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Google AI Mode and Apple's software quality crisis
A new tool for product personalization, Anthropic's Chief Product Officer predicts the future, Stripe's annual letter unpacked
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Rich Holmes
Alexa+, Perplexity Comet and a new app from Instagram?
Plus: Claude Code, New AI research, How to develop your executive presence remotely
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Rich Holmes
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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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Rich Holmes
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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
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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Rich Holmes
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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
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