Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Meta's first brain-reading AI could only spell things out one character at a time. Version 2 just graduated to whole sentences.
Brain2Qwerty v2 decodes those sentences from a non-invasive scan with accuracy starting to close in on surgical setups — the difference between a rare operation and something far more people who have lost speech could one day use.
In today’s AI rundown:
Meta turns brain scans into typed sentences
Cursor takes coding on the move with iOS app
Automate any manual task with Record & Replay
Anthropic clocks Claude's daily grind
4 new AI tools, community workflows, and more
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
META
Image source: Meta
The Rundown: Meta just introduced v2 of its Brain2Qwerty non-invasive brain-scanning system, reading full words and their meanings instead of v1’s single characters — with its accuracy nearing results that once required surgical implants.
The details:
Nine volunteers sat 10 hours inside a brain scanner and typed while the system read along, producing nearly 22,000 sentences of data.
One AI model reads the raw brain signals as people type while a second adds meaning, with the top-scoring volunteer hitting 78% accuracy.
v2 reached an average word accuracy of 61%, a jump from the 8% highs of top non-invasive rivals, with Meta also openly publishing the code for v1 and v2.
Meta also found that accuracy climbs with more data, saying the gap with surgical implants "could be further narrowed through data scaling alone”.
Why it matters: So far, most brain-computer interface advances have come through surgical means — a hard barrier to cross for mass adoption. This accuracy from a non-invasive option changes things, and Meta open-sourcing the code and dataset means it won't be the only lab pushing that curve on world-changing communication tech.
TOGETHER WITH UNWRAP
The Rundown: If your team still sorts through customer feedback manually (or with a patchy mix of manual work and AI), there's a better way. Unwrap brings all your feedback across surveys, reviews, tickets, social comments etc. into one view, then uses AI and NLP to surface what actually needs your attention.
With Unwrap, you can:
Automatically categorize all your feedback in one unified view
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Get real-time alerts as trends emerge, plus custom reporting on your schedule
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CURSOR
Image source: Cursor
The Rundown: Cursor brought its agentic coding platform to the iPhone and iPad through a new app, letting users kick off agents or take over those running on their PC from anywhere, shifting development from working at a desk to supervision on the go.
The details:
Users pick a model, start an agent by voice or slash command, and run it on Cursor's cloud or their own machine, with the ability to move between the two.
Live Activities and push alerts hit the lock screen the moment an agent wraps up, stalls, or has a pull request ready to check and merge from the phone.
The move trails mobile launches by Anthropic and OpenAI, with Claude Code lead Boris Cherny recently saying, "Most of my coding now is on my phone."
Why it matters: For a lot of developers, the job is becoming less typing and more approving what an agent writes, which makes a phone the natural second screen. Cursor is leaning in just as its first post-merger, Opus-sized system gets ready for release, and the pieces are lining up for a real power move if the new model delivers.
AI TRAINING
The Rundown: In this guide, you will learn how to automate repetitive tasks on your computer using OpenAI's "Record & Replay" tool (currently available on macOS). It allows you to teach Codex how to do anything by simply recording your screen.
Step-by-step:
Install Codex, sign in, and pick a task like uploading a YT video or exporting reports. Then, open Plugins, install Record & Replay and Computer Use
Now, prompt: “Record me doing this task and turn it into a reusable skill. Perform the task exactly as normal. Open apps from the dock, paste URLs into fresh tabs, and show Codex how you reached each file or page”
Hit the red stop recording button when you're done. Codex will draft a named skill. Test it in the same thread by typing / plus the skill name
Watch Codex run the workflow itself and give it feedback on how to improve the skill if needed
Pro tip: Once the skill works, schedule it to run monthly, like the last day of each month for reporting.
PRESENTED BY KLING AI
The Rundown: Kling AI, together with Higgsfield AI and creative studio Obsidian, took the stage at the Campaign House at Cannes Lions 2026 to present a new AI-generated video for WEC x Le Mans. Alongside the premiere, it revealed explosive growth, surpassing 100M global users and 50K enterprise clients.
The film showcases:
Kling AI’s advanced motion control and ability to handle multi-subject action sequences
Kling AI’s industry-first 4K feature that can produce commercial-grade quality
A new hybrid approach to filmmaking with humans, CGI, and AI in lockstep
Check out Kling AI's latest toolkits at its official website.
AI RESEARCH
Image source: Anthropic
The Rundown: Anthropic published the latest report in its Economic Index, pairing new round-the-clock Claude usage data with a survey of 9,700 users to measure both how AI threads into people's daily routines and how they feel about its role in their work.
The details:
Anthropic's new data setup sampled Claude usage continuously, giving hourly views instead of the seven-day slices used in past reports.
Hourly data saw news questions peaking in the morning, recipes at dinner, and sleep advice before dawn, with dates like Tax Day surging in specific chats.
Personal Claude chats moved from roughly one-third during the workweek to nearly half on weekends, with more health, money, and support prompts.
People who delegated more work to Claude also expected AI to handle more tasks next year, while feeling better about income, career stability, and purpose.
Why it matters: The granular hourly data is a fascinating window into AI's assimilation into everyday schedules, not just office workflows. When the same model spikes around sermons before sunrise, gardening in the afternoon, and recipes at dinner, overall trust and habitual use start looking just as important as benchmarks.
QUICK HITS
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⚙️ Devin Fusion - Cognition's multi-model, cost-cutting coding harness
📱 Cursor for iOS - Cursor's new mobile experience for coding on-the-go
*Sponsored Listing
Cognition launched Devin Fusion in preview, a new coding harness that pairs a frontier model with a cheaper "sidekick" agent to maintain quality at lower cost.
Apple's Vision Pro chief Paul Meade is leaving Apple for OpenAI's hardware unit, reuniting with ex-colleagues Jony Ive and Tang Tan to build its AI-powered devices.
California gov. Gavin Newsom signed a deal with Anthropic, making Claude available to its local agencies and government at half price, the first AI cleared by the state.
Ford reportedly brought back 350 veteran engineers to fix problems resulting from its AI tools falling short, leading to a surge in quality control rankings.
South Korea announced a new $880B ‘Triple Axis’ plan to expand chip factories, AI data centers, and robotics.
COMMUNITY
Every newsletter, we showcase how a reader is using AI to work smarter, save time, or make life easier.
Today’s workflow comes from reader Anonymous:
“Every time my wife and I want to go out to eat, we sit around and debate where to go and typically always end up at the same 2-3 places. But we always get recommendations from friends... and those get texted to ourselves, emailed...and just disappear. So I built Rumbly.xyz using Replit to create a web app to remember all the recommendations we get from friends.
You can also save recommendations for books, TV shows, movies, and even jokes, and then search by recency, friend, type of recommendation, or by map view. I also connected the app to Google Maps, a Google Books database, and TMDB and movie/tv data base, all free to use.”
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That's it for today!
See you soon,
Rowan, Zach, Shubham, and Jennifer — the humans behind The Rundown
