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Perplexity enters the AI browser wars and a new competitor to Google Analytics used by teams at OpenAI
Plus: Microsoft and Replit buddy up, new data on how AI is transforming the speed of pull requests and Reddit groups for chatbot addiction
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Rich Holmes
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Google Sheets gets AI functions and Cursor lets you delegate work to agents on your mobile
Plus: Is OpenAI building a rival to Microsoft? Head of ChatGPT on the 3 essential skills he looks for, why you shouldn’t use AI for forecasting, is pay…
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Anthropic, Airtable and the rise of the AI mini app economy
Plus: The AI feature LinkedIn’s users aren’t using, a new tool for product onboarding, has Microsoft reached peak employee?
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Rich Holmes
Are vibe coded apps an asset or liability?
Plus: New Live AI features from Microsoft and Google, Figma gets a new MCP server, the real world limits of AI agents
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Rich Holmes
Apple Liquid Glass: UX genius or accessibility nightmare?
Plus: How to build an effective AI product strategy, WhatsApp gets AI summaries but Wikipedia is ditches theirs. Find out why.
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Rich Holmes
OpenAI vs Microsoft, Lovable's $50m milestone, Mary Meeker returns
Plus: Perplexity’s new Labs feature turns your ideas and analysis into mini apps, how to screen for AI fluency, product “taste” explained
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Rich Holmes
A warning from Anthropic’s CEO and new features from Retool explored
Plus: Perplexity gets new powers, the agentic browser wars begin, how to transform your Google Doc into a Zen-like experience
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Rich Holmes
Why Shopify's AI Assistant could transform UX, NotebookLM's new superpowers, Microsoft's "agentic web"
Plus: Is cheating in interviews fair? How to design buttons, Anthropic takes us one step closer to replacing traditional software engineers.
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Rich Holmes
Google gets Expressive - but does it alienate older users?
Plus, Spotify's new AI feature, the world’s first AI junior product manager and Microsoft cuts its “PM ratio”
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Rich Holmes
Figma goes to war with Lovable, OpenAI's new CEO, Employers demand AI skills
Your weekly product briefing - 9th May 2025
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Rich Holmes
DuoLingo goes AI-first and Meta’s CTO predicts the end of Apps
Plus, how to turn your users into a community, Lyft’s new AI Assistant, new MCP servers
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Rich Holmes
Perplexity vs Siri and goodbye daily stand-ups?
Plus: Inside how Spotify ships its mobile apps at scale, Grok gets eyes and the Era of AI Experience
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Rich Holmes
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