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OpenAI Agent Launch
This AI plans, books, shops... what’s left for you?
Welcome to AI Wire — your smart shortcut to all things AI, without the jargon.
What we’ll cover today:
🚀 OpenAI’s Agent now shops, books, builds decks for you
💰 Lovable raises $200M in 8 months to help non-tech folks build apps
🖥️ Mistral’s AI gets serious about enterprise productivity
😳 UAE’s Nvidia chip deal… frozen over spy fears
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Agent to handle tasks, not just chat. [Read Full Story]
It can plan, book, build decks, write code, and navigate apps.
Integrates with Gmail, GitHub, APIs, terminal access.
Claims big benchmark wins over older models.
Feels like OpenAI’s real push toward autonomous AI.
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Raised $200M at a $1.8B valuation, led by Accel.
2.3M users, 180K paying, $75M ARR in 7 months.
Focus: non-tech users building apps with AI prompts.
Enterprise clients already onboard: Klarna, HubSpot.
Proof VCs still love fast-growing no-code AI plays. [Read Full Story]
UAE’s multi-billion dollar Nvidia AI chip deal paused. [Read Full Story]
US fears chips could leak to China despite UAE promises.
Malaysia adds export permits for AI chips, others may follow.
Global AI chip supply now a national security issue.
UAE caught in the middle of US-China chip tension.
Le Chat adds deep research, on-prem connectors, multilingual reasoning.
Now competes directly with OpenAI, Google for enterprise AI. [Read Full Story]
Focus on privacy: no cloud, local data control.
Stronger play for banks, defense, sensitive industries.
Mistral positioning as Europe’s AI productivity stack.
If you were building today, would you trust AI tools that don’t rely on cloud infra? |
Claude Code’s $200/month users hit new, sudden limits.
No clear communication, just “limit reached” messages.
Infra issues piling up: API errors, outages reported.
Likely tightening limits to protect margins quietly.
Users losing trust fast without transparency. [Read Full Story]
🛠️ TOOLS
🛠️ ChatGPT Agent – AI that answers, learns, writes, brainstorms. →
🎯 Bestever – AI turns ad data into creatives. →
🎵 Suno V4.5+ – Create AI music with your own vocals. →
🔍 LLM Hub – Collaborative AI search, no ads, free. →
📚 RESOURCES
🎥 ChatGPT Agent Is Here – Your all-in-one AI worker? →
📹 Creatify.ai Tutorial – Make AI video ads, step-by-step. →
🎶 How to Create AI Music – AI tools for cinematic music videos. →
💼 Use Copilot in Teams – Learn Copilot for Microsoft Teams. →
Sam Altman and the OpenAI team walk you through how they built ChatGPT Agent, why it matters, and show live demos of planning, booking, and building with it.
Why watch? You see the real people behind AI showing how to use it step-by-step.
agree with lots of what jensen has been saying about ai and jobs; there is a ton of stuff to do in the world.
people will
1) do a lot more than they could do before; ability and expectation will both go up
2) still care very much about other people and what they do
3) still be— Sam Altman (@sama)
5:49 PM • Jul 16, 2025
If you have team members who are unwilling to embrace AI to improve their efficiency you have to get rid of them.
It’s that simple. Unwilling, out.
Innovate or die. It’s that time.
— Harry Stebbings (@HarryStebbings)
10:05 AM • Jul 18, 2025
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