Product

Superhuman → Fathom

Superhuman acquired YC-backed notetaker Fathom, which has over 400,000 monthly active users, as productivity platforms push for agentic work.

Productivity

Simon Willison released commit-rewriter 0.1, a tool that uses AI to rewrite git commit messages.

Productivity

shot-scraper 1.12 enables automated screenshots of web pages, useful for AI vision workflows.

Productivity

Laurie Voss writes that the cost of writing software has collapsed, making everyone a product engineer.

Apple has finally shipped its rebuilt Siri AI, built on Google's Gemini models and running partly on-device and partly through Private Cloud Compute. Early testers praise multi-step requests and screen context, but report hallucinations and gaps with some tasks. The new Siri is not available in the EU.

Product • The Decoder

China's National Medical Products Administration approved YY/T 2029–2026, the first medical-device industry standard for AI algorithms used in brain-computer interface devices, covering EEG dataset quality requirements and evaluation methods.

Regulation • TechNode

CADDi • Series D

CADDi, which sells AI tools to help manufacturers organize engineering and production data, raised a $114M Series D at a $1.2B valuation.

Productivity

Create a project rules file for Claude with coding conventions, file structure, and constraints. Update it as the project evolves.

Productivity

Use atomic, dependency-free, composable code tools to speed up AI development work.

Productivity

Take an AI fluency assessment to find the gap between what you think you know and what you actually know.

Productivity

Use one continuous AI agent instead of many sub-agents to reduce overhead and speed up code review.

Anthropic launched Claude Docs and Slides, letting users create documents and presentations through Claude chats that can be exported, edited, and shared. The company is also merging regular chats and Cowork into 'one Claude' to simplify the product.

AI Products • The Verge

Google introduced Google Home MCP, a Model Context Protocol integration that lets third-party AI agents such as Claude and Open Claw control and monitor smart-home devices and analyze home data. The move opens Google's smart-home ecosystem to external agent developers.

AI Products • The Verge

Mistral and Mozilla announced that Firefox Smart Window (beta), Mozilla's AI browsing assistant, is now powered by Mistral models. The partnership is focused on bringing privacy, control, and choice to multilingual AI browsing.

AI Products • Mistral

Productivity

Use the Gemini Live audio tool for real-time voice conversations with Gemini.

Productivity

Claude Cowork and chat are merging into one Claude interface.

Productivity

Usage limits can be eaten quickly during long tasks.

Productivity

Track actual weekly usage numbers to plan AI work.