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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
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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Rich Holmes
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ChatGPT Tasks, AI retention rates, DuoLingo's Mandarin growth
Plus: Shopify's lessons after 5 years of React, Gemini on Youtube, Tech chiefs book recommendations, object-oriented UX explained
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Rich Holmes
Notion Faces, Stripe’s 12 product questions and Microsoft’s Copilot controversy
Plus: 2025’s fastest growing jobs report, Lessons from Spotify on how to measure internal AI tools, brain connected productivity tools.
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Rich Holmes
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Meta’s AI Slop, Spotify ghost music and the end of SaaS pricing as we know it?
Plus: Instacart smart fridges, 2025 forecasts, Tinder returns to growth
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Rich Holmes
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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
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