🥯 Today on Bagel Bots

• 💰️ Monetization Insight: Create a Weekly Growth Habit with AI

• 🔧 Workflow Builder: Create & Sell Reels Templates in Any Niche

• 💡 Today’s Prompt: Build Reusable Prompts That Save You Hours

• 📰 One Big Story: Quantum Computing Just Unlocked Real Power

• 🤖 Cool Tech: Netflix Used AI to Fake a Collapse

• 🌎️ AI Market Pulse: Amazon’s Replacing Jobs With $100B in AI

• 🖼️ Which Image Is Real? AI or not? Take your best guess.

💰️ Monetization Insight of the Day
How I Use AI to Curate TED Talks That Actually Inspire Action

TED Talks can be rocket fuel or just noise. I wanted a curated list specifically for solopreneurs—talks that light a fire under your mindset and help you push through plateaus. So I dropped this into Grok:

Role: Motivational content curator
Task: Recommend 10 TED Talks that fuel action
Context: For solopreneurs who need a mindset reset or creative boost
Execution: Include speaker, title, one-sentence takeaway, and link

Then I ran each talk through TubeOnAI, which auto-summarizes long videos into bite-sized insights. I grabbed the key takeaways, dropped them into a Notion doc, and boom—personal growth playlist, done.

Now, instead of doomscrolling, I run one of these videos weekly and walk away with a mindset shift and something actionable.

🔑 Key Takeaways
• Ask AI to curate talks that match your growth goals
• Use TubeOnAI to extract insights instantly—no full viewing required
• Build your own "mental upgrade" library for weekly use

➡️ Click here to test TubeOnAI — it’s the fastest way I’ve found to turn hour-long videos into 2-minute breakthroughs.

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🔧 Workflow Builder 
Sell Custom Video Templates to Niche Creators (No Video Experience Required)

Goal: Create and sell viral video template packages for specific creator niches that generate passive income through ready-to-use TikTok/Reels/Shorts templates — even if you've never made a video before.

1. Research High-Value Creator Niches Use ChatGPT with this RTCE prompt: Role: Social media marketing strategist Task: Identify 5 profitable creator niches that struggle with video content creation Context: I want to sell video templates to creators who need consistent content but lack time or skills Execution: Include niche size, pain points, spending behavior, and viral content patterns for each ➡️ Pick 2 niches with proven spending power (realtors, fitness coaches, course creators, Etsy sellers).

2. Generate Viral Hook Libraries Use this ChatGPT prompt for each chosen niche: "Create 20 viral video hooks for [niche] creators. Focus on trending formats, psychological triggers, and scroll-stopping openings. Include context for when to use each hook."

3. Create Professional Video Templates Use Spiritme to create talking avatar templates with placeholder text. Design visual templates with Looka for graphics, backgrounds, and brand elements. Build customizable template structures with clear instruction overlays.

4. Edit and Package Templates Import templates into Gling AI to optimize timing and flow. Use Blotato to create multiple format versions (9:16, 1:1, 16:9). Add customization guides and placeholder replacement instructions.

5. Build Supporting Materials Record "How to Customize in 60 Seconds" tutorials using Guidde. Create viral hook cheat sheets and posting strategy guides. Use Fathom to capture testimonials from beta users showing results.

6. Launch with Niche-Specific Marketing Post in niche Facebook groups: "I just created 20 viral video templates that got my realtor friend 50K views..." Share template preview videos showing before/after customizations. Use Brand24 to monitor niche conversations and engage potential customers.

7. Scale with Automation and Upsells Set up Lindy to automate template delivery, customer onboarding, and support inquiries. Create $97 "Viral Video Mastery" bundle with 50+ templates across multiple niches. Use Lindy to handle follow-up sequences and customer communication automatically.

8. Expand Template Empire Launch monthly template subscriptions for $19/month with fresh content. Create industry-specific template packs for holidays, seasons, and trending topics. Partner with niche influencers for template co-creation and promotion.

Estimated Time: 8 hours to build first niche package
Time Saved & Leverage Gained: Creators get viral-ready content in minutes instead of hours brainstorming and editing
Revenue Potential: $500–$2,000/month after 3-6 months of consistent template creation and marketing

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💡 Today’s Prompt
Build Reusable AI Prompts That Just Work

This prompt helps you turn any repeatable task—like summarizing, scripting, or writing outreach—into a plug-and-play AI prompt you can reuse forever. It eliminates prompt fatigue by building structured templates with labeled variables and smart guidance, so you never start from scratch. Perfect for solopreneurs and creators who rely on AI daily and want consistent, high-quality outputs without the guesswork.

👉 Use the prompt + check out my example output here

Clear Ask:
You're a prompt library curator. Based on the task type I give you (e.g. summarizing, scripting, cold outreach), create a reusable, high-performing prompt template with labeled variables and clear guidance.

