Good morning! Here's what's happening in AI today:
Claude for Teachers launches with free access for K12 educators
ChatGPT now builds and ships full web apps
Notion adds Markdown file preview and import
How to install your identity into Claude. Then let it act in the world.
4 new AI tools worth trying today
AI EDUCATION
Anthropic announced that verified K-12 teachers in the US can now use premium Claude capabilities at no cost, with a full year of free access for anyone who signs up by June 2027.
Educators get access to Learning Commons, a connector that maps academic standards across all 50 states down to the specific skills students need before moving forward.
Claude also draws on trusted curricula like OpenSciEd and Illustrative Mathematics, plus classroom tools including Brisk Teaching and Canva Education.
Claude Code and Cowork let teachers set up recurring tasks, like reviewing exit tickets every afternoon and adjusting the next day's lesson automatically.
The program is for individual educators only for now, with a dedicated offering for schools and districts still coming.
Teachers spend hours every week planning lessons and adapting materials for different students, often without the time or budget to do it well. This gives individual educators a free way to close that gap, grounded in real curriculum standards instead of generic answers. It also puts Anthropic in direct competition with Google and OpenAI for a foothold in US classrooms.
AI TOOL
OpenAI added the ability to build a full web app from a plain language description entirely inside ChatGPT.
The process starts with a plain language description of the app you want, and ChatGPT handles the coding underneath.
Once the app is built, it can be published and shared with a live link instead of staying stuck inside a chat window.
Creator @coreyching walked through the process end to end, from first prompt to a deployed site.
This turns ChatGPT into a lightweight app builder for people who have never touched a code editor.
Most people who want a simple app or website still need a developer to build it for them. This closes that gap by letting the conversation itself become the app, with no separate tools required. It is part of a broader push by OpenAI to make ChatGPT useful for building things, not just answering questions.
AI MODEL
Notion rolled out a way to open Markdown files directly inside the app as a read only preview, before deciding whether to keep them.
You can now open a .md file directly in Notion as a read only preview before deciding whether to keep it.
If you want to keep working on it, one click imports the file as a fully editable Notion page.
This removes the extra step of copying and pasting Markdown content by hand.
It works right from the desktop right click menu, alongside your other "Open With" options.
A lot of AI tools, including Claude and ChatGPT, export their answers as Markdown files by default. This makes it much faster to move that AI generated content into Notion without breaking the formatting. It is a small change, but it removes real friction for anyone using AI tools alongside Notion daily.
HOW TO AI
I counted the AI setups I've abandoned in the last two years. Workflows that ran for a week and stopped. Sessions that started strong and faded because every new chat started from zero.
Not because the tools were bad. Because the tools had no idea who I was.
An agent with no identity isn't an assistant. It's autocomplete with ambition. Here's the setup that fixes it.
Step 1: Write the identity file
This is who you are, how you think, and what you're building toward. It goes in Settings → Profile for your global identity, or Project Instructions for something project-specific.
Cover your work, how you think and make decisions, how you like to work, what you're building toward long term, and what you say no to even when it looks good on paper. Keep it under one page. Specific beats comprehensive.
Step 2: Write the goals file
This is what the agent actually steers by, not your task list. It lives in your project's Files section.
Include your long-term mission, what actually matters this quarter, your active projects, your decision criteria for new opportunities, and what you're trying to stop doing. Update it every quarter, it only takes about 20 minutes.
Step 3: Write the trust file
This defines what Claude can do without asking, what it always escalates to you first, and where it's allowed to write. It goes in your project's Instructions section.
Set what the agent can run autonomously, what always needs your approval first, hard limits it should never cross, and one single folder where all its outputs go. Read wide, write narrow. Claude can access everything and propose anything, but it only writes to one place you review.
Turn on memory that compounds
In Settings → Capabilities → Memory, turn on both "Search and reference chats" and "Generate memory from chat history." Once a week, review what got stored, delete anything inaccurate, and add what the week taught you that Claude missed on its own.
Give it a way to act: Claude in Chrome
This is a browser extension that lets Claude read, navigate, click, and fill forms in real time. Install it from the Chrome Web Store, then turn it on in Claude Desktop under Settings → Connectors.
Once it's loaded with your identity, goals, and trust boundaries, it stops being a browser automation tool and becomes something that acts filtered through your actual judgment. Set up a recurring morning brief that checks only the sources tied to your current focus, ignoring anything that doesn't connect to what you're building right now.
Nebula launched Nebula Max, a new model built for complex workflows with stronger coding, design, and long running job performance.
OpenCode introduced Tabs, letting developers open multiple sessions inside OpenCode Desktop and switch between projects without losing context.
Manus upgraded its presentation feature so it now generates PowerPoint files directly, complete with editable charts that redraw automatically when you change a value.
🔴 Screenpipe: Turns everything you do into searchable memory and AI agents.
🎨 Reve API: Build with the world's best 4k image model in your own apps.
📊 ClickUp Brain: Drop a CSV in and get a real chart back in seconds.
✨ Higgsfield AI: Turn any reference image into vector layers in After Effects.
THAT’S IT FOR TODAY
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- Dr. Alvaro Cintas
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