OpenAI Targets Apple Hardware & Google’s Gemini Launch

AI is revolutionizing how we work, communicate, and conduct business. With its rapid evolution and widespread application, understanding AI’s latest advancements is crucial for anyone looking to stay competitive in today’s landscape. This post explores significant developments in the world of AI, from hardware innovations to critical industry insights.

OpenAI’s Ambitious Hardware Plans

OpenAI has recently made headlines by recruiting over two dozen former Apple veterans, indicating a bold move into AI-powered hardware. This strategic talent acquisition includes experts in design, manufacturing, and interface technology. Reports suggest that OpenAI is not merely targeting a single product but may aim to develop an entire range of hardware solutions, including smart speakers and wearable devices.

As AI becomes increasingly integrated into our daily lives, these new devices could set the stage for an entirely new category of AI-first technology.

The U.S. Government Embraces AI

In a significant shift, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has added Meta’s Llama AI to its approved tools list. This move opens the door for federal agencies to experiment with and deploy commercial AI solutions. By enabling AI integration into government projects, this initiative highlights a broader push to leverage advanced technologies for operational efficiency and effectiveness.

Google Rolls Out AI Features in Chrome

Google continues to innovate by integrating Gemini-powered features directly into the Chrome browser. Users can now enjoy tools that include page summaries and a built-in chatbot for streamlined browsing and productivity. This update is significant as it allows users to leverage AI capabilities without leaving their primary work environment. By enhancing Chrome’s functionality, Google is making it easier for users to access AI-powered assistance when they need it most.

Insights from Recent AI Usage Studies

Recent studies conducted by OpenAI and Anthropic provide valuable insights into how users are leveraging AI models. OpenAI’s research indicates that many users are utilizing chat-based AIs for brainstorming, writing, and decision support rather than merely completing tasks. In contrast, Anthropic’s findings reveal that their AI, Claude, is increasingly employed for specific functions like coding and quantitative tasks, showcasing a distinct division in user behavior between these platforms.

The Birth of a New AI Payment Protocol

The introduction of the AP2 payment protocol marks a significant milestone for AI agents. This open-source initiative enables AI systems to execute purchases with clear user permission, enhancing security and accountability. With the backing of major companies like American Express and PayPal, this protocol could pave the way for a smoother integration of AI in everyday financial transactions.

Investements in AI Infrastructure in the UK

Exciting developments in AI aren’t exclusive to the U.S. U.S.-based tech firms have announced a substantial investment of over $31 billion in the UK’s data center and AI infrastructure. This investment signifies a robust commitment to developing AI capabilities and training for workers, positioning the UK as a growing hub for AI innovation.

A Cautionary Message from Microsoft’s CEO

In a candid internal address, Microsoft’s CEO emphasized the importance of innovation and agility in the face of AI advancements. He warned that clinging to legacy products could jeopardize Microsoft’s relevance in the evolving landscape. This message acts as a wake-up call for businesses across industries to adapt and embrace AI as a cornerstone of their future strategies.

Conclusion

As AI technology continues to advance, staying informed about these developments is essential for anyone striving to harness its power for career and business growth. The integration of AI into hardware, government, and everyday applications will shape the future of work and society.

For further insights into AI tools and how they can transform your business, consider exploring related articles on our blog here and here. If you’re looking to stay ahead in the ever-evolving world of AI, don’t forget to subscribe to our newsletter for daily updates!

