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How This Week's AI Shifts Directly Impact Business Growth: Pinpoint Insights from AI’s Latest Developments
As AI continues to rapidly refactor the way companies operate, a series of concrete shifts unfolded in the past week that will materially affect business leaders—from the way teams train AI models to how consumers shop, interact, and access knowledge. This article distills the critical points from the latest Everyday AI podcast episode, providing precise, actionable takeaways for business decision-makers.
AI Data Licensing and Costs: The Wikimedia-Wikipedia Enterprise Case
Key Insight:
Major AI companies—Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, and Perplexity—have entered formal licensing agreements with the Wikimedia Foundation. Instead of scraping Wikipedia, these organizations now pay for real-time, structured and machine-readable access to over 65 million articles in more than 300 languages via Wikimedia’s API. This pivots away from raw, unstructured scraping and addresses rising server and bandwidth costs.
Business Value:
Enterprises building AI-powered solutions can no longer rely on freely scraping key information resources. Structured partnerships, and APIs designed for AI consumption, are becoming the norm. Additionally, Wikipedia's approach—requiring credit for human contributors and avoiding verbatim text reproduction—sets a new legal precedent for content usage, decreasing litigation risk but creating a direct cost for access to foundational datasets.
AI Partnerships: Apple Adopts Google Gemini for Personalization
Key Insight:
Apple and Google have entered a confirmed multi-year partnership, integrating Google Gemini’s AI models to enhance Apple’s Siri and other AI-powered services. This marks Apple’s departure from pursuing solely in-house AI, after years of limited progress and legal hiccups.
Business Value:
Apple’s willingness to outsource core AI functionalities sets a precedent for organizations that have struggled with in-house AI implementation. Partnerships with top-tier AI providers can deliver immediate enhancements to user experience and operational efficiency. For businesses, this demonstrates a clear path to rapidly improve internal tools and customer-facing AI features by choosing best-in-class AI providers, even if it means cross-collaboration with competitors.
AI Infrastructure: OpenAI Diversifies with $10 Billion Cerebras Deal
Key Insight:
OpenAI secured a multi-year, $10B+ deal for specialized wafer-scale engine chips from Cerebras Systems, directly aiming to reduce dependency on Nvidia GPUs for high-demand training and deployment.
Business Value:
Organizations reliant on AI infrastructure must track shifts in the GPU market. OpenAI’s diversification away from Nvidia reflects market vulnerability to supply chain bottlenecks and price surges. Businesses operating their own models, or planning AI expansion, should analyze chip acquisition strategies and explore alternatives to traditional GPU dependencies to ensure scalability and risk mitigation.
Personalized AI for Everyday Use: Google Gemini’s Secure Integration
Key Insight:
Gemini’s new personal intelligence beta allows users to link Gmail, Google Photos, YouTube, and search history, creating highly personalized experiences for travel, purchases, and daily tasks. Available initially for US-based personal accounts, this feature does not train the model on user data but enables richer, context-aware engagements.
Business Value:
This represents a clear shift towards truly personalized AI assistants capable of actionable insights by securely connecting user-specific data across verticals. For business leaders, the key is understanding that meaningful productivity gains—and enhanced customer engagement—are possible when permission-based data aggregation is used to customize services and recommendations.
AI in E-commerce: The End of Traditional Shopping Journeys
Key Insight:
Google is expanding Gemini’s e-commerce capabilities by integrating instant checkout and personalized recommendations in partnership with Walmart, Shopify, and Wayfair. Customers can complete purchases within the chat interface, without navigating to separate websites.
Business Value:
The migration of the consumer journey from the retailer’s site to multi-merchant AI-powered chat means brands must optimize data feeds, inventory, and fulfillment integrations for AI-first shopping ecosystems. Businesses must anticipate losing direct website visits—and the associated advertising margin—and respond by leveraging direct partnerships with AI aggregators or enhancing product discoverability through AI APIs.
