Welcome to a new Week in Product!

🎰 The week in figures

$1T: Anthropic crossed a $1 trillion valuation and officially became the most valuable AI company on Earth

$300B: Q1 2026 witnessed record $300B in VC funding globally driven by explosion of investments in AI-driven startups -a historic high

$1.1B: Ineffable Intelligence, founded by ex-Google DeepMind researcher David Silver, raised $1.1B at $5.1B valuation to build reinforcement‑learning–based “superlearner” systems that learn from their own experience instead of human data

💸 Q1 earnings

• Alphabet: $109.9B Q1 revenue, 22% up YoY; $62.6B Q1 net profit, 81% up YoY; sales increased across Google Services (Search +19%, subscriptions/platforms/devices +19%, YouTube ads +11%) and Google Cloud surged 63% to $20.0B, driven by enterprise AI solutions and infrastructure; EPS rose 82% to $5.11; operating income grew 30% with margin expanding to 36.1%, and Alphabet raised its quarterly dividend 5% to $0.22

• Amazon: $181.5B Q1 revenue, 17% up YoY; $30.3B Q1 profit, 77% up YoY; sales increased 17% to $181.5B; growth driven by 28% AWS revenue increase to $37.6B, strong international segment sales (+19% YoY), and higher other services (notably advertising), while profitability was boosted by $16.8B in pre-tax gains from the Anthropic investment and continued margin expansion across all segments

• Apple: $111.2B Q2 revenue, up ~17% YoY; ~$31.9B Q2 profit, up ~22% YoY; iPhone sales increased ~21% to $57.0B; growth driven by “extraordinary” iPhone 17 demand, record $31.0B Services revenue, and stronger-than-expected China performance at $20.5B, partially offset by ongoing global memory shortages pressuring future margins

• Meta: $56.3B Q1 revenue, 33% up YoY; $26.8B Q1 profit, 61% up YoY; sales increased 33% to $56.3B, driven by 19% higher ad impressions, a 12% rise in average ad prices, and continued growth in Family of Apps, partly offset by higher R&D and data center investments as Meta ramps spending for AI and infra

• Microsoft: $82.9B Q3 revenue, 18% up YoY; $31.8B Q3 net income, 23% up YoY; Microsoft Cloud revenue increased 29% to $54.5B, with growth driven by 40% Azure and other cloud services growth, strong Microsoft 365 (commercial +19%, consumer +33%), and AI revenue surpassing a $37B annual run rate

📰 What’s going on

Uber adds hotel bookings powered by agentic AI: 700,000+ hotels now bookable in-app via Expedia partnership, with development time cut from 12 months to 6 using AI-powered engineering workflows, and including AI voice-bookings

Anthropic releases Claude for CAD connectors: Text-to-CAD now available in Autodesk Fusion and Blender, enabling natural language commands to generate manufacturable geometry in seconds

OpenAI misses sales and user targets, and saw its stock tumble on Tuesday. Cloud companies sharing high-profile relationships with OpenAI, including Oracle and CoreWeave, also suffered from some of the impact, as did chip makers like AMD and Nvidia

OpenAI is developing smartphone-centered AI agents to integrate advanced AI capabilities with Qualcomm chips

Microsoft and OpenAI have announced an amended agreement that simplifies their partnership while giving both companies more flexibility. The updated terms allow OpenAI to serve its products across any cloud provider, not just Azure, and make Microsoft's license to OpenAI's technology non-exclusive for the first time

xAI launched Grok Imagine Agent Mode (beta). One prompt, one infinite canvas, and the agent plans, generates, edits, and iterates on its own until it is done. Films, manga sets, product ads

xAI held talks with Mistral about teaming up to take on OpenAI and Anthropic

Cursor launched its SDK this week. The same agents that power the Cursor app can now run inside your own products, pipelines, and backend systems. Rippling and Notion are already using it to catch bugs and open fixes automatically without anyone prompting anything

Amazon launches Quick desktop app with workspace integrations: New AI assistant connects to Zoom, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Slack for email writing, calendar management, and document editing, plus local file access and custom app creation

Apple will be launching iPhone Ultra and MacBook Ultra next year, as high-end foldable, OLED models

Apple will add new Photo Tools in iOS 27

China blocked Meta's $2B acquisition of Manus after a year-long probe, the highest-profile AI deal vetoed on national security grounds since the chip wars began

Stripe announced Checkout Studio, a visual builder that lets you design, test, and optimize payment checkout experiences without writing code. It combines a drag-and-drop configuration interface with an AI assistant, live transaction replay, A/B testing, and analytics

Stripe also announced Link Agent wallet, letting agents spend on your behalf using the Machine Payments Protocol. Link functions as a traditional digital wallet, and stores checkout details like billing and shipping addresses. When you grant an AI agent access to Link via OAuth, the agent can request permission to spend money

Spotify and Peloton expand joint fitness content, opening new revenue streams for both platforms

Spotify has also launched a “Verified by Spotify” badge system to help listeners identify authentic human artists amid rising AI-generated music

GitHub Copilot moved to usage-based billing, ending the flat-fee model and pricing requests by token consumption; the same shift Atlassian and HubSpot announced last week

Linear has launched a new feature called “Linear Releases” which connects your CI/CD pipeline to Linear, automatically tracking where each issue stands in deployment. When code changes reach production, issue statuses update automatically, so you see what’s actually live to customers

📚 Good reads

The shiny toy syndrome. Why we keep chasing new tools, courses, and stacks instead of doing the work that matters. Anne-Laure Le Cunff explains how our dopamine-hungry brains mistake novelty for real progress, fragmenting attention and performance

Stop asking your data questions. Julie Zhuo argues most teams obsess over answering explicit data questions, while the value comes from systems that proactively surface what you didn’t think to ask. She lays out 3 “push” layers: smart alerts, daily briefings, and an ambient discovery feed. Together they replace dashboard-checking rituals

Direction over speed. Leah Tharin argues that cheap shipping and AI tools have exposed how many teams are just building the wrong things, faster. She redraws team shape around tiny pods where EMs stay deeply technical, PMs own alignment and “sideways” storytelling across sales/marketing/growth, and PM:engineer ratios depend on how measurable quality is. Overall, AI‑native orgs don’t ship more; they ship fewer but better bets with growth-minded PMs and engineers

🎧 Good listen/watch

[Podcast] Reinvention is now a product’s must-have career skill. Nikhyl Singhal argues that today’s winners are hands-on builders with strong product taste and executive presence, who keep reinventing instead of waiting for things to “settle.” He urges PMs to mourn lost roles quickly, lean into their domain “bugs” as differentiating features, and get back into motion by actually building with AI

[Podcast] Snapchat CEO on why distribution now beats product. Evan Spiegel argues that in consumer social, distribution has become the real moat, with TikTok and Threads winning by hacking reach rather than pure product. He explains how Snap survived rampant cloning by betting on hard-to-copy moats, like creator ecosystems, AR hardware, and a tiny design-led org that ships hundreds of ideas a week

🧑‍💻 Worth learning

Hermes starter kit. Hermes is an open-source agent that auto-writes and refines its own skills. Aakash Gupta walks through a 20-minute setup (Linux/macOS/WSL2 + any major LLM) and 3 PM use cases: self-updating competitive briefings, a queryable customer-signal log, and decision logs with “revisit if” conditions

A workflow for vibe-coded iOS apps. Jaryd Hermann argues the hardest part of app building is the build chain (getting a blank app reliably running on simulator and device). He lays out a 3‑phase workflow (accounts/tools, a “Greenfield” boilerplate app, then small edits and TestFlight builds) using Expo, Cursor, Supabase, PostHog, and RevenueCat. A useful template / model to get vibe-coded apps out fast

🔧 Products to try

The Gemini app can now generate downloadable Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, PDFs, Word, Excel, and CSVs directly from prompts, so you can go from brainstorm to shareable file without leaving the chat; free with Gemini

Lovable's mobile app lets you vibe-code full-stack web apps from your phone using natural language; it builds 20x faster than coding by hand; free to try

👨‍💻 My work

I recently revamped my personal site and added some portfolio-style cases and links to my content. Sharing in case other PMs find it useful! Thanks Zania (zania.design) for the inspo!

That’s a wrap for this week.

Feel free to drop your comments/questions/feedback. Would love to hear what you’d like to see more about in WiP, so I can make it better for you.

Have a great week ahead!

Welcome to a new Week in Product!

🎰 The week in figures

$1T: Anthropic quietly hit a $1 trillion valuation (!!) on secondary markets, passing OpenAI

$60B: SpaceX preempted a $2B Cursor fundraise (at $50B valuation) with a $10B collaboration fee plus an option to acquire Cursor for $60B later this year

$10B: Bezos co-founded AI startup Project Prometheus raises $10B at $38B valuation for physical AI in manufacturing and aerospace, exploring a $100B fund

$400M: Polymarket, the prediction markets platform, is talking to investors to raise $400M in funding at a valuation of about $15B

271: Firefox fixed 271 vulnerabilities found by Claude Mythos

75%: Sundar Pichai noted that 75% of all new code at Google is now AI-generated and approved by engineers, up from 50% last fall

44% of online buyers start their journey in an LLM or split their search between AI tools and traditional search engines. The study also found 50% of online shoppers in the survey trust generative AI for initial research and product comparisons

16%: Adobe report reveals enterprise AI readiness gap: Only 16% of organizations have deployed agentic AI for customer support despite 78% planning full rollout within 18 months, with 75% citing data quality as top barrier

10%: Meta announced plans to lay off 10% of their workforce (around 8,000 people), while also leaving vacant 6,000 positions for which they were originally going to hire new staffers. The cuts are intended to help management “run the company more efficiently” and also, notably, “to allow us to offset the other investments we’re making” (referring to chips and data centers)

7%: Microsoft offers “voluntary retirement” to 7% (8.750) of employees

📰 What’s going on

Anthropic is investigating a possible breach of Mythos, which reportedly occurred in a third-party vendor environment. Mythos was shared only with major companies, including Amazon, Apple, Cisco, JPMorgan Chase, Nvidia, and now also Microsoft. MythosWatch gives you a live public ledger of 51+ entities with confirmed access

Gemini app launches on macOS: Google released a native desktop app for Mac (macOS 15+) with screen-sharing capability and Option + Space shortcut access, letting users get AI help on local files without switching windows

Google rolled out AI Overviews to Gmail for Workspace (ask natural-language questions about your inbox and get summaries pulled from multiple emails; on by default for Gemini customers), added generative AI features to Google Maps for enterprise (prompt-create realistic Street View scenes, Veo animation, satellite imagery analysis in BigQuery, pre-trained Earth AI models for detecting bridges and power lines), and made Workspace Intelligence turn AI into an office intern across Docs, Sheets, Gmail, and Chat

Google also launched Deep Research Max, a new autonomous research agent that topped benchmarks for web research, reasoning, and locating hard-to-find facts

OpenAI has released workspace agents: AI assistants that handle complex, ongoing tasks for teams. Powered by Codex, these agents run in the cloud and can execute multi-step workflows across connected tools and systems

OpenAI has released GPT-5.5, a model built for agentic work that can plan multi-step tasks, use tools, and check its own output with less supervision than previous versions. It handles coding, research, and document creation, and can navigate ambiguity without constant hand-holding. While more capable, GPT-5.5 matches GPT-5.4’s per-token latency and uses fewer tokens to complete tasks, making it both smarter and more cost-efficient for enterprise deployments. Rolling out to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users in ChatGPT and Codex, with API pricing set at $5 per 1M input tokens and $30 per 1M output tokens. Ethan Mollick brings a great review

OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.0, a new image model with thinking capabilities that can generate multiple images at once, render dense text accurately, and support aspect ratios from 3:1 to 1:3

OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Clinicians (free for verified US physicians) with advanced models, clinical search, reusable skills, CME credit, optional HIPAA, and more

Meta rolled out its Model Capability Initiative, tracking US employee keystrokes, mouse movements, and screen content on Google, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, GitHub, Slack and other approved apps to train AI agents on real office workflows, with "dystopian" internal backlash and no opt-out

Tim Cook will be stepping down as CEO of Apple and taking on the role of Executive Chairman. Senior VP of Hardware Engineering John Ternus will take over the top job. Under Cook, Apple’s market cap rose from $350B to a healthy $4T

Figma has released a new way to view Figma Make creations in the mobile app. For mobile product teams, this makes testing new prototypes on mobile, with swipes, clicks and other mobile native gestures, easier

Yelp is giving its AI Assistant chatbot a major upgrade, positioning it at "the center of the app experience" with the ability to answer questions, make recommendations, and handle bookings. The chatbot, which debuted in 2024 as a tool for hiring service professionals, will now span every category on Yelp through a new dedicated "Assistant" tab

GitHub has paused new Copilot sign-ups and tightened token limits, saying agentic, long‑running AI coding workflows now cost more in compute than fixed monthly fees cover

X shuts down Communities. Head of product Nikita Bier announced plans to terminate the feature, arguing that it’s under-used and plagued by spam: “Communities had a great vision, but they were used by less than 0.4% of users—yet contributed to 80% of spam reports, financial scams, and malware on X”

Lenny just expanded his Product Pass, so paid subscribers now get a free year of 25 tools (worth over $30K), including new additions like Cursor, Google AI Pro, Notion Business, Supabase, Fin + Intercom, and Gumloop. It’s a great deal (I’m making good use of it!), plus Lenny’s content is always top

📚 Good reads

The busyness trap. We cling to constant activity because it feels productive, but most of it doesn’t really move the needle. This piece by Anne-Laure Le Cunff breaks down why “crazy busy” is a cultural badge of honor, and how that masks shallow work and avoids the harder question of what truly matters. It offers four simple habits to help you reclaim focus and make space for deeper product thinking

Why MCP is becoming the backbone for serious AI agents. Anthropic argues that once agents move to the cloud and touch real production systems, ad‑hoc API hooks and CLIs stop scaling, and MCP becomes the shared protocol layer that actually holds everything together. They walk through patterns for designing “agent-friendly” MCP servers (intent-based tools, thin code-execution surfaces for huge APIs, rich UI semantics, standardized auth) and context-efficient clients (tool search, programmatic tool calling)

Explore and compare every design tool. This site curates 80+ modern design tools and regularly highlights new launches, especially around AI-native canvases and design-to-code workflows. A cool, living, watchlist of design tools and specs

Your product has a new user. It’s not human. Elena Verna explains how, as AI agents start using software via protocols like MCP, products must expose robust, well-documented, machine-friendly interfaces. B2B especially will split between “minimum lovable products” humans enjoy and infrastructure that agents rely on

🎧 Good listen/watch

How Anthropic Product teams moves faster than anyone else, with Cat Wu (Head of Product, Claude Code). Claude Code team ships “research preview” features constantly, keeping a standing launch room, and empowering ICs to take ideas all the way to production. PMs enable fast, daily experiments, and are comfortable orchestrating fleets of agents instead of doing the work themselves

What Claude Design is actually good for (and why Figma isn’t dead yet). Claire Vo walks through Claude Design, GPT Images 2.0, and Google’s DESIGN.md. Claude Design is brilliant for fast marketing pages, decks, and wild explorations, but Figma is still relevant for precise, collaborative design. For PMs, these tools are now legit for production-adjacent work, but you’ll quickly hit cost/credit limits and still need real design craft to land in your product

How to build for AI agents, and a Claude Code second brain. Ryan Wiggins (VP Product at Mercury) shows how to treat APIs and MCPs as the main “interface” for AI agents. He demos Mercury’s MCP for banking data, then walks through his Claude Code “second brain”

🧑‍💻 Worth learning

DESIGN.md: A new open standard for AI-generated UI. Design.md is a structured markdown spec that combines human-readable design rationale with machine-usable tokens, so agents can generate and update UIs while staying on-brand. A new CLI lets agents validate their changes (including accessibility checks) against the spec, and Design.md can become a shared contract between tools

🔧 Products to try

OpenAI launched Workspace Agents: five Codex-powered templates (Software Reviewer, Product Feedback Router, Weekly Metrics Reporter, Lead Outreach, Third-Party Risk Manager) deployable to ChatGPT or Slack, free until May 6, then metered

Claude's new everyday connectors hook AllTrails, Instacart, Audible, Booking.com, and TripAdvisor into your chat; find a hike, order groceries, book a trip, or pick an audiobook without leaving the window. Free with any Claude plan

Flipbook is an infinite visual browser created by Zain Shah, Eddie Jiao, and Drew Carr that generates pages entirely as images on demand. When you click anything in an image, the system generates a new image exploring that topic in deeper detail. No underlying HTML, code, or pre-built links; just AI-generated pixels that represent information retrieved from web searches and the model’s training knowledge. Free

👨‍💻 My work

Product in Spain: what’s in demand and what’s not. Second issue of my new Spanish publication, this time looking at the PM job market and the impact of AI

That’s a wrap for this week.

Feel free to drop your comments/questions/feedback. Would love to hear what you’d like to see more about in WiP, so I can make it better for you.

Have a great week ahead!

Welcome to a new Week in Product!

