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Ep 811: Fable 5 and Sonnet 5 Released, OpenClaw on Your iPhone, NotebookLM's New Video Format and 7 More AI Features You Need Now
OpenAI may give gov 5%, Anthropic restored Fable 5, Microsoft launched a new AI consulting business and more
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🎙 Daily Podcast Episode: Claude Sonnet 5 is here, Fable 5 has returned, and this week brought some of the biggest AI feature updates of the summer. Give today’s show a watch/read/listen.
🕵️‍♂️ Fresh Finds: Venice AI reached a $1 billion valuation, Cloudflare is cracking down on AI crawlers, and Notion just launched a new HTML block. And more. Read on for Fresh Finds.
đź—ž Byte Sized Daily AI News: OpenAI may give gov 5%, Anthropic restored Fable 5, Microsoft launched a new AI consulting business and more. Read on for Byte Sized News.
💪 Leverage AI: Here’s the AI updates you mighta missed and how to use them today. Keep reading for that!
↩️ Don’t miss out: Miss our last newsletter? We covered: Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are back, Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5, and OpenAI expanded ChatGPT's finance tools to Plus users. And more. Check it here!
Ep 811: Fable 5 and Sonnet 5 Released, OpenClaw on Your iPhone, NotebookLM's New Video Format and 7 More AI Features You Need Now
Fable 5 is out, but it'll be gone (again) before you know it.
While Anthropic's powerful Mythos 5 is out for the masses for another 5 days, it might be their Sonnet 5 model that's your next daily driver.
Even better news? If you're an iPhone user, your OpenClaw and Cursor accounts are gonna get a lot more use.
Yeah, it's a short Holiday week in the U.S., but the AI companies didn't stop shipping. From new models to new ways to work, these are 7 new AI features available now that you should be using.
Also on the pod today:
• Sonnet 5: free for all ⚡
• Fable 5: use it now ⏳
• OpenClaw hits your phone 📱
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Here’s our favorite AI finds from across the web:
New AI Tool Spotlight – Acti is the Worlds first Agentic Keyboard, Adam brings AI CAD assistance into the tools mechanical engineers already use, Sequence API is The API layer that connects your bank to your AI agents
Venice AI Valuation — Venice AI just hit a $1 billion valuation and claims it's profitable without spying on users.
Clarative and OpenAI — Clarative.ai is joining OpenAI, and Codex is getting some big upgrades, including a personalized daily digest.
Cloudfare Crawlers — Cloudflare is cracking down on AI crawlers by blocking "mixed-use" bots from ad-hosting pages starting September 15.
Notion HTML Block — Notion just dropped a new HTML block so you can build interactive diagrams, prototypes, and even games right inside your notes
Meta Storage — Meta overhauled its storage system to keep up with AI’s insane data demands, slashing latency and speeding up model training.
Trump AI — Trump went on a late-night posting spree, sharing 80 updates including a bizarre AI-generated video. Get the details on his midnight meltdown.
Theodore Roosevelt AI — Theodore Roosevelt’s new presidential library uses AI so visitors can chat with a lifelike avatar and search his real writings.
1. Anthropic restores Fable 5 after export-control clash 🔄
Anthropic is bringing back access to Fable 5 after the Commerce Department lifted export controls that had forced the company to cut off the model.
Paid Claude subscribers can use it at no extra cost for a limited time, though only up to 50% of their weekly limits before higher-tier usage fees kick in.
2. Amazon says custom AI chips are now central to its Echo, Fire TV and Alexa+ hardware push 🔥
Amazon’s top devices executive Panos Panay told CNBC that the company is building its own end-to-end silicon for key consumer devices, including Echo Show and Fire TV products, as it tries to make Alexa+ faster, more secure and more useful inside the home.
The move puts Amazon closer to Apple’s playbook, where tighter control of chips, hardware and software can make devices feel more seamless instead of just cloud-connected.
3. NVIDIA Launches Revenue-Sharing AI Cloud Model ⚡️
NVIDIA is moving to turn the AI infrastructure crunch into a new business line, introducing a revenue-sharing and credit-support model that helps AI cloud providers buy and deploy its systems faster.
The plan gives startups, model builders, enterprises and research groups quicker access to large-scale NVIDIA-powered compute, while NVIDIA collects both hardware revenue and a share of cloud sales tied to that capacity.
4. OpenAI reportedly floats 5% U.S. government stake in AI firms 🏛️
According to the Financial Times, OpenAI has discussed giving Washington a 5% equity stake and has proposed that other major U.S. AI companies do the same, a striking idea landing as the industry faces sharper scrutiny over safety, jobs, and who benefits from AI wealth.
The proposal would route shares into a public fund modeled on Alaska’s oil-backed dividend system, meaning Americans could potentially share in future gains from AI companies rather than just absorb the disruption.
5. Microsoft unveils $2.5B Frontier Company đź’¸
Microsoft today announced Frontier Company, a new business unit that will embed 6,000 industry and engineering experts with customers to turn AI projects into measurable business results.
The group is designed to help companies build, deploy and keep improving AI systems while protecting their proprietary data, workflows and competitive know-how.
