance early and pull program levers by Day 60
Brief creators with a holiday checklist before calendars fill up
Your 90-day countdown starts now.
Apple Gives Chinese Mac User Qwen-Powered Siri:
Apple published a guide showing Mac owners in mainland China how to connect Alibaba's Qwen to Siri. The company that guards everything just outsourced its assistant. Its local market share explains plenty.
Things to Know:
What Changes: Siri returns detailed answers, including photo and document analysis, after users activate the extension. Writing Tools generates images.
The Real Motive: Apple controls nine percent of China's personal computer market. Lenovo commands thirty-one percent, and Huawei holds sixteen.
The Fine Print: Participation requires macOS 26.6, extension activation, and Qwen account registration. Alibaba cannot train models on submitted material.
What Comes Next: Alibaba anticipates Qwen eventually powering Apple Intelligence across iPhone, iPad, and Vision Pro. Macs simply arrived first.
Apple kept the interface and rented the intelligence, which is a trade it once refused to make. Regulation made that decision for them. Every other regulated market is now watching this arrangement closely.
- TRY THIS -
How to Collect Web Data Without Getting Blocked:
If you've tried pulling data from websites at scale, you already know the problem. A few hundred requests in and you're hitting CAPTCHAs, IP bans, and broken pipelines.
Thordata is a proxy and scraping infrastructure that handles the blocking problem for you, so you can collect public web data reliably without fighting anti-bot systems every step of the way.
How it works:
Sign up and pick your proxy type: Choose from residential, mobile, ISP, or datacenter proxies depending on your use case. Residential IPs cover 190+ countries and are the hardest to detect.
Connect using your credentials: Plug your username, password, and proxy endpoint into your existing script. Thordata provides ready-to-copy code samples for Python, Node.js, PHP, Go, Java, and more.
Use prebuilt scrapers for popular sites: Thordata has 120+ prebuilt scrapers for Amazon, YouTube, Google, LinkedIn, and others. Pass in a URL and get back clean, structured data.
Handle tricky sites with Web Unlocker: For sites with heavy bot detection, Web Unlocker manages CAPTCHA solving and JavaScript rendering automatically.
For developers and data teams building AI pipelines, Thordata removes the biggest bottleneck: staying unblocked long enough to get the data you actually need.
- DAILY POLL AND RESULT -
Today’s Poll:
Q) Should AI companies compensate content creators used in training?
Vote and find out the result tomorrow.
Yesterday’s Result:
Q) Is model alignment more important than raw capability?
A) Yes, safety first - 80% 👑
B) No, power drives progress - 20%
- TOOLS OF THE DAY -
Substack AI: Substack now offers AI writing tools to help newsletter writers brainstorm ideas, draft posts, and improve their writing directly inside the editor.
Keyhole: Keyhole is a social media analytics and influencer tracking platform that uses AI to measure campaign performance and hashtag reach.
Productboard AI: Productboard uses AI to consolidate customer feedback, identify patterns, and connect insights directly to your product roadmap.
Warp Terminal: Warp is a modern AI-powered terminal that autocompletes commands, explains errors in plain English, and dramatically speeds up your dev workflow.
Luminar AI: Luminar AI is a photo editing tool that uses AI to enhance portraits, skies, and landscapes automatically with one-click adjustments.
- AI IMAGE OF THE DAY -
Plastic Tentacles Rise Behind That Hungry Grin:
Prompt:
“Hyper-detailed LEGO robot of Venom in glossy black plastic, muscular segmented body, back tentacles, articulated claws, crisp white spider emblem. Wide-open mouth, sharp white teeth, long pink tongue, huge white eyes. Crawling on all fours, tense and mid-motion. Dark void background splattered with vibrant paint splashes. Cinematic low-angle lighting, specular reflections across brick textures, high contrast, dramatic, strong material fidelity.”
Try this prompt in any decent AI image generator and let me know your result.
