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Inside: real-world use cases and Partner Perspectives you won’t find anywhere else:
• 1. 🦾 Automated lead sourcing and outreach with Artisan
• 2. 🔎 Google pulls AI overviews for certain searches
• 3. 💻 Get rid of your personal data from Google with Incogni
• 4. 🚛 How AI predicted disease risk years earlier from sleep
• 5. 🤝 Meta acquires AI agent startup Manus for $2B+
• 6. 🤖 OpenAI teams with SoftBank’s SB Energy on AI
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TOGETHER WITH ARTISAN
Ava monitors leads for buying intent and launches multi-channel outreach within minutes. You get leads delivered to your inbox on autopilot while Ava does all the grunt work.
She's able to:
Prospect from her database of 300M+ contacts
Enrich leads from any publicly available information
Runs dozens of continuous experiments to optimize conversion rates
Find leads using live intent signals (fundraises, job posts, website visitor de-anonymization, etc.)
Import HubSpot lists / Salesforce views in one click
Execute multi-channel outreach + deliverability management
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Latest in AI
Google pulls AI overviews for certain searches
🚨 Our Report
Google has removed AI-generated search overviews for certain queries after an investigation by The Guardian revealed the feature was providing misleading and false health information that experts described as "alarming" and "dangerous."
🔓 Key Points
In one case, Google's AI overview wrongly advised pancreatic cancer patients to get rid of high-fat foods, the exact opposite of what should be recommended, a mistake experts warned could increase the risk of death.
Another AI overview provided incorrect information about function tests, which could lead people with major liver disease to wrongly believe they are healthy based on faulty guidance.
As of January 11, AI overviews for health questions like "what is the normal range for liver blood tests?" have been disabled entirely, though Google spokesperson Davis Thompson said that "the vast majority provide accurate information."
🔐 Relevance
This marks another setback for a feature that has previously told users to put glue on pizza and eat rocks, and has been the subject of multiple lawsuits. For health-related AI applications, this reinforces the need for rigorous review, strict accuracy standards, and clear disclosure about AI limitations when lives may be at stake.
TOGETHER WITH INCOGNI
Unknown number calling? It’s not random…
The BBC caught scam call center workers on hidden cameras as they laughed at the people they were tricking. One worker bragged about making $250k from victims.
The disturbing truth?
Scammers don’t pick phone numbers at random. They buy your data from brokers. Once your data is out there, it’s not just calls. It’s phishing, impersonation, and identity theft.
That’s why we recommend Incogni: They delete your info from the web, monitor and follow up automatically, and continue to erase data as new risks appear.
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Case Study
How AI predicted disease risk years earlier from sleep
Stanford University's Sleep Center wanted to identify disease risks years before symptoms appeared using patient sleep data.
Sleep studies generate huge volumes of brain, heart, and body signals. Manual analysis couldn't detect subtle patterns that correlate with future diagnoses.
Researchers built SleepFM, an AI model trained on nearly 600,000 hours of sleep data from 65,000 patients, linked to 25 years of health records.
SleepFM can predict risk for 130 diseases, including dementia, stroke, and heart failure, giving doctors earlier intervention windows.
AI News Story
Meta acquires AI agent startup Manus for $2B+
Meta has agreed to acquire Singapore-based AI startup Manus for a reported $2B+, adding a revenue-generating AI agent platform to its product stack across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
This has triggered preliminary regulatory scrutiny from Chinese authorities, focused on whether Manus’s earlier move from Beijing to Singapore and its sale to a US buyer falls under China’s technology export controls.
For Meta, Manus brings a commercially proven AI agent with over $100M in annual recurring revenue, helping justify its heavy AI infrastructure spending as investors press for clearer paths to returns.
AI News Story
OpenAI teams with SoftBank’s SB Energy on AI
OpenAI and SoftBank Group have formed a strategic partnership with SB Energy to accelerate US-based AI infrastructure, selecting SB Energy to build and operate a large-scale, purpose-built data center campus supporting OpenAI’s compute needs.
The agreement ties infrastructure delivery to product usage: SB Energy will deploy OpenAI tools internally and become a customer of OpenAI’s APIs, linking energy, compute, and enterprise adoption under one operating model.
For executives, the signal is clear. AI capacity planning sits alongside power sourcing and real estate as a board-level concern, with vertical partnerships emerging as a faster path to reliable compute than piecemeal procurement.
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