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

🚨 AI Top Story: Perplexity’s audacious $34.5B bid for Chrome puts AI in direct contention for the web’s front door, with massive implications for search, SEO, and how billions access the internet.

🎯 AI Tool Of The Week: Clay turns scattered research into one streamlined workflow, using AI to enrich leads, surface fresh context, and help you craft outreach that actually lands.

✨ One Quick AI Hack: Turn GPT-5 into your personal revenue strategist with an interactive funnel dashboard that shows exactly which small changes will drive the biggest growth.

🎥 AI YouTube Resource Of The Week: 9 ChatGPT-5 use cases to market & grow a business.

Perplexity Eyes Chrome in Massive Power Move

It’s not every day a startup valued at $18 billion makes a play for one of the most dominant pieces of internet real estate. Perplexity AI has lobbed a $34.5 billion offer at Google for its Chrome browser, a move that lands in the middle of a high-stakes antitrust showdown.

The bid is as much about timing as it is about ambition. Google recently lost a U.S. government case over its search monopoly, and regulators are weighing remedies that could force the company to divest Chrome entirely. Perplexity’s pitch frames the acquisition as a public service, positioning itself as an independent operator capable of stewarding the browser in a way that promotes competition.

The scale of the offer is bold, especially considering Perplexity’s own valuation is just over half the price it’s offering. To pull it off, the company has lined up backing from major venture capital players ready to fund the deal in full. This isn’t just a play for a browser. Chrome commands more than 60% of the global market, making it a gateway to how billions of people access the internet. If Perplexity were to take control, it could radically reimagine the role of the browser, from how search results are delivered to how AI is integrated directly into daily browsing.

That possibility has serious implications for the search landscape. Perplexity already positions itself as an AI-first alternative to Google Search, returning answers synthesised from multiple sources rather than a list of links. Folding that approach directly into the browser would give it a powerful distribution channel and a steady stream of user behaviour data. For marketers, it could mark the beginning of a shift away from traditional SEO dominance, opening the door to new formats, placements, and content strategies optimised for AI-driven results.

Even if the bid doesn’t go through, the signal it sends is clear. AI companies are no longer content to live as layers on top of the web — they’re aiming to control the entry points themselves. With regulatory pressure mounting and competition heating up, the fight for who owns the front door to the internet is in full swing.

📰 News sites lose traffic as Google AI Overviews replace search - AI-generated summaries are keeping users on Google’s results page, slashing clicks to publishers and threatening their ad revenue models.

🎥 Perplexity AI Launches Video Generation for Pro & Max Subscribers on Web, iOS, and Android - Perplexity’s AI search tool now lets paying users create Veo 3-powered videos directly inside the platform, linking creative visuals with on-demand research.

🏅 OpenAI Claims Top Spot Among AIs, Excels in Global Competitions - OpenAI’s general-purpose reasoning model (previously crowned gold at the IMO) took 6th place overall and topped all AI entrants at IOI under strict contest rules, leaping from last year’s 49th percentile to a solid gold-level performance.

🌍 xAI Offers Free Access to Grok 4 Worldwide with Generous Usage Limits - Grok 4 is temporarily free for all, letting users try its top-tier AI via Auto or Expert mode. Though heavy-duty features remain behind paywalls.

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☕ AI Tangle - A Special Edition of AI Tangle

💡 AI CIO - Aaron Swartz and the Ethics AI Forgot

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

Finding the right prospects is only half the battle — knowing enough about them to start a meaningful conversation is where most of the time disappears. That usually means bouncing between LinkedIn, company websites, news articles, and CRM tools just to build a complete picture. Clay brings all of that into one place. It connects to dozens of data sources, automatically enriches your lists by filling in missing details like job titles, tech stacks, and recent funding news, and uses its AI assistant, Claygent, to surface extra context — from press mentions to shared connections — so your outreach feels personal instead of generic.

At its core is Clay is an AI-powered research assistant that scrapes the web for context you actually care about - like podcast appearances, executive bios, or recent press mentions. You prompt it in plain language, and it returns structured results right into your working table.

Clay isn't just enrichment and scraping. It gives you tools to filter and target. For example, drill down into companies by industry, location, headcount, or tech stack. Then layer logic (e.g., “if company size > 50 employees and valid email, mark ready”) to automate workflows without code.

This tool brings three essential things into one place: comprehensive data enrichment, smart research, and contextual messaging. That line-up means marketers and growth teams can cut down on manual grunt work and move straight to creative, strategic outreach—without building complex stacks or hiring engineers.

👉 Take A Look At Clay

Imagine being able to see exactly how a small tweak, like a 1% bump in your sales page conversion rate, could impact your revenue before you even make the change.

With GPT-5’s upgraded coding skills, you can have it build a fully interactive dashboard that models your sales funnel. You enter your real traffic, opt-in, and conversion data, then use sliders or inputs to test “what if” scenarios. It shows you which part of your funnel to optimise first for the biggest payoff, with no coding experience needed.

Instead of guessing, you’ll know exactly where to focus. Whether that’s driving more traffic, improving opt-ins, or boosting conversions. It takes the guesswork out of growth planning.

A New Era…