Quick Scan
What matters today
The past two weeks delivered three meaningful shifts in how AI works for executives. Anthropic put Claude 3.5 Sonnet into public beta for computer use, meaning the model can now click buttons, fill forms, and navigate software on its own.
Format Weekly newsletter issue
Audience Executives using AI at work
Time 7 min read
Topic Claude Operates Software, ChatGPT Searches the Web, Gemini Cuts Costs in Half
01 Start here
Welcome byte
The past two weeks delivered three meaningful shifts in how AI works for executives. Anthropic put Claude 3.5 Sonnet into public beta for computer use, meaning the model can now click buttons, fill forms, and navigate software on its own. OpenAI pushed ChatGPT Search to all Plus and Team subscribers, turning the chat interface into a live research tool with cited sources. And Google released Gemini 1.5 Pro 002 at half the original price with better performance.
02 Fast scan
Quick Hits
#01 This issue breaks down all three: what changed, what it means for your team, and the specific action steps worth taking this week. The quick hits cover five additional developments, and two more deep dives follow on document processing and daily market monitoring.
01 / Quick Hits
#02 Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Haiku Launch
The fastest Anthropic model ever matches the original Claude 3 Opus on many benchmarks at $0.25 per million input tokens. Available via API now.
#03 Executive angle: Route high-volume document classification to Haiku immediately to cut processing costs by up to 97%.
#2 OpenAI: GPT-4o Vision Upgrade
#04 Improved chart, graph, and table reading from images. Better numeric accuracy when processing scanned documents and spreadsheets.
Executive angle: Re-test any vision workflows that previously required manual data correction from charts or tables.
#05 Google: Gemini 1.5 Pro 002 Price Cut
The 002 update cuts standard pricing by roughly 50% while maintaining the full 2-million-token context window and improving coding benchmarks.
03 Main moves
Top Updates
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04 Reuse this
Productivity Gem
Deep dive ChatGPT Search Workflow: Your Daily Market and Competitor Monitoring Dashboard
Five saved prompts deliver a cited market intelligence briefing every morning in under 10 minutes using ChatGPT Search.
Put it to work Productivity gem Google Gemini 1.5 Pro 002: Better Performance, Half the Cost
Google's updated Gemini 1.5 Pro delivers improved instruction-following and coding at 50% lower API cost. Here is how to put the upgrade to work.
Put it to work PB
About the author
Pierre Bradshaw Founder, PromptHacker.ai
Pierre has spent 25+ years building growth systems across fintech, real estate, lending, campaigns, and AI workflows, with $1.5B+ in client value delivered.
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