Context & Purpose:
I want a fill-in-the-blank-style prompt that I can use repeatedly for a specific task. The goal is to save time, reduce prompt fatigue, and consistently generate high-quality results with minimal edits.

Inputs You Provide:
• Task Type (e.g. write tweets, summarize articles, generate video scripts)
• Target Audience
• Desired Outcome
• Tone of Voice
• Output Format (paragraph, bullets, table, etc.)
• Length Constraints (optional)
• Platform or Style Notes (optional)

Instructions for ChatGPT:
• Write one fillable prompt template using [brackets] for each variable
• Add brief instructions next to each variable to guide usage
• Include a completed example based on your best assumptions
• Use clean formatting and make it easy to reuse across tasks

Perfect Output:
One ready-to-use prompt template (with variables) + one filled-in version that shows how to apply it effectively. Copy, customize, execute.

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📰 One Big Story
Quantum Just Crossed a Critical Threshold

After two decades of theory and frustration, researchers have finally pulled it off: magic state distillation now works in logical qubits—the only kind that can run truly error-free quantum computations.

Here’s why that’s a big deal: logical qubits are what let quantum computers correct their own errors. But until now, they couldn’t perform the high-level operations (called non-Clifford gates) that separate quantum from classical machines. To do that, they need purified “magic states”—and we’ve only ever been able to distill those in unstable physical qubits. That changed this week.

Using its Gemini neutral-atom system, QuEra successfully distilled clean, usable magic states from logical qubits for the first time. That means we can now build quantum systems that are both fault-tolerant and more powerful than any classical supercomputer.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

• Magic state distillation has now been achieved inside logical qubits

• This unlocks non-Clifford operations—true parallel quantum processing

• Quantum advantage is no longer theoretical—it’s now an engineering challenge

My Take:
Quantum just moved from “impressive experiment” to “industrial roadmap.” This milestone clears one of the last roadblocks to building real-world, useful quantum computers—and now it’s only a matter of who can scale it first.

👉️ Read the full article

🤖 Cool Tech
Netflix Used Generative AI to Collapse a Building—Literally

Netflix just confirmed it used generative AI—not traditional CGI—to render a building collapse in The Eternaut, its new post-apocalyptic series based on the Argentine sci-fi classic. The reveal came straight from co-CEO Ted Sarandos, who said the scene was completed 10x faster using AI-generated visuals, saving time and budget for a show that otherwise couldn’t afford effects at this scale.

How’d they do it? Think Midjourney meets VFX. The team prompted an unnamed gen AI model to generate the collapse effect, which was then composited directly into the final scene. Viewers never noticed. That’s the point.

This isn’t just a fun stunt. It’s a turning point. Studios are now using AI to hit visual quality bars that were once exclusive to $100M+ productions—without the $100M. It means faster content, bigger ideas, and a completely different economic model for visual storytelling.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

• Netflix used AI prompts to generate cinematic VFX

• The AI-built scene was 10x faster than traditional CGI

• Low-budget productions can now access blockbuster visuals

👉️ Read the full article

🌎️ AI Market Pulse
Amazon Drops $100 Billion on AI While Laying Off Workers

Amazon just laid off hundreds of AWS employees while announcing $100 billion in AI infrastructure spending this year—the latest sign that corporate America is restructuring around AI agents, not human workers. Combined with Microsoft's $80 billion AI investment, tech giants are deploying $180 billion to build autonomous systems that "fix bugs" and "plan itineraries" without human intervention. CEO Andy Jassy told employees to expect decreasing headcount as AI agents become "teammates" handling rote work, allowing humans to focus on strategic thinking. The message is clear: companies are trading workforce costs for AI infrastructure investments, betting that autonomous agents will deliver higher productivity than traditional employees.

Why this matters for your income: This infrastructure transformation creates massive opportunities while companies navigate the workforce-to-AI transition. Enterprises desperately need consultants who can redesign operations around AI agents, trainers who teach teams to work alongside autonomous systems, and specialists who help organizations implement $100B+ infrastructure investments effectively. Smart entrepreneurs are building $300K+ consulting practices around AI transition management, creating training programs for human-AI collaboration, and offering implementation services as entire industries realize traditional workforce models are obsolete and AI-native operations drive competitive advantage.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

• $180 billion infrastructure wave creates consulting opportunities: Tech giants are rebuilding entire operations around AI agents, creating massive implementation gaps

• Workforce-AI transition needs expert guidance: Companies cutting workers while adding AI systems desperately need transition management specialists

• First-mover advantage in AI operations: Specialists who master human-AI workflow design can command premium rates before markets mature

👉️ Read the full article here

🤔 Which image is real?

One of these images is real, and one was created with AI. Vote for which one you think is real, and tell us why you voted that way. My only goal is to choose such good photos that the majority of votes are wrong.

The last edition’s results—60% were right!

Did you vote in the poll from July 18th? The top image was real! Go back and see the photos here. So what do you think? Are you getting better at spotting AI vs. not?

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