Sunday Rundown #126: Coworking & Laser Cats

Sunday Bonus #86: Swipe file with 100+ use cases for Claude Code.

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.

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

Claude Code for the Rest of Us: Setup Guide & Use Cases

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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 introduced Cowork, an agent that can manipulate files and folders to autonomously handle real work. (Only for paid accounts and MacOS for now.)

2. Black Forest Labs released FLUX.2 [klein], an ultra-fast image model that combines generation and editing and can run on consumer GPUs.

3. ElevenLabs launched Scribe v2, a faster, more accurate speech-to-text model for transcribing long audio and multiple languages at scale.

4. Google news:

   1. NotebookLM can now create Data Tables from your notes and sources, structured and exportable to Google Sheets. (Paid-only for now.)

   2. Personal Intelligence lets Gemini use context from other Google products to provide more tailored and relevant responses. (In US-only beta for now.)

   3. TranslateGemma, a new suite of open translation models that work across 55 languages and can run efficiently on smaller personal devices.

   4. Trends Explore added a Gemini-powered side panel that help users quickly understand what’s driving spikes and shifts in interest.

   5. Veo 3.1 got an Ingredients to Video feature that combines multiple reference images and can now upscale videos to up to 4K.

5. Manus launched Meeting Minutes, which can record in-person conversations and turn them into summaries with key points and action items.

6. Microsoft news:

   1. New edu tools and programs provide educators with AI assistants, lesson-planning support, and training resources to personalize their teaching.

   2. OptiMind is a research model built to deliver fast, accurate solutions to complex planning and optimization tasks.

7. OpenAI expanded its low-cost ChatGPT Go subscription worldwide, with more messages, file uploads, and image generation than the free tier.

8. PixVerse released R1, a real-time video world model that understands physics and object permanence, letting it generate consistent motion. (Try it here.)

9. Replit introduced Mobile Apps on Replit, letting anyone publish a complete app to the App Store by simply describing what it should do.

10. Runway launched Story Panels, an app that turns a single character or product image into a three-panel visual story.

11. Z.ai open-sourced GLM-Image, an image model that excels at precise text rendering and knowledge-rich visuals.

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🔬 AI research

Cool stuff you might get to try one day:

1. DeepSeek released a paper on Engram, a module that separates long-term memory from reasoning to reduce compute costs without sacrificing performance.

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📖 AI resources

Helpful AI tools or stuff that teaches you about AI:

1. Anthropic Economic Index [REPORT]—metrics and data on how Claude is used across work, education, and personal tasks.

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🔀 AI random

Other notable AI stories of the week:

1. Apple partnered with Google to use its Gemini models to power the next generation of Apple Intelligence, including a more personalized Siri.

2. OpenAI will soon start testing ads in ChatGPT for Free and Go tiers in the US. (Paid plans from Plus and above will stay ad-free.)

🤦‍♂️ AI fail of the week

ChatGPT turned my Claude Code article into a movie poster. Maybe a win?

Send me your AI fail for a chance to be featured in an upcoming Sunday Rundown.

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💰 Sunday Bonus #86: 100+ use cases & prompts for Claude Code (swipe file)

Now that I explained how to set up Claude Code on your computer, the next logical step is figuring out what to use it for.

So today’s Sunday Bonus is a curated swipe file with 100+ use cases for Claude Code.

It proudly joins all my other swipe files:

• 90+ use cases for GPT-4o image generation

• 45+ practical use cases for o3

• 40+ use cases for Claude 4

• 72 use cases for Nano Banana

• 100+ use cases & prompts for Gemini 3 Pro

• 100+ use cases & prompts for Nano Banana Pro

Each use case comes with a basic starter prompt that you can one-click copy and modify based on your needs:

Enjoy!