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Let's just say this week in AI has had more plot twists than a season finale.
Elon Musk, who called Anthropic "misanthropic and evil" just months ago, just... handed them 220,000 GPUs. Google, the search engine that made its fortune giving you links, is now quoting Reddit threads in its AI answers. And Adobe, the company responsible for every PDF you've ever rage-closed on a Monday morning, just turned the humble document into an interactive experience.
Meanwhile, we sat down with our founder someone building in AI every single day and pulled two of the most grounding, practical perspectives we've heard all year.
Spoiler: one of them will probably make you feel a lot better about not upgrading to the latest model.
Let's get into it.
🔥🔥🔥 Three AI Updates
A few months ago, Elon Musk was calling Anthropic evil. This week, he handed them his biggest data center.
Anthropic signed a deal with SpaceX to use the full compute capacity of Colossus 1, the Memphis facility housing over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs, giving them access to 300 megawatts of new capacity within the month.
Musk confirmed it on X, saying after spending time with the Anthropic team, he was "impressed" and that no one set off his "evil detector."
The immediate payoff for users is real. Anthropic is doubling Claude Code's rate limits for paid plans, removing peak-hour usage caps for Pro and Max accounts, and sharply increasing the volume of requests developers can make to its Claude Opus models.
Google has a problem: people keep adding "Reddit" to their searches because they trust humans more than summaries. So Google did something about it.
Google is updating AI Overviews and AI Mode to more prominently feature first-hand accounts from social media, expert blogs, and forums like Reddit via a new "Expert Advice" section that displays previews of perspectives from public online discussions alongside links to their sources, with creator handles and community names included for context.
There are four other changes bundled in. News sites you subscribe to now get a "Subscribed" label so they surface first, hovering over links on desktop gives you a site preview before clicking, and a new "Further Exploration" section at the end of AI responses points you toward in-depth articles on the topic.
If a PDF has ever made you fall asleep, this update is for you.
Adobe launched a full productivity agent inside Acrobat that changes what a PDF is actually capable of. The agent orchestrates tools and models to generate images, text, and rich content like presentations, podcasts, and social posts, and powers conversational PDF editing — all within Acrobat. You can now talk to your documents, not just read them.
The bigger unlock is PDF Spaces. PDF Spaces is an AI-powered workspace where users can combine documents, links, and notes into a cohesive, interactive environment — and shared PDF Spaces can be accessed by anyone without an account. Think of it as turning a static report into something closer to a personalized microsite.
The features are available in two new tiers — Acrobat Express, which combines AI-powered document insights and content generation, and Acrobat Studio, which adds advanced AI PDF tools on top of the Express suite. Early adopters include VICE News and Kid Cudi, which tells you the use cases here go well beyond the corporate deck.
🔥🔥 Two Claude Skills To Try Out
Here's the thing nobody says out loud: most new model releases aren't built for everyday consumer use. The guest put it simply — we don't rush to buy a new iPhone every time Apple drops one. We upgrade when we actually need to. The same logic applies to AI models. If Claude Sonnet 4.6 or another mid-tier model is getting the job done for your workflow, using a more expensive, newer model won't magically improve your results. Better prompting will. The obsession with "the latest" is mostly noise.
This one's worth saving. A huge reason people write off new models is that they switch over expecting the same behavior from the previous one, and then get frustrated when outputs feel off. The model hasn't regressed — it just processes instructions differently. You've spent weeks or months dialing in your prompts for the old model, and that muscle memory doesn't carry over automatically. Before you declare a new model useless, try rewriting your prompts from scratch for how that model thinks. Nine times out of ten, the issue isn't the model.
🔥 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do With AI
A creator on X shared a thread this week that cut through all the career-anxiety noise with something genuinely actionable. If you're reskilling, pivoting, or just trying to stay ahead, here's the playbook:
Download Claude Code and Codex, then tell them: "This was my job and how I spent my day — how can you help me automate it with skills?" Let the tools map your own expertise back to you.
Build out a dozen of those skills and push them to GitHub — it becomes proof of work that anyone can look at.
Open Claude Design and build a portfolio site with one "agent" per skill, explaining what you built, what it does, and what tools it touches.
Hand that site to Lovable or v0 to publish, then post the site and GitHub link on LinkedIn — that's your new resume.
Search "AI for [your job title]", try the new startups in your field, form real opinions, and message the founders. Take a course in tactical AI for your specific domain. Then build, share, and build again.
The gap in AI adoption is widening fast. Getting reps in now, while it's still early, is the move.
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