Claude CoWork: Automating Desktop Tasks for Non-Technical Teams
Key Insight:
Anthropic released Claude CoWork, an AI agent (currently for Mac users on paid plans), which can autonomously manage, analyze, and create files, organize data, and perform workflow tasks—all without coding expertise. Built for everyday users, not developers, this broadens the accessibility of automating repetitive computer tasks.
Business Value:
Leaders evaluating tools to boost productivity should consider rapidly deployable AI assistants capable of local system interaction, beyond web-based automation. This means companies can empower non-technical staff with tools to automate personal workflows, reduce manual data processing, and streamline knowledge work—without the need for custom scripts or IT intervention. The pace of development (delivered in just 1.5 weeks via AI-generated code) also points to impending acceleration in workplace automation offerings.
OpenAI ChatGPT Ads: Why Monetization Matters for Free AI Access
Key Insight:
OpenAI is launching ads within the free tier of ChatGPT for US-based adult users, with lower-cost “Go” subscriptions also displaying ads. Paid tiers remain ad-free. Ads will appear beneath AI responses and will be clearly marked, starting a massive monetization effort to offset billions in infrastructure expenses.
Business Value:
Organizations leveraging free AI APIs or interfaces must prepare for possible ad-driven models that could affect user experience, especially for clients or customers interacting with AI tools. Internal teams may need to budget for ad-free paid tiers to avoid distraction, or factor ads into process design. The move also signals to SaaS and digital businesses that offering high-value free services at scale without monetization is financially unsustainable and will likely vanish as infrastructure costs rise.
Rapid AI Developments: What’s On the Business Radar
Key Insight:
Additional updates include new Claude CoWork knowledge bases, enhanced video generation in Google’s V03 update, OpenAI’s jobs and translation assistants, investment moves (BlackRock’s $12.5B data center fund), and the use of AI models to build a working web browser from scratch.
Business Value:
Frequent, practical advances in knowledge management, coding, healthcare, and recruitment AI are becoming immediately deployable. Enterprises must monitor beta and feature expansions closely, and encourage pilot programs within teams to evaluate competitive advantage. The evolving landscape means every quarter may yield new, business-ready AI capabilities that can be rolled out with little lead time.
Conclusion: Immediately Actionable Next Steps
This week’s AI news demonstrates several business-imperative trends: paid content licensing is upending free data access; key enterprise players are entering strategic partnerships instead of building solo; infrastructure decisions directly affect AI deployment scale; personalized, permission-based AI assistants enhance utility; and front-end experiences—from e-commerce to recruiting—are shifting rapidly to AI-powered interfaces. Leadership teams need ongoing review of AI partnerships, cost structures, and internal adoption frameworks to capitalize on the market’s practical developments.
For continued updates and weekly expert recaps, adapting strategy to the latest news is not an option but a competitive necessity.
Topics Covered in This Episode:
- Wikimedia Licensing Deals for AI Training Data
- Apple Partners with Google Gemini AI
- OpenAI Cerabra $10B Chip Partnership
- Gemini Personal Intelligence Google Apps Integration
- Gemini Shopping Features With Walmart & Shopify
- NVIDIA and Eli Lilly $1B AI Drug Lab
- Anthropic Claude CoWork Desktop AI Agent
- OpenAI ChatGPT Ads Rollout and Subscription Changes
Episode Transcript
Jordan Wilson [00:00:16]:
The AI models themselves didn't change. However, just about every way that we use AI could change from what happened this week in AI news. I mean, OpenAI is gonna be rolling out ads on their platform. Google partnered with Apple. Now officially, they changed the way that Gemini works, and Claude Cowork could be the biggest change in all of this in terms of how we use large language models. So if you missed anything this week, don't worry. We're gonna be catching you up on this week's edition of the AI news that matters on everyday AI. What's going on y'all? Welcome to everyday AI.
Jordan Wilson [00:00:59]:
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Jordan Wilson [00:01:45]:
So, if you voted in our poll last week, we're gonna be giving you access, here in the next day or two, making sure everyone has a smooth transition on. But, eventually, we will be opening it up to everyone else. Alright. Let's get into the AI news that matters for the week of January 19. Alright. What do large language models need? Well, they need training data probably just as much as anything else. And that now has a big change after the Wikimedia Foundation has signed a major AI licensing deal. So let's talk about it.
