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<!-- ============ TOOOL OF THE WEEK ============ -->
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" style="Margin:0;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:20px;padding-left:0"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:arial, 'helvetica neue', helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:21px;letter-spacing:0;color:#333333;font-size:14px"><img width="24" align="left" src="https://ik.imagekit.io/gua3dld9n/newsletter/ic-toooloftheweek.png" alt="Section Icon" title="Section Icon" style="display:block;font-size:14px;border:0;outline:none;text-decoration:none;margin:0"><span style="color:#7b788c;line-height:24.7px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;font-size:13px"> TOOOL OF THE WEEK</span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody>
</table> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" bgcolor="#fafafe" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;border-radius:28px 28px 0 0;background-color:#fafafe;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" style="padding:20px 20px 0 20px;Margin:0"> <a target="_blank" href="https://doop.design/?ref=toools" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#1376C8;font-size:14px"><img src="https://ik.imagekit.io/gua3dld9n/newsletter/issue-24/doop-multiplayer-design-canvas-ai-agents.jpg" alt="Doop, an open-source infinite canvas where AI agents design beside you" width="100%" title="Tool image" style="display:block;font-size:14px;border:0;outline:none;text-decoration:none;margin:0;border-radius:12px;max-width:544px"></a> </td> </tr> </tbody>
</table> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" bgcolor="#fafafe" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;background-color:#fafafe;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" style="padding:24px 22px 0 22px;Margin:0"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:21.6px;letter-spacing:0;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;padding-bottom:6px"><strong style="font-weight:700 !important"><a target="_blank" href="https://doop.design/?ref=toools" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;line-height:21.6px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif">Doop</a></strong></p> </td> </tr> </tbody>
</table> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" bgcolor="#fafafe" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;background-color:#fafafe;border-radius:0 0 28px 28px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" style="padding:0 22px 24px 22px;Margin:0"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:18.2px;letter-spacing:0;color:#59566d;font-size:14px">An open-source infinite canvas where AI agents design beside you, in the browser or as a Mac app. Connect the AI assistant you already use, give it a role like UX lead, copywriter or accessibility reviewer, and frames stream onto the canvas while your comments turn into tasks and your taste carries over to the next session. Free while in beta.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody>
</table> <!-- ============ ALSO ON THE RADAR ============ -->
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</table> <!-- Radar Tool 1 -->
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" style="padding:0;Margin:0;width:104px"> <a target="_blank" href="https://causal.so/?ref=toools" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#1376C8;font-size:14px"><img src="https://ik.imagekit.io/gua3dld9n/newsletter/issue-24/causal-infinite-ai-canvas-moodboards-notes.gif" width="80" alt="Causal icon" title="Tool icon" style="display:block;font-size:14px;border:0;outline:none;text-decoration:none;margin:0;border-radius:14px"></a> </td> <td valign="top" style="padding:0;Margin:0"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:27px;letter-spacing:0;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;padding-bottom:6px"><strong style="font-weight:700 !important"><a target="_blank" href="https://causal.so/?ref=toools" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif"><u>Causal</u></a></strong></p> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:18.2px;letter-spacing:0;color:#59566d;font-size:14px">An infinite canvas for moodboards, notes, files and links on the Mac, with an AI that reads the whole board and places new ideas where they belong.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody>
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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0;Margin:0;height:40px;font-size:0;line-height:0"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <!-- Radar Tool 2 -->
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" style="padding:0;Margin:0;width:104px"> <a target="_blank" href="https://pryzm.design/?ref=toools" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#1376C8;font-size:14px"><img src="https://ik.imagekit.io/gua3dld9n/newsletter/issue-24/pryzm-browser-background-texture-generator.gif" width="80" alt="Pryzm icon" title="Tool icon" style="display:block;font-size:14px;border:0;outline:none;text-decoration:none;margin:0;border-radius:14px"></a> </td> <td valign="top" style="padding:0;Margin:0"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:27px;letter-spacing:0;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;padding-bottom:6px"><strong style="font-weight:700 !important"><a target="_blank" href="https://pryzm.design/?ref=toools" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif"><u>Pryzm</u></a></strong></p> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:18.2px;letter-spacing:0;color:#59566d;font-size:14px">A browser studio for backgrounds and animated loops nobody else has, blended from gradients, glass and grain, exported as PNG, video or a live embed for your site.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody>
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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0;Margin:0;height:40px;font-size:0;line-height:0"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <!-- Radar Tool 3 -->