This is the Everyday AI show. The everyday podcast where we simplify AI and bring its power to your fingertips. Listen daily for practical advice to boost your career, business, and everyday life. This podcast is supported by Google. Hey folks, Steven Johnson here, co-founder of Notebook LM. As an author, I’ve always been obsessed with how software could help organize ideas and make connections. So, we built Notebook LM as an AI first tool for anyone trying to make sense of complex information. Upload your documents and Notebook LM instantly becomes your personal expert, uncovering insights and helping you brainstorm. Try it at notebookm.google.com. Open AAI is making a serious bid to be a contender and competitor in hardware specifically against Apple. Google has brought more AI to millions of people via its Chrome browser and Microsoft CEO had kind of a dire warning about AI and said it could actually make Microsoft irrelevant. Yeah, a lot of big news happening this week in the world of AI. And if you missed it or if you can’t keep up, don’t worry. We’re going to be bringing you today the AI news that matters. What’s going on, y’all? My name is Jordan Wilson, and welcome to Everyday AI. This is your daily live stream podcast and free daily newsletter helping everyday business leaders like you and me not just keep up with the AI news, but how we can cut through the fluff, the marketing, the BS, and to actually leverage all of this information to grow our companies and our careers. So, it starts here with the unedited, unscripted live stream podcast. But if you want to take it to the next level, you got to go to our website atyou everyday.com. So there you can not only go listen and watch to 600 plus uh you know back episodes all sorted by category, but also you should go sign up for our free daily newsletter. We’re going to be recapping today’s show and everything else that you need to know happening in the world of AI. And yet we do this Monday through Friday, but most Mondays we bring you the AI news that matters. So there’s a ton this week. Uh without further ado, let’s get into it. No, actually shout out live stream audience. Good to see you. Brian joining from Minnesota. Michelle saying good morning from the YouTube machine. Uh Joe hanging out in Fort Lauderdale. Dennis saying hello from New York City. Uh Randy joining us from Louisiana. Thanks for joining us, y’all. Uh yeah, podcast people, come join the live stream, hang out, meet other people, ask questions. But there’s a lot of questions that I have about our first news story, like how the heck did this happen? because yes, open AI is now could be a serious competitor to Apple. Let’s talk about it. So, uh, according to reports, Apple has hired more than two dozen Apple veterans since early this year. A significant talent shift that signals a serious push into AI powered hardware. So according to new reports from the information uh OpenAI has hired uh different Apple researchers, designers that span in uh inter interface design, wearables, cameras, audio, manufacturing design and even supply chain uh suggesting that OpenAI is building an endtoend hardware capability rather than just a single product bet. So, the recruiting wave follows OpenAI’s May 2025 acquisition of IO products, the hardware startup co-founded by Apple, by former Apple design chief Johnny I uh and Tang Tan uh with Tan now serving as Open AI’s chief hardware officer. So, yeah, notable recruits uh include uh Apple’s uh former Apple employees, Cyrus Daniel, who is has 15 years at Apple. uh Mac Theobald 17 years at Apple and Eric De Jong from the Apple Watch hardware team. So yeah, Apple literally or sorry OpenAI just scooping up uh reportedly more than two dozen people from Apple, but specifically we’re not talking about just AI researchers. We’re talking about hardware leads. Uh we’re talking about people in supply chain. Uh so yeah, according to reports from the information, uh this signals that OpenAI may be working on more than just one hardware plate. Uh so according to reports, OpenAI is exploring a multiple device concept, including a screenless smart speaker, smart glasses, a wearable pin, and a digital voice recorder, indicating a strategy to find the right always available AI form factor. So, we’ll see if all of those actually come to fruition or if any of them do. But, uh, Lux Share, a major iPhone assembler, has also reportedly signed on to handle assembly with OpenAI. And Gore has been tapped for components, tying OpenAI’s hardware supply chain directly into Apple’s longstanding partners. So yeah, OpenAI essentially partnering with some of Apple’s biggest suppliers according to the information and scooping up some of their most tenured talent on the hardware side. So the first OpenAI hardware products could arrive as early uh or as early as late 2026 or early 2027, offering a rough timeline for when consumers and developers might expect a new category of AI first devices. And Apple is reportedly alarmed by the defections and cancelled even its annual off-site uh meeting in China this past August to reduce poaching risk, reflecting internal concern amid frustration over incumbent product updates and stagnant stock performance. I would not want to be Apple. I’ve been saying this and you know people can say I’m biased or whatever, but this is my interpretation of the facts. The facts are Apple has multiple class action lawsuits against it for literally promoting AI that