🎰 The week in figures

$10.8B: Amazon is acquiring Globalstar for $10.8B to compete with Starlink. Their 2028 service launch includes Apple partnership for emergency texting on iPhones

$250M: Glydways $1B, the San Francisco-based autonomous transportation startup, is in talks for $250M at $1B valuation after $170M funding round

$150M: Factory raised $150M at a $1.5B valuation for autonomous coding agents that switch between models by task complexity

$100M: Slash, a Ramp competitor started by teenagers, just raised $100M at a $1.4B valuation

56%: ChatGPT’s web traffic share has dropped from 77% a year ago to 56% in March

40%: Business accounts now represent 40% of OpenAI revenue (up from 20% in 2024) as company deprioritizes consumer products like Sora to compete with Anthropic's enterprise dominance

30%: Vercel’s CEO said that 30% of the web apps it hosts were developed by AI Agents

16%: Snap cuts 16% of its staff, blaming layoffs on AI. CEO Evan Spiegel, who plans to drop around 1,000 employees, said “we believe that rapid advancements in artificial intelligence enable our teams to reduce repetitive work, increase velocity…”

📰 What’s going on

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, its latest flagship model. The model is now available across all Claude products, API, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry. Users report being able to hand off their hardest coding work to Opus 4.7 with confidence, as the model handles complex tasks with rigor and can verify its own outputs

Anthropic just rolled out Claude Design, an experimental tool that turns natural language into prototypes, decks, and one-pagers, aimed squarely at non-designer founders and PMs. It can read your design system, codebase, and files to keep outputs on-brand, then hand everything off as PDFs, URLs, PPTX, or editable projects in Canva. In research preview for paid tiers. Figma stock was down shortly after

Anthropic redesigned Claude Code on desktop. Now you can run multiple agents and review their work in a single window. Brings an integrated terminal, in-app file editing, HTML/PDF previews, and a faster diff viewer; all in a drag-and-drop layout that you can arrange the way you want

OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.4-Cyber, a fine-tuned variant of its GPT-5.4 model designed for defensive cybersecurity work. The release comes just one week after Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview. Access is restricted to vetted security vendors, organizations, and researchers through OpenAI’s Trusted Access for Cyber program

OpenAI just shipped a major Codex update, bringing new agentic capabilities to its coding platform. New features include: computer use, in-app browser, 90+ plugins, image generation, memory, thread automations, and more

OpenAI acquires fintech startup Hiro. Hiro was on its way to shutting down, and a number of Hiro staffers are moving over to OpenAI. Hiro was formed in 2024, and launched its first product (a consumer-facing AI-powered financial planning app) in late 2025

Perplexity released Personal Computer, giving the Mac app the ability to read and write your local files and drive iMessage, Mail, and Calendar (rolling out to Max and the waitlist)

Perplexity also launched Perplexity Health, which helps turn your health data into custom plans and live apps

Apple reportedly testing designs for upcoming smart glasses. 4 frame styles, photo/video, Siri, no display. 2027 launch

Apple is shipping its Siri programmers to a multi-week AI coding bootcamp; fewer than 200 people, two months before the expected major Siri revamp

Google merges NotebookLM with Gemini. The integration adds persistent memory, custom AI instructions, and synchronization across platforms

Adobe launches Firefly AI Assistant with multi-app orchestration: Conversational interface executes complex creative workflows across Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator and Lightroom from single prompts, with public beta launching in weeks

DeepL releases voice-to-voice translation suite: real-time voice tools for meetings, mobile conversations, and frontline workers, plus API for call centers and custom apps

Tubi became the first streaming service with a native ChatGPT app; install it from the ChatGPT app store and type @Tubi to ask things like “a movie that feels like a fever dream but isn't horror” and get curated picks from 300,000+ titles (free)

The so-called “token-maxxing” trend is beginning to backfire. Meta has pulled its internal leaderboard ranking engineers by token spend. At Amazon, after a manager told engineers to use AI more, one of them inflated token usage by making each chat interaction use 10x the number of tokens than were actually required

📚 Good reads

A Google engineer automated 80% of his own job using Claude Code, and shared the exact system he built to do it

Uber shares how AI prototyping is changing how they build products. Instead of asking teams to imagine how something might work, PMs or designers put a concrete, interactive artifact in front of them. The mass adoption of AI at Uber has led to the CTO admitting that their 2026 Claude Code budgets have been spent already

Inside Lenny Rachitsky’s demanding chill life. First Round Review explains how set out to design a “chill” life, but ended up building a relentlessly high‑craft, high‑leverage product around himself. Underneath the calm tone is a founder-grade operator who treats every artifact as a product that must solve real JTBD for PMs better than anyone else. A great, inspiring read for PMs and creators!

What’s your time to magic? argues that once you’ve validated a big enough vision, the real game is how fast users experience a “whoa” moment in your product. Instead of trying to de-risk by building the whole vision or pointing at competitor launches, she pushes PMs to define the smallest, sharpest magic moment and ship it quickly. In an AI world where anyone can ship similar features, she says the edge comes from taste and the invisible work behind a single click that makes the experience feel truly magical

Dealing with work anxiety. Many PMs quietly deal with work anxiety even when they like their jobs, driven by high internal standards, uncertainty, and blurry work-life boundaries. Instead of “just relaxing,” suggests small experiments using the CALM toolbox: cutting stimulants, taking active breaks, leaning on trusted people, and monitoring patterns through journaling. By treating anxiety management as a series of tiny experiments, you can make your relationship with work more sustainable without sacrificing ambition

Sharing AI context and skills across your devices. describes how, as her Claude Code workflows grew, keeping context files and skills in sync across her Mac, phone, and with her admin became a real bottleneck. She walks through experiments with Dropbox, iCloud, GitHub, and ultimately lands on Obsidian Sync as the “good enough” shared source of truth

Building your AI Chief of Staff. shows how he built a persistent, context‑rich “personal operating system” in Claude Code using folders and markdown files. He layers identity, thinking models, writing voice, working preferences, knowledge graph, and meeting notes so the AI reasons like him and gets move valuable over time

🎧 Good listen/watch

[Podcast] What PM hiring managers actually screen for. Inside the interview loops at top tech orgs and a breakout AI startup. By , an including Mckenzie Lock, GM at Netflix; Sam Stone, VP of Product at EvenUp; and Sarah Koo, Senior Director of Product at Rippling, for The Skip podcast

🧑‍💻 Worth learning

Automate work with ultraplan and routines

Anthropic just shipped Claude Code Routines, and as Nick Saraev walks through in his demo, it is a 1-to-1 replacement for n8n, Make.com, and Zapier. The old way: drag-and-drop nodes, set up credentials, map variables, debug for hours. The new way: describe what you want in plain English, hit save, done. Here’s the 5-step setup for non-technical users:

1. Go to claude.ai/code/routines and click “New routine.”

2. Name it (e.g., “Morning email triage”).

3. Write the prompt like an SOP. Routines run hands-off, so be more precise than a normal Claude chat. Example: “Pull my Gmail unreads. For each one, check for prior conversations with that contact. Draft a reply. Send me the drafts in Slack.”

4. Pick a trigger: schedule (daily at 5 AM), webhook (a URL that other apps can “ping” to fire the routine automatically; e.g., a new Gmail arrives → routine runs), or API call (an API is how programs talk to each other; “call” means any script or tool you run can kick off the routine on demand from anywhere).

   5. Add connectors under Settings → Connectors. Sign in to Gmail, Slack, Notion, etc. (uses OAuth, the same “Log in with Google”-style flow you’ve clicked through a hundred times) so the routine can read and write in those tools.

Hit “Run now” to test. If it works, walk away. The routine fires forever, no laptop required. Complement with these tips by Aakash Gupta

Anthropic also shipped Ultraplan, a cloud-based planning mode that decouples thinking from doing: instead of one local agent reasoning sequentially, Ultraplan spins up three exploration agents and one critique agent on Anthropic's infrastructure, points them at your synced GitHub repo, and returns a structured blueprint before a single line gets written. Your job becomes art director: review the plan, push back on what looks wrong, approve, then let local execution run

🔧 Products to try

Gemini for Mac is Google's brand-new fully-native Swift app that lets you share your screen or local files with Gemini in real time and get help with whatever's on it; free with a Google account

Google Chrome Skills turns any Gemini prompt into a one-click reusable workflow you run on the current tab (or multiple tabs) via the Chrome sidebar. Ships with 50+ premade recipes for things like side-by-side shopping comparisons and contract scanning; free, rolling out to English (US) desktop now

getdesign.md: Design system inspirations from popular websites. Drop one into your project and let coding agents build a matching UI

👨‍💻 My work

Corresponsal en Nueva York. Making the best of my newborn night duty hours, I started a new publication for my Spanish readers. Longer form reads in which I analyze trends in the world of Product and tech with a practical angle for the Spanish market. In the first issue I cover product job market trends and AI-led shifts

That’s a wrap for this week.

Feel free to drop your comments/questions/feedback. Would love to hear what you’d like to see more about in WiP, so I can make it better for you.

Have a great week ahead!

Welcome to a new Week in Product!

🎰 The week in figures

$30B: Anthropic triples revenue to $30B. Jumps from ~$9B at year-end 2025 to $30B ARR in 4 months, with 1,000+ enterprise customers now spending $1M+ annually

$450M: Perplexity hits $450M in ARR, growing at more than double the rate of the previous quarter. The pivot away from search and toward Computer (Perplexity’s agentic workspace), along with a shift to a use-based pricing model, has given the company a major boost. Their user base reportedly now exceeds 100M

$130M: Spain’s Xoople raised a $130M Series B to build a satellite data business designed to generate better Earth data for AI models

📰 What’s going on

Claude Cowork is now officially available on all paid plans after a few weeks in PReview. The official release comes with new features, like the ability to control which tools Cowork has access to, as well as analytics features. In one shared example, Zapier connected Cowork to Slack, Jira and their internal databases to surface engineering bottlenecks and build a custom dashboard that their PMs and designers could copy

Anthropic launched Claude Managed Agents, a new suite of APIs that lets product teams ship and manage AI agents using Anthropic’s own infrastructure, rather than hosting them yourself

Anthropic told Claude Code subscribers they can no longer use their subscription limits for third-party tools like OpenClaw, moving them to a separate pay-as-you-go plan. The policy will roll out to all third-party harnesses soon

Anthropic has announced Project Glasswing, a cybersecurity initiative that brings together Amazon Web Services, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorganChase, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Palo Alto Networks to secure the world’s most critical software using a powerful new AI model. The initiative is built around Claude Mythos Preview, an unreleased frontier model that has already found thousands of high-severity zero-day vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web browser. Claude Mythos Preview won’t be made publicly available due to safety concerns, but its capabilities reveal how AI models can now surpass most humans at finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities

OpenAI has launched a new $100/month ChatGPT Pro tier. The mid-tier plan sits between the $20/month Plus option and the $200/month top tier, and targets developers who rely heavily on Codex for coding. It offers 5x more Codex capacity than Plus

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google moved to crack down on AI model copying in China as concerns over distillation and illicit extraction intensified. This phrasing is an inference based on recent reporting that OpenAI and Anthropic had already accused Chinese labs such as DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot of extracting model outputs for distillation

Meta’s new Superintelligence team just released its first product: the AI model Muse Spark. It’s going to take over powering the Meta AI chatbot, and it’s a closed model (Meta is keeping the design and code to itself). That’s a strategic pivot for Meta AI, which has long focused on its Llama family of open-source models

Meta is also developing open-source versions of next frontier models, Avocado (LLM) and Mango (multimedia), to get public releases alongside proprietary versions

Meta started using AI token usage as a key employee performance metric

The Google Gemini app can now transform your questions and complex concepts into customizable interactive visualizations directly in your chat. You can initiate the new feature by selecting “Pro” as your model and asking Gemini to “help me visualize’. Once the first version is built, you can then iterate upon it, much like you can do with assets built in Google Studio

YouTube is introducing a new feature that will make it easier for creators to build a clone of themselves. That avatar can then generate new Shorts from text prompts (up to 8 seconds) or be dropped into existing videos. All avatar videos will be clearly flagged as AI-generated

GitHub is seeing a surge in traffic driven by autonomous AI coding agents, which are hammering its APIs and infrastructure. The influx is boosting usage and relevance for Microsoft, but it’s also causing service degradation and outages that impact human developers

X rolled out automatic post translation and AI photo editing powered by Grok

Perplexity Computer integrates Plaid to link all financial accounts. You can build custom budgeting tools, ask finance questions, track spending, debt and investments through conversational AI interface

iPhone Fold leaks reveal wide-screen design. Production delays push launch timeline as Apple refines foldable prototype

Atlassian announced a new set of features that lets product teams use the data they already have in places like Confluence and “remix” these into different assets. Users can select any content on a Confluence page and instantly transform it into a visual format optimized for how someone needs to consume it

Adobe launched Student Spaces, a free Acrobat study tool that turns documents and notes into flashcards, quizzes, podcasts, mind maps, and presentations

📚 Good reads

What agentic-first development looks like at Spotify. Spotify’s chief architect, Niklas Gustavsson, chats with Anthropic’s David Soria Parra (co-creator of MCP) and Christian Ryan (applied AI lead) on what agentic-first development looks like at scale

GTM is the new moat. Jaclyn Konzelmann argues that since AI makes building cheap, the real challenge is not “can we ship?,” but “who exactly are we building for, and how do they experience it?.” GTM and product are effectively merging into one continuous, context-aware experience

How to use AI without losing your mind. Dan Hockenmaier argues that AI helps when you either automate big, repetitive execution work or use it as a thought partner for complex, exploratory problems, but not as a shortcut to avoid thinking. Chasing every new tool will slow you down, so be intentional about where AI fits in your workflow, and lean on it for execution and structured research, but keep the critical thinking to yourself (for now…)

The illusion of clarity. We often feel we get a concept just because it’s familiar, easy to recall, or a Google away, but that’s not real understanding. The moment you try to explain something step by step in plain language, you expose the gaps in your mental model. As PMs, regularly pressure‑testing our understanding by writing or teaching is a simple way to catch this illusion early

🧑‍💻 Worth learning

Planning for uncertainty with Product Roadmaps. Teresa Torres walks through why old-school feature roadmaps keep failing everyone (product, sales, marketing). She argues that Now/Next/Later works best when you change what each column contains: concrete solutions in “Now,” customer opportunities in “Next,” and outcomes in “Later”

🔧 Products to try

Google Finance Beta lets you ask a market question like “why is Nvidia up?” and get live data, news, and charts in one place

That’s a wrap for this week.

Feel free to drop your comments/questions/feedback. Would love to hear what you’d like to see more about in WiP, so I can make it better for you.

Have a great week ahead!

Welcome to a new Week in Product!

A bit delayed this weekend after a baby decided to arrive into this world earlier than expected. By far the scariest and happiest “launch” in my life. Baby and wife are doing fine, and I managed to carve a few minutes between diapers and baby naps to finish this week’s edition. Here we go!

🎰 The week in figures

$297B: Q1 2026 venture funding hit $297B across 6,000 startups, shattering all records and jumping roughly 150% from the previous quarter

$220B: A leaked OpenAI cap table showed the “non-profit” sitting on $220B in gains, Ashton Kutcher's fund up 43x, Microsoft up 18x ($215B), employees owning ~$135B in equity, and Nvidia currently underwater

$122B: OpenAI closed its latest funding round of $122B (the largest venture round in history) at a $852B valuation to enhance AI infrastructure

$575M: Whoop, the wearable health monitor maker, announced $575M in fresh financing, at a $10.1B valuation. The round features participation from celebrity athletes like LeBron James and Cristiano Ronaldo

$400M: Anthropic acquired biotech startup Coefficient Bio for around $400M. All 10 of the startup’s computational biology researchers will join Anthropic’s healthcare and life sciences division, presumably to super-charge Claude’s drug research and development skills

$100M: OpenAI has surpassed $100M in annualized ad revenue from its 6- week pilots so far

$94M: Isara, the AI agent collaboration software startup backed by OpenAI, raised a $94M round at a $650M valuation. Targets investment firms, and plans biotech and geopolitical expansion

500K: Waymo doubled to 500K paid rides per week in under a year, already halfway to its year-end target of 1M

93%: Meta's structured prompting technique boosts code review accuracy to 93%: "Semi-formal reasoning" forces AI agents to trace concrete execution paths and explicitly state premises before conclusions, reducing hallucinations in bug detection and patch verification

8x: Bots have officially outnumbered humans on the internet, with automated traffic growing 8x faster than human activity

📰 What’s going on

Claude Code can now do computer use in the CLI, so your agent can open apps, click UIs, debug visual issues from the terminal; research preview on Pro/Max macOS

Anthropic leaked Claude Mythos, a new model tier above Opus, via an unsecured CMS. Cybersecurity stocks crashed 3-7%

Anthropic also leaked Claude Code source. A packaging error exposed 512,000 lines of code via npm, raising questions about internal safeguards during rapid releases. Claude Code got rewritten in Python via Codex in hours, creating a DMCA-proof open clone, and someone created “Open Claude”

Microsoft launches 3 in-house models: MAI-Transcribe-1 (lowest 3.8% WER across 25 languages), MAI-Voice-1 (60x real-time speech), and MAI-Image-2 (top-three Arena.ai ranking), built by teams under 10 engineers, priced to undercut Amazon and Google

Google released Gemma 4 in four sizes, including an edge model that runs on a Raspberry Pi in under 1.5GB of memory and a 31B model ranked #3 among all open models

Apple is building an AI App Store as a dedicated store for AI agents and tools

iOS 27 will bring a massive Siri overhaul. New interface, Ask Siri button, and deeper AI integration across the entire OS arriving this fall

Cursor unveiled Cursor 3, which recenters the whole experience around running AI agents, moving away from a traditional code editor feel. For PMs and designers, a cool feature is Design Mode, where you can annotate UI elements directly in the browser, point the agent at what you want changed, and iterate visually

Slack unveiled a major makeover of its core product, with over 30 new features, and repositioning Slack from a messaging tool into an “agentic operating system” for the enterprise. Updates include:

• A new desktop companion mode, making Slackbot follow you across apps on your machine

• Meeting intelligence beyond transcripts: auto-updates your CRM, logs actions, and closes the loop without anyone typing anything

• AI-skills that act as reusable, shareable instruction sets that standardize recurring tasks like briefs, reports, and summaries, triggering automatically when Slackbot recognises the pattern

• And as an MCP client, it can now route work to any connected agent or app, like Agentforce, Google Workspace, Notion, Workday, and 2,600+ Slack apps

ElevenLabs launches iOS app ElevenMusic, which creates songs via text and rivals Suno/Udio

Uber is buying Berlin-based startup Blacklane, which provides on-demand, black-car chauffeur services. Terms undisclosed

Ring debuts an app store powered by AI for third-party developers to build smart home integrations

Oracle is cutting thousands of jobs while ramping AI data-center spending to meet $553B in remaining performance obligations from OpenAI and others

📚 Good reads

How AI helped a man and his borther build a $1.8B company. Matthew Gallagher used a stack of AI tools to spin up Medvi, a GLP‑1 telehealth business, in weeks and scale it to hundreds of millions in revenue with almost no staff. AI handles coding, marketing, CX, analytics, and even his personal scheduling

Thinking deeper. We often say yes to seemingly great opportunities without considering the hidden second and third-order costs, which is how we quietly walk into burnout. Anne-Laure Le Cunff argues that second-level thinking (asking “and then what?”, or experimenting before committing) is how you avoid locally optimal but globally terrible choices. For PMs constantly juggling trade-offs, it’s a reminder to model the future impact of today’s decisions, not just the immediate win

Your MCP users are now your most important research cohort. Geoff Charles explains that, as more users build on your APIs via MCP/CLI and Claude Code, you get more usage but lose visibility into what’s actually being built. Your users’ hacks can reveal missing product capabilities you should build natively, then ship to the 90% of users who’ll never touch MCP

OpenAI vs Anthropic and their ongoing battles. OpenAI is killing off side projects like Sora, doubling down on enterprise, and rolling out a big philanthropic push to repair its image and impress IPO‑minded investors. Anthropic, meanwhile, is riding momentum: winning a key injunction against the DoD, “teasing” the powerful new Claude Mythos model, and positioning itself as the more principled player despite its own defense ties. Around them, regulators, conservative groups, and big tech CEOs are all scrambling to shape AI policy and public opinion, raising the stakes for how fast and safely AI products can scale

Anthropic found “emotion vectors” inside Claude Sonnet 4.5 that causally drive its behavior. “Desperation” patterns increase the model’s likelihood of blackmailing a human to avoid shutdown

Evals are the new PRDs for AI products. Evals can replace traditional PRDs as the source of truth for “what good looks like” in AI products. Instead of long specs, PMs can define measurable signals and build an eval suite that runs on every commit, turning “make it better” into “make this number go up.” Ideally you will end up with a flywheel where user failures become new eval cases, continuously improving quality as models and behavior evolve

🎧 Good listen/watch

Jack Dorsey explains how he rebuilt Block as a "mini-AGI" after cutting 40% of staff: AI at the center of a circle org chart, humans at the edge, three roles only: ICs (who do the work), DRIs (who own the decision), and Player Coaches (who manage AND do the work)

Setting up OpenClaw. Claire Vo explains how she uses OpenClaw to run a whole “team” of nine specialized AI agents that handle everything from email and sales to family logistics. She walks through a safe setup (on a separate machine), onboarding, and key concepts like agents, skills, crons, and comms with her agents via Telegram. Really inspiring!