Jordan Wilson [00:02:18]:
The Wikimedia Foundation has announced landmark licensing agreements with top AI companies. So they've signed deals with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, and Perplexity, so those companies can access Wikipedia's data through their new paid Wikimedia enterprise platform, joining earlier partners like Google and Ecosia. So these agreements replace what's been going on, which is just web scraping. Right? All these companies scraping the open web, with now structured machine readable data delivered via specialized APIs covering over 65,000,000 articles in more than 300 languages. So the enterprise platforms offers AI companies real time updates and snapshots of Wikipedia content, helping models stay current with live edits while reducing the need to clean the process of that raw and sometimes dirty and unorganized data. So by formalizing partnerships, Wikimedia aims to offset rising infrastructure costs caused by aggressive AI scrapers, including server maintenance and bandwidth expenses. The deal provides a new revenue stream for the nonprofit, which has seen traditional Wikipedia traffic and donations decline as AI chatbots increasingly summarize its content. This also avoids litigation by treating Wikipedia's factual content as not subject to traditional copyright, provided AI models credit human contributors, and do not reproduce text verbatim.
Jordan Wilson [00:03:56]:
So the whole Wikipedia thing is very interesting, right, because Wikipedia is not creating technically its own new sources of information. Like I said, they have human editors essentially, you know, write what has happened and then attribute that in the, you know, in the footer more or less. So in a way, Wikipedia was almost kind of like the original large language model. Right? You wouldn't have to go read 30 different pieces of information. You hopefully got, an unbiased and, you know, all inclusive kind of answer to a question. So, but for the most part, every single large language model has used Wikipedia as a main source of information. So this is a pretty big step forward, in kind of figuring out what the next step is going to be. But like I've said for a long time, it's lawsuits, partnerships, or the media company goes out of business.
Jordan Wilson [00:04:53]:
There's really no third option. Alright. Our next piece of AI news, we've technically reported on this quite a bit, but now it's officially official. Apple has announced a significant multi year partnership with Google to to power some of Apple's most important AI services, including a more personalized Siri. So they're gonna be using Google Gemini's models, and this move marks a pretty big shift in Apple's strategy. Because before, they were trying to do it themselves, and they've been trying to do it themselves for, you know, four plus years, and they've been promoting this Apple intelligence that hasn't worked, and they faced many lawsuits. So now they essentially said, hey, Google. We need your help.
Jordan Wilson [00:05:37]:
You're really good, and that's what's gonna happen now. So here's some more details on this pretty big partnership. Apple will rely on Google Gemini's AI models to enhance services like Siri, making the first marking the first time that Apple has used Google's AI or foundational technology in its ecosystem. So the partnership was officially announced in a joint statement from both companies promising innovative new experiences for Apple users. Although we've known about this for at least, two months or so. Right? There's a lot of reporting earlier on back and forth. Is it gonna be OpenAI? Is it gonna be Anthropic? Is it gonna be Google? And then we heard, some official reporting two months ago that it was gonna be Google, but now the companies have confirmed this in the joint statement. So this is not Apple's first external AI deal.
Jordan Wilson [00:06:26]:
In June 2024, Apple also partnered with OpenAI to bring chat g p t to its Apple devices as part of the Apple Intelligence suite. So, yeah, they couldn't figure it out in time. So, essentially, if you ask Apple's Apple Intelligence anything, really, it either gave you a normal answer that wasn't really good and didn't really use your data, or it just said, hey. You need CHAGBT for that, and it just kicked you over to CHAGBT. So the financial terms of the Apple Google deal have not been disclosed, but past agreements between the two firms have been valued in the billions of dollars. Regulatory scrutiny is obviously expected here as previous deals between Apple and Google, such as, the deal where Google reportedly pays, tens of billions of dollars of deal, a year to be the default search engine on Apple devices. Well, this one is going to also invite some regulatory scrutiny, in The US, UK, and EU over potential anti competitive practices in market dominance. I don't think it has any teeth though, right, especially when you look at you can make the argument, right, that OpenAI is the number one player.
