Did you know that we have LinkedIn, Instagram and X accounts
that you can follow?

In this issue:

• 🤝In Partnership: Dictate anywhere on your Mac

• 🤿Deep Dive: OpenAI  launched a program to patch critical open-source software with AI

• 🤝Powered by: One database for transactions and analytics

• 🤿Deep Dive: Apple's iOS 27 AI features

• ⚒️Tool Snapshots: Tools for AI, no-code, and productivity

• 🖼️AI Art: Examples of great and trending AI art

🤝IN PARTNERSHIP WITH VOIBE

Type 3x faster with your voice using Voibe

Private, offline dictation that works in every app on your Mac

Voibe is voice-to-text for Mac that runs 100% on-device.
Hold Fn, speak, release.. your words land in any app: Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, Slack, Gmail, anywhere your cursor is.

No cloud. No uploads. Audio is discarded the instant it's transcribed. Every other dictation tool streams your voice to a server. Voibe runs entirely on your Mac. YOU are the server.

Sub-300ms latency. 97%+ accuracy.
Developer Mode for VS Code & Cursor. 90+ languages.

(20% off on all plans with code INTELLIGENT)

🤿 DEEP DIVE

OpenAI and Trail of Bits Launch Patch the Planet to Find and Fix Security Vulnerabilities in Critical Open-Source Software

Intelligence: OpenAI launched Patch the Planet, an initiative that pairs AI-assisted vulnerability discovery with expert human review to help maintainers of critical open-source software find, validate, and fix security issues faster.

• Trail of Bits has committed its entire security research organization to the effort, working directly with projects like Python, cURL, the Go project, and Sigstore to validate findings, develop patches, and coordinate responsible disclosure.

• Early results are significant. GPT-5.5-Cyber found 8 kernel pointer leaks and 24 privilege escalation exploits in the Linux kernel, identified a 23-year-old vulnerability in OpenBSD, and found over 10 exploitable bugs in Safari's WebKit engine in about a week.

• An HTTP/2 denial-of-service vulnerability affecting NGINX, Apache, IIS, and Pingora was also found, with analysis suggesting over 880,000 internet-facing websites were running affected software.

• Every finding is reviewed by a Trail of Bits security engineer before reaching a maintainer, addressing one of AI security tooling's biggest problems: the flood of false positives that already overwhelms open-source maintainers.

🤝POWERED BY TIGER DATA

The #1 Time-Series Database Built on Postgres.

Columnar storage. No split architecture. No new query language. TimescaleDB extends Postgres with hypertables, Hypercore compression, and continuous aggregates so analytics run on live data.

CERN uses it to handle sensor data from the Large Hadron Collider.

One database. No pipeline.

Start with $1000 In Credits

🤿 DEEP DIVE

Apple's Broader iOS 27 AI Strategy Is Less About Siri and More About Making Every App Feel Smarter

Intelligence: Beyond the Siri AI overhaul, iOS 27 is packed with smaller AI features baked directly into everyday apps, from splitting restaurant bills to auto-updating compromised passwords to organizing your browser tabs by topic.

• The new bill-splitting feature in Apple Cash lets you photograph a receipt, extract each item automatically, and share requests to your group chat so everyone pays their share including tax and tip.

• Apple Intelligence can now navigate websites on your behalf to update weak or breached passwords automatically, no manual logins required.

• Messages get one-tap suggestions based on conversation context, like offering to add a friend's request to your reminders, suggesting photos to share from an event, or prompting you to create a calendar event when plans are being made.

• Shortcuts finally becomes accessible to non-power users through natural language. Just describe what you want your iPhone to do and Apple Intelligence builds the automation for you.

• All of these features run on-device for privacy and are designed to surface only when relevant, making them feel less like AI additions and more like the apps themselves just getting smarter.

⚒️ TOOL SNAPSHOTS

Futuristic tools within AI, no-code, and productivity

• 🔍 Bluerails Discovery - See how discoverable your business is to AI agents and where to improve.

• 🎬 OpenArt Director - Create cinematic AI videos by chatting with an AI creative director.

• 🖼️ Thumbmagic - Generate YouTube thumbnails backed by real performance data.

• 🎙️ Hush - Clean up real-time audio so voice AI agents hear only what matters.

• ⌨️ Cotypist - Get smart local autocomplete across the Mac apps you use every day.

🖼️ AI ART

Examples of great and trending AI art

ℹ️ ABOUT US

The Intelligent Worker helps you to be more productive at work with AI, automation, no-code, and other technologies.

We like real, practical, and tangible use-cases and hate hand-wavy, theoretical, and abstract concepts that don’t drive real-world outcomes.

Our mission is to empower individuals, boost their productivity, and future-proof their careers.

We read all your comments - please provide your feedback!