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Week of May 26th, 2026 - For Curious Minds
The Digital Buff
May 26, 2026
You touched grass. The internet evolved. Letās catch you upā¦ intentionally.
Warm Up ā
Reading what actually mattered last week, so you're not playing catch-up in every meeting.
Meta quietly dropped a new standalone app called Forum, for Facebook Groups, positioning itself as a Reddit alternative.
Sign in with your Facebook account, post under a nickname, and participate in group discussions that Meta says are "centred on real conversations, not what's trending.ā
The part worth watching: an AI-powered "Ask" tab that turns group discussions into a queryable knowledge base. Reddit has never fully cracked community search. Forum is betting it canā¦and this time, the AI capabilities to do it actually exist.
Meta tried a standalone Groups app in 2014. The market wasn't ready. Now it might be?! š
This is the big one. Google announced what it's calling the biggest change to Search since the search box debuted 25 years ago (This is not an exaggeration!!)
Hereās whatās changing:
The search box now expands to handle longer, conversational queries.
AI Overviews now let you ask follow-up questions in AI Mode. Instead of scrolling down to the blue links, users are nudged to keep the conversation going with the AI.
Information Agents are coming this summer. Think Google Alerts, but instead of just flagging that something changed, the agent explains what changed, why it matters, and gives you a synthesized update.
Generative UI means search results can now look like interactive web pages.
And YES! mini apps, built in natural language directly in Search.
Alongside the Search overhaul, Google revealed something that's easy to scroll past but really shouldn't be: audio glasses are launching this fall in partnership with Gentle Monster and Warby Parker.
Research Paper Read:
When you talk to Claude, you use words. Claude processes those words as long lists of numbers, called activations, and produces words back. Those numbers in the middle are, essentially, Claude's thoughts. And until now, we couldn't really read them.
Anthropic's new research introduces Natural Language Autoencoders (NLAs), a method that converts activations into plain text explanations we can actually read.
Challenge Set :
Three things to actually do this week. Pick one or all three & Stay Ahead!
a. Build Your Own Custom SEO Report with Claude Code+ Google Search Console
The old way: export from GSC ā clean in spreadsheets ā build charts in Data Studio ā repeat every time there's a meeting.
The new way: connect Claude Code to your GSC data once, then ask for whatever report you need in plain English, "show me the top 10 landing pages that gained traffic this monthā, and it generates it in minutes.
Every meaningful thing you do in an AI tool, write a script in ChatGPT, build something in Claude, generate visuals in DALLĀ·E, that's a BonBon. A moment worth remembering. The problem? Those moments disappear. You never know where to find that prompt that worked, that output you loved, that idea you wanted to revisit.
Buff BonBon Candy Store is your cross-agent memory layer. Built on Notion Workers + Claude API + a Notion Agent, it captures your cross-agent work and surfaces patterns you'd miss yourself.
š¬Full Instructions on my GitHub.š¬
If you've only ever heard of The Lean Startup but never actually sat with Eric Ries in conversation, this episode is the one!!
 | Buff Power Up :Last week, I heard Meaghan Choi, Head of Design at Anthropic, speak in person. She called herself "semi-technical", then casually mentioned she's a die-hard CLI user. The command line is more technical than most people will ever get. And she's still identifying room to grow. Technical isn't a destination. It's a direction. There's no excuse in todayās era to cap your own curiosity. |
Check This Out:
Someone from my network, Lana Ivory (Product Marketing at Meta), built something genuinely that blew up on LinkedIn. Within 24 hours of posting her plan to attend Cannes Lions, she had 12 spreadsheets, 40 RSVP links, 6 overlapping dinners, and events 25 minutes apart, with no idea where she was supposed to be.
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