it could not deliver, right? And so now now not only are they not able to deliver anything on the software side when it comes to generative AI and large language models or nothing that they’ve actually been at least hyping up, but now even on the hardware side, uh they’re they’re losing some of their uh some of their more senior leaders in hardware. We’ve been covering it here for the last couple of months. Some of their most senior AI researchers uh just people leading uh LLM development internally just seems like almost everyone is jumping ship. Not almost everyone, right? That might be an exaggeration, but countless people uh Apple is losing high like like a high amount uh of its current AI talent. And and yes, there’s always uh you know um people and and talented employees jumping from company to company, right? Like OpenAI will le you know lose some people to DeepMind, you know, and then DeepMind will lose some people to Meta, right? And it’s this cycle, but Apple is losing significantly more and more than seemingly the rest of the big tech companies combined. So, uh, this specific play here from Open AI going over the going after the AI hardware, uh, pretty pretty interesting. So, um, yeah, Randy here saying, uh, Tim Cook better do something quick. Uh, yeah, something something is definitely, uh, happening here in Certino. All right, our next piece of AI news. uh the US garment as a new uh AI provider apparently and I was not expecting this one. So uh according to Reuters, the US General Services Administration will add Meta’s Llama AI to its approved tools list for federal agencies, clearing the way for governmentwide experimentation and deployment with Meta’s models. So, uh, this signals a broader federal push under the Trump administration to integrate more commercial AI, um, offerings into the government’s operations with security and legal vetting handled centrally by the GSA. So, the GSA pro uh, procurement lead uh, Josh Grunbomb said agencies can now test Llama, which is free under GSA’s assurance that it meets government security and legal standards. So llama obviously is a multi-modal uh model. So it should be interesting to see how ultimately the government uses it. So GSA has also recently approved AI tools from Amazon web services, Microsoft, Google, Anthropic and Open AI. So uh essentially everyone except X right which you would have thought that would have happened sooner. uh you know obviously uh president uh US President Donald Trump and uh ex AI uh founder owner whatever you want to call him Elon Musk had a maritime relationship but then they had a very public breaking up. So it looks like now the government is literally using every single AI model or has ex you know given a green light for all of these AI models to be used except Grock. Oh, sad to see uh Google more AI like we like like Google could have shipped anything more. Well, they did. Uh that’s because Google is now uh releasing Gemini in Chrome. So Google is rolling out Gemini powered features directly inside Chrome uh on desktop right now in the US making a bunch of new uh kind of agentic and AI tools available directly in the browser such as page summaries cross tab uh cross tab synthesis which I love and a builtin uh Gemini chatbot integration available to users. So a new button so yeah check check your Chrome browser make sure it’s up to date. Uh but if you are in the US uh and if you have permission so it’s a little trickier if you’re on a workspace account or a you know business account but if you are on a um a Gmail account check your browser because you probably have it. There is a new button in the top right hand of Chrome that now launches the Gemini chatbot and users can unpin it if they don’t want the feature which addresses concerns from those who prefer the more traditional browser experience. Uh Google also plans to add an AI mode. So what this is called, it’s called the omni box. So in the upper right hand corner when you launch it, it’s this little omni box that kind of does a little of everything. But Google does plan to add their new very popular AI mode before the end of this month, giving users a button and keyboard shortcuts that trigger Gemini suggestions based on the current page without replacing regular Google search. So, Gemini in Chrome can answer questions about the page you’re on and pull context from across multiple tabs. That’s the one I really like, which can cut research time for students, knowledge workers, and just small business teams juggling too many sources at once. Also, there are some new agentic style features that will be coming soon with Gemini expected to perform web tasks like adding items to a cart. uh you know if you’re on a certain web page based on what you tell it to uh in the background and also presenting results for approval in early tests of similar tools elsewhere have been slow and errorprone so you might want to curb uh you know any expectations for the you know uh kind of Google Chrome and Gemini being able to agentically complete everything for you right I think most of the uh today’s agents are a little slower but for the agentic browsers I think they’re a little better. So, I mean, we’ll see once all of these are rolled out, but they were initially uh offered to paying subscribers in May. So, I’ve been using um the Gemini in Chrome since May on my Ultra account, on my personal Gmail. Uh so, I’m excited to get this going kind of on my work uh Gmail account. So, uh, live