This AI Toilet Just Raised $4M—And It Could Change Your Office Too

Friends,

Your weekly AI briefing is here—designed to help you respond to AI, not react to the hype. No curveballs. No chaos. Just clarity.

This was the week when:

• 🧠 Jony Ive joined OpenAI to design the next generation of AI hardware

• 🤖 Anthropic released Claude Opus 4, pushing model quality even further

• 🚀 Google launched a tidal wave of new AI products—from glasses to real-time meeting translation to an astonishing new video creation model.

This was the week when the AI race didn’t just speed up—it became a full sprint.

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🔥 URGENT PRIORITIES

✅ No fires to fight
✅ Systems stable
✅ Roadmap unchanged

Enjoy the clarity. It’s a gift.

🎯 STRATEGIC CONSIDERATIONS

This week, Google didn’t just release one AI product—they released a whole operating system for the future.

From real-time video translation in Meet, to Veo3, an AI video generator that rivals human editors, to smart glasses with agentic capabilities, the signal is loud and clear:

If you’re not actively redesigning how your business uses time, talent, and technology in light of these tools, you are on track to fall behind.

🤓 GEEK OUT

💩 The Gut Health AI Toilet is Real
Remember in 2014 when I pitched an AI toilet that could monitor your health? It’s here.
Throne raised $4M to bring this exact idea to life—analysing your gut, cough, and other diagnostics using AI.

👉 Read the wild story

So what ?

This isn’t just a bizarre bathroom gadget—it’s a signal of where business tech is heading. The same AI tools being used in smart toilets—like real-time edge computing, multimodal sensors, and predictive analytics—are about to transform your customer service desks, meeting rooms, and product testing environments.

As an SME, you need to:

• Explore “ambient AI” in your workspace—from smart feedback tools to real-time service improvements.

• Upskill your team to understand how to use and interpret AI-driven insights from physical environments.

• Keep an open mind to emerging tech—what looks niche today could give your business a major competitive edge tomorrow.

🎥 Veo3: AI Video Gets Unreal
Google’s new video model is so good it feels fake. Watch this example and prepare to rethink everything about visual content.

👉 Watch Veo3 in action

So what ?

Veo3 isn’t just a tool for tech giants. It democratises video production—making cinematic-quality marketing, training, and storytelling accessible with just a few words. That changes the game for time-strapped, budget-conscious businesses.

As an SME, you should:

• Rethink your content strategy—could you produce explainer videos, onboarding tutorials, or social content with AI, faster and cheaper?

• Train your team to script, prompt, and refine AI-generated media—it’s a new creative skillset.

• Experiment now—by Q3, this tech will be mainstream. Start learning today so you’re not playing catch-up tomorrow.

🎨 WEEKEND PLAYGROUND

🧵 Try Google Stitch
Stitch is Google’s new experimental AI storytelling tool. Think of it like a digital tapestry for your thoughts, visuals, and narratives—woven together beautifully.

✅ Sign in at stitch.withgoogle.com
✅ Play with narrative threads
✅ Reimagine how you tell stories with AI

(Access might be limited, but it’s worth the wait.)

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Have a calm, clear week,
Hugo & Ben