Monthly AI Wrapped 🌯 | 16 June

Jun 15, 2026

Clinton

Welcome to Build Club’s recap and AI news wrap!From Google’s background AI agent to Anthropic’s most powerful model yet - launched, then export-restricted days later - the big names all shipped this week.<div><hr></div><h3>🚀 Exciting updates from the Industry</h3><ul><li>Anthropic Claude Fable 5 - Anthropic’s most powerful public AI model yet, now restricted after a US export order blocked foreign access. <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5">Read more</a>.</li><li>OpenAI Codex Expands Beyond Coders to All Workers - OpenAI’s Codex now has role-specific tools for non-developers like finance, marketing, and legal teams. <a href="https://openai.com/index/codex-for-every-role-tool-workflow/">Read more</a>.</li><li>Google Gemini Spark - Google’s personal AI agent now handles real tasks for you in the background, without being asked. <a href="https://9to5google.com/2026/05/19/google-io-2026-news/">Read more</a>.</li><li>Google Universal Cart - A new AI shopping cart lets you add items from Search, YouTube, Gmail, and Gemini all in one place. <a href="https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/google-io-2026-all-our-announcements/">Read more</a>.</li><li>Magic Patterns Uses Your Real Design System - the AI design tool now connects to GitHub to generate production-ready UI from your real components and brand. <a href="https://www.magicpatterns.com/product/design-systems">Read more</a>.</li><li>Apify launches MCP connectors - Actors can now securely connect to apps like Notion, Slack, and GitHub to read, write, and trigger workflows mid-run, without ever seeing your credentials. <a href="https://console.apify.com/collection/mcp-connectors">Explore connectors</a>. <a href="https://blog.apify.com/announcing-mcp-connectors/">Read the announcement</a>.</li><li><a href="https://mosaic.so">Mosaic</a> launched <a href="https://motion.so">Motion</a> - a video agent for motion design: give it context and it storyboards and builds entire explainers, launch videos, and logo animations, then lets you edit everything directly or by chatting to iterate. See the <a href="https://x.com/_adishj/status/2062203755718930550?s=20">launch video</a>, made entirely by Motion.</li></ul><div><hr></div><h3>Top Build Club Community Tips 💡</h3>🎙️ Turn any boring document into a podcast you can listen to in 5 minutes<ul><li>Go to <a href="https://notebooklm.google/">NotebookLM</a>, sign in with your Google account, and create a new notebook.</li><li>Upload anything - a PDF, paste in a wall of text, drop in a URL, or add a Google Doc - then click “Audio Overview” in the Studio panel.</li><li>Hit generate, wait about two minutes, then press play and listen to two AI hosts discuss your content like a podcast.</li></ul>Turn a 30-page report into a 10-minute listen on your commute - no reading required. 🚀<div><hr></div><h2>Community spotlight</h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><img height="533" width="800" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!z-0g!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F86f2cf33-dbf2-4dcc-9685-37fde06c5825_800x533.jpeg"></figure></div>Build Club partnered with Singtel to host an open AI community event that brought together attendees from different companies, generations, and backgrounds. People left with new connections and a reminder that in AI, there are no competitors - only learners. Check out the post <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7465787648113258500">here</a>.A huge shoutout to <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ruiqian-liu/">William Liu</a>,<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/annieliaoo/"> Annie Liao</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinydzhu/">Kevin Zhu</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/talin-roche-959b631a2/">Talin Roche</a>, and the full Build Club and Singtel crew for making it happen.Want to run something like this in your city? Reply to this email.<div><hr></div><h3>Build Club Team Updates 💡</h3>Hear from our team on what we are up to and are shipping!<ul><li>Campus platform is now live - our virtual AI school is helping people upskill in AI and get great at it faster.