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Plus, ✨How to run Claude on your computer from your phone with dispatch, Microsoft reshuffles AI leadership and threatens legal action over OpenAI's AWS deal, and more!
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Today we have:
🎨 Google Stitch Now Designs From Words
✨How to Run Claude on Your Computer From Your Phone With Dispatch
⚖️ Microsoft Picks Two Fights: One With Copilot's Adoption Gap, One With OpenAI's AWS Deal
🔨Tools and Shifts you cannot miss
🎨 Google Stitch Now Designs From Words
Google relaunched Stitch as a full AI-native design tool. Instead of starting with wireframes, you describe what you want your product to do or feel, and the agent builds high-fidelity UI from there.
The Shift:
1. Infinite Canvas With Full Context - The new canvas accepts images, text, and code as inputs. A design agent reasons across your entire project history, and an agent manager lets you explore multiple directions in parallel without losing track.
2. From Static Screens to Interactive Prototypes Instantly - You can stitch screens together and hit play to preview user flows in seconds. The tool auto-generates logical next screens based on clicks, mapping out journeys without manual effort.
3. Voice, Design Systems, and Developer Handoff - You can speak to the canvas for real-time critiques and edits. DESIGN.md lets you export and import design rules across projects and tools. Stitch's MCP server and SDK connect directly to developer environments like AI Studio.
This compresses the gap between idea and working prototype from days to minutes. For founders, operators, and product teams without dedicated design resources, Stitch removes a major bottleneck in the build process.
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Marketers agree: OOH is powerful for brand growth, driving new customers, and reinforcing messaging. AdQuick makes it easy, intuitive, and data-driven—so you can treat real-world campaigns like any other digital channel.
✨How to Run Claude on Your Computer From Your Phone With Dispatch
Text a task. Leave. Come back to the finished work. Here's how to set it up.
Step 1: Update Claude Desktop - Download the latest version of the Claude Mac app. A new Dispatch option will appear inside Cowork automatically.
Step 2: Scan the QR code - Open Dispatch in Cowork and scan the QR code with your iPhone. This pairs your phone to your desktop session in one step.
Step 3: Text Claude a task from your phone - Open the Dispatch entry in the Claude mobile app. Describe what you need in plain language, compile a report, draft a briefing, pull files, and build a presentation. Claude picks it up and starts working on your machine.
Step 4: Walk away - Claude runs the task locally using your files, connectors, and any tools you've already set up in Cowork. You don't need to be at your desk.
Step 5: Come back to finished work - Check back when you're ready. Claude completes the task and holds the output in your Dispatch conversation.
Currently in research preview. Max subscribers get access now, Pro plans follow within days. You can try Dispatch here.
⚖️ Microsoft Picks Two Fights: One With Copilot's Adoption Gap, One With OpenAI's AWS Deal
Microsoft merged its Copilot teams and put Mustafa Suleyman on a five-year superintelligence mission. In the same week, it signalled it may sue OpenAI over a new Amazon cloud deal.
The Shift:
Former Snap SVP Jacob Andreou will now lead the unified Copilot org across design, product, and engineering. With just 6M daily users against ChatGPT's 440M and 3% enterprise Office adoption, the consolidation was overdue.
Suleyman moves fully to frontier model development for the next five years. Microsoft also unlocked the right to pursue AGI independently, a restriction that previously ran until 2030.
OpenAI made AWS the home for Frontier, its new enterprise agent platform. That deal is worth $138B in cloud spending to Amazon. The issue: Microsoft still holds a contractual clause that requires all developer access to OpenAI's models to go through Azure.
OpenAI also signed a separate AWS deal that opened Pentagon deployment. Microsoft says if any of these breaches their contract, they will sue. Both sides are talking, but the tone from Microsoft's camp is anything but friendly.
OpenAI also signed a new AWS deal last week that opened the door for Pentagon deployment, raising the stakes even higher. Microsoft is fixing Copilot internally while drawing hard legal lines externally. This partnership is no longer running on trust.
Together with Glady.ai
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🔨AI Tools for the Shift
🔗 APIPod - Connect to top AI models across text, video, and more with a single API that unifies all modalities.
🎨 BrandPro - Get a complete logo system and brand guide delivered in minutes for a fast, professional brand setup.
📢 Orbital Marketing AI - Generate high-performing sales copy, emails, ads, and social content faster and more efficiently than most marketers.
🧠 Zencoder - Build reliable software with AI using spec-driven workflows, parallel agents, and built-in verification.
🍳 Preplo - Turn cooking videos into actionable recipes by extracting ingredients, steps, and costs from any social media link.
🚀Quick Shifts
💾 Samsung announced plans to invest $73 billion in AI chip expansion, boosting production and R&D by 22% in 2026 to compete with SK Hynix and meet rising demand from agentic AI and robotics.
🌐 Perplexity launched its AI-powered Comet browser on iOS, expanding from its earlier Android release and bringing AI-driven browsing and search capabilities to more mobile users.
⚖️ The Pentagon filed a rebuttal to Anthropic’s lawsuit, arguing that the company’s AI systems pose potential national security risks if they can be altered or disabled during active military operations.
🏗️ NVIDIA is building a rapidly growing AI networking business, now its second-largest revenue driver, powering data centres with technologies like NVLink and InfiniBand to support the infrastructure behind large-scale AI systems.
🖼️ Midjourney rolled out a preview of its V8 image model, offering improved speed, finer detail, and better text rendering, while early user reactions remain mixed during initial testing.
🧩 Prompt of the Day
Subscription Retention Strategy
Build systems that keep subscribers engaged, reduce churn, and increase lifetime value.
Paste the prompt: Drop this into ChatGPT and fill in your product and subscription model.
Prompt to paste
Create a subscription retention strategy for [Insert product or service]. Include:
Churn Prevention Tactics: [Insert methods like usage nudges, onboarding flows, win-back offers]
Exclusive Subscriber Benefits: [List perks like discounts, early access, premium features]
Renewal Reminders: [Insert timing and channels for reminders]
Use Case: Reduce cancellations and increase long-term customer retention.
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