Anthropic Launches Its Most Powerful Model Yet With Claude Opus 4.6

In Today’s edition:

1. Anthropic Unveils Claude Opus 4.6 With Massive Context and Smarter AI Agents

2. TWO WEEKS LEFT: Ask Us Anything About AI

3. PMNA TUTORIAL: Automate Status Reporting and Progress Tracking Using Make.com

4. Discord Tightens Safety Rules With New Global Age Verification System

5. COMING UP IN TWO WEEKS: The Missing Link—Adding Your Data to Your App Without Writing Code

6. TOOL REVIEW: Tines Helps Workspace Teams Automate Security Incident Response from Alert to Resolution

7. Exciting Career Opportunities for Product and Project Management Professionals

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Anthropic Unveils Claude Opus 4.6 With Massive Context and Smarter AI Agents

Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 4.6, its most advanced AI model yet, with major upgrades in reasoning, context handling, and autonomous task performance. The update builds on Opus 4.5 by boosting capabilities for coding, agent teamwork, and large-scale enterprise workflows.

• Massive context window: Opus 4.6 supports up to 1 million tokens of context, letting it manage large documents, codebases, and workflows in one session.

• Enhanced collaboration: New “agent teams” allow multiple AI agents to split complex tasks and work in parallel.

• Improved performance: It outperforms previous models and many rivals on coding, reasoning, and professional task benchmarks.

• Everyday work tools: The model’s upgrades extend beyond coding — it boosts productivity in spreadsheets, presentations, finance analysis, and research.

• Same pricing but broader access: Opus 4.6 is available across Claude, via API, and on major cloud platforms with no change in the basic price structure.

Claude Opus 4.6 marks a significant step forward for Anthropic’s AI lineup, especially in handling long-horizon reasoning and large workloads with greater autonomy and precision. Its combination of advanced context management, collaborative agent teams, and broader productivity applications positions it as a strong contender in the ongoing AI development race. Read More

TWO WEEKS LEFT: Ask Us Anything About AI

With just two weeks to go, the Ask Us Anything About AI meetup is fast approaching and now is the time to mark your calendar. Hosted by the All Things AI (Live) community, this in-person session is built around open discussion and real-time questions rather than formal presentations. If you’ve been meaning to engage directly with AI practitioners, this is your two-week reminder to get ready.

Event Details:

• Event Title & Topic: Ask Us Anything About AI is a live, open-format Q&A session focused on practical AI use cases, implementation challenges, and separating real impact from hype.

• Speaker / Host: Hosted by Mark H., alongside experienced AI practitioners actively building and advising on AI systems.

• Date & Time: Thursday, February 26, 2026, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM EST — now just two weeks away.

• Location: Loading Dock, 3915 Beryl Road, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, bringing together the local AI and tech community in person.

• Audience & Focus: Designed for developers, founders, product teams, and business leaders seeking grounded insights into AI strategy, automation, generative AI adoption, and execution.

Why This Event is Important: With AI moving quickly across industries, events like this offer rare access to practitioners who can answer real, unscripted questions. Since the meetup is happening in just two weeks, now is the ideal time to RSVP, prepare your questions, and make space in your schedule. If you’re serious about understanding how AI works beyond the headlines, this is one conversation worth attending.

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PMNA TUTORIAL: How to Automate Status Reporting and Progress Tracking Using Make.com

Project managers spend hours manually compiling updates and tracking progress across multiple tools, often leading to delays and misalignment. This workflow shows how to use Make.com to automatically collect status updates from Jira, ClickUp, Asana, or Trello and aggregate them into a single, real-time progress report. The result is accurate and timely reporting that keeps stakeholders informed without requiring extra manual effort.

You’ll learn to:

• Define the metrics and updates to track (status, milestones, blockers, completion)

• Create a central progress database in Notion, Airtable, or Google Sheets

• Set up a Make.com scenario to watch for task or project updates

• Normalize data from different tools for consistency

• Update the central progress database automatically

• Highlight blockers and at-risk items using conditional logic

• Create report templates for Slack, Email, or dashboards

• Automate notifications to stakeholders

• Maintain historical records for trend analysis

• Add error handling and governance to ensure reliability

Why it matters:

Automating status reporting ensures stakeholders always see real-time project progress and reduces the risk of miscommunication. PMs save time, gain visibility into blockers and trends, and can focus on driving execution instead of manually compiling reports. This system scales across projects and teams, creating reliable alignment across the organization.