stream audience, podcast people, let me just say Gemini Chrome, if you want, uh, if you want a deeper dive into this this week, I’ve been thinking about it because so many people use Chrome, right? So, even if you’re not a Gemini first person, uh, I think now you have some aentic and AI features baked into the browser. All right? I think so much of getting the most out of generative AI for the average business leader, it’s about taking advantage of the context that you currently have, right? And still, I think until we kind of unlearn a little more, uh so much of that is still just what websites you’re on. Uh so yeah, let me know if you want a deeper dive. Maybe we can do uh the the AI working Wednesday this week on Gemini in Chrome. Uh because now that this is being rolled out uh to tens of millions of people in the US, it might be time that we uh take take a look under the hood. Yeah, I’ve been using this since May. Uh have really enjoyed it, but now it’s a broader roll out to all free users in the US. All right, let’s keep it going. Some new studies this week that were really interesting, even if you’re not a dork like me and read AI studies. So according to new usage studies from open AI and enthropic just released kind of showing how users use their models. So it says that people are using chatbt mainly to assist in their work while Anthropic’s claude is increasingly being used to hand off entire tasks marking a pretty clear split in how two of the leading chat bots fit into work and school. So if we look at OpenAI’s study, so it reports that asking conversations where users seek guidance or decisions without direct output have recently outpaced more doing and expressing uh kind of queries indicating many rely on Chad GBT as a thinking partner versus a task finisher. So yeah, OpenAI’s uh kind of study which we shared about in our newsletter this past week looked at you know kind of categorized all of these queries anonymously of course into different categories. So yeah it seems uh like people are looking for more answers uh in chatbt compared to how they were previously uh versus just actually finishing tasks. So, OpenAI says Chad GPT’s most common uses right now are writing uh writing, editing, summarization in brainstorming with strong adoption by students, marketers, knowledge workers, and educators for drafting essays, prepping reports, creating quizzes, tutoring, and simplifying complex topics. Uh so open AI’s framework classify chats like I said into those three major bucket which were doing or generating an output for production asking which is decision support without direct output and expressing which is kind of everything else. Uh anthropics study showed uh some different results. So their latest study was the third in their annual series and it found that claude is used heavily for coding and math-based tasks with software development and other quantitative work accounting for more than a third of activity. So Enthropic reports that for the first time in its tracking automation automation usage exceeded augmentation as companies embed claude in workflows for document processing, report generation and mainly bulk coding. So the studies suggest a practical split between the new uh between the two AI startup giants with chat GPT currently thriving in consumer productivity where users iterate alongside it or just augmenting intelligence while Claude is getting ground in enterprise settings where teams delegate complete tasks for speed and scale mainly those tasks uh having to do with software coding and development. We got some agent news here. And this one is pretty interesting. It might seem small and maybe even a little dorky, but when it comes to AI agents, I think this actually might be one of the bigger pieces of news we’ve had in years that wasn’t tied directly to a new AI agent becoming available. Uh that’s because Google and more than 60 partners announced the opensource agents payment protocol or what they’re calling AP2 to let agents complete purchases with clear authorization, authenticity, and accountability. So, this is a pretty big deal as this is the first common standard that allows any AI agent uh to safely complete purchases on their own with clear proof of human user permission. Right? That’s the big thing. So, yeah, there’s different, you know, AI agents that if you want to roll the dice and if you’re feeling spicy, you can go put in all your information, your credit card information, and, you know, go push them uh to complete purchases for you. I wouldn’t want to do this just yet. Uh but maybe once this new AP AP2 protocol comes out that might change it. Uh so right now it’s available uh to developers now via a public GitHub repo. But right now there’s no consumerf facing implementations yet. So you know even if you’re uh ready to go give an agent supporting AP2 your credit card and see if it can go do some of your purchases for you, you can’t do that just yet. But with the backers supporting this, I’m guessing it’s going to be rolling out soon in production to everyday consumers. That’s because right now backers include some of the biggest players including uh American Express, Coinbase, Etsy, Inuit, Mastercard, PayPal, Salesforce, Service Now, Union Pay, World Pay and more indicating broad industry buyin across payments, commerce and enterprise software. So the core mechanism here and what makes AP2 pretty unique is the mandates which is a tamperproof