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AI Feature Updates: What Business Leaders Must Know This Week
A fast-changing week in artificial intelligence yielded several tangible advances for business applications, with practical releases from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and major open-source initiatives. These rollouts impact cost strategy, finance workflows, executive learning, social media monitoring, and team-based development. Breaking down the episode’s granular coverage yields actionable intelligence for companies seeking to maintain their edge amid AI’s accelerating update cycles.
Anthropic Model Releases: Evaluating Cost, Performance, and Access
Several points were raised, including the launch of Anthropic’s Sonnet 5 and Fable 5, along with clarification on model tiers and their applicability across workflows. Sonnet 5 now delivers near-Opus 4.8 performance at lower pricing, achieving benchmark performance in the 63% range versus Opus at 69%—with even occasional outperformance in specific tasks. Critical features include a 1 million context window, 128,000 output tokens, adaptive thinking by default, and a modern tokenizer. Notably, Sonnet 5 is now the default even for free users, removing previous access hurdles and democratizing mid-tier capabilities.
For decision makers, this means cost structure changes: Sonnet 5 is available at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output, shifting to $3 and $15 following a promotional period. With subscription limitations on high-tier models like Fable 5 and Mythos 5, Sonnet 5 emerges as the practical default for all but the most intensive enterprise workloads 05:54. Teams should audit current usage tiers and reallocate tasks to Sonnet 5 where feasible, especially for agentic workloads and automations at scale.
Fable 5’s temporary availability (limited to about five days for most users) makes it a short-term trial, not a strategic default—its usage will soon become prohibitively costly for large-scale deployments, potentially reaching hundreds of thousands per month for heavier users 35:18. The presence of aggressive government-mandated classifiers and restrictive export controls further narrows Fable 5’s fit to only the costliest enterprise use cases.
AI Personal Finance Assistants: Secure, Unified Insights via ChatGPT
The discussion explored the rollout of personal finance features in ChatGPT for all Plus subscribers. This allows users to securely connect bank and investment accounts via Plaid, enabling natural language queries on live financial data 14:21. Executives and financial leaders benefit from unified dashboards that aggregate banking, credit, and retirement data without fragmentation across multiple tools or manual spreadsheets.
The integration leverages Plaid’s established security, with no right-access or transfer of full account information—limiting vectors for risk. Data is used solely for read-only contextual insights, bringing secure automation to scenarios including spend analysis, subscription reviews, investment comparison, and scenario planning 17:22. Companies should evaluate this solution not just as a personal tool, but for its potential to reduce spend on other consumer finance platforms. It can absorb the role of Mint and similar apps, folding financial command under one umbrella and saving on redundant SaaS subscriptions 18:59.
Executive Learning: AI-Powered Shortform Video with NotebookLM
One concept discussed was the new 60-second vertical video format from NotebookLM. This innovation generates cinematic, narrated summaries of long-form materials, making dense information accessible on mobile devices and catering directly to time-pressed leaders 10:00. Unlike generic content, videos are auto-generated from user-supplied sources, providing tailored briefings on-demand and supporting on-the-go learning.
Currently rolling out to paid Gemini users in English, this format combines visual engagement with AI-powered summarization. Teams in training, knowledge management, and marketing can leverage these outputs as internal learning modules or external content for social outreach 12:57.
AI Social Monitoring: Direct API Linking Between Twitter (X) and Agentic Tools
A key theme that emerged was the deployment of X (formerly Twitter) Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, enabling direct, secure API access from AI applications such as Claude, Codex, and Cursor 19:53. This step removes the need for custom server builds and manual API integration, collapsing onboarding for social listening, competitive monitoring, threat intelligence, and research workflows.
Costs remain low, and access is gated through developer accounts; the process is straightforward and supports high-frequency or large-scale information gathering from Twitter’s real-time social discourse. This facilitates automated market and trend monitoring, critical for executives in industries where perception and rapid news movements influence strategy 21:42.
Open-Source AI Agents: OpenClaw and Cursor Go Mobile
The discussion detailed new mobile applications for both OpenClaw and Cursor, granting direct remote control of AI agents from iOS and Android devices 23:28. OpenClaw’s app acts strictly as a bridge (not a standalone agent), connecting to existing on-prem or cloud-hosted gateways through a secure QR pairing system. This update enables operational monitoring and communication with agents without reliance on Discord or other third-party messaging solutions.
