EP 640: OpenAI’s new agentic browser, Microsoft releases dozens of AI features, Meta slashes hundreds of AI jobs and more AI news

The Rapid Emergence of Agentic Browsers and Enterprise AI—What Business Leaders Need to Know Now


This week’s AI landscape featured developments that have direct, practical implications for organizational agility, data access, internal knowledge management, and even personalized advertising. Below is a precise synthesis of the most salient updates, drawn from the latest “Everyday AI” podcast episode, targeting business leaders and decision makers eager to make informed choices about their digital strategy and investment.

Agentic Browsers: Context-Rich Workflows Arrive

OpenAI’s launch of the Atlas browser marks a distinctive advance in integrating AI with day-to-day digital workflows. Atlas is available to Mac users, with further rollout anticipated for Windows and mobile. The browser can bring a user’s entire ChatGPT history directly into browsing sessions. Users with paid accounts can leverage Atlas’s “agentic features,” where AI agents comprehend activity across multiple tabs, substantially reducing manual context switching and copy-paste tasks.

Notably, Atlas allows for a seamless handoff between live browser actions and chatbot environments, offering instant webpage summaries and contextual Q&A via an embedded ChatGPT sidebar. One unique feature is a “cursor collaborator”—a function that attaches ChatGPT access to any text field, enabling immediate access to AI assistance in email, documents, or other types of written communication. This design is not just an incremental improvement; by threading persistent, personalized context from a user’s AI history, Atlas fundamentally reframes what agents can accomplish on behalf of knowledge workers.


Microsoft’s Productivity Push: From Features to Group Collaboration

Microsoft has deployed a broad slate of AI enhancements across its Copilot suite, with particular focus on agentic browsing within the Edge browser. Standout features include multistep web actions (such as booking or unsubscribing), hands-free voice commands, and sophisticated tab reasoning, enabling rapid analysis and direct action across multiple web tabs.

Microsoft also introduced group AI chats—up to 32 participants can collaborate with Copilot, with real-time thread summarization, polling, and automated task splitting. Copilot now integrates more deeply with Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Outlook, and OneDrive. New features like “Copilot Journeys” organize previous chats, actions, and browsing history into project-specific groupings, creating an actionable project memory accessible across collaborative spaces.

Early previews of Outlook’s forthcoming rebuild suggest a shift from overlaying AI on legacy tools to embedding it in every stage of workflow—drafting replies, proactively organizing schedules, and prioritizing communications for the user. An accelerated strategy for weekly product cycles and prototyping is underway.


Enterprise Knowledge: AI Meets Internal Productivity

OpenAI unveiled the “company knowledge” feature for ChatGPT business, enterprise, and education plans. This tool enables AI to extract information directly from a company’s workplace applications (such as Slack, Google Drive, Gmail, GitHub, SharePoint, and HubSpot), providing workers with contextual answers without toggling between apps. To initiate, the feature must be manually enabled per conversation, and it temporarily disables web browsing and visual output—this ensures grounded, permissioned internal data access.

Grounded in a new GPT-5 model variant, this approach aligns permissions with user roles and is built to respect existing enterprise app security protocols—encryption, SSO, SCIM, and IP allow listing. For businesses that have not yet centralized their AI “operating system,” the imperative is underscored: processes should migrate to Gemini Enterprise/Business, ChatGPT Enterprise/Business, Claude, or Microsoft 365 to realize measurable gains in reliable data access and operational speed.


Meta’s Strategic Shifts: Layoffs and Ad-Driven Monetization

Meta reportedly eliminated over 600 positions in its superintelligence lab, targeting legacy groups including Fair AI Research and infrastructure units. While restructuring is framed as an effort to reduce bureaucracy and accelerate decision-making, Meta is also hiring into its TBD Labs and investing in individual researchers at notable scale. The leadership push signals heightened expectations for innovation, particularly after the lukewarm reception of the Llama 4 model and pressures from public benchmarks and open-source competition.

Simultaneously, a meaningful influx of ex-Meta employees to OpenAI is accelerating that organization’s exploration of personalized advertising models. OpenAI is said to be examining ways to use ChatGPT’s memory features to deliver highly targeted ads, leveraging details from user conversations (location, interests, etc.), mirroring monetization strategies previously reserved for Meta’s platforms.


