Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast - Meta buys AI agent giant, Grok under fire for explicit images of minors, OpenAI building pens & more
Episode Date: January 5, 2026Meta just made a multi-billion acquisition for AI agents. 🤖OpenAI might wanna make pens and buy .... Pinterest? 🎯And why is Grok generating explicit images of minors? 🤮Weird (and gross) week ...in AI. If you missed anything, don't worry. On Mondays, we bring you the AI News that Matters so you can be the most up-to-date person in your company when it comes to AI. Meta buys AI agent giant, Grok under fire for explicit images of minors, OpenAI building pens and more -- An Everyday AI Chat with Jordan WilsonNewsletter: 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: info@youreverydayai.comConnect with Jordan on LinkedInTopics Covered in This Episode:Meta Acquires Manus AI Agent StartupOpenAI Eyes Pinterest Acquisition for Image DataAI Agents: Manus and GenSpark Enterprise InvestmentsLM Arena 2025: Gemini 3 Pro RankingsGoogle Gemini 3 Pro Multimodal PerformanceGrok Under Fire for Explicit Minor ImagesAnthropic’s Claude Code AI Self-DevelopmentOpenAI Building AI-Powered Smart PenCES 2026 AI-Driven Hardware AnnouncementsSoftBank Completes $41B OpenAI InvestmentTimestamps:00:00 "Everyday AI News & Insights"03:19 "Meta Acquires AI Startup Manus"07:12 "OpenAI Eyes Pinterest Acquisition"11:24 "Google Gemini 3 Pro Triumphs"14:34 "CES 2026 Kicks Off"19:50 "AI Solutions for Business Growth"25:34 "Claude Code Now Accessible Broadly"28:33 "OpenAI Explores AI Hardware Concepts"32:50 "SoftBank Completes $41B OpenAI Investment"33:44 "Big AI Announcements Coming"Keywords:Meta acquisition, AI agent startup, Manus, Super agents, Multibillion dollar tech deal, General use AI, Meta AI agents, Manus Singapore, AI research automation, Anthropic, Alibaba, DeepSeek, Silicon Valley AI, Meta AI strategy, Google AI, Microsoft AI, OpenAI acquisition, Pinterest purchase, AI-powered visual platform, Image data, AI and online shopping, AI advertising, Ad suite, Pinterest Performance Plus, User purchase intent, ChatGPT, Agentic commerce, AI search, CoSend Everyday AI and Jordan a text message. (We can't reply back unless you leave contact info) Start Here ▶️Not sure where to start when it comes to AI? Start with our Start Here Series. You can listen to the first drop -- Episode 691 -- or get free access to our Inner Cricle community and all episodes: StartHereSeries.com Also, here's a link to the entire series on a Spotify playlist.
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We're not even a full week into 2026.
And there's already been a huge multi-billion dollar acquisition.
Open AI is trying to bring AI to your pen and buy Pinterest.
And we have an AI product that's generating a billion dollars a year that is being built by itself.
It's already been a weird 2026.
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Let's get into the AI news that matters for this week, January 5th, 2026.
First of all, yeah, a multi-billion dollar acquisition from one of the big players.
That's because.
Meta has agreed to acquire Manus, a Singapore-based AI agent startup in a deal reportedly
valued at more than $2 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal, making this one of the first
U.S. tech acquisitions of a U.S. company with Chinese roots. So Manas, if you're like,
weren't they kind of just raising a bunch of money? Yeah, they were. They're in the middle of
raising new funding at a $2 billion valuation when meta approach the company, signaling their
urgency to secure advanced AI products rather than build everything internally.
So Manus is really known as a general use AI agent startup that can generate in-depth research
reports and build custom websites with minimal human input using models from firms, including
Anthropic and China's Alibaba.
interest in Manna surge after a March demo,
which came soon after the debut of DeepSeek,
a Chinese developed AI model that drew attention in Silicon Valley
for its strong performance and claimed efficiency gains,
even though those efficiency gains from Deep Seek weren't true.
