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How to Build Effective Product Loops in Claude Code, with Chief AI and Product Officer at JobNimbus, Tyler Folkman
Check out the conversation on Apple, Spotify and YouTube. Customer.io - Send smarter messages using your product data Ariso - Ship AI agents and features faster with fewer regressions Viktor - AI employee connected to 3k+ tools. Every action approved by your team Bolt - build a complete design system from your code Product Faculty - Get $150 off their #1 AI PM Certification: code AAKASH150 2024: Context Engineering 2025: Harness Engineering As the founder of OpenClaw said: Loops are all the hype now. I’ve already written the web’s deepest guide to loops for PMs.
Happy Friday, monitors. Between abliterated-model-large-v2, CXMT producing HBM3E, Claude Fable 5.1, SB Energy’s IPO filing, Cognition raising $1B, Gemini 3.8 Flash, Astra’s recurrent depth technique, the DOJ’s support for model training on copyrighted material, Muse Spark 1.3, Bernie’s Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, Nvidia’s acquisition of Hugging Face, and of course, GPT-6 Astra, it’s been a huge week. Be sure to monitor with us live on X and YouTube, and follow us on Instagram.
Seattle Times sues Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging they trained their AI on its journalism
Microsoft was sued Friday by the parent company of its hometown daily newspaper, The Seattle Times Co., which joined with Newsday to accuse the Redmond tech giant and OpenAI of using their journalism to train artificial intelligence models. “Like a snake eating its own tail, GenAI that is trained on painstakingly researched, expensive-to-produce content threatens to destroy the very news organizations by competing directly with them through AI-generated substitutive content,” the suit says.
Parchment Paper Paired With 3D-Printed Grid Gives a Nice Glow
I was pretty impressed by how the grid for the 64×64 RGB matrix just grew out of the slicer settings. Instead of modeling a separate light‑blocking frame, the maker printed a flat square with a grid‑pattern infill and left the top and bottom layers at zero, letting the slicer carve the little walls automatically. A bit of trial and error on the spacing was needed, but the result is a neat, square‑pixel face that keeps each LED from bleeding into its neighbor.
The diffuser part is where the everyday‑kitchen hack shines. Commercial diffuser films and acrylic are fine, but they add cost and thickness. After testing plain white paper, wax paper, and a few other options, parchment paper turned out to be the sweet spot—thin enough to stay clear, opaque enough to smooth the light, and easy to cut and stick.
Putting it together is straightforward: print the grid, lay the parchment over it, then seal everything with a clear plastic sheet. The whole stack sits on a simple Raspberry Pi mount, giving a clean, uniform glow without the usual hotspots.
It’s a good reminder that sometimes the simplest material—just a roll of parchment—can solve a problem that would otherwise need a specialty component. If you ever need a DIY diffuser for an LED panel, give this combo a try.
Google Adds Voice Commands to Gmail, Docs and Keep for Some Users
Google has begun rolling out beta voice features using Gemini 3.5 AI that allow you to have interactive conversations with its Gmail, Docs and Keep services. That means users can issue voice commands to find information in Gmail emails, incorporate AI search results into their Keep notes or start and organize a file in Docs without ever typing any text. The features are in beta and are known collectively as just “Live,” as in Gmail Live or Docs Live. The Live features for Gmail and Keep are only currently available to Google’s AI Plus, Pro and Ultra paid-tier subscribers.
I can't replace these 4 free Windows tools, and they are better than any paid alternative
Over nearly 21 years of using Windows, and over 4 years of using Windows 11 as my daily driver, I've developed numerous habits on the OS, and a lot of my workflow relies on some valuable tools that Microsoft gives away for free .