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Ep 626: ChatGPT’s new Agent Builder, Apps and 5 BIG takeaways you probably missed
Inside ChatGPT's new Agent builder, Deloitte in hot water after AI missteps, AI bubble fears on circular funding trends, IBM and Anthropic team up and more.
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Today in Everyday AI
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🎙 Daily Podcast Episode: Agents, agents, agents. Don’t have 90 minutes to catch up on OpenAI’s huge Dev Day releases? We cut it to you straight in a third of the time. Give it a watch/read/listen.
🕵️♂️ Fresh Finds: Mr. Beast says AI means scary times ahead, Microsoft reveals how C-suite execs use Copilot, why agentic browsers could be a nightmare and more. Read on for Fresh Finds.
🗞 Byte Sized Daily AI News: Deloitte in hot water after AI missteps, AI bubble fears on circular funding trends, IBM and Anthropic team up and more. Read on for Byte Sized News.
💪 Leverage AI: OpenAI released a TON of huge AI updates for both agents and ChatGPT. How will it shape how we work? Keep reading for that!
↩️ Don’t miss out: Did you miss our last newsletter? We talked about OpenAI releases AgentKit, ChatGPT bringing apps to platform, new upgrades to OpenAI API and more. Check it here!
Ep 626: ChatGPT’s new Agent Builder, Apps and 5 BIG takeaways you probably missed
Will this be the AI update that finally brings AI agents to millions? 🤔
Probably.
OpenAI had a straight up feast of AI drops at its Dev Day conference, but one of the biggest was its drag-and-drop agent builder.
Oh, and literally bringing entire website experiences into ChatGPT via apps.
Don't miss this one.
Also on the pod today:
• Drag-and-drop agent builder! 🛠️
• ChatGPT now runs apps 📱
• Sora 2 video API unleashed 🎬
It’ll be worth your 34 minutes:
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Here’s our favorite AI finds from across the web:
New AI Tool Spotlight – Orchestra is an AI-powered platform managing chat and projects, Lessie AI is an AI-powered people search engine, Pulse mixes AI with scheduling and notes to help you focus,
AI and Creators — Why Mr. Beast says AI means ‘scary times’ ahead.
Dangers of AI — A former OpenAI staffer warns “AI psychosis” is real, sharing chat logs where ChatGPT allegedly misled a user and couldn’t trigger human review
AI Video — Dozens of AI video platforms have already integrated with Sora 2 via the API, including Higgsfield.
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Sora 2 Video — Mattel is testing OpenAI’s new Sora 2 video model to turn toy sketches into shareable concept clips. Is this the future of R&D?
AI and Big Tech — Some are sounding the alarm on Big Tech and AI, saying a breakup is in order.
AI Usage — Microsoft shared an in-depth report on how C-Suite execs are using its Copilot AI products.
Agentic Browsers — Yeah, we all want them. But here’s why they make the internet riskier.
1.Deloitte Partially Refunds AI-Flawed Government Report 📜
According to the Associated Press, Deloitte Australia will repay part of the AU$440,000 fee after its welfare IT review for the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations was found to include apparent AI-generated errors like a fabricated judge’s quote and citations to nonexistent papers.
A revised version published Friday disclosed Azure OpenAI was used, removed bogus references and kept the report’s recommendations intact, though a Sydney University researcher said he found up to 20 errors. The episode spotlights a timely risk for organizations that are operationalizing generative tools without rigorous verification, underscoring that accuracy and source-checking are non-negotiable in legal and compliance audits.
2. AI app integrations jolt select tech stocks after Dev Day features 📈
Following OpenAI’s developer day reveal of its Apps SDK that lets services like Figma and Spotify run inside ChatGPT, several launch partners rallied, according to MarketWatch.
Figma was the standout, spiking as much as 16.4% intraday before closing up 7.4%, while Spotify, Coursera and Expedia also gained, even as Booking Holdings and Zillow slipped despite involvement. The market reaction signals investors are betting that AI integrations can boost distribution and engagement for established software names rather than replace them outright.
3.AI bubble worries rise as the circle funding increases ⭕
According to NBC News, OpenAI’s new chip deal with AMD alongside Nvidia’s pledged investment of up to $100 billion underscores a tight loop of money and compute flowing among a few giants, including Oracle, CoreWeave and SoftBank.
Analysts say these related-party ties could inflate valuations and magnify risk if promised productivity gains take longer to materialize, drawing comparisons to pre-2000 dot-com dynamics. The near-term race to build massive data centers and secure chips keeps stock momentum hot while hinging on huge future revenues to cover mounting obligations.
4. OpenAI’s hush-hush AI gadget hits speed bumps 🚧
According to the Financial Times, the secretive AI hardware project led by Jony Ive and OpenAI is facing new delays as the team wrestles with three core issues: scarce compute, always-on privacy concerns, and crafting a useful, non-annoying personality.
Sam Altman and Ive hinted at a “family of devices” with 15 to 20 promising ideas, yet confirmed it’s not a phone or glasses, signaling a new form factor that could reshape how we interact with AI. This slowdown matters because reliable on-device AI will hinge on both infrastructure and trust, and until those are solved, everyday professionals and builders may need to stick with software and wearables that already fit into their workflows.
5. IBM stock pops on new Anthropic partnership 🤝
According to Investor’s Business Daily, IBM is integrating Anthropic’s Claude into its software and releasing an AI agent guide ahead of TechXchange, and the stock jumped nearly 5% in premarket trading.
The move underscores IBM’s push to make agent-based automation standard in enterprise tools, keeping pace with Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle and Salesforce. By emphasizing Watsonx Orchestrate and task-completing agents, IBM is signaling a shift from chatbots to real workflow execution inside mainstream stacks.