Jordan Wilson [00:07:35]:
Obviously, OpenAI and Google are going one a and one b. So this is Apple is not even a contender in the AI space. So I don't think this is gonna be viewed as, you know, the two AI giants teaming up, for a monopoly. Not at all because Apple is not in the conversation. Alright. Our next piece of AI news. Yeah. Another big deal worth a lot of billions.
Jordan Wilson [00:07:57]:
That's because OpenAI has struck a computing partnership with Sarabraz Systems valued at over $10,000,000,000. So the multiyear deal, which will run through 2028, gives OpenAI access to Cerabra's specialized wafer scale engine chips aiming to reduce the company's reliance on NVIDIA's GPU for large scale AI training and real world applications. So Cerabra's hardware will be delivered in phases, supporting OpenAI's push to build a more resilient and diversified infrastructure for massive AI workloads. Industry analysts see this as a direct challenge to NVIDIA's dominance in the AI chip market, marking the first time a major AI lab is betting heavily on non NVIDIA alternatives at this scale. The deal also draws attention due to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's personal investment in Sarabras, though the agreement was formalized at the corporate level. Alright. So this I mean, this isn't new for OpenAI. Right? They're striking a lot of different partnerships, with different infrastructure in chip makers just to try to be able to scale things a little more quickly on the compute side.
Jordan Wilson [00:09:09]:
OpenAI has been saying for more than a year that they have different features and models usually ready well ahead of time, but they said that they're not able to, serve those, features due to compute purposes, but maybe that'll change because they made a big switch, obviously with the ads that we're going to be talking about here in a couple of minutes. All right. Speaking of a big change, Google is finally doing something that I've personally wanted, but I don't think most people are going to use, but I think you should. That's because Gemini's new personal intelligence feature is rolling out as a beta, version to Google AI Pro and Google AI Ultra subscribers in The US, promising a more personalized AI experience by securely connecting with users' Google's apps. So now Gemini lets users, be able to link up their Gmail, Google Photos, YouTube, and their search history for tailored AI responses, making it easier to get personal answers about travel plans, purchases, recommendations, or anything going on in your work. So this beta feature is available for personal Google accounts, but not for business, enterprise, or education users. That's the big downside right away. Right? Like, unfortunately, Google does roll things out, sometimes first or sometimes just only, to personal Gmail addresses.
Jordan Wilson [00:10:37]:
Sometimes, you know, these things might get, released to businesses later. So that's the thing I'm a little, on the downer about. Right? So I have this on my personal, you know, Gmail Ultra plan that I have. I really wish I could get this in my work account. That would be amazing. So I might have to do one of those workarounds where I, you know, forward some of my, you know, work stuff to my personal email. I don't know. It gets a little messy.
Jordan Wilson [00:11:02]:
So some more details. Google says that privacy is emphasized. Connecting your apps is optional, and Gemini does not train train directly on your personal data like your Gmail inbox or photo library. So Gemini can reference details from your emails or photos such as pulling up your car's license plate from a photo or suggesting tire options based on past road trips. So the feature works across the web, Android, and iOS, and users can control which apps are connected or disconnected to them at any time. So the rollout starts with US subscribers, but Google plans to expand, access to more countries and eventually free tiers. So I have been trying this out, since it was announced. I did get access to it fairly early.
Jordan Wilson [00:11:48]:
I really like it. And here's the thing. At first, I was a little frustrated because I'm like, you know, it's pulling things from, you know, my email or, you you know, certain history from my Google account that are maybe too far out and no longer relevant. But there is kind of a setting that's a little hidden where it's kind of like a custom instructions, but you can essentially just chat with Google Gemini to update it from anything in your personal intelligence that maybe isn't right or is outdated. So, at first, I was like, there's some things I'm not really feeling, but once I found that not really hidden setting, but kind of hidden setting, I think that it improved a lot. All right. Speaking of Google. Yeah.
