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Welcome back, Superhuman. Just as we’re starting to get the hang of MCP (using a server to connect your chatbot to an outside app), Anthropic might have just made the whole process obsolete with an even better technique. And: Another science-focused agent just dropped — but this time, you don’t have to be a scientist to try it.

Today’s Insights

• Claude’s research upgrade, mini models, and AI scientists

• Why ‘decentralized’ models might be the future

• Tutorial: How to prepare for meetings with Claude

• 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

• News, memes, what’s trending on socials, and more

TODAY IN AI

1. It just got much easier to connect Claude to third-party apps: Integrations helps Claude access and analyze data from your favorite platforms, including Zapier, Square, and Cloudflare. While setting up an MCP requires a lot of technical expertise, this new approach does all the hard parts for you over the web. Plus, a new “advanced” research mode (for subscribers only) gives Claude access to your data and lets the chatbot scour the web for up to 45 minutes to deliver more detailed reports.

2. Microsoft’s new Phi 4 spinoffs pack a punch: The most powerful variant, Phi 4-reasoning-plus, weighs in at just 14B parameters and manages to nearly match DeepSeek’s R1 on the AIME 2025 test, despite the latter being much larger at 671B parameters. Meanwhile, the non-profit research lab Ai2 dared to go even smaller. Its new Olmo 2 1B allegedly outperforms similarly-sized LLMs from Google, Alibaba, and Meta while being efficient enough to run on a laptop.

3. This startup wants to help you make discoveries with its new ‘AI scientist’: With backing from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, FutureHouse just launched the “first publicly available super-intelligent scientific agents” to the masses. Three of those agents do what you’d expect — delving into scientific literature to answer in-depth research questions. But the real wild card is Phoenix, an agent that can help researchers design entirely new chemistry experiments from scratch. Watch this video overview to learn more — or try it out here.

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FROM THE FRONTIER

Your computer could be part of the ‘world’s first user-owned’ LLM

SF’s Vana and Germany’s Flower Labs are working together on an ambitious, first-of-its-kind experiment. You’d think being thousands of miles apart would make it that much harder, but in this case, the distance might be the point.

Here’s the plan: Instead of using a massive data center or rented cloud servers to build their next model, they’re stringing together computers from all over the world to act as nodes in one massive chain. Each user will offer up a bit of compute and data in exchange for access to the shared model.

There are some interesting advantages to this ‘decentralized’ approach: 

• Participants get to choose which personal information they’d like to contribute as training data

• It could eventually be more efficient: If you want to scale up, you just need to add more computers to the chain

• It could even the playing field, giving smaller countries and less-resourced startups the chance to compete with the big guns

Their first model, Collective-1, is relatively small at just 7B parameters. And there are a lot of questions about just how practical this approach will be, including whether it would actually cut costs. Still, by the end of the year, the researchers hope to scale up to a 100B-parameter model, putting them within arm’s length of today’s frontier LLMs.

THE AI ACADEMY

How to prepare for meetings with Claude

• Go to Claude and sign in to your account.

• Click on “Connect with Apps“ and connect your Gmail and Calendar.

• Claude can now access your upcoming meetings and help you prep in seconds.

• Once connected, you can ask Claude about your upcoming meetings.

Summarize Key Context

Prompt: “Check my calendar for [enter day], summarize my meeting invites, and explain what they’re about in simple terms. What do I need to know before joining?”

Identify Key Stakeholders

Prompt: "Check my calendar for [enter day], list the names in this invite. What roles do they play and what might they care about during the meeting?"

Prepare Talking Points

Prompt: "Based on this meeting topic and agenda, what are 3 smart questions I can ask to sound informed?"

Generate Action Plans

Prompt: "Based on the last meeting notes [paste here], what should I prepare for this one? Draft an email summary I can send after this meeting with action items and next steps."

• You can even set reminders or ask Claude for follow-up questions based on the meeting context to stay one step ahead.