AI Content Creation Wars: Music, Apps, and Assistants

OpenAI is reportedly developing a new AI music generation tool, collaborating directly with Juilliard students to annotate high-quality training data. While the company previously launched Jukebox, this new product could be integrated with existing app suites or delivered as a standalone. The competitive landscape is currently led by Suno and UDO, with OpenAI’s improvements in Sora’s music generation hinting at imminent advances.

Google, meanwhile, has rolled out a “vibe coding” section in AI Studio. This suite, powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro, enables rapid web app development without coding expertise and features templates for immediate deployment. Users benefit from split-view editors and contextual AI support, setting a new bar for ease and speed in internal app creation.


Quick Hits: Secondary Developments Worth Attention

  • Anthropic deepened its cloud partnership with Google, accessing up to one million TPUs for Claude’s workload—capacity approaching a gigawatt, with a data center build cost near $50B.

  • OpenAI’s ChatGPT projects are now shareable beyond enterprise plans, broadening collaborative reach.

  • Dynamics 365 Agents (Microsoft), Claude desktop (Anthropic), Adobe’s AI Foundry, and other specialty enterprise integrations point to accelerating vertical application of AI.

  • Lawsuits and partnerships (Reddit vs. Perplexity, SoftBank’s $30B commitment to OpenAI, GM integrating Gemini in cars) hint at deeper infrastructural entrenchment and economic commitment from both startups and incumbents.


Connecting Strategy to Change

The confluence of agentic browsers, permissioned company knowledge features, personalized AI advertising, and app-building templates represents a concrete alignment of AI innovation with specific business needs. The underlying theme is clear: organizations that embed AI into the very core of workflows—transcending surface integrations—will access compounded efficiency, smarter data use, and a competitive edge in both internal productivity and customer engagement.

For those steering digital strategy, the time to transition from exploratory pilots to operational adoption is now—platform choices, data governance, team enablement, and AI security should be priority discussions within leadership teams.


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Topics Covered in This Episode:

  1. OpenAI Atlas Agentic Browser Launch
  2. ChatGPT Integration with Browser Tabs
  3. Anthropic-Google Billion Dollar TPU Deal
  4. Claude AI Model Enterprise Adoption
  5. Google AI Studio No-Code Web Apps
  6. Meta Cuts 600+ AI Research Jobs
  7. OpenAI Personalized Ads via Memory Feature
  8. Microsoft Copilot Agentic Features in Edge
  9. Group AI Chat & New Copilot Tools
  10. ChatGPT Company Knowledge for Teams
  11. Outlook AI-Powered Email Client Rebuild
  12. OpenAI Competes with Suno AI Music
  13. Anthropic Claude Releases and Desktop App
  14. SoftBank Invests $22.5B More in OpenAI
  15. Perplexity AI Sued by Reddit Over Training Data


Keywords:

OpenAI Atlas browser, agentic browser, GPT integration, ChatGPT history, Mac agentic features, web page summarization, contextual Q&A, browser AI agent, cursor collaborator, context switching, Perplexity Comet browser, Microsoft Copilot, Edge agentic features, multistep web actions, hands-free voice commands, group AI chat, Clippy revival, Gmail integration, Google Drive AI, Outlook AI rebuild, Copilot Journeys, AI-powered productivity tools, Google and Anthropic partnership, cloud TPU deal, Claude AI models, Claude coding assistant, Gemini 2.5 Pro, AI Studio, no-code AI web app builder, AI image generator, Veo video platform, build tab, no-code AI, personalized advertising, memory feature, ad-based monetization, company knowledge feature, Slack, GitHub integration, SharePoint, HubSpot, enterprise AI, security encryption, SSO, SCIM, IP allow listing, Meta job cuts, Fair AI Research, Scale AI acquisition, Llama 4, open-source AI models, Alexander Wang, TBD Lab, Sora video app, Suno music generation, UDO AI music, Juilliard musical annotation, Jukebox, Claude desktop, Claude life sciences update, Adobe AI Foundry, SoftBank OpenAI investment, data tables NotebookLM, Grokopedia, Mistral agent building, Google Gemini visual layout, Perplexity lawsuit, Quinn deep research, GPT-5.1 mini, Sora pet and toy cameos, Anthropic memory rollout, Microsoft Dynamics 365 agents, Google Earth AI update, Amazon AI glasses, AI-powered email, Outlook scheduling, AI-enabled collaboration.


