Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast - EP 625: Sora 2 release and update, OpenAI and AMD partner, ChatGPT Visual Agent Builder incoming and more AI News That Matters

Episode Date: October 6, 2025

OpenAI is dropping a visual agent builder 🤯There's a HUGE report on AI job losses....Sora 2 gets good and bad news...And that's just the beginning. Make sure to join us for this week's AI News That Matters!EP 625: Sora 2 release and update, OpenAI and AMD partner, ChatGPT Visual Agent Builder incoming and moreNewsletter: Sign up for our free daily newsletterMore on this Episode: Episode PageJoin the discussion on LinkedIn: Thoughts on this? Join the convo on LinkedIn and connect with other AI leaders.Upcoming Episodes: Check out the upcoming Everyday AI Livestream lineupWebsite: YourEverydayAI.comEmail The Show: [e-mail] with Jordan on LinkedInTopics Covered in This Episode:OpenAI Visual Agent Builder PreviewSora 2 AI Video Generator LaunchOpenAI and AMD Multi-Billion PartnershipOpenAI Becomes Most Valuable Private CompanyPerplexity Comet AI Browser Free ReleaseMeta AI Conversations Power Targeted AdsAnthropic Claude Sonnet 4.5 Model UpdateMicrosoft Copilot Agent Mode and Office AgentSora 2 Copyright, Watermark, and IP ControlsMajor AI Job Displacement Senate ReportOpenAI-Microsoft Profit Status and Public PlansGoogle Gemini, AI Studio, and NotebookLM UpdatesSynthesia V3 AI Avatar Agent LaunchChatGPT Checkout Mode and Polls ExpansionTimestamps:00:00 OpenAI's New Visual Agent Builder04:10 OpenAI's Front-End Agent Builder07:54 OpenAI's Privacy-Focused AI Device Challenge12:01 Browsers Compete Against Chrome Monopoly16:25 OpenAI's Path to Public Giants18:58 "Meta AI User Data Targeting"22:27 SONNET 4.5: Advanced Coding Features27:09 AI Deals Impact Job Market29:36 US AI Policy Debate: Innovation vs. Regulation32:31 Microsoft's Copilot Studio Rollout36:01 Creating Personal AI Videos in Sora39:35 AI Updates: Likeness, Watermarks, IP Rights44:10 "Stay Informed with OpenAI News"Keywords:Sora 2, Sora AI video generator, OpenAI, OpenAI and AMD partnership, Visual agent builder, Drag and drop AI agents, AI workflows, Agent builder, Zapier competitor, Agentic capabilities, OpenAI valuation, Private tech company, 500 billion dollar valuation, Secondary share sale, Employee equity, SoftBank, Dragoneer Investment Group, Thrive Capital, Microsoft investment, ChatGPT, ChatGPT Pulse, ChatGPT Plus, Microsoft Copilot, Copilot Studio, Copilot agent mode, Office agent, Anthropic, Claude Sonnet 4.5, AI coding model, Perplexity Comet browserSend Everyday AI and Jordan a text message. (We can't reply back unless you leave contact info)

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legit grabbed like every single headline. I mean, this is one of the biggest weeks ever for the company with some new development, product releases, and partnerships for Open AI that we haven't really seen before, like ever. No exaggeration. Look, we had the viral hit that was Sora too. hot off the press's partnership with AMD that could see OpenAI with a 10% stake in the company. And, oh, speaking of the company, Open AI became the most valuable private company in the world.

