WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2026 · EDITION #346 START HERE Test a useful idea before you build the whole thing Today’s AI workflow starts with a small appointment dashboard and a clear question: is a waitlist worth testing? The tool spotlight looks at Videco’s plan to turn recordings into reusable content, including its costs and early-stage limits. First, 20 stories to help you keep up: Netflix tests a new way to choose what to watch, Google brings AI checkout to Canada, schools get new controls,...
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2026 START HERE ChatGPT will combine its usage allowance; Starbucks plans AI-assisted drive-through tests OpenAI is preparing one shared allowance for ChatGPT and Codex in December. Schools can now add specific AI privacy protections to Microsoft contracts, while a payment experiment shows what can go wrong when an assistant can read its own approval codes. Also in the top five: Starbucks’ planned drive-through test and an investigation into deceptive AI apps. Below, 22...
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2026 · ISSUE #343 START HERE Canva edits designs, ChatGPT edits Office files, and Granola adds free voice typing Today’s practical updates start with work you already have: a Canva design that needs changing, an Office file that needs editing, and a draft you would rather speak than type. Canva, Reducto and Granola each offer a different way to get that work done. Also in the top five: new ChatGPT safeguards for teens and security research that shows why browser updates...
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NEXT EDITION PREVIEW · NEWS ROUNDUP START HERE Text your dot, compare new devices, and check the health-AI evidence Some U.S. Pro users can now text work to their ChatGPT dot. Amazon has new home devices with cameras or sleep sensing, and Apple has announced a touchscreen MacBook Pro. Two health stories round out the top five: Pew’s findings on public discomfort with medical AI and Meta’s university research grants. 01 · TOP FIVE Some U.S. Pro users can assign work to their ChatGPT dot by...
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mAIn Street #341 | Full Edition: Google connects apps; employees build their own tools; the AI jobs headline that got it wrong THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2026 · ISSUE #341 · FULL EDITION START HERE Google connects more apps. Employees build their own. Who checks the work? Good morning, Google is bringing more services into Gemini and Search, while GitHub is giving ongoing AI projects a home of their own. Employees are already building tools to fix the work that slows them down. The question of who...
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mAIn Street #339 | Full Edition: OpenAI halves Terra API prices; Apple announces $699 iPad mini TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2026 · ISSUE #339 · FULL EDITION START HERE OpenAI halves Terra API prices; Apple announces a $699 iPad mini Good morning, OpenAI released a lower-cost model for computer work on Monday, and Apple announced a new iPad mini with more AI features. One is available now; the other does not arrive until November 6. The distinction matters before you spend money or plan your work...
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mAIn Street #338 | Full Edition: NetSuite releases 45+ AI skills; Anthropic files for an IPO; Samsung TV microphone claim remains unverified MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2026 · ISSUE #338 · FULL EDITION START HERE NetSuite releases 45+ AI skills; Anthropic files for an IPO Good afternoon, Before giving an AI tool another job, ask two questions: What information does it need, and how will I check the result? Today’s business-software announcements make those questions especially useful. NetSuite and...
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mAIn Street #337 | Full Edition: Claude Duet, Walmart shopping agents, small-business AI and Barclays jobs FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2026 · ISSUE #337 · FULL EDITION START HERE What are we ready to hand over? Claude is offering to keep track of work between prompts. Walmart is preparing to let agents shop under spending limits. Goldman Sachs is putting resources into small-business AI training, while Barclays is cutting jobs as part of a technology-driven cost effort. Those are the four leads...
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mAIn Street #336 | Full Edition: Locked chats, AI in the car, and who gets credit at work THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2026 · ISSUE #336 · FULL EDITION START HERE A quick catch-up I’m sorry for the brief gap. Thanks for sticking with me. ChatGPT is adding locked conversations, Gemini is bringing personal context to the car, and a new manager survey asks a question many workplaces are still working out: how do you recognize someone’s contribution when AI helped produce the result? OpenAI is also...
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