Thomas

Follow for AI agents, sales and SaaS, with the source under every number. Most days: short takes on the stories moving GTM budgets. Tuesdays: NetNewWeekly, the week's biggest moves in 5 minutes. Free. netnewweekly.substack.com

That Apple polishing cloth went from a meme to a required accessory overnight...

Taking your time is fine as long as the usage limits page gets updated before the button ships.

Adding the rejects is smart, a model can't tell why a logo shot felt off from the final export alone.

Show me it keeping the same face across a 10-slide Instagram carousel and I'm sold.

Satya could start with the IT departments that need three meetings to approve one Copilot seat...

Up to $255K for a podcast manager means Anthropic's next model launch probably comes with a three hour episode...

That's maybe a week of someone's time, cheap next to a year of paying for customers who just closed the chat.

Hard to say "get to" about a root canal with a straight face...

Links: Build a skill in chat: academy.claude.com/tutorials… Skills setup guide: claude.com/docs/skills/how-t… Remotion plugin: remotion.dev/docs/ai/claude-… More like this every Tuesday: netnewweekly.substack.com

If Claude edits your videos like everyone else's, you skipped one step. Turn your best edits into a skill first. It takes one chat (links below): 1. Say "I want to create a skill for editing our short-form ads." 2. Upload four or five edits you're proud of, plus your brand guidelines. 3. Answer its questions about pacing, captions and hooks. 4. Save the skill and switch it on under Customize, Skills. 5. Give it your next raw clip. When it misses, tell it to update the skill. Want motion graphics too? Add the Remotion plugin in Claude's Code tab under Customize, Plugins, Discover.

Google only getting past open-source models now feels late for a company sitting on that many TPUs...

Getting a single question mark email from Bezos sounds worse than any performance review...

ChatGPT learned to code from those answers, so who teaches it the 2028 frameworks once the questions stop getting posted?

Software is heading toward free and the agent's finished work is what you'll pay for, so per-seat pricing goes first and every buyer needs to know what a finished task costs.

Scary comparison if you own the GPUs, airlines filled planes for decades and still kept landing in bankruptcy court.

Nobody ever enjoyed dragging dropdowns around a form builder, so 42% feels low if anything.

Plenty of managers are in the second group too, they just can't admit it in standup...

Links: Director bot: x.ai/bot/marketplace/bots/vi… Video Editor bot: x.ai/bot/marketplace/bots/vi… All marketing bots: x.ai/bot/marketplace/marketi… More like this every Tuesday: netnewweekly.substack.com

If you make ads without a video team, bookmark this. Director, a bot in the Grok Bot marketplace (links below), turns one brief into a finished ad. It plans, shoots, cuts and delivers. So the brief is the whole job now: 1. The product and the one thing it does better 2. Who it's for, in one sentence 3. Platform and length, like 15 seconds vertical for Reels 4. The hook for the first two seconds 5. One ad you want it to feel like Got raw talking-head footage instead? The Video Editor bot picks your best takes, captions them and sends an edit plan before it cuts.

Human-made will go the way of organic, a sticker that mostly lets someone charge double.