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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...

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...

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. 

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...