Oh, and they're set to release a visual agent builder in the next few hours. Don't worry, it's not just Open AI. There's plenty of other AI news from the other big players like Anthropic, Meta, Google, and Microsoft. Sheesh, what a week in AI. Let's get into what actually matters. What's going on, y'all? My name's Jordan Wilson and welcome to Everyday AI. Your daily live stream podcast and free daily newsletter,

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Each day, we recap the highlights from the live stream podcast, as well as keeping you up to date with all of the other AI news. So speaking of AI news, this is our weekly Monday segment. So if you're brand new to the podcast, welcome. All right, we do this thing live 7.30 a.m. Central Standard Time. And on Mondays, most Mondays, at least, we recap all of the week's news on Tuesday, bring you a hot take. Wednesday, we do AI at work Wednesdays, which is essentially showing you a new tool or mode

and learning together live. And most Thursdays and Fridays, we do interviews. So let's get straight into the news that matters this week. And the big one, which will have final confirmation on in a couple of hours, is Open AI is previewing and launching a new VAT. Visual agent builder with a drag and drop canvas for creating AI agent workflows, according to reports from testing catalog. So this could put them into a little bit of competition with platforms like Zapier in their new Asian builder.

So we'll have this kind of in stone or at least finalized probably here in a couple of hours is Open AI is kicking off their dev day today at noon central. So yeah, we record the live stream podcast at 7.30 a.m. So we should have final confirmation in a couple of hours, but it looks like all reports are showing that Open AI is coming out with a legit game changing release with the visual agent builder. So the tool's main new angle is its promise to lower the barrier for building production ready AI agents by replacing manual code writing with a new visual drag and drop canvas that speeds prototyping and deployment. So yeah, you've obviously been able to build agents on the back end with open AIs SDK, but now it looks like they're priming it more for front end kind of deployment. So if you can

drag and drop something and build a visual canvas, it actually looks fairly straightforward and easy. Also, reportedly, users can start from predefined templates, such as customer service bots, data enrichment pipelines, Q&A agents, and document comparison flows to rapidly assemble solutions without writing extensive code. So, the Canvas offers modular building blocks, including logic nodes. What that means is kind of like, if this, then, kind of connections, as well as connectors like the popular MCP protocol user approvals and built in visual guardrails, which I know is going to be a huge area of concern when we talk about building, you know, agent flows.

So a responsive user interface includes a sidebar palette of components plus a preview and testing modes. So deployment begins within a dedicated open AI platform. making it easier for developers and even non-experts to create test and operationalize agents across departments with consistent security and infrastructure. So pretty big news, y'all. And let me know, is this something that you all want us to cover a little bit more on the everyday AI show?

This is one of those where I think we probably would. You know, what we really try to appeal to. there's plenty of, you know, podcasts and resources out there for highly technical people. So as an example, you know, Open AI has always had the ability to build agents with their SDK and AI API platforms. But we haven't covered that too much because it does require a little bit of technical ability. But with this, it looks pretty easy, you know, drag and drop interface. I'm thinking we're probably going to spend a little bit of time depending on the release, rather this week or next week going over.

So live stream audience, number one, it's good to see you. Robert saying good morning from Dallas, Jose, joining from Santiago. Sarah joining from London, got people from all over. But yeah, let us know if we should be covering this over the next week or two. It's getting harder, right? Because I know our audience for the most part. Yes, there are some very technical people, but everyday AI, it's for everyday business leaders. So this is one of those areas where it's like, okay, I think this is something that we should

probably pay some attention to. Yeah, love this. Phil said probably will make it to the UK in 2028. Yeah, we'll see. We'll see how long that takes, Phil. All right. More open AI news, y'all, sorry. If you're not an open AI fan, they dominated the headlines this week.

So more breaking news, according to a new report from the Financial Times, open AI and Johnny Ivy's teams are encountering significant technical hurdles that could could delay their planned 2026 launch of their new palm-sized screenless AI device. So we've been talking about that over the last few months, this new partnership between OpenAI and famed Apple designer, Johnny Ives, you know, this new kind of Apple-esque open AI hardware device, but it looks like they may be running into some technical snacks. So the new AI device is designed to take continuous audio and visual cues. from the environment and respond without relying on a traditional screen.

