Learning Brief — 2026-09-23

What we covered

• AI news: AI & Tech Developments
• PM news: From Shreyas Doshi: 12 new videos on career management. Super-candid and direct.
• PM learning: From Shreyas Doshi: 12 new videos on career management. Super-candid and direct.

Mental model

Make the next experiment small enough to learn quickly.

Summary

TechCrunch — AI: Enveda secures $311M to bring more nature-derived AI drugs into clinical trials. The round valued the AI biotech at $2 billion. It is currently testing drugs that treat skin conditions and preserve weight loss after stopping GLP-1s. The Verge — AI: Meta’s AI agent is a cute little guy who’s great at spending my money. Modern life comes with an unending, auto-populating to-do list. It never ceases to amaze me how I can be doing nothing at all, minding my own business, and suddenly something needs to be taken care of. You're telling me a tree branch fell in the backyard and now I have to figure out what to […] Hugging Face Blog: How to Use NVIDIA Warp and MjWarp to Accelerate Robotics Simulation and Learning Workflows. The Verge — AI: Data centers are black boxes, but California wants to change that. California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a slate of bills on Monday that could finally give communities better data - and more say - on how data centers impact their electricity bills and water supply. As data centers invade a growing number of communities across the US, they've triggered protests over h The Verge — AI: Anthropic’s biolab made a discovery it’s comparing to Crispr. Anthropic says its AI Claude has "autonomously discovered" a new enzyme system similar to machinery behind the powerful gene-editing tool Crispr. It's the first result from Anthropic's newly-launched wet lab and an early test of Claude's usefulness for science as the company prepares to go public. T TechCrunch — AI: ChatGPT mobile app gets voice-based agentic features. Pro and Plus users will be able to use the Work tab on their phones to complete agentic tasks.

Today's PM news comes from Shreyas Doshi. The story is 12 new videos on career management. Super-candid and direct.. For a senior PM, the key takeaway is to watch how product decisions and strategy plays out in practice — not just the headline, but the reasoning behind it.

Today's PM learning comes from Shreyas Doshi. The core idea is 12 new videos on career management. Super-candid and direct.. What matters for a senior PM is translating the idea into a repeatable habit: define the user problem clearly, pick a metric that actually reflects value, identify the riskiest assumption, and make the next experiment small enough to learn quickly. Good PM content is rarely magic. It is usually disciplined prioritisation dressed up in nicer prose.