Jordan Wilson [00:12:29]:
They're trying to completely change the way that people do shopping and they're starting this new venture by partnering with the world's largest retailer. So here's what's happening. Google is expanding its Gemini AI chatbot with new shopping features, partnering with major retailers like Walmart, Shopify, and Wayfair to turn the app into a virtual merchant and assistant. So here's what that means. Essentially, you will be able to check out in AI mode in the very near future, without even having to visit these websites like Walmart, Wayfair, Shopify, etcetera. So the entire shopping experience is moving on to Google AI mode. My hot take, not that you need it here on the Monday AI news show. I've been saying for a long time that traditional Internet is going to die, and this is another indication of that.
Jordan Wilson [00:13:19]:
Right? You're not even think if if you're a an avid shopper at Walmart or Shopify or Wayfair, think of how much time you probably spend on those websites. I remember, I don't know, looking for some piece of furniture on Wayfair before, And I spent so much time on that website. Right? And these companies obviously make a lot of money because they serve you different ads while you're on their website. They obviously, you know, sell you products, but pretty big change in how, AI and shopping can get done. So the new instant checkout function will let customers buy products from participating retailers directly inside the Gemini chat without needing to visit a separate website. So Walmart customers who link their Walmart and Google accounts will receive personalized recommendations based on their previous purchases and can combine new purchases with their existing Walmart or Sam's Club online carts. Payments will be processed using cards linked to Google accounts at first, but Google plans to add PayPal and other payment providers soon. So this move is part of a broader race among Google OpenAI and Amazon to create seamless AI powered shopping experiences that take users from browsing to buying in a single conversation.
Jordan Wilson [00:14:36]:
Alright. Well, that might change how shopping is done. And our next piece of AI news might change how drug discovery is done. That's because NVIDIA and Eli Lilly have announced a major $1,000,000,000 partnership to open up a cutting edge AI drug discovery lab in the Bay Area, aiming to speed up the development of new medicines with a five year $1,000,000,000 commitment. So the new lab is reportedly gonna be opening by the March and will house teams from both companies working side by side to accelerate drug discovery using AI and high performance computing. So Lily's new, newly built AI factory powered by NVIDIA's DGX SuperPOD and future Vera Rubin Systems is designed to scale up drug research in a hybrid cloud environment. So the initiative centers on generating high quality ground truth data through large scale lab experiments, which will train next generation biology biology foundation models with multimodal data. So the goal is to create a closed loop feedback system, better experiments produce better data, better data improves models, and improved models make, future experiments more targeted and efficient.
Jordan Wilson [00:15:53]:
So the scope extends beyond research and development with plans to apply AI across Lilly's manufacturing and commercial operations, potentially transforming the entire business. So the partnership builds on Lilly's October announcement of creating the most powerful pharma owned AI supercomputer aiming to industrialize drug discovery and development. Alright. And this one, even though the Chad GPT ads is the story that grabbed all the headlines and the chatter, this one from Anthropic might be one of the bigger, I don't know, new AI announcements we've seen in the last year or two. So Anthropic is making headlines with the launch of Claude CoWork, a new AI agent designed to handle everyday computer tasks for nontechnical users. So the move is seen as a major step to just bring AI that works the way we do. So Anthropic has released Claude Cowork as a research preview first for Mac's subscribers, but they actually just rolled it out to the normal $20 a month paid users as well. So here's what Claude CoWork is.
Jordan Wilson [00:17:05]:
It can autonomously manipulate, read, analyze, and create files on a user's computer, making it a hands off assistance for tasks like organizing downloads, converting receipts to spreadsheets, and drafting documents from desktop notes. So unlike the developer focused Claude Code, Cowork CoWork is built for nontechnical users and aims to simplify complex tasks without requiring coding knowledge. Here's the thing that's actually kinda crazy. Anthropic's team said that they built CoWork in just a week and a half, and it was built using Claude Code. So Claude Code built Claude CoWork in a week and a half, which if you go use Claude CoWork, you're like, okay. This is crazy that this was built by AI in a week and a half. So, here's what it is. Strip away the the bullet point features, all the technical terms.