So the key challenge, according to reports, is the proposed quote-unquote's always on listening approach, as sources say the team is struggling to ensure the assistant engages only when truly helpful and ends conversations at appropriate times, which is critical for privacy and usability. So the project faces unresolved questions about the device's personality as well, including how it expresses tone, initiative, and boundaries, all of which shape, trust, user comfort, and ultimately decide whether people are actually going to buy this thing, right, if it's going to be truly helpful or more of a privacy concern. Because the privacy handling, according to the Financial Times, has been a central concern

that may push some delays, particularly how the continuous sensing will protect user data and manage local versus cloud processing, as well as offering transparent control to prevent unintended recordings. Also, computing infrastructure requirements are likely involved in the advance on-device processing, low-latency edge services, and scalable cloud inference. So Open AI, as we've been talking about over the last couple of months, did acquire Johnny Ives device startup called I.O. in May for $6.5 billion with OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, saying the goal was to create a new generation of AI-powered computers.

So we'll see what happens here with this device. When they originally mentioned a 2026 timeline, I was like, oh, aggressive, you know, but also seemed like Open AI has been able to ship faster than traditional kind of the tech trillionaire companies. So I think a lot of people were like, okay, yeah, 2026, you know, at the time, a year out, maybe that's feasible. We saw that Open AI, we reported a couple of weeks ago, that Open AI had essentially poached dozens of Apple hardware leaders as well as had already established official partnerships with Apple's hardware suppliers as well, which made it seem like, okay, this could actually be, you know, one of the fastest to production AI hardware

projects ever, but now we are hearing some first reports of some potential delays. All right. Next, which buried in all this open AI news. This actually might be one of the pieces of news I'm most personally excited about because perplexity has made its comet AI browser free for all. Yeah, got buried in the news cycle. make sure to highlight this one. So Perplexity has officially opened access to its agentic AI browser called Comments for any member, even if you are a free

Perplexity user at no cost, removing the wait list and invite codes as well. So you do have to have a little bit more of a powerful computer to use this. So it's currently available for desktop. So it's not yet available for mobile apps. So it's available on Windows 10 and 11 devices, as well as MacOS, if you have an Apple M1 or newer chip. So Comet's key feature is a built-in AI assistant that lets users ask questions, assign tasks, and interact directly in the browser without opening a separate chatbot tab or app. So the move positions perplexity to capture probably a little bit more of search traffic, because what comment also does, if you go into the, uh, the URL or the address bar,

if you type something, if you type a query in there, well, it obviously opens up perplexity instead of Google search. So they're really looking to, uh, cut into, uh, Google's browser share there because right now, Chrome currently commands nearly 72% of global browser market share in Google pushed AI mode into its search experience as well. An important thing to know, if you're a big Chrome user or Chrome fan, perplexity's comment is going to seem like the same thing because it's built on top of Chromia.

So you can actually sign in with your Chrome credentials and everything will be synced. So your bookmarks, extensions, et cetera. And that's the same thing for Microsoft's Edge browser as well. So it's also worth keeping an eye on if there's going to be any of the major agentic browsers that aren't built on top of chromium because right now the biggest ones are obviously Google Chrome which we've covered over the past couple of weeks has started to roll out some agentic features perplexity probably technically the leader in this space with comet built on chromium Microsoft Edge built on chromium and reportedly open AI's browser as well their new

agentric browser which maybe we'll hear word of on that in a couple of hours maybe we won't but also reportedly built on top of chromium. So even though some others are starting to claw back a little bit of share, ultimately Google still owns the browser market, even if it's through their open source chromium. All right. Next piece of AI news. How did this get buried?