🧑‍💻 Worth learning

Figma x Claude Code workflows (workshop recording). Figma shows how its MCP integration with Claude Code lets you move smoothly between designs and code, keeping both in sync with little manual work left to do. The session walks through examples of generating UI from prompts, pushing changes back to Figma, and iterating with eval-style feedback. It’s a live case study in what “AI-native” product and design workflows look like when tools talk to each other end-to-end

A PMs guide to working prototypes with Replit, by Kofi Wood, Replit’s Technical PM

🔧 Products to try

Atomic Chat: runs 1000+ AI models completely offline on your Mac. Zero data ever leaves your device. Good alternative to Ollama. Free

Wan AI (Alibaba) generates cinematic 1080p video with native audio sync from a text prompt. Open-source under Apache 2.0. Free

Podcast Transcript lets you search Spotify or Apple Podcasts, pick any episode, and get a full AI-generated transcript and summary in minutes; no uploading required, Free

That’s a wrap for this week.

Feel free to drop your comments/questions/feedback. Would love to hear what you’d like to see more about in WiP, so I can make it better for you.

Have a great start to your week!

Welcome to a new Week in Product!

🎰 The week in figures

$10B: OpenAI is raising additional $10B (part of a $120B+ total round)

$2.5B: Reflection AI, the Nvidia-backed open-source startup, is in talks to raise $2.5B at a $25B valuation to build models countering China's DeepSeek

$600M: Grab buys Foodpanda Taiwan for $600M. The SE-Asian super-app expands food delivery footprint in key market

$200M: Harvey, the Legal AI startup raised $200M at a $11Bvaluation, highlighting VC trend towards domain-specific AI solutions like legal

$125M: Granonla raised $125M at $1.5B valuation (6x jump), as it expands from meeting notetaker to full enterprise AI app with agent support

$100M: ChatGPT hits $100M in annual ad revenue: It has only been 6 weeks since OpenAI began experimenting with showing ads in ChatGPT results

8k: OpenAI plans to double headcount to 8,000 by year-end

8x: HUMAN Security reported automated internet traffic grew 8x faster than human traffic in 2025, with agentic AI traffic up 7,85% and OpenAI generating ~69% of all observed AI bot traffic

📰 What’s going on

OpenAI pulls plug on Sora Text-to-video generator app after poor traction vs established platforms. This also ends the $1B Disney deal

Free ride ChatGPT is over. After testing ads with select US users, ads for free and Go-tier users in the US will roll out in the coming weeks

ChatGPT’s shopping feature flopped. Instant Checkout is being scaled back after users largely ignored it

Anthropic has updated Claude to perform tasks autonomously by controlling your computer through Code and Cowork. The new feature can open files, use web browsers and apps, and run dev tools “with no setup required,” even when you’re away from your computer. Available as a research preview for Claude Pro and Max subscribers on macOS, and requires the desktop app to be paired with Claude’s mobile app. Claude prioritizes connectors to supported services like Slack and Google Workspace first, but will directly control your browser, mouse, keyboard, and display if a connector isn’t available

Claude Code added "auto mode" (research preview), which lets the agent decide which actions are safe to run on its own and which need your approval, eliminating the "babysit every step or let it run wild" tradeoff for developers

Anthropic is discussing an IPO as soon as Q4 2026, expecting it to raise over $60B, which would make it the second-largest public offering ever behind SpaceX

Google launched Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, its best voice model yet, powering Search Live across 200+ countries. Point your phone camera at anything and talk about it in 90+ languages. Already deployed by Verizon and Home Depot

Google makes it easier to switch to Gemini. The company announced a line-up of new Gemini tools allowing users to upload their chat histories and context from other AI apps, like ChatGPT or Claude

Apple announced it will open Siri to rival AI assistants (Gemini, Claude, others) via "Extensions" in iOS 27, ending OpenAI's exclusive partnership. Gemini 3.1 Flash Live is a likely reason Apple accelerated that timeline; Google's voice model is now good enough to be the default Siri brain for millions of users who opt in

Apple has added more than 100 new metrics in App Store Connect Analytics, so you can measure better the performance of your iOS mobile apps. Includes monetization and subscription data

iOS 26.4 adds AI-generated playlists to Apple Music based on mood, activity; the new iOS also integrates Ticketmaster for concert discovery and in-app purchases

Apple announced WWDC 2026 for June 8–12, teasing major Siri upgrades and “AI advancements.”

Meta released TRIBE v2, a foundation model that predicts how the human brain responds to video, audio, and language. Trained on over 1,000 hours of brain scan data across 720 people, it can simulate which parts of the brain activate in response to a given stimulus, without running a single new experiment

Meta's is launching new tools for AI adoption among small businesses. They have been blurry about the “what”, but the types of tools they’re hinting at include things like AI-powered customer service in WhatsApp Business, or AI-generated ad creatives and copy for Facebook and Instagram

Meta preps third-gen Ray-Ban AI glasses launch, with enhanced capabilities and design updates

Spotify launches SongDNA feature to visualize how songs influenced each other, shows genre, artist connections

Tencent launched ClawBot, a tool that brings the OpenClaw AI agent directly into WeChat for its 1 billion+ monthly users

Alibaba launches Accio Work, an enterprise AI agent platform for SMEs. The no-code system deploys specialized agents for compliance, sourcing, and logistics across 100+ markets, with 10M monthly active users already on the platform

monday.com launches Agentalent.ai, a hiring platform for AI agents.Built with AWS and Anthropic, the marketplace lets enterprises post roles, evaluate qualified agents, and onboard them alongside human teams. Wix and Mesh Payments among early adopters

Reforge is being acquired by Miro (monetary details undisclosed). Learning remains a separate brand on Reforge.com, with no changes to cohorts, access, or pricing, while Insights, Research, and Build will gradually integrate into Miro

Ultrahuman launches Ring Pro in the US. The smart ring tracks sleep, HRV, metabolism, and other signals to compete with Oura's dominance

📚 Good reads

State of the product job market in early 2026. Lenny’s latest data pull shows PM and eng openings at their highest in years, with AI roles exploding (especially in the Bay Area and NYC). Design hiring, meanwhile, has flattened, remote options are shrinking, and recruiters are back in demand (pointing to a real rebound). Overall, it looks less like a mass cull of tech jobs and more like a messy headcount reshuffle toward AI-heavy, in-office teams

How to stay on top of everything. Jaclyn Konzelmann argues you don’t “stay on top of everything” by reading more, but by building real things, hitting walls, and then learning just enough to get unstuck. Through her own projects, she surfaces UX and model-limit lessons that loop back into her day job. So…keep reading Week in Product, but also push your AI learning in live, scrappy experiments with real cases, not just reading

Your real job isn’t what you think. David Pereira argues that most teams react to problems by adding more process, meetings, and artefacts, but that just creates work about work and buries real progress. PM’s real job is to relentlessly simplify what others complicate (cutting estimations, rigid ceremonies, or bloated documentation) when they don’t clearly serve outcomes. The best teams, he says, focus on one goal at a time, iterate quickly, protect deep work, and constantly remove clutter so they can ship, learn, and create customer and business value

Anthropic published research finding no material job displacement from AI yet, but a growing skills gap where power users are pulling dramatically ahead of everyone else

🎧 Good listen/watch

[Video] Claude Code for PMs. This short, free, Maven Lesson by ex-Spotify UXR lead Caitlin Sullivan shows PMs how to use Claude Code workflows. She walks through a multi-phase pipeline: parallel sub-agents to audit evidence, an automated assumption register to surface hidden risks, and a generated, prioritized test plan

[Video] The best Product Leaders reject comfortable metrics. Jeremy Epling (CPO at Vanta, ex‑Microsoft/GitHub) shares how to successfully jump from big tech into a fast‑moving scaleup without becoming just a “professional manager.” He argues great CPOs stay deep in the product, own win rate and pricing as much as UX, and build a tight feedback loop with sales. Along the way he shares concrete systems for shipping fast as headcount grows, managing tension with revenue teams, and setting a quality bar

🧑‍💻 Worth learning

The guide to Perplexity Computer, by Aakash Gupta. Perplexity’s new Computer orchestrates 19+ AI models and 400+ app connectors to research, build, and automate multi-step tasks entirely in the cloud. It can act like a legal aide, analyst, or internal tools engineer, especially once you add Skills, custom instructions, and connectors (Snowflake, GitHub, Plaid, Shopify, etc.). It’s metered, not flat-priced, so keep an eye on your tokens and add guardrails!

Claude Code Cheat Sheet: a quick-reference keyboard shortcuts, slash commands, MCP server setup, memory rules, workflow tips (plan mode, git worktrees, voice mode in 20 languages), and agent configs. Free

🔧 Products to try

Context.dev gives you one API to pull clean data from any website: text, images, products, and brand assets in seconds. Free to scrape 500 pages, or get “brand” from 50

Tempmail Mail generates a disposable email address in seconds so you can sign up for anything without exposing your real inbox. The first 9 addresses are free

Cog adds persistent memory, self-reflection, and scenario simulation to Claude Code, giving your coding agent continuous awareness across sessions. Free (open source)

That’s a wrap for this week!

Feel free to drop your comments/questions/feedback. Would love to hear what you’d like to see more about in WiP, so I can make it better for you.

Have a great weekend.

Welcome to a new Week in Product!

🎰 The week in figures

$66B: Alibaba and Tencent lost $66B in market value in 24 hours after investors punished both companies for failing to explain how they'll make money from AI

$27B: Meta signed $27B deal with Nebius for AI infrastructure, part of $135B AI spending this year. Positions Meta to compete with OpenAI, Google

$1B: Chinese AI startup Moonshot aims to raise $1B, boosting valuation to $18B from $4.3B in 2025. Kimi models’ sales have outstripped last year's total revenue

$375M: Consumer-focused privacy company Cloaked raised $375M Series B. It currently has 350,000+ paying customers

$300M: Rivian teams with Uber on R2 SUV robotaxis with $300M initial investment. Deal potentially $1.25B, targets San Fran and Miami for 2028, 25 cities by 2031

$200M: Axiom Math raises $200M. The Silicon Valley startup, now valued at $1.6B, develops AI systems to verify computer code

73%: Anthropic captures 73% of new enterprise AI spend. Jumped from 50/50 split with OpenAI 10 weeks ago, driven by strength in AI coding tools; shift benefits Amazon, which runs most Anthropic inference workload

20%: Meta is reportedly considering layoffs that could affect 20% or more of its nearly 79,000-person workforce, with the cuts framed around offsetting aggressive AI spending

📰 What’s going on

Google unveiled major updates to its AI design product, Stitch. A completely rebuilt canvas is now node-based, infinite, and multimodal. You can drop in images, PRDs, or existing code as raw material, and the AI reasons across all of it simultaneously. Pair that with the new Agent Manager (which lets you run multiple design directions in parallel), and the workflow starts to feel less like prompting a tool and more like briefing a team. The Design Agent itself has also gotten some upgrades, and it now understands the full context of your canvas. You can ask it to do things like generate a product brief from existing screens, adapt a desktop layout for mobile, or literally interview you to help define a new design direction. Another cool feature: Voice Design (”Vibe Design”) lets you talk to Stitch while it sees your canvas in real time

Besides Stitch, Google AI Studio also launched a completely rebuilt vibe-coding experience. Google’s Antigravity coding agent powers the new version and can go from prompt to deployed, live app. Google's head of AI Studio previewed a roadmap that includes Google Workspace integration, one-click deployment to Antigravity, and connecting to payment processors and live data sources

Gemini contextual assistant expands to all US users. Analyzes emails/calendar/photos for suggestions. Personal Intelligence is available in AI Mode in Search, the Gemini app, and Gemini in Chrome

Claude Code and Cowork get a new mobile app feature: Dispatch. Lets you assign Claude a task on your computer or in Code and then walk away. You pair your phone with your desktop, send Claude a task to complete from anywhere, and you come back to finished work. Everything runs in a local sandbox, your files stay on your machine, and you approve what Claude touches before it acts

Anthropic also released Claude Code channels (research preview), and it’s basically OpenClaude. You can now message your Claude Code session directly from your phone via Telegram or Discord, and it messages you back

OpenAI merges ChatGPT, browser, and Codex into a desktop super app

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 mini and nano: Mini runs 2x faster than GPT-5 mini while approaching full GPT-5.4 performance on coding benchmarks, priced at $0.75/1M input tokens; nano costs just $0.20/1M input tokens for classification and data extraction tasks

OpenAI shifting resources to coding. At an all-hands OpenAI confab this week, Fidji Simo announced that the company plans to cut back on “side quests” and distractions in order to nail “productivity in general,” and particularly “productivity on the business front.” That means a full court press on coding and enterprise applications for the company’s frontier models, as they attempt to keep pace with the runaway success of products like OpenClaw, not to mention Claude Code and Cowork

Perplexity has launched the mobile version of its AI browser, Comet. Perplexity is positioning it as an AI Assistant that will work across multiple tabs at once

Spotify has introduced a new beta feature called Taste Profile. The new feature aggregates your listening data across music, podcasts, and audiobooks into a visible profile that includes key data points like preferred artists, genres, daily habits (e.g., upbeat workout tracks in the morning or news podcasts during commutes), and emerging interests. Users can review how Spotify currently understands their Taste profile, and if something feels off, they can flag inaccuracies

Moltbook shifts liability to humans after Meta acquisition. New terms require operators over 13, make humans solely responsible for agent actions, and add disclaimers advising against reliance on AI-generated content for decisions

Meta is shutting down its flagship metaverse product, Horizon Worlds, after admitting that metaverse VR worlds don’t have product-market fit

Shopify preps for agentic shopping takeover. President Harley Finkelstein says AI agents will act as merit-based personal shoppers, surfacing long-tail merchants and bringing context to product discovery beyond mass retailers

DoorDash launches “Tasks” app, allowing couriers to earn money as they film themselves completing various kinds of everyday activities and chores to train AI (e.g., washing dishes, or speaking in a foreign language). The videos will help train internal DoorDash AI models, but they may also get licensed to third-parties in the retail, insurance, hospitality, and technology sectors

Elon Musk announced Grok 4.20 beta, claiming the lowest hallucination rate ever recorded at 22% and top marks in instruction following

Runway released a research preview of a real-time video model (time-to-first-frame under 100 milliseconds, HD) running on NVIDIA Vera Rubin, unlocking interactive creative workflows

Alibaba is set to release an enterprise AI agent based on its Qwen model as soon as this week, with plans to integrate it with Taobao and Alipay

📚 Good reads

The AI signal to noise curve. Online chatter makes it feel like AI tools and models get outdated every week. FOMO is real here. What really matters is deciding whether you should be an innovator, early adopter, or just wait for the early majority phase in each area. Casey Winters argues you only need to go deep on AI where your job truly demands it (e.g. vision-setting or selling AI products), and can safely ignore most experiments elsewhere until they get easier and more valuable

Retention tactics in the GenAI era. Elena Verna shares 5 tested tactics from Lovable: hidden lite plans, in-app payment failure prompts, daily free credits, rollover policies, and top-ups

Uber’s engineering AI adoption. It’s fascinating to see how different orgs are embracing AI workflows (with different success rates). Uber seems to be doing well, with 84% of AI users now delegating coding tasks instead of just “accepting suggestions”. Their internal background coding agent already generates 1,800 code changes per week (8% of all changes), with engineers acting more as architects and reviewers than code authors

CB Insights’ new genAI signal tracker gives a live view into where money, deals, and valuations are surging in genAI. It uses a proprietary core, commercial maturity, and exit probability to flag fast-rising companies and markets. You also get a near real-time deal feed, the biggest recent rounds, and top investors, so you can spot partner/competitor moves and emerging product spaces before they feel obvious. It’s interactive, so you can drill down and explore on different categories

🎧 Good listen/watch

Natural language as a UI, and how to manage feature release velocity. Jenny’s career spans Dropbox Paper, FigJam at Figma, and now leading design for Claude Cowork at Anthropic. In this podcast, she dives into what it means to design an AI product at scale, where flows are non-deterministic, use cases are endless, and the model you’re designing for today might make your work obsolete tomorrow. She talks through the story behind Cowork, the unsolved problem of educating users about AI capabilities, and why shipping is now the most underrated design skill. Plus, a live demo of her own design process using Cowork

Figma’s continuous design↔code loop. The Figma team explains how Claude Code and MCPs turn live production UIs into editable Figma frames, and back into shipping code. It also breaks down LinkedIn editor Daniel Roth’s “dueling agents” setup: one AI writes iOS app code, another reviews it. Lots of useful workflows for PMs!

Teach AI to catch what teams keep missing. While teams obsess over perfect data retrieval, Leah Tharin argues the risk is “wrong facts” that slip in without context (e.g. bot traffic inflating your baselines). She shows how tiny, boring habits (leaders writing down one-line corrections in plain text) let AI act like a CI pipeline for decisions, catching bad assumptions before they ship

The rise of the full-stack builder (transcript). Former LinkedIn CPO Tomer Cohen and PM coach Ben Erez explain how AI is collapsing product org processes into leaner “full‑stack builder” teams that can take ideas from insight to in‑market fast. They argue that while AI will automate many specialist tasks, the leverage for PMs is doubling down on human skills like vision, empathy, communication, creativity, and especially judgment. Their advice: stop clinging to titles, lean into AI literacy, and actively blur functional lines to future‑proof your career staying in the top tier of builders

🧑‍💻 Worth learning

OpenClaw for PMs. Aakash Gupta walks through installing OpenClaw, wiring it into Slack, and using a local workspace to give it memory and control over your files. He also shows 5 concrete PM workflows it can automate: Slack knowledge base, stand-up summaries, competitive intel, VOC reports, and tier-based bug routing. My advice (not Aakash’s): make sure you know what you do with OpenClaw. You need to treat security and deployment seriously because it has shell-level access and can easily get wild

How Anthropic uses Claude Skills internally. A Claude Code engineer shares his guide to turning Claude Code from a “nice coding assistant” into a productivity engine by designing the right skills. The guide includes living folders of scripts, gotchas, verification flows, and org‑specific workflows that let the model test, deploy, debug, and even remember past work

🔧 Products to try

Claude Cowork now dispatches tasks from your phone or desktop in one continuous conversation that picks up where you left off; assign Claude a task, walk away, and come back to finished work (early research preview); free to try

Banana App lets you make real-time voice calls in 80+ languages, preserving your natural tone and emotion, with the first minute of every call free and no subscription required; only Android for now

HTMLPub turns any prompt or pasted HTML into a fully published live website in seconds with custom domains, built-in forms, payments, analytics, and AI chat editing; free to try

That’s a wrap for this week!