FULL TUTORIAL HERE

Discord Tightens Safety Rules With New Global Age Verification System

Discord is launching a global age verification system starting in March 2026, applying new “teen-by-default” safety settings to all users unless they verify they are adults. The move is designed to curb minors’ access to age-restricted channels and content across the platform.

• Discord will place all users into a teen-appropriate mode by default unless their age is verified.

• Users who can’t be verified by Discord’s AI age-inference model must prove they’re adults via government ID or facial age estimation video selfie.

• Unverified accounts won’t be able to access age-restricted servers, channels, or speak in “stage” voice chats.

• Additional safeguards include content filters and warnings for friend requests or messages from unfamiliar users.

• Discord says collected verification data is quickly deleted and most users likely won’t need to manually verify.

This update marks one of Discord’s biggest safety policy shifts, reflecting broader industry efforts to protect younger users online. While intended to reduce minors’ exposure to mature content and unwanted contact, it has sparked debate about privacy, data security, and how platforms balance user safety with convenience. Read More

COMING UP IN TWO WEEKS: The Missing Link—Adding Your Data to Your App Without Writing Code

Just a quick reminder: The Missing Link: Adding Your Data to Your App Without Writing Code is coming up in two weeks! Hosted by All Things AI (Live), this virtual session will show how no-code tools can connect your app interfaces to powerful backend workflows without any coding. It’s a hands-on, practical meetup perfect for builders, founders, and no-code enthusiasts.

Event Details:

• Event Title: The Missing Link: Adding Your Data to Your App Without Writing Code is a practical walkthrough of building data-driven apps using no-code automation.

• Speaker / Host: Mark H., organizer of the All Things AI (Live) meetup and an advocate for applied AI and no-code solutions.

• Date & Time: Tuesday, February 24, 2026, starting at 12:00 PM EST.

• Location: Online (Virtual Event), allowing global participation through Meetup.

• Event Focus: The session explores how to connect tools like Softr and Zoho Forms to automation platforms such as Make.com, using webhooks and data mapping to trigger multi-step workflows like email notifications, CRM updates, and document creation.

Why This Event is Important: This event is highly relevant for founders, no-code builders, and product teams looking to ship functional apps faster without relying on backend engineers. By breaking down how data flows can be automated end-to-end, the meetup equips attendees with practical skills they can immediately apply to real projects. It’s a strong fit for anyone aiming to build smarter, more scalable apps with minimal technical overhead.

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Tines Helps Workspace Teams Automate Security Incident Response from Alert to Resolution

Tines is a powerful no-code automation and orchestration platform that enables teams to turn repetitive tasks and complex processes into automated workflows. Originally built for security operations, it has grown into a flexible tool that can automate work across IT, operations, HR, and business functions by connecting systems, moving data, and responding to events without writing code. For organizations overwhelmed by manual work and alerts, Tines offers a way to scale processes while improving reliability and speed.

• No-Code Workflow Builder – Create automation flows using a drag-and-drop interface without needing programming skills.

• Universal API Integration – Connect to virtually any tool or system that exposes an API to send and receive data and actions.

• Trigger-Driven Automation – Start workflows automatically based on events, alerts, or input from other systems.

• Decision Logic & Data Transformation – Add conditional logic and data manipulation steps to control how workflows branch and act.

• Monitoring, Logs & Auditing – Track workflow executions and outcomes with built-in analytics and audit logs for governance and troubleshooting.

By automating routine tasks such as alert triage, ticket creation, status updates, or data collection, project managers can free up time for strategic planning and decision-making. With visibility into execution outcomes and the ability to integrate disparate systems without coding, Tines empowers project teams to deliver work faster, with fewer errors and clearer audit trails, making it a valuable tool for smoothing execution and improving project outcomes.

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Exciting Career Opportunities for Product and Project Management Professionals

• Project Manager II @ Duke Energy

  📍 Charlotte, NC.

• Senior Program Manager @ KBI Biopharma

  📍 Durham, NC.

• Sr Project Manager @ Thermo Fisher Scientific

  📍 Morrisville, NC.

• Product Manager @ Fastbreak AI

  📍 Charlotte, NC.

• Digital Product Owner @ Huntington Bank

  📍 Charlotte, NC.

THAT’S A WRAP