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Shoutout to the CEO of Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs working overtime this weekend. Our team, on the other hand, will be OOO tomorrow for the U.S. holiday. See you on Monday ✌️
Here are the 7 things you missed today:
1. 👋 Ilya Sutskever is Back as CEO of Safe Superintelligence
Ilya Sutskever, co-founder of Safe Superintelligence (SSI), has resumed the CEO role after Daniel Gross departed on June 29 to join Meta’s AI team. With a hefty $32B valuation and earlier acquisition interest from Meta, SSI is doubling down on its mission to build safe superintelligence independently. (CNBC)
2. 🙅🏻♀️ "Lead Gen" Doesn't Work Anymore
The average company stays with a lead-gen service for only 2 months. Why? Because every lead-gen service stops at the opt-in. We don’t.
My Team builds & maintains end-to-end lead gen systems:
🎯 Hyper-specific targeting to attract your dream clients
🪣 Qualification filters so your calendar gets full with buyers, not browsers
🌱 Weekly nurture emails to turn cold leads warm, and warm leads into booked calls
The Truth: Only 2% of your market is ready to buy at any given time. You need something in place to nurture all those you leads have ever & will ever generate.
This isn’t theory, it’s a repeatable system that’s currently filling 30+ businesses’ pipelines with leads.
3. ☁️ CoreWeave is the First Cloud Provider to Deploy Nvidia’s New AI Chips
CoreWeave is now the first cloud provider to install Dell-built, liquid-cooled systems packing 72 Blackwell Ultra GPUs and 36 Nvidia Grace CPUs. Nvidia’s latest chip, Blackwell Ultra, is expected to ship in volume during the rest of the year following this milestone. (CNBC)
4. 📈 Set it & Forget it, Affordable SEO
Most SEO agencies will charge you $5,000 a month, promise the world, and deliver nothing but a confusing report and disappointment. Ranked is the exact opposite.
These guys are almost too good to be true, but they’re actually amazing. We use them ourselves, and the results speak for themselves:
Real SEO that works — weekly content, site optimization, and quality backlinks
Full transparency — clear deliverables and easy-to-read reports
No BS contracts — all plans are month-to-month, starting at just $99/month
I know what you’re thinking: “$99? Is it a scam?” Nope. Just a team that figured out how to make SEO actually affordable and effective.
5. 🙅 OpenAI Doesn’t Endorse Robinhood’s ‘OpenAI Tokens’
Before you go investing in Robinhood’s newly launched OpenAI Tokens… maybe don’t. OpenAI issued a public warning on their official platforms that the offering is “not OpenAI equity” and were not endorsed or authorized by OpenAI. So, proceed with caution. (TechCrunch)
6. 💰 YC Alum Launched a New $34M for YC Startups
Two-time Y Combinator alum Kulveer Taggar (best known for founding Zeus Living, a property management startup with over $150M in funding) launched Phosphor Capital, a venture firm dedicated solely to investing in YC companies. Phosphor has raised $34 million in capital across two funds and nabbed YC CEO Garry Tan as an investor. (TechCrunch)
7. 💲 Alibaba is Planning to Raise $1.53Bn
Chinese tech giant Alibaba is looking to raise around HK$12 billion (about $1.53 billion USD) in exchangeable bonds tied to Alibaba Health shares. The funding is earmarked to expand its cloud infrastructure and global commerce initiatives. (Reuters)
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