cryptographically signed digital contract using verifiable credentials that prove a user’s intent and create an auditable chain from instruction from human instruction to agent checkout and then it allows that information to also be shared across agent platforms. So this is kind of you know kind of how we’ve talked about uh Google’s A2A protocol um Enthropics MCP that allows uh kind of AI agents and large language models to connect to each other and the open web. This is very similar it’s except it is specifically for payments uh and it does right now support multiple payment types including credit and debit cards, realtime bank transfers and stable coins. All right, let’s take a quick little pause for a word from our sponsors. This podcast is supported by Google. Hey folks, Steven Johnson here, co-founder of Notebook LM. As an author, I’ve always been obsessed with how software could help organize ideas and make connections. So, we built Notebook LM as an AI first tool for anyone trying to make sense of complex information. Upload your documents and Notebook LM instantly becomes your personal expert, uncovering insights and helping you brainstorm. Try it at notebookm.google.com. All right, let’s keep the AI news train rolling. Choo choo. Uh so this one pretty big for the UK as according to reports many US tech firms have recently announced a big push for more AI in the UK specifically as it comes to data centers. So according to reports uh more than $ 31 billion has been recently invested into the UK by major US tech firms tied to data centers, AI infrastructure and also quantum computing. Uh so the UK government will speed up data center approvals and ease grid connections uh aiming to cut costs and timelines for power hungry AI projects. So some of the bigger players, OpenAI, Nvidia and UK operator Ncale will build the Stargate UK. All right. So this is the UK version of the large Stargate project here in the US, which will start up with 8,000 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs and eventually scaling up to 31,000 with sites including the new AI growth zone at Cobalt Park. So, OpenAI will also launch the Open AI Academy to provide AI training and reskilling for up to 7.5 million UK workers by 2030, positioning AI literacy as a nationwide workforce priority. Uh Google, Microsoft, and others are getting in on the action with their own investments. But one of the bigger ones is Microsoft apparently planning to invest more than $30 billion over four years include uh in the UK including a supercomput near London with more than 23,000 GPUs in partnership with N scale. So uh pretty interesting here. uh you know, US President Trump has been easing uh restrictions to allow more uh data centers to get up and running domestically here in the US. Uh so uh it’s pretty telling that also the big tech companies here in the US are also investing tens of millions of dollars in the UK. So people that want to sit back and say, “Oh, you know, AI scaling has hit a wall or, you know, AI is going to go away or the AI bubble is going to burst.” Well, the biggest tech companies who are creating the technology are continuing to invest tens of billions of dollars worldwide on future projects. So, I don’t know if the people making the technology had any hesitation or indication that this technology was slowing down, they probably wouldn’t be investing all their pennies in building it out bigger. I don’t know. That’s just me. Here’s an interesting AI news story that I had to read like five times to make sure that this was true, but apparently it is. Uh so uh according to Business Insider, X AI owned by Elon Musk put a recent high school graduate in charge of its Grock data annotation team amid sweeping lead layoffs in leadership turmoil, raising questions about stability and experience at a core function training the company’s AI models. So uh this is according to a business insider report and it said that more than 600 people were cut from XAI’s data annotation unit uh recently like as of last week with headcount dropping from about 1,500 in that division to about 900 after multiple rounds of counts. So again, this is all according to a business insider report, but it said that uh Diego Pacini, a 2023 high school graduate and yeah, 2023 I said high school graduate uh and University uh Pennsylvania student who is currently on leave reportedly began leading XAI’s team in early September following deactivations of at least nine senior senior staff Slack accounts. So workers told the business insider that Passini said on September 15th that there were no further layoffs planned, but more than 100 additional staff were cut shortly after that September 15th announcement that no one else was getting fired, signaling ongoing churn and uncertainty in the uh data annotation division. So this team is the one that handles labeling, categorizing, and contextualizing raw data used to train Grock uh XAI’s chatbot, meaning those staffing shifts touch a missionritical pipeline for model quality and safely for millions of people using it. So employees reportedly said that Passini directed rapid one-on-one reviews in Slackbased tests to determine people’s future roles indicating a fast metricsdriven reset of the team. Uh so Passini joined XAI in January after winning in XAI hackathon and his network and interests include robotics and computer visions according to business insider. So, two employees who questioned Passini’s appointment