🦾How You Can Leverage:
Drag some boxes. Connect a model. Deploy to your website. And like that, you have an OpenAI-powered agent legit solving problems on your website or app.
Boomdone.
We covered OpenAI's entire Dev Day announcement on Everyday AI, and the carnage was immediate. Hundreds of AI startups that were charging 50 to 200 bucks monthly to provide this exact capability might now be left scratching their collective heads.
Sam Altman stood on stage and kinda wiped them out. And also may have redefined how we all work in the future.
Your competitors will spend weeks parsing updates while you're automating Monday workflows after you catch today’s show.
Time to capitalize shorties.
1 – No-Code Agent Builder Destroys Startups 🔥
OpenAI released AgentKit with a visual interface that makes building AI agents stupid simple. Platform.openai.com. Five minutes to set up.
The devastating part? OpenAI's engineering teams reportedly complete 70% more pull requests weekly using these exact tools.
They're not selling theory. They're showing production receipts from the company building the most advanced AI on the planet.
Meanwhile, hundreds of AI automation startups were charging monthly fees to wrap OpenAI's SDK with prettier interfaces.
(This is also why we don’t bring on the hundreds of ‘AI agent builders’ on the show that pitch to us. Good chance they won’t make it.)
Select models like GPT-5 Pro. Drag nodes. Connect data sources. Deploy to your website. The templates make starting effortless. OpenAI just made the eight billion dollar automation industry accessible without developers while simultaneously destroying everyone charging for the privilege.
Imagine your team building custom agents for email triage, customer support routing, data analysis, research synthesis. No coding required. Deploy Friday, running Monday.
Try This
Head to platform.openai.com and set up a developer account. Takes ten minutes including billing.
Grab the email triage template and customize logic for your inbox patterns using drag-and-drop. Test it on your last twenty emails to see how it prioritizes based on sender importance and business context. The accuracy is legitimately scary.
Deploy internally first so people see this working on their actual inbox. Set up a Monday routine where the agent handles initial triage, surfaces top priorities with reasoning, then you decide. You'll cut email management time in half within the first week.
2 – Apps Kill the Traditional Web ⚡
Actual Canva, Spotify, Figma, Zillow working natively with zero external links.
The advantage is contextual awareness across apps.
You're building a pitch deck in Canva discussing Series A strategy. Ask about office locations. Zillow automatically searches using your conversation context about budget and team size without you opening a browser.
OpenAI just crossed eight hundred million weekly active users while bringing entire web experiences in-platform. Watch Coursera lessons while AI takes notes. Search Zillow with natural language. Edit Canva slides. All without leaving ChatGPT.
Peloton and Uber coming later this year. Payment gateway for checkout already live.
That's Apple's App Store strategy. Create ecosystem lock-in, control payment rails, make leaving painful through accumulated context and convenience. OpenAI is building an operating system disguised as a chatbot.
Picture your team working entirely inside ChatGPT. Design presentations, analyze data, research markets, create content. Context flows between apps automatically. No more losing your train of thought switching between seventeen browser tabs.
Try This
Connect Canva and Zillow in ChatGPT right now through connector settings. Both live today.
Start a conversation about a real project this week that normally requires multiple tools. Build visuals in Canva while discussing strategy, then pivot to research without breaking context. Watch how AI maintains threads across apps seamlessly.
Document workflows that become faster without juggling tabs. That thirty-minute task now taking eight minutes? Write it down with specifics. Share findings in your next team meeting with concrete before-and-after comparisons showing real work examples.
Teams that adapt first capture advantages that compound weekly while competitors manually context-switch.
3 – OpenAI Targets Apple Not Google 🚀
Nah. They’re playing the long, long game.
Sam Altman admitted profitability isn't in their top 10 concerns. They're executing Amazon's playbook perfectly. Lose money while winning users and ecosystem dominance.
But here's what everyone missed.
OpenAI hired dozens of hardware engineers from Apple. Partnered with designer Jony Ive. Established direct supplier relationships for manufacturing.
They're building devices.
Software dominance creates dependency. Dependency enables hardware sales. Hardware creates captivity. OpenAI wants to be your operating system first, then sell you the hardware that runs it.
They're giving away tech for twenty bucks monthly to create dependency, then they'll own distribution when hardware launches. Eight hundred million weekly active users is the foundation. Apps create lock-in. Agents create automation dependency. Hardware makes it permanent.
The teams that recognize ChatGPT as an operating system instead of a chatbot will dominate their industries while competitors debate whether AI is useful. That gap compounds monthly until it becomes insurmountable.
Try This
Map out three workflows your team handles across multiple platforms today. Be honest about the copy-paste circus happening fifty times daily that nobody admits wastes hours.
Test how ChatGPT's apps handle these workflows this week, especially once the App ecosystem is built out. Email triage, research synthesis, content creation with visuals are obvious starting points. You're testing the foundation before competitors understand what's being built.
Set up a pilot with five team members using ChatGPT apps exclusively for one week. Track time savings with real numbers and quality improvements with specific examples.
Scale winning patterns across your team before anyone else in your industry sees this operating system shift coming. Early adopters will compound advantages while competitors manually switch tools and lose context every three minutes.
🎁 Bonus Content 🎁
We had too many Hot Takes for this Tuesday.
We actually had 8 BIG takeaways from OpenAI’s Dev Day, but could only fit 5 in our show. To get access to the rest (and a ton more info on the other 5) go repost today’s show on LinkedIn and we’ll send em over!
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