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Robi: Your weekly AI dose is here. ChatGPT just dropped a curveball, in-app ads are starting to appear even for $200/month Pro users (capitalism said “move over, hallucinations”). Inside, you’ll also learn how to launch a 3K–15K/month AI micro-influencer content engine, level up your visibility with Brick Marketing’s AI-SEO webinar, and sharpen your prompting fundamentals with OpenAI Academy’s new guide. Let’s dig in.

In a Nutshell:

• ChatGPT tests built-in ads for the first time, Runway Gen-4.5 becomes the world’s top text-to-video model, and Perplexity launches body-accurate AI fashion try-ons.

• AI Use Case: Build a 3K–15K/month AI-Driven Micro-Influencer Content Engine for small businesses and e-commerce brands.

• AI plushies support isolated seniors; Amazon’s Rufus drives a surge in Black Friday purchases; Gemini downloads jump 4×; Disney+ adds AI fan-video tools.

• 4 Tools to Supercharge Your Productivity & Business Workflow

• Learn AI-SEO with Brick Marketing’s GEO webinar and boost your prompting skills with OpenAI Academy’s “Introduction to Prompt Engineering.”

Latest AI News

AI Updates of the Week

1. ChatGPT quietly tests built-in ads: ChatGPT is quietly testing built-in ads, after a $200/month Pro user reported seeing a “fitness class” advertisement directly beneath a ChatGPT response. While the experiment appears limited, it suggests OpenAI may introduce ads as a new monetization layer even for paying customers. The move signals rising operational pressures as model costs continue to climb. If rolled out broadly, it could push competitors like Gemini, Claude, and Grok to adopt similar ad-supported strategies, reshaping how AI assistants are funded. Reactions are mixed: some users fear ads could affect neutrality, while others see it as an inevitable shift in the commercial era of AI.

   Source: X

   Robi: “Great, now I can’t ask about burnout without getting a promo for incense.”

2. Runway Gen-4.5 Raises the Video Bar: Runway has released Gen-4.5, now ranked the world’s top text-to-video model after outperforming Google Veo 3, OpenAI’s Sora 2 Pro, and Pika on the Artificial Analysis Leaderboard. The model delivers major advancements in physics accuracy, human motion realism, and scene consistency, with videos showing lifelike gravity, smooth animation, and strong multi-shot continuity. Gen-4.5 also offers faster generation speeds and better prompt control, making it far more production-ready. As competition in AI video intensifies, Runway’s leap positions Gen-4.5 as a leading tool for filmmakers, marketers, and studios adopting AI-first creative workflows.

   Source: Youtube

   Robi: “Finally, an AI that can walk better than my intern Greg.”

3. Perplexity adds virtual fashion try-on feature: Perplexity is expanding its AI shopping ecosystem with a new virtual try-on tool that creates a lifelike 3D avatar from a user’s photos, allowing them to preview how clothes fit, drape, and style on their own body. Integrated with Perplexity’s multimodal search, shoppers can request curated outfits, compare styles, and explore recommendations that improve over time. The feature launches alongside a revamped shopping experience that blends conversational queries with real-time product discovery. Analysts say this update pushes Perplexity deeper into e-commerce, positioning it as both a personal stylist and discovery engine. The rollout begins in the U.S., with global expansion coming soon.

   Source: Perplexity

   Robi: “Just what I needed, a mirror that argues with me about skinny jeans.”

Learning Resources

The Great Knowledge Acceleration: Attract Visitors, Leads, & Sales from AI Search (SEO)

Explore how to use AI Search (GEO) to boost brand visibility, attract qualified traffic, and increase sales leads.

This free 60-minute online webinar will walk you through practical strategies for structuring pages and content so AI systems correctly interpret and recommend your brand.

🔍 Why You Should Attend:

• Understand fundamentals of “SEO for AI” / Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)

• Learn how to build content and on-page signals that help AI search recognize and rank your site

• Gain a framework for clear messaging and data-driven consistency

• Discover how to convert AI-driven visibility into real leads and sales

Top AI Tools

AI Tool For Professionals & Businesses

Other News in AI

Beyond the Headlines:

🧸 AI Plushies Help Combat Senior Loneliness: South Korea is confronting a severe elderly mental-health crisis, with 10 seniors dying by suicide daily and one-third living alone. To help, the government is deploying Hyodol, an AI-powered plush companion that offers emotional support, medication reminders, habit tracking, and warm daily interactions. More than 12,000 units are already in welfare programs, with early studies showing reduced depression, improved cognition, and delayed nursing-home admissions.
Source: CNN

🛒 Amazon’s Rufus Boosts Black Friday Purchases: Amazon reported a major spike in Black Friday engagement driven by its AI shopping assistant Rufus. Customer sessions using Rufus were 75% more likely to result in a purchase, compared to 35% growth in non-Rufus sessions. The data shows consumers increasingly relying on AI to compare products and interpret reviews. Rufus is quickly becoming one of Amazon’s most powerful conversion engines.
Source: Tech Crunch

