Neural Notes

AI that amplifies your value, not replaces it.

The Rundown

The model wars of November 2025 have delivered a clear verdict: the era of "one AI to rule them all" is over.

Three frontier models dropped in 10 days. Anthropic's Opus 4.5 took the coding crown. Google's Gemini 3 Pro redefined search integration. OpenAI's GPT-5.1 mastered conversational flexibility. Meanwhile, the real power shift happened quietly in chip boardrooms and enterprise dashboards.

Here's what actually matters for your work.

Anthropic expands its Claude for Chrome and Claude for Excel products from pilot to broad availability

➡️ The Move: Alongside Opus 4.5, Anthropic expanded its Claude for Chrome and Claude for Excel products from pilot to broad availability. The Chrome extension is available to all Max users, while the Excel integration serves Max, Team, and Enterprise users.

⚡ Why It Matters: This signals Anthropic's pivot from being a model company to being a workflow company. They're embedding directly into where knowledge workers actually spend their time.

🎯 Your Takeaway: Anthropic's real upgrade isn't intelligence; it's finally meeting you where you work.

Meta Explores Multi-Billion Dollar Google TPU Deal, Nvidia Stock Tumbles

➡️ The Move: Meta is in discussions with Google to spend billions on using Google's TPU chips in its data centers starting in 2027, while also planning to rent TPU capacity from Google Cloud as early as next year. Google is now pitching TPUs for deployment inside customers' own data centers, marking a major shift in strategy.

⚡ Why It Matters: Google Cloud executives believe this shifting strategy could give them the chance to capture as much as a 10% slice of Nvidia's data center revenue. Google's TPUs add further competition into the AI semiconductor market. While Nvidia's dominance is unlikely to be dislodged in the near term, this represents a significant challenge to AMD, which was previously seen as the most credible challenger to Nvidia's GPUs.

🎯 Your Takeaway: When the biggest AI buyers start shopping elsewhere, the entire supply chain recalibrates. Watch your AI vendor's chip dependencies.

Microsoft Launches Agent 365 to Manage Enterprise AI Agent Sprawl

➡️ The Move: Microsoft unveiled Agent 365, a dashboard that can track AI agents on a corporate network all in one spot, at its Ignite conference. Agent 365 will be available within the Microsoft 365 admin center, the same place IT teams already manage users, apps and devices. It uses existing Microsoft products, including Defender, Purview and Entra, to detect threats, prevent oversharing of sensitive data, and enforce zero-trust principles for agents.

⚡ Why It Matters: As companies and their employees start to embed AI agents into their workflows, security teams have to contend with serious issues around what data these agents can see and how much autonomy they have. There have already been incidents of agents deleting live production systems and destroying user files while trying to reorganize them. Microsoft is positioning itself as the governance layer for the agentic future, and whoever controls the management plane controls the ecosystem.

🎯 Your Takeaway: The message is clear: AI agents are employees now. Manage them like it.

🔧 Tool Spotlight: ElevenLabs Scribe v2

What it does: Real-time speech-to-text transcription with sub-150 millisecond latency across 90+ languages.

The breakthrough: While most transcription tools make you wait until the recording ends, Scribe v2 Realtime transcribes as you speak with "negative latency," actually predicting your next words to keep up with natural conversation speed. It achieves 93.5% accuracy on industry benchmarks, outperforming Google's Gemini Flash 2.5, OpenAI's GPT-4o Mini, and Deepgram Nova 3.

Use it for:

• Live meeting transcription that keeps pace with rapid discussion
• Real-time captions for presentations or webinars
• Voice-to-text for faster document drafting
• Transcribing interviews or client calls on the fly

Why office professionals should care: The speed changes the workflow. Instead of recording a meeting and waiting for transcription, you get searchable text in real-time. Ask a question, see the answer transcribed before the speaker finishes. That's the difference between documentation as an afterthought and documentation as a live resource.

Access: Available via ElevenLabs API or through the ElevenLabs dashboard. Pricing is based on hourly quotas within existing subscription plans.

👉 Try This Today: Prompt Chaining

Single prompts have limits. The real productivity unlock? Chaining multiple prompts together to tackle complex tasks in stages.

Prompt chaining breaks sophisticated workflows into manageable steps. Instead of cramming everything into one overwhelming request, you guide the AI through a logical sequence: research, then analyze, then draft, then refine.

The concept in practice:

• Step 1: Ask for research or data gathering
• Step 2: Request analysis of what you collected
• Step 3: Generate a draft based on insights
• Step 4: Refine with specific feedback

This approach produces dramatically better outputs because each step builds context for the next. The AI doesn't have to juggle everything at once.

⏱️ Time to implement: 10 minutes to restructure your next complex request.

📖 Go deeper: The Power of Prompt Chaining

✨ The Wire

• OpenAI released GPT-5.1 with new "Instant" and "Thinking" modes, plus tone presets for customizing response style. Read more
• Google launched Gemini 3 Pro alongside Gemini Agent, an experimental feature that handles multi-step tasks across Calendar, Gmail, and Reminders. Read more
• ElevenLabs dropped Scribe v2 Realtime with sub-150ms transcription across 90+ languages. Read more
• Perplexity expanded Comet browser to Android, integrating AI search and personal assistant capabilities. Read more

See you tomorrow.

—Neural Notes

AI that amplifies your value, not replaces it.