Sunday Rundown #140: Finance AI & No-Shirt Bob

Weekly roundup of AI tools, products, and features you can use.

Happy Sunday, friends!

Welcome back to the weekly AI news roundup.

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🗞️ AI news

Here’s what happened in AI this week:

👩‍💻 AI releases

1. Adobe launched a Productivity Agent in Acrobat Express that turns PDFs into shareable AI workspaces you can interact with.

2. Anthropic news:

   1. Agent Templates for financial services give teams 10 ready-to-run Claude workflows to help with pitch prep, KYC screening, and more.

   2. Claude Code rate limits have doubled, and there are no longer peak-hour limitations for Pro and Max accounts.

   3. Claude for Microsoft 365 is out for all paid plans, bringing Claude into Excel, PowerPoint, and Word (as well as Outlook in public beta).

   4. Managed Agents now have Dreaming (automatic memory review between sessions), Multiagent Orchestration, and Outcomes (working against a rubric).

3. Cursor introduced /orchestrate, a new skill that spawns specialist subagents to handle complex tasks in parallel.

4. ElevenLabs added a Studio Agent to ElevenCreative: an AI collaborator embedded in the audio/video timeline that lets you create without switching tools.

5. Google news:

   1. AI search results will now quote first-hand insights from Reddit, forums, and social media, featuring creator handles and clickable source links.

   2. Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is generally available as the fastest, most cost-efficient model in the Gemini 3 family, designed for ultra-low latency tasks.

6. LTX Studio launched Flows, a node-based canvas that lets you design and run visual generation workflows in batches.

7. OpenAI news:

   1. GPT-5.5 Instant in ChatGPT comes with fewer hallucinations, better image analysis, and clear explanations of what memories shaped its response.

   2. Codex can now work directly in Chrome on macOS and Windows, letting you run parallel coding agents across multiple browser tabs.

8. Perplexity news:

   1. Computer for Professional Finance connects to licensed data providers like Morningstar and can run pre-built analyst workflows in Microsoft Teams.

   2. Personal Computer is now out as a native macOS app that can run agentic tasks across local files, Mac applications, the web, and 400+ connectors.

   3. Premium Health Sources will pull peer-reviewed clinical journals into Perplexity answers.

9. Spotify launched a beta AI personal podcast feature that creates and saves daily briefings and learning content directly to your library.

10. Unity launched Unity AI in open beta, letting developers generate scenes from images, write scripts, and create placeholder assets without leaving the editor.

11. xAI launched Grok Voice Mode for Apple CarPlay, letting you talk to Grok hands-free in your car.

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🔬 AI research

1. Subquadratic introduced SubQ, an AI model that can read long documents in one go without having to split them into smaller chunks. (Request early access.)

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📖 AI resources

1. "Turning Claude’s Thoughts Into Text" [RESEARCH]: Anthropic's new study on helping to decode Claude’s internal “activations” into plain text.

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🤦‍♂️ AI fail of the week

My prompt was: “Two men tumble out of a dingy kitchen’s rear exit, arguing and fighting.” At no point did I request a door-glitching giant in a dissolving tank top.

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