Podcast Transcript


Jordan Wilson [00:00:45]:
Aside from being the week of agentic browsers, apparently, there was actually a ton of AI news this week. So yeah, open AI released their agentic browser Atlas and Microsoft went full AI mode with Copilot and agentic features in their edge browser. But we also saw Meta reportedly act 600 AI jobs. Another major AI lab is now trying to compete with AI music platform, Suno, and Microsoft released, like, a bajillion small AI features that are actually pretty useful and brought back Clippy. So if you miss any of this, don't worry on Mondays, we bring you the AI news that matters. And this is your one stop shop to get caught up and actually understand what all of these AI updates mean and how you can actually put them to work for you. Alright. Let's get into it.

Jordan Wilson [00:01:43]:
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Jordan Wilson [00:02:14]:
Each day, we recap the highlights, from that day's podcast as well as all of the other AI news written by humans for humans, that you need to know. So make sure you go check that out. But on Mondays, we bring you the AI news that matters. That's what today's show is all about. So you don't have to spend hours every single day toiling over what the heck does this new AI feature mean. We cut through the nonsense and give it to you straight. Alright. Let's get straight into it with the biggest piece of AI news of the week.

Jordan Wilson [00:02:47]:
And that is open AI went technically agentic in the browser. So open AI has unveiled their Atlas browser, a new agentic browser designed to integrate AI directly into everyday digital workflows and mainly bringing your chat g b t history into a browser. Yeah. That's pretty cool. So OpenAI's new Atlas browser is available right now for Mac users with broader support for Windows and mobile users expected soon. And you don't even need a paid account. It is available to any free users as well. Although you do have to have a paid account to use the agent mode, so more of the agentic features.

Jordan Wilson [00:03:32]:
Yeah. You gotta have a paid account. So Atlas does stand out by offering those agentic features, allowing AI agents to understand, remember, and act across multiple browser tabs, reducing manual copy paste and context switching. So the browser features a chat g p t powered sidebar called ask g p t. Sorry. Ask chat g p t for instant web page summaries, contextual q and a, and direct handoffs between browser and chatbots environment. So anything that you are, kind of chatting with. So whether you're trying to summarize a page in the Atlas browser or anything else, when you go into your chat GPT account, it will be available there.

Jordan Wilson [00:04:15]:
Also, what's the most important thing that I think a lot of people are still overlooking. Right? Because everyone's like, okay. What's the big deal? Another agentic browser. Well, the big deal here is it's chat g p t. So when you are, as an example, if you're in, Atlas browser and you're looking up the latest, I don't know, quarterly, report for one of your competitors and you're chatting with ChatChippy Tea on the side, it knows everything you've been working on and can bring that context over, which is why this is a pretty big, I'll say, a paradigm shift into what agentic browsers can do when they pair up with your, in this case, chat GBG history. This is pretty big. There's also some other smaller features, but it has a cursor collaborator. So, essentially, anywhere where you type, there's a little knob that they call it, where you can bring up chat GPT.

Jordan Wilson [00:05:08]:
So you don't even have to click any other buttons. If you're highlighting any text, whether it's in an email, a Google Doc, wherever you're typing, you can always access chat GPT there. So, livestream audience, have you checked out Atlas yet? We actually did a show, dedicated to just Atlas episode six thirty seven as well as the following day, six thirty eight. We did essentially, Chad GPT's Atlas versus Perplexity's Comet browser. So, yeah, obviously, huge, week in and kind of technically month for agentic browsers because earlier in this month, perplexity made their Comet browser free for all users, whereas previously, it was only available for paid users. So, yeah, we're gonna talk about Microsoft, their agentic features in Edge. Technically, Google snuck some more, AI features, into their Chrome browser. So it was legit the week of agentic browsers.