But great timing for Manus,
and they've been on fire ever since the last few quarters.
And Manus co-founder and CEO Zhao Hong,
who goes by red, will report to Meta Chief Operating Officer Javier Alavan,
placing the team directly inside Meta's senior leadership structure.
So according to the Wall Street Journal, the acquisition is part of Meta's broader effort
to compete with Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI in AI, in AI agents,
a fast moving product category designed to handle complex tasks with little supervision.
So I've been saying it.
and I'll continue to say it.
We're going to see a ton of acquisitions in 2026.
This one, not necessarily surprising that Manus got acquired.
And if you haven't used Manus, it's actually really good.
I think probably this year I'll start to talk a little bit more about some of these
kind of start-up super agent type companies.
I think maybe when they first came out a year ago,
I don't think that most of them were quite legitimate enough for most enterprise companies here in the U.S.
to be putting resources behind.
However, I think that's changed in the last quarter.
I mean, you've seen big companies such as Microsoft partner with GenSpark, which is kind of like an equivalent or a very close competitor to Manus.
And here we saw Manus get acquired by meta.
So some of the biggest players in the U.S. tech scene are investing heavily or acquiring some of the
these general use super agents.
And, you know, live stream audience, if you want to see a little bit more coverage on the
super agents, I don't know, leave a comment, just say super agents or Spotify listeners.
I always have a random number in my head and I say, hey, but now people say this.
I'm going to do a show on the next, you know, on this in the next couple of weeks.
So let me know if you want to see that.
But regardless, pretty big move.
And let's be honest, meta has been hurting.
in the AI game.
So back in, what, April of 25, they came out with their last model, Lama 4, which did not really do well,
right?
According to the benchmarks, Angus adoption, it was seemingly extremely low.
So that has been in the kitchen cooking.
Since then, they haven't come out with any major AI model releases.
They've had a lot of great audio, visual AI releases.
their SAM models, but nothing on the large language model side or the agent side until this acquisition of MANAS.
So this may be a big part of their future plans moving forward.
Next piece of AI news is Open AI really interested in acquiring Pinterest?
Well, according to the information, the answer is yes.
That's because a new report from the information says that Open AI has interest or
has reported interest in acquiring Pinterest.
The startup, I don't know what you call it anymore,
a social media pinning site, right?
It's really in a category of its own with 600 million users.
And it could become an acquisition target this year for OpenAI.
So OpenAI's reported interest centers on Pinterest,
Bass Image Data and establish advertising business,
both seen as valuable for expanding OpenAI's online shopping and ads capabilities.
Integration of OpenAI's advanced search and conversational AI with Pinterest visual platform
could create new ways for users to interact, shop, and discover products.
Also, Pinterest digital scrapbooking features may complement OpenAI's new image and video generation
tools potentially leading to innovative new user experiences.
So despite its niche appeal, Pinterest faces slower growth in monthly average users and average revenue per user in the U.S. and Canada, trailing larger rivals like Meta Alphabet and Amazon.
Also, you have to look at Pinterest's new ad suite called Pinterest Performance Plus launched last year that helped advertisers achieve a 24% higher conversion lift compared to traditional campaigns.
So outbound clicks to advertisers rose by 40% in the third quarter for Pinterest,
highlighting their strong user purchase intent and value to retail brands.
So at first, when I saw this headline, I was like, that makes no sense.
But then when I thought about it, I'm like, wait, this actually makes complete sense.
Because what are the areas where Open AI is really trying to compete it?
Well, they're trying to be kind of the everything.
AI app for everyone, right, nearing now a billion weekly active users. So, you know, you might
think of a company like, I don't know, Microsoft or Anthropic. And an acquisition like this
might not make much sense. But we've seen Open AI be obviously heavy players on the consumer
side, where maybe Google, Anthropic, AWS, etc., much more focused on revenue from
enterprise companies. A vast majority of Open AIs revenue comes from individuals. It comes from the
consumer side, which is why we've seen a lot of the recent developments over the past year from
Open AI really focus on personal productivity, focus on things like shopping and, you know,
bringing agentic commerce to chat GPT and to your phone, right? We saw a deep research
mode launch specifically for shopping right around the holidays. So when you think of it like that,
and just open AIs play on the visual intelligence side.
