Week in Product #478 🚀
OpenClaw and Claude Code guides, Cursor Automations, Stripe monetization tools, Product sense in AI times, OpenAI signals data, Building AI agent systems, New MacBooks & more
Hi friends 👋
Welcome to a new Week in Product!
🎰 The week in figures
$189B: February saw record $189B global venture investment, fueled by OpenAI ($110B), Anthropic ($30B), and Waymo ($16B). AI startups captured 90% of funds
$21B: Amazon to invest additional $21B ($33.7B total) in datacenters in Spain to boost AI innovation, making Spain “the AI epicentre of Amazon’s operations in Europe." Expected to sustain 30k jobs
$4.5B: Decagon, the AI customer support startup, hit $4.5B valuation through its first tender offer, allowing early employees to cash out & staying private
$2B: Cursor Hits $2B ARR after doubling in 3 months and rivaling GitHub Copilot
$230M: Science Corp BCI, the Brain-computer interface company, raised a $230M Series C at $1.5B valuation, commercializing its vision restoration system
$195M: Ualá raised $195M to scale its neobank ecosystem across Latin America, where the Argentina-based company serves 11M+ customers
$150M: Grow Therapy, the mental health startup connects patients with therapists and psychiatrists just raised a $150M Series D at a $3B valuation
$116M: Rent2Cash raised €100M (~$116M) to scale its rental advance platform, with plans to expand across Spain, France, and Portugal
📰 What’s going on
Google rolled out Canvas in the US. It gives users a dynamic space to organize plans and projects directly inside Google’s AI Mode UI. Google’s Product leader for AI Mode, Rose Yao, says there are plans to add support for coding and creative writing tasks with custom dashboards
Google makes Gmail, Drive, Docs agent-ready. A new command-line interface streamlines AI agent integration with Workspace services, simplifying connections for tools like OpenClaw and MCP-compatible apps with specific instructions, replacing complex multi-API processes
Google launched Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, designed for companies making millions of API calls a day, where shaving fractions of a cent per query matters more than benchmark scores
Claude Code is getting voice mode. You can toggle voice mode on by typing `/voice` in the interface
Perplexity Computer also got voice mode. Perplexity showed how you can use voice as an ambient assistant that will work on tasks in the background for you and provide updates as it goes.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.3 Instant for real-time apps where even a 2-second delay kills the experience (e.g. live copilots in docs, voice assistants that can’t afford awkward pauses)
GPT-5.4 takes control. OpenAI's new model is their first to offer native computer control, clicking, typing, and navigating apps autonomously
Cursor launched Automations, always-on agents that trigger automatically on PR merges, Slack messages, GitHub events, or schedules to handle code reviews, bug triage, and codebase maintenance in cloud sandboxes
Vercel dropped a free, open-source headless browser built in Rust specifically for AI agents. It's a single binary with zero dependencies
Amazon launches Canvas AI tool for sellers. Real-time dashboard visualizing inventory, ad performance, and suggesting pricing adjustments
LTX Studio launched LTX 2.3, the first production-grade AI video model, with full audio generation, that runs entirely on consumer hardware
Apple launched M5 Pro and Max chips with groundbreaking Fusion architecture delivering 4x faster AI and 18-core CPUs. Apple also launched the MacBook Neo ($599), its cheapest laptop ever, to rival Chromebooks
Alibaba quietly shipped four Qwen 3.5 Small models that can run on your phone or laptop
Alibaba debuts Qwen Glasses S1 and G1 with swappable batteries, 12MP camera, real-time translation, and bone conduction audio
Stripe launched new monetization tools designed to help businesses transform their AI operational expenses into revenue-generating profit centers
X Money enters beta with 6% APY on deposits, a metal debit card, direct deposit, instant Visa Direct transfers, and $250K FDIC insurance via Cross River Bank
Better.com and OpenAI just launched a ChatGPT app that underwrites home loans in under a minute
📚 Good reads
How Claude Code transformed the engineering processes at Spotify, Wix, Ramp, Brex, and more. Anthropic’s Claude Code PM Cat Wu shares how some of the world’s leading companies are using Claude Code, and how it has transformed their engineering processes. Teams are reporting 3–4x productivity boosts, “month’s worth of work in a day” moments, and even non‑technical colleagues shipping internal tools and apps that used to require long dev cycles