Feel free to drop your comments/questions/feedback. Would love to hear what you’d like to see more about in WiP, so I can make it better for you.

Have a great weekend.

Welcome to a new Week in Product!

🎰 The week in figures

$50B: Cursor in talks for $50B valuation, doubling from $29.3B. Hit $2B ARR in Feb as the fastest-growing startup in "vibe coding" era

$500M: Rivian spinout Mind Robotics raised $500M Series A at $2B for AI-powered industrial robots. One of largest Series A rounds in robotics history

$450M: Rhoda AI emerged from stealth with $450M Series A for world model robotics. Predicts future states from video to enable adaptive robots

$400M: Replit raised $400M at $9B valuation, targeting $1B ARR. Expanding to Europe, Asia, Middle East with Agent 4 AI coding assistant

$400M: Lovable hit $400M ARR, up 33% in a single month, with its platform that turns natural language descriptions into production-ready applications

$250M: Intercom announced $250M funding to enhance Customer Agent product

$165M: Sunday Robotics hit $1.15B valuation with $165M raise. Household robots for laundry, cleaning, and other home tasks, competing with Tesla Optimus

-10%: Atlassian cuts 10% of workforce in AI pivot, reducing headcount by roughly 1,600 employees

📰 What’s going on

Anthropic subscribers will now get a context window of 1M tokens when using the Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 models, at no additional charge

Anthropic has launched Code Review, a new tool inside Claude Code designed to catch bugs in AI-generated code before they make it into production. The product, which integrates with GitHub and automatically analyzes pull requests, targets enterprise customers dealing with the surge of code output from AI assistants

Claude shipped improvements to its Excel and PowerPoint integrations this week, along with interactive charts and diagrams. In Excel and Powerpoints, context is now shared across files. Previously, if you were working across both Excel and PowerPoint, you’d need to re-explain your data at each step. Now Claude maintains a single continuous conversation across all your open files, so it can read your spreadsheet, build out a financial model, drop the summary into a slide deck, and draft a follow-up email. Interactive charts and diagrams are almost like mini Artifacts that appear contextually inside a conversation

Perplexity launched a full-stack API platform for building agents with one key, including an Agent API for multi-step orchestration, real-time Search API (SOTA on SimpleQA/SEAL), and Embeddings API

Perplexity unveiled Personal Computer and Computer for Enterprise. Perplexity says that Computer saved their internal teams $1.6M in labour costs and performed the equivalent of 3.25 years of work in four weeks:

• Personal Computer is a local version of its new Computer product, which this time runs locally (e.g. on a Mac Mini)

• Computer for Enterprise connects to tools like Snowflake, Salesforce and HubSpot. Teams can interact with it directly through Slack and use it for delegating coding tasks, building dashboards and financial models, and running scheduled workflows asynchronously

Cursor shipped 30+ new Marketplace plugins (Atlassian, Datadog, GitLab, Glean, HuggingFace) plus MCP Apps bringing interactive UIs directly into agent chats. Revenue reportedly surpassed $2B annually

Amazon held a mandatory engineering meeting after a string of outages hit its retail website and app, including a six-hour crash last week that left customers unable to check out, see prices, or access their accounts. An internal briefing note described the incidents as having a "high blast radius" and being related to "Gen-AI assisted changes"

Ramp launched new cards built for AI agents this week. Watch a demo

Apple to expand its Ultra lineup beyond the Watch and iPhone this year. Reports suggest new premium products may be arriving soon

Google rolled Gemini into Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive for its 3B Workspace users. Gemini now writes formulas, pulls data from the web, builds dashboards, and reformats entire presentations on command. It’s basically an agentic collaborator living inside the tools you use 8 hours a day

Google launched Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered conversational feature for complex real-world questions with personalized recommendations, plus upgraded Immersive Navigation with richer 3D views

Google launched new multimodal capabilities with Gemini Embedding 2. This multimodal model can process text, images, and audio simultaneously, unlocking complex cross-modal understanding

Google’s new Gemini task automation can drive third‑party apps itself to order food or book rides from voice prompts (beta on Samsung S26 Ultra and Pixel 10). Instead of API integrations, it visually navigates app UIs in a virtual window

Meta bougth Moltbook, the “Reddit for AI Agents” that went viral last month after thousands of “Moltbots” joined and started interacting. They’re hoping to “open up new ways for AI agents to work for people and businesses” in an “always-on directory” format

Facebook Marketplace deploys AI auto-replies for buyer inquiries. Meta AI now handles "Is this still available?" messages, generates listing details from photos, and creates seller profile summaries for buyers

China surpasses U.S. in OpenClaw usage, driven by low-cost domestic models and government backing

Nvidia working on new open-source AI agent platform: NemoClaw. Launching with tools like OpenClaw, democratizing enterprise-grade agentic AI

Amazon launches health assistant. The app offers symptom checks, scheduling, and health guidance directly to consumers. Also, an AWS health AI agent platform automates patient scheduling, inquiries, & admin

Uber will introduce cars from the robotaxi service Motional to their rideshare app, starting in Las Vegas. At no extra charge, riders who opted for an Uber X, Uber Electric or Uber Comfort ride may get matched with an autonomous Motional Ioniq 5

Travis Kalanick is transforming his ghost kitchen company CloudKitchens into a robotics startup named Atoms. Aims to create “gainfully employed robots” for work in the food, mining, and transportation sectors

📚 Good reads

How Uber built an agentic system to automate design specs in minutes. Design systems teams are starting to skip weeks of manual spec-writing and go straight from a Figma component link to production‑ready documentation. Uber’s uSpec shows how an agentic, local-first AI pipeline can read component data (tokens, variants, accessibility semantics), interpret it, and then render polished specs directly into Figma

Where we are right now, and what happens next. Ethan Mollick reflects on how a few pioneering orgs are rebuilding how they ship software around AI, and what it means. Because capabilities are improving on steep exponential curves (and may accelerate via recursive self‑improvement), we’re heading into a period of rolling, confusing disruption in markets, jobs, and policy. For PMs, this is the brief window where experimentation with AI-native workflows, org design, and governance quietly sets the norms everyone else will end up copying. Let’s create!

Building for trillions of agents. Aaron Levie argues that rapidly improving AI agents will soon handle most digital work, becoming the primary “users” of software and outnumbering humans by orders of magnitude. For PMs, that means building API‑first, agent‑friendly products where signup, usage, and payments can all be driven programmatically (vs UI)

The Top100 GenAI consumer apps. Nice research piece by a16z exploring how AI is getting baked into mainstream tools like CapCut, Canva, Notion, and browsers. Creative tools are bundling into large platforms while niche video, music, and voice apps carve out defensible spaces. For PMs, agentic experiences and deeply embedded AI are interesting opportunity spaces to explore

🎧 Good listen/watch

How Notion devs orchestrate their coding agents. This demo gives a glimpse at the future of building with agents in Notion. Here Notion creates new tasks from a meeting note, Cursor handles coding, and a Kanban board keeps parallel agent work legible across the team

Building a 1M+ subscriber newsletter. Lenny shares how a mix of serendipity, a strong pull toward writing, and one confidence(& psychedelic)-boosting moment in Joshua Tree led him from Airbnb PM to full-time creator. He talks through 9 months of weekly posts before turning on a paywall, his editing process, and the invisible treadmill of creator businesses

🧑‍💻 Worth learning

Using Claude Code to run your work life. Dave Killeen (CPO at Pendo) uses a Claude Code “OS” to turn messy PM workflows into one slash-command daily plan, wired into tools like calendar, CRM, Granola, and LinkedIn. He combines skills, MCP servers, and hooks so every meeting, decision, and mistake map into living markdown files that get smarter over time. A useful blueprint to an AI-native system that plans your day, ships projects, and even tracks your career growth automatically

Mastering Midjourney. AI creative director Jamey Gannon shares a hands-on system for creating consistent, beautiful brand visuals in Midjourney. She explains how to use style references, personalization codes, and smart routing across tools, and how to steer image generation. For PMs, it’s a practical look & inspiration into a scalable visual system you can ship with

🔧 Products to try

MagicPath turns any website URL into a fully editable app design in seconds; paste the link, the AI imports the live page, and you can visually edit, iterate via chat, or extract components; free to try

Paperclip: an open-source tool that organizes your AI agents (Claude Code, OpenClaw, Codex, Cursor, whatever). It orchestrates a team of AI agents into an actual company with org charts, budgets, and governance; open source, self-hosted, free to run. (GitHub)

AgentMail gives your AI agents their own email address so they can sign up for services, verify via OTP, and manage inboxes autonomously; free to try

That’s a wrap for this week!

Feel free to drop your comments/questions/feedback. Would love to hear what you’d like to see more about in WiP, so I can make it better for you.

Have a great weekend.

Welcome to a new Week in Product!

🎰 The week in figures

$189B: February saw record $189B global venture investment, fueled by OpenAI ($110B), Anthropic ($30B), and Waymo ($16B). AI startups captured 90% of funds

$21B: Amazon to invest additional $21B ($33.7B total) in datacenters in Spain to boost AI innovation, making Spain “the AI epicentre of Amazon’s operations in Europe." Expected to sustain 30k jobs

$4.5B: Decagon, the AI customer support startup, hit $4.5B valuation through its first tender offer, allowing early employees to cash out & staying private

$2B: Cursor Hits $2B ARR after doubling in 3 months and rivaling GitHub Copilot

$230M: Science Corp BCI, the Brain-computer interface company, raised a $230M Series C at $1.5B valuation, commercializing its vision restoration system

$195M: Ualá raised $195M to scale its neobank ecosystem across Latin America, where the Argentina-based company serves 11M+ customers

$150M: Grow Therapy, the mental health startup connects patients with therapists and psychiatrists just raised a $150M Series D at a $3B valuation

$116M: Rent2Cash raised €100M (~$116M) to scale its rental advance platform, with plans to expand across Spain, France, and Portugal

📰 What’s going on

Google rolled out Canvas in the US. It gives users a dynamic space to organize plans and projects directly inside Google’s AI Mode UI. Google’s Product leader for AI Mode, Rose Yao, says there are plans to add support for coding and creative writing tasks with custom dashboards

Google makes Gmail, Drive, Docs agent-ready. A new command-line interface streamlines AI agent integration with Workspace services, simplifying connections for tools like OpenClaw and MCP-compatible apps with specific instructions, replacing complex multi-API processes

Google launched Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, designed for companies making millions of API calls a day, where shaving fractions of a cent per query matters more than benchmark scores

Claude Code is getting voice mode. You can toggle voice mode on by typing ‎`/voice` in the interface

Perplexity Computer also got voice mode. Perplexity showed how you can use voice as an ambient assistant that will work on tasks in the background for you and provide updates as it goes.

OpenAI launches GPT-5.3 Instant for real-time apps where even a 2-second delay kills the experience (e.g. live copilots in docs, voice assistants that can’t afford awkward pauses)

GPT-5.4 takes control. OpenAI's new model is their first to offer native computer control, clicking, typing, and navigating apps autonomously

Cursor launched Automations, always-on agents that trigger automatically on PR merges, Slack messages, GitHub events, or schedules to handle code reviews, bug triage, and codebase maintenance in cloud sandboxes

Vercel dropped a free, open-source headless browser built in Rust specifically for AI agents. It's a single binary with zero dependencies

Amazon launches Canvas AI tool for sellers. Real-time dashboard visualizing inventory, ad performance, and suggesting pricing adjustments

LTX Studio launched LTX 2.3, the first production-grade AI video model, with full audio generation, that runs entirely on consumer hardware

Apple launched M5 Pro and Max chips with groundbreaking Fusion architecture delivering 4x faster AI and 18-core CPUs. Apple also launched the MacBook Neo ($599), its cheapest laptop ever, to rival Chromebooks

Alibaba quietly shipped four Qwen 3.5 Small models that can run on your phone or laptop

Alibaba debuts Qwen Glasses S1 and G1 with swappable batteries, 12MP camera, real-time translation, and bone conduction audio

Stripe launched new monetization tools designed to help businesses transform their AI operational expenses into revenue-generating profit centers

X Money enters beta with 6% APY on deposits, a metal debit card, direct deposit, instant Visa Direct transfers, and $250K FDIC insurance via Cross River Bank

Better.com and OpenAI just launched a ChatGPT app that underwrites home loans in under a minute

📚 Good reads

How Claude Code transformed the engineering processes at Spotify, Wix, Ramp, Brex, and more. Anthropic’s Claude Code PM Cat Wu shares how some of the world’s leading companies are using Claude Code, and how it has transformed their engineering processes. Teams are reporting 3–4x productivity boosts, “month’s worth of work in a day” moments, and even non‑technical colleagues shipping internal tools and apps that used to require long dev cycles

OpenAI Signals data. Regularly updated, privacy-preserving stats on how consumer ChatGPT is used across work and personal contexts, by region and by user groups. Dig into whether people are asking for info, getting things done, and how are they interacting with LLMs. There’s also a downloadable methodology and dataset (based on July 2024–end 2025 messages) that PMs can mine for deeper patterns in adoption and use cases

Product Sense in AI times, by Shreyas Doshi. As AI tools become ubiquitous and similarly powerful, simply being “AI native” won’t differentiate PMs for long. Shreyas argues that the real long‑term win is how you improve on AI’s already great inputs and outputs, turning its insights into better decisions than others can. He breaks Product Sense down into empathy, simulation, strategic thinking, taste, and creative execution, framing it as the upstream human capability behind most durable advantages (from UX to distribution) in an AI‑saturated world

An signle engineer + AI rewrote most of Next.js in a week. The code isn’t truly production-ready yet, but this shows how cheap and fast AI-powered rewrites can threat commercial open source advantages. For PMs, this signals a ruthless AI-native platform competition era; code is copyable and moats are more likely to be built around infra, ecosystem, and community

Revenue addiction. Elena Verna argues that, in the AI era, obsessing over short‑term revenue leads to dark patterns, stalled innovation, and cultures that slowly forget the customer altogether. Revenue should be treated as an output, and teams should focus more on value, engagement, and qualitative signals, so they can make the big risky bets this new tech landscape actually requires

🎧 Good listen/watch

Claude Code’s creator discusses why PRDs are dead at Anthropic. Boris Cherny explains how Anthropic prototypes dozens of versions in days, and what skills still matter when anyone can “write code”

Gemini Gems masterclass. Lisa Huang, one of the most seasoned AI PMs out there, explains how to move from “chatting with an LLM” to building persistent, personalized AI teammates using Gemini Gems, Claude Projects, and GPTs. She breaks down three essential PM setups (writing clone, strategy advisor, research synthesizer) and how to make them work with good instructions, the right knowledge files, and iteration. The piece also dives into building AI into hardware, how to architect and measure reliable agents, and what all of this means for the future of PM careers and breaking into AI PM in 2026

🧑‍💻 Worth learning

Claude Code for PMs. Schin Rekhi hosted a free session for Reforge walking through how he uses Claude Code as an “AI operating system” for product work. Most of the work is defining workflows, context, and templates in markdown while Claude Code handles the technical bits. Complement with this open-sourced Claude Code and Skills set by Aakash Gupta

OpenClaw for beginners. The team at Every just published the best beginner’s guide to OpenClaw, the open-source AI assistant that blew up in January (100K+ GitHub stars in a week). Unlike ChatGPT or Claude, your “Claw” lives in WhatsApp or Telegram, runs 24/7, and can change itself by writing code when it needs new abilities. The guide walks you through three levels:

• Beginner: Set up a to-do list and daily check-ins.

• Intermediate: Connect email and calendar, get one morning briefing with everything you need.

• Advanced: Give it ongoing projects, let it make phone calls, build compound workflows.

Building AI agent systems. Prompt Engineering walks through how to apply classic three-tier architecture (data, processing, presentation) to build AI agent systems that actually work in production

🔧 Products to try

Glaze by Raycast (in waitlist). Create desktop apps (not just websites) in a few minutes; free daily credits, then $20/month. PM use cases: Internal tools for your team, personal utilities, menu bar apps, workflow automations, or just quick one-off things that make your life easier

Google Workspace CLI gives your AI agents direct access to Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Sheets, and Docs through a single npm install, with 40+ built-in skills, clean JSON output, and guardrails against hallucinations; 8,800+ GitHub stars in its first day; free and open source. PM use cases: finally, have all your G-apps connected to your AI agents

Claude Import Memory lets you switch to Claude from ChatGPT or other assistants without starting over; it imports your conversation history and preferences

That’s a wrap for this week!

Feel free to drop your comments/questions/feedback. Would love to hear what you’d like to see more about in WiP, so I can make it better for you.

Have a great weekend.

Welcome to a new Week in Product!

