This agent actually does things

Welcome back to The Shift. Let’s get straight to what matters in AI today…

Today we have:

🧠 Moltbot Is the AI Agent People Are Freaking Out About

🎯 How Parker Tells You Exactly What Ads to Make Next

🤖 Airtable Bets Big on Superagent

🔨Tools and Shifts you cannot miss

🧩 Prompt of the Day

🧠 Moltbot Is the AI Agent People Are Freaking Out About

Moltbot is a viral local AI agent built by Austrian developer Peter Steinberger, first launched in December as Clawdbot before Anthropic trademark concerns forced a rename. It runs on your device, acts through chat apps, but raises major security risks as hype around agents keeps exploding.

The Shift:

1. A local AI agent that actually executes tasks - Moltbot runs directly on your own device and can complete actions for you instead of just responding in text, which is why people are calling it one of the first agents that truly feels useful. 

You can control Moltbot through WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Discord, or iMessage, turning a simple DM into a command center for managing calendars, forms, emails, and daily admin.

2. Flexible brain, customizable workflows - It can route tasks through AI providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google, and users are already building creative setups like daily audio recaps connected to Notion, Todoist, and calendars.

Moltbot can be granted full computer access, meaning it could read files, run scripts, and execute commands. Experts warn that this opens the door to prompt injection, exposed credentials, and hijacking through something as simple as a malicious DM. 

This is the clearest glimpse yet of “agents that live with you,” not just tools you query. And the hype is already moving markets, with Cloudflare stock jumping 14% premarket, showing how real the excitement is around local AI that actually does things.

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🎯 How Parker Tells You Exactly What Ads to Make Next

Parker is an AI ad strategist that doesn’t guess. It watches what’s working in your market, pulls real signals from competitors and customers, then tells you what creative to produce.

How it works

1. Research everything automatically: Parker scans TikTok, Reddit, competitor ads, reviews, and your own performance data, all in one place.

2. Ask questions, get strategist-level answers: It’s trained on proven ad frameworks, so outputs feel like an expert breakdown, not generic AI.

3. Generate winning creative fast: Parker turns research into ready-to-shoot assets:

• Hooks

• Scripts

• Angles

• Briefs

✨ Built for brands that want clarity on what to create, not more brainstorming. You can try it. 

🤖 Airtable Bets Big on Superagent

Airtable is stepping into the AI agent race with Superagent, even after its valuation dropped from $11.7B to about $4B. Instead of playing safe, the company is betting that coordinated AI agents will define the next era of serious knowledge work. 

The Shift:

1) Superagent is Airtable’s bold new product - Superagent is Airtable’s first standalone launch in 13 years, built as a new platform layer rather than a feature upgrade, showing Airtable wants its future to be bigger than spreadsheets. 

Instead of one assistant doing tasks one by one, Superagent sends multiple specialist agents to work in parallel, covering finance, competition, strategy, and synthesis like a coordinated research team.

3) Outputs are interactive, not just text - Superagent doesn’t stop at answers, it generates rich deliverables like visual market maps, demographic breakdowns, and timelines you can explore, making AI feel closer to a real business analyst.

Howie Liu argues that most agent tools today are just LLM-powered checklists. Superagent is designed for long-running autonomy, course correction, and premium data access through sources like SEC filings, FactSet, and Crunchbase. 

Superagent is Airtable’s wager that the next AI leap isn’t smarter chat, but smarter coordination. Pricing may range from $20 to $200 per user, and the real test will be whether customers feel the difference.

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🔨AI Tools for the Shift

👥 SightsAI – Simulate audience reactions in minutes using demographically and psychographically accurate AI twins, so you can maximize impact while reducing backlash before you launch.

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👗 Outfit.fm – Turn basic product images into studio-quality photos with AI fashion models, helping you sell more while saving time and production costs.

🚀Quick Shifts

💰 Anthropic reportedly doubled its funding target to $20B, pushing its valuation toward $350B as investor demand surges, underscoring how quickly Claude and Claude Code are becoming central in the AI race.

🤖 Google’s $7.99/month AI Plus plan is now rolling out globally, giving users cheaper access to Gemini 3 Pro, NotebookLM, Flow creative tools, and 200GB storage as Google competes directly with ChatGPT Go.

🔬 OpenAI launched Prism, a free GPT-5.2-powered scientific workspace that helps researchers draft papers, assess claims, search literature, and manage full project context, positioning AI as a major accelerator for science.

🔍 Google now lets users jump from AI Overviews into full AI Mode conversations with follow-up questions, while Gemini 3 becomes the default model powering Overviews globally, pushing Search toward a more interactive assistant experience.

🎬 Google premiered “Dear Upstairs Neighbors” at Sundance, showcasing an animated short created with its video AI to replicate hand-painted artistic styles through direct collaboration with filmmakers.

🧩 Prompt of the Day

How to Build a Tone of Voice Matrix Using One Prompt - Turn inconsistent messaging into a clear voice guide that stays consistent across website, social, and customer support.

Paste the prompt: Drop this into ChatGPT, then fill in your brand adjectives and the platforms you want aligned.

Prompt to paste

Create a tone of voice matrix for [Brand]. Map tone variations across platforms (website, social media, customer support). For each channel, define the tone style (formal vs informal, playful vs serious), key language rules, and 2 example lines that show how the brand should sound. Keep it clear, practical, and easy for any team member to follow.

🤳AI Nugget of the Day

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