{{first_name | Leader}}, welcome back.
AI is becoming more accessible and more ambitious at the same time. Closer to daily work, deeper into research, and easier to build with.
These are today’s updates.
Switch to a browser where AI works in the background. Try Neo.*
Claude Cowork expands to Windows desktop
Runway raises $315M for world models
Nothing launches ‘Essential AI’ app builder
Tools, resources, and a prompt to convert a resume stack into a shortlist. ⬇️
AI should work for you, not the other way around. Yet most AI tools still make you do the work first—explaining context, rewriting prompts, and starting over again and again.
Norton Neo is different. It is the world’s first safe AI-native browser, built to understand what you’re doing as you browse, search, and work—so you don’t lose value to endless prompting. You can prompt Neo when you want, but you don’t have to over-explain—Neo already has the context.
As AI gets more powerful, Neo is built to make it useful, trustworthy, and friction-light.
Anthropic released Claude Cowork for Windows in research preview. It matches the macOS version with file access, multi-step task execution, plugin support, and MCP connectors. The system runs inside a local virtual machine with explicit permission controls and supports persistent instructions at global or folder levels.
Runway raised $315 million at a $5.3 billion valuation to develop world models designed to simulate environments for planning and prediction. The company plans to expand beyond AI video into gaming, robotics, medicine, and climate, supported by increased compute infrastructure and hiring.
Nothing introduced Essential, a prompt-based platform for building and sharing mini apps without coding. The platform includes a community Playground for discovering user-created tools and is positioned as a step toward an AI-native operating system.
Productivity Tools
🔒 Norton Neo – Context-aware, trust-first AI built directly into your browser.*
🎓 X-Pilot - Create educational videos using AI.
📊 Interactpitch - Turn pitch decks into interactive, insight-rich experiences.
🎬 Fizzly - Generate images, videos, and train custom AI characters.
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One Chart That Matters
Top performers are 3.6× more likely to pursue enterprise-wide AI transformation.
Who ultimately owns AI outcomes in your company?
💰 Funding
Simple AI raised $14M (Seed) to scale its voice AI agent platform.
Dono raised $6.5M (Seed) to build an AI-powered property records platform.
💼 Roles in AI
ML Performance Optimization Software Engineer at Google DeepMind (US)
Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer, General Agents, Enterprise GenAI at Scale AI (US)
🐦 How LLMs Actually Work
Convert This Resume Stack Into a Shortlist
When to use this?
When you have multiple candidate summaries or resumes and need a fast, structured shortlist.
I’ll paste a job description and multiple candidate summaries below.
Your job:
Score each candidate against the core requirements (1–5 scale)
Highlight strengths and gaps clearly
Flag any red flags or missing experience
Recommend: Shortlist / Hold / Reject
Draft one focused interview question per shortlisted candidate
Keep output structured and concise.
Job description:
[paste JD]
Candidate summaries:
[paste resumes or summaries]P.S. Get more such prompts in the Prompting Playbook (free for you)
Q. What scares you more about AI adoption?
Stay curious, {{first_name | leaders}}
PS. If you missed yesterday’s issue, you can find it here.