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Ep 738: 7 Fresh AI Features To Up Your Game: From Remote Controlled Agents to AI browsers For Your iPhone
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Ep 738: 7 Fresh AI Features To Up Your Game: From Remote Controlled Agents to AI browsers For Your iPhone
On the go and miss your normal desktop AI prowess?
Well, this week you mighta missed some powerful AI updates up your alley.
From OpenClaw-esque mobile phone powers in Claude Cowork to a new agentic browser for the iPhone, this week saw a ton of AI power packed into mobile phones.
And if you missed any of these 7 new AI features, you might be lagging behind.
We'll get you caught up with our new segment, Feature Fridays.
Also on the pod today:
• Perplexity Comet hits iPhone 📱
• Claude Dispatch: phone controls PC 🖥️
• ChatGPT gets write access ✍️
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Here’s our favorite AI finds from across the web:
New AI Tool Spotlight – AI Skills Manager Installs, manages, and shares skills across every major coding agent, Context Overflows is Shared knowledge for AI agents, FigPrompt CreatesFigma Plugins Without Writing Code
Microsoft Releases MAI-Image-2 — MAI-Image-2 pushes Microsoft into the top three for image models. Try it in MAI Playground or apply for API access.
Uber and Rivian — Uber is betting $1.25B on Rivian to build 50,000 robotaxis, starting with 10,000 in 2028.
Study: AI Agent Monitoring — OpenAI built a near-real-time monitor that reviews internal coding agents’ thoughts and actions to catch risky or misaligned behavior.
Lovable Update — Lovable now builds apps and runs the business side too. Curious what your AI co-founder can do?
CodeRabbit Plan Released — Turn vague ideas into agent-ready plans with code and doc context. Try CodeRabbit Plan to speed dev and cut churn.
Google vibe coding update — Turn prompts into production-ready web apps with Google AI Studio’s Antigravity agent, Firebase auth, and real-time multiplayer. Try it for faster prototypes that deploy.
Anthropic prepares Projects — Anthropic’s launching "Projects" to bundle models, tools, and safety guardrails.
Composer 2 Release — Composer 2 delivers frontier coding chops for just $0.50/$2.50 per K tokens. Try it in Cursor — faster paid default available.
Firefly Update — Train Firefly on your assets to generate consistent, on-model images. Public beta available now.
1. Perplexity plugs health data into its AI platform 🔌
Perplexity announced it now links to users' health apps, wearables, labs, and medical records, rolling access out to Pro and Max subscribers in the U.S., making this a timely move as consumer health data becomes central to personalization.
The company says users can build custom tools and dashboards, create tailored nutrition and training plans, and generate visit prep summaries by combining personal metrics with premium sources and medical literature. This shifts Perplexity from a search/assistant tool toward a personalized health workspace, raising the stakes on data access, privacy, and the quality of medical guidance.
2. OpenAI to consolidate desktop apps into one “superapp” 📱
OpenAI is developing a single desktop application that will merge its ChatGPT desktop app, Codex coding tool, and Atlas browser to reduce fragmentation and speed up product development, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The change reportedlyfollows internal direction from Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s CEO of Applications, to double down on successful bets like Codex and avoid distracting “side quests,” while the mobile ChatGPT app remains unchanged. The move comes amid rising competition from Anthropic and follows a year of bold new product launches that strained focus.
3. White House urges Congress to block state AI rules as patchwork grows 🏛️
The White House on Friday pushed Congress to preempt state AI laws it calls burdensome, outlining principles to protect children, keep electricity costs in check, respect IP, and prevent censorship while allowing innovation to continue, a move timed amid rising state-level action and a recent executive order.
The administration says federal rules should not stop states from enforcing general consumer protections or deciding local data center siting, but should bar states from regulating AI development or penalizing developers for third-party misuse. On copyright, the White House sides with courts settling disputes, asserting training AI on copyrighted material likely does not violate law while noting lawsuits continue.
4. Jensen Huang unveils plan to pair 75,000 employees with 7.5 million AI agents by 2036 🤝
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced at GTC 2026 that the company aims to grow to about 75,000 employees and deploy 100 AI agents per worker, creating a 7.5 million-agent workforce within a decade, signaling a major shift in how the company intends to scale operations.
He framed the push as part of a broader strategy to drive continuous innovation and reduce accelerated computing costs, which NVIDIA says will expand adoption and spur further growth. Huang also argued this transformation will reshape HR and organizational structures as digital agents become integrated into hiring and orientation processes.
