Learning Brief — 2026-09-25

What we covered

• AI news: AI & Tech Developments
• PM news: From Aakash Gupta — Product Growth: How to Get a ‘Transformative’ AI Fluency Rating as a PM, with Wade Foster | CEO of Zapier
• PM learning: From Aakash Gupta — Product Growth: How to Get a ‘Transformative’ AI Fluency Rating as a PM, with Wade Foster | CEO of Zapier

Mental model

Make the next experiment small enough to learn quickly.

Summary

TechCrunch — AI: Meta opens early access program for new Muse features. Anyone interested in joining has to ask Muse to put them on the list. TechCrunch — AI: Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal. Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai's cloud infrastructure, a bet on CPUs that could grow to about $20 billion, and in an unusual arrangement, Akamai is giving Anthropic a potential stake of up to 5% of its stock that grows as Anthropic spends more. TechCrunch — AI: Mark Wahlberg is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and he wants to talk about your work, not his. Mark Wahlberg joins Bruce K. Lee at Disrupt to discuss investing, entrepreneurship, healthcare, wellness, and building businesses. TechCrunch — AI: Ahead of US IPO, British AI neocloud Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financing. The funding, which comes from Third Point, Nvidia, and others, will fuel the company's massive AI data center buildout. TechCrunch — AI: Meta’s Muse just stole the AI spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic. When AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should have asked: what pace? Now it’s turned into model drop week for both companies as Anthropic rolled out Opus 5.5, followed by OpenAI’s GPT-6 model updates just 90 minutes later. But the company t TechCrunch — AI: Some Supabase customers are publicly exposing reams of people’s data to the web. The findings highlight how AI-generated and vibe-coded apps can spill and expose users' data when not configured or secured properly.

Today's PM news comes from Aakash Gupta — Product Growth. The story is How to Get a ‘Transformative’ AI Fluency Rating as a PM, with Wade Foster | CEO of Zapier. For a senior PM, the key takeaway is to watch how product decisions and strategy plays out in practice — not just the headline, but the reasoning behind it.

Today's PM learning comes from Aakash Gupta — Product Growth. The core idea is How to Get a ‘Transformative’ AI Fluency Rating as a PM, with Wade Foster | CEO of Zapier. What matters for a senior PM is translating the idea into a repeatable habit: define the user problem clearly, pick a metric that actually reflects value, identify the riskiest assumption, and make the next experiment small enough to learn quickly. Good PM content is rarely magic. It is usually disciplined prioritisation dressed up in nicer prose.