Mind the Product

Now Shipping

Technology EN ↓ 5 episodes

A 20 minute weekly recap of product management news, technology updates, and advice for product builders.

Author

Mind the Product

Episodes

How Figma and Anthropic are accelerating product teams | Now Shipping 03.07.2026 16:59

The Fable 5 saga continues.. 26.06.2026 13:07

Mike Belsito unpacks three AI stories that matter to product builders this week: SpaceX's $60bn acquisition of Cursor and what the end of model neutrality means for your team's tooling; why Noam Shazeer joining OpenAI is a signal about where the next frontier of AI capability might come from; and how the Anthropic Fable 5 export control situation escalated all the way to the G7. We discu...

Anthropic rolls back Fable 5 while Microsoft builds its own AI model | Now Shipping 19.06.2026 16:16

Mike Belsito on this week's episode of Now Shipping covers three stories shaping how product teams build on AI. We cover: — Why Microsoft built its own code generation model despite investing $13 billion in OpenAI — What the retirement of GPT-4.5 on 27 June means for product teams — and why model deprecation is now a product management problem — How a multi-agent safety bypass led the US gove...

Fable 5 launches while Siri partners with Gemini | Now Shipping 13.06.2026 17:06

In this week's AI briefing for product people, Mike Belsito unpacks Anthropic's Fable 5 launch, Codex's expansion to non developers, and Siri's partnership with Gemini.

Microsoft's agent playbook, Altman's AI apocalypse reversal, and Anthropic IPO | Now Shipping 05.06.2026 18:54

Welcome to Episode 1 of Mind the Product's brand new weekly AI briefing show for product people — with three key stories to pay attention to. In this episode, we cover: (00:00) Introduction to Now Shipping (01:12) Microsoft's agentic AI playbook and the "frontier firm" (07:09) Sam Altman walks back job displacement predictions (13:32) Anthropic files for IPO — and what it mean...