AI disclosure: The Web Guy Nick Podcast is produced with AI. Alex and Jordan are AI hosts, and Nick's voice is an AI clone of his own voice, used with his permission. Stories are researched from public sources and linked below. The AI Apps You Are Not Watching Yet: Perplexity's Teammates, Manus After Meta, and Suno Inside ChatGPT A special episode on the AI apps that skip the headlines and do the daily work. Perplexity leads: Teammates, its always-on agents for Max subscribers, launched November 5, and Perplexity Computer now runs e-commerce workflows from Shopify sales data to Meta ads and Klaviyo campaigns with human approval gates, can run entirely on a Mac, and ships with the BrowseSafe prompt-injection benchmark as its safety receipt. NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook, wired into Gemini chat with a phone recorder that turns meetings into citable sources. Manus is independent again after its Meta deal was unwound, raised more than 500 million dollars, and shipped self-triggering Automations. Wispr Flow and Granola are fighting over your voice, Suno now makes music inside ChatGPT and Claude while its artist-name lawsuit moves through court, Moonshot put the Kimi K3.1 Pro weights out for anyone to download, and Genspark's AI Media Studio directs whole videos from one prompt. Plus Higgsfield Corner, AI or BS, and One Thing to Try This Week: record your next meeting in Gemini Notebook. Takeaways: Perplexity's agent push is real but tiered: Teammates is Max only at 200 dollars a month, while Computer reaches Pro. An agent that can touch your store should ask before it spends: Perplexity built budget and approval gates into its e-commerce workflow. NotebookLM's new name hides the story: Gemini Notebook is becoming the memory layer across Google's apps. Manus is not a Meta product. It resumed independence, raised over 500 million dollars, and its agents now trigger themselves. The dictation fight is the most useful one in software: Wispr's own speech model against Granola's no-cost unlimited Mac dictation. Sources: The Verge, Perplexity Teammates: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1028302/perplexity-teammates-ai-agents-work Unite.AI, Perplexity Computer for e-commerce: https://www.unite.ai/perplexity-computer-links-shopify-sales-to-meta-and-klaviyo-campaigns/ Tech-ish, Perplexity Computer runs on your Mac: https://tech-ish.com/2026/10/21/perplexity-computer-can-now-run-entirely-on-your-mac/ Google Workspace Updates, Gemini Notebook in the Gemini app: http://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2026/10/take-actions-on-your-notebooks-from-Gemini-Notebook-directly-in-the-Gemini-app.html 9to5Google, Gemini Notebook recorder: https://9to5google.com/2026/10/27/gemini-notebook-recorder/ Manus, Introducing Manus 2.0: https://manus.im/blog/introducing-manus-2-0 Enera Labs, Manus raises over 500 million dollars: https://www.eneralabs.com/blog/manus-500m-autonomous-agent-enterprise-2026/ Wispr Flow, What's New: https://wisprflow.ai/whats-new TechCrunch, Granola dictation: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/granola-crunches-up-a-dictation-feature-to-compete-with-wispr/ Music Business Worldwide, Suno MCP: https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/sunos-new-mcp-tool-lets-users-make-songs-inside-chatgpt-claude-and-gemini-as-its-developer-api-gets-a-sign-in-portal-but-remains-in-beta/ Music Business Worldwide, Suno moves to dismiss the Isbell class action: https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/suno-asks-court-to-dismiss-jason-isbells-right-of-publicity-class-action-it-claims-artist-names-are-shorthand-for-musical-genres/ Moonshot AI, Kimi K3.1 Pro: https://www.kimi.ai/blog/kimi-k3-1-pro Perplexity, BrowseSafe: https://browsesafe.perplexity.ai/ Genspark, AI Media Studio: https://www.genspark.ai/blog/genspark-media-studio A Web Guy Nick LLC show. webguynick.com
