I've been sleeping on Apple Shortcut Automations.

So, I asked my community for their top automations that actually improved their lives.

Here's the top 15 life hacks from the thread: 1/

Record voice memos, email them to yourself, then use an AI agent platform (Gumloop, n8n, or Lindy) to turn them into long-form articles

https://x.com/BigBrother_Jane/status/1960330613845610874

Perplexity Comet is not like other agents

I’ve been testing it all week, and it’s starting to actually *stick*

Having in-page data context and plugging it directly into tabs makes it so much easier to add to my workflow

An honest review with a few use cases (and caveats): First, the caveats:

- It's still early, and struggles with longer workflows
- Most data is retained by Perplexity (privacy concern)
- Only available to Max users ($200/mo) or free with an invitation code (we just dropped 500 codes in The Rundown University)

AI NEWS: Meta just teamed up with Oakley to expand its family of AI smart glasses.

Plus, more news from Mistral, Moonshot AI, MiniMax, Anthropic, and xAI.

Here's everything you need to know: Meta launched new performance-focused AI smart glasses with Oakley. Key features include:

—Upgraded camera with up to 3K videos
—2x battery, up to 8 hours of usage & 19 hrs on standby
—PRIZM Lens tech to amplify contrast across changing light and weather

AI NEWS: Sam Altman just revealed Meta is offering "$100M signing bonuses" to poach talent from OpenAI.

Plus, more news from Google, Baidu, MiniMax, Proactor, Krea, and Intelligent Internet.

Here's everything you need to know: Sam Altman cooked Meta on his brother's podcast. Key takeaways:

— Meta’s offering $100K bonus to poach OAI talent
— None of OAI’s best have taken the offers
— OAI has a better shot at AGI, will eventually be more valuable
— Meta isn't great at innovation

AI NEWS: China's Tencent just dropped an AI that generates 3D assets with cinematic quality.

Plus, more news from OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Flowstep, The Alan Turing Institute, and Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence.

Here's everything you need to know: Tencent released Hunyuan 3D 2.1, an open-source model for generating 3D assets, including PBR materials

It can synthesize objects with cinematic textures and realism while covering their light interactions

Fully open-source with model weights and code

AI NEWS: Apple kicked off WWDC 2025 with a major UI revamp — but was pretty light on Apple Intelligence

Plus, more news from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Microsoft, Manus, and Skywork AI.

Here's everything you need to know: At WWDC 2025, Apple showed off only a handful of AI upgrades, including:

—New Live translation for FaceTime, Messages, and calls
—Visual intelligence via screenshots
—AI-powered intelligent actions in Shortcuts
—AI "Workout Buddy" on Apple Watch

AI NEWS: Microsoft is offering free access to OpenAI's Sora AI video generator

Plus, more news from Captions, Cohere, PlayAI, Character AI, and Topaz Labs.

Here's everything you need to know: Microsoft just added Bing Video Creator to its Bing mobile app on Android and iOS

The feature uses OpenAI's Sora video generator to let users produce 5s vertical videos from text prompts —entirely for free

Also dropping on Desktop soon

AI NEWS: Google just dropped an Edge AI Gallery to bring open-source AI models to smartphones

Plus, more news from ElevenLabs, Resemble AI, DeepSeek, Sakana AI, Hume, and Tencent.

Here's everything you need to know: Google quietly launched Edge AI Gallery, a library of open AI models to access on smartphones

Currently on Android, the gallery lets users pick models for their task and run using the available device hardware, entirely locally

iOS version coming soon!

AI NEWS: Anthropic is finally joining the voice movement — giving Claude the ability to talk!

Plus, more news from Mistral, Google, SpAItial, Tencent, and Salesforce.

Here's everything you need to know: Anthropic is adding a voice mode to Claude mobile, providing English-speaking users with:

—Five voice personalities to interact with Claude Sonnet 4
—Real-time transcription of chats
—20-30 voice messages for free users
—Higher usage for paid users

Demis Hassabis is CEO of Google DeepMind, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, and a former chess prodigy.

I sat down with him to talk about:

-How AI could cure all diseases
-The future of human-AI relationships
-Vibe coding and the moat for startups

Here's what he said:
Curing all diseases with AI:

Demis Hassabis believes AI could cure all diseases by coming up with hundreds of new drugs.

He clarifies that FDA approvals and regulations could slow things down, but that doesn’t mean the potential cures won’t exist.

AI NEWS: OpenAI’s ‘iPhone moment’ in AI might be closer than ever — the company just acquired Jony Ive’s startup in a major deal. (Yes, the same Jony Ive who designed the iPhone.)

Plus, more news from Mistral, Microsoft, xAI, ByteDance, Shopify, and LMArena.

