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Is Seedream 4.0 Leaving Nano Banana in the Dust?
+ Claude turns Chrome into your personal assistant
Shedoesai
September 17, 2025
In today’s edition of The AI Catalyst Newsletter:
🔥Turn Likes Into Leads with This New AI Outreach Tool
🤯 Nano Banana vs. Seedream - Which Is Winning?
🤖 Claude Can Now Use Chrome For You (Goodbye Busywork Forever)
🗞 Top 3 AI News
Read time - 4 minutes
🔥Turn Likes Into Leads with This New AI Outreach Tool
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This past year, I’ve gained over 11,000 new followers on LinkedIn, and here’s one thing I’ve learned:
Likes don’t pay the bills.
If you’re not getting DMs, leads, or new clients from LinkedIn… you’re doing it wrong.
I used to celebrate metrics, until I realized I was ignoring the people already showing interest.
Now, I’m changing the strategy. Here’s how I plan to turn every post into a pipeline👇
By using Taplio’s new AI Outreach features
✅ Instantly identify who’s engaging with your posts
💬 Auto-DM warm leads (without sounding like a bot)
📈 Track which posts actually drive conversions
Plus, you get everything else that makes Taplio a creator favorite:
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📅 A built-in scheduler
📊 Performance analytics
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🤯Nano Banana vs. Seedream - Which Is Winning?
I don’t say this often, but Google’s new “Nano Banana” might just kill Photoshop. The kicker? ByteDance’s Seedream 4.0 is coming for the crown too.
Here’s where each one shines.
Nano Banana is the consistency king. Upload any photo, type what you want in plain English, and your edits just work. Want to see yourself in the 1980s? Done.
Need to try on that Zara jacket? Upload both images, you’re wearing it perfectly. Want Elon Musk standing behind you? Just ask.
And it’s totally free in Google Gemini’s AI Studio.
Seedream 4.0, on the other hand, is the resolution beast. It can pump out 4K-level visuals, merge multiple references, and go wild with creative styles. Think bigger: billboard ads, cinematic posters, surreal concept art. If you want bold, detailed, jaw-dropping results - Seedream usually wins.
So, which is “better”?
For precision edits and realistic consistency → Nano Banana.
For high-res, dramatic, creative visuals → Seedream 4.0.
The real answer? Both are rewriting the rules. While designers panic, smart creators are already making content that used to cost thousands.
🤖Claude Can Now Use Chrome For You (Goodbye Busywork Forever)
Let’s be honest, Chrome is where productivity goes to die.
Tabs everywhere. Forms to fill. Emails to reply to. Copy-paste marathons between apps.
Now Anthropic has flipped the script with Claude for Chrome. Instead of you doing all the clicking and typing, Claude does it for you, right inside your browser.
Here’s what that means in practice:
Fill expense reports in seconds (no more retyping data)
Let Claude schedule meetings and draft replies while you focus
Clean up your inbox without falling for scammy emails
Test websites, forms, and workflows while you sip coffee
But is it safe? Anthropic ran red-team tests (basically, they tried to break it).
Early on, attackers tricked Claude into unsafe actions — like sending or deleting emails. After new defenses, the attack rate dropped from 23.6% → 11.2%.
With site-by-site permissions, confirmations before sensitive steps, and built-in blocks on risky sites, Claude is designed to act cautiously inside Chrome.
It’s not perfect, but it’s a big step toward turning the browser from a source of busywork into something that can actually lighten the load.
Try Claude here (free)!