Jordan Wilson [00:06:03]:
But the big one undoubtedly was OpenAI's Atlas browser launch. It is I I'm I'm not underestimating this. Like, everyone's been talking, oh, 2025 is the year of the agents. I've been saying, no. It's not. It is the year of the agentic browsers. Much more useful. So aside from Atlas being able to bring in your chat g b t data in context, which is enormous, Well, the other big part of agentic browsers, well, is you can talk in natural, language to any, any website, but also the ability to run kind of some processes, in a hybrid environment.

Jordan Wilson [00:06:39]:
So, right, having the AI baked in to a browser just makes everything so much faster. Alright. Next piece of AI news, Google and Anthropic. You might think of them as competitors, but unless you follow the financials of these deals, you probably don't know. They're actually technically partners, and their partnership has now been deepened even more. That's because Anthropic has signed a massive cloud partnership deal with Google, giving anthropic access to up to 1,000,000 of Google's custom TPUs or tensor processing units, kind of, Google's version of NVIDIA's GPUs, right, in a deal that is reportedly valued at tens of billions of dollars. And this is obviously Anthropic's largest TPU commitment to date and is expected to bring over a gigawatt of AI computes capacity online by next year. So Anthropic's new agreement with Google is set to deliver, like I said, more than a gigawatt of AI computing power with industry estimates putting the build out caught of cost of such a data center at around $50,000,000,000.

Jordan Wilson [00:07:51]:
So Anthropic's Claude AI models run across Google's TPUs, also Amazon's Trainium, chips, and also NVIDIA's GPUs, allowing it to optimize for price performance and power across different platforms. So who knows? Maybe now people with a paid Anthropic account will be able to run, I don't know, more than, like, five prompts without, being rate limited. So Anthropic's annual revenue run rate is now approaching $7,000,000,000 according to reports, with Claude powering over 300,000 businesses. So cloud, Claude Code, Anthropic's agentic coding assistant, generated 500,000,000 in annualized revenue so far within two months of launch, which the company claims is a record for product growth. So Google has also deepened its investment in anthropic, adding $1,000,000,000 in January to its previous $2,000,000,000 and maintaining a reported 10% equity stake in Anthropic. So, yeah, that's important here. This is kind it's this isn't really very much like some of these circular funding deals, the vendor financing that we've been talking about a little different. But still, I mean, a lot of people overlook that Google has a 10% stake in Anthropic, which is technically one of its biggest competitors.

Jordan Wilson [00:09:15]:
Right? Everyone's been using, the Claude, especially the Claude four five, models for coding and some of the, four models as well. And, well, Claude has actually lost a lot of ground recently in that department, to GPT five codex version and also, to the latest Gemini 2.5. So, interesting play here from Google signing a an enormous, kind of deal with technically one of their competitors, but they also have an equity stake in them. Speaking of Google, bringing more good vibes. So Google, essentially revealed a complete rebuild, of its new vibe coding section in AI studio, making it easier and faster for anyone to build and deploy web apps powered by Gemini without knowing how to code. So the new build tab. So if you go to Google's AI Studio, the new build tab lets users create AI powered web apps in minutes with no upfront payment or coding skills needed. Also, Gemini 2.5 Pro is the default AI engine, but users can mix and match features like their extremely viral nano banana, their AI image generator, Veo, their video platform, and imagine their image generation, as well as Google search.

Jordan Wilson [00:10:40]:
The editor now offers a split view. So if you've, I don't know, use, like, GPT builder inside of chat GPT, this should seem very familiar. So you can chat with the AI for help on the left, and you can see or edit the full source code on the right. There's also in very Google nostalgic fashion, new I'm feeling lucky button that generates random app ideas in setups, helping users discover unique concepts and features with a single click, as well as a ton of, essentially starter templates where yeah. Even if you don't know what do I wanna build, you can just go essentially copy one of these starter templates, and then in natural language, build and modify them. Should we be doing more of this? Right? We've done some Google AI studio. We haven't touched a ton on the build section. We actually had, Paige Bailey, from Google on a couple weeks ago.