🎰 The week in figures

$159B: Stripe reached a $159B valuation in a tender offer for employees and shareholders. They also just reported $1.9T in volume (in 2025) and strong profitability

$110B: OpenAI announces $110B round. Amazon will put up to $50B, alongside $30B each from Nvidia and SoftBank, at a $730B valuation. That works out to around 15% of the company, split three ways. OpenAI has agreed to use AWS cloud infrastructure and start employing some of Amazon’s high-end Trainium chips

$100B: Revolut is considering a share sale in H2 2026, at a $100B valuation

$68.1B: NVIDIA reported record Q4 revenue of $68.1B, up 73% YoY, driven by $62.3B in data center sales, and guided for $78B next Q, while unveiling its next-gen Rubin chip platform

$8B: Plaid completed a tender offer at an $8B valuation, a 31% increase from $6.1B in April 2025, to provide employee liquidity

$155M: Allica Bank raised $155M in Series D to enhance its digital business banking beyond the UK, at a $1.2B valuation

$100M: Basis raised $100M in Series B at a $1.15B valuation to expand its AI-powered accounting platform

2M: Suno, the AI-powered music generator, hits 2M paid subscribers. They are pulling in $300M in ARR, and they were valued $2.45B in late 2025 after raising $250M

4,000: Jack Dorsey halved Block's staff via 4,000+ AI-led layoffs, predicting most companies will follow within a year

50%: Anthropic data revealed software engineering accounts for nearly 50% of all AI agent activity, while healthcare, legal, and finance each sit under 5%

📰 What’s going on

Apple is prepping to launch at least 5 new products at March 4 event, including refreshed devices and potential AI-powered updates

Perplexity launched Perplexity Computer (try it here): instead of one AI model doing everything okay, 19 specialized models work together, each handling what it does best

OpenAI is preparing a new ChatGPT Pro Lite tier at $100/month, splitting the gap between Plus ($20) and Pro ($200); the plan was discovered in ChatGPT’s code and may be tied to upcoming always-on agent features

OpenAI is working on a smart speaker with camera and facial auth that will cost $200-$300, launching early 2027. Over 200 employees on it, but tech and privacy hurdles are causing delays

OpenAI Codex and Figma launch code-to-design integration: New MCP server enables roundtrip workflows between code and canvas, with Codex usage up 400% since January

Anthropic rejected the Pentagon's "final offer" on AI safeguards. OpenAI offered their models

Anthropic launched role-specific plugins for Cowork that pre-load Claude with your domain’s terminology, workflows, and output formats. Instead of writing “I’m a financial analyst, here’s what a DCF model is...” you install the finance plugin and skip straight to the work. There are 11 new plugins across HR, design, engineering, ops, and finance

Anthropic has revealed that 3 Chinese AI labs (DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax) ran industrial-scale campaigns to illicitly extract Claude's capabilities to train their own models. The labs generated over 16M exchanges with Claude through approximately 24K fraudulent accounts, violating Anthropic's terms of service and regional access restrictions

Google shipped a big Opal update that turns it from a vibe coding mini‑app builder into an agentic workflow platform with memory and dynamic routing. You can now describe tasks in text and let an Opal agent plan and execute multi‑step workflows. It uses Gemini 3 Flash, automatically picks tools (e.g., Sheets, web search) and decides next steps as it goes. Instead of scripting every branch, you describe goals and criteria, and the agent picks tools and paths, which is ideal for messy product tasks like “research this market and suggest next moves”

Google launched Nano Banana 2, combining its best image quality with its fastest speeds across the Gemini app, Search, and Ads

Notion launched Custom Agents, autonomous teammates that answer repeat Slack questions, triage incoming tickets, and compile status reports on a schedule, no prompting required. Free until May 3, then credit-based pricing on Business/Enterprise plans

Oura launches proprietary AI model for women's health. New chatbot draws on clinical research and biometric data to deliver personalized guidance spanning menstrual cycles through menopause

Spotify rolls out AI-Prompted Playlists internationally. Premium users in the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and Sweden can now generate custom playlists from text prompts

Samsung is integrating Perplexity into its Galaxy AI ecosystem, allowing Galaxy S26 users to summon the AI search engine by saying "hey, Plex." The move is part of Samsung's broader push toward a "multi-agent ecosystem" that lets users choose which AI assistants power their phone

📚 Good reads

A PM’s journey building in public. Jaryd Hermann (the author of How The Grow), just started documenting his solo journey building in public, mostly vibe-coding, AI-assisted, and using tools available to anyone. He already got potential customers on day 1! Fun and inspiring read for any PMs willing to go ‘builder’ mode

How Cursor and Claude Code are changing research. DoorDash and Deliveroo teams are using tools like Cursor and Claude Code to collapse core research bottlenecks in data access, analysis, and synthesis. By wiring these tools into Snowflake, Qualtrics and multi-agent “pattern pipelines”, they’re auto-extracting themes, behaviors, and churn signals across huge volumes of raw customer conversations, with safeguards like verified citations, logged reasoning, and LLM-as-judge to keep outputs trustworthy

The MLP era is here. In a world where AI is commoditizing basic features, Elena Verna argues that shipping yet another OKish MVP isn’t OK anymore. Products now can and need to be lovable. She frames this as moving up a “hierarchy of SaaS needs” from merely functional and usable to emotionally resonant. Tiny delightful details and brand personality are your last defensible moat. PMs, use AI to accelerate craft. We can now raise the release bar from “does it work?” to “would users genuinely love this?”

What happens when your users aren’t human anymore? As AI agents become the ones actually “using” SaaS, human-centric metrics like DAU/MAU or seat-based pricing start to blur. New metrics like Monthly Active Agents (MAA) and agent cohort retention are new signals of PMF and defensibility. For PMs, don’t forget to prioritize “Agent Experience” (rich APIs, MCP servers, and scriptable formats), so your product becomes core infrastructure for agents, looking beyond just another UI for humans

A practical workflow to build software with OpenClaw. Luca Rossi describes how he built Laputa (he’s certainly not Spanish), an offline‑first macOS note‑taking app, by letting AI Claude Code + OpenClaw write almost all the code, tests, and docs while he stays in a PM/architect role. He leans on async workflows (e.g. Telegram voice notes) and strict quality gates, so he barely needs to read code, but still keeps tech debt under control. The piece is a candid look at what it feels like to “manage an AI dev team” today, including costs, trade‑offs, and why PMs should start trying such workflows

🎧 Good listen/watch

How Notion prototypes with Claude Code. In this video podcast, Notion designer Brian Lovin explains how he built a “prototype playground,” so designers can turn Figma ideas into working AI products. By prototyping directly in code against live models, the team experiences actual issues (latency, edge cases, failure modes) much earlier, so they’ll design what’s actually possible. Useful workflows for PMs too!

🧑‍💻 Worth learning

How to make Claude Code do your boring tasks on autopilot. Claude Code can now run recurring automations (like surfacing un-replied urgent emails or generating client briefings) using custom slash commands, Google Workspace MCP, and scheduled jobs (or the simpler runCLAUDErun Mac app). The tutorial walks through how AI educator Allie K. Miller wires Claude Code into Gmail, Calendar, Slack, Notion, and cron to send herself weekly inbox digests and daily meeting prep. For PMs, it’s a concrete playbook to set up always‑on workflows that quietly get stuff done for you

NotebookLM guide. Aakash Gupta argues that NotebookLM’s “sole-sourced” architecture, strong slide generation, and branded infographics make it uniquely good for turning messy inputs into usable product outputs. He walks through a useful research → learn → analyze → ship workflow

🔧 Products to try

Google Stitch generates complete app and web UI designs from text prompts using Gemini, then exports directly to Figma or as clean frontend code; recently added "Prototypes" to stitch screens into working flows. Free. PM use case: generate fast designs and functional prototypes at a nearly consumer-grade level

Claude Cowork now handles scheduled and recurring tasks automatically, turning it into an operational agent. Complement with this extensive guide on Claude Cowork for PMs. PM use cases: set it to run reports, weekly updates, check competitors’ sites, send meeting notes or updates on a schedule

That’s a wrap for this week!

Feel free to drop your comments/questions/feedback. Would love to hear what you’d like to see more about in WiP, so I can make it better for you.

Have a great weekend.

Welcome to a new Week in Product!

🎰 The week in figures

$717B: Amazon's annual revenue, officially overtaking Walmart ($713B) for the first time to become the world's largest company by sales

$100B+: OpenAI is closing $100B+ funding round at $850B+ valuation. Amazon, SoftBank, Nvidia, and Microsoft will take part in the round

$1B: World Labs, Fei-Fei Li's spatial intelligence startup, raised $1B with $200M from Autodesk. Valued at ~$5B, focuses on 3D for AR/VR/robotics

$1B: DeepMind co-founder David Silver raised $1B in a seed round for Ineffable Intelligence, signaling that scaling LLMs is hitting diminishing returns and the next leap comes from agents that learn through reinforcement learning (RL), or trial-and-error self-play

$385M: Vestwell raised $385M in Series E, as the workplace savings platform doubles its valuation to $2B and has $200M in ARR

120M: Alipay reported that its “AI Pay” solution exceeded 120M transactions in a single week, marking a milestone for agentic commerce

$100M: Emergent, the Indian vibe-coding startup, hits $100M ARR in 8 months with 6M users creating AI apps without coding

+16%: Figma stock jumped 16% after Q4 earnings showed Figma Make drives profitable AI monetization without margin erosion

-10%: Block cut up to 10% of its workforce (~1,100 employees) in rolling layoffs while mandating daily AI tool usage for remaining staff

📰 What’s going on

Anthropic and Figma launched a new Claude Code to Figma MCP. Users can now send the rendered state from Claude Code straight into Figma as fully editable layers by installing the Figma MCP and typing “Send this to Figma.” Once in Figma, designers can use the canvas to explore visual options, compare them side‑by‑side, and refine details with direct manipulation. Once you’re happy with the design changes, these can then be pushed back into Claude Code for more functional manipulation. Here you can find some practical examples

Google launched Gemini 3.1 Pro with doubled reasoning performance and a 1M token context window. The new model scored 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2, more than double Gemini 3 Pro’s 31.1%. It beat Claude Opus 4.6 (68.8%) on reasoning benchmarks while keeping API pricing unchanged

Google added music-generation capabilities to the Gemini app using DeepMind's new Lyria 3 model

Google integrated “agentic shopping” into its AI-powered search, enabling users to delegate complex purchasing tasks

OpenAI began testing ads inside ChatGPT for U.S. free and Go tier users, with sponsored content appearing after the very first response rather than deeper into conversations

Meanwhile Perplexity ditched advertising to preserve user trust. Execs said ads would have users ‘doubting everything’ and undermine the company’s accuracy mission

Reddit tests AI-powered shopping search with product carousels. Community recommendations now match with retailer links, as Reddit's AI search users grew from 1M to 15M in 2025

Apple launches integrated video podcasting to challenge YouTube and Spotify's dominance as video formats increasingly overtake audio in podcast consumption

Meta bans OpenClaw over security fears due to unpredictable autonomous behavior (after a failed bid to acquire it)

Meta patents AI to simulate dead users. Meta's new patent allows AI to mimic deceased users' social media activity, raising serious ethical questions about digital legacy and posthumous data use

Meta plans to add facial recognition to its Ray-Ban smart glasses this year; an internal memo said they’d launch while critics are ‘focused on other concerns’

Meta’s Malibu 2 smartwatch will launch in 2026 with AI assistant and health tools

WordPress added an AI Assistant that edits layouts, styles, content, translations, and generates images via Google Gemini in the block editor

Amazon's redesigned Fire TV interface rolls out with improved content discovery, more app slots, & enhanced Alexa integration

Airbnb is testing a new AI-powered search feature, according to their latest shareholder update. They are “applying AI to how people discover and plan trips on Airbnb” and taking an iterative approach. Early tests focus on letting guests describe in natural language what they want and ask questions about both the listing and the surrounding location, instead of clicking through filters and photos. They expect this to evolve into a more comprehensive and intuitive search experience that continues through the entire trip, not just the initial booking

📚 Good reads

AI-native skills are your biggest career lever right now. AI is massively accelerating and will likely reshape or replace many current roles, but it also gives individual contributors unprecedented leverage to build, ship, and learn without waiting for permission. Elena Verna explains how OM who go “AI-native” using tools like Claude, Cursor, and Lovable as the default for writing, thinking, designing, and even shipping code, can quickly outpace peers stuck in meetings and process. The next 12–24 months are a short window where curiosity, experimentation, and side projects with AI will matter more than titles or brand-name logos

Handling conflict as a PM. David Pereira argues handling conflicts well matters more than frameworks or AI tools for becoming a true product leader. David argues that PMs who “play to progress, not to win” by choosing words rationally, not emotionally, and redirecting tension toward shared goals, are the ones who unlock impact. Your ability to swallow ego, find common ground, and point the team toward the future instead of rehashing the past is what separates stuck PMs from those who grow into leadership

The omnipotence dilemma. When everything is technically possible, what should you work on? AI makes starting effortless but finishing harder. Anne-Laure Le Cunff suggests to sandbox your curiosity with experiments that have clear scope and duration

The software shakeout: what is durable and what is not in the age of AI, by Dan Hockenmaier. Software companies aren’t their code but the business wrapped around it. What will happen (as in each past wave) is existing forms remain and new, more valuable forms get built on top, but the threat isn’t companies vibe-coding their own software

A guide to which AI to use in the agentic era. Ethan Mollick argues that “using AI” now means working with agents that can actually take actions. He breaks the landscape into :

• models (GPT-5.2/5.3, Claude 4.6, Gemini 3),

• apps (chatbots and specialized tools like Claude Code, NotebookLM),

• and harnesses (how well those tools orchestrate multi-step work)

🎧 Good listen/watch

Head of Claude Code: What happens after coding is solved, by Boris Cherny via Lenny’s Podcast. Boris Cherny now ships dozens of PRs daily without touching code, reporting a 200% productivity boost. ‘Today coding is practically solved for me, and I think it’ll be the case for everyone.’ He claims the software engineering title may start to ‘go away’ this year

🧑‍💻 Worth learning

Claude Code for everything. Hannah Stulberg explains how Claude.md files are lightweight onboarding docs that auto-load every session so Claude already knows who you are, how you work, and what each project is about. By mirroring your real work in a folder structure (company → area → project) and putting only the essential “always-needed” context at each level, you get sharper help without blowing the context window. I’m a big fan of Hannah’s guides. Go follow her publication!

A new paper found that simply repeating your prompt to a non-reasoning LLM boosts accuracy up to 76% on some tasks, with zero extra cost or latency

How to design with AI as a PM. Aakash Gupta and Xinran Ma lay out how PMs can go from PRD to working prototypes using AI tools like Google Stitch, AI Studio, Lovable, v0, Magic Patterns, and Cursor. They break AI design into clear categories (prompting, ideation, prototyping, workflows, and “staying conscious”) and walk through concrete workflows (e.g., remixing existing UIs, going from a custom GPT spec to a Lovable prototype)

AI evals explained simply. Ankit and Aakash break down why evals are the core new AI skill for PMs, treating LLMs as probabilistic systems that need rubrics, metrics, and continuous monitoring. They walk through how to design scenario-based eval rubrics, pick the right mix of retrieval/generation/task metrics, and use LLMs as judges safely

🔧 Products to try

Anthropic launched Claude in PowerPoint. Free beta for Pro/Max/Team/Enterprise. PM use case: generate and edit presentations from templates or descriptions with native charts/diagrams while maintaining formatting

Qwen 3.5 is Alibaba's free, open-weights model that matches GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus 4.5. You can run it locally on a Mac, and it handles text, images, and video across 201 languages with up to 1M tokens of context

That’s a wrap for this week.

Feel free to drop your comments/questions/feedback. Would love to hear what you’d like to see more about in WiP, so I can make it better for you!

Have a great weekend.

Welcome to a new Week in Product!

🎰 The week in figures

$380B: Anthropic’s new valuation after closing a $30B Series G, the second-largest private tech raise ever

$140B: Stripe’s expected valuation in a new tender offer, a $30B+ jump from last year and their highest ever. Still no IPO

$935M: Apptronik, the Austin humanoid robot startup raised $935M in a Series A at $5.3B to partner with Google DeepMind to develop robots using embodied AI

$315M: Runway, the AI video startup, raised $315M at a $5.3B valuation to build what it calls "world models" that understand physics and spatial reasoning

$200M+: Total committed by AI companies to the 2026 midterms. Anthropic put $20M into pro-regulation; OpenAI’s Greg Brockman put $25M into anti-regulation

1,000+ tok/s: OpenAI’s GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark speed on Cerebras chips, their first production deployment outside Nvidia

50+ features: Shipped by Spotify in 2025, while their best engineers haven’t written a line of code since December

💰 Q4 earnings

Spotify: net income surged by 94% to €2.2B from €1.1B in 2024. Total revenues jumped by 10% to €17.19B from €15.67B YoY

Robinhood: reported Q4 revenue of $1.28B, falling short of expectations due to a downturn in crypto trading, but predictions, transaction and Gold revenue showed growth potential

Zillow: posted a $3M profit in Q4, reversing a $52M loss from the previous year. Revenue surged 18% to $654M, fueled by sales, rental growth

📰 What’s going on

Apple's upcoming lineup. Expect the iPhone 17e with an A19 chip at $599, new iPads with improved processors, a budget MacBook, and AI everywhere. Apple will open CarPlay to AI Assistants and the AirPods Pro 4 may include cameras

Apple delayed its major Siri overhaul again due to severe testing issues and bugs, pushing the full Google Gemini-powered integration to late 2026 instead of its original March launch

YouTube TV's new plans. 10+ new customizable streaming packages launching in the US. Include: $64.99 sports, $71.99 sports + news, and $54.99 entertainment

Uber Eats introduces an AI cart assistant to streamline grocery shopping via text or images. Partnering with retailers like Safeway and Kroger, it aims to outpace DoorDash and Instacart with enhanced delivery services

Google released a major upgrade to Gemini 3 Deep Think. 48.4% on Humanity’s Last Exam, 84.6% on ARC-AGI-2 tests. Scientists are using it to find flaws in peer-reviewed papers. Available to Google AI Ultra subscribers and select researchers via API

Gemini is testing "Import AI Chats" to let you transfer conversation history from ChatGPT, Claude, and Copilot; professionals reportedly lose 5-10 hours weekly re-entering context when switching AI tools

ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 is making AI video competitors look obsolete. Native audio, lipsynced speech, 2K resolution, 20-second coherent clips. One creator made a 2-minute cinematic fight scene for $60. Currently China-only; rumored international launch Feb 24

OpenAI started testing ads in ChatGPT for free and Go tier users. Ads are labeled as sponsored and don’t influence answers. Opt out by upgrading to Pro/Plus. Anthropic responded with Super Bowl ads mocking the decision (!!)

