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Catch up with everything you need to know in product, AI and more this week:
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Here’s a snapshot from that research:
On first glance I thought maybe this was a little step too far in the Gen-Z direction that could alienate older users.
But Google’s product teams say the design system actually enabled older users to spot key interactive elements on the screen just as fast as younger users across 10 apps tested.
Google unveiled its new Material Design Expressive system this week.
The new version of Material Design uses bold, expressive colors including pinks, purples and oranges, new physics for UI interactions and an expansive new library of shapes.
Multi-agent architectures involve multiple AI agents working collaboratively, each specializing in specific tasks, to solve complex problems more efficiently than a single AI agent.
Here’s a snapshot of how companies are using them in the real world:
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In the latest Knowledge Series, I explore how AI Agent Payments work, including:
- A closer look at Visa, Mastercard and PayPal’s new AI agent payment capabilities
- Key technologies involved including tokenization, MCP and more
- Real world use cases and opportunities for product teams
If you buy into the hype, the way users make payments could be about to change forever.
This week, Mastercard revealed its new AI agent payment feature called Agent Pay, Visa announced a full AI agent payment framework and PayPal unveiled an entire new product stack for agentic payments
Contractors are losing their jobs to Al at DuoLingo.
It's not difficult to see why.
Here's a comparison of the time it took to complete 100 vs 150 courses with and without AI:
Plus, DuoLingo’s CEO jumps on the AI-first bandwagon with a memo published on LinkedIn that unveils how the company plans to implement its own AI policies (it’s not good news for contractors). And the latest release from Mastercard that takes the application of AI agents to the next level.
This week, I explore the latest predictions from Meta’s CTO about the impact of AI, a new tool that will transform how you do presentations and a huge study from KPMG which reveals how we’re really using AI at work - with some surprising results.
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I hope this means we’ll finally be able to delete the circle that haunts me across every Meta app.
Plus:
- the impact of AI on SaaS
- a new open-source alternative to ElevenLabs that sounds seriously impressive - with audio examples
- new tools you can use, including a new way to conduct user research and a browser plugin to stop you opening too many new tabs
In this week’s YouTube version of the weekly briefing, I take a look at Perplexity’s new Voice Assistant on iOS.
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Google’s experiments with new Search UX seems to be paying off.
According to their latest earnings report:
- Circle to Search usage is up 40% in the current quarter
- AI Mode queries are twice as long as traditional Search queries
- Visual searches with Lens is up five billion since October
With many vibe coders finding out the hard way about the importance of security, Lovable has announced a new “Security Scan” feature that highlights an potential vulnerabilities in your app before its shipped.
Let’s see if this puts a stop to some of the horror stories we’ve read about lately…
This is where AI models won’t rely on human data any more; instead, it will physically interact with the real world to generate new insights from the data it generates.
"Ultimately, experiential data will eclipse the scale and quality of human-generated data," Silver and Sutton write.
A new research paper from Google suggests that the “Era of Experience” is upon us.
The researchers suggest that AI has evolved from the simulation era where it played games like chess and the era of human data where it consumed human data for training purposes to now enter the era of experience.
Healthy living, personalised kids stories, image generation and explaining “legalese” are some of the fastest growing generative AI use cases.
It’s becoming strangely essential for tech companies to keep on top of this to understand how AI is cannibalising their value proposition.
Plus:
• A tool that describes itself as “What Apple Intelligence should have been”
• A new calendar product with a difference
• A slightly disturbing new AI product with noble intentions
and more…
In this week's YouTube version of the weekly Briefing, I explore the rumors around ChatGPT's social network and new data that shows how we really use AI.
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- A SaaS spend tracker to monitor your SaaS product subscriptions
- An appraisal / performance review feedback collector
- A note taker with a creative twist
- A Coffee Roulette tool to encourage colleagues to get to know one another and resolve conflict
Using AI at work is now mandatory in some companies.
In this week’s Knowledge Series, I explore a new set of mini apps you can build to use at work including:
UI consistency is important but I wish Notion had done something a little different for their Mail product to ensure it has an identity of its own.
I've been playing around with Notion's new Mail product for the past few weeks.
It's super clean and easy to use but the biggest drawback for me is that it looks and functions far too much like Notion's core product that it's actually a little bit confusing.
Read more in the latest 🧠Knowledge Series:
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The agent uses a tournament-style system, inspired by methods like ELO ranking, to evaluate and rank ideas based on user-defined criteria (e.g., feasibility, originality, or impact). Each idea is analyzed for strengths and weaknesses resulting in a prioritized list from highest to lowest rank.
Once requirements are finalized, the agent employs hundreds of AI sub-agents to produce a large volume of ideas (typically 100–200) in just a few minutes. These ideas are created by exploring diverse perspectives and possibilities within the defined scope.
