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Google completely upended the AI consumer space at I/O 2026, dropping prices on its top-tier AI Ultra plans and introducing a new $100 plan packed with 20TB storage!
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IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CREALLY
Most platforms give you data. Creally does the work. AI agents run the full pipeline: Find → Qualify → Outreach → Negotiate → Manage → Scale.
One client went from 200 to 5,000 monthly outreaches without a single new hire. More creators. More deals. Same team.
AI INSIGHTS
Google is giving its AI subscriptions a massive upgrade with new tiers, better perks, and a fairer way to handle usage limits. More updates are coming soon…:
New $100 AI Ultra Plan: Built for creators and tech leads, this tier offers 5x higher limits than Pro, integration with Gemini 3.5 Flash, 20TB of storage, priority access to Google Antigravity, and full YouTube Premium.
$200 AI Ultra Price Cut: Google dropped the price of its top-tier plan from $250 to $200, keeping the same 20x higher usage limits and adding Project Genie.
Pro Plan Bonus: Paid AI Pro subscribers are getting YouTube Premium Lite bundled in at no extra charge.
Gemini Omni: A major upgrade for video creation. You can blend real-world footage with AI content in Google Flow while maintaining perfect character consistency across scenes.
Gemini Spark (Ultra Tiers, U.S. Only): A 24/7 autonomous agent that connects the dots across your Google products to take complex tasks off your plate.
AI Inbox & Daily Brief: Gmail will now highlight your top priorities and draft replies, while the Daily Brief distills your emails, calendar, and past chats into a clean morning digest.
Limits now refresh every 5 hours. If you happen to hit your cap, Google will seamlessly shift you to a smaller, ultra-fast model so your work never stops.
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AI SOURCES FROM AI FIRE
1. Turn Any Raw Docs & Links Into Fully Editable, Multi-Format Slide Decks with NotebookLM. In just 3 steps, NotebookLM transforms your raw PDFs, docs, and web links into polished, fully editable slide decks. Customize layouts, formats, and visuals instantly.
2. 7 Free Gemini Use Cases Almost Nobody is Using Yet Feel Like AI Superpowers. These 7 hidden workflows can replace parts of your research stack, design stack, content stack, and productivity tools in one place.
3. I Let Claude Code Run My Entire Ad Strategy, Hooks, Funnels. The Results Were Surprising. From audience research, ad hooks to funnels, budgets, and landing page checks, every campaign starts with a clear strategy instead of a guess.
4. Video: Why Trump Brought Big Tech Leaders to China? Musk vs. OpenAI Lawsuit Final Stage. We break down the 9 biggest AI stories, from Trump meeting CEOs to OpenAI inside Fortune 500s, Meta layoffs, and AI dating.
TODAY IN AI
AI HIGHLIGHTS
📝 Anthropic shared a new detailed guide showing all the best practices for using Claude Code in large codebases (link post). Save the workflow systems behind them.
🤦 One tiny em dash in Nike’s latest post restarted the “AI writing detector” debate. Some call it blatant ChatGPT, so it’s AI giveaway or completely normal copywriting?
🔒 New in Claude Managed Agents: self-hosted sandboxes and MCP tunnels. It can run tasks without exposing private code, databases, or internal tools to Anthropic.
🧊 Microsoft dropped a local AI model that can generate detailed 3D objects from one photo in just 3 seconds. And yes, it’s fully open-source & commercially usable.
💻 If you’ve ever downloaded an LLM only to realize your GPU can’t run it, this new tool might save you hours. It ranks the best models your laptop can truly handle.
🧠 OAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joined Claude’s pre-training team. He’s now working on its core model training, the part deciding who wins the frontier AI race.
🎙️ Amazon’s Alexa+ is now an AI podcast creator. You pick a topic, and 2 AI hosts create a custom conversation around it, similar to NotebookLM’s viral audio feature.
⚡ Cursor just launched Composer 2.5, its strongest coding model yet at lower cost. They also teased a new giant model with Elon’s SpaceXAI using 10x more compute.
💰 Big AI Fundraising: Decart raised $300M to build faster real-time AI systems. Its new DOS 2.0 platform reportedly delivers 1,600+ tokens/sec, backed by Amazon, NVIDIA, and Sequoia.
Right now, most AI assistants and data platforms don't talk to each other directly. You move data between them manually: export, paste, attach, prompt. It works, but it's slow and loses context.
MCP is the bridge. It lets your AI tool, Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, connect to a live data source like Semrush and query it in real time. One connection, all your tools, no dashboards needed.
The setup takes minutes. What changes after that is how fast you can go from a question to an answer backed by real data.
Semrush is doing a live AMA on May 21 where you can ask anything about how Semrush MCP works, including how to connect it to your specific setup.
NEW EMPOWERED AI TOOLS
📞 PollyReach gives your agent a real number and voice to make calls. It answers your phone 24/7 & works in 50+ languages.
🧪 Drizz is an AI mobile test platform built around intent-based testing. It adapts to dynamic UIs, integrates with your pipeline,…
🤖 Composer 2.5 is Cursor’s most powerful model yet, particularly for long-horizon agentic tasks.
💬 Mantle Chat helps you boost productivity by bringing messaging, AI model chats, autonomous agents into one shared workspace.
AI BREAKTHROUGH
The annual CNBC Disruptor 50 list for 2026 just dropped, and there’s a massive shake-up at the very top. Anthropic has officially claimed the No. 1 spot, pushing its long-time rival OpenAI down to No. 2:
Total funding for the companies on this year's list skyrocketed to $337 billion, a massive jump from $127 billion last year.
The total implied value of these 50 startups reached $2.4 trillion, largely driven by the giant fundraising rounds of the top AI labs.
Silicon Valley is still the capital of innovation. California claims nearly half the list (23 companies), with 14 based right in San Francisco.
Beyond the top labs, the 2026 class highlights some exciting new spaces:
Vibe Coding & App Building: Tools like Cursor (No. 37) and Lovable (No. 39) are making it possible to build software using plain language.
Prediction Markets: Companies like Polymarket (No. 48) and Kalshi (No. 43) made the list as people look to predict real-world events.
Everyday Automation: AI is hitting the physical world hard. Companies like Carbon Robotics (No. 22) are using lasers and AI to clear weeds on farms, while Harvey (No. 24) is upgrading the legal industry.
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