🗞️In this edition

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• Neon launch puts Opera against Perplexity, Dia

• Workflow Wednesday #38 ‘Workflow Evolution’

• Newsom signs AI transparency bill

• In other AI news –

  • OpenAI adds in-chat shopping to challenge Google and Amazon

  • Anthropic rolls out Claude Sonnet 4.5 for production-ready coding

  • Brave search introduces detailed answers alongside AI summaries

  • DeepSeek’s sparse attention model slashes API costs by half

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Neon by Opera enters market to rival Perplexity and The Browser Company

♨️News –  Opera has launched Neon, a new AI-focused browser that moves beyond simple chat features to help users get tasks done. The browser introduces tools like “cards” for repeatable prompts and “Neon Do” for automated actions, with a monthly subscription price of $19.99.

👨‍💻Fast facts – 

• Neon was first announced in May and is now rolling out to select users.

• Cards let users build workflows, similar to how apps or commands work.

• Neon Do can summarize blogs, share updates to Slack, or fetch past browsing details.

• The browser includes a chatbot, code generation, and tab organization through “Tasks.”

• Opera is targeting heavy AI users, competing with Perplexity’s Comet and The Browser Company’s Dia.

🤓Open Tools POV – Neon highlights how browsers are evolving into agentic platforms that can act on behalf of users. The real test will be whether these features deliver value in everyday use, not just in polished demos.

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This Week in Workflow Wednesday #38: Workflow Evolution

Workflow Evolution in Action: Meetings That Manage Themselves using fireflies.ai

Tired of juggling notes while trying to stay engaged? Fireflies.ai turns meetings into self-managing records so your team never misses a decision.

Step 1: Sync Your Calendar

Fireflies works best when it knows your schedule. Connect your calendar, and it will automatically spot upcoming meetings and be ready to join without reminders.

Step 2: Decide How Fireflies Behaves

Head to Settings → Meeting Settings and choose ….. We break it all down in this week’s issue, along with 2 other AI workflows.

California signs first AI safety law requiring transparency from big tech

☕News –  California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed SB 53, making the state the first in the nation to require large AI companies to be transparent about safety measures. The law also provides whistleblower protections and establishes a system to report potential AI-related safety incidents.

👨‍💻Fast facts – 

• Covers major AI labs including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google DeepMind.

• Companies must report safety protocols and incidents, including crimes committed without human oversight.

• Whistleblowers at AI firms receive legal protections.

• Meta and OpenAI opposed the bill while Anthropic supported it.

• New York has passed a similar AI bill that awaits the governor’s approval.

🤓Open Tools POV – California is setting the pace for AI safety regulation, showing how states can protect the public while supporting innovation. Other states are likely to look to California as a model for balancing safety with growth in AI technology.  

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📢 What else is happening?

• OpenAI takes on Google, Amazon with new agentic shopping system // ChatGPT users in the U.S. can now make Etsy and Shopify purchases within conversations, marking a next step toward the future of online shopping 

• Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.5, its best AI model for coding // The company says Claude Sonnet 4.5 is capable of building “production-ready” applications, rather than just prototypes, representing a leap in reliability from previous AI models

• Brave updates its AI-powered search with a detailed answers feature // The search company said that this new feature will co-exist next to its AI Answers feature, which was introduced last year to give summarized responses to search queries

• DeepSeek releases ‘sparse attention’ model that cuts API costs in half // For long-context operations, the benefits of the system are significant; Preliminary testing by DeepSeek found that the price of a simple API call could be reduced by as much as half in long-context situations

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