Mon, November 9, 2026
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DID YOU SEE
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THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU CAN DO WITH AI
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I WISH I KNEW SOONER
👋 Good morning.
On Friday, 47% of you said “Not a chance” to connecting a bank account to an AI chat. Today’s ask is smaller. Describe a gift tracker or a client hub in one sentence and Muse builds it inside itself, per Meta. Alexa wants your grocery list by text next. Your thumbs already know how.
IN 3 MINUTES, GET 1% BETTER THAN EVERYONE YOU KNOW:
Muse builds a custom app from one sentence.
Alexa for Shopping now takes grocery lists by text.
Google Vids stretches free AI clips to 15 seconds.
Reverse-engineer any video, run bots on your own logins.
Lock Alexa’s checkout before it starts buying for you.
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Image: Meta
Meta is shipping Spaces inside Muse, per Meta. Describe an idea in plain language, a holiday gift tracker, a small-business order board, a client hub, a trip planner, and Muse builds an interactive space you pin to the sidebar or main tabs. Connect Instagram, Marketplace, email or calendar and it updates itself with new orders or school events. Tweak the look or the logic by chatting, and schedule which spaces show on weekdays versus weekends. Available wherever Muse is.
Do this: open Muse and ask for “a weekly planner that pulls deadlines from my email,” then pin it to your main tabs.
Your chat app just started shipping apps.
Would you let Muse build a custom app inside itself for you?
Alexa for Shopping now works over text for a small group of invited US customers, per Amazon and The Verge, with millions more promised in the coming weeks. Text the “Alexa Shopping” contact to reorder last month’s detergent, send a recipe photo for the ingredients, or get a ping when AirPods go on sale. It searches Amazon and other stores through Shop Direct, then buys once you approve. More than 400 million customers used it in the last 12 months, and agentic use is up more than 8× since January.
Do this: no invite yet? Add your number at amazon.com/text-alexa-shopping, then start with one cheap reorder and leave auto-buy off.
Your text thread just got a purchasing agent.
Google Vids now runs on Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, per Google. Clips stretch to 15 seconds, up from 10, and you can edit the same clip turn by turn, swapping a background or product without regenerating, per Google’s model post. Reference images keep characters consistent, and speech sounds more natural. Anyone with a Google account or Workspace gets three 15-second videos a month free at vids.new. Developers pay $0.07 a second for 720p on the API, 30% less than Omni 1.1.
Do this: drop a product photo into vids.new, ask for a 12-second promo, then chat-edit the background for a second variant.
Your product demo just got five more seconds of fame.
2 things you didn't know you can do with AI
1. 🎞️ Reverse-engineer any video shot by shot · rea-video · free · Claude Code, Codex
rea-video breaks down any talking-head, tabletop, AI, 3D or kinetic-type video: how each shot was made, the captions and audio, and a plan for what to film, generate or code in your remake. Apache-2.0, 4.5K stars. The catch: it runs inside Claude Code or Codex and needs ffmpeg plus Python 3.10, so it is not a chat toy.
2. 🐭 Run a team of bots on logins you already pay for · MausBot · free · Mac, Windows, Linux
MausBot (open source as OpenMausBot, 18K stars) is the open-source answer to Grok Bot: a team of bots on the Claude, Codex or Grok logins already on your machine, each with its own model and an optional cloud or local desktop. One summarizes your inbox at 9, another chases overdue invoices. The catch: model usage still bills to each provider, and cloud desktops start at $15 a month.
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🔒 Lock Alexa’s checkout before you text it a grocery list · Alexa app · free
Alexa for Shopping’s default over text is suggest, you approve, then it buys, per Amazon. Two settings flip that to auto-buy: automatic add-to-cart, and auto-buy on price watches. Leave both off for a few rounds. On Echo devices, a 4-digit voice code can gate every purchase, or you can turn voice buying off.
The exact clicks, per Amazon’s voice-code page:
Open the Alexa app, then More, then Settings.
Account Settings, then Voice Purchasing, then Purchase Confirmation.
Select Manage, turn Voice code on, and set your 4-digit code.
Prefer off entirely? Settings, Account Management, Voice Purchasing, Purchase Controls, then “No one,” per Amazon.
The catch: the voice code guards Echo purchases only. Text shopping is invite-only and has its own approval step, so keep auto-buy off there too.
Your text thread just grew a shopping cart. Keep the keys.
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