Cursor’s iOS beta release allows developers to launch, monitor, and manage coding agents or always-on cloud workers from any location. Features include live activity notifications, voice input, screenshot annotation, code review, and pull request merging. For engineering and technical leaders, these capabilities enable continuity on incident response, code reviews, and automation oversight, even when away from primary workstations 27:17.
AI Model Accessibility: Strategic Decision Points for Business Leaders
The conversation focused on resource allocation between tiered AI models, balancing cost, access controls, and performance. The consolidation seen in offerings—like Sonnet 5’s broad availability and NotebookLM’s user-driven briefings—signals a growing trend of accessible, premium-like AI services at modest pricing levels. Meanwhile, upper-tier models like Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are aligning toward select enterprise use, with escalating costs and government scrutiny.
For business leaders, the most valuable immediate deployments center on leveraging mid-tier models (e.g., Sonnet 5), integrated finance tools (ChatGPT Plus), customized social intelligence (Twitter MCP), and mobile AI agent oversight (Cursor, OpenClaw). Early adoption of these offerings—while pricing and access are favorable—will allow organizations to reallocate internal resources, reduce operational friction, and maintain a pace ahead of the next round of AI update cycles.
Topics Covered in This Episode:
- Anthropic Sonnet 5 Model Overview
- Sonnet 5 vs Opus 4.8 Performance
- Anthropic Model Naming Confusion Explained
- Sonnet 5 Pricing and API Cost Analysis
- Sonnet 5 Use Cases for Daily Work
- NotebookLM 60-Second AI Video Generation
- NotebookLM Cinematic Video Format Review
- ChatGPT Finance Feature: Plaid Integration
- ChatGPT Finance Rollout and Security Details
- Twitter/X MCP Model Context Protocol Launch
- MCP API Access for AI Agents Explained
- OpenClaw iOS and Android App Launch
- OpenClaw Mobile Bridge Setup and Usage
- Cursor iOS App for AI Code Agents
- Cursor Cloud Agents and Mobile Notifications
- Anthropic Fable 5 Limited-Time Availability
- Fable 5 Cost Structure and Guardrails
- Anthropic Frontier Models and US Regulations
Episode Transcript
Jordan Wilson [00:00:17]:
What a wild few days in AI. I mean, we got not only one, but two new AI models from Anthropic, although one was technically older and it's going to be pretty much gone in like 100 hours. But who's counting? Anyways, so Fable 5 and Sonnet 5 should be on your testing list this holiday weekend. Oh, and you remember that whole open claw thing that was the most popular open source software ever? Well, they had one quiet update this week that makes it probably like five times more useful than before. And do we finally have high quality educational brain rot videos? Is that a thing? A lot happening in AI this week. That's why we have our Friday features. Well, this time coming to you on Thursday because we have the extended holiday weekend in the US So Everyday AI will be taking a break on Friday, but we'll be back on Monday. But long story short is we have our Friday features here on Thursday.
Jordan Wilson [00:01:20]:
So on today's show, here's what you're going to learn. You're going to know why Anthropic's most important update this week might not actually be Fable 5. You're going to know how your iPhone can now control unlimited AI models with multiple big releases. And you'll know the new AI video doom scrolling format that will actually help you learn things and make you smarter. Yay. Brain rot that we can all actually enjoy. All right, let's get into it. Welcome to Everyday AI.
Jordan Wilson [00:01:48]:
If you're new here, my name is Jordan Wilson and we do this every day. It's your unedited, unscripted live stream, podcast and free daily newsletter helping everyday business leaders like you and me not just keep up with all this AI craziness. But I tell you what matters, what doesn't. And you use that information like you're the smartest person in AI. Because that's what you are if you listen and read every single day. So make sure if you haven't already, please subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts or on Spotify and sign up for the free daily newsletter at your everyday AI dot com. Each day we recap the highlights from today's episode as well as all of the other AI news and developments you need to know to stay ahead. All right, so like I said, just FYI, normally, this is our Friday AI features.
Jordan Wilson [00:02:29]:
This is where I tell you, here's AI you can actually use today because so much of everything else that's happening in the AI world, it's, you know, drama and the stock market and jobs and rumors. So on Fridays, I say, nope, here's the things you can actually go use this minute. So yeah, normally Fridays, but Thursdays, you get it. All right, but let's get straight to it and we'll start with Anthropic's Sonnet 5. So this is Anthropic's most agentic Sonnet model yet, which was released this week. And according to benchmarks, it performs pretty close to Opus 4.8 at a lower cost. So it's about, on some benchmarks, it's about 63ish percent versus you opus 69%. So, you know, pretty high compared to Opus in terms of benchmarks.
