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Today we have:

📺 YouTube & Netflix Push AI-Powered Ads to the Next Level

📚 Microsoft’s Copilot Prompt Library Is the AI Shortcut Every Team Needs

🧠 OpenAI Launches Codex: Your New Cloud-Based Coding Agent

🏆 Tools and Shifts you cannot miss

📺 YouTube & Netflix Push AI-Powered Ads to the Next Level

Streaming giants YouTube and Netflix just revealed next-gen ad formats powered by generative AI, designed to embed brands deeper into content and viewer emotion. With AI now determining ad timing, placement, and even creative style, both platforms are reshaping how brands show up during shows. 

The Shift:

1. YouTube’s “Peak Points” triggers ads at emotional high notes - YouTube now uses Gemini AI to detect the most emotionally charged moments in videos and runs ads right after them. These “Peak Points” are built to capture attention at maximum engagement. 

2. Netflix is blending ads into its shows with AI magic - Netflix’s new AI ad formats will visually match brand creative with the aesthetics of its programming. Expect pause ads, midrolls, and interactive CTAs that feel like they belong inside the show. 

3. Netflix Ads Suite is now fully operational across key markets - Netflix now offers targeting by 100+ interests, clean room integrations, and first-party lift measurement. Brands can also plug in first-party data and transact programmatically. Everything is stitched together by a creative engine that customizes ads in real time.

Ad slots are no longer static, they’re becoming dynamic, emotional, and show-aware. This new era of AI-powered ad placement will boost ROI, reduce friction, and blur the lines between content and commerce. 

📚 Microsoft’s Copilot Prompt Library Is the AI Shortcut Every Team Needs

Microsoft just quietly released a massive upgrade for anyone using Copilot: the Copilot Prompt Library. It’s a free, searchable catalog of expert-built prompts across dozens of real-world use cases, from marketing and finance to HR and IT.

Whether you’re writing strategy docs, crunching numbers, or responding to legal questions, this library gives you instant access to ready-to-use, high-quality prompts.

Step 1: Visit the Prompt Library: Go to copilot.cloud.microsoft/en-US/prompts/all. You’ll land on a clean interface showing hundreds of categorized prompts.

Step 2: Choose Your Category or Filter by Task

Prompts are grouped by role and function, such as:

• Sales – Outreach emails, call prep, account planning
  

• Marketing – Campaign summaries, content ideas, trend analysis
  

• HR – Job descriptions, performance reviews, onboarding
  

• Finance – Budget planning, ROI breakdowns, risk assessments

You can also filter by Microsoft 365 app (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote) or by task type, like:

• Understand, Edit, Create, Ask, Catch up, Design, Prepare, Analyze, Learn, Schedule, Find, and Execute

This lets you instantly zero in on the perfect prompt for both your tool and your intent.

Step 3: Copy and Use a Prompt: Click any prompt card to expand it. Copy the full prompt text and paste it into the relevant Microsoft Copilot-enabled app. Modify the fields as needed (e.g., job title, campaign name), and hit send or run.

Why It Matters: Instead of guessing what to ask Copilot, you now get expert-grade starting points for almost every business scenario. It’s prompt engineering, without the guesswork. And it’s completely free.

🧠 OpenAI Launches Codex: Your New Cloud-Based Coding Agent

OpenAI has unveiled Codex, a cloud-native engineering agent built on a fine-tuned o3 model to automate feature writing, bug fixing, code analysis, and testing. It’s initially available to ChatGPT Pro, Team, and Enterprise users, with Plus and Edu access coming soon.

The Shift:

1. Codex handles real tasks in real sandboxes  - Codex operates in isolated cloud containers, enabling it to perform feature development, debugging, testing, and even pull requests in parallel. It reads from your repo, adheres to dev setups, and provides verifiable logs and test outputs for every change.

2. It understands instructions through AGENTS. md  - Teams can guide Codex with AGENTS. md files, setting standards for navigation, testing, and style. Its outputs closely match human pull request formatting and instruction alignment. 

3. CLI tools and mini models are already here - Codex CLI now supports codex-mini-latest (based on o4-mini) for faster, low-latency terminal-based coding help. Developers can log in via ChatGPT accounts and redeem free API credits for local use. 

4. Trusted by early adopters and protected by design - Early partners like Cisco and Superhuman use Codex to refactor, test, and debug at scale while staying focused. All execution happens in locked-down containers with no internet access to mitigate risk. Codex also rejects malicious tasks and shows clear logs.

With tools for both real-time pairing and asynchronous task delegation, OpenAI is building what could become the default workflow for software teams. This isn’t just an upgrade, it’s the first serious shift toward software agents as teammates.

🏆 AI Tools for the Shift

📄 Seaml.es – Find relevant papers and generate academic drafts instantly. Just paste your excerpt and let AI do the heavy lifting.

🧑‍💻 InfluencerFarm – Create scroll-stopping media with AI influencers. Scale content without ever needing a camera.

📅 Rebuzz AI – Plan 30 days of content in seconds. AI-driven social calendars are built to save you time and stress.

🤖 Piper SDR Agent by Qualified – Your AI SDR for inbound pipeline generation. Piper books meetings while your team focuses on closing.

🚀 Quick Shifts

📲 Apple’s Siri overhaul is underway after failed attempts to bolt AI onto old code. Delays, leadership missteps, and late AI investments forced Apple to rebuild Siri entirely using LLM architecture.

📡 China launched 12 AI satellites in its “Three-Body Computing Constellation,” each with 8B-parameter models and 744 TOPS, aiming for 2,800 total to create a 1,000 POPS space-based supercomputer.

🎙️ Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella no longer listens to podcasts, he feeds transcripts to Copilot, then chats with it while commuting. Nadella says 30% of Microsoft’s code is now written by AI.

📈 OpenAI plans a 5-gigawatt AI data center in Abu Dhabi, bigger than Monaco, with G42, raising U.S. concerns over past China ties despite Microsoft investing $1.5B and joining its board.

👮🏻‍♀️ Anthropic admitted Claude AI wrongly cited a legal source with inaccurate author and title details in a music copyright case, calling it an “embarrassing mistake,” not a deliberate fabrication or hallucination.

That’s all for today’s edition see you tomorrow as we track down and get you all that matters in the daily AI Shift!

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