6. Apple Eyes Chinese Memory Chips as AI Server Demand Drives Up Costs 🖥️
According to Bloomberg, Apple is in talks to buy memory from China’s CXMT and YMTC as a global shortage, fueled by chipmakers prioritizing AI servers, pushes up component costs and product prices.
The move could help Apple lower supply pressure by using Chinese-made chips in devices sold in China, but it comes with political risk because both firms face U.S. national security scrutiny.
Anthropic just made model strategy way less optional.
Fable 5 is back for a hot second. Sonnet 5 is probably the model most teams will actually use every day.
That’s the real business lesson in this week’s seven AI releases. The companies getting ahead aren’t asking “Which AI is best?” They’re asking which model, agent, app, or connector should handle each workflow without wasting money, time, or attention.
Today’s Everyday AI show breaks down the releases that actually change how work gets done right now.
1. Claude Sonnet 5 Becomes the Workhorse đź§
Claude Sonnet 5 gives Anthropic a stronger everyday model for agentic work, with a one-million-token context window, 128,000-token output, adaptive thinking on by default, and access even on the Free plan.
The value is model routing. Don’t throw Fable or Opus at work Sonnet can handle cleanly, especially research, summaries, follow-ups, internal analysis, and lower-risk agent tasks.
Try This
Take three workflows your team runs on premium models and test them on Sonnet 5. Keep the prompts and scoring the same, then compare cost, cleanup, and usable output.
2. NotebookLM Makes Learning Scrollable Again 🎥
NotebookLM Short Video Overviews turn uploaded sources into 60-second vertical videos with narration and animated visuals. Paid Gemini users get access first, starting in English, with broader rollout still coming.
This could turn ignored docs into training people might actually finish. Sales enablement, onboarding, research briefs, and internal explainers all get more useful when the knowledge stops living inside a PDF coffin.
Try This
Pick one dense internal doc people keep avoiding. Turn it into a Short Video Overview and ask the target team one follow-up question after watching to see if the core idea landed.
3. ChatGPT Finances Expands to Plus đź’°
ChatGPT Finances now brings Plaid-connected bank and investment context to U.S. Plus users, not just $200 Pro users. It can help analyze spending, subscriptions, investments, travel costs, planning scenarios, and account patterns with read-only access.
The play here is fewer dashboards and less spreadsheet archaeology. If users trust the connection, ChatGPT can become the financial reasoning layer across scattered accounts and personal context.
Try This
Start small. Connect only what’s needed to review recurring charges or last month’s spending. Compare what ChatGPT finds against your current finance app or spreadsheet routine.
4. X Feeds Agents Live Signals 🧵
X launched an official hosted Model Context Protocol server, giving MCP-compatible tools a cleaner path into the X API after developer setup. That means tools like Claude Desktop, Cursor, Grok Build, and Codex can work with X data instead of making humans scroll, search, bookmark, and copy-paste.
This turns noisy social chatter into a signal layer. Competitive monitoring, customer sentiment, industry debates, and breaking AI discourse can become agent research instead of another tab spiral.
Try This
Choose one competitor, customer pain point, or market debate. Have an agent summarize X activity around it, then compare the signal quality against 20 minutes of manual scrolling.
5. OpenClaw Adds Mobile Agent Control 📱
OpenClaw now has native iOS and Android apps that work as companion nodes for an existing OpenClaw Gateway. It doesn’t replace the self-hosted setup, but it does give users a phone-based way to monitor, approve, and communicate with agents.
That removes some of the clunky workaround energy around Discord, Telegram, and other side-channel setups. Self-hosted agents are more useful when humans can supervise them without sitting in front of the machine.
Try This
Pick one OpenClaw workflow that stalls because someone needs to check status or approve an action. Run supervision through the mobile app for a week and track whether fewer tasks get stuck.
6. Cursor Puts Coding Agents Mobile đź’»
Cursor for iOS gives paid Cursor users a public-beta mobile command center for coding agents on iPhone and iPad. Developers can launch cloud agents, control computer-based agents, use voice, annotate screenshots, review diffs, and merge PRs.
This is not about building your whole app from a phone. Please don’t. It’s about getting bugs, ideas, and urgent fixes moving before the laptop comes back out.
Try This
Pick one small bug or customer-reported issue that would normally wait. Start it from Cursor mobile, review the agent’s work later, and measure whether the path from issue to review gets shorter.
7. Claude Fable 5 Returns Briefly ⚡
Claude Fable 5 is back on Claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and the Claude Platform after its export-control pause. Pro, Max, Team, and select Enterprise plans get it for up to 50% of weekly usage limits through July 7th, then usage credits take over. You read that right, Anthropic will not include its new model in paid subscriptions after July 7t.
Use the window wisely. Fable should be tested on the brutal work: deep research, complex coding, long-context synthesis, and messy reasoning. If Sonnet can do the job, let Sonnet do the job.
Try This
Run your hardest current model failure through Fable 5 before the included window closes. If it clearly wins, write a routing rule for when to use Fable instead of turning it into another expensive default.
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