Jordan Wilson [00:03:28]:
So some it's even ahead of Opus. So you could kind of think of this as like a maybe a Sonnet 4.8, but it's Sonnet 5 kind of confusing because now we have multiple tiers of models from Anthropic, all on different levels, because you still have poor Haiku, this fastest but least intelligent model that's on 45. And then you have Opus, which used to be the most powerful, but now it's second in line on 48. And then you have what used to be the middle model, which is now the second in Sonnet on five. And then you have Fable five. So in order. Yeah, if you're confused, all these new naming systems, right. We have all the new stuff from OpenAI, you have soul Tera Luna.
Jordan Wilson [00:04:14]:
Right. So here we're going to go in order. I'm going to tell you the models. So Anthropic, from the least powerful to the most powerful. We have Haiku 4.5, then we have Sonnet 5, then we have Opus 4.8, then we technically have Fable 5, Mythos 5, kind of the same models, one without guard rails, one with. So, all right, so let's talk about what makes Sonnet 5 good. So 1 million contacts win, right. That kind of seems to be the norm now.
Jordan Wilson [00:04:45]:
And that includes 128,000 tokens on the output. It has adaptive thinking on by default and a new tokenizer built in. So this is available for everyone. And when I say everyone, even if you're on the free plan, which is good. So, you know, a lot of times on a free plan you're getting a less powerful model. And it's one of the most common misconceptions in AI. Right. I've literally, I don't see it as much in 2026.
Jordan Wilson [00:05:13]:
But last year I would still see like literally Fortune 500 level enterprise executives leading AI strategy. And they would log into a free, you know, chat GBT or a free Gemini or a free Anthropic account and they would be testing things that way, which is the worst thing to do, by the way. But it's good now that Anthropic is upping their default free model to something on the five tier. It is a really good model. I've actually really enjoyed using Sonnet 5 more so than Opus and maybe even Fable. We'll get to that here in a little bit. So here's why it's useful. Well, you have Opus level agentic performance at Sonnet pricing.
Jordan Wilson [00:05:54]:
So the pricing, if you are paying on the API side, there's kind of this, you know, discount pricing for a couple of weeks. So it's $2 per million in, $10 per million out, then it goes up to $3, $15. So if you are paying the bill, so to speak. Right. So if you're not on subscription, if your company is using, you know, Anthropics models on the API side, Sonnet might actually be a good, like delegator model. Because with how freaking expensive the Mythos tier models are with mythos 5 and fable 5, you know, can't be using those things for everything. Right. I'm even having to, you know, shift my own usage just on the subscription plan because you can't run, you know, Fable five for everything.
Jordan Wilson [00:06:43]:
Yes, it's out. It's only a limited time, but you know, you can't. So you do have to make smart decisions whether you're on a subscription using Anthropic or you're on the API side. And I've really liked Sonnet so far. So it's cheaper than, you know, Opus 48 with similar ish, you know, similar ish performance. So I would slot it just below opus 4.8 GPT, 55 Gemini 31 Gemini 35 flash. So it's, it's kind of that tier below, but it's lower. You know, Anthropic says lower sick infancy, lower hallucination rates, all those good things.
Jordan Wilson [00:07:19]:
So who's gonna find this valuable? I mean, if you want a daily driver bottle you can afford to use in Anthropic, it is going to be much better. You know, if you are on a 20 plan, a team plan, a 200 max plan that I'm on, you can't really use the big model much. Right. The Fable 5 and it's going to be gone in a couple days anyways. So this is a great, I think everyday driver and it's probably even if you are comfortable using Opus 4.8, I'm sure we'll see an Opus 5 in the next, you know, I don't know, three to six weeks, something like that, depending on if it gets held up by the US government. But it might just be a good standard practice moving forward for anthropic models to get used to using Sonnet. Right. For I think for the majority of knowledge workers out there, I'm not talking about software developers, you know, people running extremely heavy agentic workloads, but for everyday usage, this SONET 5 I think could become a de facto driver.