It makes sense.
And this is something that I think could help them maybe instantly compete with the likes of
meta and Google, at least when it comes to ads in the shopping side.
Because right now, I do think Google is obviously so far ahead of everyone else.
And then the meta platforms are right there.
But it's just really them.
It's Google at 1A, meta at 1B.
And then I don't know.
I don't even know if there's anyone in the two position.
Definitely no one else in the first tier.
So if this acquisition does come to fruition, I do think that Open AI could immediately
kind of skip five years, five to 10 years that a company would normally have to go through,
right, whether trying to compete on the search on the SCM, PPC, social advertising side.
I mean, they can literally leapfrog five to 10 years of what would normally be needed.
instantly be a top four or three company when it comes to advertising.
So when you think of it like that, not the most surprising potential acquisition for Open
AI.
All right.
Our next piece of AI news, LM Arena has released its end of year 2025 ranking.
So if you don't know LM Arena, it is where you can go in, type a prompt.
You get two blind outputs and users choose which one is better.
And then those are categorized across different categories like, you know, text, text image, web development, all these different things and pretty big news, right?
So L.M. Arena did just release their rankings of the top models across all categories.
And I'll say this, Google Gemini 3 Pro cleaned up.
It ranked as the top overall frontier model of 2025 and became the first AI model to reach an ELO score of 1,500.
rate. So the ELO score essentially, it's kind of like points, right, when users vote for a certain
model. And even back when we were in the like, like, 1,200s, right? At the time, we're like,
my gosh, it's crazy that these models are getting scores of 1,200. But here we are with models
getting 1,500. So in general text and reasoning tasks, Gemini Pro, Gemini 3 Pro finished first with
Gemini 3 flash in second place. So there's a fast sheet model in second place.
pretty impressive. And then there's other non-Google challengers such as Grock for one thinking,
Claude Opus 4.5 and others. Gemini 3 Pro also ranked number one in multimodal vision tasks and
coding performance as well. Gemini 3 Pro took the top spot over Claude Opus 4.5.
Then search and grounded generation, an important one, Gemini 3 Pro with
grounding led in that area with GPT52 search right behind.
So LM Arena data also showed strong progress in generative video where,
surprise, surprise, Google's V-O3.1 model led the text to video ranking.
So probably one of the only areas that main ones, I would say, that Google didn't
completely sweep, which is surprising is the text to
image model where GBT image 1.5, a late entry in December came in and stole the top crown,
even amid all of the nano-nanana pro buzz. That one, I'd say it's hotly contested, right?
Because it really depends on what you're looking at. Text to image can mean like a dozen very
different things. And at first, when I saw GPD 1.5 image get the crown over Google Gemini
I'm like over there, Nanobanana Pro, I'm like, there's no way that can't be right.
And then after looking at some of the categories, doing some tests myself, I'm like, okay,
yeah, I can see it.
But it is super, super close.
I wouldn't be surprised if Nanobanana Pro actually comes out with an iterative update
and under the radar update something like that to leapfrog because it is very close.
But regardless, I think it's important to know that these are blindly tested.
And hey, if it comes to 2025, it looks like Google One and the people with across millions of votes seem to agree.
All right.
Next.
And this starts today.
CES 2026.
The consumer electronics show is already shaping up to be a more crowded and ambitious show this year than in recent years.
And one of the reasons is, well, you have NVIDIA's CEO, Jen,
Wong, keynoting the CES show starting any hour now.
Maybe by the time you're listening to this podcast, Jensen Wong will be delivering his
keynote address.
So not expecting any huge news that usually happens, at least on the Nvidia side, that
usually happens at Nvidia's GTC conference.
However, we might see some new Nvidia updates when it comes to their foundation models,
Blackwell, Ultra, some of their.
ships. So look at markets potentially moving just after, you know, Jensen Wong's keynote address.
