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Sunday Rundown #104: Lawsuits & Floor Chill
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Sunday Rundown #104: Lawsuits & Floor Chill

Sunday Bonus #64: My custom GPT for picking the right framework for a task.

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Happy Sunday, friends!

Welcome back to the weekly look at generative AI that covers the following:

  • Sunday Rundown (free): this week’s AI news + a fun AI fail.

  • Sunday Bonus (paid): an exclusive segment for my paid subscribers.

Every Sunday Bonus in one place


In case you missed it, here’s this week’s Thursday deep dive:

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Let’s get to it.

🗞️ AI news

Here are this week’s AI developments.

👩‍💻 AI releases

New stuff you can try right now:

  1. Anthropic now lets users create and share interactive apps with AI capabilities directly inside Claude “Artifacts” using natural language. (Try for free.)

  2. Black Forest Labs open-sourced FLUX.1 Kontext [dev], the smallest member of its new FLUX.1 Kontext image model family (Try for free on Hugging Face.)

  3. Canva introduced a deep research connector to reference Canva content in ChatGPT and teased an upcoming MCP Server for in-chat design creation.

  4. ElevenLabs news:

    1. 11ai is a conversational voice assistant that supports MCP and can use tools to automate tasks on your behalf. (Try free while in beta.)

    2. ElevenLabs “AI Voice Generator” app brings the platform’s voice tools and features to mobile devices. (Download for Android or iOS.)

  5. Google news:

    1. Ask Photos now combines classic search features with Gemini-powered answers to support both simple and complex queries.

    2. Doppl is an experimental app that lets you try outfits on an animated, digital version of yourself. (Download for Android or iOS—US only for now.)

    3. Gemini Command Line Interface (CLI) is an open-source AI agent that brings Gemini into your terminal for free.

    4. Gemma 3n is fully released and brings “powerful multimodal AI capabilities” to edge devices.

    5. Imagen 4 is now available via Gemini API and Google AI Studio, including the more powerful Imagen 4 Ultra (Preview) version.

  6. Higgsfield released Soul—its “high-aesthetic” image model with “fashion-grade realism” and 50+ curated presets. (Try directly on Higgsfield.ai.)

  7. Inworld AI released a text-to-speech model called Inworld TTS that delivers “context-aware speech” and “zero-shot voice cloning.” (Try it for free.)

  8. Microsoft introduced a small, on-device language model, Mu, which also powers the Windows Settings agent.

  9. Napster is apparently still around and has launched Napster Companion and Napster View for real-time video chats with embodied AI assistants.

  10. OpenAI’s ChatGPT Connectors for Google Drive, Dropbox, SharePoint, and Box are now available to Pro users for regular chats (previously Deep Research only.)

  11. Salesforce rolled out Agentforce 3 that helps companies scale AI agents with real-time observability and plug-and-play integrations.

  12. Udio launched Sessions, a visual editor that lets paid subscribers tweak song structure by moving, extending, or replacing sections.

  13. WhatsApp now uses AI to summarize unread chats in Private Message Summaries, so you can catch up quickly.

  14. YouTube introduced new ways to discover relevant videos via AI-powered search results carousel and a conversational AI tool.


🔬 AI research

Cool stuff you might get to try one day:

  1. Moonshot AI showcased Kimi Researcher, an autonomous agent that outperforms OpenAI and Google’s “Deep Research” on multiturn search and reasoning. (Join the waitlist.)

  2. Runway is set to launch an interactive gaming experience that lets you create chat-based games accompanied by visuals.

  3. xAI might be working on an advanced file editor for Grok that can edit files and spreadsheets, and teased Grok 4 to arrive in early July.


📖 AI resources

Helpful AI tools and stuff that teaches you about AI:

  1. “How People Use Claude for Support, Advice, and Companionship” [REPORT] - Anthropic’s study of users’ “affective conversations” with Claude.


🔀 AI random

Other notable AI stories of the week. Curiously, AI companies have won three separate court cases in a single week:

  1. Anthropic won a fair use ruling about training Claude on existing books.

  2. Getty Images dropped its primary copyright claims against Stability AI (but will continue with its secondary and trademark infringement claims).

  3. Meta won a fair use judgment related to training its models on copyrighted texts, largely due to a technicality.

🤦‍♂️ AI fail of the week

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💰 Sunday Bonus #64: Apply the right framework to your task with my custom GPT

LLMs can be pretty great at applying thinking frameworks to your requests.

But if you’re like me, you don’t always know which framework applies when.

Hell, most of us don’t even know what frameworks are out there. SWOT? Eisenhower Box? SCAMPER? Fishbone Diagram? Eisenhower’s SCAMPER Fish?

Did I make any of those up? Who could possibly know?!

Not to worry: My Framework Selector GPT figures this out for you.

What does it do?

  • 🧠 Asks you questions to better understand your task

  • 🧭 Identifies several relevant frameworks and explains how they fit

  • 👣 Walks you step by step through your chosen framework

  • 📌 Gives you actionable insights you can put to use right away

Quite handy for working through tricky tasks or decisions:

Thanks! Based on that, this is a clear practical decision-making task with multiple options and defined criteria. Here are some frameworks that could fit well:  1. Decision Matrix (Weighted Scoring Model) How it works: You list your criteria (e.g., price, ecosystem compatibility, battery, etc.), assign weights to each, score each phone, then calculate a total score. Why it might fit: Helps make a rational choice by quantifying how well each phone meets your priorities.  2. 2x2 Matrix How it works: You choose two key factors (e.g., price vs. ecosystem), and plot the phones on a simple grid to visualize trade-offs. Why it might fit: Gives a quick visual sense of what’s a balanced vs. extreme choice.
Framework Selector helps pick the right framework for picking the right smartphone.

Need help with your next big, small, or tiny challenge?

Take the Framework Selector for a spin:

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