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August 2025

New Stanford research asks: Is Gen Z cooked?
Not quite, but they are caught in the middle. Not enough deep experience like Millennials / Gen X. Not AI-native like Gen Alpha. What should they do?
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Tara Tan
The Character Consistency is Bananas
Gemini's latest image model is crushing charts
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Tara Tan
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Pixel's Magic Cue Isn't Just a Feature. It's Intelligence as OS.
This sounds crazy but hear me out: why Apple might be forced to run Gemini by 2027.
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Tara Tan
Product Patterns #2: How Multi-Source Summaries Kill Information Overload
Also: your agent doesn't want to make an app, it wants to make you happy
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Tara Tan
Love in the Time of Algorithms
When AI pets sell out, robots interrupt dinner, and searches for AI girlfriends surge 2,400%... maybe robotic love is the only romance left.
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Tara Tan
Let a Thousand Agents Bloom
How we build will change what we build. What happens when our collaborators number in the thousands? Also: Sam Altman invests in brain-computers, Github…
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Tara Tan
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Product Patterns 01: One-Shot Apps
What I'd Build: GPT-5’s Front-End Glow-Up and the Era of One-Shot Apps
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Tara Tan
GPT-5 Is More Product Than Breakthrough… Maybe That’s the Point
This is the week of releases. Google drops a new world model, Genie; OpenAI rolls out GPT-5. ElevenLabs has a new music model.
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Tara Tan
When Machines Start Reasoning in Language
Deepmind's AlphaEarth can map the entire planet using satellite data. Zuck bets on personal superintelligence to create and connect over "productivity…
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Tara Tan

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