Tak Smann

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[Eyo Eyo, PhD @Eyowhite3]

Best way to build a dashboard in Excel without Power BI.

[Sairah @Sairah_0]

GPT Image 2 On ChatGPT

Prompt:

Create a vintage minimalist food packaging presentation inspired by retro agricultural branding and handcrafted editorial packaging aesthetics.

IMAGE TYPE:
Premium packaging showcase poster, artisan FMCG branding presentation, retro food product editorial design.

TOPIC:
[FLOUR / COFFEE / PASTA / RICE / SUGAR / TEA / ORGANIC FOOD / BAKERY PRODUCT]

STYLE & ART DIRECTION:

Same exact composition and visual hierarchy as the reference image

Minimal Scandinavian packaging aesthetic

Retro agricultural branding atmosphere

Vintage handcrafted illustration style

Editorial product presentation layout

Organic artisan branding mood

Behance-quality packaging showcase

Rustic food storytelling design

MAIN SUBJECT / HERO ELEMENT:

Multiple premium product packages

Handcrafted food branding

Rustic countryside illustrations

Minimal monochrome sketches

Large hero packaging presentation

Artisan product storytelling

Traditional agricultural atmosphere

Editorial packaging composition

LAYOUT & COMPOSITION:

Strong vertical editorial hierarchy

Floating product lineup structure

Minimal white negative space

Hand-drawn doodle integration

Clean product presentation balance

Structured visual rhythm

Premium packaging arrangement

Minimal Scandinavian composition

Editorial storytelling layout

TEXT & TYPOGRAPHY:

Large handcrafted script logo typography

Vintage cursive branding

Minimal sans-serif descriptions

Rustic packaging lettering

Elegant artisan typography hierarchy

Clean editorial spacing

Handcrafted premium branding fonts

DEPTH & LIGHTING:

Soft studio product lighting

Minimal realistic shadows
Bright clean presentation atmosphere

Premium packaging reflections
Organic handcrafted mood

Editorial product illumination

EXTRA DESIGN DETAILS:

Hand-drawn countryside sketches
Minimal ink doodles

Rustic environmental illustrations

Organic line-art elements
Editorial whitespace balance

Artisan branding details
Vintage paper atmosphere Traditional agricultural storytelling

COLOR PALETTE:

Warm orange
Wheat yellow
Bright blue

Soft white
Monochrome black sketches

Natural beige tones

CAMERA & RENDERING:

Premium packaging photography
Editorial product showcase angle
Ultra detailed packaging textures
Minimal Scandinavian rendering
High-end FMCG branding presentation

QUALITY CONTROLS:

Behance-quality packaging design
Ultra realistic product rendering
Premium artisan branding
High-end editorial composition
Minimal handcrafted atmosphere
Same exact mood and layout style as reference

[Claude @claudeai]

Claude for Excel, PowerPoint, and Word are now generally available, and Claude for Outlook is in public beta.

As Claude moves between your Microsoft apps, it carries the full context of your conversation.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

GPT-5.5 Instant is starting to roll out in ChatGPT.

It’s a big upgrade, giving you smarter, clearer, and more personalized answers in a warmer, more natural tone.

And it's also more concise, which we heard you wanted. We think you'll love chatting with it.

[Claude @claudeai]

New for financial services: ready-to-run Claude agent templates for building pitches, conducting valuation reviews, closing the books at month-end, and more.

Install them as plugins in Cowork and Claude Code, or use our cookbooks to run them in production as Managed Agents.

[Perplexity @perplexity_ai]

Perplexity Computer is now available in Microsoft Teams.

Run research, analysis, and document creation directly in your Teams workspace with the same capabilities as Computer.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Still wondering how you can use Codex for (almost) everything?

Codex can help with more of the work that supports the work, from organizing research to making spreadsheets, decks, and summaries.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Introducing GPT-5.5

A new class of intelligence for real work and powering agents, built to understand complex goals, use tools, check its work, and carry more tasks through to completion. It marks a new way of getting computer work done.

Now available in ChatGPT and Codex.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Made with ChatGPT Images 2.0

[Google Workspace @GoogleWorkspace]

Engage your audience with cartoon avatars. ✨

Use 2D and 3D cartoon avatars to deliver lighthearted project recaps or guide learners through complex concepts with an approachable, expressive new look!

Try it at https://t.co/jyqDppxo4K

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Anthropic just turned the entire BI stack into a checkbox in a $20 subscription.

Tableau charges $75-$115 per user per month for what Cowork now does in a prompt. Looker's enterprise floor starts around $30K a year. Retool raised at a $3.2B valuation building exactly this: dashboards connected to your apps and files, refreshed with live data. They hit $120M ARR last October on it.

Claude Pro is $20/month. Cowork is included. The dashboard, the data connection, and the auto-refresh are now one prompt and a connector approval.

The pitch for $75/seat Tableau was always the connectors plus the visualization layer. Cowork has the connectors (Slack, Salesforce, Drive, Asana, Jira) and Claude writes the visualization in 30 seconds. The pitch for Retool was that engineers could ship internal tools in hours instead of weeks. Cowork ships them in minutes for people who can't write a SQL query.

Every internal tools team at every mid-sized company exists because "live pipeline metrics view" used to require a Retool license, a data engineer, and two sprints. That whole job description is starting to compress into a chat message.

Tableau, Looker, and Retool all priced on the assumption that dashboards are scarce and creators are rare. Cowork inverts both. Every employee can build their own dashboard. Fewer Creator licenses, fewer Explorer licenses, fewer Retool seats per company from here.

Cowork isn't the BI category killer yet. But it's coming for the seat count, and the seat count is the whole business.

[Chrome Unboxed @chromeunboxed]

Google Vids is rolling out 30 new expressive AI voiceovers powered by Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, allowing users to add emotion, pauses, and sound effects to their videos. https://t.co/y5IoiMzquC

[Claude @claudeai]

Claude for Word is now available on Pro and Max plans to use alongside Opus 4.7: https://t.co/MJ89c4IuTt

[Claude @claudeai]

Describe what you want, and Claude builds the first version. Refine through conversation, inline comments, direct edits, or custom sliders.

Export to @canva, as PDF or PPTX, or hand off to Claude Code when the design feels right.

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable Opus model yet.

It handles long-running tasks with more rigor, follows instructions more precisely, and verifies its own outputs before reporting back.

You can hand off your hardest work with less supervision.

[Claude @claudeai]

Claude for Word is now in beta.

Draft, edit, and revise documents directly from the sidebar. Claude preserves your formatting, and edits appear as tracked changes.

Available on Team and Enterprise plans.

[Tak Smann @taksmann]

@Reuters China will win in AI race