in Slack had their accounts deactivated within hours, according to strange screenshots viewed by Business Insiders. Oh, I don’t I don’t know what to say here, y’all. people people sometimes, you know, they they accuse me of being, you know, harsh on Apple or harsh on Grock, but I don’t know if I’m an enterprise company. Well, first of all, I don’t think any large, you know, Fortune 100 companies are seriously considering using XAI’s Grock in production. But if any of them were, which I haven’t talked to any uh serious enterprise company here in the US, and I talked to a lot of them that are actually considering this, but I don’t know how would you feel if a again, I’m sure he’s he’s brilliant, right? He has to be. But I would not have a ton of confidence if someone that graduated high school in 2023 was the one leading data labeling specifically when you have to look at well what’s one what are the main sources of Gro’s data it’s Twitter or X. So uh obviously uh data labeling and data annotating is wildly important for any AI company but when you look at you know who the other big players have in similar positions it’s usually people with multiple PhDs and decades of experience in machine learning. So I don’t have a ton of confidence uh that this is going to work out very well. Uh yeah, Dennis here saying this headline feels like clickbait, but then again, who knows anymore given uh Elon’s management style. Yeah, I literally couldn’t believe this, but this is I mean, Business Insider is a reputable publication. Uh yes, sometimes the media gets things wrong, but this is had has been reported elsewhere. So yeah, it was one of those things I couldn’t uh actually believe, but I don’t know what’s what’s even believable anymore, right, in the world of AI. Well, here’s another one that I had to do a double take in. Uh our next piece of AI news. Nvidia has uh bought a $5 billion stake uh in its well rival Intel and is launching a joint effort to develop chips for PCs and data centers. a rare uh collab that could reshape the competitive landscape in AI hardware. Uh so yeah, Intel had been struggling and one of its biggest competitors, Nvidia, said, “Yeah, we’re going to go ahead and invest $5 billion and work together.” So on that news, Intel shares jumped 23%. Massive jumps for Intel uh lifting its market value by about 143 billion. And Nvidia’s shares also rose three and a half% on the news. So, this new partnership aims to co-develop chips targeting both consumer PCs and cloud data centers, signaling an effort to speed AI computing performance and diversify supply for major customers. So, this move follows fresh outside backing for Intel as the US government, yeah, we talked about that a couple of months ago, recently took a 10% stake in Intel, uh, worth about $9 billion and also Japan’s soft bank invested $2 billion. So, Intel has struggled in recent years amid leadership turnover, technical missteps, and tough competition from Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom. uh but in which we’ve talked about recently that OpenAI uh is apparently developing chips with Broadcom and uh Intel’s margins and sales have suffered as it has lost dominance in key markets. This could be one of those pieces that turns it around. All right, and our last big piece of AI news for the week. Apparently Microsoft CEO warned that AI could make them irrelevant. Yeah. one of the biggest providers of AI in the world. Uh so according to reports, Microsoft CEO Sadia Nandella bluntly told employees at a recent internal town hall that AI could make Windows, Office, and even Azure less relevant and that Microsoft itself could become irrelevant if it clings to past success. So he said that he is haunted uh by the former cautionary tale of once giant uh company digital equipment corporations collapse and use DEEC as a warning that great companies can all but disappear if they miss a platform shift. So Mandela said AI already writes content for Excel and PowerPoint and could undercut the value of Microsoft’s most profitable products if the company does not move faster. So he told employees to stop protecting legacy franchises and instead build for what the market will demand next, calling for a true growth mindset, not nostalgia. Uh so uh Nadella also reportedly acknowledged internal cultural strain including complaints of reduced empathy and increasing ri uh rigidness and warned that without trust the organization will fail under the AI era pressure. Uh the message to teams was clear ship AI native products and be willing to disrupt Microsoft’s own businesses before competitors do it. This is one that also kind of shocked me. There was a lot of AI news this week that I was like, “Wow.” But I think that there’s an important message here from Microsoft’s CEO. So again, this is coming from one of the largest companies in the world, right? Technically, the second largest company. Microsoft’s the second largest company right behind Nvidia. If the CEO of the second largest company in the world is saying AI could make us irrelevant. I mean it’s a sobering message but I think we should also be thinking about this as business leaders. You have to take AI really seriously. And I like what Sai Nadella said about not hanging on to legacy, right? And I think this is important when I tell people you need to stop like throw out this concept of upskilling and reskilling. That’s building off of your legacy or that’s building off of you know your