Jordan Wilson [00:08:19]:
I do think in the same way how you know, we are unfortunately in this new era of AI where large language models are no longer democratized. Right it not everyone in the world is going to have pretty much unlimited use of the best models like we've had up until, you know, June 2025. So you know, we might have to also start shifting our usage accordingly. That's why I think Sonnet 5 is a great model. So who's going to find it valuable? So yeah, defin ops teams running agents at scale because it is good for a lot of those low lower hanging fruit agentic tasks, long running tasks and then also like I said, cost conscious API buyers. So if you want that more Opus class performance but without the opus pricing, there you go. Or if you didn't win the lottery and can't afford Fable, then you know, Sonnet is going to be your go to. All right, let's keep it going.
Jordan Wilson [00:09:12]:
Next. Yeah, Brain Rotic could actually be good for you. This isn't really brain rot. And and, and FYI I am not a fan of of scrolling vertical videos. You know when Obit AI came out with their sora I'm like no, this is terrible, please, you know I don't want this. You know I'm actually glad they killed it off this one with Notebook lm. This might be doom scrolling that I will actually start to do. That's because Notebook LM has a new video format.
Jordan Wilson [00:09:41]:
It is, yes, vertical video, 60 second and they're really good. All right, so this is a new studio output in Notebook LM a 60 second vertical video generated from your uploaded sources with narrated explanations and animations. So this was just announced like a couple hours ago alongside the new and powered by the new Nano Banana 2 light which does power the visuals inside of this new 60 second vertical video format. So it is a shorter vertical sibling to Notebook LM's existing cinematic video overview. So that's the big difference here. So you've inside of Notebook LM with their video generations, they've always had the video generations, which are really, really good by the way. But they upgraded using their, you know, VO or I guess now Omni technology. You know, this cinematic level of video.
Jordan Wilson [00:10:41]:
So think the normal video overviews great, you know, but there's really not that cinematic feel. So this is the cinematic feel of the videos, but just short 60 second vertical. So obviously made for learning on the go. So I am someone I am not like on any kind of vertical video social media, I don't do it. I refuse to. That's why like when I'm looking at this, it's like I almost don't want to. But I've wanted something like this for a very long time. So I might actually finally be a short form vertical video consumer.
Jordan Wilson [00:11:17]:
So who has access right now? If you are a paid user, you should have access. So they did already start the rollout. I think I got access to this on some of my paid accounts, but not all of my paid accounts on Gemini. So if you are a Gemini paid user, it should, you either have it now or it should be rolling out. So it is starting with users in English and then it is rolling out to others in the coming weeks. So mobile and non English rollout status isn't confirmed yet. So why is it useful? Well, it turns all your long source material inside of NotebookLM into these really cinematic, fun and engaging, you know, short 60 second videos. So Notebook LM, I cannot stop gushing about it, right? As much as I, as I love Codex, as much as I, you know, use Claude Desktop and all these other programs, Notebook LM is still one of my go tos, right? One of my most used skills inside of Codex is having it make Notebook LM generations for me.
Jordan Wilson [00:12:26]:
So I can just wake up, open the app on my phone if I'm out touching grass, taking a walk. I have literally so many, you know, usually audio, audio overviews, but sometimes video overviews as well. Just bespoke with all the most pinpoint specific information I need to know for my day to learn different things. So it's great. So who's going to find this valuable? I think any obviously Notebook online power user. If you're an educator, a student, a student of life, if you're trying to learn something new, this is great. But also this is good content for social team. So if you're a marketer, I mean, these cinematic videos are amazing.
Jordan Wilson [00:13:06]:
I'm actually surprised when they were first announced, they didn't like go more viral than they actually did. I think one of the reasons, which is a rollout strategy I've never quite understood, is they limited this to Ultra subscribers when cinematic videos first rolled out. So this is cool that the 60 second versions, if you are on a normal paid Gemini plan, you should have access to this. All right, let's keep it going. Yeah. Now you have a new financial assistant in your pocket. So our next Friday feature on Thursday is the Chat GPT finance app that has now rolled out two plus users. Yeah, speaking of that rollout strategy, same thing here.
Jordan Wilson [00:13:54]:
This is technically something that came out to pro users on the $200 a month plan a couple of weeks ago. I don't think we really covered it much because I tend to not cover things if they are only on that, you know, pricey 200 tier. I try to stick to things that are just on the base paid plans because I think that's what the overwhelming majority of, you know, our listeners are on. So what is the Chat GPT Finance? So this is built into Chat GBT and it's OpenAI's personal finance feature that connects your bank and investment accounts via Plaid, and then you can ask for finance questions grounded in real account data. So this was originally launched, like I said, mid May, but it was Pro only. But now it is available in live to anyone. If you are on that $20 a month plan, you've got it now in the US so the original Pro launch covered web and iOS. I'm not sure if Android is out.