Like our fourth biggest story. My gosh. So Open AI is now the most. valuable private company in the world. So according to Bloomberg, Open AI facilitated a $6.6 billion share of sales last week, held by current and former employees, pushing the company's valuation to $500 billion, the highest ever for a privately held company. So purchasers in the transaction included SoftBank, Dragon Air Investment Group, Thrive Capital

and others signaling continue investor confidence in open AI's trajectory. So without getting into two technical of details, and you're like, well, what the heck does this mean? Well, essentially early employees, whether they're still working with Open AI or previously, right, they get shares in a company. And a lot of times, there are certain points where employees are allowed to sell those shares to investors. And this was one of those instances.

And then you essentially get a new valuation on a company because it's Dixiex, by what the, you know, both your last kind of price, but also by what investors are willing to pay for it now. So it was a secondary transaction, meaning that the proceeds went to insiders rather than Open AI itself. But it does serve as a major retention tool amid tightening competition for AI talents. Because, yeah, those Open AI current and former employees that didn't sell their shares or held on to the majority of them are now sitting. Nice, right? Yeah, there's a lot of kind of jokes now on the internet that, hey, if you ever want to live in San Francisco, again, you're probably not going to be able to because current and former Open AI employees all essentially just got rich, right? Probably thousands of new millionaires were just minted and the price of all property in San Francisco is going to go through the roof. So Open AI's last primary funding round closed in August at a.

$300 billion valuation. So this secondary sale push the new valuation to $500 billion. So the previous most valuable private company was Space X at a $400 billion valuation. So no surprise here. And another strange thing, oh wait, I told you guys this would happen back in 2023. That's the cool thing about doing a daily AI podcast when I say something that people think is kind of crazy. And I'm like, no, go back and look. Same thing. I said back in 20, in video, which at the time wasn't a top 20 company in the U.S. I said, InVidia is the most important company in the world. No one believe me. It happened. Open AI. Same thing. I said they're going to be the biggest private company in the world until they go public. And here we are.

So also there was a recent non-binding agreement, which we mentioned a couple of weeks ago, between Open AI and Microsoft, which had reportedly invested about $13 or $14 billion into Open AI for a 49% equity stake. But the new agreement between Microsoft is widely viewed as a, as the groundwork for open AI's conversion into a for-profit entity, which could allow them to in the future actually go public. So huge news, right? And even if you look at public companies and

current valuations, let this sink in. Ready? And yeah, maybe that was a little not so punny play at Open or at Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter. Let that, let this sink in. Ready? But even if you look at public companies, this puts Open AI in the top 20 companies, private or public in the U.S., even going ahead of companies like Netflix that have been

around for decades, right? So pretty big news here on the open AI front. All right, let's take a very, very quick break for a word from our partners. This podcast is supported by Google. Hey, folks, Stephen 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 notebooklm.com

all right let's dive back into it um are you using meta ai if so well those conversations are soon going to become the uh baseline for future targeting within meta's platforms so according to meta the company will begin using using people's interaction with its meta AI assistant to shape ads and content recommendations across Facebook, Instagram Messenger, and other meta apps starting December 16th, as the user notifications are going to start rolling out tomorrow. So meta says that meta AI now has more than one billion monthly active users, which make this change pretty significant as it affects a good chunk of the global population. So a meta spokesperson said that conversations with MetaI about topics like travel or shopping will also inform what your reels or posts and ads that show up on your feed. Also, voice interactions for those that are using Rayban, the Meta Rayban smart glasses will also feed into Meta's recommendation engine.

So, you know, I know people have always been talking about for years like, oh, I was talking around my house. And, you know, now all of a sudden I'm seeing, you know, these ads on Instagram or whatever. Well, now this is confirmed and it's going to be a quote unquote baked in feature. So love it or hate it can't really get around it. So also what worth noting WhatsApp interactions with meta AI will not be included unless the user links their WhatsApp account to sibling apps like Instagram. Also, users cannot opt out of this recommendation change. But if you don't use meta AI right now, obviously the updates will not apply to you. Live stream audience, what's your thought on this?

