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The Roundup
May 18th, 2025
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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.

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Leaderboard highlights
DeckSpeed
DeckSpeed — Cursor for slides
DeckSpeed 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
Granola for iOS — The AI notepad for people in back-to-back meetings
Granola 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
Migma AI — Create on-brand emails in seconds
Migma 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.
Substage
Substage — A natural language command bar for your Mac's Finder window
Substage 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 coding
NotionApps 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.
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.

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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