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Table of Contents

• This Week in Business & Tech 🗞️

• Tool of the Week 🛠️

• Career & Hustle Tips 💼

• This Week in AI 🤖

• Your Newsletter, Your Paycheck: Start Earning with beehiiv 📧

• Bonus Tools 💎

• Job Hunt Playbook 🔍

• Build Your Own Thing 🚀

• Insights by Tezons 🧠

• Work with Tezons 💼

• Quote of the Week 💬

This Week in Business & Tech 🗞️

1️⃣ Business: xAI Unveils Grok 4 with Major Upgrades

Elon Musk’s xAI officially launched Grok 4 on Tuesday night, showing off big leaps in reasoning, real-time performance, and integration with X. It’s a bold move to take on ChatGPT - this model’s trained on both public web and real-time X data.

🔍 Insight: With new models dropping almost weekly, founders and creators should be testing multiple LLMs - not just defaulting to ChatGPT.

2️⃣ Finance: Markets React to Trump’s New Tariff Wave

Earlier this week, the Trump campaign announced sweeping new tariffs - 25% to 40% - on goods from countries like Japan, South Korea, and Laos. That sent U.S. markets down nearly 1%, while gold prices broke $3,300/oz.

🔍 Insight: Global trade tensions are back. If your business touches hardware, imports, or manufacturing, it’s time to check your exposure and renegotiate terms.

3️⃣ Marketing: Samsung Reveals Z Fold 7, XR Headset Teaser

At Wednesday’s Galaxy Unpacked event, Samsung launched the Galaxy Z Fold 7, Flip 7, and teased a powerful new XR headset. AI features, ultra-thin foldables, and a polished One UI upgrade took center stage.

🔍 Insight: Marketers: these launch weeks are your moment to trendjack. Use the hype to show off your own tech, content, or product reactions.

Tool of the Week: Midjourney 🛠️

Midjourney is an AI-powered image generation tool that turns text prompts into breathtaking digital artwork. Popular with designers, creators, and storytellers, it creates surreal, hyper-detailed visuals based on your imagination. Midjourney runs via Discord, making it easy to collaborate, share prompts, and iterate quickly. Whether you’re brainstorming concepts, developing marketing visuals, or exploring artistic ideas, Midjourney unlocks your creative potential with the power of AI. Its stunning output makes it especially useful for creative professionals and hobbyists who want to visualize complex or abstract ideas.

Career & Hustle Tips 💼

How to Build a Portfolio That Lands Work - Even If You’re “Junior”

If you want clients, better jobs, or freelance gigs, don’t just say you have skills - show them. Create your own mock projects: a landing page for a fake brand, a redesigned resume site, a cold email campaign for a pretend product. Real-world samples (even self-made) show initiative and execution.

🔍 Tip: Pick one dream job or client, build a project for them as if you're hired - then send it directly with zero fluff. You’ll immediately stand out. 

This Week in AI 🤖

Nvidia Reveals AI Tech to Handle Encyclopedia-Scale Queries

Nvidia just unveiled a major breakthrough in processing large-scale knowledge bases, making it possible for LLMs to answer encyclopedia-sized queries with blazing speed and precision. This tech enables real-time reasoning across dynamic, multi-source datasets - critical for AI apps that need up-to-the-minute info, like finance bots, legal research tools, or AI customer support.

The innovation is part of Nvidia’s ongoing push to reshape how AI systems scale across memory and context. Instead of being limited by token windows, this new approach enables long-context processing without the usual trade-offs in latency or cost. For builders working with large corpuses of content or documentation, this opens the door to deeper and more trustworthy AI responses at enterprise speed.

🔍 Tip: Evaluate whether your AI stack can handle long-context Q&A or document loads - if not, start experimenting with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and vector indexing now.

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Bonus Tools 💎

Discover 3 handpicked tools that bring extra value to your business toolkit. These bonus picks are carefully selected to help you boost productivity, streamline your workflow, and unlock new growth opportunities. Check them out and level up your game!

Job Hunt Playbook 🔍

Land Interviews with This “Shortcut Project” Tactic

Skip the generic applications. Find a company you admire and make them something: redesign their landing page, write a better onboarding email, or record a 2-minute feedback Loom. Show how you think, not just what’s on your resume. It works like magic - especially for startups and creative roles.

🔍 Tip: Use this 3-part message: “Hey [Name], I built this for [Company] because I love what you’re doing. No pitch - just wanted to show you how I’d add value.” Attach the project. Done.

Build Your Own Thing 🚀

Turn Daily Frustrations into Profitable Ideas

Every annoying friction in your day is a potential product. Can’t find an easy way to schedule group workouts? Hate copy-pasting analytics across platforms? Struggle with apartment hunting? These aren't just complaints - they’re unmet needs waiting for a solution.

The best startup ideas don’t come from a whiteboard - they come from lived experiences. Build tiny solutions that fix small-but-painful problems. Test fast, charge something, iterate.

🔍 Tip: For 7 days, write down every time you think “Ugh, this sucks” while doing something. At the end, pick 1 and brainstorm 3 low-lift ways to solve it.

Insights by Tezons 🧠

How to Rank in Google’s AI-Powered Search: What SMBs Must Know in 2025

Google’s new AI-powered Search features (like AI Overviews and Generative AI results) give users answers at the top of the page by summarizing information from multiple sources. This shift in Google’s search results means small businesses face a transformed landscape. Gone are the days when ranking #1 for a keyword guaranteed clicks; now your goal is to be featured or cited by Google’s AI. As Google itself notes, these AI overviews have already been used billions of times and make people “use Search more, and are more satisfied with their results”. For SMBs, the key is adapting traditional SEO to this new “AI-overview” world…

Continue reading here…

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Quote of the Week 💬

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