OCTOBER 7, 2025

• PromptCraft: Drop Business Problem, Get Custom Prompt; Strategic Career Prompt; and 7 Quirky Prompt Phrases That Actually Work
• NewsDive: The AI Learning Loop: 2 Reasons to Jump In​
• THE HEADLINES: OpenAI struggling with its plans for a device; NBA/AWS are bringing AI-powered stats to basketball fans; fictional characters are (officially) coming to Sora; and what to know about OpenAI's new agent-builder tool
• Tool Spotlight: Instruct Builds, Edits, and Runs AI Agents with a Single Prompt

Drop Business Problem, Get Custom Prompt; Strategic Career Prompt; and 7 Quirky Prompt Phrases That Actually Work

• ​Drop Your Business Problem, Get a Custom Prompt: Community thread where the OP writes tailored prompts for real business challenges (content, SOPs, offers, etc.). Good for seeing prompt patterns mapped to concrete outcomes and constraints—handy inspiration when you’re stuck on framing.
• ​Strategic Career Prompt Inspired by 48 Laws: An ambitious “power dynamics” system prompt for career moves: stakeholder mapping, risk ratings, phased plans (0–12+ weeks), KPIs, and scripts in formal/diplomatic/bold tones. Use it to stress-test promotion or negotiation strategies with explicit checkpoints and contingency routes.
• ​Seven Quirky Prompt Phrases That Actually Work: Field-tested micro-tactics like “Explain like I’m 12,” “no yapping,” “Try again,” and “What would you need to know?” to cut fluff, force clarity, and drive iteration. Small wording changes that reliably tighten outputs without rewriting whole briefs.

The AI Learning Loop: 2 Reasons to Jump In

Where am I supposed to be at 50 years old? It’s a question I wake up facing daily. Just last month, I turned 46, and I’d be lying if I said my 40s haven’t flown by even faster than any of the previous decades.

I know that, if left to the good devices of old age, I have less time ahead of me than behind me, and it just seems to speed up the further I go.

Even less if I get hit by a bus or encounter some other unexpected misfortune.

People wonder why I love AI so much that I would devote the effort that it takes to push out a daily newsletter. Well, it has nothing to do with all the cool Sora videos you can make, or how easy it makes it to create content.

(Most purely AI content sucks anyway.)

It’s the underlying benefit of being able to do more with less. As I look back on all the things I wanted to accomplish — and all the things I haven’t to this point — AI is the hope of making up for lost time.

It’s a weird thing to be envious of younger people who will grow up with a technology that’s making it more and more difficult for them to find work.

They can’t help but wonder where future opportunities will come from. I can’t help but wonder what it will help me do to “catch up” for the time lost.

There’s probably truth in both philosophies.

And I think both of these philosophies should follow the same path. Keep using AI.

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HIGHLIGHTS: OpenAI struggling with its plans for a device; NBA/AWS are bringing AI-powered stats to basketball fans; fictional characters are (officially) coming to Sora; and what to know about OpenAI's new agent-builder tool

1. ​AMD and OpenAI Announce Strategic Partnership to Deploy 6 Gigawatts of AMD GPUs​
2. ​Work Advice: My boss loves AI. I want nothing to do with it.​
3. ​Accreditors Encourage AI Use to Boost Credit Transfer Process​
4. ​The Big Advantage Humans Have Over AI​
5. ​Introducing CodeMender: an AI agent for code security​
6. ​How AI Is Changing White-Collar Work​
7. ​Perplexity’s Comet browser is now available to everyone for free​
8. ​NBA and AWS team up to bring AI-powered stats to basketball fans​
9. ​Fictional characters are (officially) coming to Sora as OpenAI manages copyright chaos​
10. ​Gemini’s home screen could soon get a Discovery-style redesign​
11. ​OpenAI and Jony Ive may be struggling to figure out their AI device​
12. ​OpenAI acquires an AI-powered personal investing app​
13. ​OpenAI’s New Agent Builder Tool Leaked Before DevDay: Here’s What It Can Do​
14. ​CoreWeave signs $14 billion AI infrastructure deal with Meta​
15. ​AI chip firm Cerebras files to withdraw highly anticipated US listing​
16. ​Lincoln Lab unveils the most powerful AI supercomputer at any US university​
17. ​Nintendo apparently lobbying Japanese government in fight against generative AI [update: denied]​
18. ​Nintendo issues surprise denial to Japanese politician’s AI claim​
19. ​Universal Music, Warner Music nearing AI licensing deals, FT reports​
20. ​The Best Trillion-Dollar AI Stock to Buy Now, According to Wall Street (Hint: Not Nvidia)​
21. ​Women didn’t love him. His AI girlfriend did​
22. ​AI Cuts SAP Support Costs By €186M In One Year With Coveo​

Instruct Builds, Edits, and Runs AI Agents with a Single Prompt

Instruct (launched this week) is a truly no-code automation platform that lets anyone build, edit, and run AI agents with a single prompt. Instead of stitching together brittle workflows, you simply describe the outcome you want in plain English and Instruct creates an agent that reasons through the steps, adapts when things change, and actually completes the task—think “do the work,” not just “chat about it.”

It’s designed to be more flexible than Zapier/Make-style checklists and more action-oriented than typical chatbots, with direct, secure access to your tools and a clean chat-plus-canvas interface for oversight.

Early signals are positive (5.0 rating from initial reviews and 1.1K followers), and the team is shipping fast with “computer use” on the roadmap. Ideal for non-technical teams who want real results without writing code, with free options to get started.

Website: https://instruct.ai​

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