Madison's Morning Memo

Anthropic's First PM on How Claude Got Built

July 26, 2026

AI PM Research Sunday, July 26, 2026 Anthropic's First PM on How Claude Got Built Dianne Penn, Anthropic's first technical PM, lays out the actual decisions...

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Claude Opus 5 Ships and Notion Acquires an AI Model Lab

July 25, 2026

AI PM Research Saturday, July 25, 2026 Claude Opus 5 Ships and Notion Acquires an AI Model Lab Two signals dominate today: Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5...

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Marty Cagan's AI Productivity Paradox and Health in ChatGPT

July 24, 2026

AI PM Research Friday, July 24, 2026 Marty Cagan's AI Productivity Paradox and Health in ChatGPT Marty Cagan drops a sharp critique of how companies are...

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Cursor Router, monday.com's Production Agents, and AI for Women's Health

July 23, 2026

AI PM Research Thursday, July 23, 2026 Cursor Router, monday.com's Production Agents, and AI for Women's Health Three things worth paying attention to today:...

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When AI Agents Hack Each Other and Vibecoders Kill Their Own Market

July 22, 2026

AI PM Research Wednesday, July 22, 2026 When AI Agents Hack Each Other and Vibecoders Kill Their Own Market Two signals today that belong together: OpenAI's...

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How PMs Actually Use AI Coding Tools (And Why Replit's Numbers Are Wild)

July 21, 2026

AI PM Research Tuesday, July 21, 2026 How PMs Actually Use AI Coding Tools (And Why Replit's Numbers Are Wild) Replit engineers tripled code output in six...

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Voice AI Workflows, Agent Governance, and What 'Owning Your Intelligence' Means

July 20, 2026

AI PM Research Monday, July 20, 2026 Voice AI Workflows, Agent Governance, and What 'Owning Your Intelligence' Means Today's signals cluster around one...

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Netflix CPTO on AI Teams, Replit's 3x Output, and Enterprise AI Consulting

July 19, 2026

AI PM Research Sunday, July 19, 2026 Netflix CPTO on AI Teams, Replit's 3x Output, and Enterprise AI Consulting Elizabeth Stone (Netflix CPTO) lays out what...

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Kimi K3 Shakes the Model Market as Cursor Deepens Slack Integration

July 18, 2026

AI PM Research Saturday, July 18, 2026 Kimi K3 Shakes the Model Market as Cursor Deepens Slack Integration Two signals worth holding together today: Kimi K3...

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Kimi K3, GPT 5.6 Safety Gaps, and What Replit's 3x Code Output Actually Means

July 17, 2026

AI PM Research Friday, July 17, 2026 Kimi K3, GPT 5.6 Safety Gaps, and What Replit's 3x Code Output Actually Means Three signals today that together tell a...

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Notion's Developer Platform, LangSmith in Slack, and Agent Infrastructure Signals

July 16, 2026

AI PM Research Thursday, July 16, 2026 Notion's Developer Platform, LangSmith in Slack, and Agent Infrastructure Signals Three distinct signals today that...

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Agents Need Their Own Computer, and AI Security Is Getting Real

July 15, 2026

AI PM Research Wednesday, July 15, 2026 Agents Need Their Own Computer, and AI Security Is Getting Real Two threads worth pulling today: LangChain published...

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Quality of Evidence, Agent Sentiment, and the GPT-5.6 Distribution Story

July 14, 2026

AI PM Research Tuesday, July 14, 2026 Quality of Evidence, Agent Sentiment, and the GPT-5.6 Distribution Story Teresa Torres has a new episode on quality of...

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Google Sunsets Vertex AI, Solo Builders Run 24/7 Local AI

July 13, 2026

AI PM Research Monday, July 13, 2026 Google Sunsets Vertex AI, Solo Builders Run 24/7 Local AI Google is quietly sunsetting Vertex AI in favor of a rebranded...

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The Workforce Bifurcation, and What Perplexity's Failures Tell Us

July 12, 2026

AI PM Research Sunday, July 12, 2026 The Workforce Bifurcation, and What Perplexity's Failures Tell Us The annual AI sentiment survey drops and the headline...

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Cursor's Side Chats, Figma Gets GPT-5.6, and Dan Shipper on Tending Your Loop

July 11, 2026

AI PM Research Saturday, July 11, 2026 Cursor's Side Chats, Figma Gets GPT-5.6, and Dan Shipper on Tending Your Loop Three signals worth paying attention to...

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OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Launch and What Model Benchmarking Actually Tells PMs

July 10, 2026

AI PM Research Friday, July 10, 2026 OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Launch and What Model Benchmarking Actually Tells PMs OpenAI dropped GPT-5.6 with a new ChatGPT Work...

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Token Pricing, AI Layoffs, and What Instagram's PM Structure Tells Us

July 9, 2026

AI PM Research Thursday, July 9, 2026 Token Pricing, AI Layoffs, and What Instagram's PM Structure Tells Us Benedict Evans drops a framework for thinking...

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Harness Tuning, Agent Infrastructure, and What's Actually Shipping

July 8, 2026

AI PM Research Wednesday, July 8, 2026 Harness Tuning, Agent Infrastructure, and What's Actually Shipping The theme today is agent infrastructure maturing in...

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Tech Workers, Agent Improvements, and Anthropic's Claude Code Origin Story

July 7, 2026

AI PM Research Tuesday, July 7, 2026 Tech Workers, Agent Improvements, and Anthropic's Claude Code Origin Story Three things worth your attention today:...

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