<ul><li>Press coverage (5th on Product Hunt); <a href="https://www.startupresearcher.com/news/build-club-launches-campus-a-virtual-school-for-practical-ai-learning">https://www.startupresearcher.com/news/build-club-launches-campus-a-virtual-school-for-practical-ai-learning</a></li><li>Access campus and read more: <a href="https://buildclub.ai/blogs/introducing-build-club-campus">https://buildclub.ai/blogs/introducing-build-club-campus</a></li></ul></li><li>Claude Cowork courses are now live - we’re running practical workshops that help teams set up Claude Cowork and apply it across real workflows.<ul><li>Access the Claude courses <a href="https://campus.buildclub.ai/explore?vendor=66f35f033658f69f23960a72&sort=newest">here</a></li></ul></li></ul><blockquote></blockquote><div><hr></div><h3>Open Jobs</h3>Looking to hire the best talent? Join our free worldwide Slack community and post it in <a href="https://thebuildersfellow.slack.com/archives/C0778B8LT8T">#06-employment-opps-jobs</a><ul><li><a href="https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/browserbase/7724fbe3-6a27-4418-9705-2dcc40751a16">Software Engineer (Agent Platform) at Browserbase</a></li><li><a href="https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/convex-dev/dae7eefa-e97a-466f-9413-38ceeac8435b">Software Engineer (AI) at Convex</a></li><li><a href="https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/bland/2e815d0d-8e7a-43cc-8853-c1b029aeb499">Machine Learning Researcher (Audio) at Bland</a></li><li><a href="https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/composio/aaf139ec-fc60-4591-9f9a-64a8532dbc08">Member of Technical Staff (Research Engineer) at Composio</a></li><li><a href="https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/workos/5e650527-d8dd-413a-9cfb-d7d68143274b">Applied AI Engineer at WorkOS</a></li><li><a href="https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/workos/8317f6f4-3d85-4a9f-bec3-753e4b646fc2">Product Engineer (AuthKit) at WorkOS</a></li><li><a href="https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/magicpatterns/ba700f71-6bfb-4ce0-9cf1-64b075e6e7a7">Social Media Marketing / Product Evangelist at Magic Patterns</a><div><hr></div></li></ul><h2>Community events</h2>Over the past few months, Build Club has launched in several new cities around the world, including: Singapore, New York, San Francisco, Wollongong, Bangalore, Delhi, Chennai and Kolkata.Explore our global events calendar: <a href="https://lu.ma/buildercommunityanz">https://lu.ma/buildercommunityanz</a><ul><li>💡 Talk/Demo/Networking | Build Club Perth - June - 1st Year Birthday Celebration Drinks, Mon 15 Jun 2026, Perth, WA | <a href="https://lu.ma/2h7i6ojj">Sign up</a></li><li>💡 Talk/Demo/Networking | Builder’s Nights @ Spice Alley - KTS x Build Club, Tue 16 Jun 2026, Sydney, NSW | <a href="https://luma.com/txuqwuil">Sign up</a></li><li>💡 Talk/Demo/Networking | Agents after Dark - AdaL x Build Club, Wed 17 Jun 2026, San Francisco, CA | <a href="https://luma.com/o5an8a43">Sign up</a></li><li>🚀 Launch/Sprint | Offline Sprint Session - Build Club Tangerang, Sat 20 Jun 2026, Tangerang, Indonesia | <a href="https://luma.com/r6rgkuu8">Sign up</a></li><li>🌍 Community Kickoff | AI Builders Meetup: Build Club Launch [Hyderabad, India], Sat 20 Jun 2026, Hyderabad, India | <a href="https://luma.com/lqd04um2">Sign up</a></li></ul>Partner Events<ul><li>💡 Talk/Demo/Networking | AI meets e-commerce w/ Apify × Shopify @ Visa, Wed 17 Jun 2026, San Francisco, CA | <a href="https://luma.com/apify-9rqi">Sign up</a></li><li>💡 Networking | AI Engineer World’s Fair Rooftop Afterparty w/ Apify × Massive × TopK, Wed 2 Jul 2026, San Francisco, CA | <a href="https://luma.com/aie-sf-afterparty">Sign up</a></li><li>💻 Hackathon | Agents that Pay Hackathon, Sat 20 Jun 2026, Berlin, Germany | <a href="https://luma.com/j76u3xgz">Sign up</a></li><li>💡 Talk/Demo/Networking | TechHaus Sydney - June 2026, Thu 25 Jun 2026, Sydney, NSW | <a href="https://luma.com/ylaym9u2">Sign up</a></li></ul><div><hr></div><h3>💡 Share Your Tip for the Week!</h3>Have a clever AI hack, tool, or prompt you discovered? Comment below!We have begun to take 100 people off our waitlist every week. You can bypass this by subscribing to the newsletter if you are not on the waitlist ;)Interested in Reading More?Hear about what our <a href="https://buildclub.substack.com/p/from-energy-to-legacy-irvan-putra">Jakarta</a> and <a href="https://buildclub.substack.com/p/building-brisbanes-ai-community-ella">Brisbane</a> City Leads are doing to spread energy in their cities.Learn about what Build Club got up to this year in our 2025 recap. <a href="https://buildclub.substack.com/p/a-year-end-note-from-build-club-2026">Read more.</a>See you next time!Build Club Team