Now Shipping: A Mind the Product podcast
A 15 minute weekly recap of product management news, technology updates, and advice for product builders, brought to you by the team at Mind the Product.
Episodes
19 episodes
Why companies are blocking AI shopping agents
This week on Now Shipping, Mike Belsito explores why personal agents are getting stuck across the web, and what those failures reveal about the products we build. From Walmart’s checkout checks to Yelp’s paid access model, businesses are taking...
Everything you need to know about Dots: OpenAI’s new agent
This week on Now Shipping, Mike Belsito breaks down OpenAI’s dots: how its always-on agents work, the workflows demonstrated at DevDay, and the controls designed to keep people in charge. He examines the early customer examples and asks whether...
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Meta Muse's big week: #1 on the App Store, then blocked by Amazon
Meta's Muse launched two weeks ago as a personal AI agent you hand tasks off to rather than chat with. Since then it's become one of the biggest product stories of the year: download numbers that outpace ChatGPT's early days, a Shopify and Inst...
We read Dario Amodei’s 3,800-word essay so you don’t have to
AI’s biggest rivals are talking about slowing down. But will their release schedules tell the same story?This week on Now Shipping, Mike Belsito breaks down Dario Amodei’s 3,800-word essay on why frontier AI development needs to slow do...
Meta’s Muse: How much control would you hand over?
Your calendar, your inbox, your credit card. How much access would you give Meta’s AI agent?This week on Now Shipping, Mike Belsito examines Meta’s pitch for Muse and the questions it raises for product teams building, buying or experim...
Product lessons from a month of AI security incidents
Oji and Ezinne Udezue are product leaders with more than 50 years of combined experience between them. Oji has held product roles at Twitter, Calendly, Atlassian, Typeform and Microsoft; Ezinne has led product at WP Engine, Procore and T-Mobile...
Inside Slack Code: what it is, and why Anthropic just became its founding partner
This week we look into the launch of Slack Code. Salesforce's new product turns any Slack conversation into a dedicated workspace where AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Devin and GitHub Copilot can plan, write and ship code together, with ...
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Linear says AI isn't saving product teams time
Mike Belsito hosts Now Shipping, the weekly AI news show for product people, brought to you by the team at Mind the Product. This week's three stories cover a platform war breaking out over where the world's code lives, the first real fallout f...
Grok goes agentic, while Anthropic watermarks everything
Mike Belsito covers three stories this week that matter to product pepole this week. xAI's Grokbot launches in public beta as a persistent digital co-worker that non-technical users can actually configure; Anthropic rolls out invisible watermar...
Is anyone actually using AI agents?
This week, Mike Belsito identifies the three AI stories product managers need to pay attention to. This week's stories:— Salesforce making Slack an MCP client sets a new expectation for enterprise AI — the interface layer is ...
LinkedIn cracks down on AI slop
This week on Now Shipping, Louron Pratt covers three stories reshaping the product and AI landscape: the coordinated platform crackdown on AI-generated content across YouTube, Substack, and LinkedIn; the widening fallout from OpenAI's agent esc...
OpenAI’s rogue model exposes a product problem
Mike Belsito covers the week in AI with three stories that matter for product builders. OpenAI's most advanced models, given a cybersecurity evaluation and loosened guardrails, didn't just complete the challenge — they reasoned their way around...
Inside the world of AI Agents with Dan Olsen
Dan Olsen is a product management consultant, educator, and author best known for his work on product-market fit. A veteran of the Mind the Product community, he runs hands-on AI workshops for product teams across industries — battle-testing to...
Microsoft's $2.5bn bet
Mike Belsito hosts Now Shipping, Mind the Product's weekly AI news briefing for product practitioners. This episode brings together three stories that share a single throughline: the model era is giving way to the deployment era. Belceto unpack...
The Fable 5 saga continues..
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 th...
Anthropic rolls back Fable 5 while Microsoft builds its own AI model | Now Shipping
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 retire...
Fable 5 launches while Siri partners with Gemini | Now Shipping
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.
Microsoft's agent playbook, Altman's AI apocalypse reversal, and Anthropic IPO | Now Shipping
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...