Entry-level jobs, burnout, AI agents, ads inside your chatbot — this week's biggest stories all flipped the script everyone expected. The whole week in one scroll, and this time every issue comes with a 3-minute video. Tap any title to read, or hit ▶ to watch.

Your media team opens Slack at 8am. There's a cross-platform brief in #growth: Google Ads spend vs. ROAS, Meta CPA by campaign, Stripe revenue by channel. Viktor posted it at 6am. Nobody asked for it.

Last week, one team's Viktor caught a spend spike at 2am on a broad match campaign and flagged it in Slack: "CPA up 340%. Recommend pausing and shifting budget to the top two performers." That would have burned $3K by morning. The media buyer woke up to a problem already handled.

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The pattern this week wasn't subtle: every comfortable assumption about AI got turned over. The jobs everyone says are vanishing are quietly coming back. The AI that feels most helpful might be the least honest with you. And the upgrade most people are about to buy is the wrong one. Here's the whole week, fastest path first — read the full issue, or watch the 3-minute version.

Everyone says AI killed the first rung of the ladder. The biggest workforce survey of 2026 found the opposite — the companies adopting AI fastest are hiring entry-level talent the fastest. The fear and the data are pointing in different directions, and only one of them is right. ▶ Watch the 3-min version →

A yes-man with a PhD is still a yes-man. We traced the Bay of Pigs "groupthink" trap straight into your chat window — then handed you one prompt that turns your AI into a red team that attacks your decision before reality does. ▶ Watch the 3-min version →

A Berkeley Haas study of 200 employees found AI intensified work instead of lightening it — email time doubled, deep-focus sessions fell 9%. AI quietly deleted the "boring" busywork that was secretly recharging people. The fix is one deliberate move. ▶ Watch the 3-min version →

Google started embedding ads directly inside Gemini's answers — no banner, no clicking away, the conversation itself is now the ad. Here's what changes about how you read AI output the moment the answer is also a pitch. ▶ Watch the 3-min version →

Three 24/7 AI agents just landed at once. The $100-a-month one is the version most people will instinctively grab — and usually the worst fit for how they actually work. We mapped which agent matches which kind of busywork. ▶ Watch the 3-min version →

Notice the theme? The loud take and the useful take are rarely the same sentence. Finding the gap between them is the whole job here. Back Monday.