Issue 49 | PromptHacker Biweekly, Issue #49

PromptHacker Biweekly, Issue #49

The past two weeks delivered significant AI advancements designed to streamline workflows and enhance decision-making. OpenAI's new Custom GPTs eliminate manual information retrieval and content generation, freeing up 60 minutes per user each week by allowing teams to build specialized AI tools without coding.

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Issue 49

Quick Scan

What matters today

The past two weeks delivered significant AI advancements designed to streamline workflows and enhance decision-making.

Format Weekly newsletter issue

Audience Executives using AI at work

Time 6 min read

Topic PromptHacker Biweekly, Issue #49

Key points

Perplexity AI Introduces Real-Time News Search: Perplexity AI now offers real-time news search, providing up-to-the-minute information and summaries on current events.
Anthropic Claude Adds 200K Context Window for Enterprise Users: Anthropic's Claude now supports a 200,000 token context window for enterprise users, enabling processing of entire books or extensive legal documents.
Google Workspace Adds AI-Powered Email Drafting in Gmail: Google Workspace integrated AI-powered email drafting into Gmail, suggesting full email responses and new message content.

Welcome

This issue gives executives a clean scan of PromptHacker Biweekly, Issue #49. 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 Haiku and Updated Sonnet: Anthropic's Fastest and Smartest Models

What Claude 3.5 Haiku is and how its speed-to-cost profile changes the executive toolkit

2. ChatGPT Search: Real-Time Web Answers Inside Your AI Assistant

ChatGPT has always been limited by its training cutoff. Ask it about a recent product launch, a competitor's earnings, or current market conditions and the best it could do was acknowledge that its information might be outdated.

3. Apple Intelligence on iPhone: The Executive's 30-Day Onboarding Plan

iOS 18.1 released October 28. Most executives will open Writing Tools once or twice, find it useful, and then forget it exists a week later because no new behavior displaced the old habit.

Pro Tip

Email triage is one of the highest-volume, lowest-value activities on an executive's calendar. The task is repetitive and structured: classify each email by required action, determine priority, and either respond briefly or delegate.

Productivity Gem

Competitive monitoring has always required either a dedicated research function or 30-45 minutes of manual news scanning, bookmarking, and synthesis. Neither option is sustainable for most executive teams.

Health Tip

Optimize your executive recovery and cognitive performance using consumer AI and wearable data.

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.