OpenAI Signals data. Regularly updated, privacy-preserving stats on how consumer ChatGPT is used across work and personal contexts, by region and by user groups. Dig into whether people are asking for info, getting things done, and how are they interacting with LLMs. There’s also a downloadable methodology and dataset (based on July 2024–end 2025 messages) that PMs can mine for deeper patterns in adoption and use cases
Product Sense in AI times, by Shreyas Doshi. As AI tools become ubiquitous and similarly powerful, simply being “AI native” won’t differentiate PMs for long. Shreyas argues that the real long‑term win is how you improve on AI’s already great inputs and outputs, turning its insights into better decisions than others can. He breaks Product Sense down into empathy, simulation, strategic thinking, taste, and creative execution, framing it as the upstream human capability behind most durable advantages (from UX to distribution) in an AI‑saturated world
An signle engineer + AI rewrote most of Next.js in a week. The code isn’t truly production-ready yet, but this shows how cheap and fast AI-powered rewrites can threat commercial open source advantages. For PMs, this signals a ruthless AI-native platform competition era; code is copyable and moats are more likely to be built around infra, ecosystem, and community
Revenue addiction. Elena Verna argues that, in the AI era, obsessing over short‑term revenue leads to dark patterns, stalled innovation, and cultures that slowly forget the customer altogether. Revenue should be treated as an output, and teams should focus more on value, engagement, and qualitative signals, so they can make the big risky bets this new tech landscape actually requires
🎧 Good listen/watch
Claude Code’s creator discusses why PRDs are dead at Anthropic. Boris Cherny explains how Anthropic prototypes dozens of versions in days, and what skills still matter when anyone can “write code”
Gemini Gems masterclass. Lisa Huang, one of the most seasoned AI PMs out there, explains how to move from “chatting with an LLM” to building persistent, personalized AI teammates using Gemini Gems, Claude Projects, and GPTs. She breaks down three essential PM setups (writing clone, strategy advisor, research synthesizer) and how to make them work with good instructions, the right knowledge files, and iteration. The piece also dives into building AI into hardware, how to architect and measure reliable agents, and what all of this means for the future of PM careers and breaking into AI PM in 2026
🧑💻 Worth learning
Claude Code for PMs. Schin Rekhi hosted a free session for Reforge walking through how he uses Claude Code as an “AI operating system” for product work. Most of the work is defining workflows, context, and templates in markdown while Claude Code handles the technical bits. Complement with this open-sourced Claude Code and Skills set by Aakash Gupta
OpenClaw for beginners. The team at Every just published the best beginner’s guide to OpenClaw, the open-source AI assistant that blew up in January (100K+ GitHub stars in a week). Unlike ChatGPT or Claude, your “Claw” lives in WhatsApp or Telegram, runs 24/7, and can change itself by writing code when it needs new abilities. The guide walks you through three levels:
Beginner: Set up a to-do list and daily check-ins.
Intermediate: Connect email and calendar, get one morning briefing with everything you need.
Advanced: Give it ongoing projects, let it make phone calls, build compound workflows.
Building AI agent systems. Prompt Engineering walks through how to apply classic three-tier architecture (data, processing, presentation) to build AI agent systems that actually work in production
🔧 Products to try
Glaze by Raycast (in waitlist). Create desktop apps (not just websites) in a few minutes; free daily credits, then $20/month. PM use cases: Internal tools for your team, personal utilities, menu bar apps, workflow automations, or just quick one-off things that make your life easier
Google Workspace CLI gives your AI agents direct access to Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Sheets, and Docs through a single npm install, with 40+ built-in skills, clean JSON output, and guardrails against hallucinations; 8,800+ GitHub stars in its first day; free and open source. PM use cases: finally, have all your G-apps connected to your AI agents
Claude Import Memory lets you switch to Claude from ChatGPT or other assistants without starting over; it imports your conversation history and preferences
That’s a wrap for this week!
Feel free to drop your comments/questions/feedback. Would love to hear what you’d like to see more about in WiP, so I can make it better for you.
Have a great weekend.
