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Ep 792: Autonomous Copilot agents, new Codex tools, Github CoPilot app and 7 more AI updates you should be using

White House and OpenAI talk deal, Anthropic calls for a slowdown in frontier AI development, and OpenAI is rolling out a smarter long-term memory system for ChatGPT and more.

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June 05, 2026

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🎙 Daily Podcast Episode: OpenAI, Microsoft, and GitHub all rolled out major AI updates, from new Codex capabilities and autonomous agents to a redesigned GitHub Copilot experience. Here are the biggest features from this week. Give today’s show a watch/read/listen.

🕵️‍♂️ Fresh Finds: OpenAI is expanding Codex beyond coding, Google brought Gemini to macOS, and Hollywood actors just secured a new contract with major AI protections. And more. Read on for Fresh Finds.

🗞 Byte Sized Daily AI News: White House and OpenAI talk deal, Anthropic calls for a slowdown in frontier AI development, and OpenAI is rolling out a smarter long-term memory system for ChatGPT and more. Read on for Byte Sized News.

💪 Leverage AI: OpenAI and Microsoft both dropped major AI updates this week, from new Codex plugins and app-building tools to autonomous agents and AI-powered workflows. Keep reading for that!

↩️ Don’t miss out: Miss our last newsletter? We covered: IBM and Google Cloud are expanding their enterprise AI partnership, AI is now the leading reason cited for job cuts, and Google DeepMind launched a new Gemma model built to run multimodal AI on laptops. And more. Check it here!

Ep 792: Autonomous Copilot agents, new Codex tools, Github CoPilot app and 7 more AI updates you should be using


✅ New autonomous agents.

✅ Canva designs made for you.

✅ Codex upgrades to make your business move.

If you had your head down in spreadsheets this week, you missed some MAJOR AI upgrades that are available now.

Also on the pod today:

• Codex gets six new plugins ⚡
• Canva now edits inside ChatGPT 🎨 
• Microsoft unveils Copilot desktop app 💻

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Here’s our favorite AI finds from across the web:

New AI Tool Spotlight –  Leni is The World's Most Accurate AI for Investors, Minimi quietly captures everything on your Mac and feeds it to Claude as live context, Lumo Studios is Beautiful presentations, built in minutes.

Codex Upgrades — OpenAI’s new Codex upgrade lets you view, test, and hot reload your iOS app right inside the workspace. See how Codex is moving way beyond autocomplete.

Krea 2 Turbo Release — Krea 2 Turbo can whip up four high-quality images in just two seconds, even with style references and LoRAs.

GPT Rosalind Upgrades — GPT‑Rosalind just got a major upgrade for life sciences research, boosting drug discovery and genomics workflows with stronger scientific reasoning.

Gemini App on Mac — Google’s Gemini app for macOS lets you get help with whatever’s on your screen, just by pressing both Command keys.

SAG-AFTRA AI Contract — Hollywood actors just locked in a new four-year contract with big AI protections. No strike drama this time,

Minnesota AI — Minnesota’s Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan is calling out a Senate campaign ad for using AI deepfake tech.

OpenSquill MetaSkill Released — OpenSquilla’s new MetaSkill lets AI agents build and organize their own skills, cutting costs by routing simple tasks to cheaper models.

AI and Epstein Files — A Howard Lutnick photo was pulled from the Epstein files due to worries it might have been altered by AI. Find out what prompted the removal.

Claude Code — Anthropic's AI now writes most of its own code and is speeding up model development at a wild pace. Some experts think fully self-improving AI could arrive sooner than anyone expects

AI and US Government — The US government might snag shares in AI giants like OpenAI, with talk of using returns for public payouts.

Apple AI — Poke just became the first standalone AI agent approved for Apple’s Messages for Business.

1. NVIDIA launches open Nemotron 3 Ultra for cheaper, faster AI agents 🤖

NVIDIA today announced Nemotron 3 Ultra, an open 550B-parameter model designed for long-running AI agents that plan, use tools, remember context, and complete complex workflows across many steps.


The pitch is simple: use a powerful reasoning model for the hard decisions while keeping agent systems faster and less expensive, with NVIDIA claiming up to 5x higher throughput and as much as 30% lower task-completion cost versus comparable open models.

2. Anthropic urges AI slowdown as models approach self-improvement concerns ⚠️

Anthropic said Thursday that leading AI labs should consider a way to slow or temporarily pause frontier development, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The company warned that its internal data suggests advanced systems are improving fast enough that they could eventually begin upgrading themselves without human help, a shift many researchers see as a serious risk marker

3. OpenAI starts rolling out smarter ChatGPT memory for Plus and Pro users in the U.S. 🧠

OpenAI said today it is rolling out a more capable ChatGPT memory system that can better keep track of users’ preferences, projects, and changing context over time, starting with Plus and Pro users in the U.S.


The update shifts more of memory toward “dreaming,” a background process that summarizes and refreshes what ChatGPT knows from past chats, rather than relying mainly on users explicitly asking it to remember things.

4. Microsoft memo says “make people addicted” to AI assistant ⚠️

A newly reported internal Microsoft memo, obtained by 404 Media, says the company’s plan for its Scout AI assistant included a blunt first phase: “Make people addicted.”

The tool, used internally by more than 1,000 employees, is meant to help with workplace tasks like email, calendars, and meeting prep, but the wording has raised concern among some staffers who say dependency should not be a product goal.

5. Report: White House and OpenAI discussing possible U.S. government stake in the company 💸

CNBC confirmed Friday that Sam Altman and White House officials have been in talks for more than a year over a potential deal that could give the U.S. public an equity-linked share in OpenAI’s upside.
The idea could seed a “Public Wealth Fund,” with OpenAI potentially donating equity, though no official terms have been set and the talks remain fluid.

