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Whether you're diving into AI for work, side projects, or just out of curiosity — this issue of The Creators Hive brings you practical insights, hands-on learning, and tools you can actually use.

1. Oracle, Larry Ellison cash in on AI boom
2. Alterego’s “near-telepathic” AI wearable
3. Microsoft eyes Anthropic’s Claude for Office 365
4. Claude gains new file creation capabilities
5. Web publishers unite for AI licensing standard
6. Tool Recommendation of the Day: Tools.dverso.io

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Oracle, Larry Ellison cash in on AI boom

Oracle’s stock spiked 40% Wednesday after revealing $455B in future AI infra contracts — including a $300B mega-deal with OpenAI — catapulting founder Larry Ellison past Elon Musk as the world’s richest person.

The details:

• Oracle secured 4 multibillion-dollar AI infra contracts last quarter, pushing its revenue backlog to $500B+.
• OpenAI alone accounts for $300B of that future revenue, paying around $60B annually from 2027 for compute.
• Ellison’s net worth surged $100B in a single day, overtaking Musk’s $385B fortune.
• Oracle expects cloud infra revenue to jump from $18B → $144B within five years — with most already locked in.

Why it matters: First, Nvidia became the chip king. Now, Oracle is riding the AI infra wave — proving that in an AI gold rush, the “picks and shovels” providers can mint fortunes just as fast as the model makers.

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Alterego’s “near-telepathic” AI wearable

Boston startup Alterego (an MIT Media Lab spinoff) unveiled a headset that enables silent, “at the speed of thought” communication — no speaking required.

The details:

• Uses tiny cameras to track subtle jaw/throat movements when you think about speaking, converting them into commands.
• Founder Arnav Kapur demoed tasks like coding, texting, visual queries, and direct silent convos with other wearers.
• Works in noisy environments, supports multilingual input, and even detects motionless “intent to speak.”
• Originated at MIT Media Lab (2018), spun out as a startup in 2025 — no release date yet.

Why it matters: Feels closer to sci-fi than a wearable. Alterego is showing capabilities we normally associate with invasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) — except here, it’s just a headset. If real, this could redefine how humans interact with both AI systems and each other.

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Microsoft eyes Anthropic’s Claude for Office 365

Microsoft is reportedly close to a deal to bring Anthropic’s AI into Office 365, marking its first major diversification away from OpenAI.

The details:

• Internal tests found Claude Sonnet 4 stronger than GPT-5 at generating spreadsheets and PowerPoints.
• Anthropic just rolled out native file creation (PDFs, decks, spreadsheets), lining up neatly with Office’s core apps.
• Microsoft would likely access Claude via AWS, ironically paying its cloud rival despite unlimited OpenAI credits.

Why it matters: Microsoft’s actions show it’s less “married” to OpenAI than it seems. Between in-house models and deals with rivals, Redmond is hedging its bets — a pragmatic move as AI partnerships grow more competitive (and complicated).

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Claude gains new file creation capabilities

Anthropic just gave Claude the power to create and edit Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and PDF files directly in chat — stepping squarely into OpenAI’s productivity turf.

The details:

• Runs inside a private coding environment, generating reports, charts, and formulas from natural language.
• Can convert formats — e.g. PDFs into slides, or meeting notes into polished docs.
• Available now for Max, Team, and Enterprise, rolling out to Pro users soon.
• Anthropic advises starting with simple tasks, cautioning on data risks with internet-enabled use.

Why it matters: This is a huge unlock in day-to-day workflows. Much like GitHub Copilot simplified coding, Claude could make Excel formulas, charting, and document prep conversational — reshaping how office work gets done.

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Web publishers unite for AI licensing standard

Reddit, Yahoo, Medium, and others just launched Real Simple Licensing (RSL) — a protocol to set clear payment terms for AI companies scraping their content.

The details:

• RSL extends robots.txt, letting publishers tag content as free, subscription-based, or pay-per-crawl.
• A nonprofit RSL Collective will negotiate bulk deals with AI firms, modeled after music royalty orgs like ASCAP/BMI.
• Built by RSS co-creator Eckart Walther, giving it strong protocol credibility.
• Reddit CEO Steve Huffman backs the project, even with existing $60M+ AI licensing deals with OpenAI and Google.

Why it matters: Publishers are adopting the music royalty model — turning AI scraping into a structured marketplace. If adopted widely, AI labs gain legal clarity while publishers finally monetize the content fueling training. But success hinges on whether enforcement and adoption scale beyond early partners.

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Tool Recommendation of the Day: Tools.dverso.io

Website: https://dversostudio.io/​

What is it?

Tools.dverso.io “BGRemove” (also called “Dverso Laundry”) is a browser-based background remover tool. You upload an image and it removes the background locally (in the browser), giving you a clean cutout.

What makes it unique?

• Works locally in your browser, so it’s faster, more private, and you aren’t sending images to external servers.
• Ad-free experience.
• Built using Three.js, with fun visual feedback as the tool processes the image (“laundry” metaphor).

Use-Case Magic

• Remove backgrounds for product photos or profile images.
• Prepare images for graphics/design without manually selecting and erasing.
• Quickly generate cutouts for presentations or content creation.

Things to consider

• Quality depends on the image (background complexity, contrast, object edges etc.).
• Might not handle very fine or fuzzy edges perfectly.
• Because it runs in the browser, extremely large image files might be slower or heavier on your device.

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