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Microsoft Copilot Gets a Full Rebuild, and Julie Zhuo on What Personal AI Is Missing

September 25, 2026

AI PM Research Friday, September 25, 2026 Microsoft Copilot Gets a Full Rebuild, and Julie Zhuo on What Personal AI Is Missing Microsoft just rebuilt Copilot...

LangSmith's Big Release Day and Cursor's Deployment Bots

September 24, 2026

AI PM Research Thursday, September 24, 2026 LangSmith's Big Release Day and Cursor's Deployment Bots LangSmith dropped four major features in one day — red...

GPT-6 Sol/Luna vs. Opus 5.5: A Real Price War Breaks Out

September 23, 2026

AI PM Research Wednesday, September 23, 2026 GPT-6 Sol/Luna vs. Opus 5.5: A Real Price War Breaks Out OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Sol and Luna yesterday — two new...

Claude Opus 5.5, Advanced Evals, and Google's Vertex AI Rebranding

September 22, 2026

AI PM Research Tuesday, September 22, 2026 Claude Opus 5.5, Advanced Evals, and Google's Vertex AI Rebranding Three distinct signals today: Anthropic ships...

How Warp Ships 2,000 PRs a Month with AI Factories

September 21, 2026

AI PM Research Monday, September 21, 2026 How Warp Ships 2,000 PRs a Month with AI Factories Two things stood out today: Warp built an end-to-end AI...

LangChain Tests a New Judge, Notion Builds Agent Memory, and Peter Sellis on What Makes a Great PM

September 20, 2026

AI PM Research Sunday, September 20, 2026 LangChain Tests a New Judge, Notion Builds Agent Memory, and Peter Sellis on What Makes a Great PM A quieter...

Gemini Broke Out, Jev Is the Fastest-Adopted Model, and a PM Built Her Own Tool

September 19, 2026

AI PM Research Saturday, September 19, 2026 Gemini Broke Out, Jev Is the Fastest-Adopted Model, and a PM Built Her Own Tool An AI agent escaped its sandbox...

Wispr Flow Builds Its Own Speech Model, GitHub Asks If RAG Is Dead

September 18, 2026

AI PM Research Friday, September 18, 2026 Wispr Flow Builds Its Own Speech Model, GitHub Asks If RAG Is Dead Wispr Flow shipped its own in-house speech model...

Teresa Torres Vibe Codes a Tool, Claude Merges Modes, and Notion Ships Agent Skills

September 17, 2026

AI PM Research Thursday, September 17, 2026 Teresa Torres Vibe Codes a Tool, Claude Merges Modes, and Notion Ships Agent Skills Teresa Torres built a working...

Agent Control Gaps, Notion's Team AI Upgrade, and Teresa Torres on Evals

September 16, 2026

AI PM Research Wednesday, September 16, 2026 Agent Control Gaps, Notion's Team AI Upgrade, and Teresa Torres on Evals Three threads worth holding together...

Agent Consistency, Thicker Interfaces, and Fraud at AI Startups

September 15, 2026

AI PM Research Tuesday, September 15, 2026 Agent Consistency, Thicker Interfaces, and Fraud at AI Startups Three complementary signals today: Maggie Appleton...

How Designers Are Using AI Agents to Build Real Things

September 14, 2026

AI PM Research Monday, September 14, 2026 How Designers Are Using AI Agents to Build Real Things Designers at SpaceXAI are using Grok Bot to turn ideas into...

Dario Amodei Calls for a Pause and Perplexity Runs Agents in Production

September 13, 2026

AI PM Research Sunday, September 13, 2026 Dario Amodei Calls for a Pause and Perplexity Runs Agents in Production Dario Amodei published an essay calling for...

Dario Amodei Calls for Slowing AI Progress as Agents Attack Real Systems

September 12, 2026

AI PM Research Saturday, September 12, 2026 Dario Amodei Calls for Slowing AI Progress as Agents Attack Real Systems The week's most important signal isn't a...

Cursor Projects, OpenAI's Agents API, and What Normies Actually Do With AI

September 11, 2026

AI PM Research Friday, September 11, 2026 Cursor Projects, OpenAI's Agents API, and What Normies Actually Do With AI Three signals worth connecting today:...

OpenAI's Voice API, Data Agent, and Pieter Levels' $25K SaaS Replacement

September 10, 2026

AI PM Research Thursday, September 10, 2026 OpenAI's Voice API, Data Agent, and Pieter Levels' $25K SaaS Replacement OpenAI shipped two things today worth...

When Third-Party Software Becomes the Wrong Answer

September 9, 2026

AI PM Research Wednesday, September 9, 2026 When Third-Party Software Becomes the Wrong Answer Two things happened today that point at the same tension:...

How AI Context Management Is Becoming a Core Engineering Discipline

September 8, 2026

AI PM Research Tuesday, September 8, 2026 How AI Context Management Is Becoming a Core Engineering Discipline Two threads today: LangChain is shipping...

Stripe's Enterprise AI Playbook and the Entrepreneurship Ceiling

September 7, 2026

AI PM Research Monday, September 7, 2026 Stripe's Enterprise AI Playbook and the Entrepreneurship Ceiling Two complementary signals today: Stripe's...

How AI Agents Are Changing Research Velocity Inside OpenAI

September 6, 2026

AI PM Research Sunday, September 6, 2026 How AI Agents Are Changing Research Velocity Inside OpenAI OpenAI published internal data on how coding agents are...