But why am I talking about CES when it hasn't even happened yet as one of the top AI news
stories of the week? Well, that's because over the next week, you're going to see a ton of both
very interesting and absolutely ridiculous headlines because, well, that's what happens at CES.
And especially over the past year or two, companies have been sticking AI in places. It doesn't
belong like toasters and mops and shoes, right? So expect to see a lot of the same silly AI
infused product announcements, mainly just geared at grabbing headlines. I have gotten a lot of
information on embargo with, you know, products that are being released today. Nothing really
great if I'm being honest. But if you are someone that enjoys technology, if you like gadgets,
And if you like AI, oh, wait, that's me.
It is still going to be really fun to see some of the new announcements that come out of the CES show this week.
And I do think one of the most dominant trends this year will obviously be AI being stuffed into every category,
from laptops to phones to appliances and cars.
Also, I think smart glasses are expected to flood the show floor with both meta and a bunch of startups that will be releasing
some AI powered smart glasses.
So it looks like meta may finally have a little bit of competition,
and some of those are going to be unveiled today and the rest of the week at CES.
Live stream audience, what do you want to see AI?
What should AI be shoved into and what should it not be shoved into, right?
Like, do I need to have a water bottle with AI that talks to me and tells me I'm
drinking too much water?
It's funny, my wife and cousin, they're always laughing.
that they don't drink enough water
and maybe they need an app
to help encourage them to drink more water.
I don't know.
If I had AI into this big water bottle,
probably be like,
you're drinking far too much water.
All right.
Our next piece of AI news,
a disturbing and disgusting one.
So Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grock
is under intense scrutiny,
both from millions of online users,
governments,
after users online generated explicit images of children, including a 14-year-old actress
from the Stranger Things series.
So the controversy is especially significant because GROC is authorized for official government
use in the U.S.
And the chatbot has been running rogue, generating explicit images of minors on
the platform whenever any user asks it to.
So Grock, the actual chat bot, not the company XAI, but the automated AI power chatbot
publicly admitted on X formally Twitter.
I just call it Twitter that there were quote unquote isolated cases where users created
AI images of minors in minimal clothing despite the company's terms of service prohibiting such
content.
So far, a couple governments.
even though it's only been a couple of hours since this disgusting controversy has erupted and gone viral in a bad way.
But government officials in both India and France have launched official investigations into acts with France,
referring the matter to an agency responsible for enforcing the EU's Digital Services Act,
which carries the potential for large fines.
And then India's IT minister has given XAI, the company behind,
the company behind GROC, 72 hours to detail how it will stop the spread of illegal and explicit content involving minors.
So the incident comes just months after the U.S. government signed an 18-month contract to use GROC for federal business despite warnings from over 30 consumer advocacy groups about the platform's safety and ideological bias.
So X-AI and X have not yet responded to requests for comment, but like I said, Grock, the chatbot posted that it is quote unquote urgently fixing its safeguard to prevent child sexual abuse materials.
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This is absolutely disgusting.
I don't think I need to offer much commentary on this,
But if you're like, wait, what the heck is going on?
How does this work?
Right.
And this isn't new, right?
This feature and functionality.
So essentially, if anyone has shared an image online, I don't know when this functionality
became available, but it's been at least three to five months, right?
If anyone uploads a picture.
So if I uploaded a picture to myself on Twitter, you could go in and just act tag or
mention grok and say, you know, hey, change Jordan's hair color.
make it less gray, make it green, you know, make Jordan wear a tuxedo, right?
And Grock will go in and added the image and keep everything else the same.
And to Grock's credit, and this is probably in a bad way, it actually has very good image and video models.