Jordan Wilson [00:17:57]:
If you've ever used Claude Code, it's very good. It's one of the reasons I think, that Infropic's models have continued to, just soar in popularity because their direct connection inside Cloud Code. Right? It's a coding tool, but what Infropic found and what myself and a lot of other people were realizing was people were using Claude Code for non coding reasons. They're like, wait. This thing can control your computer. Yes. That's great if you're trying to code something and, you know, access your local files. But what about if you just want this thing to do work for you? And that's essentially what claw to cowork is.
Jordan Wilson [00:18:35]:
It connects your it can it can control your local computer, your local files, your terminal, etcetera. It can control your local browser as well as controlling anything in the claw in the in the in the, this is hard to say, in the cloud from Claude. That one was hard. I don't know why. In the cloud from anthropic. Right? So any of your skills, your information, right, that you have in Claude, Combine that with its ability to control your desktop, which is huge. Control your browser via a Chrome extension. Right? And you have what I think is the first kind of official foray into the future of work.
Jordan Wilson [00:19:16]:
And this is right now available to only Mac users, and we are doing a show on this on Wednesday, for our working Wednesday. FYI, in full transparency, I had to prerecord the show, because I'm actually on a little, trip right now and feeling a little sick too. Great. You know, you always wanna rest and recharge and then you, you know, don't feel the best. However, I did have to record it right before, they announced that this was coming out to all pro plans as well. So I think in the show, I probably mentioned that you have to be on the $100, $100 a month max plan, which you did. And then an hour after I was done, they rolled it out to everyone. So if you're on a paid plan, and if you have a Mac, because you need Mac because it is a program that you download and it run low it runs on your computer.
Jordan Wilson [00:20:04]:
So you have to have Mac and at least a pro plan, and you can use, Claude CoWorks. So make sure to join us Wednesday as we go over that. Alright. In our last big story at least, OpenAI is bringing ads to ChattGPT, which might sound surprising, but if you listen to this show, I've been saying for many, many months that Chat GPT was rolling out ads. We actually did a pretty, which I thought was a really great show detailing it all, the nine reasons why ads are coming and you can't do anything about it. And people at the time were like, no. This is never happening. And I'm like, yes.
Jordan Wilson [00:20:43]:
It's absolutely happening. And now we get the official word from OpenAI that, yes, it is happening. So OpenAI will begin showing ads to adult users on the free version of chat g p t starting in The US in the coming weeks, making its first official move into digital advertising. So pay subscribers, including plus pro and enterprise users will not see ads keeping their experience ad free. However, there is a new, tier of plan that was first more of a global, plan, offered in other countries called chat g p t go. So this lower price plan, I believe it's, about $8 a month, and they opened up the plan to anyone in the world. So this new paid plan will get ads, which is pretty, pretty significant is if you ask me. So that, newly launched low cost Go subscription will also include ads for users who are on that plan.
Jordan Wilson [00:21:41]:
So ads will appear at the bottom of ChatGPT's answers and will clearly be labeled to avoid any confusion. So it's not like ChatGPT's gonna be trying to tell you something and, it's not gonna be marked as an ad. So it will, at least according to OpenAI and what they release, it will look traditionally like older Google Ads that were very easy to see. Oh, yes. This is an ad, but will appear actually at the bottom of the screen and not at the top like traditional ads may appear in search results. So OpenAI says ads will not influence Chachiki's responses and promises never to sell users' data to advertisers. So users 18 will be shielded from ads, and sensitive topics like politics, health, and mental health, are excluded from ad placements. CEO Sam Ullman previously expressed concerns about ads eroding user trust, but now says the company hopes this business model can work for those that want free AI access.
