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gm and welcome back to your weekly roundup of all things tech, shipping, and launching. In today's issue: five of the coolest products last week, a breakdown of AI media, and a forum all about what Cursor can and can't do — yet.

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Leaderboard highlights

Openspot — A modern, no-BS alternative to LinkedInOpenspot is a modern alternative to traditional job platforms. Instead of stale resumes and awkward connection requests, it uses short videos, audio clips, and thoughtful prompts to help you show who you actually are—not just what you’ve done.

Vapi — Voice AI agents for DevelopersVapi is an all-in-one platform for developers building AI voice agents. It handles everything from call routing to latency optimization and lets you go from prototype to production without juggling APIs.

Claude for Education — AI for higher ed, with a new learning mode for studentsClaude for Education is Anthropic’s new rollout for universities. It’s built to help students reason through stuff instead of just handing over the answer. Some schools are already testing it, with access for both students and faculty.

FramerLaunch websites with enterprise needs at startup speeds.

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Midjourney v7 — The smartest, most beautiful, most coherent modelThe latest Midjourney update adds better coherence, faster generations with a new Draft Mode, and smarter prompt interpretation. It’s built to be more responsive, more accurate, and cheaper to run when you’re just experimenting.

OpenBnB — Book homes directly while browsing AirbnbOpenBnB is a browser extension that finds direct booking links while you're browsing Airbnb listings. Just install it, browse like usual, and it surfaces the host’s official site so you can skip the middleman—and the markup.

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THE BIG IDEA

AI media's ✨ glow up ✨

AI visuals are still in their ✨prolific era✨ and now video’s catching up. OpenAI’s image model in GPT-4o kicked things off with Ghibli portraits and meme-worthy selfies, while Midjourney V7 added a faster draft mode and voice prompts so you can just say your way into concept art.

But the real plot twist? Runway Gen-4. It’s their newest video model, and it’s finally solving a big AI video problem: consistency. Characters stay recognizable, shots flow together, and scenes actually make sense. You can upload a single reference image, type a prompt, and get a short clip that doesn’t feel like it came from five different timelines.

It’s a huge win for indie creators, but also a growing headache for artists whose styles keep showing up in AI outputs they never agreed to. As the tools get better, the questions get louder about ownership, credit, and what counts as creative work when the machine’s doing the heavy lifting.

So yeah, the vibes are strong. The rules? Still in beta.

AI isn’t perfect — yet

Hyuntak Lee asked where Cursor couldn’t quite deliver, and the responses were honest but thoughtful. One dev had it suggest restarting a project entirely, only to later fix the bug with a few tweaks. Another said Cursor feels like a super capable intern—great most of the time, but occasionally too eager.

A few mentioned edge cases, context loss, or chain-reaction edits that solved one thing and broke three others. But no one was rage quitting. It was more like: this tool is powerful, but sometimes you still need to double check its work.

Building with Cursor? This thread’s full of tips for where to keep a closer eye.

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The Roundup

Every Sunday

Everything you missed this past week on Product Hunt: Top products, spicy community discourse, key trends on the site, and long-form pieces we’ve recently published.