Well, needless to say, people on the internet who are gross and should probably be banned from using the internet and the Grock chatbot have turned to using this for illicit and explicit.
purposes and in the case of minors. And there's also, obviously, women are being targeted with
this as well, just, you know, seeing this in other reports as well, where women just sharing
normal photos of themselves and then obviously internet trolls doing bad things to those
photos. So hopefully this is one of those instances where I hope the U.S. government steps up
and does something, although I can almost guarantee the U.S. government will not. But it is
at least somewhat positive and reassuring to see other countries come in and put the pressure
on GROC and XI immediately. So hopefully this is a disturbing trend that will stop very quickly.
All right. Our next piece of AI news, an actual technically startup product that is generating
more than a billion dollars is being developed by itself. So,
A major shift in AI-assisted software development has been revealed as Boris Churney,
the creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, confirmed that in the past 30 days,
every line of his project contributions were written by the AI itself.
Yeah, let me say that.
The creator of Claude Code, which itself has generated more than a billion dollars of revenue
in 2025.
The creator of Claude Code,
said that all of his contributions in the past 30 days to Claude
have been written by Claude code.
Crazy, right?
So, attorney, the lead developer of Claude code, stated on Twitter that 100% of
his code contributions were generated by Claude code itself, with none of it written by
himself manually.
So over the 30-day period, the AI submitted almost 260 PRs or poll requests,
added more than 40,000 lines of codes and made 497 commits on the project.
Churney described his role on Claude Code as shifting from hands-on coding to acting as an architect in Verifier,
highlighting a new workflow where the main bottleneck is deciding just what to build and verifying correctness,
not actually writing code.
So, Claude Code, which uses Anthropics Claude Obis 4.5,
model operates as an autonomous coding agent directly in the developer's terminal.
Also, Claude or Anthropic did just release a version of Claude code that works in the browser.
So if you've never really used it or heard of it, the tool can plan features, debug issues,
navigate file systems, and handle Git workflows acting as a full coding partner rather than a simple assistant.
So Churny said he runs multiple instances of Claude Code in parallel,
dramatically increasing development speed and throughput.
So I don't know, y'all.
Should we be covering Claude Code a little bit more?
When it first came out, I was like, probably not.
Where we're at now, especially once Anthropic added Claude code,
well, a couple of things.
Now, or previously, you couldn't use your normal, right?
If you have the $20 a month Claude subscription, that didn't.
give you access to Claude code originally.
Something like, eh, not really something to worry about.
I think our niche, our sweet spot here is the, you know,
tens of millions of business users who use large language models on the front end,
not necessarily back end developers, although that line as well is starting to blur.
However, I think once Anthropic released Claude code to the front end,
so you can go to Claude.A.I with your normal subscription and you can start using Claudecode
but also now there's a lot of features and functionalities that you can use Claude Code
that is not just for development, not just for software engineering, right?
You can use Claude Code now just to perform knowledge work tasks on your computer, right?
Very much like a, you know, super agent of Manus or GenSpark or Chad Chbett's agent mode, right?
Claude code is actually capable of running some of those standard data.
today tasks. So yeah, another, not having to, you know, not trying to make you guys shout out
random words in today's episode, but let me know. Just say Claudecote, if you guys are
interested or if you think we should be covering it a little bit more here on the show.
All right. And our last piece of big AI news for the week.
Penn. A pen? Yes. A pen. Open AI is reportedly working on an AI powered pen. Okay. So,
According to the information, OpenAI is actively developing a new consumer AI device.
And recent leaks suggest that one of the possible form factors is a smart pen designed for lightweight, always on available help from AI.
So the pen is reportedly one of three hardware concepts currently being explored as Open AI works with different manufacturing partners in their first foray into AI hardware.
So the pen would likely combine handwriting capture and voice recording with chat chbt powered assistance,
similar to past smart pens, but with deeper AI analysis and context awareness.
So multiple reports indicate the device would feature always on listening, allowing users to ask questions,
summarize conversations, or process notes without pulling out a phone.
OpenAI CEO Sam Olman has described the intended experience as feeling like a quote,
unquote cabin by a lake, not talking about the pen, but just talking about AI hardware,
signaling a calm, low distraction alternative to smartphones.
It's also been called kind of a third device, right?