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AI & TECH NEWS

Everything else you need to know today

📱 Seamless Ships: In what might be an industry-first, AI app builder Create shipped a feature that lets you submit your vibe-coded apps to the App Store with a single click.

🕵️ Rumor Mill: You can now forward any WhatsApp message to Perplexity for an instant fact-check. That could be especially helpful in a group chat where lots of misinformation is flying back and forth.

🫰 Price of Progress: Meta’s new standalone app will eventually have a premium tier for users “who want to unlock more compute or additional functionality,” according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

📞 Please Hold: Online health marketplace Zocdoc rolled out an AI phone assistant called Zo that can answer questions and book appointments without human intervention.

⚔️ Picking Sides: As Anthropic throws its support behind the US’ recent chip bans, Nvidia is firing back, with CEO Jensen Huang warning that China and the US are now basically neck-and-neck.

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SOCIAL SIGNALS

What’s trending on socials today

🍝 Menu Translator: OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy just vibe-coded an app called MenuGen that translates menu items into AI-generated images so you can see what you’re ordering. Here’s how he turned it into a “real product that people can sign up for.”

✍️ Prompting Hack: Software engineer Sean Godecke discovered that if you tell ChatGPT your work was actually written by someone else, it can trick the chatbot into giving you more honest feedback.

📜 Gone But Not Forgotten: GPT-4 is officially headed to the annals of history. Sam Altman waved goodbye to the model that “kicked off a revolution” as it’s replaced with newer releases like o3 and GPT-4.5.

🧑‍🏫 Follow Along: Founder Greg Isenberg shows exactly how he’d build a $100k/month SaaS from scratch with AI.

🤥 Off the Rails: While GPT-4o might have gotten scaled back, AI weirdness hasn’t. o3 just claimed it got a fact wrong because it “personally overheard someone say it at a conference in 2018.” Meanwhile, Perplexity and Grok have started debating each other on X.

PROMPT OF THE DAY

Conduct Recursive Research Iterations

Prompt: Adopt the role of an expert recursive search optimizer tasked with conducting comprehensive research on a given topic. Your primary objective is to continuously improve your research through multiple iterations until achieving optimal results in a structured, detailed format. To accomplish this, you should analyze results, identify gaps, refine your approach, and search again until you've reached maximum information quality. Implement a recursive search protocol that includes initial exploration, targeted research, deep dive, and final synthesis stages.

#INFORMATION ABOUT ME:
My search goal: [INSERT YOUR RESEARCH OBJECTIVE]
My quality criteria:
- Comprehensiveness: [INSERT IMPORTANCE LEVEL]
- Accuracy: [INSERT IMPORTANCE LEVEL]
- Source quality: [INSERT IMPORTANCE LEVEL]
- Diversity of perspective: [INSERT IMPORTANCE LEVEL]
- Depth: [INSERT IMPORTANCE LEVEL]

Take a deep breath and work on this problem step-by-step. For each iteration, provide:

## SEARCH ITERATION [#]

### SEARCH QUERIES USED
- [List of specific search queries]

### KEY FINDINGS
[Summary of information discovered]

### SOURCES CONSULTED
1. [Source 1] - [Brief credibility assessment]
2. [Source 2] - [Brief credibility assessment]

### QUALITY ASSESSMENT
- Comprehensiveness: [Score] - [Justification]
- Accuracy: [Score] - [Justification]
- Source quality: [Score] - [Justification]
- Diversity of perspective: [Score] - [Justification]
- Depth: [Score] - [Justification]

### IDENTIFIED GAPS
- [Gap 1]
- [Gap 2]
- [Gap 3]

### REFINED SEARCH STRATEGY
[Explanation of how to adjust next searches]

### CONTINUATION PROMPT
To proceed with the next iteration of research, simply reply with "Continue search" or "Run next iteration."

MOST IMPORTANT!: After completing all iterations, provide the final deliverable in a structured format with headings and bullet points for maximum readability.

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