NOVEMBER 20, 2025

This may or may not be the last newsletter for this week. I have a medical procedure tomorrow, and I've been assured that I won't be good for much the rest of the day if all goes well.

(If all doesn't, then I've got bigger problems than hitting deadlines, ha!)

Anyhow, I'll try to make sure there's a Friday newsletter, but if there isn't, it's because I'll still be a bit loopy. Either way, I hope you all have a great Thursday and an even better end to your week. Here's what I've got for ya today!

• PromptCraft: Awkward Situation Navigator, Sales Strategy, and Handling Messy Thoughts
• THE HEADLINES: Gemini 3 Review and What It's Doing to Search; Microsoft and Invidia Invest in Anthropic; OpenAI and Target Partner on Shopping Experience; Manus Now Has a Browser Operator; How Hackers Weaponize AI; and ​Microsoft’s Agent 365 Wants to Help You Manage Your AI Bot Army
• Tool Spotlight: Checkit Shows What's Really Inside Food Products at a Glance

PROMPTS: Awkward Situation Navigator, Sales Strategy, and Handling Messy Thoughts

• ​Awkward Situation Navigator Prompt for Social Grace: Flux+Form’s PromptFuel series introduces a reusable mega-prompt that turns your LLM into a “social situation specialist.” It focuses on assessing awkward moments, choosing direct responses, building confidence, and planning damage control, with the model asking clarifying questions before giving strategies or roleplays.
• ​Senior Sales Strategist Prompt Automates Persuasive Pitches: Long-form writeup of a “Senior Sales Strategist” role prompt that structures cold outreach using SPIN, Challenger, and Cialdini principles. It forces hook → agitation → solution → social proof → low-friction CTA and ends with a quality checklist so the AI critiques and tightens its own pitch.
• ​SAS-Style One-Liners Sharpen Complex Analysis Prompts: Short reflection showing that adding tiny cues like “you are in the SAS” or “conduct an SAS-style audit” often produces crisper, more operational outputs—summaries, three-line assessments, options, recommendations, risks, and metrics—without rewriting your entire prompt.
• ​Brain Dump Prompt Turns Chaos Into Single Priority: This “OperatorOS” brain-dump prompt refuses to simply categorize your ideas. Instead, it challenges what actually matters, forces you to pick one leverage project, identifies the key constraint, and then builds a concrete execution plan with deadlines and accountability questions.

HIGHLIGHTS: Gemini 3 Review and What It's Doing to Search; Microsoft and Invidia Invest in Anthropic; OpenAI and Target Partner on Shopping Experience; Manus Now Has a Browser Operator; How Hackers Weaponize AI; and ​Microsoft’s Agent 365 Wants to Help You Manage Your AI Bot Army

1. ​Microsoft, Nvidia to invest in Anthropic as Claude maker commits $30 billion to Azure (Reuters)
2. ​Introducing Manus Browser Operator (Manus)
3. ​My Gemini 3 Review (Shumer.dev)
4. ​AI in Practice Survey (Theory Ventures)
5. ​Google Antigravity is an ‘agent-first’ coding tool built for Gemini 3 (The Verge)
6. ​GPU depreciation could be the next big crisis coming for AI hyperscalers — after spending billions on buildouts, next-gen upgrades may amplify cashflow quirks (Tom's Hardware)
7. ​Stack Overflow is remaking itself into an AI data provider (TechCrunch)
8. ​A top Meta AI researcher has joined Mira Murati's hot new startup, Thinking Machines Lab (Business Insider)
9. ​Oracle has lost $315 billion in market value since announcing its $300 billion deal with OpenAI (longbridge.com)
10. ​AI backgrounds in Instagram Stories (Instagram Help Center)
11. ​Making Sense of Research on How People Use AI (Harvard Business Review)
12. ​House eyeing AI preemption in NDAA, Scalise says (Punchbowl News)
13. ​America is grappling with an air traffic controller shortage. Can AI help? (ABC7 New York)
14. ​AI-powered online abuse: How AI is amplifying violence against women and what can stop it (UN Women)
15. ​2026–27 Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum (AACU)
16. ​New Amazon Bedrock service tiers help you match AI workload performance with cost (Amazon Web Services, Inc.)
17. ​AI ATTACKS! How Hackers Weaponize Artificial Intelligence (YouTube)
18. ​Microsoft’s Agent 365 Wants to Help You Manage Your AI Bot Army (WIRED)
19. ​IBM Consulting Advantage Integrates with Microsoft Copilot to Drive Smarter, Faster Workflows with Enterprise AI (IBM Newsroom)
20. ​OpenAI and Target partner to bring new AI-powered experiences across retail (OpenAI)
21. ​Bubble or breakout? Nvidia earnings put AI boom under the microscope (Reuters)
22. ​Google launches Gemini 3, embeds AI model into search immediately (Reuters)
23. ​EU eases AI, privacy rules as critics warn of caving to Big Tech (Reuters)

Checkit Shows What's Really Inside Food Products at a Glance

Checkit is an AI- and AR-powered shopping companion that helps you “clean up” your cart by revealing what’s really inside the food and products you buy—no barcode required.

Point your phone at a single item, a fridge shelf, or an entire aisle, and Checkit scores each product across health, sustainability, and ethics, drawing on a multi-million product database.

Beyond a simple score, it explains why something is flagged, breaking down additives, sugars, allergens, packaging impact, and brand practices so you can decide what matters most for your family.

With rewards for every scan and upcoming features like scanning multiple products at once (e.g., “which breads here are gluten-free?”), Checkit turns label reading into a fast, visual, and actually useful part of your grocery routine—especially handy for holiday hauls and anyone shopping around allergies or cleaner ingredients.

Learn More: https://getcheck.it/​

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