The newsletter for the technically curious. Updates, tool reviews, and lay of the land from an exited founder turned investor and forever tinkerer.

Hey folks,

We missed our own 3rd birthday! 10th October 2025 marks three years since I started writing this newsletter. So grateful for all of you along for the ride and all the AI tools keeping us busy for so long 😅.

The latest entry in AI browsers is Atlas - A new browser from OpenAI.⁵³⁵ Atlas would feel similar to Dia or Comet if you’ve used them. It has an “Ask ChatGPT” sidebar that has the context of your page, and choose “Agent” to work on that tab. Right now, Agent is limited to a single tab, and it is way too slow to delegate anything for real to it. Click accuracy for Agent is alright on normal web pages, but it will definitely trip up if you ask it to use something like Google Sheets.

One ambient feature that I think many people will like is “select to rewrite” - You can select any text in Atlas, hover/click on the blue dot in the top right corner to rewrite it using AI.

You can also share your browsing history and access it in ChatGPT as a form of memory. That seems to be the bet to make Atlas sticky, but I haven’t been a fan of Memory in general. Searching in Atlas defaults to ChatGPT but has a few panes you can switch to, including one for your 10 blue links, one for images and a couple more. Overall, it feels like a beta version with too many gaps yet to be filled.

Google AI Studio has had a vibe-coding mode²³⁵ since May, but they have upgraded the experience a lot since then. It is one of the fastest ways to build with Gemini models and have Gemini-based features in your apps. The app files are saved to your drive, can be pushed to GitHub, and you can preview and deploy them as well. This is one of the unique features of the developer console of a major AI lab. Related: Web traffic for AI Studio¹¹⁶ has also been growing rapidly since last year.

NEW: Our ‘Ben’s Bites AI expert matching service’ has launched⁵¹⁵! h/t to my brother, Adam for building it with Shanice. If you’re an AI dev or no-code/automation expert, list yourself and get hired. If you’re a company needing AI projects built, post jobs and connect with the right people. We’ll be trialling a personalised matching service soon too.

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🌐 What I’m consuming

• Use the saw, fear the saw²⁷⁴ - Don’t stop making powerful (and potentially dangerous) tools; rather, we should empower people to use them safely.

• Neural audio codecs¹⁸⁰ - how to get audio into LLMs.

• Zero Framework Cognition²¹⁹: A way to build resilient AI applications.

• AI is making us work more⁴³⁶ - How the AI boom revived a 996 work culture.

• There is no God Tier video model²²⁷.

• How people at Cursor use Cursor⁴⁷⁹.

• As you know, I’m learning to be more technical so the Solve It With Code course⁶²⁷ by Jeremy Howard (Inventor of the LLM) & Eric Ries (The Lean Startup) is one course I’m taking - I’ve learnt a ton from both of them over the years. Their method teaches how to think with AI, not just prompt. Break challenges into small pieces, build iteratively. Starts Nov 3 with 5 weeks of live problem-solving. Bonus: Access to their Solveit platform. Join here⁶²⁷.
  Also Andrej Karpathy set a challenge: “Can you take my 2h13m tokenizer video and translate [into] a book chapter”. and Solve It did - read it here¹³⁸.

⚙️ Tools and demos

• Speechmatics gives your Voice AI Agents the best ears in AI. Capture who said what in noisy, heavily accented, multi-speaker conversations. Get $200 free 👂⁸⁵*

• Workflow Debugger by LlamaIndex^97† - Visualise a multi-agent workflow, with human-in-the-loop support and runtime comparisons.

• Lovable¹⁷⁷ now integrates with Shopify¹⁷⁷, allowing you to create a storefront and make it live.

• Director²⁴² - Free app to automate web tasks with a single prompt.

• Spiral¹⁷⁶ by Every - Write content you’re proud of with AI. (blog⁶⁴)

• ElevenLabs Voice Isolator¹²¹ now supports video - Clean up the audio in your videos to match studio-grade quality.

• Claude Desktop¹⁵² app now supports speech input, quick access and more.

• Semantic Art²⁹³ - Instead of generating art, discover what humans have already created.

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🥣 Dev dish

• X finally has a pay-per-use API⁶⁴ for developers to build upon. But it’s still too expensive—we pull 30-40k tweets per month to look for AI-relevant tweets from our feed, and that’s easily $200/mo.

• GPT-5 Image Mini⁷⁴ is now available on OpenRouter.

• ACP¹⁰⁶ - A protocol for connecting any editor to any agent.

• Chandra²¹⁸ - A highly accurate OCR model that converts images and PDFs into structured HTML/Markdown/JSON while preserving layout information.

• Scrapybara⁸¹ is sunsetting its product for spinning up remote desktop instances for computer use agents. As a result, they have open-sourced a part of their codebase.

💰 Who got that bag?

• Langchain⁸³ raised $125M at a $1.25B valuation.

• Sesame¹⁴² (the viral voice demo makers) has raised $250M Series B led by Sequoia and opened an iOS beta⁷⁰.

• Tempo Labs⁷⁹ has raised $5M to let design engineers collaborate on production codebases.

🍦 Afters

• The context engineering hackathon - Make agents and compete against pre-defined evals, not demo-ware. Nov 15th in SF, sign up here⁴⁷.

• Anthropic and Google⁶⁹ are in talks for a deal worth tens of billions for compute.

• Samsung, Google and Qualcomm released an Android headset, GalaxyXR¹²⁰, with a bunch of Gemini features (at half the price of Apple Vision Pro).

That’s it for today. Feel free to comment and share your thoughts. 👋

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