I don't use meta AI. I don't really go on Facebook, Instagram. So this won't personally affect me. However, I'm weird. I like hyper-personalized advertising, right? Like, as an example, I have, you know, I use Chrome. I use Google products. You know, we use YouTube TV in my home.

So I like hyper-personalized ads. I don't care. I would actually prefer it. If I'm talking to, you know, a chat bot, and I think this is ultimately what Open AI's new pulse feature is about, right? It's kind of right now, pulse from OpenAI for chat GPT Plus users delivers this like morning, daily brief based on all your chat interactions. but I do think that's the future for Open AI to be a big, big advertiser.

But personally, I like this. But I know people's, you know, some people's viewpoint of meta in terms of their privacy, not going to like this. But I don't know. If I was a meta Facebook Instagram user, I probably wouldn't mind. All right. This seems like weeks ago, y'all, but there is actually some huge breaking news stories last Monday right after our show aired that we have to mention this week, even though in like AI

news time, it seems like years ago. But Anthropic did release Sonnet 4.5, their newest and most powerful AI model. So Sonnet 4.5 has some new practical features designed to make real world coding and automation, faster, safer, and more effective. So one of the biggest new features, is the improved agetic capabilities. So Anthropics says Sonnet 4.5 excels at autonomous, long duration tasks, allowing it to maintain focus for extended periods, reportedly over 30 hours in some trials on complex, multi-step projects like developing an application from start to finish. Also, the coding performance. Obviously, this is where Anthropic has really carved its niche in the software development space.

The new benchmarks here, obviously, industry leading with Anthropic, claiming it is the best coding model in the world against benchmarks like Sweet Bench Verified. We'll see how long that lasts because not only is today, Dev Day from OpenAI, so we may see an updated model, even though OpenAI did release a version of GPT5 for specifically for coding, a new one that no one really talked about like a week or two ago. Well, I think we might be seeing something from Google Gemini here in the coming days or weeks as well. So we'll see how long Anthropics Claude Sonnet 4.5 can kind of hang on to the title of, you know, hey, this is the preferred coding tool as well as Brock's new coding models have done

pretty well as well. Got so much break, more breaking news. This is minutes before the show started. Yeah, we actually kicked the show off at like 733 this morning because of this piece of breaking news. Open AI just, yeah, there is some controversy with SORA too, which we're going to get to in a minute. But just a bunch of frigging home runs from Open AI. Here's another huge one, hot off the press. Open AI and Chipmaker AMD.

entered into an official deal, which sent AMD's shares soaring. And I'm sure that $500 billion valuation is a little bit more for Open AI. So Open AI and AMD struck a multi-year partnership to roll out AMD instinct AI chips at a massive scale for Open AI, pushing AMD stock up 25% in pre-market trading. Yeah, unheard of for a company. to shoot up 25% on a single piece of news like this. So here is how this partnership works. And well, ultimately, this is going to impact Nvidia and maybe the rest of the AI landscape as well. So Open AI will now be able to deploy six gigawatts of AMD GPUs over multiple years,

starting with one gigawatts in the second half of 2026. The company said in a joint statement. So AMD granted Open. A.I also the right to buy up to 160 million AMD shares if Open AI hits deployment and stock price targets fully used that could give OpenAI about a 10% stake in AMD based on current shares outstanding. So very interesting partnership here that gives Open AI now the most valuable private company in the world, a 10% stake. a 10% stake in AMD, which has been one of the, you know, a mainstay in public trading for a long time. This is kind of weird, right? Like, if you would have told someone five years ago that, you know, not saying AMD needs open AI,

but you couldn't make that case, right? AMD's stock shot 25% and their stock has been struggling against their chief competitor, Nvidia over the last couple of years as Nvidia has just become a rocket ship to the moon. AMD and Intel have struggled a little bit, but we just saw Intel actually enter into a strange-ish official partnership with the U.S. government where the U.S. got a 10% stake in Intel and now OpenAI, a private company, potentially getting up to a 10% stake in AMD.