So not a phone, not a computer, but a third hardware device powered by AI that users would
presumably be able to easily carry with them.
So the internal co-name for the project is reportedly gum drop, though no,
Launch timeline or final design has been confirmed.
So other concepts said to be under consideration include a wearable pin and a smart speaker
suggesting OpenAI is experimenting rather than committing to a single device yet.
So let's not confirm that the three different hardware's, right?
It's not saying that one is a pen, one is a pin, and one is a smart speaker.
So so far we have confirmation according to reports that one of the three at least is a pen.
like the pen that you write with.
And the other ones not confirmed yet,
but said that they could be a pin like something that you,
you know,
might clip on your shirt and wear around all day and maybe a smart speaker.
So these efforts come as standalone AI hardware has struggled mightily in the markets.
And with products not doing so great,
such as the humane AI pin that went belly up and Rabbit R1,
that didn't exactly go belly up that had to do a pretty hard pivot in order to keep going.
So that is the big AI news stories for the week.
But as always, there's a lot of other recent smaller pieces of news, rumors, rants, leaks,
what's next, what's new.
So here we go.
As we end most Monday AI news shows, we're giving you the quick bullet point version of
what's new and what's next.
All right, here we go.
So leaks show that mistral is testing workflows and shared connectors in beta.
Anthropic purchase close to a million broadcon TPUV7 units for infrastructure expansion,
according to semi-analysis.
Open AI has reorganized teams to build audio-based hardware AI products related to the
story we just talked about there.
X-A-I has launched Brock Business and Enterprise, although I would guess most companies aren't
going to be using that.
Speaking of X-AI, they've also acquired a third Memphis data hub, nearly doubling their
AI computing capacity.
LM Arena, like I said, announced their top frontier models.
Notion is rolling out early access to its AI-first workspace.
FAL, FAL, released its own version of the flux two image generator called Flux Point 2 Turbo.
Shaq, yeah, AI news is so everywhere now.
Shaq is even in it.
Shaq did a vibe coding ad in partnership with Replit, which he's an investor in.
OpenAI announced an incubator type program called Grove in applications, opened up for the next
cohorts of technical founders.
Epic AI released its benchmarks for GPD 52 Pro after a little bit of a delay, which
shows it has a massive lead in frontier math.
So one area that Gemini did not claim, at least according to Epic AI benchmarks,
Zipu AI, the maker of the GLM47 model.
Hopefully I said that right.
but Z-A-I, formerly or commonly known as, launched an IPO to list as Hong Kong's first L-L-LM developer on their market.
A new study showed that 20% of videos shown to new users on YouTube are straight-up AI slop.
Yeah, there was one of those trending this weekend.
It got like 100 million views, like a random video of a monkey.
terrible, right?
Didn't anyone else see that?
Just me.
Quinn's new open source layered
Laura enables Photoshop
grade layered editing of
AI images. Very cool.
And I do think this will be the future
of AI images, but
pretty cool to see from Quinn, right?
So you don't get a flat JPEG.
You can use an AI image
generator to generate images
with layers that are all
editable. Pretty cool.
And then last
but not least, oh, a $41 billion piece of news sneak snuck in at the end, but technically not
new news, but it was reported that SoftBank did complete its total $41 billion investment in
Open AI, according to the information, kind of according to their previous agreement,
they were contractually obligated to fulfill about the second half of that 40-plus billion
commitment to Open AI. If Open AI did complete its organizational restructure in 2025, which it did.
So a ton of AI news this week. I hope this was helpful. If so, please, if you're listening to
the podcast, tell someone about this, please subscribe and follow the show on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
And that's it for today. But like I said, big week coming up. Not only are we going to be launching
the everyday AI inner circle community,
but we also have some other fun announcements
coming on the show this week,
some shows that we have technically been planning for months.
So if one of your big goals this year is to just become better at AI,
to make your company AI native, whatever it may be,
you are not going to want to miss a single episode this January.
I kid you not if you are,
you're going to be a behind because we've been planning
for this month for months.
Not going to want to miss it.
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