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Welcome to the new Brew & AI.
I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about what would actually make this newsletter more useful for you – more actionable, more interactive, and packed with things you can immediately apply, not just read and forget.

Anthropic just pulled in a jaw‑dropping 30 billion dollars in a Series G round, valuing the company at 380 billion dollars and more than doubling its late‑2025 valuation. That makes this the second‑largest VC deal ever in tech, only behind OpenAI’s 40 billion dollar raise in 2025, and it’s a pretty loud signal that “frontier” AI is still where big money wants to be.​

The round is led by GIC and Coatue, with a who’s‑who of investors like D.E. Shaw, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Lightspeed, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google all piling in.

Anthropic says it’ll use the capital to push deeper into frontier research, product development, and infrastructure - as Claude becomes more and more central to how enterprises get real work done.

India is gearing up to host the India AI Impact Summit 2026, and it’s shaping up to be a big moment for the country on the global AI stage. Leaders from the biggest AI and tech companies - think Google’s Sundar Pichai, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and other top execs - are all expected to be there.​

Beyond the speaker list flex, the summit is really about India signaling: “We’re not just watching the AI race, we’re in it.” It highlights how quickly the country is stepping up in AI policy, infrastructure, and innovation - and why more global AI conversations are going to have an Indian accent going forward.

The US government under President Donald Trump is now looking at formal commitments from OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and other AI giants around how much electricity their data centers consume. After already pushing Microsoft to pay more for its data‑center power, the administration is clearly signaling that “AI is great, but someone has to pay the energy bill.”​

They’re exploring a broader “compact” that would help manage grid strain and the environmental impact as AI‑driven data‑center demand keeps exploding. In other words, AI energy use just moved from a nerdy infra topic to a front‑page policy issue - and this won’t be the last time we see governments try to rein in AI’s power hunger.

In What’s Trending on Social, I’ll surface the most interesting AI takes, memes, debates, and hot posts bubbling up across X, LinkedIn, and beyond - so you don’t have to doomscroll to stay in the loop.

🎥 The “Will Smith eating spaghetti” trend has basically become an informal benchmark for how far AI video has come. Early versions were glitchy and obviously fake; Seedance 2.0’s version looks like a real, well‑lit movie scene, which shows how quickly quality has improved.

✍ Matt Shumer’s long post titled “Something Big Is Happening” went viral on X, arguing that the AI models released on February 5th feel like a clean break from everything before. It’s sparked a wave of hot takes, explainers, and debunks about whether we’re actually at an “early Covid moment” for AI or just in another hype spike.

✍ A story about Moltbook, a social network where AI agents post alongside humans, has been circulating widely on X and tech Twitter. One of the platform’s most viral posts - an “AI manifesto” about the end of the age of humans - turned out not to be a bot at all, but a human product manager role‑playing as an AI agent for fun.

Lately I’ve felt that AI imagery has quietly crossed a line where, for most people and most use cases, it’s almost indistinguishable from “real” non‑AI artwork or photos.

To test that, I asked an image model to generate a movie poster for Avatar: Fire and Ash and put it side‑by‑side with the original - now I’m curious if you can actually tell which one is AI‑made and which one is the real thing.

(Answer at the end)

Here, I’ll share some interesting prompts that I’ve either used myself or come across on social media.

This week - a highly popular and engaging prompt to try right now is the "AI Caricature of My Job" (or Personality), currently trending on Instagram and TikTok for generating personalized, stylized, and often funny, images based on your life, job, or personality.

Let me know how this works out for you.

Each week in Weekly Reads, I’ll share a short list of the most insightful, no‑nonsense AI articles I’ve found across the internet - pieces that explain what’s happening, why it matters, and how you can actually use it.

If you missed my writing, here’s everything I’ve done - bite‑sized, practical, and very AI‑obsessed. Think of this as the “in case you blinked” shelf for my recent posts, threads, and experiments.

✍ Blogs - In-depth articles and insights to expand your AI knowledge

🛠 Tools - Discover powerful AI tools to enhance your workflow

💭 Tips - Practical tips and tricks to make your AI journey smoother

AI or not - I generated the first one, the second one is the official poster.

That’s it for this week’s brew.

I’d love to hear what you think - what you liked, what could be better, or what you’d love to see next.

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