Today, we’re bringing you the latest in AI-powered marketing and business strategies. Here’s what’s inside:
🚨 AI Top Story: See why Google’s latest update is pulling users away from ChatGPT in record numbers.
🎯 AI Tool Of The Week: Discover a smarter way to coach reps with lifelike simulations and instant feedback.
✨ One Quick AI Hack: Turn Codex into your spreadsheet assistant and let it handle the boring stuff for you.
🎥 AI YouTube Resource Of The Week: See how Codex handles complex coding tasks with surprising speed.
Google Gemini Just Overtook ChatGPT On The App Store
The Feature Turning Gemini Into a Daily Habit
There’s a new king of the app charts, and it isn’t ChatGPT. Google’s Gemini just surged past OpenAI thanks to a viral feature with a strange name: Nano Banana. On the surface it sounds silly, but this update is dead serious. In just two weeks, users created over 500 million images with it, pushing Gemini to the number one spot on Apple’s free apps list in both the US and UK.
So what’s Nano Banana? It’s an advanced image editing and generation model that nails one of the hardest problems in AI visuals: consistency. Instead of producing one-off pictures, it can keep characters or objects looking the same across multiple prompts and edits. It also lets users blend different images together, make precise transformations with plain language, and lean on Gemini’s world knowledge to fill in details seamlessly. Think less “random AI art generator” and more “Photoshop with superpowers.”
The virality comes from just how well it works. People are using it to tweak photos, remix memes, and spin up imaginative edits that feel polished instead of glitchy. And because it’s fun, shareable, and surprisingly reliable, the tool has spread like wildfire across social platforms. Google’s decision to watermark every output, both visibly and invisibly, has also helped it dodge some of the trust issues that plague AI image tools.
The bigger story here is what this signals about adoption. The AI race won’t be won by whoever builds the most technically advanced model in the lab. It will be won by whoever can package those models into tools people actually enjoy using every day, while putting enough guardrails in place to make them feel safe to share. Nano Banana may sound like a gimmick, but it’s showing just how fast mass adoption can happen when those ingredients come together.
🌮 How Yum’s AI factory supercharges marketing at Taco Bell and beyond - See how Yum is building an AI “factory” that powers smarter campaigns at Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and KFC, and what that model could mean for your own marketing playbook.
🤝 5 Ways Content Marketers Can Build Consumer Trust Through Responsible Personalization And AI - Learn how to personalise with AI without crossing the “creepy” line, and discover practical tactics to strengthen trust while boosting engagement.
🎥 How brands and creators are fighting for your attention and your money - Explore the tug-of-war between brands and creators, and why authentic partnerships are becoming the key to capturing, and keeping, audience loyalty.
🛒 OpenAI to Add Native Order Checkout and Tracking Features to ChatGPT Apps - Get a first look at how ChatGPT is moving into e-commerce, with built-in checkout and order tracking that could transform how brands sell directly inside AI apps.
💼 The Artificially Intelligent Enterprise - Use AI to Build and Improve Your Website
💡 AI CIO - The Shrinking Window of Defense
📻 AI Confidential Podcast - Days to Seconds: Harnessing Confidential AI Agents
Hyperbound: AI Roleplays That Level Up Sales Teams
Hyperbound is an AI-driven platform that helps sales teams sharpen their skills through lifelike roleplays, automated call scoring, and real-time coaching. From onboarding new reps to training seasoned pros, it’s designed to reduce ramp time, boost confidence, and scale coaching without adding more managers.
Why We Like It:
Sales training usually happens in two extremes — live calls that risk losing deals, or static roleplays that never feel real. Hyperbound flips that script with AI that mimics real buyer personas, delivers instant feedback, and highlights exactly where reps need to improve. It’s practical, scalable, and genuinely useful for teams that want to win more consistently.
Key Features:
AI Roleplays: Practice cold calls, discovery, and objection handling with realistic buyer simulations.
Call Scoring: Analyze real sales calls and surface what top reps are doing right.
Custom Coaching Modules: Tailor scorecards, talk tracks, and training to your team’s style.
Hiring Assessments: Use AI roleplays to evaluate candidates in real scenarios before they’re on the phones.
Multi-Language Support: Train and roleplay in 25+ languages with diverse buyer personas.
Updated Codex for Smarter Spreadsheet Automation
The upgraded Codex doesn’t just write code faster; it now understands your intent better, cleans up scripts, and fixes errors automatically. That means you can use it to build small automations without being a developer.
Actionable Use Case:
If you’re wrangling campaign data in Google Sheets, ask Codex:
“Write a Google Apps Script that removes duplicate rows, standardises date formats, and creates a summary tab with total spend, clicks, and conversions.”
Paste the script into Extensions → Apps Script in Google Sheets, hit run, and you’ve got a reusable automation that cleans and summarises your campaign data in one click.
GPT-5 Codex: Faster Fixes, Smarter Reviews, Less Hassle
This walkthrough shows what you can actually get from the new GPT-5 Codex: snappier help on small, well-defined tasks, deeper reasoning that kicks in automatically on hard problems, and more useful code-review comments with fewer false alarms.
