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The Roundup

by Product Hunt

Sunday, May 18

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welcome back to the Roundup, your weekly summary of the best products, hottest news, and trending conversations in the tech world. This week: the upgrade Finder needed, a new AI named Gordon, OpenAI's big shakeup, and a convo about avoiding burn out.

Your agents stopped answering and started doing

Your agents call tools, write to databases and move money, so a wrong answer is now a wrong action, which is a considerably worse meeting. Arcjet runs policy before every LLM call, tool call, query and API request: prompt injection, sensitive data, bots, rate limits, spend quotas, and your own rules in Rego on top. It reads the OpenTelemetry you already emit, so switching it on is one environment variable, no code changes and nothing to deploy. Each check also reads the earlier steps in the same workflow, so an agent's tenth action gets judged against the first nine and not on its own. JavaScript, Python and Go SDKs all at 1.0, agent framework guards included, free tier to start on.

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DeckSpeed — Cursor for slidesDeckSpeed listens to your meeting, brainstorm, or off-the-cuff voice note and spins it into a finished slide deck. It writes the storyline, chooses layouts, drops in charts, images, and even 3-D models, then hands you a PowerPoint file or share link before anyone asks for “just one more slide.”

Granola for iOS — The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetingsGranola for iOS is an AI note-taking app for people stuck in nonstop meetings. It records the call, transcribes it, and turns the mess into a clean, structured summary you can actually use, all from your phone. No extra gear. No weird setup. Just hit record and move on.

Migma AI — Create on-brand emails in secondsMigma turns a plain text prompt into a polished, on-brand email. It grabs live content, whips up images, checks how everything renders, then lets you pick an audience and hit send—all in one dashboard, no template wrestling.

Context.devAPI to scrape anything for AI, 20,000+ developers trust us.

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Substage — A natural language command bar for your Mac's Finder windowSubstage slips a natural-language command bar under every Mac Finder window. Type “zip these,” “convert to 1080p mp4,” or “word count,” hit return, and it does the thing—no menu spelunking, no Terminal ritual.

NotionApps 2.0 — Build web apps & portals from Notion without codingNotionApps 2.0 wraps any Notion database in a real web app. Pick your table, drag in forms and lists from a 40-piece component library, set who sees what, then click publish. It hosts the thing for you, so clients get a clean login link instead of a shared Notion view.

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MEME OF THE WEEK

Who the h*ll is Gordon!?

Docker added a button that says “Ask Gordon” and advaith summed it up perfectly: bro who is Gordon. No warning. No intro. Just Gordon. Like he’s always been there. Watching your containers crash. Judging your Dockerfiles in silence.

bro, really?

OpenAI split in two

OpenAI just split its soul in two—and gave each half a new job title.

The company is restructuring into a capped-profit parent and a fully nonprofit research lab. The new setup separates frontier model research (run by OpenAI Nonprofit) from the productized ChatGPT empire (run by the for-profit OpenAI Global), with CEO Sam Altman leading both. Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever and alignment researcher Jan Leike have exited stage left, but not before Sutskever’s now-famous “superalignment” team was quietly dissolved.

Under the hood, this looks like a response to mounting pressure. Between safety critics, government scrutiny, and uneasy investors, OpenAI’s trying to reassure all sides: moonshot research can still happen, and ChatGPT can still ship updates on time.

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Your agents stopped answering and started doing

Leaderboard highlights

Who the h*ll is Gordon!?

OpenAI split in two

Clock out or burn out