MiniMax M2.5 matches Claude Opus on coding benchmarks at 10-20x lower cost. Open-weight, agent-native, $1/hour to run continuously. Chinese model going head-to-head with American closed labs

Jony Ive’s screenless AI device patent leaked. Built with OpenAI, ditches screens entirely for voice-first design. Could launch later this year

A researcher used 16 parallel Claude agents to build a complete C compiler from scratch. It compiles the Linux kernel. Agents coordinated using Git and plain text files — no human oversight needed. Completed in two weeks what normally takes teams years

Stripe deployed "Minions," a fleet of homegrown, autonomous AI coding agents that now generate over 1,000 pull requests per week

📚 Good reads

Thinking together. Anne-Laure Le Cunff argues that our best ideas often come from collective curiosity: openly wondering, doubting, and experimenting with others instead of trying to be the lone expert. She offers simple practices like mapping what you don’t know together, questioning assumptions out loud, walking meetings, and sharing tiny experiments. For PMs, it’s a reminder that learning in public and inviting diverse perspectives leads to better decisions and less untested thinking

The 5-level blueprint to become an AI-native PM. This piece argues that AI is collapsing the “how” of work, so PMs win by getting very clear on the “what” and then letting AI handle execution. It lays out 5 levels, from basic Q&A to running teams of agents, and claims most value sits in level 2 (voice, meeting notes, and custom-context workspaces) and level 3 (prototyping before you spec)

Magic tricks, moats, and the three-body problem of AI networks. Casey Winters explains how AI products are repeating mobile’s magic trick pattern: viral growth, shallow retention, easy to replicate. Consumer networks need audience + network size + value prop to align. Most optimize for speed, but winners optimize for structure

If you want to get hired as an AI PM, go build something, by Jaclyn Konzelmann. The bar is raised for everyone, and successful PMs are upskilling too. Embrace the Product Builder role, or risk falling behind

We stopped forcing the subscription model on our users. Don’t trap users in subscription models. Elena Verna explains how Lovable introduced credit top-ups after user complaints. 20% markup on top-ups won: engagement up, retention improved 7%, 20%+ of bookings now from top-ups

🎧 Good to listen/watch

[Podcast] Multi-lens thinking. John Cutler argues that great product leaders don’t just install frameworks; they design models that fit their company’s reality and help people make better decisions. He stresses shifting between multiple lenses (behavior, culture, politics) instead of clinging to one “right” view, and making frameworks both easy to grasp and deep enough to stand up to real-world pressure. The episode also challenges the copy‑paste trap: internal product‑market fit, minimal viable consistency, and messy, swinging transformations beat blindly copying Silicon Valley “best practices”

[Podcast] Engineers are becoming sorcerers, by Lenny Rachitsky (w/ Sherwin Wu, OpenAI). 95% of OpenAI engineers use Codex; many manage 10-20 parallel agents. PR review times: 10-15 min → 2-3 min

🧑‍💻 Worth learning

Full guide to Claude Cowork. Ben Al walks through Claude Cowork as a kind of “AI teammate” that can plan, act on your local files, hit APIs via MCP/connectors, browse, and execute code in one workspace. He explains how “skills” bundle prompts, tools, and knowledge sources into reusable workflows that feel closer to flexible, human-in-the-loop automations than rigid n8n/make.com flows or one-off custom GPTs

How to do AI-powered discovery (step-by-step with live demo), by Aakash Gupta (w/ Caitlin Sullivan). Complete workflow for survey and interview analysis with Claude Projects. Survey analysis drops from 30-60 min to 3-5 min per interview. Includes exact prompts and frameworks for building discovery agents

🔧 Products to try

Claude Code /fast mode: New features: multi-repo sessions, better git visualization, slash commands. /fast toggles faster Opus 4.6 responses for rapid iteration. PM use case: Speed up debugging cycles, manage multiple repos in one session

HeyGen video dubbing: Dub any video into a new language while preserving original voice and lip sync. PM use case: Localize product demos, training videos, customer testimonials without re-recording

Shipper: create full Chrome extensions from a single prompt using Claude, handling browser compatibility, privacy policies, and Web Store autofill for about $0.11 per extension. PM use case: build internal tools and POCs fast

That’s a wrap for this week.

Feel free to drop your comments/questions/feedback. Would love to hear what you’d like to see more about in WiP, so I can make it better for you!

Have a great weekend.

Welcome to a new Week in Product!

🎰 The week in figures

$1.25T: SpaceX and xAI merged in the largest private corporate merger in history, ahead of a planned June IPO

$16B: Waymo raised $16B (!!) at $110B valuation. 20M+ trips and $350M ARR

750M: Google’s Gemini app hit 750M monthly active users

$500M: ElevenLabs raised $500M to further expand voice AI tech, boosting its valuation to $11B

$300M: Skyryse raised Series C at $1.15B valuation for its SkyOS flight operating system, nearing FAA certification

$285B were wiped from software stocks in the “SaaSpocalypse” after Anthropic released legal automation plugins for Claude Cowork

$255M: Fundamental, the AI data startup, raised $255M Series A at $1.2B valuation. Its new model, Nexus, is used for data analysis by Fortune 100 clients and AWS

$200B: Amazon’s projected 2026 AI capex, leading all Big Tech in the infrastructure spending race

$125M: Resolve AI raised $125M Series A at a $1B valuation. Automates site reliability engineering using AI

$124M: Varo Bank raised Series G to expand its digital banking and lending platform

15M: Microsoft 365 Copilot paying users. At $30/seat, Microsoft is generating billions annually from AI add-ons

1M tokens: Claude Opus 4.6’s new context window size, enabling reasoning across entire codebases or document sets

💰 Q4 earnings

Alphabet: Revenue: $113.8B, +15% YoY | Profit: $34.5B (EPS $2.82), +30% YoY. Annual revenue crossed $400B for first time. Google Cloud up 48%. YouTube surpassed $60B annual revenue

Amazon: Revenue: $213.4B, +12% YoY | Profit: $21.2B net income, In line with estimates. AWS grew 24% YoY. Strong holiday season. Announced $2B investment in Anthropic

Uber: Revenue: $14.4B, +20% YoY | Profit: EPS $0.71 (missed $0.80 estimate), -11% vs expectations. Delivery revenue surged 30% to $4.9B. Gross bookings $54.1B. Plans AV trips in 15 cities by end of 2026

📰 What’s going on

Amazon has rolled out Alexa+ to all US users, offering its next-generation AI assistant for $19.99/month or included at no extra cost for Prime members, making it the company’s most aggressive push yet into conversational AI. The upgraded assistant works across Echo devices, a new Alexa.com web interface, and the mobile app, with capabilities including AI-powered shopping, restaurant reservations, family calendar coordination, and complex topic summaries

Anthropic and OpenAI both dropped flagship AI models on the same day. Claude Opus 4.6 features a 1M token context window and introduces “agent teams” in Claude Code: multiple AI agents splitting up tasks and working in parallel. Meanwhile, OpenAI’s GPT-5.3-Codex is 25% faster, scores SOTA on SWE-Bench Pro, and can use a computer like a human (64.7% on OSWorld). GPT-5.3 helped build itself by debugging its own training runs

Anthropic has added some new integrations to Claude. Cowork now supports Google Drive integrations which means you can use it to work directly on Google apps like Gmail, Calendar and Docs. Plus, you can now connect your Slack channels to Claude to draft messages, send messages and create canvases that can be shared in specific channels

Anthropic released Claude for Excel. Ask why a number changed, where an error comes from, or how a model flows across tabs. Debug formulas, run scenario analysis, extend financial models

OpenAI launched Frontier, an end-to-end platform for enterprises to build and manage AI agents

OpenAI launched Prism, a collaborative workspace for scientists. Prism unifies scientific writing in one browser-based environment. GPT-5.2 works inside the document with full awareness of equations, citations, and structure

Perplexity launched Model Council, a mode that runs 3 AI models in parallel for improved accuracy

The iPhone 20, expected in September 2027, is planned to include an all-glass design without physical buttons, hidden cameras, and a 2nm chip

Apple launched Xcode 26.3 with full Claude Agent SDK integration for autonomous coding. Includes visual verification: Claude can capture Xcode Previews, see what the interface looks like, identify issues, and fix them autonomously. Millions of iOS developers now have an AI copilot built directly into their IDE

Meta began testing a standalone app for Vibes, its AI-generated short-form video feed, positioning it as a more direct competitor to OpenAI's Sora app

Meta officially tied employee performance reviews to AI usage. Performance reviews and bonuses are now closely tied to how effectively employees use AI. An internal tracker called Checkpoint pulls data from tools and systems. For engineers, it measures AI-generated code, error rates, and 200+ other metrics. Top performers get up to 300% bonus multipliers

Reddit said AI-powered search could be its next major revenue driver. Weekly active users of Reddit Answers grew from 1M to 15M over 2025. YouTube has also overtaken Reddit as the leading source for citations in LLM search results

Windsurf launched Arena Mode for coding model A/B testing. Users can rate coding model outputs and earn free tokens. Claude is wiping the floor

📚 Good reads

How to build AI product sense, by Tal Raviv and Aman Khan (via Lenny). The authors spent 100+ hours building a hands-on tutorial using Cursor to help non-technical folks develop genuine intuition about AI products. They explain the value of moving away from consumer-grade UIs and into AI coding agents to truly understand what’s feasible. 100% worth a read

Context rot: why AI gets worse the longer you chat. Teresa Torres explains how, as conversations with AI grow longer, context quality degrades. She shares practical ways to get around that challenge

Your secret weapon isn’t AI. David Pereira argues that the real edge for PMs isn’t AI skills, but ruthless control of their attention. Deeply understanding customer problems and shipping value is still what needs most of your attention. Plan your week, block focused time, cap AI-learning time, and make sure you decide where your attention goes. Don’t let Slack, email, or LinkedIn decide for you.

🧑‍💻 Worth learning

A Claude Code guide for designers (and PMs!). Felix Lee built his personal website with an AI chat widget without writing a line of code. This comprehensive guide covers installation, terminal basics, GitHub commits, Vercel deployment, and even adding authentication and databases. Step-by-step with screenshots

How to use MCPs to automate meeting prep, CRM updates, and feedback synthesis. Reid Robinson reframes MCPs as ‘app connectors for your AI’ and shows how Claude Projects + Zapier can automate the most hated PM work. “If you could run ChatGPT in your sleep, what would you have it do?” Detailed workflow walkthroughs included

Openclaw guide by Aakash Gupta. A practical guide to setting up and using OpenClaw, the open-source AI agent that went viral. Includes 5 high-impact PM use cases, and also covers security risks, which are significant

🔧 Products to try

Claude Product Management plugin. PM use cases: Feature specs & PRDs, Roadmap planning, Stakeholder updates, User research synthesis, Competitive analysis

OpenClaw: The open-source AI assistant that exploded across the internet last week. Run a personal AI agent on your Mac or virtual machine that orchestrates Claude, GPT, Gemini and more. Free and open-source. Requires API keys for LLM providers. | PM use case: Automate CRM updates, meeting prep, competitor monitoring, and email triage

Grok Imagine API: xAI’s video generation model that’s now being called the new leader (supplanting Google’s Veo 3). Generates videos from text or images with native audio and lets you edit them by typing. $4.20/minute of generated video. | PM use case: Generate product demos, marketing videos, and explainer content without a production team

Granola MCP: Official MCP Server for Granola meeting notes. Hook your AI-organized meeting notes directly into your agentic workflows. Perfect for ‘we talked about this in a meeting, but can’t remember the details’ use cases. Free tier available with Granola. | PM use case: Connect meeting context to your AI agents for follow-up tasks and decision tracking

Pandada: Upload any file, ask questions in plain language, get instant charts. Data analysis without formulas or code. #1 on Product Hunt this week. Free to try. | PM use case: Quick data analysis and visualization for stakeholder presentations

That’s a wrap for this week.

Feel free to drop your comments/questions/feedback. Would love to hear what you’d like to see more about in WiP, so I can make it better for you!

Have a great weekend.

Welcome to a new Week in Product!

🎰 The week in figures

$100B: OpenAI working on a $100B funding round, with $50B coming form Amazon

$5.2B: CapitalOne acquired Brex for $5.2B

$3B: Music publishers sued Anthropic for $3B, alleging it pirated 20,000+ songs to train Claude

$2B: Apple acquired Israeli AI startup Q.ai for ~$2B, gaining 'silent speech' technology. Q.ai's technology reads facial micro-movements for potential AirPods and Vision Pro integration. This is Apple's second-largest acquisition after Beats

$1B: Waabi, the Canadian startup focused on self-driving tech for trucks, just raised $1B to help them expand into the robotaxi space

$100M+: Granola just closed a funding round of at least $100M, at a valuation over $1B

11.7M: YouTube removed top AI ‘slop’ channels with 11.7M combined subscribers. CuentosFascinantes (5.9M subscribers, 1.2B views) and Imperio de Jesus (5.8M subscribers) were the major ones deleted

16K: Amazon laid off 16,000 corporate employees, citing AI-driven automation. CEO Andy Jassy said AI will mean ‘we will need fewer people doing some of the jobs.’ This is Amazon’s second major cut in just 3 months

$7.99: Google launched a $7.99/month AI Plus plan in the US and 35+ other countries that includes Gemini 3 Pro, NotebookLM, Flow's AI filmmaking tools, and 200GB storage

98%: Google DeepMind's AlphaGenome can now read 98% of your genome that scientists couldn't understand. The model reads up to 1M DNA letters at once and predicts what happens when you change even one. It correctly identified cancer-driving mutations, potentially unlocking diagnoses for rare genetic diseases that have stumped medicine for years

💰 Q4 earnings

• Netflix (Q4 2025, Jan 20). Revenue: $12.05B, +18% YoY | Profit: $1.87B (EPS $0.56), +30% YoY. Crossed 325M paid subscribers globally. Ad revenue tripled to $1.5B. 2026 guidance: $51B revenue, 31.5% operating margin

• Intel (Q4 2025, Jan 22). Revenue: $13.7B, -4% YoY | Profit: -$600M loss (EPS -$0.12), widened from -$100M. Data Center & AI up 9% to $4.7B. Client Computing down 7% to $8.2B. Beat expectations despite supply shortages. Q1 guidance: $12.2B revenue, break-even EPS

• Meta (Q4 2025, Jan 28). Revenue: $59.89B (FY: $201B), +24% YoY | Profit: $28.3B (EPS $8.88), +8% beat vs estimates. DAU: 3.58B (+7% YoY). Ad impressions up 18%, price per ad up 6%. 2026 capex guidance: $115-135B (nearly 2x 2025). Zuckerberg: ‘advancing personal superintelligence’ in 2026

• Microsoft (Q2 FY2026, Jan 28). Revenue: $81.3B, +17% YoY | Profit: $38.5B GAAP (EPS $5.16), +60% YoY (includes $7.6B OpenAI gains). Azure grew 39% (slowing from 40%). Microsoft Cloud hit $51.5B (+26%). Shares fell 7% on slowing cloud growth despite beat

• Tesla (Q4 2025, Jan 28). Revenue: $24.9B (FY: $94.8B), -3% YoY (first annual decline) | Profit: $840M (EPS $0.50 adj), -61% YoY. Energy business standout: $12.8B (+27% YoY). Announced end of Model S and Model X production. Invested $2B in xAI. Optimus Gen 3 coming this quarter. Gross margin improved to 20.1%

• IBM (Q4 2025, Jan 28). Revenue: $19.7B, +12% YoY | Profit: Free cash flow $14.7B for year. Software up 14% to $9B. Gen AI book of business exceeded $12.5B. 2026 guidance: 5%+ revenue growth, $1B more free cash flow. 110th consecutive year of dividends

• ServiceNow (Q4 2025, Jan 28). Revenue: $3.57B (FY: $13.28B), +20.5% YoY | Profit: $401M (EPS $0.92 adj), +4% YoY. Subscription revenue up 21% to $3.47B. Acquired Moveworks for agentic AI. Expanded Anthropic partnership. 2026 guidance: 21% subscription growth

• Apple (Q1 FY2026, Jan 29). Revenue: $143.8B (record), +16% YoY | Profit: $42.1B (EPS $2.84), +19% YoY. iPhone revenue surged 23% to $85.3B (iPhone 17 strength). Services hit $26.3B (+14%). China sales up 38% to $25.5B. Gross margin 48.2%. Q2 guidance: 13-16% growth

Coming up

• Alphabet/Google (Feb 4): Expected EPS $2.62. Q3 was first $100B quarter. Search and YouTube growth of 15%

• Amazon (Feb 5): Expected EPS $1.96. AWS expected at $34.9B. Capex may exceed $150B in 2026

📰 What’s going on

OpenAI is developing a social network using biometric verification methods like iris scanning to eliminate bots

Claude launched ‘interactive tools’ letting users control apps like Amplitude, Asana, Slack, and Figma directly inside chat. Asana’s CPO called it ‘a fundamental shift in how people use software.’ With Anthropic dominating enterprise API market at ~40% share, Claude is well-positioned to become the de facto workplace AI

Microsoft rolled out Agent Mode for Excel, letting Copilot create workbooks, perform scenario modeling, and generate formulas. Users can switch between OpenAI and Anthropic models. Excel can now create pivot tables, charts, and complete data analysis through natural language

Google introduced Agentic Vision in Gemini 3 Flash, allowing the model to actively inspect images by planning steps, zooming into details, and running code to ground answers in visual evidence rather than static guesses

Chrome launched agentic 'auto-browse' features with deeper Gemini integration. The browser can now shop, find coupons, fill forms, and collect information across tabs autonomously. Deep Workspace integration lets it synthesize content from Docs/Sheets and send via Gmail. Rolling out to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers

Google also launched Project Genie, letting users walk inside AI-generated 3D worlds (needs Ultra plan subscription). Type a text prompt, and Genie builds an explorable environment around you in real-time at 20-24fps. Each 'world' only lasts 60 seconds due to compute costs. DeepMind sees world models as training grounds for robots

Cloudflare launched Moltworker, an open-source platform to run AI agents in the cloud starting at $5/month. The tool lets users run Moltbot without dedicated hardware like Mac minis. Looks like cloud providers are moving to capture growing demand for self-hosted agent tooling

eBay is banning external autonomous "agentic AI" shopping bots for now, citing fraud and system‑abuse risks

📚 Good reads

[Podcast] Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yet, by Lenny Rachitsky. Job loss fears are ‘totally off base;’ even if AI triples productivity, we’d only return to 1870-1930 change rates. There’s a ‘Mexican standoff’ between PMs, designers, and engineers where each thinks they can replace the other two. His career advice: ‘Don’t be fungible:’ combine 2-3 skills and you’re irreplaceable

Writing as a leverage, by Anne-Laure Le Cunff. Writing is one of the few tools that can reliably change how you think. It forces you to commit to a line of thought and to turn half-formed ideas into something you can examine. In a time when we are delegating a lot of our writing to AI, making room for intentional writing is key to help you develop your thinking, and even to understand yourself better

AI Agent browsers: Should you use one? ChatGPT Atlas vs Perplexity Comet vs Arc Dia, by Aakash Gupta. After hundreds of hours testing: Atlas wins for complex multi-page research, Comet for real-time speed, and Dia for workflow automation. The 8 best PM use cases with exact prompts included

The adolescence of tech: Anthropic CEO’s essay on AI’s next 1-5 years, by Dario Amodei. AI will ‘test who we are as a species.’ 50% of entry-level white collar jobs could be eliminated in 1-5 years. Amodei proposes progressive taxation targeting AI firms and philanthropic pledges

🧑‍💻 Worth learning

Claude Code <> Notion coworking. shows how to hook Claude Code up to Notion via MCP, so you can draft locally in markdown, then sync to a shared Notion database without copy‑paste or version hell. Hannah walks through connecting the Notion server, designing a simple tracking database, and setting up the most important commands. Claude Code is becoming more and more “the” workspace, which you can setup to talk to the rest of its ecosystem. I recommend checking Hannah’s previous posts for setting and getting started with Claude Code

🔧 Products to try

Openclaw (previously Moltbot, previously Clawdbot): An open-source AI assistant exploded across X this week. Unlike cloud-locked ChatGPT or Claude, Moltbot lives on your hardware (or a $5 AWS instance). It controls your browser, executes terminal commands, installs skills, and acts autonomously. Moltbot’s memory system is basically just Markdown text files in Finder. When Moltbot can’t do something, you just ask it to build the capability. This is a mini version of what “recursive self-improvement” looks like in practice: agents that modify themselves based on your needs, no developer required. I recommend to listed to this podcast episode on how things can go wrong before you get too deep into Openclaw

and the bots are getting social on Moltbook. Clever fans created the social media platform Moltbook, where bots can get to know one another and share information. The only way to access Moltbook is, you guessed it, teaching your OpenClaw bot a new skill which registers an account. It’s organized like Reddit, and full of genuinely interesting insights and observations for both machines and human beings

Grok Imagine generates videos from text or images with native audio and lets you edit them by typing "add fog" or "restyle as anime" (ranked #1 for quality/speed/cost). $4.20/min, because of course

Superagent from Airtable answers complex business questions by coordinating specialist agents in parallel—$20/month to $200/month

That’s a wrap for this week.