Jordan Wilson [00:14:56]:
So yeah, make sure to check in the newsletter for that and we'll let you know. Uh, so it is us only, like I said, and here's why I think it's useful. Well, you can just make your financial use of Chat GPT way faster and way more personalized. A couple things to keep in mind because I probably hear what a lot of people are saying. Oh my gosh, I would never connect my financial data to any AI assistant. Any AI account, right? So it's connected through Plaid and Plaid is one of the most trusted, you know, names in finance around. So you. It's not like you're signing up for an unknown, you know, platform or bringing in, you know, let's just say you have a couple retirement accounts, couple bank accounts, couple credit cards.
Jordan Wilson [00:15:43]:
It's not like you're bringing in, you know, 5, 6, 7, 12 separate entities into Chat GBT and giving them all different permissions and you have to monitor them all. It's not like that. It just connects through Plaid. So it's already coming in through a trusted name. You know, according to OpenAI, there's, you know, data they just can't see, right? They can't see your full account numbers. There is no right access. That's the big thing, right? So it's not going to make any changes. So it can only read the information, it doesn't know your full account access and it is all secure through Plaid.
Jordan Wilson [00:16:17]:
So here is what OpenAI said about it. They said today we're releasing, and this is from, you know, the original release, but they said today we're releasing a preview of a new personal finance experience in Chat GPT to pro users now out to everyone. Now you can securely connect your financial accounts, see a dashboard of where your money is going and ask ChatGPT questions grounded in your financial context, all while staying in control of your data. So they say money, money touches nearly every part of life. Where we live, what decisions we make, how we care for our loved ones, what future we might imagine. But managing finances today often means piecing together accounts, apps, cards, loans and spreadsheets just to know where things stand. Then they say with your financial apps accounts connected, ChatGPT can combine that reasoning with your financial, with your real financial context and what you've shared about your goals, lifestyle and priorities, helping you spot patterns, understand trade offs and plan for big decisions in a way that feels more personal and complete. So yeah, whether you're trying to plan, you know, goals on your spending, travel, spend analysis you're spending, insight, scenario planning, investment risk, subscription reviews, whatever it is.
Jordan Wilson [00:17:35]:
So anything that you do give ChatGPT access to inside of Plaid, it can pull all of that information in. So not only can you interact with all of your finances in natural language, which is a big cheat code in and of itself, right? Because a lot of these applications do not have, I mean, many of them do, but not all of them have reasoning AI, right? You might be able to pull a certain number and ask it, you know, what was my balance last month in this account, right? But many of them do not have AI that can reason over all of this data. So not only that, the ability to have a powerful reasoning model like GPT 5.5, but also that it can marry all of your other contexts, right? So your memory inside of Chat GBT and your chat history. So when you can throw those things, those three things together, a reasoning model, well Four things. You know, a reasoning model, you know, your bank accounts, your, you know, all your financial accounts, then your chat history, memory, that's, that's a huge unlock. So who's going to find this valuable? Well, I mean, I think this is big consumer play, right? If, if you've ever been a user of like a mint.com, right, there's these popular, you know, personal finance apps, but like, let me just call it out, a lot of them cost money, right? I think that OpenAI is going to start winning and retaining a lot of consumer users just by replacing other subscriptions that people just used to pay for. You know, as an example, I used to buy pay for Mint, and then it got to the point I'm like, you know, why am I still paying for this? You know, and now it's like, okay, well this is going to be included in my subscription anyways. And it does bring in all of the other personal context that, you know, chat GPT has on me, which I'm going to love.
Jordan Wilson [00:19:28]:
All right, our next one, this one might sound small, but I want you to think about what it unlocks, especially if you are a power Twitter user like me, right? This is where I get a lot of my, you know, AI information. I follow the discourse of what's happening, you know, online, you know, in the AI space, mainly on Twitter, because that's where a lot of people are conversing about these things. So Axe, formerly known as Twitter, I still call it Twitter, launched their official MCP model context protocol server, letting all different AI tools connect directly to the X API. So this is big. So this is live right now. So, you know, whether you want to, you know, go through Twitter, if you have a bajillion bookmarks like I do now, you, you do have to load money into the, into the X account. So this isn't something that's free, but it looks extremely affordable and cheap. And I'm going to tell you the, the reason why I think that.
