Here’s a new episode of The Reddy Rundown, crafted so you don’t have to frantically follow everything in the AI news space wondering what you're missing as an exec in 2025 trying to keep up. My lens is simple: I’m a marketing systems architect first, CEO second. If the tools don’t move the funnel — from awareness to action — they’re noise. This week, they’re anything but.

Let’s get into what matters for operators, brand builders, and modern marketers.

Google Doubles Down: Pixel 10 Is a Trojan Horse for AI

Google just dropped the Pixel 10 lineup and it’s not about hardware — it’s about an operating system for attention. With the new Tensor G5 chip and over 20 AI features baked in, this device is becoming a behavioral data machine with a user interface.

This isn’t gimmicky.

• Magic Cue can pull up flight info, calendar events, and message replies in real time across apps — context is finally crossing silos.

• Live Translate keeps the speaker’s voice intact while translating live calls across 10 languages.

• Gemini Live offers real-time visual prompts on-screen, like your own AI director for tasks.

  
  

My take:

This isn’t just phone wars. It’s marketing real estate. If your product is AI-native, this device becomes a content surface. If you're running campaigns or prompts, this is your chance to inject into searchless discovery — the phone anticipates before intent is typed. Apple’s lag here is a huge window for brands using Google infrastructure to own more of the journey.

Marketing use case:

Launch a Pixel-optimized version of your onboarding experience. Think bite-sized AI-activated walkthroughs triggered by context: install, launch, recommend.

GPT-5 in Microsoft 365: Welcome to the Email Gamechanger

Microsoft’s 365 Copilot now supports GPT-5 — and it isn’t about summarizing threads. It learns your writing tone and generates custom replies, by analyzing your actual inbox behavior.

Here’s what stood out:

• You can now ask it to summarize decision threads and draft replies based on how you’ve historically written to different roles (execs vs. team vs. clients).

• You don’t need to feed it tone guides. The system builds them from your own behavior.

  
  

My take:

Executives spend 2+ hours a day in email. This is how you cut that in half. But more importantly, it’s how brand voice can scale internally without losing fidelity. The tone you’ve worked hard to shape? Now replicated with precision.

Marketing use case:

Use GPT-5 in customer success workflows to ensure every follow-up email sounds like your best rep — even when it’s AI behind the keyboard. Deploy it to re-engage high-LTV leads without hiring a bigger team.

Gemini Moves Into the Home (And Your Brand’s Living Room)

Google just confirmed Gemini will replace the old Assistant across Nest devices. That means your smart speaker, thermostat, and displays are about to get upgraded with multi-device awareness, real-time memory, and conversational understanding.

Key upgrade:

• Gemini for Home will hold natural convos, understand complex chained commands, and even suggest dinner based on your fridge contents.

• Free and paid tiers are rolling out in October.

  
  

My take:

The home is the next digital battleground — and Google wants to own the ambient layer. For brands, this opens up new channels for contextual offers, content, and support. But only if you’re building conversational systems now.

Marketing use case:

Imagine launching a recipe brand and partnering with Gemini to serve up AI-suggested dishes triggered by what’s in someone's fridge. That’s not science fiction — it’s next quarter’s campaign if you build the right hooks.

NASA’s Surya AI Model Predicts Solar Storms — Why That Matters to Us

NASA and IBM just dropped an open-source AI model called Surya that predicts solar flares using nine years of solar data. It’s 16 percent more accurate than previous models and could protect satellites, grid infrastructure, and astronauts.

So what?

My take:

As we build more serverless, distributed, AI-powered infrastructure, downtime risk matters — a lot. This is more than cool science. It's about protecting uptime and continuity for any system that relies on the cloud — aka, all of marketing.

Marketing use case:

Use this as a case study in your next trust-based email campaign: “We built redundancy to weather literal storms — because uptime means revenue.”

Tools I’m Testing — and How I’d Use Them

Below are a few new tools I’ve explored this week — and exactly how I’d apply them in a marketing system:

Warp AI-native terminal for developers with MCP integrations Build and deploy GPT-automated marketing dashboards directly into your dev flow

ZapConnect (Sept 25) Live virtual event from Zapier on AI automation Great for picking up new workflow blueprints for content repurposing or lead routing

Surya on HuggingFace NASA + IBM open-sourced solar prediction model Create high-authority thought leadership around AI for climate risk or tech resilience

Final Thought

If you’re building or leading anything in 2025, AI isn’t just your assistant — it’s becoming the operating system for your customer journey. The tools above aren’t hype. They’re leverage. The faster you integrate, the faster you ship with confidence.

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