This Week in AI: 10 Things That’ll Break Your Brain (In a Good Way)

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Hey,

Let’s drop the polished tone for a second.

Because if you’ve been paying attention, this week didn’t feel like “AI news.”

It felt like something broke open.

OpenAI didn’t just drop GPT-4o — they killed the interface.
Voice, vision, real-time. You talk to it, it listens, it reacts.
Not in some “beta access” way. It’s here.

I’ve been saying this for months — prompts are a bridge.
Interfaces are a crutch.
The future is fluid, ambient, and invisible.

And now it’s happening.

At the same time, Rewind launched agents that literally clone how you work.

Not “suggest” tools. Not “summarize” your meetings.
But actually observe you, learn your patterns, and execute like a second brain.

This isn’t automation.
It’s replication.

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Gemini 1.5 Pro also dropped something wild: 2 million-token context.

You know what that means?

You can feed it a book.
A podcast.
A full-stack codebase.
And it remembers — not just for that session, but across interactions.

This isn’t a chatbot.
This is long-term memory + reasoning.
And it changes how you work.

Let me be clear:

If you’re still using AI just to brainstorm blog ideas,
you’re miles behind what’s now possible.

This moment — right now — is a phase shift.

We’ve moved past “play.”
This is infrastructure.
It’s the layer beneath productivity, products, workflows — all of it.

So what do you do about it?

You stop “using AI” like a gimmick.
And you start building with it as your core operating system.

If your business doesn’t change,
your competitors — or someone with a laptop and an agent — will change it for you.

This is the leverage moment.
Use it.

Talk soon,
– VF