Jordan Wilson [00:22:39]:
So the move comes as OpenAI faces major spending commitments, including a reported over $1,000,000,000,000 in infrastructure deals signed, in the coming years. So the company is on track to reach a $20,000,000,000 annualized revenue rate, and ads could help meet those ambitious financial goals. So users will be able to learn why they see specific ads. They can dismiss the ads and submit feedback to improve the experience as OpenAI refines the rollout. Here's the thing. I know a lot of people are gonna lose their noodles over this. Right? Because OpenAI has, nearly 800 or sorry, almost 900,000,000 weekly active users right now, but their last reported official number is 800,000,000 weekly active users. And they've said that only 5% of those users are paid.
Jordan Wilson [00:23:31]:
So that means that there is probably more than 700,000,000 people who are using ChatGPT every week on the free plan. And here's the thing. I don't care what you're talking about. If you're not paying for something, usually that means you are the service. Right? Like, eventually, you're gonna have to pay for something in some way, shape, or form. You can even say, oh, well, email's free. Yeah. It is.
Jordan Wilson [00:23:55]:
Right? But a lot of, free email providers over the years have had to monetize. And what that means is, you know, they change their storage, and you used to get generous storage. And now it's like, oh, if you wanna receive an email, essentially, you gotta go delete everything or start paying us every single month. So this to me is not a surprise, and I think it's obviously the right move from OpenAI. They've given away the world's most powerful intelligence in what I think is one of the best form factors. I think Chat JPG has the best user interface, user experience, and it's not really close. And I think most people will agree with that. That's not like a hot take of any sorts.
Jordan Wilson [00:24:36]:
Right? So they have the most users. They have one of the best products. Right? They don't have the best models per se anymore, I don't think. Right? Yes. I think g v t five two pro is the absolute best single model, but it is very slow and time consuming. So that's not what most people are gonna use. So I think when you talk about day to day, like, daily driver models, I think it's still Gemini three pro, and maybe even Claude Opus four five depending on what you're using it for. So OpenAI still has traditionally, they kicked off this generative AI phase.
Jordan Wilson [00:25:10]:
They've offered, an amazing product for free to hundreds of millions of users. And if these free users want to keep using the best product, it costs a lot of money. Right? I've been saying this for a long time. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said on a lot of their paid plans, OpenAI loses money. So, obviously, on the free plans, they lose a ton of money. And just the fact that you could pay $20 a month or nothing and get this level of intelligence is absolutely silly. So I do think that this is the right move, and I'm all on board. Right? I'm a little different, and I've talked about it a lot, over the years on the show.
Jordan Wilson [00:25:48]:
I'm someone that's like, yes, company. Take all my data. I don't care. Take my health data. Take my financial data. Don't really care. Right? As long as it helps me, you know, make better decisions in my life. And as long as at any time I can, you know, kind of click the disconnect or delete button if I have that option.
Jordan Wilson [00:26:05]:
Right? So I do think there's gonna be a a a an uproar. Right? Because as they get this right and as they refine it, they're gonna make some mistakes. Right? There's people are gonna screenshot things that are gonna go viral and look really bad. Like, oh, I can't believe, you know, an ad was showed. Like, this kind of ad was shown in this kind of way, but it is so much different than Google search. Right? And as someone that, right, I've had a marketing agency for eight years, so I've spent millions of dollars managing, ads or sorry. I've managed millions of dollars, in advertising, and it's a much more straightforward that, you know, manage advertising that's keyword based. Right? It's like, oh, when someone is searching for a certain service or product, that's what you're bidding against.
Jordan Wilson [00:26:48]:
This is completely different. Because think of the level of insights that users give to large language models like Chad GPT, and the amount of information that they know about users is huge, and it goes so much further than actual keywords. Alright. So like I said, go listen to the, the chat g p t ads episode. If you want more on that, that was episode six forty one if you wanted to go check that out. Alright. That's it for our main news stories, but there was a ton, my gosh, a ton of other news stories that didn't make our top, top stories cut. So let's go over a quick bullet point rundown of what's new and what's next.
