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🤝 In Partnership: Practical ways to make money with AI
🤿Deep Dive: ElevenLabs Audiobooks toolkit
📘 Learn Something: Turn any photo into a coloring book
🤝 Powered by: Trade with a plan
🤿Deep Dive: AI products drive Databricks to $5.4B revenue
⚒Tool Snapshots: Tools for AI, no-code, and productivity
🖼AI Art: Examples of great and trending AI art
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🤿 DEEP DIVE
ElevenLabs Streamlines Draft-to-Audio Workflow for Authors and Publishers
Intelligence: ElevenLabs has introduced Audiobooks, a complete creative toolkit that takes authors and publishers from manuscript to finished audio in one workflow. Designed to eliminate the traditional friction of recording sessions, studio time, and tool handoffs, Audiobooks offers instant creation, detailed studio controls, and professional production services.
Traditional audiobook production is slow and fragmented, Audiobooks removes that overhead with a unified workflow. Authors can generate an audiobook in one click for rapid iteration, or take a hands-on approach with scene-by-scene control.
Options include instant creation, studio access for detailed direction, and professional services for large catalogs. Expressive AI voices are designed for storytelling, not just text playback handling subtle dialogue, narration, and emotional range.
Creators can choose from a Voice Library, use a Professional Voice Clone, or design new voices with custom tone and delivery. Publishing is also frictionless. Share instantly on ElevenReader and distribute to major platforms with no extra setup.
📘 LEARN SOMETHING
Turn Any Photo into a Coloring Book Page with AI (Free, Open-Source)
A new LoRA model for Qwen Image Edit can convert complex photos into clean coloring book outlines. It's free under Apache 2.0 and perfect for making custom coloring pages for kids, clients, or merch.
Go to modelscope.ai and search for "Coloring Book Qwen Image Edit LoRA" by renderartist.
Upload any photo - landscapes, portraits, pets, architecture all work well.
The AI strips it down to clean black-and-white line art optimized for coloring.
Download the output and print at any size, the vector-like lines scale cleanly.
Bonus: batch-process a folder of vacation photos to create a personalized coloring book (great gift idea or Etsy product).
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🤿 DEEP DIVE
Databricks Reaches $5.4 Billion Revenue Run Rate Growing 65% Year-Over-Year
Intelligence: Databricks announced a $5.4 billion revenue run rate growing 65% year-over-year with over $1.4 billion from AI products, while officially closing its previously announced $5 billion raise at $134 billion valuation plus a $2 billion loan facility. CEO Ali Ghodsi shared the numbers to counter talk about AI killing SaaS businesses, saying "For us, it's just increasing the usage."
Ghodsi called out Genie, the company's LLM user interface for its data warehouse, as driving usage growth letting him ask in natural language why warehouse usage and revenue spike on particular days instead of writing technical queries or programming special reports.
The real threat to SaaS isn't enterprises ripping out systems of record (as one AI VC jokingly tweeted about vibe-coded replacements), but that people no longer spend careers mastering specific products like Salesforce, ServiceNow, or SAP, once the interface is just language, products become invisible like plumbing.
Databricks created Lakebase database designed for agents, seeing early traction with twice as much revenue in its first eight months compared to the data warehouse at the same age though Ghodsi admits "that's like comparing toddlers" but notes "this is a toddler that's twice as big".
Despite closing the massive funding round, Ghodsi says the company isn't immediately working on another raise or prepping for an IPO, stating "Now is not a great time to go public" and wanting to be "really well capitalized" with many years of runway should markets go south like the 2022 downturn.
⚒ TOOL SNAPSHOTS
Futuristic tools within AI, no-code, and productivity
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💾 Umbrel Pro - Your massive storage, one-click self-hosted home server.
🧠 rivva - AI planner optimizing tasks for peak productivity times.
💻 Dropstone 3 - Real-time collaborative AI coding with a shared chat feature.
📞 ClawdTalk - Your personal, voice-first, secure, reachable Clawdbot agent.
🖼 AI ART
Examples of great and trending AI art
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https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/1r0te8b/a_clear_and_boundless_sky/
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