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" style="padding:0;Margin:0;width:104px"> <a target="_blank" href="https://oreoui.com/doodle-icons?ref=toools" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#1376C8;font-size:14px"><img src="https://ik.imagekit.io/gua3dld9n/newsletter/issue-24/doodle-icons-hand-drawn-animated-svg-icons.gif" width="80" alt="Doodle Icons icon" title="Tool icon" style="display:block;font-size:14px;border:0;outline:none;text-decoration:none;margin:0;border-radius:14px"></a> </td> <td valign="top" style="padding:0;Margin:0"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:27px;letter-spacing:0;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;padding-bottom:6px"><strong style="font-weight:700 !important"><a target="_blank" href="https://oreoui.com/doodle-icons?ref=toools" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif"><u>Doodle Icons</u></a></strong></p> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:18.2px;letter-spacing:0;color:#59566d;font-size:14px">A growing set of hand-drawn icons that sketch themselves in stroke by stroke and never sit still, exported as animated SVG and open source.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody>
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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0;Margin:0;height:40px;font-size:0;line-height:0"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <!-- Radar Tool 4 -->
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" style="padding:0;Margin:0;width:104px"> <a target="_blank" href="https://www.renebieder.com/fonts/neurath-x?ref=toools" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#1376C8;font-size:14px"><img src="https://ik.imagekit.io/gua3dld9n/newsletter/issue-24/neurath-x-geometric-sans-serif-typeface.gif" width="80" alt="Neurath X icon" title="Tool icon" style="display:block;font-size:14px;border:0;outline:none;text-decoration:none;margin:0;border-radius:14px"></a> </td> <td valign="top" style="padding:0;Margin:0"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:27px;letter-spacing:0;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;padding-bottom:6px"><strong style="font-weight:700 !important"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.renebieder.com/fonts/neurath-x?ref=toools" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif"><u>Neurath X</u></a></strong></p> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:18.2px;letter-spacing:0;color:#59566d;font-size:14px">A geometric sans from Studio René Bieder in proportional and monospaced cuts, reduced and optically refined for editorial, branding and interface work.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody>
</table> <!-- ============ FROM THIS WEEK'S SPONSOR ============ -->
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" style="Margin:0;padding-top:80px;padding-bottom:20px;padding-right:0;padding-left:0"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:arial, 'helvetica neue', helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:21px;letter-spacing:0;color:#333333;font-size:14px"><img align="left" src="https://ik.imagekit.io/gua3dld9n/newsletter/ic-spotlight.png" width="24" alt="Section Icon" title="Section Icon" style="display:block;font-size:14px;border:0;outline:none;text-decoration:none;margin:0"><span style="color:#7b788c;line-height:24.7px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;font-size:13px"> FROM THIS WEEK'S SPONSOR</span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody>
</table> <table bgcolor="#fafafe" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;border-radius:28px;background-color:#fafafe;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" style="padding:20px;Margin:0"> <!--[if mso]><table style="width:100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td style="width:320px" valign="top"><![endif]--> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="left" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;float:left" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" align="center" style="padding:0;Margin:0;width:252px"> <a target="_blank" href="https://readymag.com/?utm_source=toools&utm_medium=partnership_newsletter&utm_campaign=main" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#1376C8;font-size:14px"><img src="https://ik.imagekit.io/gua3dld9n/newsletter/issue-22/readymag-website-builder.gif" width="100%" alt="Readymag" title="Readymag" style="display:block;font-size:14px;border:0;outline:none;text-decoration:none;margin:0;border-radius:12px;max-width:100%"></a> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <!--[if mso]></td><td style="width:20px"></td><td style="width:204px" valign="top"><![endif]--> <!-- Mobile-only spacer --> <table class="es-desk-hidden" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;display:none;width:100%" role="none"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0;Margin:0;height:24px;font-size:0;line-height:0"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="right" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;float:right" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" style="padding:0;Margin:0;width:232px"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:27px;letter-spacing:0;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;padding-bottom:6px"><strong style="font-weight:700 !important"><a href="https://readymag.com/?utm_source=toools&utm_medium=partnership_newsletter&utm_campaign=main" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif"><u>Readymag</u></a></strong></p> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:18.2px;letter-spacing:0;color:#59566d;font-size:14px">Create all kinds of websites with flexibility and complete creative freedom.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <!--[if mso]></td></tr></table><![endif]--> </td> </tr> </tbody>
</table> <!-- ============ A FEW READS & LISTENS ============ -->
