If you've ever felt overwhelmed by the sheer number of AI tools out there, this video is going to be a relief. Dan Martell runs an AI venture studio where he launches AI companies every single month. That means he literally has to know which AI tools are actually worth your time and which ones are a complete waste. He's personally tested 500+ of them so that you don't have to. He ranks every tool on one simple question: how much do you put in vs. how much do you get out — in terms of money, time, and energy? Three things that got my attention: 1. ChatGPT may not be your best bet. Dan compares it to MySpace — first to market, everyone loved it, but he thinks it's heading for a slow decline. There are better tools that most entrepreneurs are completely overlooking. 2. The S-tier (absolute best) tools are NOT the ones you're being sold on right now. He goes through 20+ tools including Claude, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, NotebookLM, Lovable, Granola.ai, Gumloop, n8n, and more. Some real surprises in the rankings. 3. There's a tool called Frank (hellofrank.ai) — an AI financial co-pilot for your business. Ask it which service line is actually profitable. Ask it if you can afford to hire someone. Fast, accurate, visual answers. Every entrepreneur needs this. This isn't a list video full of fluff. Dan is building companies with these tools. When he rates something S-tier or says to run away, he's speaking from real experience building real businesses. Which AI tools are YOU using right now? Drop a comment — I'd love to know what's working in your business.

Here are the top 10 AI stories from the past 24 hours — curated for entrepreneurs and innovation leaders building the future. 📱 PRODUCT LAUNCH | OpenAI Launches AI Consulting Arm "DeployCo" Valued at $14 Billion OpenAI created the OpenAI Deployment Company with over $4 billion in initial investment, partnering with 19 firms to deploy frontier AI in production. Days after Anthropic launched its own consulting arm, the race to own enterprise AI implementation is fully on. The big players are coming for the B2B integration market — fast. 💼 BUSINESS | OpenAI & Microsoft Agree to Cap Revenue-Sharing at $38 Billion OpenAI and Microsoft restructured one of tech's most consequential partnerships, capping total revenue-sharing at $38 billion. This coincides with OpenAI's IPO push and sets the new blueprint for how AI companies and infrastructure giants will co-exist as the market matures. ⚠️ AI SAFETY | Google Stopped a Zero-Day Hack Developed Using AI — A Historic First Google's Threat Intelligence Group confirmed the first-ever case of criminal hackers using AI to discover and weaponize a zero-day software exploit at industrial scale. AI-powered hacking is no longer theoretical — every entrepreneur needs a cybersecurity conversation now. 💰 INVESTMENT | AI Chipmaker Cerebras Upsizes IPO to $150–$160/Share Amid AI Stock Boom Cerebras Systems raised its IPO price range, sizing up what's expected to be the largest AI IPO of 2026 as tech stocks hit all-time highs. Massive investor appetite for AI infrastructure beyond Nvidia confirms the hardware layer of the "new factory" is still red hot. 🏛️ POLICY | Fears of an AI Breakthrough Force the U.S. and China to Talk The Trump administration is now reckoning with the destabilizing power of AI and initiating dialogue with China — with AI squarely on the Trump-Xi meeting agenda. The global AI arms race is entering a new geopolitical phase that entrepreneurs building internationally must track. 👷 WORKFORCE | GM Laid Off Hundreds of IT Workers to Hire Those with Stronger AI Skills

Every week someone sends me a new "make money with AI" video. Most of them I skip. This one I watched twice. Dan Martell - who literally launches a new AI company every single month - sat down and ranked all 14 real ways to make money with AI right now. Not theory. Not hype. A tier list from someone who's actually in the trenches building these things. And honestly, his rankings are going to surprise you. Here's what jumped out at me. The big winner, his S-tier pick, is AI agent development. Building custom AI agents that automate the internal operations of real businesses. Think of it like being a contractor who wires up a company's AI nervous system. The demand is exploding, the competition is still low, and the value you deliver is massive. Right behind it in S-tier is managed AI cybersecurity. As AI gets more powerful, so do the threats. Businesses need experts who use AI to protect them from AI-powered hacking and social engineering. Wildly profitable, long-term staying power, and almost no competition yet. What I loved about the video is Dan also tells you what NOT to do. Faceless AI YouTube channels? F-tier. AI content slop is already dying. People are tired of it. Don't waste your time. And near the end, he walks you through his exact launch process - how he validates a new AI company with real customer conversations, pre-sells before building anything, and gets paying customers before writing a single line of code. That section alone is worth watching. If you're an entrepreneur trying to figure out where AI actually fits into your future business, this is the most grounded, practical breakdown I've seen this year. Big ideas are waiting. Go find yours. Bill

Here are the top 10 AI stories from the past 24 hours — curated for entrepreneurs and innovation leaders building the future. 👷 WORKFORCE | 76% of Organizations Now Have a Chief AI Officer — Up from 26% a Year Ago The C-suite just got a new permanent seat. McKinsey surveyed 2,000+ organizations and found 93% cite cultural challenges — not technology — as the biggest barrier to AI adoption. The real edge isn't buying the best AI tools — it's building an AI-ready culture first. (CNBC) 💼 BUSINESS | ElevenLabs Crosses $500M ARR — Voice AI Is Now a Half-Billion Dollar Business ElevenLabs hit $500 million in annual recurring revenue, up from $350 million just five months ago. Entrepreneurs can now build sophisticated audio-powered products, customer service agents, and content tools on a platform scaling like a rocket. (Asanify) 🔬 RESEARCH | Gartner: AI Agents Are Failing Because Companies Skip Semantics — And Burning Cash in the Process Gartner warned today that organizations deploying AI agents without proper semantic data architecture are getting inaccurate results and wasting significant spend. Good data structure is not optional — it's the foundation everything else runs on. (Gartner) 🏛️ POLICY | AI Takes Center Stage as Trump Heads to China — The Geopolitical AI Race Heats Up Artificial intelligence is officially on the agenda for President Trump's upcoming meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The US-China AI race will shape which models, chips, and platforms are available — and at what cost — for years to come. (NPR) 📱 PRODUCT LAUNCH | Apple's iOS 27 Will Let Users Choose Between Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT — Turning iPhone into an AI Marketplace Apple is opening iOS 27 to third-party AI providers — letting users power Siri and Apple Intelligence with Google Gemini, Anthropic's Claude, or ChatGPT. The world's most-used consumer device is about to become an AI distribution channel. (TechCrunch) 💰 INVESTMENT | Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation — AI Agent Company Already in Half the Fortune 50

Hey Big Idea Future Network, I just watched a 16-minute video that pulls together advice from six of the most respected builders in AI right now, and it might be the most practical thing I have shared in a while. Marina from Silicon Valley Girl asked them all one question, if you had to start over in 2026 with just AI and a laptop, what would you build to hit your first ten thousand a month? The lineup is unreal, Gary Vee, Amjad Masad from Replit, Young Zhao from OpusClip, Mati Staniszewski from ElevenLabs, Alex Mashrabov from Higgsfield, and Bill Gurley. Each one brings a different angle and together they form a real playbook. Three things stood out to me. ONE, the gold is in BORING niches with existing services you can replace with AI. TWO, voice agents are the most under-the-radar opportunity right now, especially for local service businesses that have not even heard the term yet. THREE, do not wait until you have built something to get customers, organic content beats paid ads in 2026 and you should aim to monetize by day 30. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK-TCkETAFw After you watch, drop a comment below and tell me, which of the six frameworks would YOU run with first if you were starting from zero this week?