Jordan Wilson [00:27:27]:
These are kind of some of these are rumors. Some of these are just smaller news stories that didn't make the cut. So let's get straight into it. So ChatGPT workspace apps in custom GPTs are rolling out for beta for business users. So, yeah, you'll be able to use apps in your custom GPTs, which is pretty cool. BlackRock raised 12 and a half billion dollars for AI infrastructure fund targeting US data centers. Some hiring drama. So OpenAI rehired Baritz Zoff and Luke Metz, who both left OpenAI to be cofounders at Thinking Machines Lab, but now they are back with OpenAI.
Jordan Wilson [00:28:07]:
Anthropic is testing knowledge bases for Claude Cowork with topic specific persistent memories. Manus AI partnered with SimilarWeb data for paid accounts, which is actually huge y'all. Like, similar web is a treasure trove of data and usually very expensive, and somehow you now are getting certain level of that for free, if you are on a Manus paid account. Google launched v o three one update, so now you have nine by 16 vertical video and four k options for paid plans. OpenAI will be rolling out Chad GPT jobs according to Leaks, a career assistant for job search, resume, and advice. OpenAI invested in Merge Labs brain computer interface company, which, their CEO, Sam Altman, is a cofounder in. OpenAI launched Chad GPT translate to compete directly with Google Translate. Meta launched their meta compute initiative to build the tens of gigawatts of AI infrastructure.
Jordan Wilson [00:29:09]:
Claude added AI health integrations. Google's anti gravity is rolling out agent skills. Some new leaks show that Anthropic is testing new widgets for Claude Webb app, including weather, stocks, sports scores in places with maps. I like that. You know? OpenAI added that in Chachib Tea a couple months ago. Perplexity has had that for a while. Google's been rolling it out, so Anthropic getting on the board there as well. Google released Translate Gemma, their medical model in an open source way that or sorry, not their medical model, their translate model that delivers translation in 55 languages.
Jordan Wilson [00:29:46]:
ChatGPT lost access to WhatsApp after Meta enforced their broad AI usage restrictions. So, yeah, Meta said, yeah, you can't use WhatsApp anymore. Chat g p t. Some new reports show that Anthropic and OpenAI are getting closer to an IPO. Cursors team, this was nuts, detailed how they use GPT five two to build an actual working browser. So if you don't know anything about coding your browsers, that's absolutely insane. This thing was 3,000,000 lines of code, and it was actually a working browser that GPT five two built. Right? Where normal browsers, usually take years and millions of dollars in enormous engineering teams.
Jordan Wilson [00:30:29]:
So, yeah, apparently, Cursor just used g v t five two and got the job done. Microsoft launched an Elevate for educators to help teachers better use AI. A couple OpenAI things, OpenAI improved chat g p t's memory and rolled out a better way to remember past chats. They also released g p t five two codex, enhancing coding abilities for people using those models. They also acquired Torch Health to accelerate chat g p t health, which they announced last week, and health care AI adoption at large. Salesforce launched AI Slackbot for businesses, enterprise customers as well. I think that'll be huge. Right? So many people, often with all the Slack messages coming in.
Jordan Wilson [00:31:15]:
So pretty big, I'd say, for this new AI Slack bot, project. Sorry. Losing my voice here. And then last but not least, Google open source there, MedGemma 1.5, imaging text model, and MedASR, medical transcription AI. Alright. We covered a ton in this AI news that matters. Remember, we do this almost every single Monday, whether I'm working or not. Right? Like like, here I am on vacation bringing it to you.
Jordan Wilson [00:31:44]:
Right. So every single Monday, we do our AI news that matters. Make sure to join us Wednesday for our AI at work. We're gonna be going over Claude Cowork, and we're dropping one or two episodes as well of our new start here series, helping beginners and advanced users double down on AI at the beginning of 2026. I hope this was helpful. If so, tell someone about this. Repost this. If you're listening on LinkedIn, if you're on the podcast, please take, like, thirty seconds.
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Jordan Wilson [00:32:27]:
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