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• 🤖The Four-Stage AI Executive Framework: Taskmaster to Orchestration for Revenue Teams

• 🎧 Weekly Podcast Updates

• 🚀Google’s AI Mode expands globally, adds new agentic features

• ❇️ Google and Grok are catching up to ChatGPT, says a16z’s latest AI report

• 😮 911 centers are so understaffed, they’re turning to AI to answer calls

• 🤖 Image editing in Gemini just got a major upgrade

• 😎 33 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2025

 🤖The Four-Stage AI Executive Framework: Taskmaster to Orchestration for Revenue Teams

I share a fly-on-the-wall recap of my private Booth briefing for CROs—breaking down the 4 stages from Taskmaster to full AI Orchestration. You’ll get clear frameworks, real examples, and quick wins you can put to work today.

🙌This week's podcast episodes...

😮 Google’s AI Mode expands globally, adds new agentic features

Google is expanding AI Mode to 180 new countries (English); more languages/regions coming.

• New agentic features: book restaurant reservations now; local services & event tickets coming next.

• Reservation flow supports multiple prefs (party size, date/time, location, cuisine) and checks real-time availability across platforms.

• Personalized results (starting with dining) use your past searches/clicks & chats; settings adjustable in your Google Account.

• U.S.-only preview for now via Labs’ “Agentic capabilities in AI Mode” for Google AI Ultra subscribers ($249.99/mo).

• New Share button lets you send an AI Mode response so others can jump into the same conversation (trip/party planning, etc.).

Read the full update → Click here

❇️Google and Grok are catching up to ChatGPT, says a16z’s latest AI report

a16z’s latest consumer AI report says Gemini, Grok, and (to a lesser extent) Meta AI are closing the gap with ChatGPT.

• Top products (5th time running): ChatGPT, Perplexity, Poe, Character AI, Midjourney, Leonardo, Veed, Cutout, ElevenLabs, Photoroom, Gamma, QuillBot, Civitai, Hugging Face.

• Also consistent: Claude, DeepAI, Janitor AI, Pixelcut, Suno (on all but the first report).

• Google momentum: four separate entries—Gemini, AI Studio, NotebookLM, Google Labs—now tracked individually.

• Gemini vs. ChatGPT: Gemini is #2 on web and mobile; ~90% of its MAUs are on Android; web visits ≈ 12% of ChatGPT’s.

• Grok’s surge: #4 on web, #23 on mobile, ~20M MAUs; traffic jumped ~40% after Grok 4 launched (July 2025).

• Meta AI: #46 on web, not in top mobile—hurt by a recent privacy misstep.

• Growth trends: DeepSeek down (−22% mobile; >−40% web from Feb ’25); Perplexity up; Claude mixed (flat on mobile, growing on web).

• China’s footprint: On the web top 20—Quark (#9), Doubao (#12; #4 mobile), Kimi (#17); 22 of top 50 mobile apps were developed in China (only 3 primarily used there).

• Newcomers: Lovable and Replit debut; near-misses include PixAI, Bolt, Blackbox AI, Clipchamp, Getliner (web) and Talkie, Seekee, Photo AI, AI Mirror, Arvin (mobile).

• Methodology: traffic data from Similarweb (web) and Sensor Tower (mobile).

Read the full breakdown.

⚡911 centers are so understaffed, they’re turning to
AI to answer calls

YC S22 startup Aurelian pivoted from salon bookings to an AI voice assistant that offloads non-emergency 911 calls.

• Raised $14M Series A led by NEA.

• Triage for noise/parking/stolen wallet; auto-routes real emergencies to human dispatchers; files reports for follow-up.

• Live since May 2024 in 12+ dispatch centers (e.g., Snohomish County, Chattanooga, Kalamazoo), handling thousands of calls daily.

• Adoption fueled by severe understaffing & burnout; NEA says it replaces roles departments couldn’t fill.

• Competitors (Hyper, Prepared) exist, but Aurelian claims to be the only one live at scale.

Read more here 👉
 

💫Image editing in Gemini just got a major upgrade

Google upgraded native image editing in the Gemini app with a new DeepMind model.

• Big win: keeps people & pets looking like themselves across edits.

• New tricks: costume/location swaps, blend multiple photos, multi-turn edits (tweak parts without changing the rest), and style transfer between images.

• You can re-upload edits to make a short video in Gemini.

• All outputs include a visible watermark and SynthID.

👉 Read the full article

👏 33 US AI startups that have raised
$100M or more in 2025

2025 keeps the heat: multiple $1B+ AI rounds, on pace with 2024’s mega-funding.

• Biggest checks: OpenAI $40B, Anthropic $3.5B, Anysphere $900M.

• Repeat megas: Harvey $300M ×2; Abridge $250M + $300M.

• Notables: Thinking Machines Lab $2B seed; Lambda $480M; SandboxAQ $450M; Shield AI $240M.

• Latest (Aug): EliseAI $250M (Series E, $2.2B val); Decart $100M.

👉Read the full list

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