Jordan Wilson [00:11:34]:
And y'all if you didn't watch that episode, I talked to Paige afterwards. I'm like, this was so good. We gotta get you on again, but make sure you go check that out. We briefly did go over, we briefly went over, the build section. So go listen to episode six nineteen, in like five minutes, Paige showed even non technical people how to build apps inside of AI studio. All right. Is OpenAI getting super meta? Well, according to the information OpenAI is. So, around according to reports, OpenAI is rapidly exploring personalized advertising, a shift grow, reportedly fueled by the growing influence of hundreds of former meta employees now working inside of a, OpenAI.

Jordan Wilson [00:12:30]:
So the information reports that about six thirty of OpenAI's 3,000 staffers are meta veterans, including some top leadership who previously drove advertising strategy at Facebook. So the influx of meta alumni has accelerated OpenAI's move toward ad based monetization. So OpenAI is reportedly considering using Chegg b t's new memory feature to deliver highly personalized ads based on details from users' conversations such as location and interests. So, obviously, this has already been reported on the meta side that meta is gonna start doing this in December. So if you've been chatting with Meta starting in December, those are gonna be used for highly personalized, ads inside of the Meta platform. So the memory feature inside ChatGPT was recently rolled out to all free users because it was previously only open to paid users, kind of laying the groundwork for potential product recommendations and sponsored content within chats. And what's funny though is if you go back in the time machine, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman had been against this originally. But despite resistance from Altman, internal momentum reportedly driven by these meta veterans are kind of bringing back up this personalized ads and reportedly could be coming sooner than a lot of people expected.

Jordan Wilson [00:14:04]:
However, employees have expressed concern that OpenAI is shifting too far toward a big tech ad model with surveys asking if the company is becoming too much like Meta. Engagement and daily usage metrics are increasingly prioritized, supporting a future where ads could drive user interaction in revenue. So this I mean, this is happening. This is happening. I I I've been saying this for a very long time. And when I saw the new pulse feature, which to me has been kind of hit or miss, I'm I like, when pulse came out, I said, yeah. OpenAI is doing this because this is how they're gonna be delivering very personalized ads. And right now that, that feature is only available to those on the $200 a month pro plan, but they will be rolling that out to, millions of paid users, I would assume fairly shortly.

Jordan Wilson [00:14:54]:
But between that and the new Atlas browser, yeah, obviously, OpenAI is going to be making a ridiculous amount of money pretty soon from highly personalized ads. It's going to happen. Right? Yes. The reporting is now officially on the wall. And, according to the information report at least being driven by meta insiders inside, OpenAI. Alright. Next, if you missed this one, Microsoft unveiled like so many new AI updates. So Microsoft at their full event rolled out a major update to Copilot really across the board, introducing a wide variety of features aimed at enhancing productivity, collaboration, and personalization.

Jordan Wilson [00:15:43]:
So we did an entire show on this on Friday, I believe. Yeah. It was Friday, episode six thirty nine. So So if you wanna know more, make sure to go check that out. But some of the bigger ones I will go over. So the new agentic browsing features in Microsoft Edge were probably the highlight. So now you have multistep web actions like booking and unsubscribing, subscribing, hands free voice commands within Microsoft Edge, and tab reasoning to analyze and compare content across multiple tabs. And now, obviously, Edge via, Copilot here, can autonomously, complete actions on your web page.

Jordan Wilson [00:16:26]:
So whatever you're browsing, you can kind of hand it off to, an agent now for Copilot to take command. Here's the other big one that I think could be actually pretty cool and could get Microsoft, little momentum back. So, they introduced group AI chats allowing up to 32 participants to collaborate in a single session with Copilot with everything from normal Copilot chatting to real time thread summarization polls and automatic task splitting. The company also introduced Mico, an animated avatar. Yay. That also revives clicky, Clippy. Sorry. If you click it enough, there's a new real talk mode, that's designed to get away from overly agreeable responses that have played large language models for years.