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" style="Margin:0;padding-top:80px;padding-bottom:40px;padding-right:0;padding-left:0"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:arial, 'helvetica neue', helvetica, sans-serif;line-height:21px;letter-spacing:0;color:#333333;font-size:14px"><img src="https://ik.imagekit.io/gua3dld9n/newsletter/ic-readslistens.png" width="24" align="left" alt="Section Icon" title="Section Icon" style="display:block;font-size:14px;border:0;outline:none;text-decoration:none;margin:0"><span style="color:#7b788c;line-height:24.7px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;font-size:13px"> A FEW READS & LISTENS</span></p> </td> </tr> </tbody>
</table> <!-- Read 1: Article -->
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" style="padding:0;Margin:0"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:16.9px;letter-spacing:0;color:#59566d;font-size:13px;padding-bottom:4px"><strong style="font-weight:700 !important">UX COLLECTIVE <span style="font-family:'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Noto Color Emoji',sans-serif">📖</span> <span style="color:#759ee3">ARTICLE</span></strong></p> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:27px;letter-spacing:0;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;padding-bottom:6px"><strong style="font-weight:700 !important"><a target="_blank" href="https://uxdesign.cc/when-the-canvas-starts-acting-whos-really-in-control-0128f641223c?ref=toools" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif"><u>When the canvas starts acting, who's really in control?</u></a></strong></p> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:18.2px;letter-spacing:0;color:#59566d;font-size:14px">Aurélie Radom on what changes once the canvas can act on its own: the job shifts from specifying every interaction to deciding what an agent may do unasked, what needs a confirmation, and what always waits for a person. Her sharpest point is that attention becomes the material, and the design system turns into standing instructions for the agent.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody>
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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0;Margin:0;height:40px;font-size:0;line-height:0"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <!-- Read 2: Article -->
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" style="padding:0;Margin:0"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:16.9px;letter-spacing:0;color:#59566d;font-size:13px;padding-bottom:4px"><strong style="font-weight:700 !important">DESIGN BUDDIES <span style="font-family:'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Noto Color Emoji',sans-serif">📖</span> <span style="color:#759ee3">ARTICLE</span></strong></p> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:27px;letter-spacing:0;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;padding-bottom:6px"><strong style="font-weight:700 !important"><a target="_blank" href="https://designbuddies.substack.com/p/design-hiring?ref=toools" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif"><u>Hiring in the Age of AI in Design</u></a></strong></p> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:18.2px;letter-spacing:0;color:#59566d;font-size:14px">Carl Wheatley, a design recruiter with a decade at Meta, pulls the 2026 hiring data into one place: 82 percent of hiring managers need as many designers or more, 73 percent want AI fluency, and junior roles keep shrinking as the repetitive work people used to learn on disappears. Practical on the portfolio side too, including why being open about where AI helped now reads as good judgment.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody>
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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0;Margin:0;height:40px;font-size:0;line-height:0"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <!-- Read 3: Podcast -->
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" style="padding:0;Margin:0"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:16.9px;letter-spacing:0;color:#59566d;font-size:13px;padding-bottom:4px"><strong style="font-weight:700 !important">DIVE CLUB <span style="font-family:'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Noto Color Emoji',sans-serif">🎧</span> <span style="color:#a87cd8">PODCAST</span></strong></p> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:27px;letter-spacing:0;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;padding-bottom:6px"><strong style="font-weight:700 !important"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxNGjChnRhE&ref=toools" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif"><u>The story of Evil Rabbit and designing Vercel</u></a></strong></p> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:18.2px;letter-spacing:0;color:#59566d;font-size:14px">Vercel's founding designer on a first design job at twelve in Argentina, building one of the most copied brand identities in software, and why the team moved from producing assets to building its own tools. The closing stretch on Lifeline, a personal timeline he built with an agent in a few days and then open-sourced, shows where that shift ends up.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody>
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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0;Margin:0;height:40px;font-size:0;line-height:0"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <!-- Read 4: Article -->
