Today, we’re bringing you the latest in AI-powered marketing and business strategies. Here’s what’s inside:

🚨 AI Top Story: The rise of AI agents could finally make CPA the default model.

🎯 AI Tool Of The Week: Turn any screen recording into a polished tutorial in minutes with Clueso.

✨ One Quick AI Hack: Used ChatGPT’s share links? You’ll want to read this.

🎥 AI YouTube Resource Of The Week: How to create high-converting AI ads for just 20 cents.

Ads That Only Cost You If They Close A Sale

Here’s a thought that should make search marketers a little sweaty: what happens when ads aren’t just displayed or clicked, but done for you by your AI? No scrolling, no choosing, no comparing flight times and hotel options. Just a helpful agent that decides, books, and moves on. If that’s the future (and let’s be honest, we’re already halfway there), the old CPM and CPC models are toast.

We’ve been clinging to impressions and clicks for decades because frankly, CPA has always felt a bit like the prom date that never showed up. Everyone wanted it, but no one could prove it actually worked. Attribution was a mess, conversions got murky, and most advertisers settled for what was easy to measure, not what actually mattered.

But now? AI agents change the equation. If your assistant books the flight, hotel, and dinner without you ever seeing a traditional ad, the value exchange is crystal clear: this brand got the sale. That one didn’t. Suddenly, CPA isn’t just viable, it’s obvious.

Picture this: you say “I want to go to Paris in October,” and your AI goes to work. It picks an airline, books a boutique hotel in Le Marais, and maybe even reserves a dinner cruise on the Seine. Behind the scenes, the brands that got selected pay a CPA fee. No bidding for ad slots. No SEO games. Just: did your product win? Cool, pay up.

Of course, that raises the usual trust questions. Will AI agents start favoring whoever ponies up the most money? Will we need some kind of ‘sponsored by’ tag on our robot’s recommendations? Probably. But we’ve already lived through this with Google, and guess what, people still use it. Because at the end of the day, usefulness trumps everything. If the rec is legit, no one cares how it got there.

So yeah, as AI agents get better at making decisions for us, they’re also going to rewrite how we think about attention, intent, and value. Maybe we stop measuring the stuff around the sale and start paying for the sale.

🧠 Developers trust AI so much that they believe it can manage nearly all marketing roles across entire companies - AI isn’t just helping with coding anymore. It’s earned such deep trust among devs that many now believe it could run every marketing role across a company.

💅 ‘Vibe Marketing’ Is Taking Over Beauty. What Is It? - Forget product-first messaging: beauty brands are leaning on AI to craft campaigns rooted in tone, mood, and cultural resonance in real time.

🚫 TikTok's AI Crackdown: New Community Guidelines Signal Tougher Times for Performance Marketers - New rules ban automation tools and misinformation, signaling that affiliate and AI-powered tactics on TikTok are about to get a lot riskier.

📉 Sam Altman says ‘yes,’ AI is in a bubble - OpenAI’s CEO says that investor frenzy around AI mirrors the dot‑com boom, and that while the hype is real, so is the danger of overreach.

💼 The Artificially Intelligent Enterprise - Build Better Ads with AI

☕ AI Tangle - ChatGPT Mobile Crosses $2B, Meta Under Investigation & Nvidia's New AI Chip for China

💡 AI CIO - The Hidden Risk in AI-Created Code

​📻 AI Confidential Podcast -   Agents Are the New API Client with Marco Palladino

Creating clear explanations shouldn’t feel like a hassle. Clueso helps you turn simple screen recordings into clean, professional tutorials - with voiceovers, screenshots, step-by-step breakdowns, and branded polish.

Turning walkthroughs into useful content usually means rewriting scripts, capturing screenshots, and redoing takes to get it right. Clueso takes care of all that. It enhances your recordings with AI voiceovers in 35+ languages, auto-captures key frames, adds smart zooms and captions, and exports everything into shareable formats (video or written) in just a few clicks.

It’s ideal for onboarding, customer education, internal documentation, or sharing workflows without doing everything manually each time.

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If you're using ChatGPT’s "Share Chat" feature, be aware: shared chats were publicly visible and searchable on Google - and in some cases, they still might be.

Until early August 2025, if you created a share link and left it set to public (via the “Make this chat discoverable” toggle), that URL behaved like any other public webpage. Search engines could crawl and index it. Tools like Ahrefs and Semrush uncovered thousands of indexed ChatGPT conversations—some containing surprisingly sensitive material.

This doesn’t affect your regular, unshared chats. But if you've used the Share feature at any point, it's worth taking a second look.

All that processing power… just to binge TikToks