Fri, November 6, 2026
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👋 Good morning.
Yesterday 50% of you would use an AI-made GIF in a group chat with friends. Nobody picked Slack. Today the chat is about your bank account: Claude can now read the accounts you connect and answer money questions in plain English, per Anthropic. ChatGPT’s Finances got there in May and learned to talk yesterday. Pick your accountant.
IN 3 MINUTES, GET 1% BETTER THAN EVERYONE YOU KNOW:
Claude can now tell you where your money went.
Meta’s Muse talks back, with a face that reacts.
Gemini reads your Google Forms and suggests next steps.
Rebuild an app you admire, and find outlier posts.
32% of companies built it instead of buying it.
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Image: Anthropic via TechCrunch
Personal Finance in Claude is rolling out in beta for US Pro, Max and Ultra plans, per Anthropic. Connect bank and card accounts through Plaid, then ask where the money went this month or which bills crept up. Access is read-only, so Claude can’t move, manage or invest money. Chats in the Personal Finance hub aren’t used for training, and you can unlink anytime, per Claude’s help center. No ads, and no cards or loans of its own, per TechCrunch.
Do this: if you’re on Claude Pro or higher in the US, connect one checking account and ask “Can I afford a trip this spring?”
Your bank app just got a translator.
Would you connect your bank account to an AI chat app?
Meta is rolling out voice and expressive avatars in its Muse app, per Meta. Tap the phone icon and talk through a trip plan, rehearse a pitch, or hand Muse a task while you walk. The avatar reacts as it listens and speaks, and you can keep it voice-only, beside the chat or full screen. Hundreds of voices are on offer, pirate included. US only for now, on mobile, web and Mac, with AI Glasses and Muse Charm next.
Do this: pick a voice, go full screen, and rehearse tomorrow’s pitch before a human hears it.
A chatbot that finally makes eye contact.
Google Forms has a new actionable insights panel on the Responses tab, per Google Workspace Updates. Gemini writes and runs Python on your answers, so counts, percentages and cross-question patterns come from the data. Then it summarizes takeaways and recommends next steps. Rapid Release started Nov 2 and Scheduled Release starts Nov 19, each over up to 15 days. You need Business Standard or Plus, Enterprise, Education Plus or Google AI Pro/Ultra, with smart features on.
Do this: open your last feedback form, go to Responses, and ask Gemini what to change before you send the next one.
Your survey just started answering itself.
2 things you didn't know you can do with AI
1. 🧩 Reverse-engineer any app and craft your own · Craft Anything · free · Mac, Windows, Linux
Craft Anything studies a website, app or game you admire, hands a coding agent the brief to build your own version, then compares the two. It’s open source, with 15K GitHub stars. The catch: it’s early alpha, and the building needs Claude Code or another coding agent, not the chat app.
2. 📱 Find outlier posts and ad teardowns across TikTok to LinkedIn · ScrapeCreators skills · free to start · Claude Code, Cursor, Codex
ScrapeCreators’ social-media-research-skills give your coding agent 12 research jobs: find the posts that beat a creator’s baseline, tear down Meta and LinkedIn ads, mine comments, across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, X and LinkedIn. The catch: you need a ScrapeCreators API key, and the free plan is 100 credits.
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📊 32% of AI-using companies skipped buying software · McKinsey via Alephic · May–June 2026
Chart: McKinsey via Alephic
Among respondents at companies that use AI regularly, 32% say their company skipped at least one software purchase because it could build the feature with AI. That’s from Alephic’s November charts, citing McKinsey’s State of AI in 2026 (Exhibit 4, surveyed May 4 to June 8, 2026). It counts at least one purchase forgone, not total software spend displaced, and it’s self-reported.
Do this: before you renew a SaaS tool, ask Claude or ChatGPT which of its features you could rebuild in an afternoon.
The cheapest feature is the one you already built.
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