The iPod returns (kinda)

gm legends. It’s Sunday.

This week: the iPod makes a comeback, a pet translation app that we’re 95% certain can’t be real, and six new web browsers. Plus, some of our favorite launches from the past week.

Thanks for reading, legend. Enjoy.

P.S. Launching soon? We’d love to hear about it → editorial@producthunt.co 🫶

Anthropic makes the AI that will help you plan your vacation, debug your code, and write a nice email to your landlord. It draws the line at helping you do anything actually dangerous, which is less fun but apparently worth $965 billion.

The company raised $65 billion this week in a Series H round led by Sequoia, Altimeter, Dragoneer, and Greenoaks. Amazon put in another $15 billion on top of what it's already committed. The post-money valuation: $965 billion.

The pitch isn't about chatbots. Investors are betting that the next wave isn't AI that helps you work faster — it's agents that do the work while you're at lunch. Anthropic's unreleased Mythos Preview model apparently showed enough of a leap in coding and long-running tasks to convince a lot of people to write a lot of very large checks.

Whether $965 billion holds is a different question. Builders in our community see it as a green light: if agents are the real next thing, now is the time to build on Claude. The skeptics have a specific concern: the bubble bursts if the cost to serve doesn't come down. Open-source models are closing the gap. A near-trillion valuation bets that they don't get all the way there.

Just 20 years ago, your internet browser choices were severely limited. Internet Explorer, anyone? Today, there are scores of options. 

One new option that launched just this week on Product Hunt: Oasis, a “privacy-first AI browser you can train anonymously.” While it’s personalized to your browsing experience, it doesn’t link that to your online or real-world identity.

New browsers are launching all the time on Product Hunt. Here are five releases from 2026, with a brief blurb from the launch team about why they built it:

• Vivaldi 8.0: “13 years building the same belief: your browser should adapt to you, not the other way around.”
• Nimbus: “Most of my day is split between a terminal and a browser. And the browser part started becoming increasingly annoying, while on the terminal so many complex things happen with such a simple UX.”
• SurfPad: “I switched to iPad as my main device and really missed Arc's workflow — sidebar, spaces, keyboard shortcuts. Nothing on iPad came close, so I built my own.”
• Aera: “I built Aera to address the core issue with current agentic browsers: they just don't help me get any real work done.”
• OMEGA: “I built OMEGA because modern browsers have turned into two things I did not ask for: a surveillance layer and a bloated operating system that happens to render webpages.”

 

Everybody can agree that streaming apps like Spotify have made the music experience better. Or can we?

Jesus Curreri, an Italian indie developer, isn’t so sure. He longed to go back to the days before ads and algorithms, when it was just you, a click wheel, and your music collection.

That’s right. He wanted the old-school iPod. 

So he built a music app that looks, feels, and functions like one. “If you grew up with an iPod and miss that feeling,” he writes, “this is for you.”

 

A Hong Kong company called Pettichat has run a successful Kickstarter campaign for an AI-powered pet translator. According to the company, the software has been trained on reams of pet sound data from dogs and cats and can be used to translate your pet’s growls, barks, and purrs into simple phrases for your human ears. 

Like: “Feed me.” Or: “I’m hungry.” Or: “Is there some more food around?”

You get the idea. You can also talk into the device and it will supposedly translate your words into pet sounds.

There’s a healthy bit of skepticism in the forums, and Nika has asked:

• If you had the chance, would you buy it?

• What would be the first thing you would like to know from your pet?

Now, we’re not sure when April Fools falls on the Chinese calendar, but we’re ordering one for Mr. Ruffles just in case. We want to know what he’s done with our missing sock.