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Let’s skip the fluff and jump into this week’s 8-minute dose of brain fuel 🧠✨

🪐 Katy Perry Was In Space for 10 Minutes, but maybe get talked about for the next 10 Days!

Blue Origin shared particular statistics from the space journey on social media, indicating that the New Shepard capsule carrying Katy Perry, Gayle King, and their crewmates to space reached 346,802 feet above ground level (AGL) and 350,449 feet above mean sea level (MSL). This amounts to 106 and 107 km, respectively.

That is much above the Kármán line, a 100-kilometre (62-mile) point frequently used to indicate the height at which airspace stops and outer space starts.

The capsule landed precisely at 8:40:21 a.m. CDT (9:40 a.m. ET), after almost exactly 10 and a half minutes of flight.

The internet has thoughts, though, and let’s just say they range from “Yaaas Queen of the Galaxy” to “Can we fix Earth first?”

We say? It’s not every day a pop icon hops aboard a rocket.

👉 CNN

💻 Tried Durable AI to Build a Website. My Thoughts? Game-Changer

I used Durable.co this week to build a website.

It took under 10 minutes. It wrote the copy. It chose the layout. It even gave me a business name. It could have taken me less time, but I was busy checking out everything they have to offer.

I didn’t lift a finger.

Durable’s been on the rise for small business owners and creators looking for fast, no-code solutions — and I get the hype now. Highly recommend giving it a spin.

I will be back with more updates about my extensive experience with it. So stay tuned!

📈 Finished HubSpot’s SEO Course (Brain = Upgraded)

Just wrapped up HubSpot’s free SEO course! It’s beginner-friendly, packed with value, and gives me a fresh perspective on how search engines think.

Takeaway?

Writing for SEO isn’t about stuffing keywords anymore. It’s about creating content that humans (and Google) love. Plus, I now feel slightly less scared of the word “algorithm.”

🔥 Anthropic Introduces Premium Plans for Claude

Claude, the AI chatbot from Anthropic, is getting the premium treatment. They just dropped Claude Pro, a paid tier that gives users faster responses, priority access, and more tokens to play with. Think Chatgpt Plus, but Claude-style.

This could heat the competition between Claude and Chatgpt real quick.

📎 TechCrunch

🆕 Deep Cogito Goes Open Source with AI Models

OpenAI who? Deep Cogito, a rising player in the AI space, just released its new open-source AI models. They claim to be faster, leaner, and more ethical. Developers are already excited about the transparency and flexibility.

Open-source = innovation fuel. Let’s fill it up.

📎 theaiinsider

🇪🇺 Europe Eases AI Compliance Rules for Startups

Good news for AI founders in the EU: The European Commission is working on lightening AI compliance burdens for small businesses. Startups will get tailored guidelines and reduced red tape to build AI tools without sweating legal nightmares.

Finally, a regulatory win that doesn’t feel like a legal thesis.

📎 exchangewire

🎙️ Google’s Gemini Can Turn Google Docs into Podcasts

Meet Gemini, Google’s AI that can convert your written Google Docs into fully narrated podcast-style audio. Think audiobooks on steroids, for your business reports, newsletters, or that 10-page strategy doc no one wants to read.

Great for productivity, even better for lazy listeners like me.

📎 The Verge 

🖌️ Adobe’s AI Agents Are Coming to Photoshop & Premiere

Adobe is testing AI-powered agents that can help users with tasks in Photoshop and Premiere Pro. Imagine telling Photoshop to “make this look vintage 90s”, and it just does it.

Designers, rejoice. Or panic. Maybe both?

📎 The Verge

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