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Sunday Rundown #135: Moving Visuals & Glazing Gemini

Sunday Bonus #95: Claude skill that repurposes your posts for social media platforms.

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Daniel Nest
Mar 29, 2026
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Heads up: I’m away for Easter, so the next Sunday Rundown is on April 12

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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Let’s get to it.

🗞️ AI news

Here are this week’s AI developments.

👩‍💻 AI releases

  1. Ai2 open-sourced MolmoWeb, a browsing agent that navigates websites and reads the screen like a human to complete tasks. (Try the demo.)

  2. Anthropic news:

    1. Claude mobile now lets you access tools like Amplitude, Canva, and Figma directly from your phone instead of relying on a laptop.

    2. Claude Code added Auto Mode that lets it run longer tasks with fewer interruptions by auto-approving safe actions while blocking risky ones.

  3. ByteDance news:

    1. CapCut launched a Timeline-Free Video Studio that lets you create and edit AI video clips using plain language instead of traditional timeline editing.

    2. Seedance 2.0 video model finally rolled out to the wider public via CapCut.

  4. Cohere open-sourced Transcribe, a SOTA model that accurately converts audio into text and offers multilingual support for real-world use cases.

  5. Google news:

    1. Gemini now lets you import memory and chat history from other AI tools, making it easier to switch without losing your personalization.

    2. Gemini 3.1 Flash Live is a real-time voice model that delivers faster, more natural conversations and is especially well-suited for low-latency agents.

    3. Lyria 3 Pro can now generate full 3-minute tracks and parse structured elements like “verse,” “chorus,” and “bridge” prompts.

    4. Search Live expanded globally and is now powered by Gemini 3.1 Flash Live for more natural voice conversations directly inside Google Search.

  6. Instagram added AI transitions to Stories that can turn a collection of still photos into an animated video clip.

  7. Lovart launched a Move Object tool that lets you reposition any element in an image by selecting, dragging, and prompting for changes.

  8. Luma Labs released its Uni-1 reasoning image model that thinks through your request before generating an image to ensure better prompt adherence.

  9. Mistral AI launched Voxtral, a low-latency multilingual text-to-speech model that supports nine languages and lets you fine-tune the voices.

  10. OpenAI upgraded ChatGPT shopping with visual browsing and side-by-side comparisons that help you find and evaluate products in seconds.

  11. Smallest.ai launched Lightning V3, a text-to-speech model that supports 15 languages and lets you customize tone, pace, and style in natural language.

  12. Suno released v5.5 with Voices, Custom Models, and My Taste features to create personalized music that better reflects your style and even uses your own voice.


🔬 AI research

  1. Anthropic is rolling out Computer Use in Claude Cowork that lets Claude control your desktop to complete tasks (In research preview for paid accounts on macOS).


📖 AI resources

  1. “ARC-AGI-3” [BENCHMARK]: new benchmark from the ARC Prize Foundation to test agent performance on previously unseen problems. (Try for yourself.)


🔀 AI random

  1. OpenAI is shutting down Sora entirely to focus on its core business. (The Sora social media play was always a questionable decision in my book.)


🤦‍♂️ AI fail of the week

Gemini, exactly one second after reading my article critical of AI ass-kissing:

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💰 Sunday Bonus #95: Create social posts from any article with the Content Repurposer skill

Today, I’m expanding the Claude Code Essentials page with yet another Claude skill.

Content Repurposer turns any article into social posts tailored to your platforms, voice, and audience.

You wrote the article. Now you need a bunch of social posts. But you don't want to cross-post the same text on every platform.  Content Repurposer Social media New Takes any article and produces social posts tailored to every platform that matters to you, including visual concepts for Instagram and Pinterest.  Different angle and hook for each platform Knows where links help and where they tank your reach Visual concepts + AI image prompts for Instagram & Pinterest Your voice, adjusted for each platform without losing what makes it yours Customize & download

You can grab the generic version with the default settings, but you’ll get better results by customizing the skill.

The configurator lets you select your platforms, describe your audience, paste in your voice guidelines, and one-click download a personalized skill file that’s ready to go.

Where do you post? Select the platforms you use. Each one gets output shaped for how that platform actually works.  Popular  More platforms  Custom platforms   Add a platform

Content Repurposer covers nine platforms out of the box, but you can always add your own. For visual platforms like Instagram and Pinterest, the skill also suggests visual concepts, image prompts, and captions to accompany them.

Grab and customize it here:

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