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5 AI Updates
Worth Your Attention

October was a ridiculously big month in AI. Here are the 5 updates actually worth knowing, with one thing to try for each.

Skip the noise. These are the updates that change what you can do this month, and the last one is the one I’m most excited about.

October’s 5 Updates

01

Personal AI agents are everywhere

Over the last few months, every big AI company launched an agent that knows you and gets things done on its own. Hark Pro and Claude Duet arrived in October.

  1. Hark Pro from Hark does tasks for you in its own browser, like orders, reservations and research.
  2. Meta Muse from Meta handles email, travel and forms, and works inside WhatsApp.
  3. ChatGPT dots from OpenAI are always-on agents that work toward your goals around the clock.
  4. Grok Bot from xAI signs into your apps and can learn a routine after watching you once.
  5. Claude Duet from Anthropic sends you a morning brief and messages you when something needs you. It’s a waitlist preview for Pro and Max.

You don’t need all 5. Pick the one tied to the AI you already use, give it one task you do on repeat, and see how much mental load it takes off you.

Paste this into the agent you pick, or into Claude with your email and calendar connected.

My Morning Brief
Be my morning assistant. Every weekday at 7am, look at my email and calendar for today and send me a short brief: 1. The 3 things that need me today, and why each one matters 2. Any meeting I should prep for, with one line on what to prepare 3. Emails that need a reply, with a short draft for each 4. Anything I can safely ignore or push to later My priorities right now are: [your top 2 or 3 goals]. Use them to decide what matters most. Never send, buy, accept or delete anything without asking me first.

02

Meta and Google raised the bar

Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on October 12. In independent testing by Artificial Analysis, Muse Wonder Full landed right next to the top models on real work tasks. Google opened up Gemini 4 Argon to paid Gemini users on October 13.

More competition is good for all of us. Run the same task in two AIs, then have one of them judge both answers and combine the best parts.

Step 1: Run It In Both
Here's a task I do every week: [describe it, or paste an example] Who it's for: [your audience or boss] What a great result looks like: [the goal, length and tone] Give me your best version. Then tell me: 1. 2 assumptions you made 2. 2 questions that would make your answer better 3. What you'd change if I only had 5 minutes to use it
Step 2: Pick The Winner
I asked two different AIs to do the same task. Here's the task: [paste it] Answer A: [paste] Answer B: [paste] Score each one from 1 to 10 on accuracy, usefulness and how much it sounds like me, and explain each score in one line. Then combine the best parts of both into one final version I can use.

03

AI video popped off

Claude Motion launched October 8. Type /motion and Claude turns your ideas, charts and text into short animated videos you can edit and download. It’s in beta on Claude Team and Enterprise plans.

To edit your own filmed clips, free tools on GitHub like video-use, HyperFrames and Remotion’s skills work with Claude Code. Browse more in this list of video skills, which grades each one for safety.

Whatever you use, give it references and style rules first. Faster production is useful. Faster AI slop isn’t.

Write My Video Style Rules
I want every video we make to look and feel like my brand. I'm attaching [3 to 5 screenshots or videos] I love. Study them and write my video style rules in 10 short lines: colors, fonts, caption style, pacing, transitions, music feel, how the video opens and how it ends. Show me the rules so I can edit them. Once I approve, follow them for every video we make, and tell me before you do anything that breaks them.

Save the approved rules in your Project instructions so every video chat starts with them.

04

AI-assisted hacking is real

In October, researchers used AI to find two critical flaws in PHP, software behind a huge share of websites. Patches are out, but AI makes attacks like this faster to find and easier to scale. Three habits close most of the gaps:

  1. Turn on automatic updates on your phone and computer. On iPhone: Settings, General, Software Update.
  2. Use passkeys wherever they’re offered, starting with your Google account.
  3. Disconnect AI connections you don’t use. In Claude, go to Customize, then Connectors.
10-Minute Security Check
Help me do a 10-minute security check on my AI connections. 1. List every connector and tool you can use in this chat. For each one, tell me what it lets you read and what it lets you change, like sending, editing, deleting or buying. 2. Flag anything that can take an action without asking me first. 3. Give me a short checklist for reviewing which apps have access to my Google and Microsoft accounts, and how to remove the ones I don't use.

05

Your team’s AI knowledge can finally compound

This is the one I’m most excited about, because I launched Avori this month. Avori is an AI workspace for you, your human teammates and your agent teammates, all in one place.

It comes with a marketplace of more than 100 ready-to-go agents and skills, so you and your team can start using AI that works on day one instead of building everything from scratch. And when someone on your team builds an agent, workflow or skill that works, they can share it with everyone. It works with Claude or ChatGPT, and invites are going out in waves.

I’m so excited for you to finally try this out. You can join the waitlist here.

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