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YouTube Voice Notes, Google Veo and Grammarly’s new acquisition
Plus: 2024’s top mobile apps, How to design global navigation, a new tool for SaaS pricing
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Rich Holmes
Reddit’s Anonymous AI Advantage and Gemini 2.0
Plus: How to write your own job description, OpenAI and Twitch’s losses, Google Docs’ 40 new templates
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Rich Holmes
AWS's AI agents, Bluesky soars and Brain Rot
Plus: NotebookLM loses its product leaders, AI search forecasts, and how to evaluate equity offers
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Rich Holmes
Can Spotify build an audiobook social network?
Plus: Uber’s new revenue stream, the future of AI job interviews and Zoom rebrands
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Rich Holmes
Stripe payment agents, Alexa AI troubles and Gemini gets creepy
Plus: A new Harvard Study on why product personalization boosts revenues
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Rich Holmes
Perplexity reveals its ad monetization plans
Plus: ChatGPT is stealing jobs, Instagram finally solves a UX issue, Apple Intelligence is going viral
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Rich Holmes
Microsoft's new Agentic teams tool, Google Maps gets Gemini superpowers
Plus: Miro layoffs, A new tool to help you get stand-ups done, Waymo growth surges
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Rich Holmes
GitHub Spark and Reddit's global translation takeover
Plus: How to design for Gen-Z, Python overtakes Javascript, Notion Marketplace and the first official definition of “open” AI
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Rich Holmes
Briefing: Claude wants to use your computer
Plus: Spotify’s new artwork generator, How to use accelerators in product design, The new LinkedIn badge trend
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Rich Holmes
Briefing: Apple Vision Woes and Airtable’s bold new product bet
Plus: Instagram QR codes, new product research automation startups, North Korean generative AI hoaxes
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Rich Holmes
Briefing: Google Docs gets tabs, RIP Jira Issues
Plus: Instacart’s gamification renaissance and a new startup for technical documentation
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Rich Holmes
Briefing: Stripe’s plant-based APIs
Plus: Where do OpenAI and Anthropic generate most of their revenues?
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Rich Holmes
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