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Google just launched Skills in Chrome, which converts your AI prompts into reusable one-click tools. Instead of retyping "make this recipe vegan" across multiple food sites, you save it as a Skill and run it instantly on any page. You can also share these custom workflows or grab pre-built ones from Google's Skills library. Continue Reading →
Microsoft is exploring ways to integrate OpenClaw-style autonomous features into its Copilot AI assistant, according to The Information. Omar Shahine, a corporate VP at Microsoft, confirmed the company is “exploring the potential of technologies like OpenClaw in an enterprise context.” OpenClaw (356k GitHub stars) gained massive popularity earlier this year despite raising serious security concerns. Continue Reading →

Unwinding Cultural Debt

Cultural Debt
As we start to deploy enterprise-grade AI platforms at scale, leadership teams are coming face to face with two formidable challenges. The first is Technical Debt, Ward Cunningham's enduring metaphor for describing outdated technical infrastructure. The second is Cultural Debt, the sum of every unresolved habit, unexamined process, and unspoken assumption your organization carries forward because, well, this is the (your company name goes here) way. Continue Reading →

Managed Agents Are Here

Anthropic launched Claude Managed Agents in public beta at eight cents per agent runtime hour plus model usage fees. Developers get sandboxed containers, authentication, checkpointing, error recovery, session persistence, and end-to-end execution tracing: every piece of infrastructure that separates a demo from a production deployment, available as a set of composable APIs. Continue Reading →
Meta just launched Muse Spark, its first major AI model since its $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI nine months ago, which pulled Scale AI's founder Alexandr Wang into Meta. This is the inaugural release from Meta Superintelligence Labs, Wang's new unit tasked with rebuilding Meta's AI capabilities from scratch. Continue Reading →
Google quietly launched "AI Edge Eloquent," an offline-first dictation app for iOS that cleans up your speech and removes filler words. The app uses local Gemini models to transform rambling speech into polished text, with options for "Key points," "Formal," "Short," and "Long" formatting. It can import keywords from Gmail and work completely offline once the models download. Continue Reading →
Murphy Campbell
Murphy Campbell is a folk singer from the mountains of western North Carolina. She plays banjo and dulcimer, records old Appalachian ballads (some written by distant relatives), and posts videos of herself performing in the woods. She has about 7,800 monthly listeners on Spotify. She is exactly the kind of artist the music industry’s copyright infrastructure was designed to protect. Continue Reading →
Google just opened Google Vids to anyone with a Google account. The AI-powered video creation tool now lets free users generate up to 10 high-quality video clips each month using Veo 3.1. Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers get custom music generation via Lyria 3, as well as customizable AI avatars and increased limits: Pro subscribers get 50 videos per month, while AI Ultra subscribers get up to 1,000 video generations per month. Continue Reading →

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