Jordan Wilson [00:20:35]:
So you do have to, you know, go through that step. So it's like, oh, bummer, you know, you might spend a couple dollars a month if you're a heavy user. So you do have to go through sign up for the X developer portal, you know, go through all that hoops and all that. But then at that point, I mean, whether you're a Claude user cursor, you know, if you're one of the 10 people using Grok Build, you know, Codex, whatever, you know, anywhere that MCPS are supported, which is essentially everywhere, you can now Scroll X and grab important information from there. So here is what was said in a Tech Crunch article on this. So it says this allows developers to save time spent on integration work to focus on whatever they're actually building. So yeah, obviously if you're trying to build something, this is helpful as well. So it says developers have long been able to search X, read posts, look up users, analyze conversations and trends, and do more using the platform's API.
Jordan Wilson [00:21:35]:
The hosted MCP doesn't add new capabilities on that front. It just makes them easier to expose to AI applications. So by doing so, X can position itself as an information network filled with real time data to retrieve and analyze, rather than just a social hangout. So for me, this is big. So why is it useful? Well, it removes the work that developers used to have to do themselves. So because you used to have to build a custom MCP server, host it, wire it to the xapi, all that stuff, now you can set up an MCP server in like a minute, right? You can literally just give the URL, you know, once you go through and sign up for the developer account and authorize it, you just give the URL to Codex or you know, Claude code and it does it all for you. So if you're a developer, if you're a developer, you know you're going to find this valuable if you're building social listening tools, competitive monitoring research tools, you know, security researchers, threat intelligence analysts. Right.
Jordan Wilson [00:22:34]:
Essentially, if you spend time for your job on Twitter, right, following different conversations, what's happening in your industry, how are people reacting to certain things? And you are also a user of something like, you know, Claude on the desktop, codex, etc. Bring those two things together. I do spend a lot of time on Twitter. Every single day I'm bookmarking so many things. So this is one I'm actually excited for because I'll spend way less time on Twitter and I'm just going to have Codex go through and do all those things for me. So pretty exciting one there. Speaking of things you can hand off to others. Well now, Open Claw, yes, you can talk with your open clause without having to go onto Discord or Telegram or whatever it is.
Jordan Wilson [00:23:23]:
So yeah, now your Open Claw is accessible on your phone. That's because OpenClaw, the open source personal AI agent project, launched its first official native mobile app for iOS and Android. So it is free on the Apple App Store and Google Play. You obviously, FYI, this is just a bridge, this is a remote, right? So it's not like you can Skip the whole Open Claw setup, which can be a little cumbersome. And you. It is a lot of maintenance to keep it up and working. I barely use OpenClaw anymore because in my opinion Codex can do just about everything. I even text my Codex.
Jordan Wilson [00:24:09]:
So anyways. But if you are a heavy openclaw user, whether it's personally or your organization, I think this is a great new feature. So. So it is, like I said, it's not a standalone, it's just a companion node that pairs with your posted OpenCloud Gateway, wherever that is. Right. So most people are using an actual dedicated machine or if you're using a cloud server, whatever it is. And pairing is pretty easy. It's just a QR code and then you set it up once and then the gateway is running.
Jordan Wilson [00:24:40]:
So this is great because then you can monitor your Open Claw activities without having to sit down in front of a computer or, you know, I think what a lot of people were doing is they would just download like, you know, Discord and then hook it up through Discord or all these other, you know, third party messaging platforms. So now you don't have to do this anymore and you have a dedicated app that can do that for you. So who's going to find this valuable? Well, like I said, if you're already an OpenClaw user or if you were on the Open Claw fence, and one of the biggest setbacks is, well, you wanted a way to be able to, you know, check in on something locally because that's the reality. Right. Openclaw is great. And the fact that you can say, oh, I have a, you know, computer running somewhere 24 7. Right. Like, I do a lot of my work in my home office, but I have an actual office in Chicago as well.
Jordan Wilson [00:25:29]:
And that's where I had my Open Claw. And if I'm being honest, I'm like, well, if I'm only in the office once or twice a week, it's like, do I really want to be, you know, going in and you know, using Discord, which I don't really use anymore. Right. Since mid Journey no longer required it like a year or so ago, I don't really use Discord. So it's like, do I want to be using another app just to be messaging? You know, it's another communication channel that I just didn't want to take on. So maybe this might, you know, get me to, you know, re engage my Open Claw. Probably not, because I'm plenty happy right now with Codex and with Claude code. But if this is something that you want to see more coverage on.
