🧠 Perplexity Personal Computer, Claude File Sync, and Cloudflare’s Crawl API

 🔥🔥🔥 Three Highly Curated AI Stories

1. Perplexity introduces “Personal Computer”

Perplexity just announced something called Personal Computer, which is designed to run an AI system continuously on a Mac mini.

The idea is to merge local computing with Perplexity’s cloud infrastructure. The system runs on a desktop Mac connected to your local apps, files, and sessions while communicating with Perplexity’s secure servers.

Because the system runs continuously, it can operate as an always-on AI environment that works across your files and tools. You can monitor or control it remotely from any device.

Perplexity says the setup is personal and secure, with the AI operating in a protected environment tied to your machine.

Users can now join the waitlist for the initial program cohort.

2. Claude now shares context between Excel and PowerPoint

Anthropic released a major update for Claude’s Excel and PowerPoint add-ins.

Previously, when working across multiple files, users often had to repeat instructions or explain context again. With this update, Claude can share the context of a conversation across files.

That means you can pull data from a spreadsheet, build tables, and update a presentation without re-explaining what you are trying to do.

The update also introduces Skills inside the add-ins, allowing teams to save common workflows. For example, a team could save a workflow for building a client deck or running a variance analysis and run it directly from the sidebar.

Claude for Excel and PowerPoint is currently available in beta for paid plans on Mac and Windows.

3. Cloudflare became the same thing it swore to destroy

Cloudflare just introduced a new API endpoint, /crawl, that can crawl an entire website with a single request.

The product itself is straightforward. You pass in a URL, get back a job ID, and then retrieve the site’s content in HTML, Markdown, or JSON. No browser management. No custom scraping scripts. Just a simpler way to pull content from a site.

Cloudflare says this is useful for training models, RAG pipelines, and content research or monitoring. And that is exactly why this update is so interesting.

Because the irony here is hard to miss.

For years, Cloudflare has built products that helped websites block bots, rate-limit scrapers, and protect against automated crawling. Now it is offering a crawl endpoint that lets developers scrape and structure website content programmatically. As one person put it, Cloudflare became the same thing it once tried to stop.

🔥🔥 Two AI Tools Worth Knowing

1.⚙️ How to avoid hitting Claude’s usage limits

If you use Claude heavily, you have probably run into token or usage limits.

I published a full guide explaining how to reduce token usage, structure prompts efficiently, and avoid hitting those limits during longer workflows.

The guide walks through practical techniques that help Claude handle more work while staying within the allowed usage limits. Part of the post is available to everyone, and the full version sits behind the paywall for paid subscribers. So even if you just want the core ideas, the free portion is still worth reading.

Read the complete guide here.

2. 💬 Claude Code now supports side conversations

Claude Code just added a small but useful command called /btw.

This command allows you to start a side conversation with Claude while it continues working on the main task. It’s helpful when you want to clarify something or ask a quick question without interrupting the current workflow.

For people using Claude Code to run longer tasks, this makes the interaction much smoother.

🔥 Things You Didn’t Know You Can Do With AI

Turn any topic into a personalized AI learning system with NotebookLM

If you’re trying to learn a topic and you’ve saved a bunch of useful videos, there’s a much easier way to work through them than opening 14 tabs and pretending that counts as studying.

Here’s how it works:

1. Install the Grabbit Chrome extension from the Chrome Web Store.
2. Find the best videos you want to learn from on any topic of your interest.
3. Use Grabbit to copy all those video links in one go.
4. Open NotebookLM and add those links as sources.
5. Ask questions about the topic inside NotebookLM and learn from all the sources in one place.

So instead of bouncing between video links, notes, and half-remembered timestamps, you get one place where you can ask direct questions and actually understand the topic faster.