Daily TEA: AI Scoops, Fintech Waves & Plantir Power

Magnum AI Flavors, Trump Card, Distyl Surge, E*Trade Crypto, Alana Levin

Hello, dear TEA-mates! Here’s what you need to know today.

1.🍦 Magnum Ice Cream Pioneers AI-Powered Flavors With NotCo

Magnum Ice Cream Company has announced a partnership with NotCo to boost innovation in the United States by piloting NotCo’s proprietary Giuseppe AI platform. This collaboration aims to develop new product formats and nutritional profiles, potentially bringing creative and better-for-you options to market at record speed. Building on Magnum’s 160-year legacy, the partnership may expand globally, leveraging AI to solve complex formulation challenges and drive rapid growth.
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🍵 TEA For Thought: Use AI to come up with new and creative ice cream flavors, that would be so cool. Just like the limited edition of the Coke Cola that was launched last year—I still keep the bottle as a souvenir lol.

2.🧑‍💻 The Power of Modern Tools

Alana Levin highlights a major shift in online earning as new college grads face mounting job challenges, accelerated by AI’s impact on entry-level work. With free time increasing, people are turning to creative and alternative ways to make money—such as financial market participation, content monetization, and digital entrepreneurship. Crypto emerges as a key enabler, powering global access to earning opportunities regardless of age. Companies like Zora, Remix, and The Clearing Co in Variant’s portfolio illustrate new platforms for creators, gamers, and traders to profit online.Read More

🍵 TEA For Thought: After all, with all the tools available, it should be us to learn to know how to utilize them to maximize our potential, and, obviously, make a living.

3.🌱 Distyl AI Soars With $175M Series B, Plantir Alum Founders in Spotlight

San Francisco-based Distyl AI, co-founded by Plantir alumni Arjun Prakash and Derek Ho, has raised $175 million in a Series B round, shooting its valuation to $1.8 billion—a ninefold jump in just ten months. The enterprise AI company is riding robust demand for scalable business tools, with revenue surging fivefold in 2024 and expected to grow even more in 2025.Read More

🍵 TEA For Thought: Plumi is no joke. We will see more of these companies founded by Plantir alums in the near future, just like the PayPal alums back in early 2000s.

4.💳 Trump Family-Backed World Liberty Financial Preps Debit Card, App Launch

World Liberty Financial, a crypto venture backed by the Trump family, is gearing up to launch a debit card and retail payment app. The debit card will integrate with USD1 stablecoin and Apple Pay, while the app promises peer-to-peer and trading features in a “Venmo meets Robinhood” format. The expansion follows the initial public offering of WLFI token, which saw a roller-coaster in value, and strengthens the Trumps’ support for the pro-crypto Digital Freedom Fund PAC.Read More

🍵 TEA For Thought: WIFL, Trump meme + USD1, and now debit card. This is a full scope of the financial ecosystem.

5.🪙 Morgan Stanley’s ETRADE to Offer Crypto Trading With Bitcoin, Ether, Solana in 2026

Morgan Stanley will add cryptocurrency trading to its ETRADE platform in partnership with Zerohash, enabling clients to trade Bitcoin, Ether, and Solana starting in early 2026. This move highlights Wall Street’s deepening interest in digital assets, propelled by supportive legislation from the Trump administration. The new service will compete directly with Robinhood and Charlesab, signaling a major shift toward mainstream adoption of crypto trading.Read More

🍵 TEA For Thought: When trad-fi told you “no thank you to blockchain”, in fact they are effectively building it themselves.

Prompt Tip of the Day

turn this photo into a character figure. Behind it, place a box with the character’s image printed on it, and a computer showing the Blender modeling process on its screen. In front of the box, add a round plastic base with the character figure standing on it. set the scene indoors if possible

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