Learning Brief — 2026-09-24

What we covered

• AI news: AI & Tech Developments
• PM news: From Pawel Huryn — The Product Compass: Building In Public: How to Get Your First 100/1,000/10,000 Users
• PM learning: From Pawel Huryn — The Product Compass: Building In Public: How to Get Your First 100/1,000/10,000 Users

Mental model

Make the next experiment small enough to learn quickly.

Summary

ZDNet — AI: Google Wallet got a lot of new tricks in 2026 – these 5 are my favorites. You can do a whole lot more than tap to pay with Google’s Wallet app. The Verge — AI: Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar gives Google’s AI a face. Google's new Gemini 3.8 Live update lets users have conversations with the model while watching an animated AI persona respond in real time. The "Live Avatar" will lip-sync and show different facial expressions during conversations, but it's currently only available to Gemini Enterprise customers. A TechCrunch — AI: Bring your co-founder, partner, or colleague and get 50% off a second TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass. Buy one pass to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and get 50% off a second of the same ticket type. Register before event starts on October 13 at 8 a.m. PT. TechCrunch — AI: PrismML brings its tiny LLMs to Qualcomm-powered smart glasses. Prism's larger goal is open-weight AI that runs on devices and makes better use of the computing power they already have. TechCrunch — AI: Oracle sends force majeure notice on its New Mexico Stargate data center. The notice would allow Oracle to delay payments should the facility miss its 2028 target to come online. The Verge — AI: Jensen Huang talks about AI and climate change like a supervillain. As Jensen Huang puts it, AI can help fight climate change - but only if it inflicts "an enormous amount of pain and suffering" first. The Nvidia CEO discussed the future of energy and AI's impact on our planet in the latest episode of The Ezra Klein Show. But his comments boil down to the […]

Today's PM news comes from Pawel Huryn — The Product Compass. The story is Building In Public: How to Get Your First 100/1,000/10,000 Users. 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 Pawel Huryn — The Product Compass. The core idea is Building In Public: How to Get Your First 100/1,000/10,000 Users. 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.