Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise | | | Good morning, AI enthusiasts. Apple hasn't been able to get Siri right, but its smallest computer might be the one actually powering the AI agent era. | Perplexity just spun out its Computer agentic system with a 'Personal' local option, pitching itself as the safer alternative to OpenClaw — and likely ramping up the demand for Apple's small but mighty machine even more in the process. | Reminder: Our next live workshop is today at 2 PM EST — join pt. 1 of our Intro to Vibe Coding Workshop and learn how to build reusable, working software for your specific tasks without any technical experience needed. RSVP here. | | In today's AI rundown: | Perplexity turns Mac mini into a 24/7 AI agent Musk revives Macrohard as a joint xAI-Tesla project Create agentic workflows in Google Workspace Anthropic Institute to document AI's disruption 4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more
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| | | | PERPLEXITY | |  | Image source: Perplexity |
| The Rundown: Perplexity just debuted Personal Computer, a new local version of its Computer AI agent system that runs on a dedicated Mac mini — positioning itself as a more secure, controlled rival to the viral OpenClaw. | The details: | The agent gives Perplexity's Comet assistant persistent local access to files, apps, and sessions on a Mac mini, able to be managed from anywhere. Perplexity frames it as a safer OpenClaw, with safeguards like tracked activity, sign-off for sensitive tasks, and a 'kill switch' to shut the system down. Perplexity Computer launched in late February, providing a cloud-based agentic system that orchestrates different models at once to complete tasks. Perplexity Max subscribers get early access via a waitlist, with the company saying it will provide "support and resources" for the initial cohort of users. Perplexity also released Computer to enterprise, tapping into 20 models and 400+ app connections — along with a Slack integration for team workflows.
| Why it matters: Everyone knocks Apple for its AI mishaps, but the Mac mini is unintentionally becoming the default hardware for the AI agent era. Between OpenClaw, Perplexity's Personal Computer, and the wave of offshoots, always-on local agents are getting safer and easier to set up — and soon everyone's going to have one. |
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| | TOGETHER WITH SLACK FROM SALESFORCE | | | The Rundown: How do top teams use Microsoft 365? They integrate it with Slack to create an all-in-one work operating system, connecting every tool, automating workflows, and putting AI at the center. | Watch this demo to see how 150,000+ Microsoft customers maximize existing tech investments with Slack, including: | Best in class integrations with Office, SharePoint, Teams, etc. AI-powered automation and no-code search An open ecosystem with 2,600+ app connections
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| | XAI & TESLA | |  | Image source: Lovart / Elon Musk on X |
| The Rundown: Elon Musk pushed back on reports that its AI software initiative Macrohard had stalled, revealing xAI's project is merging with Tesla's 'Digital Optimus' AI agent into a system he claims can "emulate the function of entire companies." | The details: | The system will pair Grok with a 'Digital Optimus' agent, processing live screen video and inputs and borrowing techniques from Tesla's FSD tech. Musk says it'll run on Tesla's $650 AI4 chip paired with xAI's Nvidia servers — and calls it "the only real-time smart AI system" available. The post came after Business Insider reported that 20+ Macrohard engineers had left or shifted roles, with a 600-person data project also on pause. xAI merged with SpaceX in February, but has suffered from a wave of employee exits over the last month, including several co-founders.
| Why it matters: "Emulate the function of entire companies" is a big claim, but Musk has the pieces for it — custom chips, FSD-trained video processing, and Grok's reasoning in one stack. Macrohard could end up as the most vertically integrated agent play on the market… But his grand visions often take longer than expected to develop. |
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| | AI TRAINING | | | The Rundown: In this guide, you will learn how to create an agent in your Google Workspace that reads form submissions, tracks them in a spreadsheet, and then emails you action items using Google's new AI automation tool called Workspace Studio. | Step-by-step: | Go to Workspace Studio (request access if unavailable), create a new Flow, select "When a form response comes in" as the starter, and pick your form Add a new step and select Summarize > Content from previous steps > Variable > Form response. In the prompt box, give the form's purpose Add a Decide step with the prompt "Read this summary [summary variable] and decide if it meets [your criteria for escalation]" Click Add substep > Notify me by email and add the AI summary in the message body along with any other form variables
| Pro tip: You can use this workflow to triage inbound leads, handle internal troubleshooting, onboard clients, and more. |
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| | ANTHROPIC | |  | Image source: Lovart / The Rundown |
| The Rundown: Anthropic unveiled the Anthropic Institute, a new group combining three teams under co-founder Jack Clark to study AI's societal impacts, launching amid the company's legal battle with the Pentagon over its blacklisting as a supply-chain risk. | The details: | The ~30-person team will merge Anthropic's Frontier Red Team, Societal Impacts, and economics research groups, with plans to double staff yearly. The Institute plans to share learnings from building frontier models with the public, while engaging workers and industries facing AI displacement head-on. Founding hires include ex-DeepMind researcher Matt Botvinick, economist Anton Korinek, and Zoe Hitzig, who resigned from OAI over ads in ChatGPT.
| Why it matters: Anthropic has not been shy about banging the drum on AI's coming disruption, and now it has a whole think tank devoted to it. If a powerful AGI-level system really does arrive this year (and some may argue they're already here), having an institute already studying its fallout may turn out to be one of the smarter bets in AI. |
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| | | Replit raised $400M at a $9B valuation, while dropping Agent 4, a coding agent that ships 10x faster with parallel agents, deeper collaboration, and broader build options. | Microsoft filed an amicus brief in support of Anthropic in its lawsuit against the Pentagon's supply chain blacklist, calling for a restraining order on the ban. | Amazon imposed a 90-day code safety reset after AI changes led to outages that cost 6.3M lost orders in one day, now requiring dual sign-offs for crucial deployments. | NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Super, an open-source 120B reasoning model built for multi-agent workflows with a 1M-token context window and 5x faster speeds. | Cloudflare introduced a /crawl API endpoint that scrapes entire websites in one call, in a notable pivot from the company known for selling anti-bot protection.
Amazon launched Health AI, a free agentic assistant that can read medical records, book appointments, and manage prescriptions, with five free visits for Prime members. |
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| | | | | Every newsletter, we showcase how a reader is using AI to work smarter, save time, or make life easier. | Today's workflow comes from reader Jigar P. in Canada: | "I use AI as a learning partner to support my son's communication and language development. He is on the Autism spectrum. I generate tailored WH-question exercises (who, what, where, when, why) so he can practice understanding and answering. | I also use AI to design vocal and speech exercises that help reduce echolalia by encouraging him to move from repeating the question to giving his own response. Instead of relying on generic worksheets, I create learning materials that adapt to what he finds challenging and what keeps him engaged. AI helps me produce new examples, practice prompts, and role-play scenarios, so the practice stays fresh and consistent." | How do you use AI? Tell us here. |
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