Good morning — Abe here.

If you’ve been trying to keep up with AI news lately and feel like every headline is either a billion-dollar deal or a confusing product drop… you’re not alone.

This week, I filtered the noise so you don’t have to — and pulled the stuff that actually matters if you run a business, manage a team, or just want smarter tools in your corner.

Let’s get into it.

Anthropic hits $183B — but here’s what really matters

Anthropic just raised $13B. That’s a headline. But the real story?

Abe’s take: Claude isn’t the “other” model anymore — it’s the one enterprise buyers actually want. It’s safer, easier to integrate, and apparently, it’s got your compliance team on speed dial.

Claude Code is now pulling in $500M/year. 300K+ enterprise accounts. And yes, they finally took that Gulf money they said no to last year. Why? Because compute is the new oil — and the race to power AI workflows is heating up fast.

If you’re building marketing or sales systems? Claude just became hard to ignore.

OpenAI buys Statsig — growth engineering goes in-house

They didn’t just acquire a tool — they hired a roadmap.

OpenAI’s $1.1B all-stock buy of Statsig (A/B testing, feature flags, growth analytics) is about one thing: shipping better products, faster.

Abe’s take: This tells me OpenAI wants to be more than a model lab — they want to build the pipes. And soon, your CTA, subject line, and onboarding flow might all be AI-tested and deployed without anyone lifting a finger.

Statsig’s founder is now CTO of Applications. That means ChatGPT and Codex product velocity? About to get real.

Google’s “Nano Banana” actually slaps (yes, really)

Worst name. Surprisingly useful tool.

Nano Banana is Google’s new image model that turns your basic product shot into a subway ad, billboard, or magazine layout — for 4 cents an image.

Abe’s take: Finally — an AI tool that’s practical. If you pitch clients, sell products, or need campaign mockups before spending on production, this is your secret weapon.

Workflow I’m testing:

• Upload your product image to Gemini (toggle “Create Images”)

• Prompt: “Place in ad environments — billboard, train station, etc.”

• Drop results into pitch decks, emails, or proposals to pre-visualize value

• Bonus: Turn those stills into Veo videos in 2 minutes

  
  

This is how you test 10 campaigns without blowing your budget.

Tencent Voyager builds 3D worlds from a single image

No dev team. No Unity. Just drop a photo and you’re walking through a virtual version of it.

Abe’s take: This isn’t metaverse hype — it’s brand experience on demand. Think virtual showrooms, interactive onboarding, AI-built trade booths. The stuff that used to cost $100K+ in dev and design? It’s becoming a solo marketer’s side project.

The AI remembers the space as you explore it. You can export the environments. You can even control movement with a joystick. This is 3D spatial memory — and it’s coming for your next product demo.

Tools I'm Testing (and Where They Fit in Real Workflows)

Here’s what I’m using — and how it actually plugs into life or business:

• Claude Code (Anthropic) — Automate outbound tweaks, edit dashboards, or ship custom landing pages with no engineering hold-up

• Nano Banana (Google) — Rapid-fire ad mockups, pre-visualize client campaigns, or pitch faster with visual proof

• Statsig (now OpenAI) — Run A/B tests in your email, site, or LinkedIn hook messaging — without bottlenecks

• Hostinger VPS + n8n — Build automations on your terms, with zero cloud billing surprises (and full GDPR compliance)

• Tencent Voyager — Create explorable demos or training experiences with just one product photo

Final Thought: Better Tools Don’t Build Better Businesses — Systems Do

Anthropic. OpenAI. Tencent. None of them are just chasing shiny models.

They’re building infrastructure. Workflow glue. Quiet systems behind the scenes.

Abe’s take: You don’t need a million tools. You need a system that compounds. Start with one use case. Automate a workflow. Get your reps in.

Want to stay ahead of AI — not the hype, just the real tech quietly changing how we live, work, and parent? Join our free AI Advantage community here: The AI Advantage Community — Thanks for reading, Abe.