The Next Input — Issue #097

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⚡ The Briefing — 60 sec

• Anthropic hires lawyers as it prepares for IPO
  We don’t do financial advice at The Next Input. Having said that? 💰

• NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang says “nobody really knows the risks of AI” while pouring billions into the race
  Jensen is way too deep in this to outline the real horrors. But honestly? At this point, we all might be.

• AI spots cancer before symptoms appear in major UK study
  This is the good stuff. No matter your stance, AI catching cancer before it touches your body is the type of win everyone wants.

🛠️ The Playbook — The Executive Signal Synthesizer

Mission Turn industry noise into a clean signal feed for leadership—financial, regulatory, safety, and breakthroughs—summarized daily with zero manual effort.
Difficulty Medium
Build time 2 hours
ROI Cuts hours of reading and gives execs the “just tell me what matters” digest.

0) Why This Matters

The world gets louder every day: IPO chatter, safety alarms, medical breakthroughs, regulation drama.
Expecting leadership to track this manually is unrealistic.
A signal synthesizer gives them only the important parts—what happened, why it matters, and whether you need to act.

1) Architecture

2) Workflow

1. Identify 20–30 trusted sources (tech, finance, safety, medical, regulation).

2. RSS + Perplexity fetch all new stories every 12 hours.

3. Claude 4.5 Haiku labels each update by theme:

   • financial movement

   • safety concern

   • medical breakthrough

   • infrastructure shift

   • geopolitical tension

4. GPT-5-mini turns clusters into strategic “signals” with implications.

5. System writes each signal to Notion with timestamps + tags.

6. Slack/email sends a clean morning digest with 3–5 key insights and action notes.

3) Example Prompts

Classification Prompt (Claude 4.5 Haiku)

Classify this update into one category:
- financial
- regulatory
- safety
- medical breakthrough
- competition
- infrastructure

Return:
1) category
2) a one-sentence summary

Signal Builder (GPT-5-mini)

Combine these tagged updates into 3–4 strategic signals.
For each:
- describe the shift
- why it matters
- who it affects
- any recommended watchpoints
Tone: clean and concise.

4) Guardrails

• No forecasting or advice—stick to clear implications.

• Deduplicate repeated reporting across publications.

• Tag low-confidence signals so execs know what’s still emerging.

• Don’t overinterpret one-off events—wait for patterns.

5) Pilot Rollout — 2 hours

1. Build Notion DB with fields: theme, summary, impact, timestamp.

2. Connect RSS + Perplexity to a Make.com scenario.

3. Run the classifier across one day of news.

4. Manually check clusters for accuracy.

5. Run synthesizer to generate your first digest.

6. Share internally and refine themes.

6) Metrics

• Number of signals surfaced per day

• Percentage of noise filtered out

• Exec satisfaction score

• Time saved reading raw articles

• Accuracy of theme classification over time

Pro Tip: Include a “watchlist” section—signals that aren’t actionable yet but could matter soon.

🎯 The Arsenal — Tools & Platforms

• Feedly AI · Smart industry feed filtering + keyword tracking · https://feedly.com

• Notion AI Databases · Structured signal storage + tagging · https://notion.so

• Perplexity Pro · High-quality context pulls and summaries · https://perplexity.ai

• Make.com · Orchestrate news → classify → synthesize → deliver · https://make.com

Copy-paste prompt block:

You are my strategic signal synthesizer.
Turn tagged updates into:
- 3–4 core signals
- clear implications
- watchpoints
Tone: clean, modern, and executive-ready.

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