Rowan Cheung ✓
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Founder of the world’s most read daily AI newsletter @therundownai. Sharing the latest developments in the world of artificial intelligence.
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AI is now helping paralyzed people move again.
This man is moving his own hand with an implant trained on his brain activity, and feeling everything he touches.
An incredible application of AI for good! https://t.co/5PWhCUVJsZ
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Alps: 10/10
Astra quota: 0/10
🇨🇭 https://t.co/3klioWVkDb
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AI enhanced journaling is changing my life
I've been running a Wispr Flow + Claude Cowork workflow that turns rambles into structured data and action items
Super simple setup:
1. After meetings/events (or whenever I have a big idea), I open my phone and ramble everything into
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Products I use that integrate AI perfectly (use regularly)
-Notion AI
-Spotify (AI DJ)
-Whoop
-Slack (Slackbot)
-X (Grok)
The ones that failed (never use):
-Instagram (Meta AI)
-Apple Intelligence
-DoorDash (AI chatbot)
-Gmail "Help me write
-Google Meet "take notes for me”
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There's a fascinating new startup using dogs to detect cancer in human breath
In a new trial, the dogs detected it over 90% of the time!
How it works:
Dognosis has patients breathe into a cotton surgical mask, which is then frozen and shipped to their farm in India.
There, a
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@rowancheung I'm super skeptical of this. It will absolutely be possible for any content to turn into any content, and we'll find certain very frequent pathways. My bet is "longer to consumer ---> shorter to consumer" will be the most popular. But I think people are going to, on
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The full interview: https://t.co/LfPfJfG9EO
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I interviewed Sundar Pichai, and he made an interesting prediction for where we'll be in 3 years:
"Any content can go from any modality to any modality. It doesn't matter how the content was originally created -- people can consume it in many different forms."
"I'm very https:/
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Researchers just built a floating robot
It drifts through a room and communicates with movement
In demos, it worked as an alarm clock, a study buddy, a reminder to get up and move, even a dance partner
Most robots struggle to feel friendly, since human-like faces drop people h
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The project memory system
Developed a system that keeps long AI projects from losing the plot -- one authority document, versioned files, decision logs, and a handoff prompt that carries full context into every new chat.
Credits to Christian Denton: https://t.co/nl9gQUKUdJ http
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The AI course production factory
Built a reusable AI skill that turns any topic into a full self-paced course -- modules, lesson text, working YouTube videos, and quizzes that explain wrong answers.
Credits to Charles Clogston: https://t.co/2fD2fuviFE https://t.co/c98UrT6p80
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The second brain pipeline
Captures thoughts in Apple Notes on his phone, and a scheduled Claude Cowork skill automatically files them into his calendar and Obsidian second brain overnight.
Credits to Mingyao Eng: https://t.co/CpMiIswohh https://t.co/w3b5Wrr1Ax
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The night shift agents
Built agents that run on his unused Claude and Codex credits overnight -- committing code, researching, and cleaning up his repos while he sleeps, then capping themselves to save credits for the morning.
Credits to Tao Zhang: https://t.co/PmigjWubJ7 https
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@rowancheung Quick idea, what if we also added an option for builders to vote which project they want to work on together?
With so many quality submissions, we are bound to see a few startups come up from this.
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The drought detective
Dictated 10 years of water bills to Manus, cross-referenced them against local weather data, and discovered 30% of her usage was in her control.
Credits to Jeannette Maw: https://t.co/jtf8FB9aVY https://t.co/EnK5dkEFrm
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The spam hunter
Turned tedious Google Business Profile spam tracking into a Claude Skill that investigates suspicious listings and compiles evidence into a ready-to-submit report for Google.
Credits to Mike Blumenthal: https://t.co/GwRLz2ZAKP https://t.co/mX47Yoiomj
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The property operating system
Built an AI master plan for his entire acreage -- garden beds, irrigation, drainage, budgets, and year-by-year maintenance -- that updates itself with every new photo or problem.
Credits to Jeremy Redgate: https://t.co/RBEADbldA7 https://t.co/g1lra
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The AI fashion studio
Feeds product photos into a Weavy workflow that generates entire studio photoshoots with on-model catalogue images at scale.