So some pretty big news here. And this is also a multi-billion. dollar agreement with some estimates placing the total revenue for AMD over the next several years in the tens of billions of dollars in terms of new revenue. So this makes AMD a core supplier to open AI for all their future projects and stands as one of the largest AI chip rollouts to date, aiming to ease supply constraints domestically and reduce reliance for open AI on a single vendor. The move also comes two weeks after OpenAIs separate $100 billion equity and supply agreement with NVIDIA, which set aside 10 gigawatts of capacity. And NVIDias with this recent news with

Open AI and AMD's shares fell about 1% in pre-market trading. So if you care about the stock market and AI and chips, keep an eye on AMD and Nvidia over the next 48 hours to see how this shakes out. Jobs news that's going to be coming today. So in an exclusive report, Axios got a hold of a new Senate Democrat report that is going to be released that shows that AI could cut up to 100 million U.S. jobs. So according to a forthcoming report, not yet released, from the Senate Democrats on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, a chat GPD-based analysis projects that AI and

automation could eliminate nearly 100 million U.S. jobs within the next decade, making this a major flashpoint in the national debate over how to regulate AI. So this report, which is expected to be released today, estimates that 89% of fast food jobs, 64% of accounting roles, and 47% of trucking positions could be replaced by AI-driven artificial labor, signaling potential disruption across both white and blue-collar sectors. So the analysis argues that AI's current trajectory is not only about productivity games, but also about concentrating wealth in power by reducing labor. costs in increasing corporate margins.

Oh, weird. Another thing I've been saying for multiple years, right? Everyone's saying like, oh, AI is going to create, you know, more jobs than it takes away. And I've been very honest with you guys from the start. I'm like, no, it won't. AI is definitely going to replace more jobs than it will create. And I do think this is going to be one of the first large scale studies that might actually show that.

So Republicans here in the U.S. counter that the U.S. must lead in AI development and caution that heavy regulation could seed advantages to countries like China, framing the debate as a balance between innovation and worker protections. So this Democratic-led report criticizes the current Trump administration's AI approach as favoring deregulation and favoring Silicon Valley insiders, alleging that executive actions from the Trump administration weakened federal oversight in the scourge state level regulation. So to respond to the projected displacement, the report proposes policies such as a 32-hour work week, which I'm sure most U.S. workers wouldn't mind, as well as profit sharing and a robot

tax to fund worker supports and transition programs. Robot tax. Interesting. Yeah, so maybe robots will be doing more of our work, but then also getting taxed for it. You know, who's looking out for the robots? All right. More AI news. Microsoft, pretty big announcements as they rolled out two new AI agents, their agent mode and office agent for Microsoft 365 co-pilot. So the biggest limitation though, well, right now they're not available to everyone.

So the office agent is only available. to US-based customers who have a paid plan, but personal and family co-pilot subscribers, not to most enterprise customers, which is interesting. Also, agent mode. So you have the office agent and then agent mode. Agent mode is live on the web to be used inside of Word and Excel via the frontier early access program.

And the Excel version requires the Excel Labs add-in to enable agent mode. Well, Word shows agent mode as a selectable option in the co-pilot pane. So, well, what the heck do these agents do? Well, make sure to go watch our episode 621,

maybe the video version on our website at Your EverydayAI.com. So you can kind of see, I think we did a demo, we showed a demo. But essentially, this is one of the first, I think, big moves from Microsoft to bring a gentle capabilities inside the normal version of co-pilot, right?

I think Microsoft has actually been a leader in the agent space, well, until today, we'll see in a couple hours from Open AI, with their Microsoft co-pilot studio. However, even though Microsoft co-pilot studio is geared more towards low code and no code, it seems like a lot of the non-technical business world hasn't really caught on yet to Microsoft copilot studios. So this is a big push from Microsoft to bring in agenetic capabilities inside of the actual programs that people are using most. And, you know, one of the capabilities that I think most people are looking forward to is the office agent, which you use inside the Microsoft co-pilot chat. And it can essentially just build power points, right?