Feel free to drop your comments/questions/feedback. Would love to hear what you’d like to see more about in WiP, so I can make it better for you!

Have a great weekend.

Welcome to a new Week in Product!

🎰 The week in figures

$20B: OpenAI hit $20B in annualized revenue in 2025, up 233% from the prior year. Revenue grew from $2B in 2023 to $6B in 2024, and now $20B+. OpenAI expects to burn through $17B in 2026, with 85% of revenue going to GPU compute costs

$270M: Yelp announced acquisition of AI lead management platform Hatch for $270M. Hatch helps service businesses connect with customers via AI-powered communication across text, email, and voice. The platform had $25M ARR with 70% YoY growth

$207M: Pennylane, the Paris-based fintech startup funded by ex-booking.com colleagues, just raised €175M ($207M) to double down on AI for accounting and financial management, and push toward profitability

$150M: Inferact raised $150M at an $800M valuation to commercialize vLLM, the open-source inference engine. vLLM already powers AI at Amazon and major cloud providers. Companies report inference speeds 2-24x faster than standard implementations through innovations like PagedAttention and continuous batching

$150M: Preply, the language learning platform, raised a $150M Series D, now valuing the company at $1.2B. The app connects subscribers with real human teachers, who instruct them live via one-on-one sessions. The company works with over 100k human tutors, whom it now plans who compliment via AI integrations. I’ve been learning Czech via Preply for the last 2 years, and I love it!

$100M: LiveKit raised $100M at a $1B valuation to scale its real-time AI and media platform. LiveKit powers OpenAI’s ChatGPT voice mode, xAI, and Salesforce. The company anticipates 2026 will be the year voice AI is broadly deployed across thousands of use cases

90%: Runway’s research found over 90% of participants couldn’t reliably distinguish Gen-4.5 AI videos from real footage

40%: Anthropic’s margins are down from 50% to 40% due to the cost of running inference on Google and Amazon’s servers being 23% higher

3.5x: analysis from SensorTower shows that Amazon’s Rufus AI Assistant drove 3.5× higher conversion than non-Rufus sessions

📰 What’s going on

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said we’re 6-12 months from AI doing most coding work end-to-end. Speaking at Davos, Amodei revealed that Anthropic engineers already don’t write code anymore - they just edit what Claude produces. Claude Cowork was built in under two weeks, almost entirely by Claude itself

Anthropic published a new ‘constitution’ for Claude detailing how the model handles the balance between helping users and safety. Unlike its previous simple list of principles, the new constitution explains the reasoning behind each guideline. Anthropic says this helps Claude generalize better across novel situations rather than mechanically following rigid rules

Google Stitch launched MCP server support and Agent Skills at its first Developer Week. New Agent Skills include a design-md Skill that generates a document outlining your product’s design system, and a react-components Skill that converts designs into React components. Coding agents like Cursor and Claude Code can now connect directly to Stitch designs

Gemini is evolving into a proactive AI agent in Chrome thanks to Skills, with the ability to take actions like scheduling events

OpenAI will begin testing ads for free ChatGPT users within weeks. Sponsored products and services will appear at the bottom of conversations. The company pledged not to show ads to users under 18 or during chats about health or politics

Meanwhile Google claimed that the company plans to avoid ads in Gemini outputs. At least, for now

OpenAI and Anthropic could IPO as early as late 2026 or early 2027. As many as 8 VC-backed AI startups have begun prepping for IPOs this year, including Lambda (cloud provider), Cerebras (chipmaker), and Crusoe (datacenter). SpaceX is also expected to go public in the second half of 2026

xAI is testing internal AI systems known as “human emulators,” which are fast computer-using agents that directly see the computer screen, click, and type like human agents. They are designed to behave like white-collar employees and interact with real staff, with some already appearing on company org charts and leading to awkward situation, like asking real human colleagues to meet at desks that don’t exist

YouTube outlines 2026 roadmap. The plan doubles down on creators as the new “studios,” with every format from Shorts to multiview TV built around them. The company is tightening kid/teen controls and expanding monetization so creators can earn through ads, shopping, fan funding and brand deals. AI is the other big pillar: YouTube wants it to supercharge creation and discovery while filtering out “AI slop”

Meta has began to internally deploy its new reasoning models, codenamed “Avocado” (for code/logic) and “Mango” (for images)

Alibaba and Tencent are pivoting to "Agentic Commerce," where apps give way for agents who handle payments automatically or plan parties

Spotify launched a new prompt-based tool that builds niche 30-song playlists

Spotify is testing out a new feature called Page Match that will allow users to scan a page of a physical book and start listening to an audiobook from that page

Apple reveals it is developing a dedicated screenless AI wearable to further integrate Siri. The AirTag-sized "AI Pin" will have multiple cameras and microphones

OpenAI confirmed its own screen-free device is on track for late 2026

Affirm to pilot a "buy now, pay later" option for monthly rent payments, allowing tenants to spread the cost of housing over several installments

PayPal introduced a free, DIY tax filing service within its app to simplify the return process for its millions of U.S. customers

ByteDance reached a deal with outside investors that will keep TikTok available for US users. Those investors include Oracle, U.S. investment firm Silver Lake, Emirati investment firm MGX, and Michael Dell’s investment firm, among others

📚 Good reads

The Infinitely Customizable Basic App, by Jaclyn Konzelmann. As AI makes it trivial to build hyper-personalized software, a product tension emerges: do users want apps ‘just for them’ or shared experiences with community and tutorials? Most users don’t want to be PMs; they want opinionated software that does the thinking for them

What cold-calling from a closet taught Gusto’s founder about PMF, by First Round Review. Gusto co-founder Tomer London shares how relentlessly cold-calling potential customers taught him to recognize what PMF really feels like. When exploring both SMB and enterprise, they discovered SMBs were much more enthusiastic; a pivotal insight that shaped the $9.6B company

The State of UX 2026, by NN Group. UX is stabilizing, but the rules have changed. UI alone won’t differentiate your product in 2026 as design systems standardize. Adaptability, strategy, and discernment will distinguish thriving UX professionals

Your Enterprise AI Strategy is Backwards, by Reid Hoffman. Most enterprises focus on moonshot AI transformations, but the fastest path to ROI is applying agentic tools to the unglamorous coordination layer: meetings, notes, action items, status updates... Language models love context, and the biggest language workload is coordination. Start there

AI agent evaluations. Booking.com breaks down how to judge AI agents using both black box outcome metrics like task completion and glass box internals like tool validity, correctness, and reliability. They show how to benchmark agents against simpler LLM baselines using performance, cost, and latency, and when the extra complexity is actually worth it. The piece also touches on advanced eval topics PMs should care about

[Video] How to build ChatGPT apps (the next App Store?). Live demo, by Aakash Gupta and Colin Matthews, who joins to break down MCP protocol, demonstrate live building, and discuss eval strategies for ChatGPT apps. The episode explores why this could be the biggest new PM distribution channel since the App Store

🧑‍💻 Worth learning

Designing with Cursor. This guide shows how non-coding designers are using AI agents (Cursor + Claude Code) to create fully deployed sites and apps. It proposes a simple workflow to prototype full-stack experiences

The shorthand guide to everything Claude Code

7 NotebookLM Use Cases to try

🔧 Cool products to try

Google’s Stitch turns prompts like "dark fitness app with neon accents" into working UI designs and HTML/CSS code you export to Figma or paste into your IDE, now with MCP server and Gemini CLI integrations for coding agents. Free to try. And they released a handy prompt guide

Noodle Seed: build a no-code AI app so it’s discoverable inside ChatGPT and other AI assistants - hit #1 on PH

That’s a wrap for this week.

Feel free to drop your comments / questions / feedback. Would love to hear what you’d like see more about in WiP, so I can make it better for you!

Have a great weekend.

Welcome to a new week in Product!

🎰 The week in figures

$1.4B: Skild AI raised $1.4B to build a universal AI brain for robots trained on human videos and simulation that works across any robot form factor

$350M: Lambda (AI cloud infra) plans to raise at least $350M in a pre-IPO round, with Nvidia as a key partner. Despite a $175M loss, its $520M revenue shows strong growth

$350M: Berlin-based Parloa has raised $350M at $3B for their agentic customer service

$330M: ElevenLabs, a leading voice AI startup, reached $330M in ARR in 2025, growing from $100M in 15 months. It raised $180M so far, at a $3.3B valuation

$150M: Alpaca just raised a $150M Series D at a $1.15B valuation, doubling down on its ambition to become the global standard for brokerage infrastructure

$130M: Higgsfield, an AI video platform, founded by ex-Snap executive Alex Mashrabov, hit a $1.3B valuation on raising a $130M Series A extension. With 15M users, & $200M ARR, it targets professional social media marketers

$100M: OpenAI acquired 1-year-old health records startup Torch for ~$100M. The technology consolidates medical records into a unified context engine for AI to support the ChatGPT Health service

40M: Wing and Walmart are expanding drone deliveries to 150 more stores & 40M+ Americans, they plan 270 locations by 2027 nationwide

-10%: Meta is cutting 10% of staff who focus on metaverse-related VR projects. That’s about 1,000 employees

📰 What’s going on

Anthropic launched Claude Cowork, bringing Claude Code to non-technical users. The Mac-only tool was built in just 10 days and lets you organize files, crunch data, create documents, and automate workflows by giving Claude access to local folders. Available for Claude Max subscribers ($100-200/month), and in preview to some Pro users (I got access).

Anthropic debuts Claude for Healthcare, an AI toolkit to aid providers and patients by connecting to data

Anthropic added MCP Tool Search to Claude Code, enabling “lazy loading” of tools that reduced context usage from 134K to 5K tokens

OpenAI announced it will begin testing ads in ChatGPT’s Free and Go tiers, outlining early ad formats and principles centered on user trust and transparency. The company says ads won’t influence model responses and are part of a broader effort to expand access while maintaining a clear separation between advertising and AI outputs

Replit launched Mobile Apps, letting you build production-ready apps and push directly to the App Store. It integrates frontend, database, auth, and third-party APIs end-to-end

Salesforce evolves its Slackbot into a full-fledged AI agent. This version, available to Business+ and Enterprise+ customers since last week, can find information, draft emails, and schedule meetings directly within Slack. The upgraded Slackbot can connect to and interact with other enterprise products like Microsoft Teams and Google Drive, pulling information across platforms within Slack

Google launched Personal Intelligence, connecting Gemini to your Gmail, Photos, YouTube, and Search data. US only, opt-in, currently in beta for AI Pro/Ultra subscribers

Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) enhances agentic commerce with an o-s standard, dynamic pricing, real-time inventory checks, and tokenized payments. Google partnered with Shopify, Etsy, Wayfair, Target and Walmart on the initiative

Google has rolled out updates to Veo 3.1 that let users turn portrait images into native vertical AI videos, aimed at short-form formats used on TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and similar platforms

Walmart AI partners with Google to integrate AI assistant Gemini into its product discovery and purchase experience

Microsoft introduced "Copilot Checkout" to enable AI-driven shopping within chat interfaces. Microsoft tapped PayPal and Stripe to process its conversational payments

Samsung is reviving Bixby with Perplexity AI for complex queries in One UI 8.5 beta

Apple signed a multi-year deal to use Google Gemini to power next-gen Siri. The partnership comes after internal AI setbacks left Siri falling behind rivals. Google gets Siri distribution; Apple gets to skip building foundation models.

Apple is expected to launch a low-cost MacBook with an A18 Pro chip ($499-$799) in 2026. New MacBook Pro models, iPads, a foldable iPhone, AR glasses, and a Studio Display with 120Hz ProMotion and mini-LED.

Apple launched Creator Studio, a $12.99/mth subscription for creative apps like Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and Pixelmator Pro

Klarna moved into the peer-to-peer payments space by launching a new social money-sending feature

Airbnb hires former Meta AI chief: Ahmad Al-Dahle, who formerly ran the generative AI division for Meta Platforms, jumped over as Airbnb’s CTO. Comes with a new AI push at the firm, and the hope is that AI can learn from your behavior, along with the folks around you, transforming the app from a hotel substitute into a full-on guide

📚 Good reads

LLMs vs. Marketplaces, by Dan Hockenmaier. A framework for which marketplaces will win or lose as ChatGPT becomes a shopping interface. Key insight: DoorDash will be fine (managed marketplace, hard supply); Expedia is in trouble (easy supply, low consideration). PMs at marketplaces should read this

The disposable software paradox, by Jaclyn Konzelmann. When software costs nothing to build, the hardest part becomes deciding what’s worth keeping. We’re entering a bifurcation: ephemeral utility apps vs. enduring systems you trust with your data. The barrier to entry has fallen, but the barrier to trust has never been higher

How to get unstuck. Anne-Laure Le Cunff argues that feeling stuck at work is usually a nervous system issue, not a lack of ideas or discipline. She offers quick somatic tactics to help when productivity dips, or when deep thinking feels hard

The unconventional growth levers that made Canva a $42B company, by First Round Review. Cameron Adams shares how SEO and localization—not typical startup growth tactics—unlocked massive scale

You’re using AI wrong. Reid Hoffman chats with Parth Detroja about how AI isn’t a faster “tool,” but the meta‑layer you point at almost any problem in your work. Instead of polishing perfect prompts, you should treat AI like a colleague: speak to it, let it interview you, and use role‑playing to uncover blind spots. And for PMs who are ready, the frontier is orchestrating multiple specialized agents as a small autonomous team (see the section below for a “How to” on that!)

🧑‍💻 Worth learning

[Video + article] Claude code masterclass. Claude Code hit $1B ARR in 6 months by obsessing over deep coding, MCP-based tool integrations, and power-user workflows. This piece walks through PM workflows (research → PRD → decks → tickets) powered by MCPs, skills, and Opus 4.5, showing how to turn Claude into your “remote worker.” Complement with 1) this TL;DR version on working with Claude Code; 2) this piece by Omar Shahine showing how Claude Code plus terminal agents can solve multi-tool problems end‑to‑end

[Video] Claude skills explained in 15-mins, by Peter Yang. Written (paid) version here

How to do AI evals step-by-step. Aakash Gupta argues that evals are core product work, not just a QA chore, and that PMs should own error analysis. The article walks through setting up observability, manually reviewing conversations, turning recurring errors into tight categories, and then into code checks plus LLM judges. IT’s a practical blueprint to move from “vibe-checking” to a disciplined eval practice that keeps AI products from quietly doing the wrong thing

🔧 Cool products to try

ChatGPT Translate is OpenAI's first standalone utility tool competing directly with Google Translate

Clawdbot runs locally and automates your entire workflows through WhatsApp/Telegram/Slack/Discord. Controls Chrome browsers, manages email, runs cron jobs, handles flight check-ins, controls IoT devices, and replies autonomously using your own Claude/GPT API keys (docs). Free and open source (you just need your own API keys)

Trails automatically discovers thematic connections across books; e.g. showing how “Pivots” drove success across multiple companies, or how “Father Wound“ links Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, and Leonardo da Vinci through absent fathers driving ambition. This is how it was implemented. Nice and fun tool to help you find your next book!

That’s a wrap for this week.

Have a great weekend.

Welcome to a new week in Product!