Credits to Matteo Trapella: https://t.co/u1m3czLRuw https://t.co/SlyXPNm8G0
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The laundromat executive assistant
Runs an autonomous AI agent on a Mac mini that monitors his laundromats' sales, sends alerts, drafts social posts, tracks expansion leads, and works as his personal EA.
Credits to Krishan Singh: https://t.co/EraYZFPcdz https://t.co/5kwLde8YKw
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The QuickBooks killer
Replaced his $38/month QuickBooks subscription with a Claude-built workflow that parses his bank statements, categorizes every charge, and feeds a spending dashboard.
Credits to Michael Saif: https://t.co/djBGVGY4iq https://t.co/uhwnrREUju
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The insurance negotiator
Had Claude Cowork pull 20+ house insurance quotes from every major provider, read the policy fine print for gotchas, and pick the best deal.
Credits to Linden Jensen-Page: https://t.co/X8IWrsgwsG https://t.co/zh8L2jkEKp
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The storm-tracking safety app
Turned his company's emergency policy document into an app that tracks storms, texts affected employees, and auto-triggers office closure protocols with a full compliance audit trail.
Credits to John Duval: https://t.co/cxRrVS0hg6 https://t.co/ZSfV
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The voice-powered health tracker
Logs his mood, energy, meds, and activities by just talking to Siri, and wakes up to a fully organized health dashboard -- built entirely on free tiers.
Credits to Alex Smirnov: https://t.co/oKNJqAz9kL https://t.co/o5NmYneKKn
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The $0.01 meeting assistant
Records meetings on his phone, sends the audio to Telegram, and his locally-hosted AI agent transcribes, identifies speakers, extracts action items, and files tasks -- for about 1 cent per meeting.
Credits to Steve Farmer: https://t.co/Ci8cTjI69U htt
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The boss clone
Turned every one-on-one with his boss into a searchable knowledge base, and can now ask AI how his boss would respond to any question.
Credits to Jonathan Sharp: https://t.co/2223YB22UI https://t.co/vda3jzf8S5
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The AI job recruiter
Built a personal AI recruiter that searches job boards every morning, scores each role, tailors a resume for the best one, and emails it all before he wakes up.
Credits to Michael Ebner: https://t.co/cGS2Kxt5qB https://t.co/m2fuM0vq4C
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Quick context: We surveyed 500k+ on how to make The Rundown better
People didn't want more AI workflows from influencers, they wanted more from real people
So we built one. It's free, simple, and the top submission gets featured in the newsletter every day -- in front of 2M+
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We just launched the Reddit for AI use cases.
A place for builders to learn from other builders on how they're using AI to get ahead in life, work, and business.
The submissions have been INCREDIBLE so far.
A few of my favorites:
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@rowancheung Right out of Westworld. https://t.co/fvm4UHsRLx
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I break down stories like every day this in my free newsletter. Keep up with the latest in AI/Robotics in 5 min a day: https://t.co/Gm5KwesVpF
Source: https://t.co/0CRBRoMHDU
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Against accounts of the same size
28 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.
Median views9 435this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %1.58%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %0.31%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 9 435 | 5 983 | 1.58× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 1.58% | 1.49% | 1.06× |
| Engagement rate | 0.31% | 0.93% | 0.34× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
1.9K2 Aug
1.7K3 Aug
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9K
8.4K
25.1K17 Aug
61.4K25 Aug
10.6K
781
34.1K31 Aug
66.7K2 Sep
38.9K3 Sep
28.5K7 Sep
23.1K9 Sep
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.27%2 Aug
0.72%3 Aug
0.67%
0.23%
0.26%
0.45%17 Aug
0.79%25 Aug
0.19%
0.64%
0.71%31 Aug
0.35%2 Sep
0.71%3 Sep
0.44%7 Sep
0.65%9 Sep
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes42.3%1 974 in total
Reposts3.7%174 in total
Replies9.2%431 in total
Quotes1.1%51 in total
Bookmarks43.6%2 037 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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