That's what everyone's waiting for. So we'll be keeping an eye on the rollout to see when this goes out to. to these two agents go out to enterprise customers. The other noteworthy thing is this is one of the first big public releases from Microsoft, where they are offering and using a model that is not OpenAI. Because Microsoft says that agent mode on the agent mode side, it does use OpenAI's latest reasoning models, while the office agent inside co-pilot chat actually uses inthropics,

Claude Sonet 4 and Opus 4.4. So pretty big news there from Microsoft. And I have been using agent mode inside of Microsoft Excel on the web. It was actually pretty impressive. I did briefly touch on this in episode 621. So if you want to know more, make sure to go check that one out. But actually, the Microsoft co-pilot agent mode in Excel handled some things that I

tried it inside inthropic clawed. I tried it inside GPT5. I tried it inside Gemini 2.5. Actually, it handled some things that those other platforms couldn't. So especially if you are a heavy Excel user, you're definitely going to want to check out more on that. All right. And our last big piece of AI news for the week. And this was big.

And we have some updates. Open AI officially launched their SORA 2, their updated AI. their updated AI video generator with integrated audio and a mobile first app. So OpenAI says their new SORA 2 also produces synced dialogue, music, sound effects, and entire soundscapes inside the platform, while there's also improved physics and realism and longer multi-shop narratives that maintain temporal consistency. In other words, you can go in right now with a simple prompt inside of SORA 2 and get a 10 second output that actually uses multiple camera angles with synced audio background noise and it is character consistent, which we haven't seen even from previous platforms that were leaders in the space like Google's V-O-3. Also, probably the key feature that a lot of people are talking about and using is the new cameo feature that lets users inserts.

verified likenesses of themselves or use their friends cameos and essentially create AI videos of yourself. So we went through kind of the pros and the cons of that. Right. So you can essentially create a AI avatar that you can then put anywhere with a simple text prompt. You can create a video. I could create a video of myself walking the streets of Chicago, talking to people about everyday AI. Right. So it depends on how you set up. your cameo and who you give it access to. So you have to do this inside the iOS app right now to set up your cameo. And then you can say, oh, I only want to use it myself.

I only want to use it with people I'm connected with on the new SORA app because, yeah, it kind of rolled out as a social network, kind of a TikTok-esque kind of feed. So you can create a cameo, keep it only for yourself, only people you're connected with on the SORA social app. or you can open it up to everyone. Like as an example, Open AI, CEO, Sam Altman made his cameo available to everyone, which, you know, obviously added to the viral launch that was Sora 2, right? You know, as an example, one that went viral on all social media networks, which I'm sure a lot of people saw, with Sam Altman, you know, quote unquote,

going in and stealing GPUs from Target. So, also, it went to number one. on the app store. So right now for free apps, actually OpenAI has the number one and the number two spot with SORA, even though SORA did debut and is still invite only, right? So we actually gave out a couple invite codes

in our newsletter last week. But once you do sign up in the iOS SORA app, you can use it on the web, right? Which is great because I don't want to be logging in you know, to something essentially, let's let's be honest. It's a little bit of brain rot, right? And Open AI did acknowledge that, right? But it is essentially the TikTokification of AI video.

So to sign up, yes, you do have to use the app, which is a social media, you know, AI brain rot feed by default. But after you do that, you can then go use SORA on the web. So that's not it. There were actually a ton of. of updates over the weekend and some good or bad depending on who you are and what your view is on this. And one of the biggest thing is, well, one of the reasons this thing went so viral so quickly is because it allowed people to use copyrighted content, at least temporarily, right?