Jordan Wilson [00:26:08]:
Let me know in the comments and maybe we'll do something a little more dedicated. And the thing that a lot of people are wondering is like how the heck did this make it onto the Apple App Store? Because they are extremely strict on allowing anything agentic. But the reason why is because, well, none of this is actually stored on your iPhone. The iPhone is just a bridge and all of the data lives on your actual machine. So yeah, no, according to OpenClaw and a lot of the reporting, you know, none of the data actually lives on your phone. So it is literally just a bridge or remote control to see what's going on and to be able to communicate with your clause in real time. All right, two more and we'll make these ones quick even though they're bigger ones. All right, next we have Cursor released an iOS app.
Jordan Wilson [00:26:59]:
Yeah, like I said, the phones were getting all the love this week. So here's what's new. Cursor launched its first native iPhone and iPad app in public beta and it is available now. So this lets developers launch and monitor AI coding agents from their phone as well as their new popular always on cloud agents or just remote control of agents already running on their new computer. So who has access? Well, it's live now, it's in public beta on the App Store and it is gated right now obviously to paid cursor plan. So you have to have a paid cursor plan for this to work. So why is it useful? Well, you can kick off or check agent work without keeping your laptop open. Right.
Jordan Wilson [00:27:43]:
So no more walking around with your laptop half a jar like I used to do back in February with codecs. So now you can just have it all running from your phone. So this uses the iOS live activities and push notifications so you're pulled back in when you want to when an agent finish hits a blocker or if it has a PR ready. It does also support voice input, screenshot annotation as well as full diff review and PR merge from your phone. So here's who I think is going to find it useful and valuable. I think software engineers, obviously teams who are already using Cursor if you're an on call person who needs to triage or fix issues away from your primary machine if you want to go outside and touch grass. Right. Or teams wanting a lightweight way to Review and Merge AI generated PRs without being at the desk.
Jordan Wilson [00:28:37]:
So here is what Cursor says Cursor in their blog post Said Cursor is now available as a native iOS app in public beta, so you can build from anywhere. Until now, developers have worked around the limits of their local machines, keeping laptops half open and caffeinated everywhere they go. Yeah, that one's fun because there's obviously a popular program called Caffeine that keeps your laptop awake even when it's closed. That's the joke there. With cursor for iOS, you can launch always on agents in the cloud or control control agents running on your computer from your phone. Kick them off when ideas strike, get notified when work is ready for Review and merge PRs on the go. Whether your agents are running on your machine or in the cloud, you can move work forward from wherever you are. So this really thrusts Cursor, I think, into serious consideration in the super app race.
Jordan Wilson [00:29:33]:
Right? I think we're going to be talking about the super apps a lot more come like September. We should be hearing from OpenAI AI any day on their super app. You know, Microsoft, you know, alluded to their super app at the Build conference in San Francisco a few weeks ago. So, yes, Cursor, I think between the SpaceX AI acquisition, so the fact that they essentially have like unlimited Compute now, number one, the fact that their last model they made, Composer 2.5, was actually really good and cost efficient. So you throw in those two things with now I think they have a top two harness next to Codex. So the combination of a very good desktop app and now Maybe the best iOS control pane right inside of ChatGPT has a great remote control for codecs. But I think the Cursor might be a little bit ahead, mainly because you can start, you know, new threads, then pick them up on your computer, start new cloud agents. So there are a couple of dedicated, a couple of, of small advantages right now.
Jordan Wilson [00:30:40]:
I would say that Cursor has over Codex, slash ChatGPT when it comes to managing your local machine from your phone. All right, and then last but not least, the technically the biggest story of, I don't know, the last month or so. Well, anthropics, Fable 5 is back. Yay, right? Nah, probably not. All right, so I would say the overwhelming majority of our listeners are people who are on subscriptions, so don't get too excited on this because it's going to be gone in like a hundred hours and then you're going to have to pay for it out of pocket. So. But we've covered Fable 5 plenty. But let me just give you the update and, well, you can use it now.
Jordan Wilson [00:31:28]:
And you absolutely should, because it is going to be gone in about five days. So you should be using your higher weak limits immediately to see if this is something that you are going to pay those actual bills for. So here is the newest update. So it said, as of today, June 30, the export controls on Fable 5 and Mythos 5 have been listed. Fable 5 will be available starting tomorrow. So this was from yesterday's. No. Yeah, yesterday's blog post.