Jordan Wilson [00:17:17]:
Microsoft Copilot also rolled out online their new integration connectors to Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Outlook, and OneDrive. There's also the new Copilot Journeys, which automatically organizes your past chats, action, and browser history in Copilot into topic based groups. So it essentially summarize, you know, if you're working on, you you know, a certain work project or travel across multiple chats, multiple, browsing sessions, it essentially puts it all into one and kind of tells you where you left off. And then last but not least, well, well, there's actually a ton more, but the last one we're gonna talk about today is the new Windows 11 integration that brings a, hey, Copilot wake word for voice activated AI assistance across apps. That one could be cool as well as the dedicated Copilot home screen. So, kind of a way to bring, Mary Copilot plus all the most recent files that you've worked on in a home screen. So, yeah, between that and the Hey Copilot, we could be getting the actual smart version of Siri or Alexa before we get a actual smart version of Siri or Alexa. Alright.

Jordan Wilson [00:18:30]:
More chat GPT news. So OpenAI has unveiled a major new feature called company knowledge for paid teams across the chat GPT business enterprise and EDU. So the latest updates allows Chatt GPT to pull information directly from workplace apps like Slack, Google Drive, Gmail, GitHub, SharePoint, HubSpot, and others, making it easier for employees to find company specific answers without switching between tools. But, well, two things here. One, the feature must be turned on for each new conversation, which is a little bit of a bummer, but not a deal breaker for me. Just means, you know, if you had a great, chat going and you want this new feature, gotta start over. Also, it temporarily disables web browsing and visual output generation. That's an important thing as well, which is actually good.

Jordan Wilson [00:19:23]:
You might think, oh, disables web browsing. That's bad. Well, no. In this case, it's good to ground it through your data. And this feature is powered by a, reported new version of GPT five trained to search across multiple sources to give more accurate and comprehensive responses. So essentially employees can now ask chat GPT for project details, feedback, summaries, or performance reports, and receive answers with direct links in citations from internal company systems. Company knowledge also respects according to open AI existing app permissions and only excesses data users are authorized to see that's always a concern. Right? Someone's like, oh, like, why would I connect my, you know, SharePoint if there's information out there that some employees don't have access to? Well, it reportedly, acknowledges and adheres to those permissions.

Jordan Wilson [00:20:18]:
It also supports enterprise grade security, such as encryption, SSO, SCIM, and IP allow listing. So OpenAI recommends a phased rollout for enterprises. And what does this actually mean? Well, for employees and teams, faster, more reliable access to company data. Alright. So, I've tested this out a little bit, very, very similar. It appears early on, I'd still need to do a little bit more testing personally, but it seems kind of like the Gemini enterprise in Gemini business, or at least the grounded, portion of it. So, yeah, let let me know y'all. Like, are you on individual plans? Are you on, you know, Chatt GPT business plan, which used to be Chatt GPT teams? Are you on Chatt GPT enterprise? I'm I'm curious what people are on.

Jordan Wilson [00:21:09]:
So livestream audience, let me know. Podcast, if you're listening, on on Spotify, you can leave a comment. I'm always curious. I I assume people are always on, like, a chat GBT business plan, but a lot of times, I'm always shocked. Right? Even at larger organizations where they're like, yes. You know, let's let's, you know, start using AI more. They still don't have, like, a Chattopd business plan. Right? You just have a couple individuals who just have an individual paid plan.

Jordan Wilson [00:21:35]:
But y'all, if you are a decision maker at a large enterprise company, I've been saying this literally for years.

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Jordan Wilson [00:22:21]:
You need to have an AI operating system. Right? You need to start bringing all of your processes in either, Gemini enterprise, Gemini business, Chad GPT business, Chad GPT enterprise, quads, enterprise plan, or Microsoft three sixty five. You have to start bringing your processes in. All right. It's not really an option anymore, especially with all of these new features, like the company knowledge feature. All right. 600 plus jobs are now reportedly gone at Meta, the same company spending billions of dollars for, like, individual researchers. So according to an Axios report, Meta is cutting about 600 jobs from its superintelligence lab, impacting long standing AI groups like Fair AI Research, product related AI, and infrastructure units.

