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☀️ On this day: On April 18, 2006, HD DVD players and titles launched in the United States — with Toshiba shipping the $499 HD-A1 and the $800 HD-XA1 to retailers nationwide. The first titles available included The Last Samurai, Million Dollar Baby, and Serenity. Less than 22 months later, Toshiba pulled the plug on the format, conceding the disc war to Sony's Blu-ray.

What’s happening:

  • 🎨 Anthropic launches Claude Design for quick visual creation

  • 🛍️ App launches surge 60% as AI tools lower the bar for building

  • 🍎 MacBook Neo sells out April inventory as demand stays ahead of supply

  • 🌕 PBS puts its Artemis II documentary on YouTube for free

  • 📺 Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings steps down

  • + 📊 Daily poll and results

  • + 📈 Trending tools and resources

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🎨 Anthropic launches Claude Design ↗️LINK

  • Anthropic released Claude Design in research preview, a tool that lets founders and PMs without design backgrounds turn text descriptions into prototypes, slides, and one-pagers using Claude Opus 4.7.

  • Users describe what they want, refine outputs with edits or follow-up prompts, and export results as PDFs, URLs, or PPTX files — or send them directly to Canva for collaborative editing.

  • Anthropic says Claude Design complements Canva rather than competes with it, which is a convenient thing to say about a tool that does exactly what Canva does, just earlier in the process.

🛍️ AI vibe-coders are flooding the App Store ↗️LINK

  • Worldwide app releases jumped 60% year-over-year in Q1 2026, and are up 104% in April alone, according to Appfigures — with productivity and utilities breaking into the top five categories for the first time.

  • The leading theory is that AI coding tools like Claude Code and Replit are enabling first-time builders to ship apps without traditional technical skills, flooding both stores with new releases.

  • Apple's review process is already straining under the volume — a malicious Ledger Live clone drained $9.5 million from users while sitting undetected, suggesting the "bunco squad" argument is aging well.

🍎 Apple's cheapest laptop is the hottest thing it sells ↗️LINK

  • Apple's $599 MacBook Neo has sold through all April inventory, with new orders now shipping in May — more than six weeks after its March 11 launch with no signs of demand cooling.

  • Tim Cook called it the best Mac launch week ever for first-time Mac customers, and the constrained supply across all four colors and both storage configs suggests that wasn't just spin.

  • A $599 laptop generating iPhone-level supply crunches is either a massive Apple win or a manufacturing headache — probably both.

🌕 PBS puts its Artemis II documentary on YouTube for free ↗️LINK

  • PBS NOVA's hour-long "Return to the Moon" is now free on YouTube, covering the full Artemis II mission — the first crewed trip beyond Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972.

  • The documentary follows all four crew members across their 10-day lunar orbit mission, which set the record for the farthest humans have ever traveled from Earth.

  • It's free, it's an hour long, and the crew apparently found time to complain about Microsoft Outlook from lunar orbit — so there's something for everyone.

📺 Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings steps down ↗️LINK

  • Hastings announced he will leave Netflix's board in June when his term expires, stepping down to focus on philanthropy after co-founding the company in 1999 and shepherding it from DVD mail service to streaming giant.

  • Netflix reported a strong quarter alongside the news, with revenue up 16% to $12.25 billion and net income jumping 83% to $5.28 billion, as the company eyes generative AI as its next frontier.

  • Hastings outlasted Blockbuster, the DVD era, and the streaming wars — leaving right as Netflix starts chasing the next shiny thing, which feels like solid timing.

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Yesterday’s Poll Result:

Do you think China will surpass the U.S. in AI within five years?

  • A) Yes, momentum is clearly on their side - 68% 🏆

  • B) No, spending gaps don't close that fast - 32%

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