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In This Issue
- 🤖 AI agents can now join your Google Meet - PikaStream 1.0 beta is live
- 🔍 Anthropic's leaked full-stack app builder - coming after Lovable
- 💳 Lovable Payments is live - idea to revenue in one session
- 📰 Perplexity Computer - the morning brief replacing 3 hours of scrolling
- 🛠 Postiz - the $0 open source tool killing $3,000/year social stacks
- 💰 Anthropic Fellows Program - $15K/month, deadline April 26
Hey, welcome back.
Video calls with your agent. A leaked builder inside Claude. A free tool quietly killing $3,000/year software stacks. An opportunity from Anthropic with a deadline in 11 days. And more.
Big week. Let's get into it.
Your AI Agent Can Now Join Your Video Call
Pika Labs released the beta of PikaStream 1.0, a real-time video model that gives any AI agent a live face and voice on a Google Meet call. Drop in a meeting link, your Claude or any compatible agent joins, renders an animated avatar and talks back in real time.
If you use it with a Pika AI Self, the agent can also execute tasks mid-call without leaving the conversation.
Pika Labs - Beta Release
PikaStream 1.0: Real-Time Video for Any AI Agent
- Works with Claude, OpenAI agents, and any compatible stack
- Live animated avatar with real-time voice response
- 1.5 second end-to-end latency in beta
- Fully open source, plug into your own agent via GitHub
- Pika AI Self can execute agentic tasks during the live call
The 1.5 second lag is noticeable but better than expected for a beta. If Pika closes that gap, this stops being a demo and starts changing client calls, onboarding flows, and support workflows in ways people haven't fully mapped out yet. Worth watching closely.
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Kelsey Hightower. Thomas Dohmke (fmr. CEO, GitHub). Christine Yen (CEO, Honeycomb). Mathias Biilmann (CEO, Netlify). Olivier Pomel (CEO, Datadog). The people actually building the tools you use every day — all on one stage.
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Anthropic Is Coming for Lovable
Leaked UI confirmed by Sifted and widely circulated on LinkedIn shows Anthropic building a native full-stack app builder inside Claude.
Anthropic
A Full-Stack Builder Quietly Leaking Out of Claude
What the leaked UI shows:
- Project-based workspace with scaffolding templates
- Live preview with AI-verified UI screenshots
- Built-in security scanning before deploy
- Auth, roles, and sessions included natively
- Dark mode and design system out of the box
If this ships, the model provider and the builder become one product. That is a structurally difficult position for Lovable, Bolt, and Vercel's v0 to compete against. Lovable's head of growth once said he feared the big labs most. Turns out that instinct was right.
Read the Sifted report →Lovable Closes the Last Gap for Solo Builders
While Anthropic is building toward Lovable's territory, Lovable itself just shipped something genuinely useful. Lovable Payments is now live, powered by Paddle as Merchant of Record.
Lovable
Idea to Revenue in One Session. Now Actually True.
- Accepts payments from 200+ countries from day one
- Paddle handles VAT, tax, and compliance as Merchant of Record
- Subscriptions and one-time payments both supported
- Works for both existing and new Lovable projects
Payments was the one step that still required outside help after building in Lovable. That gap is now closed. For solo builders shipping tools to a global audience, this removes the last real friction point between an idea and actual revenue. Not hype. A useful update.
See how it works →Your AI Morning Brief Is Here
Perplexity Computer is changing how some builders approach that problem. It is an autonomous AI agent that coordinates 19 different models to complete background tasks while you sleep.
Perplexity
The Algorithm Replaced, Not Beaten
What the morning brief workflow covers:
- Scans chosen X accounts and flags posts with real traction
- Monitors Reddit for viral threads in your specific niche
- Surfaces YouTube videos gaining unusual views and summarizes key points
- Delivers one concise brief to your phone before you wake up
- Orchestrates 19 AI models in parallel, assigns each task to the best one
The real insight is not the tool, it is the principle. The phone is not the problem. Unstructured consumption is. RSS feeds and newsletters have tried to solve this for years and failed because they aggregate but don't reason. Computer reasons. That is the specific difference that makes this work.
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Most builders are paying for tools that do one or two things reasonably well. Postiz does all of it, open source, self-hosted, zero monthly fees, and no feature gating. Every single feature in the paid cloud version is available in the self-hosted version.
Open Source Tool — Postiz
28,000 Stars. $0/Month. Unlimited Everything.
| Tool | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Buffer (5 channels) | $30 | $360 |
| Hootsuite | $199 | $2,388 |
| Sprout Social | $249 | $2,988 |
| Postiz (self-hosted) | $0 | $0 forever |
- Schedules to 25+ platforms including X, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, Threads, Pinterest, Bluesky, Telegram, Discord, and more
- AI generates post copy and creates images with a built-in design editor
- Full analytics across every platform from one dashboard
- Team collaboration with comment, review, and approval workflows
- Auto-post, auto-like, auto-comment triggered by engagement milestones
- Full public API, works with n8n, Make.com, and Zapier
- 28,000+ GitHub stars, 5,000+ forks, AGPL-3.0 licensed
The no-feature-gating part is what separates this from every other open source tool in this category. Most give you 70% and lock the rest behind a paid plan. Postiz gives you everything. The only real cost is a basic VPS to run it on, roughly $5 to $10 a month. That is still 95% cheaper than Buffer and 98% cheaper than Hootsuite.
View on GitHub →Get Paid $15K/Month by Anthropic
The Anthropic Fellows Program is a fully funded 4-month research fellowship for people working on AI safety, security, and societal impact. No PhD required. No prior AI safety experience required. 40% of past fellows joined Anthropic full-time after completing the program.
Opportunity: Deadline April 26
Anthropic Fellows Program - July 2026 Cohort
- Weekly stipend of $3,850 USD / £2,310 GBP / $4,300 CAD
- ~$15,000/month in compute funding
- Direct 1:1 mentorship from Anthropic researchers
- Access to workspaces in Berkeley or London, remote-friendly option available
- Prior AI safety experience is not required
- 80% of past fellows produced published research papers
- 40% joined Anthropic full-time after completing the fellowship
They prioritize execution over credentials. If you are a builder who cares where this technology is heading and have strong Python skills, this is probably the highest-leverage four months you could spend in 2026. Do not let the deadline slip past you.
Apply before April 26 →From the Editor
Resources Worth Checking Out
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🚀 AI Builder Starter Pack→
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🧠 DeepSeek V4 Prompt Pack→
Proven prompts for analyzing and understanding complex codebases. |
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