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The World Cup started today, and with that, a lot of data gathering about players, teams, and billions of data sets from on and off the court to enrich AI models and monetize them. We share how this is changing the game. LLMs are teaming up with Visa, Metamask, and other payment processors to allow agents to manage money. How can this accelerate agentic adoption or create a financial mess? We also share a very simple AI-Powered Lead Generator agent. Let’s dive in and Stay Curious.

• 📰 AI News and Trends

• AI Agents Will Soon Shop and Pay for You

• AI Revolution in Pro Soccer

• 🧰 AI Tools - Keep Track of your AI Tokens

• 📚 Learning Corner - AI-Powered Lead Generator in Make.com

📰 AI News and Trends

• ByteDance is developing AI chips similar to those from Nvidia partner Groq, a design that could help the company work around U.S. export restrictions.

• Google in talks with Samsung to make part of next-gen chip

• Warner Music Group acquired Sureel AI, a company that develops tools for tracking how intellectual property is used by generative AI models.

• SpaceX’s I.P.O. Could Turn 4,400 Employees Into Millionaires

• Waymo built a virtual driver to study how humans react to surprises on the road, and it is open source for any company to use

• Solar generates more energy (12.8% of US electricity in May) in the US than coal for the first time, even as Trump boosts coal over clean energy

• Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time

• Anthropic pursues data center leases, seeks financial backing from Google

• China just approved the world’s first commercial brain implant.

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AI Agents Will Soon Shop and Pay for You

OpenAI and Visa are partnering to bring AI-powered commerce closer to reality by enabling AI agents to make purchases and payments on users' behalf within predefined limits.

The integration combines OpenAI’s agent technology with Visa’s global payments infrastructure, enabling users to set spending caps, merchant restrictions, and approval requirements while Visa handles fraud protection, chargebacks, and refunds. Beyond online shopping, the system could eventually allow AI agents to autonomously pay business invoices, purchase software services, APIs, cloud computing resources, and other digital products. Visa says AI is already influencing more than 20% of consumer transactions, highlighting the growing role of large language models in purchasing decisions.

While the partnership lays the groundwork for agentic commerce, both companies acknowledge that the final user experience is still evolving, and ChatGPT is unlikely to become a full-scale shopping platform anytime soon.

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🧰 AI Tools of The Day

Keep Track of your AI Tokens

• Braintrust - Automatically collects detailed token metrics for every LLM call, prompt tokens, cached tokens, completion tokens, and reasoning tokens.

• Laminar - open-source observability platform designed to automatically track token usage across AI workflows. Captures input and output token counts as soon as it’s set up at your application’s entry point.

• Prompts.ai - AI orchestration platform, uniting over 35 LLMs within a single, streamlined interface. Tailored for organizations looking to manage AI expenses at scale, it combines real-time token tracking with robust financial controls to help prevent overspending.

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AI Revolution in Pro Soccer

The World Cup opened today, and researchers and AI labs are ready to capture as much data as possible to monetize their models and to, allegedly, make the game better. Researchers at Belgium’s KU Leuven are helping drive a data revolution in soccer by using AI and machine learning to uncover winning strategies that were previously invisible to coaches and analysts.

Led by Jesse Davis, the team has analyzed more than 1.4 million passes and 60,000 throw-ins, revealing surprising insights such as how intentionally kicking the ball out of bounds in the opponent’s half can increase scoring opportunities. Their open-source tools, including expected goals (xG) and player valuation models, are now used by professional clubs across Europe and national soccer organizations. The lab’s research has also shown that teams like Chelsea could have gained an estimated 1.6 additional goals per season by increasing long-range shots by 20%.

As AI-powered analytics become increasingly embedded in the sport, these tools are transforming everything from player scouting and tactical planning to automated game analysis, making soccer one of the fastest-evolving data-driven sports in the world.

📚 Learning Corner

AI-Powered Lead Generator in Make.com

This week, I’m sharing an AI lead generation workflow I built in Make.com that automatically finds prospects, enriches their contact information, generates company intelligence reports, and stores everything in a Google Sheet.

How it works:

1. Webhook Trigger – Submit a company website or business name through a simple form.

2. Contact Discovery – An HTTP module connects to Hunter.io to find verified email addresses and key decision-makers within the organization.

3. AI Intelligence Report – A second HTTP module sends company information to Google AI Studio, which generates a detailed report including:

   • Company overview

   • Products and services

   • Target customers

   • Competitive advantages

   • Potential sales opportunities

4. Google Sheets Database – All contacts and AI-generated insights are automatically saved to a spreadsheet for outreach and prospect management.

What you get:

• Verified business contacts

• AI-generated company research

• Centralized lead database

• Automated workflow with minimal manual effort

👉 View the Make.com scenario

👉 Need help connecting APIs or customizing the workflow? Contact Me