Here's everything you need to know: OpenAI acquired io, the AI device startup co-founded by Jony Ive, in a $6.5B all-stock deal. Key details:

—50+ io engineers and designers to join OpenAI
—They will create OAI's next-gen AI devices, going beyond screens
—First device to debut in 2026

It's only been 1 day of Google I/O 2025, and the announcements have already been incredible.

The 11 most impressive reveals of I/O 2025 so far:

1. Revamped project Astra with native audio dialogue, UI control, content retrieval, calling, and shopping
2. Agent Mode: Gemini will create a plan and take actions (like finding apartments) on the web using Project Mariner and MCP

Coming soon to subscribers

Microsoft just made a ton of new AI announcements across GitHub, Copilot, Azure AI Foundry, Windows, and more.

Here’s everything important announced live from Microsoft Build 2025: 1. GitHub Copilot is going from an in-editor assistant to a fully autonomous coding agent!

It works asynchronously to add features, fix bugs, extend tests, refactor code, and improve documentation

Plus, Microsoft is open-sourcing Copilot Chat in VS Code

AI NEWS: Mistral just launched a new multimodal AI promising SOTA performance at much lower cost

Plus, more news from Meta, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google, Figma, and Netflix.

Here's everything you need to know: Mistral just made two big reveals:

—Medium 3, a multimodal AI matching or surpassing 3.7 Sonnet, GPT-4o, and Llama 4 Maverick across benchmarks with 8x lower costs

—Le Chat Enterprise with corporate tools like Google Drive, agent building, and more

AI NEWS: Google just released a new version of Gemini 2.5 Pro, taking coding and web development to the next level

Plus, more news from HeyGen, Lighttricks, Windsurf, FutureHouse, Ace Studio, and Recraft.

Here's everything you need to know: Google released an early preview of Gemini 2.5 Pro I/O Edition, delivering:

—Enhanced performance for frontend and UI dev, code editing, and agentic workflows
—Top score on LM Arena and WebDev Arena, beating Claude 3.7 Sonnet
—Video understanding features

AI NEWS: China's Baidu just dropped ultra-affordable "Turbo" models, taking on OpenAI and DeepSeek

Plus, more news from OpenAI, Liquid AI, xAI, and Moonshot AI!

Here's everything you need to know: Baidu dropped faster and cheaper ERNIE 4.5 Turbo and X1 Turbo models

4.5 Turbo, with upgraded multimodality, costs 11c and 44c per million I/O tokens (0.2% of GPT-4.5).

X1 Turbo comes at 14c/55c per million I/O tokens, topping DeepSeek R1 and V3

TODAY'S AI NEWS: Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis just said AI can end all disease!

Plus, more news from Anthropic, Windsurf, ElevenLabs, Play AI, and TextArena.

Here's everything you need to know: Demis Hassabis appeared on 60 Minutes, sharing new insights into AI:

—AGI in 5-10 years, with conscious AI likely in the future
—AI fast-tracking drug discovery, potentially eradicating all disease within the next decade
—AI ensuring radical abundance

TODAY'S AI NEWS: OpenAI just released o3 and o4-mini, its smartest models yet

Plus, more news from Google, Anthropic, Cohere, Microsoft, Kling AI, and more.

Here's everything you need to know: OpenAI dropped the new o3 and o4-mini reasoner models

o3 pushes SOTA performance across coding, math, science, and multimodality, while o4-mini offers fast, cost-efficient performance

Both have agentic access to ChatGPT tools and can "think with images"

BREAKING: OpenAI just released o3 and o4-mini, the company's two newest reasoning models.

o3 is OpenAI's 'most advanced' reasoner yet, while o4-mini brings strong results at lower costs.

Also launching is Codex CLI, a new open-source coding agent.

More info in thread below: The biggest change: o3 and o4-mini can now think using images as part of their reasoning process.

Uploaded visuals can also be handled even if blurry or rotated — with the models able to adjust them using its own tools.

TODAY'S AI NEWS: OpenAI just dropped three GPT-4.1 models for devs—API-only and packing a jaw-dropping 1M-token context window.

Plus, more news from Google, Hugging Face, ByteDance, SSI, and LM Arena.

Here's everything you need to know: OpenAI released GPT-4.1, 4.1 Mini, and the ultra-fast 4.1 Nano—all designed for devs

— Each model beats GPT-4o and 4o mini on dev tasks
— 1M token context windows
— GPT-4.1 scored 55% on SWE-Bench Verified
— Starting at $0.10/0.40 per million I/O tokens

TODAY'S AI NEWS: Amazon just dropped a new voice model that beats OpenAI

Plus, more news from Google, Nvidia, Deep Cogito, Stanford, and more.

Here's everything you need to know: Amazon launched Nova Sonic speech-to-speech AI for human-like interactions

—Outperforms OpenAI's voice models with ~ 80% less cost
—4.2% word error rate across languages
— 46.7% better accuracy than GPT-4o for noisy environments
—On Amazon Bedrock