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Table of Contents

• This Week in Business & Tech 🗞️

• Tool of the Week 🛠️

• Career & Hustle Tips 💼

• This Week in AI 🤖

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• Bonus Tools 💎

• Quote of the Week 💬

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This Week in Business & Tech 🗞️

1️⃣ Business: Waymo Brings Driverless Taxis to London

Alphabet’s autonomous driving arm, Waymo, is officially launching its driverless taxi service in London in 2026 - its first major move into Europe. The rollout will start with supervised trials before fully autonomous rides hit the streets. Waymo is partnering with UK fleet operator Moove to handle operations, charging, and logistics.

🔍 Tip: This marks a pivotal moment for the UK mobility sector - signalling the start of urban autonomy in Europe and new opportunities in infrastructure, licensing, and safety regulation

2️⃣ Finance: Markets Crash After Trump’s 100% Tariff Threat on China

Global markets plunged this week after Donald Trump announced a 100% tariff on Chinese imports, reigniting fears of a U.S.–China trade war. The S&P 500 tumbled nearly 3%, tech stocks took the biggest hit, and Bitcoin and Ether fell by up to 4% amid panic selling. Some recovery followed after Trump softened his rhetoric, but investor sentiment remains fragile.

🔍 Tip: Expect more volatility ahead - geopolitical shocks are now moving markets faster than central banks can react. Diversification and risk management are back in focus.

3️⃣ Marketing: WPP Strikes $400M AI Partnership with Google

Marketing giant WPP has inked a $400 million deal with Google to infuse its global operations with AI technology. The partnership gives WPP early access to Google’s generative AI tools like Gemini and Veo, aiming to revolutionise how campaigns are created - faster production, smarter personalisation, and deeper data integration.

🔍 Tip: The race for AI-driven creativity is heating up. Expect agencies and brands alike to face growing pressure to prove that AI can deliver real-world ROI, not just hype.

Tool of the Week: GoDaddy 🛠️

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Career & Hustle Tips 💼

Asymmetric Networking: Give First, Get Better Access 🔗

Networking isn’t about collecting business cards - it’s about creating asymmetric value: giving something small and unique that others can’t easily get elsewhere.

How to do it:

1. Find one real pain. Monitor one community or person for a week and spot an actionable gap (data, an intro, feedback). That’s your entry point.

2. Give high-signal help. Send a useful template, a 2-minute audit, or an intro with context. Small, specific value creates disproportionate goodwill.

3. Build micro-rituals. Weekly DM one person with a resource or insight. Over months, those one-offs compound into trusted relationships and referrals.

🔑 Takeaway: The shortest path to high-value connections is not hustle - it’s being reliably useful in a way others don’t expect.

This Week in AI 🤖

OpenAI & Broadcom Partner to Build Custom AI Chips - A New Era of Compute Control

OpenAI has announced a major partnership with Broadcom to co-develop custom AI chips, marking a bold step toward controlling its own computing infrastructure. The collaboration aims to produce specialised accelerators optimised for OpenAI’s large models, reducing its reliance on Nvidia’s GPUs and easing the global chip shortage that’s throttled AI innovation. Initial chip production is expected to begin in 2026, powering OpenAI’s next generation of training clusters.

This move signals a new phase in the AI arms race - one where the biggest players aren’t just writing algorithms but designing the silicon that runs them. By owning more of the hardware stack, OpenAI hopes to improve performance, lower costs, and accelerate deployment. But it also raises the stakes for competitors like Anthropic and Google DeepMind, who now face pressure to follow suit or risk falling behind in the compute race.

🔍 Tip: This move marks a shift in the AI arms race - owning the stack (hardware + software) becomes even more important. Watch how this could change margins, supply chains, and performance differentiation between AI firms.

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