Welcome back, AI enthusiasts!

Your AI app can now hold a little workspace of your own. Your survey can suggest a next step. And an AI teammate can keep working on a recurring job—provided you have the right access.

IN TODAY’S ISSUE · About 4 minutes

• 🧩 Build a personal Space in Meta’s Muse

• 📊 Turn Google Forms responses into a decision

• 🧰 Four useful tools to explore

• 🤝 Perplexity gives agents an ongoing role

• ⚡ Shopping checks, image clues, and an export deadline

NEWS

🧩 Muse makes room for your own mini-apps

A chat is useful until the thing you’re planning gets buried. Meta’s November 6 Spaces update lets you describe an interactive workspace and keep it inside the Muse app.

• Build around a small job: ask for a reading tracker, a packing checklist, or a board for comparing weekend plans. You can change how the Space looks and works as you go.

• Keep it close: pin a Space in the sidebar or make it a main tab. You can also hide it or schedule when it appears.

• Keep using it: check items off, add notes, and edit entries. Meta says Spaces can use connected apps to refresh information in the background.

Access: Spaces is available wherever Muse is available. Sharing and collaboration are still being explored; this launch is about your own setup.

Our take: start with one recurring chore and a few fields you actually need. The useful test is whether you come back to the Space next week.

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AI TOOL OF THE DAY

📊 Google Forms: from responses to next steps

Google’s November 5 announcement adds Gemini-powered Actionable Insights to Forms. It runs Python analysis over responses and suggests takeaways across questions.

Try this exercise: use a club survey about meeting times, session topics, and attendance frequency.

1. Open a non-quiz form with at least 12 responses and three questions. Make sure you can access its linked sheet, if it has one.

2. Go to Responses → Actionable Insights → Generate insights.

3. Expand Analysis steps. Check one recommendation against the underlying answers: how many people support it, and are blank responses affecting the comparison?

4. Write a short decision note: the change to try, the supporting count, and one uncertainty to check in the next survey.

Availability: eligible Google Workspace or Google AI plans are required. Rapid Release rollout began November 2; Scheduled Release starts November 19, each taking up to 15 days. The button may not be visible yet.

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TRENDING AI TOOLS

Four useful tools to try on a small task.

🎙️ seam: dictate into a Mac text field with a recording indicator at the top of the screen. The maker says speech processing stays on the device. Try a short note and check names before using it.

🎬 Kino: connect an AI assistant to search footage and edit projects through its desktop app. Start with one short clip and inspect the cut yourself. The free tier has a weekly tool-call allowance.

📈 Datastripes Data Stories: build a chart-led story from a spreadsheet, then edit its text and visuals. Use public data for the free public tier; private projects require a paid plan.

🧭 Quest: an iPhone AI app built around personal memory, relationship maps, and customizable mini-apps. Try a low-stakes planning question and check what it remembers before adding more context.

NEWS

🤝 Perplexity Teammates keep a job going

Instead of handing an agent a fresh task every morning, Perplexity wants you to give it a continuing responsibility. Teammates, announced November 6, can plan work, use connected tools, and follow up when something changes.

• Define the job: specify the sources, the result you want, and when it should repeat. A teammate retains its role and context between conversations.

• Handle several steps: it can divide a larger project among agents, use a browser and desktop, then bring the work back for review.

• Know the limits: this is a research preview for individual Max subscribers on the web. Pro is not included; Enterprise plans do not get access by default. Usage draws on credits.

A sensible first brief: ask for a weekly comparison of changes on three public product pages, with dated links and a draft summary in your chat. Review a few runs before connecting more accounts.

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QUICK AND FRESH

🛒 AI shopping still needs a check. Visa’s November 5 benchmark tested 22 models on 15 shopping challenges, with a 57.2% pass rate. It measures product selection and buy-or-don’t-buy decisions—not real-world checkout failure rates.

📦 Conductor Cloud users: export soon. The November 4 announcement sets read-only access for November 13 and shutdown for November 20, when Cloud data deletion begins. Use Settings → Account → Export data, or transfer a workspace to local.

🔎 Pangram adds visual clues. Its November 4 Image 1.0 release includes heatmaps for suspected AI-generated regions and video analysis. Treat detector output as a reason to investigate the original source, not proof on its own.

🧪 A test of messy lab evidence. OpenAI and Ligo introduced BioBasicsBench on November 6: 100 routine lab tasks involving raw experimental data. The evaluation also checks whether agents notice errors or recognize that the evidence is insufficient.

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