I mean, literally people were making their own entire episodes of shows like South Park, right? Yes, piecing it together 10 second clips at a time. but you literally had people putting out entire South Park shorts. So yeah, that kind of is gone now. So let's talk about some of the updates that happened to Sora 2 over the weekend. So OpenAI tightened Sora's safety while also adding more robust cameo controls, clearer watermarks and monetization signals for rights holders, which is what they call that now, right?

instead of just saying like copyright infringement, they're saying they're going to work with rights holders. So let's talk about the cameo preferences. So the updated cameo preferences let people restrict how their likeness is used, including you can just, you know, block certain type of political content, certain words, certain scenarios. Essentially, you can assign custom instructions if you are allowing others to use your cameo, which a lot of people just wanted to do that.

I would never do that. but with natural language like custom instructions, it will then restrict how others can use your likeness, which will hopefully in the long run cut down on deep fake misinformation and disinformation. The other big thing is they're updating their watermark because it didn't take long and I called this. I literally called this once it dropped. I'm like, by the weekend, you're already going to have multiple companies that have working watermark removers. Obviously that happened. So, you know, Open AI is going back to the drawing board because people were able to very easily remove those watermarks. Also, OpenAI introduced

IP intellectual property opt-outs as well as opt-in revenue sharing for rights holders. So there's also moderation filters that were tightened to better catch violence, racism, and copyrighted material, though community reports say that benign prompts are increasingly flagged, uh, and their creative flows are disruptive. Yeah. So essentially, uh, all Twitter was over the weekend was users saying, uh, you know, that SORA too was nerfed because it refused now to generate any, uh, you know, material, right? Between all that the now, now tight copyright, um, you know, restrictions and the new restrictions on things, uh, like violence. racism, essentially people who went absolutely wild, generating the most obscene and, well,

copyright infringement short AI videos ever. Now people are like, well, I can't even really create anything. So we'll see how this ultimately shakes out. But it's something, especially if you work in media to see what happens, right? CEO Sam Altman over the weekend kind of jokingly said an interview, I hope Nintendo doesn't sue us because, yeah, like half of the feed was like Pikachu and Mario. So we will obviously continue to cover this as it rolls out. All right.

Yeah, we got to wrap this up because there's a ton more. So here is the quick bullet points of what's new and what's next. So some pretty important and noteworthy updates around the AI world that maybe didn't make our, you know, top 10 stories. All right. Here we go. So GPD 5 has been updated. The GPT5 instant model now better detects distress from users and guides to crisis resources. Reports from the information say that OpenAI is targeting one billion weekly active users by the end of the year, which is crazy. Google's nanobanana went generally available and has new aspect ratios default. in Google AI Studio, great feature there.

Notebook L.M added the ability to customize response length and conversational style. Microsoft launched a Microsoft 365 premium tier at 1999 a month, which people are saying is to compete with chat GPT. Open AI updated the SORA and chat GBT connection because there was maybe a bug or unintended feature where if people signed up for SORA, you have to sign up with. your chat GPT account. And then when they went to go delete SORA, if they didn't like it, it would delete their chat GPT account. So Open AI addressed that and kind of unchain those two things.

Synthesia released V3 of their AI avatar software, which included a new agent. Microsoft is reportedly going to be releasing connectors for co-pilot online. Open AI announced chat GBT checkout mode. Yeah, crazy. That didn't make our top 10 new stories because that's going to change the future. of shopping. Google is prepping a new feature in Flow for V-O-3 frames to video. A new coding model called Cheetah is being tested on cursor, which many are saying is rocket code too. Google launched

new visual experiences in AI mode. Microsoft made copilot free for college students who need to sign up by 1031. So no tricks. Go get that treat. And chat GPT polls will be rolling out to the web. set up just the mobile app for chat GPT pro users. My gosh, that was a ton, y'all. If this was helpful, please repost this. If you're listening online, we spend a ton of time, try to keep you up to date and also cutting through the BS, the marketing and telling you, hey, here's what you should actually be focusing on.

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