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Cursor Agents Get 3x Faster, Lenny Interviews OpenAI's Head of Design

August 16, 2026

AI PM Research Sunday, August 16, 2026 Cursor Agents Get 3x Faster, Lenny Interviews OpenAI's Head of Design Cursor ships environment pre-warming for cloud...

Notion Simplifies Model Selection; Simon Willison on Hallucination as a Feature

August 15, 2026

AI PM Research Saturday, August 15, 2026 Notion Simplifies Model Selection; Simon Willison on Hallucination as a Feature Notion quietly shipped model...

Cursor Agents Get a Speed Upgrade, OpenAI Goes Ultrafast

August 14, 2026

AI PM Research Friday, August 14, 2026 Cursor Agents Get a Speed Upgrade, OpenAI Goes Ultrafast Cursor just made cloud agents dramatically faster by pre-...

LangSmith BYOC, Microsoft's MAI-Code Flash, and the Managed Agent Era

August 13, 2026

AI PM Research Thursday, August 13, 2026 LangSmith BYOC, Microsoft's MAI-Code Flash, and the Managed Agent Era Two big enterprise-readiness signals today:...

Ads in ChatGPT, Mistral's Sovereign Bet, and How Many Agent Calls Actually Need GPT-5

August 12, 2026

AI PM Research Wednesday, August 12, 2026 Ads in ChatGPT, Mistral's Sovereign Bet, and How Many Agent Calls Actually Need GPT-5 OpenAI just announced ads in...

Meta's Open Multimodal Push, ChatGPT Business Gets Premium Seats, and Agent Routing Benchmarks

August 11, 2026

AI PM Research Tuesday, August 11, 2026 Meta's Open Multimodal Push, ChatGPT Business Gets Premium Seats, and Agent Routing Benchmarks Meta shipped Muse...

How AI Is Reshaping PM Roles and Developer Tools

August 10, 2026

AI PM Research Monday, August 10, 2026 How AI Is Reshaping PM Roles and Developer Tools Marty Cagan is redefining what the product role actually means in an...

Claude Code Auto Mode, Notion Acquires ZeroEntropy, and Pieter Levels Breaks Up with Claude

August 9, 2026

AI PM Research Sunday, August 9, 2026 Claude Code Auto Mode, Notion Acquires ZeroEntropy, and Pieter Levels Breaks Up with Claude Anthropic quietly made auto...

AI Token Costs, Agent Governance, and the OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident

August 8, 2026

AI PM Research Saturday, August 8, 2026 AI Token Costs, Agent Governance, and the OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident Three signals converging today: companies are...

Perplexity Goes Multiplayer, AWS Tightens Agent Control

August 7, 2026

AI PM Research Friday, August 7, 2026 Perplexity Goes Multiplayer, AWS Tightens Agent Control Two things happening in parallel today: Perplexity is turning...

Perplexity Goes Multiplayer, Lenny Builds a Bot

August 5, 2026

AI PM Research Wednesday, August 5, 2026 Perplexity Goes Multiplayer, Lenny Builds a Bot Two signals worth sitting with today: Perplexity just turned its...

Cursor Becomes a Workspace Tool, and OpenAI Explains Real-Time Voice

August 4, 2026

AI PM Research Tuesday, August 4, 2026 Cursor Becomes a Workspace Tool, and OpenAI Explains Real-Time Voice Cursor's Google Workspace integration and...

How Stripe Built a 5,000-User AI Agent in One Week

August 3, 2026

AI PM Research Monday, August 3, 2026 How Stripe Built a 5,000-User AI Agent in One Week Today's through-line is speed and ownership: Stripe built a company-...

Why Fewer Senior PMs Might Beat Any Ratio, and Perplexity Goes Multiplayer

August 2, 2026

AI PM Research Sunday, August 2, 2026 Why Fewer Senior PMs Might Beat Any Ratio, and Perplexity Goes Multiplayer Perplexity's Computer product just became a...

Perplexity Goes Multiplayer, AI Token Budgets Arrive, and Stateless MCP

August 1, 2026

AI PM Research Saturday, August 1, 2026 Perplexity Goes Multiplayer, AI Token Budgets Arrive, and Stateless MCP Three signals today that all point at the...

Token Price Wars, Agent Governance, and the Indie Hacker Extinction Question

July 31, 2026

AI PM Research Friday, July 31, 2026 Token Price Wars, Agent Governance, and the Indie Hacker Extinction Question Two signals worth holding together today:...

GPT-5.6 Ships, Cursor Goes iPad, and the Open-Weights Debate Heats Up

July 30, 2026

AI PM Research Thursday, July 30, 2026 GPT-5.6 Ships, Cursor Goes iPad, and the Open-Weights Debate Heats Up OpenAI shipped GPT-5.6 with an explicit...

MCP Gets a Major Overhaul and AWS Puts It in Production

July 29, 2026

AI PM Research Wednesday, July 29, 2026 MCP Gets a Major Overhaul and AWS Puts It in Production The MCP specification just got its biggest revision since...

Cursor Goes Local, Perplexity Goes Hardware, and the PM Who Built Claude

July 28, 2026

AI PM Research Tuesday, July 28, 2026 Cursor Goes Local, Perplexity Goes Hardware, and the PM Who Built Claude Three signals today that all point at the same...

When BigAI Eats the App Layer: Signals for Product Strategy

July 27, 2026

AI PM Research Monday, July 27, 2026 When BigAI Eats the App Layer: Signals for Product Strategy Two distinct but related signals today: Pieter Levels is...