Jordan Wilson [00:32:03]:
So available. No. Two days ago, it said, Fable 5 will be available starting Wednesday, July 1st to users globally on the Claude platform. Claude AI, Claude Code, and Claude cowork. And then it says for Pro Max Team and select enterprise plans, Fable 5 will be included for up to 50% of weekly usage limits through July 7, after which it will be available via usage credits. All right? And yeah, so essentially here, let me just tell you what happened, right? There's all this. This drama that's been going on for the last two and a half weeks. You know, Mytho Anthropic has been hyping, you know, Mythos and the Project Glasswing project since April, saying it was a bioweapon, you know, essentially begging the federal government to, you know, control AI.
Jordan Wilson [00:32:57]:
They said, we need to pause AI. So they got what they wanted, you know, and now Frontier models are going through a delayed process to essentially get approved from the government. Right. OpenAI had a limited rollout of their GPT 5.6 new models that are only available to trusted partners right now. So that's what started with Mythos and Fable 5. So Fable 5 is essentially Mythos 5 with added guardrails. So we got it for three days. It was pulled for two weeks.
Jordan Wilson [00:33:28]:
Now it's back. But for the majority of our listeners, if you're on a Claudette subscription plan, you're only going to have it for about five days. So that's a big bummer. And there's essentially this thing called classifiers, and this is something that they put in guardrails to satisfy some of the US Government's requests, that this wouldn't be used in nefarious ways. Right. But they are extremely overbearing. Right. Anthropic even said in their post, to their credit, that the these are gonna take a bunch of prompts to Fable and they're gonna say, nope, you can't do it, and they're gonna send it to opus 4.8.
Jordan Wilson [00:34:09]:
So so far, it seems like a lot of people are sour on Fable 5. I'll say, just use it for what you can Use it while it's there and see if it's gonna be worth the price of admission. All right, so for just comparison here, let me just throw out a number work. So yes, I'm a heavy is AI user, right? So inside of Codex I use about 2 1/2 billion tokens a week. So we'll say that's about 10 billion tokens a month. Okay. And there's people who use way more. Right? Because I'm not a coder.
Jordan Wilson [00:34:43]:
Yes. I'm building projects. I have automations and loops and all that good stuff. Right. But there's plenty of people in your organization that you're listening to who go through way more than 10 billion tokens. So if I'm paying for that via Fable 5, right, I'm paying 200amonth to do my, you know, roughly 10 billion tokens, like I said, give or take on Kodak's GPT 5.5 high. If I'm paying for that on Fable, because in five days that's the only way you can use it. That's roughly depending on the blend of, you know, input output, it's about $200,000 a month.
Jordan Wilson [00:35:27]:
Are people going to pay that? Yes. Is everyone going to pay that? Probably not. So like I said, I think you're going to have to get used to the new Sonnet 5 model, which I really like. I'm sure that we'll see an Opus 5 model pretty soon. But go play with Opus. You know, for large organizations, you know, that have monopoly money, maybe Fable 5 is something you'll be able to use in the long run. But I think for most people, go have fun with it. You got five days.
Jordan Wilson [00:35:56]:
See what happens. All right, so that is a wrap on our AI features on Friday. On Thursday. I hope this one was helpful. As a quick rundown. Here's what it is, Claude. Sonnet 5 is out. It's good.
Jordan Wilson [00:36:11]:
I like it. NotebookLM Short video overviews. Cinematic brain rot that helps you learn. Not actually brain rot, it's really good. Then you have the new chat GPT Finance for all plus users. You have the X slash Twitter hosted MCP server. So essentially I would have my agents doing computer use for that, which took way too long and a lot of tokens. So maybe my token count's going to go down.
Jordan Wilson [00:36:40]:
Then we had Open Claw coming out with apps for iOS and Android, cursor coming out with their iOS app. And then last but not least, Claude, Fable 5 is back, but not for long. All right, if this was helpful, do me a favor. Click that subscribe or Follow button on Apple Podcast Spotify. I'd appreciate that. Make sure you go to your everydayai.com as a reminder, the show and the newsletter will be off tomorrow. Happy early 4th of July. Yeah, we have the observed holiday this Friday, so I'll see you back Monday.
Jordan Wilson [00:37:15]:
Thanks for tuning in. We'll see you back then and every day for more Everyday AI. Thanks, y'.