uh company’s past. you really have to unlearn uh and start from scratch. Uh you know, and if the CEO of Microsoft is feeling this way about AI like, hey, we’ve got to be faster. Um we have to be more innovative. Uh then I think every one of us probably should take a lesson from him and start thinking about that as well. All right. Uh, there’s a lot that didn’t make the roundup this week. So, I’m going to go through this fast bullet point style of what’s new and what’s next because there’s a ton and a lot of this is important. Maybe all of this doesn’t hit you, but a lot of it will. So, uh, let me sip on my coffee here as we get ready to run down the bullet points of what’s new and what’s next. All right, OpenAI released a new model GPT5 codeex specifically for its codec platform and people are loving it. Uh, Notion released agents with their notion 3.0 agent that has deep research connectors and memory. Chad GPT rolled out a toggle to choose custom thinking efforts in GBT5 thinking. So yeah, confusing. Now there’s like 18 different models if you count all of those. Uh Sam Olman said that OpenAI is releasing some compute intensive offers over the next few weeks. So a lot of people are thinking that might be a new version of Sora, a new version of their uh GPT image gen. It could be their new agentic browser. We’ll see. Uh but he did say that it might only be rolling out to pro users at first or users on a higher plan. Uh, Wind Surf released a new model cenamed Supernova, which a lot of people are saying is an updated claw model. Google released a Gemini desktop app for Windows. It looks really cool. I kind of wish they would release that uh for Mac, but we do have the new uh, you know, Gemini in the browser there. Uh, so Luma AI released Ray 3, the first AI video model. that reasons. Microsoft is releasing a career coach inside of Copilot. Uh Google made Google gems sharable. Small thing, but I’m looking forward to that one, too. Uh X AI released Grock 4 fast, which has received some impressive benchmarks so far. Open AAI may be making projects sharable soon as screenshots of that feature have leaked. So, that’ll be I think helpful for teams, not only being able to share GPTs, but also projects. Um, Oxford became the first UK university to offer free Chad GPT edu access to all students. Perplexity announced they’re working on a browser or sorry on a serverbased AI agent, not just in the browser. Uh, Sunno teased V5 of their popular AI music platform. uh at the International Collegiate Programming Contest or the ICPC. Uh Google Gemini 2.5 won gold with 10 out of 12 tests uh passed and OpenAI said it won gold with 12 out of 12 uh including using a model for the 12th question that no one else got right. Uh that is not publicly available yet. Uh Meta rolled out their AI powered Ray-B band display glasses. Uh little shaky demo, but the tech looks good. Chad GBT rolled out an updated personalization in memory page with new settings. Microsoft released new co-pilot agents across Teams and SharePoint. 11 Labs launched Studio 3.0 that blends voiceovers, music, sound effects, and more. And Microsoft is reportedly testing its portrait features in Copilot Labs powered by the Vesa One model. I talked to you guys about Vasa 1 18 months ago. I’m like, this is so good. It’s dangerous. Even 18 months ago, it still holds up to today’s technology. So, we’ll keep an eye on that in the coming weeks. So, that was a ton of AI news. Uh, let’s quickly go over a recap. And hey, let me know what should we do tomorrow for Hot Take Tuesday. Uh, we’re going to do a poll in the newsletter probably. So, let me know what you want to see and hear. All right, quick recap. The biggest AI news stories of the week. number one open AAI raiding Apple talent to apparently build multiple AI hardware devices. Uh the US government has given the green light to Meta’s Lama models for federal use. Uh Google has rolled out Gemini in Chrome to millions of US users. Uh Chad, JVT, and Claude uh released new studies showing how millions of users are actually using their platforms. Google and partners unveiled AP2 uh for AIdriven payments. I think it’s actually going to be pretty big. Uh US tech giants have pledged more than $30 billion uh for AI expansion in the UK. A college student is now reportedly leading the XAI data annotation team after 600 plus layoffs. Nvidia invested $5 billion dollars into one of its biggest rivals in Intel and are working on chips together. And Microsoft CEO Sadia Nadella said that AI could make Microsoft irrelevant if the company doesn’t turn it around. All right, thank you for tuning in. If you haven’t already, please go to your everyday.com, sign up for the free daily newsletter. We’ll see you back tomorrow and everyday for more Everyday AI. Thanks y’all. This podcast is supported by Google. Hey folks, Steven Johnson here, co-founder of Notebook LM. As an author, I’ve always been obsessed with how software could help organize ideas and make connections. So, we built Notebook LM as an AI first tool for anyone trying to make sense of complex information. Upload your documents and Notebook LM instantly becomes your personal expert, uncovering insights and helping you brainstorm. Try it at notebookm.goo. google.com. And that’s a wrap for today’s edition of Everyday AI. Thanks for joining us. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a rating. It helps keep us going. 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