Jordan Wilson [00:23:21]:
So the company's leadership believes these AI teams had become bogged down by bureaucracy, slowing decision making and process. So Meta's newly formed TBD Labs is spared from the cuts according to ax to Axios and is still actively hiring, signaling a shift in focus toward fresh approaches in breakthrough research. So US employees affected by the layoffs were notified, on Wednesday with Meta encouraging them to apply for other roles within the company. So the AI chief, Alexander Wang, former CEO of Scale AI, which Meta Aqua hired, said the reorganization will give remaining team members more responsibility and impact aiming for a leaner, faster operation. So CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushed for this overhaul after growing dissatisfied with the results of Meta's previous AI efforts seeking improved performance and innovation. Well, let's see what happens here. Y'all let's, I'm just going to say this, Meadows llama four was obviously underwhelming. There was some benchmark controversy when it first came out.

Jordan Wilson [00:24:34]:
One of the variations, you know, allegedly, they had, fitted one of the models specifically to score well, on the LM Arena and face a little bit of controversy there. But I mean, here's the reality. 15 no. More than 15,000,000,000. So, I mean, Meta had their, $14,000,000,000 plus acquisition of Scale AI. They've reportedly spent more than a billion dollars on multiple individual researchers, right, over the course of, you know, like a four or six year term. Right? I mean, we are literally talking. Meta is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in annual salaries for multiple individuals.

Jordan Wilson [00:25:17]:
Right? According to reports. So maybe this is who knows, maybe this will work. I'm not, I'm not buying it. I'm not seeing it personally. Right. And maybe that's just because llama four was so underwhelming. Right. And, then open AI responded not too long after with their open source model GPT OSS, which, from if you read a lot of, reports, it seems like GPT OSS was actually better, than some of Llama's base models.

Jordan Wilson [00:25:51]:
So not a good look when OpenAI comes out with their first open source model, and it performs better, than a lot of meta's, LAMA four variance when it's, you know, LAMA four or or or the LAMA models have seen many, many updates. Right? They've seen, a a a ton of forks, you know, NVIDIA, had a nice fine tune. I think that was llama three. So not a good look. Right? Not a good look from llama with their llama four, and now they're just spending billions of dollars, but at the same time, cutting hundreds of people. So, I mean, the expectations are very high from whatever llama ships next. We've also seen reports that they may go close source. They may keep going open source, but regardless, there is a ton of pressure on Alexander Wang in the new TBD lab within meta to deliver results.

Jordan Wilson [00:26:46]:
Alright. Speaking of delivering results, if you're not really happy with what Copilot is accomplishing in your Outlook email, well, maybe there's good news on the horizon. That's because according to reports from The Verge, Microsoft is preparing a major transformation of its Outlook email client, aiming to essentially rebuild it from the ground up. So Microsoft has reorganized its Outlook team under new leadership, and an internal memo reveals Microsoft's plan to rebuild Outlook from scratch, focusing on AI rather than simply sprinkling AI on the top of an existing platform. So the rebuild is described as the future outlook as a quote, unquote body double that will help users tackle work, making tasks feel less overwhelming by acting as a true partner, not just a set of tools. So Copilot, Microsoft's AI assistant, will obviously play a central role in this transformation, turning Outlook into a proactive partner that reads messages, drafts replies, which is new, and organizes schedules automatically. So there's kind of, some reported new features that might separate the future version of Outlook versus what's available now when you combine Copilot plus Outlook. Well, essentially, is it will read your emails, prioritize what's important, draft replies, and also organize your schedule automatically according to what's going on in your Outlook's inbox.

Jordan Wilson [00:28:19]:
So the Outlook team is shifting to rapid development with weekly feature experiments in prototyping cycles measured in days instead of months. So this overhaul will reportedly embed AI into every stage of outlook's design development and rollout for both consumers and businesses. Is OpenAI going after Suno? Well, according to a recent report in the information, the answer is yes. So OpenAI is reportedly building a new AI powered music generation tool that creates music from just text in audio prompts. So the tool aims to allow users to add custom music to videos or generate, generate instrumental tracks, such as guitar accompaniment for vocals. So according to reports, OpenAI is collaborating with Juilliard School students. That's a shocking one there to annotate musical scores, providing high quality training data for the model. So, yeah, what people don't really know is OpenAI was actually one of the first platforms to have an, an AI music platform.