📈 Gemini App Downloads Jump 4× Since August: Google’s Gemini is accelerating fast, soaring from 16 million to 64 million monthly downloads between August and October, a 4× surge. Improved image generation is driving adoption, and early data shows users spend more time in Gemini than in ChatGPT or Claude. ChatGPT still dominates overall, but Gemini is now the closest competitor, tightening the two-horse race and reshaping momentum heading into 2026.
Source: Financial Times

🎬 Disney+ to Add AI Fan Video Creation Tools: Disney+ is preparing one of its biggest updates yet, introducing AI-powered video creation that lets subscribers generate short clips using licensed characters like Darth Vader, Iron Man, and Frozen’s Anna and Elsa. With unlicensed AI Disney content flooding TikTok and YouTube, the feature helps the company regain control while unlocking a new era of fan-driven creativity. Disney+ is positioning itself as an interactive storytelling platform.
Source: IMBD

AI Use Case

AI in Action: Real-World Use Case

AI-Driven Micro-Influencer Content Engine

🎯 Goal: Create a turnkey service that produces daily, branded micro-influencer content using AI, perfect for small businesses that want steady social media growth without hiring creators.

✅ Pick a Niche + Format

Niches

• Local businesses (cafés, salons, fitness studios)

• E-commerce brands needing constant UGC

• Real estate agents and agencies

• SaaS startups building social proof

Formats

• AI-generated UGC-style short videos

• Branded photo carousels + captions

• Daily TikTok/IG Reels content packs

• “Month of Content” bundles

🛠️ Build the Service System

• Runway — Generate UGC-style spokesperson videos.

• HeyGen — Create realistic avatar videos with custom voices.

• Pika Labs — Produce cinematic short-form scenes for B-roll.

• ElevenLabs — Natural-sounding voiceovers for ads.

• Midjourney — Create branded visuals and photo sets.

• Canva — Assemble carousels, thumbnails, and templates.

• Descript — Edit video outputs quickly.

• ChatGPT — Generate scripts, hooks, CTAs, and captions.

✨ Polish the Deliverables

• 30–60 short-form videos/month

• Branded photo carousels + captions

• Monthly content strategy roadmap

• Hashtag banks + audience targeting guide

📦 Package and Deliver

• Notion — campaign dashboards + feedback

• Trello — Kanban workflow for content pipelines

• Slack — Client communication hub

• Stripe — Subscription billing

• Airtable — Asset organization + tracking

• Google Drive — Final file delivery

📢 Build Authority and Scale

• Post “before/after” AI content transformations on TikTok + LinkedIn

• Offer a free “7-day content sprint” to attract inbound leads

• Build template packs to sell as digital products

• Automate onboarding to convert into recurring subscriptions

⏱️ Time: 2–3 days setup • 2–4 hours/week ongoing
💰 Potential: 3k–15k/month recurring income

AI Prompt

This Week’s Pick: Introduction to Prompt Engineering (2025), OpenAI Academy

Whether you’re a developer, AI curious, or just getting started, this free video from OpenAI Academy is your all-in-one primer.
The video shows you how prompt engineering works: how to write prompts that guide AI models toward better outputs by using clear instructions, context, examples, and structure.

What you'll learn:

🤖 What prompt engineering is and why crafting the right prompt matters for generative AI
🧠 How to design prompts with context, instructions, and examples to get accurate, relevant results
✍️ How to avoid common mistakes, like ambiguity or poor formatting, that lead to bad AI outputs

Socials

Trending on Socials

🖼️ Panels App Bids Farewell: Panels, the hit wallpaper app that topped the Photos charts in 2024 and crossed two million downloads, is officially shutting down at the end of 2025. The team said they could not find new collaborators who matched the original vision, so they chose not to continue. All user data will be deleted after December thirty one. Panels will then open source its full codebase in early January, letting developers create new versions of the app.

🤖 AI Aims for Corner Office: Sundar Pichai says even CEO jobs might eventually be handled by AI. In a recent BBC interview he joked that what a CEO does may be one of the easier tasks for advanced agents. He warned that AI will reshape careers far beyond entry level work and urged young people to adapt fast and learn to use AI as industries transform around them..

🎬 Director Drops AI Wisdom: An Oscar winning filmmaker at the Marrakech Film Festival said AI might actually be a good thing because it is forcing humanity to finally ask what only humans can do. He called this moment the start of a creative awakening rather than a threat. Instead of doom scrolling, he suggested we treat AI as a giant mirror showing us where real human originality still lives.

🎉 ChatGPT Turns Three: ChatGPT just hit its third birthday and the numbers are unreal. Eight hundred million people now use it every week, OpenAI’s annualized revenue has crossed ten billion dollars, and the company’s valuation is reported around five hundred billion. In only three years it evolved from a research demo into GPT versions, voice mode, vision, memory, multimodal search, a full GPT Store, and agentic tools. Hard to imagine daily life without it.

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