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🤖 Introducing Nano Banana
PLUS: Class-action suit claims Otter AI secretly records private work conversations
Cliff Worley
September 01, 2025
Happy Monday!
I was expecting a calm week, but it turned out to be quite eventful in the world of AI! Google just rolled out their latest image model, "Nano Banana," and it's definitely worth exploring. It's even more impressive than ChatGPT's image model. Plus, we received an updated list of the top 100 AI apps for 2025, giving us a glimpse of the long-term leaders in the field. Oh, and I've got a fresh prompt for you this week too!
PROMPT: You are my personal productivity coach. Break my to-do list into high, medium, and low-priority tasks, give me a 3-step action plan to finish the high-priority ones today, and suggest 2 quick hacks to stay focused while working.
Enjoy!
In Today’s Edition:
🤯 Introducing Nano Banana - Google’s new image model
🛠️ 7 new AI tools that will 10x your productivity
😮 Class-action suit claims Otter AI secretly records private work conversations
🤖 AI that helps you sell better live
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🤖 Nomi — AI helps you sell better live
🖼 Pikto AI Studio — All-in-one AI image toolkit
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🆇 POSTS OF THE WEEK
🚨 Announcing the latest @a16z top 100 AI apps!
This marks the fifth edition 🎉 of our global ranking of consumer AI websites and mobile apps by usage.
And in my opinion, it was our most surprising list yet!
Our top takeaways + who made it 👇
— Olivia Moore (@omooretweets)
3:31 PM • Aug 27, 2025
Our new native image generation and editing is state-of-the-art, and ranked #1 in the world. And we're rolling it out for free to everyone today.
You’ve got the tools. Now go bananas. Ideas & inspiration in the 🧵below.
— Google Gemini App (@GeminiApp)
2:02 PM • Aug 26, 2025
Fuck AI.
Don’t even think about it if your team sucks.
If your big plan is “AI will make us better”… nah.
It’ll just make you suck faster.
Fix your team.
Fix your ops.
Then add AI.That’s when it actually hits.
— Nikita Andriievskyi (@NAndriievskyi)
12:38 PM • Aug 27, 2025
This ChatGPT prompt literally unlocks 100% of ChatGPT-5's power🤯
— Min Choi (@minchoi)
3:27 AM • Aug 26, 2025
☕️ THE EXTRAS
One year ago today, I wrote Apple And Nvidia May Drop Some Serious Money Into OpenAI
The most clicked link in last week’s newsletter: Shadow AI economy booms while headlines cry failure
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That’s it for this time! See you next week.
— Cliff Worley