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
Key points
- 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.
- 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.
- OpenAI: ChatGPT Search in Voice Mode: Real-time web search now works inside ChatGPT's voice interface, enabling spoken queries that return live results with source attribution.
Welcome
This issue gives executives a clean scan of Claude Operates Software, ChatGPT Searches the Web, Gemini Cuts Costs in Half. Start with the quick hits, then use the companion guides for the workflows worth testing this week.
Quick Hits
Top AI Updates
1. Claude 3.5 Sonnet Computer Use: The AI That Operates Software for You
A contract management analyst at a mid-size legal firm spends 90 minutes every morning opening vendor portals, downloading PDFs, extracting key dates and dollar amounts, and entering that data into a master spreadsheet. The work is accurate because it has to be.
2. ChatGPT Search: Everything Executives Need to Know About AI-Powered Web Search
Every morning, most executives run the same sequence: open a browser, type a competitor's name, scan three or four news articles, check a financial data site, switch to a second tab for industry news, then open ChatGPT to synthesize what they just read.
3. Google Gemini 1.5 Pro 002: Better Performance, Half the Cost
AI teams at larger companies often hit the same wall. They identify a document workflow that AI can handle: contract review, financial report summarization, regulatory filing analysis. The technology works. The outputs are accurate enough for first-pass review.
Pro Tip
A purchasing manager at a services firm receives 80 to 120 documents per week: vendor invoices, contract amendments, pricing proposals, compliance reports, and the occasional piece of correspondence that does not fit any category.
Productivity Gem
The five prompts covering market, competitor, regulatory, and customer intelligence
Health Tip
How to extract key physiological metrics from your iPhone or Apple Watch without complex exports.
This information is for educational purposes only and is not medical advice. Please consult a qualified healthcare professional before making changes to your health routine.
Kids Tip
Kids create a hands-on AI project: Build a Teachable Machine Image Classifier With Your Kid. A parent or educator helps them build, test, and explain what the AI tool gets right and wrong.
Wrap Up
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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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