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Microsoft Magma, Coinbase engineers go all-in on AI, new Claude features leak
Plus: A new tool from Google to plan your career. Should bug fixes always be prioritised? Linear's head of product says yes. Grok 3's logo designer…
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Deep: How are companies using Machine Learning? Q12025
Examples from top tier tech products including YouTube, Reddit, Uber, Airbnb Microsoft, Google, Snapchat and more.
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Rich Holmes
How to use AI agents at work
🧠 Knowledge Series #60: Practical AI agents you can build and use at work. Apply for jobs, conduct market research, draft speaker notes for…
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YouTube's vision for 2025, Figma's new API and Google's secret AI mode
Plus: A new tool to talk to products at work, How Intercom restructured its information architecture and OpenAI's valuation in context
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Rich Holmes
Deep: Emotion-led UX Explored
Is emotion the next moat? Happiness, suspense, anticipation and more. How top products like ChatGPT, Pinterest, YouTube and others use UX to make you…
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Rich Holmes
Google Flash Thinking, GitHub Padawan and a new browser for mindfulness
Plus: Mobile app retention rates report, why your product org should be ugly, AI pricing explored
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Deep: What new AI features are product teams building?
AI agents, UX enhancers and assistants from top companies like Google, Meta, Perplexity, Amazon, Figma, Hinge and more
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Rich Holmes
How to create visuals and diagrams you can use at work with AI
🧠 Knowledge Series #59: Presentation slides, frameworks, data visualizations, process diagrams and more.
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January 2025

Google Sheets gets more Gemini powers, Deepseek drama and Meta's new AI developer
Plus: Block AI's productivity Goose, a new tool to test your AI agent, how to make better decisions
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Rich Holmes
OpenAI Operator Explored
Knowledge Series #58: What it is, how it works and how product teams can prepare for browsing agents. Get up to speed - quickly.
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Rich Holmes
Perplexity Sonar, Calm product design and Zoom's new Cobrowse
Plus: New agentic offerings from Microsoft, Zapier and Postman, ditch Chrome cookie banners and AI tools to transform your text into visuals
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The Workplace Productivity 30
30 products to boost your productivity at work in 2025. Create presentations in seconds, connect knowledge sources, block out distractions and more.
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