🗞️ AI News of The Week: Claude For Creative Work
Anthropic just opened a new front for Claude by releasing a set of creative connectors so Claude can now interact with tools like Adobe Creative Cloud, Blender, Autodesk, Ableton and more. That’s right…you can now use Claude Code to do things in After Effects, Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom and more.
Mike’s Notes:
I’m not gonna lie, I was excited for this one. Being able to prompt in Claude and have it do things in After Effects for you is pretty cool. I tested it out with After Effects and it worked, but it was slow and clunky. I’m giving them some time to work the kinks out, but this is definitely a step in the right direction for creative apps like Adobe.
Why this matters:
Real connectors, not demos. Claude can now operate inside After Effects & Adobe CC Apps, Blender, and Ableton through official integrations, so it can edit a project file instead of just talking about one.
On-demand tutor. Claude can explain modifiers, synthesis chains, or unfamiliar features the moment you get stuck, no more hunting forum threads.
Code meets craft. Claude Code can write plugins, scripts, custom shaders, and parametric models for the tools you already own.
🧠 AI Term of The Week: Swarms (Agents)
Definition: A swarm is a group of specialized AI agents that work in parallel toward a shared goal, each handling a piece of the job and sharing results, with no single agent in charge.
Why it matters now:
Single-agent workflows are hitting a ceiling, agent swarms are how teams scale.
Parallel work means complex projects finish in minutes instead of hours.
Agent swarms are the next wave of "AI does the whole job.”
💬 Quote of the Week:
“You can't learn what you think you already know.
🧰 AI Tool of The Week: Google AI Edge Eloquent
What is Google AI Edge Eloquent: A free, offline-first dictation app for iPhone that turns your spoken thoughts into clean, polished text using Google's Gemma model running entirely on your device.
Mike’s Take:
I have never used a better dictation/voice-to-text tool. It’s bonkers. If you have ever used Apple Voice Memos to record voice notes, you get a recording of exactly what you said. With Google Eloquent, you can say umms & aahs & cough and pause and when you’re done it cleans everything up perfectly. It’s kind of amazing how good it is at dictation.
What it does:
Live transcription with automatic cleanup of filler words like "um" and "ah" the moment you hit pause.
One-tap rewrites into "Key points," "Formal," "Short," or "Long" versions.
Fully offline mode where no audio ever leaves your phone, plus an optional cloud mode that uses Gemini for heavier text cleanup.
Why it's interesting:
Privacy by default. Your voice never hits a server unless you explicitly opt in.
Real on-device AI. This is Gemma doing speech recognition locally, not a thin wrapper around a cloud API.
It's free and works on a plane, in a basement, or anywhere your reception dies.
🛠 AI Tutorial Of The Week: How To Create Symlinks on Mac for Obsidian
Description:
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create symbolic links (symlinks) on a Mac so you can access any folder inside your Obsidian Vault without moving it from its original location. If your Vault lives in iCloud Drive but you want to work on Markdown files that live in your home directory (like coding project READMEs), this is the video for you.
🤖 What You'll Learn
Symlinks vs Aliases: why only symlinks work in Obsidian
ln -s: the single command that creates a symlink
Terminal basics: cd, pwd, ls, and ls -la
Custom names: rename the symlink on creation
Three-way sync: edit anywhere, everything stays in sync
Verify symlinks: spot the "l" and the arrow in ls -la
Remove safely: delete the symlink without touching the original
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📚 Swarms (Agents)
❞ “You can't learn what you think you already know.” – Epictetus
