Front Row Entrepreneur Flash Briefing: Recent Episodes
Jen Lehner
- ChatGPT can now make you a dinner reservation
- Meta has a new open-weight AI model - Muse Glimmer
- Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default
- Meta prepares desktop AI app for macOS as rivals race ahead
- Claude has added Record a skill to Cowork
- Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
- Anthropic unveils new multi-session framework for long-running Claude agents
- Instagram adds voice translations for Reels
- Perplexity adds memory for smarter, personalized responses
- OpenAI and Google introduce tighter safety limits for advanced models
- Google limits free Nano Banana Pro image generation due to high demand
- Meta brings more AI options into its ad creation flow
- YouTube expands access to generative AI tools and new community features
- Google launches Gemini for Home in early access
- TikTok introduces Smart Split, AI Script Creator, and AI Enhance tools
- YouTube adds AI upscaling and shopping updates
- Grammarly rebrands to Superhuman AI and launches a new assistant
- Microsoft expands Copilot for Windows with new connectors and document creation tools
- Gemini 3 leak points to October 22 launch and major upgrades
- OpenAI launches Agent Builder for no-code AI workflows
- Making sense of Meta’s growing AI-powered advertising machine
- Google launches Gemini for Enterprise
- xAI unveils Imagine v0.9 for AI video and sound generation
- Amazon launches Quick Suite agentic AI tools for enterprise
- OpenAI is building a ChatGPT-based web browser
- AWS to launch AI agent marketplace next week with Anthropic
- Google adds AI-powered animation to still images and Veo creations
- Google’s Gemini 2.5 lineup—Pro, Flash, and Flash‑Lite—is now available for developers
- Google adds Search Live to AI Mode for real-time conversations
- ChatGPT’s new Record Mode debuts on macOS
Twitter apparently began to restrict promotion and visibility for tweets with links to Substack posts.
Google is introducing new extreme heat alerts in Search that are designed to surface information to help people stay safe during heat waves.
Microsoft is trying to make it easier to share your experiences with its GPT-4-powered Bing Chat.
Meta is now alerting groups users that audio channels are going away.
Microsoft unveiled Microsoft 365 Copilot, its latest push to embed its suite of productivity and enterprise apps with AI.
TikTok is introducing a new feature that lets you reset your For You feed and start fresh to retrain the app’s algorithm about content you enjoy.
OpenAI has announced GPT-4: the latest in its line of AI language models that power applications like ChatGPT and the new Bing.
- Meta is “winding down” its work with NFTs on Facebook and Instagram.
- Facebook's parent company Meta is working on a standalone, text-based social network app.
- Microsoft spent hundreds of millions of dollars building a massive supercomputer to help power OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot.
- Instagram is testing a new feature that will quickly let you access your recently shared Reels.
TikTok is looking to help marketers continue to track engagement data.
Facebook has promised to give more monetization tools to creators to earn money on Reels.
Meta is pausing its program to pay bonuses to creators for making Reels and hitting specific benchmarks.
TikTok has begun blocking links to app stores in creators’ bios
Google is expanding VPN access to all Google One members on all plans and rolling out a new dark web report feature for all subscribers.
- Microsoft is planning on integrating ChatGPT into apps like Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
- Elon Musk says that longer long tweets, up to 10k characters, are coming soon to the app.
- Facebook announced that hashtag topics in groups, which were added in 2019, will be depreciated next month.
- Twitter’s paid plan Twitter Blue is now available to more than 20 new countries in Europe.
- TikTok announced automatic 60-minute daily screen time limits for all users under 18 years old.
Twitter officially banned third-party clients
Microsoft has added a new feature to its Bing chatbot
- Microsoft accidentally offers Windows 11 upgrades to unsupported PCs again
- By January, Elon Musk claimed that Twitter’s headcount was down to around 2,300 staff in total – a reduction of around 70%.
- TikTok has announced a new set of official measurement partners, which will provide third-party data on TikTok ads placement and performance, in order to provide more reassurance to ad partners.
Blue checkmarks will get another go
Short form video continues to move towards ecommerce
Interesting predictions for 2023 Musk might let everyone get a blue checkmark, if they pay for it
Youtube will look "cleaner" and "more lively" Pinterest wants to add more entertainment...and livestreaming
Meta has their big VR conference today Google is doing something interesting with ads and retartgeting Try on a costume with Snapchat, then buy it
Bad news from Meta...that photo editing app you downloaded might be malicious TikTok copies IG this time
Twitter is giving us cool little status update thingys You Tube is going to let us edit peoples closed captions TikTok is going all in on brining live shopping to the FYP
Add more links to your IG profile Check out the new Media Kit in IG Edit those tweets, honey
Cool new biz features in Twitter TikTok trying to convince US government that they won't be harvesting our data to take down our institutions and spy on us in our bathrooms
YouTube wants to use Shorts to crush Tiktok. Facebook adds a cool new thing for creators.