🌟 Today's Spotlight: Sim

An open-source workspace for building and running AI agents and workflows — think of it as your own control room for automating repetitive work, without being locked into one vendor's ecosystem.

For a lean team like yours, this means you can wire up agents for outreach follow-ups, reporting, or intern task-routing yourself, and actually own the workflow instead of renting it from a closed platform.

It's brand new this week and open-source, so expect active development — worth watching closely as it matures.

🛠️ AI Blueprint:

Build Your First AI Agent Workflow (No Code Required)

Most people use AI one prompt at a time. An agent workflow runs the same multi-step task on its own, every time a trigger fires.

Use this if: you've got a repetitive task you're still doing prompt by prompt.

💡 You'll learn:

• The three pieces every workflow needs: a trigger, a decision step, an action

• Why to start with something low-risk before automating anything that sends without review

• How to test a workflow on real past examples before turning it loose

Watch the full tutorial →

🔥 BREAKING

Anthropic in Talks With Samsung to Build Its Own AI Chips

Anthropic is reportedly in early discussions with Samsung to develop custom inference chips for Claude — a direct move against its own compute bill, estimated at roughly $1.25 billion a month.

⚡️ Why it matters: every frontier lab pays a hardware tax to Nvidia. If this goes through, Anthropic joins Google and Amazon in building its own silicon — a real step toward controlling its own cost structure instead of renting someone else's.

Read the full story →

🔎 Quick AI Highlights

🏢 Google Launches Gemini Enterprise — Unveiled at Cloud Next '26, positioned as the governance-first alternative to Claude Cowork and ChatGPT Work.

📈 TSMC's Record Quarter — All-time revenue highs, Q2 at $39.6B, up 68% year-over-year, with its N3 node sold out through year-end.

🔓 A Public Case for Open AI — Z.ai founder Tang Jie published a memo arguing AI should stay open, pushing back on reports of China considering overseas AI restrictions.

🛠️ New featured tools

📈 Thrivio — AI-powered growth intelligence that connects your CRM and ad platforms to map customer journeys and unlock hidden B2B revenue opportunities.

📅 Everest — A smart scheduling assistant that syncs all your calendars and handles the email back-and-forth for you—just CC [email protected] to book your meetings.

💸 Friday — The ultimate hassle-free payroll app for small businesses, combining lightning-fast pay runs, real-time time tracking, and automated tax filings.

💬 Soca AI — A conversational builder that lets you deploy custom chat and voice agents, complete with multilingual voice cloning, for support and learning.

✨ Prompt Show

💡 Use this before starting any massive new project, launch, or campaign to save yourself weeks of over-engineered, wasted effort: