Good morning, AI enthusiasts, and welcome to the 5,054 new readers who joined us yesterday.The entire industry is fighting to create the best AI coworker. Slack is working to own the office space instead<\/p>\n The company\u2019s new Slack Code puts coding agents inside shared channels, where anyone on the team (engineer or not) can collaborate on software as it gets built<\/p>\n Reminder:<\/i><\/b>Our next live workshop is today at 12 PM EST \u2014 join and learn how to land your first paid AI consulting gig on Upwork.<\/i>RSVP here<\/a>.*<\/i><\/p>\n In today\u2019s AI rundown:<\/b><\/p>\n Slack turns coding into a group project<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Rowan\u2019s Corner: How to stand out to an AI-first startup<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Sell a high-value AI workflow audit as a consultant<\/p>\n<\/li>\n AI finds hidden breast cancer patterns<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n LATEST DEVELOPMENTS<\/b><\/p>\n Image<\/p>\n The Rundown:Slack just launched Slack Code, a new feature that allows users to develop code agents write the software and human teammates watch, steer, and direct the session<\/p>\n The details:<\/b><\/p>\n Each \u2018code channel\u2019 brings agents and users from across teams together, allowing anyone to contribute to the direction of a build and view live previews<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Deploying changes is gated behind human approval, with finished projects leaving an archived channel that acts as a searchable record<\/p>\n<\/li>\n All Slack plans have access at launch, with agents like ChatGPT, Claude, Devin, Vercel, and GitHub available to add to the conversation after connection<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Why it matters:The industry is already pushing in the direction of AI agent-enabled messaging builds, and this is another step in that trend. With so many (human) teams already working inside Slack and labs racing to build the best agent, Slack Code is instead trying to own the venue that easily brings both human and AI workers together<\/p>\n The Rundown: Most teams share one card and sort it out later. Mercury Spend replaces that with expense management built into your account<\/p>\n With Mercury Spend, you can:<\/b><\/p>\n Give your team and agents cards with limits that hold<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Get receipts automatically from Gmail or<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Auto-lock cards with overdue tasks until they’re resolved<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Try Mercury Spend<\/p>\n DISCLAIMER:\u00a0Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC. The IO Card is issued by Patriot Bank, N.A., Member FDIC, pursuant to a license from Mastercard International Incorporated<\/p>\n Rowan:We recently opened up 7 new roles at The Rundown, and we\u2019ve been flooded with applications. From the team and me — THANK YOU to everyone who referred the smartest people they know to help us keep improving the product for you all<\/p>\n Since it\u2019s top of mind, I thought I’d share what makes someone stand out to an AI-first startup in 2026:<\/p>\n Saying you “use AI daily” doesn\u2019t mean anything without receipts. Two years ago, you could get away with it\u2026 But the people who stand out now share their screen in the first call, without being asked, and show us how they work with AI<\/p>\n<\/li>\n A bias toward action accelerates everything. The strongest candidates identify a real problem in our company and send a 5-minute Loom, a redesign, or a short deck showing how they’d solve it before we’ve even met. When we can see the impact you\u2019ll make, you skip the line<\/p>\n<\/li>\n AI intuition, or \u201ctaste\u201c, is the No. 1 thing we look for. Know exactly the value you bring that AI can’t replace, and on the flip side, what it can, and show us the workflows you’ve built to hand that part off<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n If that sounds like you or someone you know, we’re hiring<\/a> :^)<\/p>\n The Rundown: In this guide, you will learn how to turn your AI knowledge into a focused consulting offer \u2014 choosing a narrow problem, collecting client context, and creating a one-page opportunity brief that can lead to an implementation project<\/p>\n Step-by-step:<\/b><\/p>\n Ask Claude to interview you about the work, industries, and tools you know best, then suggest three consulting angles<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Have it build an AI assessment for a prospect to complete. It should uncover AI opportunities in their business, give a score, and publish as a live Artifact<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Once a prospect responds, give Claude their answers<\/a> (saved in Google Drive) and website. Ask it to find the highest-return bottlenecks to fix with AI<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Ask Claude to turn the findings into a client-ready slide deck: their audit result, the bottleneck, practical solutions, and a sensible next step<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n Pro tip: Get specific. The video guide explores AI implementation for video editors<\/p>\n The Rundown: Collibra’s AI Command Center is a real-time control plane for your entire AI ecosystem, linking every agent, model, owner and data dependency to its policies, risk and trust score<\/p>\n AI Command Center gives you:<\/b><\/p>\n One unified registry for every AI asset<\/p>\n<\/li>\n An AI Trust Score for every system<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Live dashboards + automated traceability<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n AI is the tip; take command of everything holding it up<\/p>\n Image<\/p>\n The Rundown:Researchers from the University of Northampton published a new study that used an AI platform called CenSegNet to read and compare breast tumor samples cell by cell, finding previously unseen patterns in how cancer progresses<\/p>\n The details:<\/b><\/p>\n Healthy cells rely on centrosomes to divide correctly; when centrosome function becomes abnormal, it can cause errors that contribute to cancer<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The AI analyzed data from 27 patients across 911 samples to find two patterns (oversized vs. extra centrosomes) that each have different links to outcomes<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Patients tended to live longer when a tumor had fewer of the oversized versions, while extras lined up with more aggressive disease<\/p>\n<\/li>\n The researchers say the next step is pairing the findings with other data to guide treatments, with the system open-<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Why it matters:Some of AI’s headline-grabbing science wins have been through designing new things, but don’t discount the value in the tech’s less-sexy ability to read and analyze patterns in data that both humans and older systems simply haven’t noticed. It’s exactly that skill that helps inform diagnosis and personalized treatments<\/p>\n QUICK HITS<\/b><\/p>\n \u25b8 Shawn<\/a><\/b>built an eldercare tracker while caring for their dad<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n Today\u2019s workflow comes from reader<\/mark>Shawn Robison<\/a><\/mark>:<\/mark><\/p>\n \u201cSeveral months ago, my dad was in and out of the hospital. My two brothers and I were trying to coordinate his doctor appointments, manage his medications, and keep track of all the other details<\/p>\n We initially used Apple Notes, a shared iCalendar, multiple text threads, and a weekly call. The mental load was huge. Before my dad passed away, I started using Claude Code and Codex to build a simple tool that would keep everything organized and searchable. It also displayed trends in areas such as his mood, appetite, and vital signs, and included a calendar showing who was covering which days<\/p>\n After he passed, we encountered the administrative headaches involved in closing out his estate. We thought having a will, power of attorney, and other documents meant we were prepared, but we were wrong. I began integrating those lessons\u2014and the things we learned not to do\u2014into the final product, Eldercare Log.\u201d<\/mark><\/p>\n See Shawn\u2019s workflowVisit The Rundown University. How do you use AI?Tell usfor a chance to be featured<\/p>\n \ud83d\udcbb Slack Code – Slack’s channels for building software with agents as a team<\/p>\n<\/li>\n \ud83c\udfa5\u00a0FLUX Upscale – BFL\u2019s video upscaler that regenerates clips at native 4K<\/p>\n<\/li>\n \ud83d\udd00\u00a0Router – Ramp\u2019s tool that matches each AI request to the cheapest model<\/p>\n<\/li>\n \ud83c\udfb6\u00a0Firefly Audio – Create commercially safe music, voiceovers, & sound effects<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Build an AI agent, then see its reasoning, tool calls, and token usage.<\/b>\u00a0Join Honeycomb and AWS on Aug. 25<\/a> to explore Agent Timeline hands-on.*<\/p>\n OpenAIintroduced a new plugin for Apple Messages, allowing ChatGPT to search, view, and send messages from its ChatGPT, Codex, and Work platforms<\/p>\n Asanasaid it used OAI\u2019s Codex to remove an outdated testing framework in two weeks for around $12k, work the company originally estimated would take five years and $6M<\/p>\n Adoberolled out Firefly\u2019s audio generation tools to all users, with the suite producing original soundtracks, voiceovers, and sound effects cleared for commercial use<\/p>\n Apple Musicwill reportedly start labeling AI-generated songs on its platform later this year, following an industry push for AI disclosures and Spotify flagging AI artist profiles<\/p>\n *Sponsored Listing<\/i><\/p>\n Read our last AI newsletter: Claude adds protein design to its resume<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Read our last Tech newsletter: The $1.4T case against Meta<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Read our last Robotics newsletter: Unitree founder gains $13B overnight<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Today\u2019s AI tool guide: Sell a high-value AI workflow audit as a consultant<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n RSVP to workshop today @ 12 PM EST: Land your first AI consulting gig<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/justfineinfotech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/mercury-header.jpg\")
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TOGETHER WITH MERCURY<\/h6>\n
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AI TRAINING<\/h6>\n
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\u26f0<\/b>AI is only the tip of the iceberg<\/b><\/a><\/h4>\n
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AI & MEDICAL RESEARCH<\/h6>\n
\ud83d\udd2c\u00a0AI finds hidden breast cancer patterns<\/a><\/b><\/h4>\n
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