🚨BREAKING: Google just had their biggest I/O in a decade.
New models. New agents. New hardware.
Voice-first productivity, AI in Search, Docs, Gmail, and your glasses.
Here are 10 wild updates that have dropped so far 👇
BREAKING: Claude can now build your entire startup from idea to launch like a seasoned entrepreneur — without spending a single dollar.
Here are 7 Claude prompts to validate your idea, build your business, and start making money faster than 99% of beginners:
ElevenLabs just lost its moat 🤯
Someone just dropped Voicebox, and it clones any voice from just a 3-second audio clip, running 100% locally on your machine.
100% Open Source
Invest 31 minutes in building your knowledge of the future.
See the Elon Musk speech at #WEF2026.
Will summarise it by the afternoon.
Its a very busy Friday !
Shopify is building the foundation for agentic commerce.
Universal Commerce Protocol, which we co-developed with Google, is now live. UCP will make it faster for agents and retailers to integrate.
It’s open by default, so platforms and agents can use UCP to start transacting with any merchant. Major retailers are already using it.
Agents can handle everything from discovery to fulfillment, and support things like discounts, subscriptions, and loyalty programs. We’ve accounted for all types of commerce.
Where does consumer AI stand at the end of 2025?
Our team @a16z lives and breathes this. Our teardown on the status of ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and more 👇
The hot new job at tech companies is leading "storytelling."
The term doubled on LinkedIn job posts in the U.S since last year. The WSJ writes:
"Compliance technology firm Vanta this month began hiring for a head of storytelling, offering a salary of up to $274,000."
"Productivity app Notion recently merged its communications, social media and influencer functions into one 10-person, so-called storytelling team."
"Financial technology brand Chime last month began hiring for a director of corporate editorial and storytelling—its first storyteller opening."
As a former reporter and career-long content/brand leader, I have some thoughts!
These examples point to a shift in internal marketing orgs that reflect a shrinking earned media landscape and an endless, growing number of distribution channels to share and own your narrative, i.e. "going direct."
It's not entirely editorial, or events, or PR, or marketing. It's how all these pieces work together and how they contribute to the bigger picture - your story!
I joke with my reporter friends that they are infinitely hireable if they ever left journalism. Why? Because we are trained to ask: "So what? Why should readers care? What does it mean for them?" To me, that's a big nuance in this conversation. Because...
*Storytelling is a human act and it's a service.*
Super interested to watch what happens here. Are you long/short on this role?