Jordan Wilson [00:29:34]:
It was called Jukebox, and it was available way back when, and no one really used it, and most people don't even know. But, it remains unclear whether this new tool from OpenAI will be a standalone product or just integrated into existing OpenAI apps like Chad GPT or the video app, Sora. So it should be, a fun kind of battle to watch because aside from, Suno, I mean, you have, UDO, but there's it's it's not a super crowded space. Right? I think UDO and Suno, in terms of, like, AI music generation, it's kinda just them running away with it. And one thing I was actually taken aback by was how good music quality was in Sora, in Sora two, way better than any of the other AI video platforms. Right? You can look now at, like, v o 3.1 from Google and say, okay. They've kind of taken the lead back from Sora two. But one thing Sora two is ridiculously good in is creating actual, like, music that's really good, which a lot of people, like, were, like, wait.

Jordan Wilson [00:30:51]:
How is this actually making music as well? We thought it was just a video platform. So maybe they've already started to sneak elements of this new, music tool in Sora two. Maybe it'll just be an under the hood upgrade or it could be a complete standalone platform. Whatever the case is, we will obviously be covering it to let you know. Alright. We gotta go fast on this one, y'all. That's it for the big stories, but we had, if I'm being honest in the last year or so, this has been the most little news stories at the end that we've had. So we have our kind of what's next and what's new section.

Jordan Wilson [00:31:30]:
So these are maybe, some, some, noteworthy happenings that didn't quite make our top news roundup for the week. Some of these are new features that are were released. Some of these are rumors, but this is the most we've ever had. So I'm gonna try to go very, very fast here. Alright. Ready? Here we go. OpenAI made chat g p t projects shareable even outside of your business or enterprise plan, which by the way is huge. We'll probably talk about that more later.

Jordan Wilson [00:31:57]:
Anthropic released Claude code for Webb. Google released Google skills with 3,000 courses, many of them focused on AI. And your report says that GM is putting Google Gemini in their future cars. Mistral released an agent building platform two weeks after OpenAI calling theirs AI studio. NotebookLM may be releasing a data tables feature, and I do know they are releasing a deep research integration. Axe AI is rolling out a Grokopedia feature inside Grok on the web. Claude may be rolling out a version of company knowledge that OpenAI just debuted. Anthropic made Claude desktop generally available this past week.

Jordan Wilson [00:32:42]:
Claude also rolled out an update specifically for life sciences. Adobe released its AI foundry, which lets company train custom models on their IP. SoftBank, this one's hot off the presses, reportedly just approved an additional $22,500,000,000 investment in OpenAI, bringing its total commitment up to $30,000,000,000. This was part of an earlier announcement from earlier this year, but, apparently, the next $22,500,000,000, kind of, branch just just, came in. There's more y'all. Here we go. The AI browser, Dia, debuted a prompt to skill feature for a Gentric browsing. Google Gemini is gearing up for a visual layout.

Jordan Wilson [00:33:30]:
Its version of chat g p t pulse, which looked really cool, by the way. We shared that in our newsletter last week, last week. Perplexity is being sued by Reddit over AI training data. Quinn rolled out a deep research upgrade, which looks pretty useful with a live web page and podcast accompanying it. OpenAI may be demoing a version of a GPT 5.1 mini. Seen reports go both ways on that, so we'll see if that ends up being true or not. Reportedly, I was for the, internal knowledge. Sora too has released some new features for cameos, including, pets and toys.

Jordan Wilson [00:34:08]:
Also, they recently extended, fifteen second generations for all users and twenty five second generations for plus users. OpenAI acquired software applications, Inc, a popular Mac OS dev team. So, yeah, that I would just say be prepared whether this is for, the browser or for their, their Mac app, things are gonna get better on the Mac for chat g p t. Anthropic rolled out memory to paid users. Microsoft unveiled Dynamics three sixty five agents. Google unveiled an updated Earth AI, which looks absolutely bonkers. Amazon is rolling out last 100 yards AI glasses for drivers to help with deliveries. And in an interview, oh gosh, we can finally stop working y'all.

Jordan Wilson [00:34:58]:
In an interview, Bill Gates recently said AI could lead to a two day work week. Alright. It's great when, bajillionaires tell us we can stop working. Whew. We're in the clear y'all. That was it. That was a lot. Alright.

Jordan Wilson [00:35:11]:
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