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Good morning ☀️, leader of the next generation.
We will talk about agents. AI agents.
They will change the way how we do business, how we interract and even how we do our everyday lives.
Agents will build business.
Agents will organize your day.
Agents will fill up your fridge.
I will let that sit in here for a while, so we can imagine and build the future together one agent at a time...
⚡ WHAT'S AT STAKE TODAY ⚡
- 📱💼 Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions, with more to come, including AI plans
- 🤖📈 Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks
- 🧠😵 Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis
- 🎥🏷️ YouTube will now automatically label AI videos
- 💰🚀 ClickHouse triples annualized revenue to $250M, charting a path toward an IPO
- 🇨🇳🧑💻 China is increasingly keeping its best AI talent to itself
- 🎵🎶 ElevenLabs' new music-generation model can switch genres mid-track
- 💻💸 AI coding startup Cognition raises $1B at $25B pre-money valuation
- 🇨🇳🔒 China is increasingly keeping its best AI talent to itself
Meta rolls out paid plans for Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, creators, and AI users.
Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions, with more to come, including AI plans
Meta is expanding its subscription business in a big way. The company has officially launched paid consumer plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp on a global scale, while also kicking off tests for new subscription tiers aimed at creators, businesses, and Meta AI users.
The consumer-facing plans are straightforward. Instagram Plus and Facebook Plus are priced at $3.99 per month, while WhatsApp Plus comes in at $2.99 per month. Each plan unlocks a set of extra features tailored to the individual app. Instagram Plus, for example, gives users access to Story rewatch counts, unlimited audience lists, the ability to spotlight a Story for extra reach, extended Story duration, and more. Users can also post directly to their profile and highlights without appearing in their followers' feeds, and get perks like Super Heart animated reactions, custom app icons, and customizable profile fonts.
Facebook Plus mirrors many of Instagram's social expression features, while WhatsApp Plus leans into personalization — offering app themes, custom ringtones, additional pinned chats, premium stickers, and list customization options.
Meta's head of product, Naomi Gleit, noted that more features will be added to these plans over time. The company was open about its subscription ambitions earlier this year, with initial tests running in the spring. The goal is twofold: give power users more from the apps they already love, and diversify Meta's revenue beyond advertising — especially as its core platforms have largely reached global saturation.
It's worth noting that these new Plus plans are separate from Meta Verified, the company's existing verification and impersonation protection offering. Meta says it has no plans to wind down Meta Verified for now, though that could change down the line.
Beyond the consumer plans, Meta is testing a broader subscription umbrella called Meta One, which will serve as the central home for all its subscription products going forward.
For AI users, two Meta One tiers are being tested: Meta One Plus at $7.99 per month and Meta One Premium at $19.99 per month. Both offer similar features, but the Premium tier unlocks greater computing capacity for complex tasks — think deeper reasoning in the Meta AI app — as well as more video and image generation across Meta's apps. Meta AI will remain free for casual users. These AI plans will begin testing next month, starting in Singapore, Guatemala, and Bolivia, with additional benefits for AI glasses users coming later.
For creators and businesses, two additional Meta One plans will begin testing later this week in Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Thailand, and Bangladesh. The Meta One Essential plan ($14.99/mo) includes a Verified badge, impersonation protection, and an enhanced link sheet for cross-platform promotion. The Meta One Advanced plan ($49.99/mo) goes further, offering placement boosts in Facebook and Instagram feeds and search results, a prominent "Follow" button on Reels, automatic follow invitations to engaged users, and tools to drive traffic to external websites or shops through Instagram posts, Reels, and enhanced profiles.
Advanced subscribers also get deeper analytics — including competitive insights on Instagram and custom audience data on Facebook — along with scheduling tools, multi-moderator access without password sharing, and alerts when others reuse their original content.
Gleit acknowledged that the AI and professional plans are still in experimentation mode, but the long-term vision is clear: bring everything under the Meta One umbrella and keep building from there. With billions of existing users and a maturing ad market, subscriptions appear to be a key part of Meta's next chapter.
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Robinhood launches AI agentic trading and a virtual credit card for agents.
Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks
Robinhood is now allowing users to set up dedicated accounts for their AI agents, enabling them to analyze portfolios, develop trading strategies, and execute stock trades using a pre-loaded wallet balance.
Users receive notifications for every trade and can monitor agent activity within the app. Fraud detection and trade previews add extra safety layers.
Robinhood is also launching a virtual credit card for AI agents, letting them make payments within set monthly limits. The agentic trading feature is currently in beta, with options, crypto, and futures support coming soon.
🎙️ The Supercharged Podcast Is Growing
Real Conversations with the People Building the AI Future
The Supercharged Podcast is quickly becoming a space for real, unfiltered conversations about AI — beyond the hype, tools, and surface-level takes.
Each episode dives deep with founders, operators, and builders who are actively working with AI — or building AI-first companies — to uncover how it’s truly changing the way work gets done.
From strategy and systems to real-world execution, these conversations are practical, honest, and focused on what actually works — not just what sounds good.
⚡ Trends for the Future
China is increasingly keeping its best AI talent to itself
Beijing tightens grip on AI talent as the global tech race intensifies.
China is tightening its hold on top AI talent, with researchers, startup founders, and executives at private firms now reportedly subject to travel restrictions. Some of the industry's most prominent figures must seek government approval before traveling abroad, signaling a major shift in how Beijing manages brain-drain in the AI sector.
The trend became visible in early 2025, when the Wall Street Journal reported that Chinese authorities were advising leading AI founders and researchers to avoid traveling to the United States. Since then, restrictions have grown more formal and more aggressive.
A particularly sharp example involves Manus, an AI startup acquired by Meta for $2 billion. Chinese regulators are investigating whether the deal violates foreign investment rules, and both of Manus' co-founders have been barred from leaving the country while the probe continues. The founders are now reportedly exploring ways to unwind the deal, including raising around $1 billion from external investors to buy the company back from Meta.
The broader context helps explain Beijing's urgency. According to Stanford's latest AI index, the performance gap between the top U.S. and Chinese AI models had narrowed to just 2.7% as of March 2026, down sharply from around 31% in 2023. While the U.S. still leads in model quality and high-impact patents, China is outpacing American labs in publications, citations, and overall patent volume.
Beyond travel restrictions, Beijing is also moving to limit American capital flowing into its top AI firms. Reports from Bloomberg indicate that companies like Moonshot AI, StepFun, and ByteDance may soon need government approval before accepting U.S. investment. These moves come alongside broader economic countermeasures, including two rounds of export controls on rare earth materials critical to high-tech manufacturing, and a ban on state-funded data centers using foreign AI chips.
Together, these measures paint a clear picture: China views its AI sector as a strategic national asset, and it intends to keep both its people and its technology firmly within its borders.
⚡ Let’s Make AI Actually Useful:
What Would Move the Needle in *Your* Industry?
AI has potential — but generic advice rarely helps.
What would be genuinely valuable for AI to do in your industry right now?
• Automate a painful workflow?
• Improve decision-making?
• Replace a manual process that wastes time?
• Help your team upskill faster?
Tell us what you’d want AI to handle — or where you feel stuck.
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