Week in Product #484 🚀
Automate work with Claude routines, Claude Design, Codex updates, Apple smart glasses, Build your AI Chief of Staff, How Uber AI-prototypes, Dealing with work anxiety & more
Hi folks 👋
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 Lenny Rachitsky 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? Jaclyn Konzelmann 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,” Anne-Laure Le Cunff 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. Teresa Torres 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. Michael Leibovich 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 Nikhyl Singhal, 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:
Go to claude.ai/code/routines and click “New routine.”
Name it (e.g., “Morning email triage”).
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.”
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.
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Have a great week ahead!
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