5. Supermicro executives charged over alleged NVIDIA chip smuggling to China. 🇨🇳
Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged three men tied to server maker Supermicro with conspiring to smuggle advanced NVIDIA B200 and H200 AI chips into China by routing $2.5 billion in server sales through a Southeast Asian middleman, resulting in about $510 million in allegedly diverted shipments; two suspects were arrested and one remains at large.
The indictment alleges intentional concealment and false paperwork to bypass U.S. export controls tightened in 2022, exposing a pathway that regulators fear lets restricted AI hardware reach Chinese end users. Supermicro says it is cooperating, placed two employees on leave and cut ties with the contractor, while NVIDIA stressed strict compliance and lack of support for diverted systems.
6. Claude Code adds live channel integrations for Telegram, Discord, and a localhost demo ⚡
Claude Code now supports “channels,” a research-preview feature that lets external servers push messages and webhooks into a running Claude Code session, making bots and chat bridges possible in real time. The update ships official Telegram and Discord plugins with step-by-step setup, pairing and allowlist controls for secure message sources, plus a fakechat localhost demo for testing without external credentials. Admin and org controls gate availability on Team and Enterprise plans, and channels only deliver events while a session is active, so always-on setups require background sessions or special flags.
Agents from your phone?
Your maps automagically planning things for you?
An autonomous browser now in your hand?
Yeah, if you snoozed this week you missed quite a bit in AI updates. In our new series AI Friday Features, we break down some feature updates that’ll move the needle.
1. Perplexity Launches Comet AI Browser on iOS
Perplexity just brought Comet to the iPhone. Chromium-based, AI-native, with voice mode built in. It's the only major mobile browser on iOS with real agentic AI right now.
If you're copying and pasting from Safari into a chatbot because a page is too long, Comet replaces all of that in one app.
Try This
Download Comet free from the App Store. Try voice mode on your next research session. Pro ($20/month) and Max unlock advanced features.
2. Anthropic Releases Claude Dispatch
Anthropic dropped Claude Dispatch, a phone-to-desktop remote control for Claude Cowork. Send tasks from your phone, come back to finished work while Claude does its thing on your computer. When it works, it's one of those first Jarvis-esque feelings, TBH.
It's buggy. Not production ready, but we assume it will be in a few updates and Anthropic is shipping fast. Only works with Cowork, not Code or Chat. But the direction is obvious and it's worth setting up now.
Try This
Update both your Claude Desktop and mobile app. Look for the Dispatch menu item. Max subscribers have it now, Pro rolling out any day.
3. Write Actions for Microsoft & Google Apps in ChatGPT
This was a small footnote on OpenAI's help site but it's huge. ChatGPT's Microsoft and Google integrations just went from read-only to read-write. Draft emails, create docs, schedule meetings.
We don't think anyone's talking about this, but it's important. Great upside for both what you can do but also what could go wrong.
Try This
Business/Enterprise/Edu only for now. Tell your admin to enable write actions in Settings > Apps > Manage actions per app.
4. Google Launches Stitch "Vibe Design" Updates
Google might have won vibe coding for 2027 right now in 2026 with this drop. Stitch just got Voice Canvas, Vibe Design, and a new Design Agent that reasons across your project. Describe what you want in plain English, get production-ready UI designs back.
If Stitch was a standalone company it would be a billion-dollar business. The new Design.md export alone would have saved me tens of millions of tokens.
Claude can now build interactive charts, diagrams, and visualizations inline using HTML and SVG. Not images. They respond to clicks and evolve with the conversation.
This kills the wall of text problem, which is our literal kryptonite. Like…. Thanks for the 5,200 words of explanation on a simple question, right?
Tip of the cap to Gemini for being first on this with interactive elements in AI mode, but Claude's version will probably reach more front end users first.
Try This
Beta, all users including free tier on web/desktop. Ask Claude to "explain this with an interactive chart" next time you're drowning in text.
6. NVIDIA's NemoClaw
OpenClaw feeling a little too risky right now for your company?
NVIDIA announced NemoClaw at their GTC conference, a security stack for OpenClaw. Sandboxing, access controls, and guardrails in one command. The enterprise wrapper OpenClaw was missing.
NemoClaw takes the "oops I didn't mean to do that" away from OpenClaw. Enterprise IT teams will love this.
Try This
If you have a Windows PC with an NVIDIA GPU, there's no downside to learning OpenClaw through NemoClaw. One command to install. Mac users need hybrid cloud setup.
7. Google Gemini Maps & Trip Planner
Google launched Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered conversational layer in Google Maps. Natural language questions, personalized itineraries from 300M+ places.
This replaces the multi-search review-sifting process. Ask for a cozy spot with a table for four at seven tonight and get curated options.
Try This
Free on Android and iOS in the U.S. and India. Next time you're planning dinner or a trip, try asking Maps instead of Googling.
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