Show Notes - 2026-04-09
Stories Covered
Date:Today:Poke brings AI agents to text messaging [Tools & Launches]Atlassian adds visual AI and agents to Confluence [Tools & Launches]Astropad Workbench for monitoring AI agents on Mac [Tools & Launches]Google Gemini gets notebooks feature [Tools & Launches]Tubi launches native app in ChatGPT [Tools & Launches]AI enablement is the new Excel [Business Playbook]Nearly half of small businesses are increasing AI budgets in 2026 [Business Playbook]Automation gets you most of the way, humans finish the job [Business Playbook]Meta Muse Spark pricing model [Pricing & Access Watch]Poke's freemium model [Pricing & Access Watch]Astropad Workbench free tier [Pricing & Access Watch]IBM Research releases ALTK-Evolve for agent learning [Industry Moves]OpenAI releases child safety blueprint [Industry Moves]ProPublica staff strike over AI, layoffs, and wages [Industry Moves]AWS CEO defends dual investments in Anthropic and OpenAI [Industry Moves]Databricks CTO wins ACM Prize, says "AGI is here already" [Industry Moves]Meta AI tool exploration trick [Quick Wins]Use AI for research, not just content [Quick Wins]