TOP LAUNCHES

Anthropic’s biggest update yet

TOP LAUNCHES

Claude 4 gulps a million tokens at once, flips between text, code, and images, and keeps its place for marathon threads. Drop your entire spec, a stack of PDFs, or a full repo and keep the convo moving without slicing info into snack-sized chunks.

Super connects to Drive, Slack, Notion, Jira—wherever the team stashes stuff—indexes the whole mess, and gives you a single command bar. Ask a question, it surfaces the doc or thread with just enough context so you can jump in and move on. 

Google’s latest NotebookLM lets you dump PDFs, Drive files, or interview transcripts into one spot and ask questions like you’re texting a research assistant. It cites every answer, spins summaries, and can draft outlines without touching your original docs.

Aidy lives in the menu bar and spits out first-pass slides, code snippets, diagrams, banners, invoices, and mind maps. Pick the job, pick a model, hit ⌘-Return, and the draft lands in its own window—ready for edits, not buried in a browser tab.

Zero is an AI-native email client that plugs into Gmail or Outlook, slurps your backlog, and starts classifying on impact. Real mail lands in Focus, newsletters drop into Later, cold spam goes straight to Done. It drafts replies in your voice, surfaces tasks, and keeps a running tally so the badge never creeps past single digits.

TRENDING DISCUSSIONS

OpenAI is serious about hardware

OpenAI just bought itself a body—and hired the guy who dressed the iPhone to give it a soul.

A $6.5 billion all-stock deal folds Jony Ive’s 55-person hardware studio io into a new “io division” inside OpenAI. Ive stays an independent artisan at his firm LoveFrom, but gets the keys to every future OpenAI product, physical and digital.

Ive and Sam Altman have been sketching “beyond-the-smartphone” gizmos since 2023; think pocket-sized, screen-free companions that whisper ChatGPT in your ear rather than another glass rectangle. First reveal is penciled in for 2026.

Why pay iPhone money for a year-old startup? Owning hardware lets OpenAI skip the Apple/Google tollbooths and plant generative AI directly on your wrist, lapel, or dashboard—before Meta or Humane nail the form factor.

Big swing, bigger risk: recent AI gadgets (Humane Pin, Rabbit R1) bombed on heat, battery, and “why bother?” questions. Ive’s task is to make the inevitable feel inevitable again—and to keep that $300 billion OpenAI valuation looking cheap.

Bottom line: OpenAI now has the brains and the tailor. If Ive can stitch ChatGPT into something you’ll actually carry, the next interface war just left the browser—and walked onto your body.

TRENDING DISCUSSIONS

Blast from the past

Gabe Perez tossed out a design throwback: “Should AI hardware dress in early-2000s translucent plastics and wild colors again?”

Replies broke into three vibes:

• Retro lovers want chunky GameBoy shells and see-through gadgets for that “I can see the soul of the machine” thrill.

• Modern minimalists argue sleek matte finishes and clean lines keep the focus on function, not flair.

• Hybrid hopefuls dream of mixing today’s performance with a splash of ’00s personality—think modular, repairable devices with a wink of color.

Feels like the sweet spot is somewhere between “retro rave” and “stealth mode.” Worth a scroll if matte-black boredom has you yearning for a little plastic pop.