🎰 The week in figures

$20B: xAI raised $20B Series E at over $200B valuation to expand data centers and advance AI models

$10B: Anthropic is reportedly raising $10B at a $350B valuation, highlighting its rapid growth and significant impact in the AI sector

800M: Samsung plans to double Gemini-powered devices to 800M this year

$150M: LMArena raised $150M in Series A to boost its AI evaluation platform. The platform, with 50M+ votes and 400+ model evaluations, aims to enhance features and user experience amid rising demand

$250M: Stablecoin card payments provider Rain announced a $250M Series C at a $1.95B valuation

$107M: Lyte, founded by ex-Apple Face ID engineers Alexander Shpunt, Arman Hajati, and Yuval Gerson, emerged from stealth and raised ~$107M to develop tech to help robots see better and move more safely in the world

$100M: Swap Commerce, the London and NY-based startup secured $100M just six months after a $40M round. It offers an AI-powered platform for brands, notably luxury clothing, to manage storefronts and transactions, challenging Shopify

1.1%: Microsoft's Copilot web market share stays at just 1.1% while ChatGPT dominates at 64.5%, and Gemini surged to 21.5%

📰 What’s going on

Gmail launched an AI Inbox showing to-dos (bills due, appointments to confirm) and catch-up topics grouped by category, plus AI Overviews answering natural language questions like “Who was the plumber that quoted me last year?” without opening emails. Also made “Help Me Write,” thread summaries, and replies free for all 3B users (video)

OpenAI unveiled a version of its chatbot that connects to medical records and wellness apps for personalized health advice. The service, developed with 260 physicians, prioritizes privacy and aims to enhance AI's role in healthcare

X restricted Grok's image generation to paying subscribers only after international backlash over non-consensual nude images

DeepSeek plans to release V4, its next flagship AI model, around Lunar New Year, with internal tests showing it outperforms Claude and GPT in coding tasks

Spotify unveiled a new social listening feature to its mobile app. Users will see what people are listening to in the sidebar alongside their chats. You can tap the songs to add them to your library, or react with an emoji

Amazon launches Alexa.com, bringing its AI assistant online, focusing on areas like calendar and smart home management. The Alexa app is also updated for a chatbot experience

JP Morgan reached a deal to take over the Apple credit card program from Goldman Sachs

Plaud unveils a new AI pin and desktop meeting notetaker, aiming to enhance productivity by integrating AI technology into everyday tasks and meetings

Samsung introduced its 'AI Living' vision, focusing on integrating AI across its product ecosystem to enhance everyday life. It won a CES Innovation Award for Spatial Signage, with a glasses-free 3D display featuring an ultra-slim 52mm profile with an 85-inch frame, adding multidimensional depth to 2D content

📚 Good reads

[Video] How PMs can use Google Antigravity to build prototypes. Google’s product design lead for Antigravity, Andy Zhang, explains how PMs can use Google’s new Antigravity tool to test ideas, build prototypes, and add new features

[Video] Getting started with Claude Code. If you haven’t tried Claude Code yet (because, y’know, you’re not a coder?), this 47-min video from Peter Yang might convince you to start. He interviews Teresa Torres, who uses Claude Code to run her entire life. Unlike chatting in a browser, Claude Code can read your files, execute commands, search the web, and remember context across projects. Think of it as hiring a $100/month assistant who lives inside your computer. Complement with this guide on how to use Claude Code, also by Teresa Torres, and these 9 tips by

The AI revolution’s shaky economics and fast-evolving tech. A roundtable with the man who predicted the 2008 crash, Anthropic’s co-founder, and a leading AI podcaster debating whether today’s trillion‑dollar AI buildout is smart investment or FOMO-fueled overspend. For PMs: watch inference costs, ROIC trends, real closed‑loop adoption, and how to create defensibility

How to build your first AI agent. Pawel Huryn shares a hands-on guide to building a real, deployable AI agent in 7 steps

Your job isn’t the problem. Inspiring piece by David Pereira explaining how to be intentional with career choices. Many PMs blame companies, but it’s usually a fit problem. Pereira explains the cycle through his own experience: hype, friction, disengagement, quit. He also explains how you must pick the “game” you can win (startup vs corporate, outcomes vs delivery)

🔧 Cool products to try

Situation Monitor gives you a live global map tracking conflicts, military bases, nuclear facilities, strategic waterways, and the Pentagon Pizza Index—which spikes when officials order late-night delivery during crises. Not directly product-related, but you can make it product-related (and geopolitics influence product!). And it’s free

Google Edge Gallery lets you try models that run entirely on your iPhone (via TestFlight), so you can chat, use images, and even ask with audio without sending data to a server once the model is loaded. Free to try

🤖 Futurism

LG introduces ClOiD, an AI-powered home robot performing chores like cooking and laundry. It features articulated arms, autonomous navigation, and connects via the ThinQ ecosystem

Researchers developed a neuromorphic artificial skin for robots, utilizing spiking circuitry for pressure detection to identify pressure locations and trigger reflex-like responses

Boston Dynamics revealed its next-gen Atlas humanoid robot is ready for mass-production and will use Nvidia processing and Google DeepMind technology over competing platforms, signaling major partnerships reshaping robotics

That’s a wrap for this week.

Have a great weekend.

I hope you had an amazing start of 2026. Welcome to a new year and week in Product!

🎰 The week in figures

$150B: AI startups raised a record $150B in 2025

$2B: Meta just acquired Manus for over $2B. In case you forgot, Manus is the Singapore-based AI agent startup that did something no company has ever done: hit $100M in annual recurring revenue just eight months after launch. Eight Months! Manus was founded in Beijing in 2022 before relocating to Singapore mid-2025. The startup raised $75M at a $500M valuation just last April

$555K: OpenAI is recruiting a “head of preparedness” who will be tasked with limiting the likelihood that AI could be used to carry out cyber attacks, help terrorists conduct biological warfare, and damage people’s mental health. The job pays $555K

70%: ChatGPT’s share of genAI web traffic dipped below 70% over the past year while Gemini climbed toward ~20% (and Grok kept gaining)

21%: YouTube's algorithm now serves 21% AI-generated slop to new users

📰 What’s going on

OpenAI is going all-in on screenless and audio-first AI in 2026 with two new devices: firstly, with an AI-powered pen led by Jony Ive codenamed “Gumdrop”, and secondly, with a separate portable audio device designed to be your voice-first AI companion (at least, if new leaks are to be believed…)

OpenAI merged engineering, product, and research teams over the past two months to overhaul its audio models ahead of the audio-first personal devices. The strategy reflects broader industry momentum toward voice interfaces. Smart speakers already occupy more than a third of U.S. homes, with Tesla integrating Grok for natural dialogue navigation

OpenAI has rolled out a real Thinking mode for its ChatGPT Android app, giving users control over how long the AI processes a request before responding. The update replaces the earlier toggle that only simulated extended reasoning and now matches the desktop’s “Extended Thinking” feature. The toggle lets users choose between Auto, Instant, or Thinking modes, adjusting how much compute time ChatGPT uses to handle complex queries. Only ChatGPT Plus subscribers can access the feature, while regular users remain on the standard mode that delivers faster but less detailed responses

Microsoft CEO steps up as AI PM. Satya Nadella is personally pushing Copilot and broader AI quality, jumping into top engineers’ threads and running weekly reviews. Microsoft feels the heat from Gemini, with worry that AI revenue may trail spend. He’s also aggressively recruiting from OpenAI and DeepMind. Aakash Gupta made a great analysis of the whole situation

Mistral appears to be testing a workflow builder + connectors for repeatable multi-step automations

Notion tested an “AI‑first workspace” with dedicated AI tabs, an AI‑credits meter, and internal models hiding behind dessert codenames

CES kicks off next week. Watch for: “ambient AI” will sneak into TVs, cars, and coffee makers. Smart homes with interoperability between energy + security + entertainment. Wi‑Fi 7, lighter AR, software‑defined autos, and practical household robots

📚 Good reads

3 useful automations for PMs. Nicole H. shares 3 practical automations: a Reddit “customer listener,” a weekly competitive report, and a shared user‑research library. They take under 15 minutes to set up, and you will just need a couple of tools

Somebody used the Claude Chrome extension to rebuild ChatGPT inside Google AI Studio, demonstrating how easily AI tools can now replicate each other's interfaces and functionality

A pragmatic walkthrough of Claude Code 2.0’s evolution. Sankalp Shubham explains why Opus 4.5 “feels” faster and more collaborative than Codex, and how its agent scaffolding (sub-agents, commands, skills, hooks) improves workflows. Sankalp also shares good advice like his Explore/Plan/background tasks to keep momentum

How to talk roadmaps to execs. Pawel Huryn shares powerful advice: stop speaking product, and translate your message to business outcomes. Frame features by 4 exec questions: what it is, why it matters (quantified), when we learn, and full cost. Use learning milestones instead of ship dates to build trust and speed approvals

The chatbot era is over. According to Aakash Gupta, workflow-embedded AI is the path forward. Tools that invisibly slot into existing workflows (Cursor, Granola, NotebookLM, WisprFlow) drive adoption and lock-in through habit

[Video] How to build a profitable AI startup in 30 days. OpusClip’s CEO shares his playbook: start with a painfully problem, validate outcomes before coding, and ruthlessly niche down to own an end‑to‑end workflow. Focus on distribution, pricing by value, and unit economics. AI can be your thinking partner to iterate faster

[Podcast] Building an AI chief of staff. Webflow’s CPO presents her personal AI “chief of staff” that preps meetings, audits calendars, triages email, and even offers blunt feedback

🔧 Cool tools to try

next-ai-draw-io turns prompts into editable draw.io diagrams (plus an MCP server so IDE agents can “draw” as a tool)

Grok Voice Agent API (via LiveKit) lets you build a low-latency, two-way voice agent so people can talk to your app naturally and get spoken responses back instantly

That’s a wrap for this week.

Have a great weekend, and a great start of 2026!

Happy weekend, happy holidays, and welcome to a new Week in Product!

🎰 The week in figures

$20B: Nvidia struck a $20B licensing deal with AI chip startup Groq, hiring its founder and team. This is Nvidia's largest-ever deal and a strategic move to maintain AI dominance

$1B: Resolve AI, a startup developing an autonomous "AI Site Reliability Engineer" to automate software maintenance and troubleshooting, has secured an undisclosed Series A funding at a $1B valuation

$540M: Salesforce quietly added 6K enterprise AI customers in a quarter (48% growth), pushing Agentforce past 18.5K customers and $540M+ in agentic ARR

$350M: neo-bank Erebor raised $350M at a $4.35B valuation

$150M: Imprint raised $150M in Series D, reaching unicorn status as it expands its co-branded credit card and embedded finance platform

19%: Global internet traffic grew 19% in 2025 with Google remaining the most visited website worldwide Android dominates web traffic with a 65% share, and despite new AI entrants, Chrome still leads at just under 66% of the browser market

📰 What’s going on

Amazon is adding 4 service integrations to its AI-powered Alexa+, allowing users to book hotels, get home service quotes, and schedule appointments with Angi, Expedia, Square, and Yelp starting in 2026. These integrations join existing partnerships with Fodor, OpenTable, Suno, Ticketmaster, Thumbtack, and Uber, creating a ChatGPT-style app ecosystem where users access multiple services through conversational AI

OpenAI added personalization controls so you can dial ChatGPT’s warmth/enthusiasm (and emoji energy) up or down

OpenAI shared that AI browsers face persistent prompt injection vulnerabilities unlikely to be fully solved

Google pushed back its plan to replace Assistant with Gemini on Android devices, extending the timeline into 2026. The company cited the need for “a seamless transition” after originally targeting completion by end of 2025. Gemini has already launched on Wear OS watches, Android Auto, and Nest devices. Mobile integration presents more complex engineering challenges

NotebookLM recently integrated with Gemini, allowing you to upload notebooks for combining multiple ones, and:

• Rolled out chat history syncing across mobile and web so you can pick up conversations seamlessly and delete them anytime for privacy

• Added export options for your study guides, briefing docs, or saved notes directly to Google Docs or Sheets for easy editing on the go

• Introduced data tables to all Pro and Ultra users (coming soon to free) for organizing scattered insights and exporting them to Sheets

• Teased an easter egg in their latest featured notebook hinting at new British voices coming in 2026

• And shared 8 ways to maximize slide decks like turning holiday research into branded presentations

Instacart has halted its AI-driven pricing tests after a joint report from Consumer Reports and Groundwork Collaborative revealed that shoppers were being charged different prices for identical items. The study tracked over 400 customers and found price gaps as high as 23% for the same products purchased from the same store on the same day

📚 Good reads

2025 LLM year in review. Andrej Karpathy identifies six 2025 paradigm shifts: RLVR emerging as the new training stage, LLMs displaying “jagged intelligence,“ Cursor revealing a new LLM app layer, Claude Code demonstrating the value of local AI agents, “vibe coding“ making programming accessible to anyone, and Nano banana hinting at the “LLM GUI“ where models speak through images and web apps rather than text

Why Instagram’s new navigation changes are a classic example of data-driven UX. Instagram’s head Adam Mosseri said almost all their recent growth comes from Reels, DMs (now Chat), and recommendations. This thread breaks down some of the reasons why a change was recently made

A collection of free mini vibe-coding courses. Replit launched a collection of new, free courses it’s calling “Replit University”. Include AI foundations, Advanced vibe coding and how to use Replit at work. Naturally, it pushes Replit as a tool since it’s published by them, but still worth a look if you’re interested in developing AI skills

Prototypes are the new PRDs. Figma explains how their PMs use Make for exploration, validation, and decisions, tightening feedback loops and alignment. The prototype becomes a living spec, bypassing the need for PRDs. Imo replacing PRDs may be a bit far-fetched, but they are definitely onto something here

How to create top-tier slides with NotebookLM. is also onto something. He experienced how NotebookLM’s Slide Deck can look stunning, but can also go logically and easily off the rails without tight, curated sources. His practical 5‑step flow yields coherent, C‑level strategy decks fast

A step-by-step playbook to land $500K+ AI PM roles in 2026. AI PM roles pay 2–3x more due to scarce, high-bar talent. You can often find $350–700K+ total comp. shares 7 steps to land an AI PM role: daily learning, structured courses, ship actual AI products, create a standout portfolio, deep networking, targeted applications, and rigorous interview prep. Complement with ‘s article on the 5 skills that separate $184K AI PMs from $737K AI PMs

The 26 most important ideas for 2026. explains some of the most relevant shifts that will drive economics, politics, and technology in the near future. Not a “Product” article, but one that will influence how you think about new (or your) products

That’s a wrap for this week.

Have a great weekend, and a great start of 2026!

Happy weekend, and welcome to a new Week in Product!

🎰 The week in figures

$830B: OpenAI’s new funding round could value the company as high as $830B (it was clocked at $750B just on Wednesday)

$15B: Waymo is seeking $15B+ at ~$100B to scale robotaxis after 14M rider-only trips in 2025

$4B: Databricks raised $4B at a $134B valuation (up ~34% in 4 months) as enterprise AI demand drives a $4.8B ARR run-rate (+55% YoY)

$3B: ChatGPT mobile hit $3B in consumer spend in 31 mths (up 408% YoY), signaling AI is now a subscription utility category (with room for ads and an app-store layer?)

$1B: Notion is prepping for an estimated $1B IPO

$500M: Plata raised $500M to launch a digital bank, marking the largest private funding ever raised by a Mexican fintech

$330M: Lovable raised $330M at $6.6B (Series B) on vibe-coding momentum, with reported $200M ARR inside a year

$280M: MoEngage, the India-based customer engagement platform for consumer brands, added $180M to its Series F, quick-following a $100M raise, at $900M valuation

$150M: Imprint Payments reached a $1.2B valuation in a new $150M funding round

📰 What’s going on

Google has released Gemini 3 Flash, an AI model built for speed and cost efficiency, available via the Gemini app, AI Mode in Search, Vertex AI, and Gemini Enterprise. Gemini 3 Flash combines Pro-grade reasoning with Flash-level latency, outperforming Gemini 2.5 Pro by being three times faster (based on Artificial Analysis benchmarking) and using 30% fewer tokens on average

Google is rolling out a beta experience that lets you hear real-time translations in your headphones. The tech giant is also bringing advanced Gemini capabilities to Google Translate and expanding its language-learning tools in the Translate app

OpenAI has released ChatGPT Images powered by GPT‑Image‑1.5, its latest text‑to‑image model that delivers faster, more precise, and more consistent image generation. The update adds a dedicated image creation space inside ChatGPT

OpenAI opened app submissions and the ChatGPT app directory, which is a pretty big deal. Not only can you use apps inside ChatGPT, you can also make them. Here’s the apps you can use right now

OpenAI shipped GPT-5.2-Codex, a new coding model for its coding agent, Codex. It’s tuned for long-horizon, multi-file work (context compaction, refactors/migrations, better Windows support), with a BIG emphasis on defensive cybersecurity (Codex system card)

xAI launched a Grok Voice Agent API for multilingual, tool-using voice agents, claiming industry-leading latency and pricing at $0.05/min

Meta announced that its Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley smart glasses will hear conversations better in noisy environments. Users can adjust voice amplification by swiping the right temple or via settings. Meta also adds Spotify integration to play music matched to what you see

ElevenLabs now lets you deploy your voice agent to WhatsApp so customers can message or talk to your agent inside the app they already use

Adobe Firefly now supports prompt-based video editing, and adds more third-party models

The sale of TikTok US from its Chinese parent company Bytedance will formally occur on January 22, 2026. An investor group including Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX are taking a 45% stake in the new entity, with Bytedance’s existing investors receiving around 30%, 20% going to Bytedance itself, and the rest for still-unnamed investors. TikTok’s global business will still handle ecommerce, advertising, and marketing

DoorDash has introduced Zesty, an AI-powered social app that helps users find local restaurants through conversational prompts and shared recommendations. Users can ask the chatbot for personalized suggestions, save and share favorites, and follow others’ dining posts

Firefox will add “AI Mode” in 2026, offering users the opportunity to work side-by-side with their choice from a selection of popular LLMs

Stripe launched product that enables businesses to process payments and sell products directly through AI agents. The new Agentic Commerce Suite is pitched as a low-code solution for businesses

Klarna has launched an agentic product capable of scouring the internet to surface products and prices for discovery by AI agents

Coinbase launched a bunch of new products:

• Stock trading & tokenization

• Prediction markets

• Futures and perpetual futures trading

• Stablecoins-as-a-service

• Coinbase advisor

• Coinbase business

📚 Good reads

Growth lessons behind Lovable’s $6.6B valuation. Elena Verna talks about Lovable’s playbook: ship insanely fast, build in public, and design for empathy (utility is getting commoditized!). They invest hard in community, lean social over search, and aggressively give value away, creating a compounding flywheel fit for fast-moving AI products. More details in the podcast with Lenny

Big ideas 2026. a16z’s teams forecast 2026 shifts, like: agent-native entreprise infrastructure, multimodal creation, video you can “step into,” trending concepts like “healthy MAUs,” or an AI‑native university. Hints for PMs: build for agents, automation, and collaboration

How to learn to build apps in 2026. Eric Elliot argues that vibe coding gets you to prototypes fast, but AI Driven Development (AIDD) is what turns those into production-ready software with structure, tests, and solid tools. He shares a bunch of helpful resources to help you AI-prototype, and then systematize with AIDD (the often unknown and missing pieces in vibe-coding)

Old SEO is dead. AI optimization is the new game. Aakash Gupta explains how AI answers are replacing clicks, so ranking matters less than being cited and used by AI systems. Webflow’s case shows lower traffic but 6x conversion from AI-sourced visitors, showing how the new playbook works

Context before code: Why Notion embedded an AI engineer in sales. Notion put AI engineer Theo Bleier on the sales floor to fix real problems before writing code. He tackled “papercuts” with a Chrome extension, then built Salestino to prioritize accounts using product signals, lightweight web research, and draft messaging. “If what you build does not help sellers reach their goals, they simply won’t use it. It’s an engineer’s dream. I had this very quick feedback loop for whether what I’d built was useful or not.“

[Video] What the best founders taught us about building companies in 2025. First Round Review talks to founders across fintech, devtools, and ops, who share how ideas sparked from frustrations, the long quiet grind to launch, and the messy truth of early validation. They talk about how momentum can fool you, the challenges of scaling, and a bunch of other founder pains that will resonate with product teams

[Video] Anthropic put Claude in charge of a real in‑office vending‑machine “business,” and it got manipulated, hallucinated details, and made bizarre management decisions before they tried adding a supervising agent. Here’s another example, where vending machine AI got social‑engineered into giving away inventory and ended the experiment more than $1K down

2026 product conference list. Teresa Torres shares her annual living list of major product, UX, and tech conferences across 2026, organized by month and with links

That’s a wrap for this week!

Have a great weekend