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" style="padding:0;Margin:0"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:16.9px;letter-spacing:0;color:#59566d;font-size:13px;padding-bottom:4px"><strong style="font-weight:700 !important">LENNY'S NEWSLETTER <span style="font-family:'Apple Color Emoji','Segoe UI Emoji','Noto Color Emoji',sans-serif">📖</span> <span style="color:#759ee3">ARTICLE</span></strong></p> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:27px;letter-spacing:0;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;padding-bottom:6px"><strong style="font-weight:700 !important"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-turn-your-ai-into-a-world?ref=toools" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif"><u>How to turn your AI into a world-class designer</u></a></strong></p> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:18.2px;letter-spacing:0;color:#59566d;font-size:14px">Anshu Chimala, formerly designing at Apple, on why AI output looks generic by default (a model picks the safest choice at every step) and how to push it off that path: random seed strings for real variety, a second AI as a critic scoring against a quality bar, generated images and motion for personality, then cutting every glow and extra label. The back half sits behind Lenny's paywall, but the method is all in the open part.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody>
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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" style="padding:0;Margin:0;padding-top:20px"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:27px;letter-spacing:0;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px"><a href="https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/workspace/google-pics/?ref=toools" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif"><u>Google Pics puts image generation and editing straight into Docs and Slides: isolate one object and change it, or rewrite the text inside a picture, without leaving the document</u></a></p> </td> </tr> </tbody>
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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" style="padding:0;Margin:0;padding-top:20px"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:27px;letter-spacing:0;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px"><a href="https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2026/09/02/introducing-adobe-for-slack?ref=toools" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif"><u>Adobe for Slack puts 70+ tools from Firefly, Express, Photoshop, Premiere and Acrobat behind a plain-language request to Slackbot, so a thread's context becomes an image, a video or a PDF without leaving the channel, on Business+ and Enterprise+ plans</u></a></p> </td> </tr> </tbody>
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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" style="padding:0;Margin:0;padding-top:20px"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:27px;letter-spacing:0;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px"><a href="https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/?ref=toools" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif"><u>OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra: it works your apps on its own, lays out slides with an actual narrative, and through ChatGPT's Sites turns one prompt into a hosted website or web app</u></a></p> </td> </tr> </tbody>
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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" style="padding:0;Margin:0;padding-top:20px"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:27px;letter-spacing:0;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px"><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/claude-fable-and-mythos-5-1?ref=toools" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif"><u>Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, one model at two safeguard levels: Fable open to everyone on every platform from day one, Mythos reserved for vetted security and life-science teams</u></a></p> </td> </tr> </tbody>
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<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" style="padding:0;Margin:0;padding-top:20px"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:27px;letter-spacing:0;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px"><a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/91599244/the-twitter-brand-is-back-its-not-how-you-remember-it?ref=toools" target="_blank" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif"><u>The Twitter bird is back as Twitter.now, relaunched by Twitter's former trademark lawyer on the claim that X abandoned the brand, phoenix feathers on the logo and a fail whale on the error page</u></a></p> </td> </tr> </tbody>
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</table> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="mso-table-lspace:0pt;mso-table-rspace:0pt;border-spacing:0px;width:100%" role="none"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" style="padding:0;Margin:0;padding-bottom:0px"> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:16.9px;letter-spacing:0;color:#59566d;font-size:13px;padding-bottom:12px"><strong style="font-weight:700 !important">SECOND ACT</strong></p> <p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:27px;letter-spacing:0;color:#0a0523;font-size:18px"><strong style="font-weight:700 !important">"Nineteen years of Awwwards, then the CEO builds his own Site of the Day."</strong></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" class="es-text-7610" style="padding:0;Margin:0;padding-top:16px"><p style="Margin:0;mso-line-height-rule:exactly;font-family:Inter, sans-serif;line-height:18.2px;letter-spacing:0;color:#59566d;font-size:14px">Óscar Pérez co-founded Awwwards in 2006 and ran it until 2025. His first novel, <a target="_blank" href="https://moneyincheck.org/?ref=toools" style="mso-line-height-rule:exactly;text-decoration:underline;color:#59566d;font-size:14px;font-family:Inter, sans-serif"><u>Money in Check</u></a>, follows a scholarship kid who arrives at Harvard with an oversized suitcase and a plastic chessboard and learns that money, like chess, has invisible rules. It arrives with a site of his own design, animated by Jessica Travieso Suarez and coded by Cloudstudio, and chapter one is free to read and listen.</p></td> </tr> </tbody>
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