6. Arena.ai Launches Agent Mode and a Live Agent Arena Leaderboard 🖥️

Arena.ai today rolled out Agent Mode and Agent Arena, a new evaluation system that ranks AI agents based on real user sessions rather than lab-style tests. The feature gives models tools like web search, file access, and terminal commands so they can handle multi-step tasks with less back-and-forth prompting.

The leaderboard tracks signals including confirmed success, user praise or complaints, steerability, bash recovery, and tool hallucination.

Normally when one big tech company takes center stage, a competitor sneaks backstage and steals the thunder.

That's exactly what happened this week.

Microsoft rolled out a handful of genuinely useful AI updates at its conference. Then OpenAI made the bigger splash with some serious money moves around Codex and ChatGPT.

Six new role-specific plugins. A frontier image model now living inside PowerPoint. A new way to build and share full apps from a single prompt.

All of it live today, not "coming soon," not a flashy demo.

So on today's Everyday AI, we're breaking down all seven so you know exactly what you can use right now to grow your company and your career.

Let's get into it.

1. OpenAI Ships Role-Specific Codex Plugins 🔥

They cover sales, data analytics, product design, creative production, investment banking, and public equity investing, bundling 62 apps and 110 skills across heavy hitters like Snowflake, Figma, Salesforce, and Databricks.

For power users this is a small step, but for everyone else it's enormous, since the starter pack hands you the whole bundle instead of making you build it.

It's live now, and any ChatGPT subscription comes with Codex.

Try This

Install Codex and turn on the single plugin that matches your role this week.

Run one real task through it and watch how much of your manual app-juggling disappears.

2. Microsoft Bakes A Frontier Image Model Into PowerPoint 🎨

Top three in the world now, with claimed gains in text rendering, stylized illustrations, and commercial imagery.

The real win is where it lives, already inside PowerPoint and rolling out to OneDrive, with developer access through Microsoft Foundry.

If your company locks everything down to Microsoft Copilot, you finally have a frontier-level image generator right where you work.

Try This

Open PowerPoint and generate your next slide image directly in the app instead of leaving for another tool.

If the in-image text holds up, you just deleted a step from every deck you make.

3. Canva Moves Inside ChatGPT And Codex 🖼️

This update is small on paper. The implications for small business owners and marketers are not.

Canva is now a plugin inside Codex, and the Canva app in ChatGPT got a full creation and editing upgrade with full-screen preview.

The unlock is that your design layer travels with your work, so you can update your KPIs in ChatGPT, say "turn this into a one-pager in Canva," and watch it build right there.

It's rolling out to ChatGPT free, Plus, and Pro plans, not counting the EU.

Try This

Next time you finish a back-and-forth in ChatGPT, ask it to turn the result into a Canva one-pager without ever leaving the chat.

If it carries your context cleanly, that's your copy-paste shuffle gone for good.

4. GitHub Copilot Gets Its Own Desktop App 🚀

A new My Work view shows your active sessions, issues, and pull requests across every connected repo, with each session running in its own isolated Git worktree.

It also adds canvases, a space that makes agent work visible and verifiable, and one real edge over Codex is that you can swap between Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic models.

It's in technical preview on Windows 11, Mac, and Linux, though people are heated about the new usage limits.

Try This

If you use Codex personally but can't at work, grab the GitHub Copilot app and run one task across two different models.

If the canvas makes the agent's work easier to check, you've got a work-friendly alternative today.

5. Microsoft Launches Always-On Autopilot Agents With Scout 🤖

Microsoft announced Autopilot, always-on agents built on OpenClaw, each with its own governed Entra identity.

The first is named Scout, and it runs across Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, and SharePoint, handling meeting prep, scheduling conflicts, and routine tasks proactively.

The unlock is the shift from ask-and-wait to a teammate that just acts, while the governed Entra identity lets IT audit it like any other employee.

It's rolling out now to Frontier customers.

Try This

If you're a Frontier customer, point Scout at one recurring coordination task like meeting prep or calendar conflicts.

If it handles it clean and the audit trail checks out, expand it before your competitors catch on.

6. OpenAI Models Land On Amazon Bedrock 🔗

A whole lot more companies are about to run ChatGPT's models, and almost nobody covered it.

AWS now supports OpenAI's models inside Amazon Bedrock, so any AWS customer can use them right as companies hit their token reckoning and look to cut their Claude bills.

Our take, plainly: Anthropic's models are the most token-inefficient on the market, burning more tokens than anyone to reach the same intelligence.

Third-party indexes show GPT 5.5 high matching that intelligence for roughly 30 to 50% cheaper than Opus 4.8.

Try This

If you're on AWS and watching your Claude bill climb, test a GPT model on Bedrock against your current workload.

If you get the same output for less, you just moved AI into the setup your finance team already approved.

7. Codex Sites Builds And Shares Full Apps From A Prompt 👑

You probably missed this one. We didn't, and we're loving it.

Codex Sites builds, deploys, and hosts interactive web apps from plain prompts, then hands you a shareable URL for dashboards, trackers, internal tools, even games.

Think of it as Lovable for your whole team, except the apps update dynamically as your data changes, stay behind your workspace, and inherit your ChatGPT Business or Enterprise security.

Going from zero to enterprise potential, this has to be a top five OpenAI release ever.

Try This

Pick one tracker or dashboard your team keeps rebuilding in spreadsheets and ask Codex Sites to spin it up as a live app.

If it stays updated and shareable behind your workspace, you just replaced a tool you were paying for.

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