Has ChatGPT overtaken Claude Cowork?

Hi friends, I hope you’re having a great weekend. Three days until we take off on our family gap year™️ (which I’ll be covering over at the RadReads newsletter). You may notice that this week’s episode is meatier than normal. Grok Bot has been playing a huge role in managing the editorial process. (It doesn’t do any writing.) If you’re new here, every Sunday I curate the top AI blogs, tweets, podcasts and tutorials (so that you don’t have to). Let’s jump in. If you only read 3 things How the head of Codex built a Cowork competitor — Behind the scenes on the product that’s taking knowledge work by storm. (I really enjoy it and use it a lot.) Building a semantic layer — A technical post on the nuance it takes to build a company brain (where the knowledge updates itself). A practical guide to LLM knowledge bases— This is the ingestion-review-triage setup that I use for all my wikis. From the desk of Khe Hy Grok Bot is surprisingly good — I didn’t want to like it, but now use it all the time. Skills are becoming a problem — Skills got popular. Now it’s time to manage them inside your organization. What Notion taught me about AI Fluency — Why most people struggle with the art of the possible. Create personal leverage using Claude Cowork Imagine sitting down Monday morning and your meetings are already prepped, your inbox is triaged, and last week’s notes are organized — all before you open your laptop. That’s Claude Cowork running on a schedule you set once. This self-paced course teaches you to build that system. Finish it in a weekend. Learn Cowork in 1 weekend → Here’s what the frontier labs are cooking It’s been a crazy week at the labs, with each of them releasing a bunch of “quality of life” updates. OpenAI Codex and ChatGPT can now connect multiple Gmail and Calendar accounts ChatGPT Work can sign into websites without seeing your password Scheduled tasks in ChatGPT can now fire on Slack, Gmail, and GitHub changes Custom sidebar sections just landed in ChatGPT and Codex desktop The WebMCP standard looks to make the web more agent-friendly Anthropic Claude now has one memory across chat and Cowork Claude Cowork now has a built-in browser Tobi (from Shopify) escalates the fight over Claude.md Everyone else Grok Bot can now buy things on the Internet (with Shopify Link) Gemini launches enterprise for financial services AI and the future of work Right-sizing your intelligence spend — Is Fable-level intelligence overkill for most business problems? Moats in the age of floods — More intelligence won’t help the enterprise. Here’s a list of what will. Should you care if this essay is written with AI? — What’s more important, the provenance or the ideas themselves? Sam Altman on building OpenAI and betting on the impossible — He backtracks on AI eliminating jobs and the importance of creating better products. The latest viral AI assistant in Silicon Valley — A personal agent came out of nowhere and raised $250M at a $2.5B valuation. The early reviews are good. For our builders How a solo founder runs 15 AI agents around the clock — Ditch the Mac Mini and go for Devin in the cloud. Fences, not sandboxes — This article is a bit too sci-fi, but shows how agents will coordinate at scale. 👉 I write the Future-Proof your Career with AI newsletter every Thursday and Sunday. 10,000+ bad ass entrepreneurs and executives read it.