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OpenAI kills the chatbot
🚨 Our Report
OpenAI is planning to roll out a revamped version of ChatGPT in the coming weeks, transforming it into a "super app" with integrated coding tools and AI agents. The overhaul represents the company's biggest product shift since ChatGPT's original launch, as OpenAI positions itself to compete with Anthropic for business customers ahead of a planned IPO.
🔓 Key Points
The company is working toward a personal agent capable of helping users across everything in their life, personally and at work.
OpenAI is moving away from standalone products like Sora to focus ChatGPT as a gateway for paid features. "Chat is dead," executives say.
The super app bundles coding, agentic workflows, and tools into one interface to convert users and get closer to profitability before going public.
🔐 Relevance
Instead of separate tools requiring multiple subscriptions, ChatGPT could become the single interface for AI-powered work. Companies evaluating AI vendors should watch how this rollout affects pricing, feature bundling, and whether OpenAI can deliver on its agent ambitions.
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THE BUSINESS BRIEFING: MARKETING (powered by Upscaile)
Chime (US digital-banking fintech, 8.6M active members) was stuck in agency mode -- every brand campaign took 10 weeks to produce and leaned on a costly creative-agency retainer.
Tool used: Midjourney, Runway, and Veo3 -- generative AI for in-house storyboarding, image, and video ad creative.
Result: Ad production runs 60% faster, campaign turnaround dropped from 10 weeks to 4 weeks, the creative-agency retainer was eliminated (millions in projected savings), and the in-house team did it with zero added headcount.
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THE POLICY CORNER
New York just made AI actors a disclosure problem for every business that advertises.
The law requires any person engaged in the business of "dealing in any property or service" who, for any commercial purpose, "produces or creates" an advertisement to conspicuously disclose when a "synthetic performer" appears in it -- a digitally created asset made or modified with generative AI, intended to read as a human performance but "not recognizable as any identifiable natural performer."
The duty only triggers where the advertiser "has actual knowledge," and advertisements for expressive works like films, TV, streaming, documentaries, and video games are exempt when the synthetic performer's use matches the underlying work. Violations carry a civil penalty of $1,000 for a first offense and $5,000 for each subsequent one.
Deadline: June 9, 2026 -- the 180th day after the law became law.
Risk: Once it's live, an undisclosed AI actor in a NY ad is a $1,000 penalty on the first hit and $5,000 on every one after, and the duty falls on the business running the ad, not just whoever generated the avatar.
Your move: Before June 9, audit any campaign running into New York for AI-generated spokespeople, presenters, or "actors," and add a conspicuous disclosure wherever you knowingly use one. If you outsource creative, ask your agency or generation vendor to flag synthetic performers in deliverables so "actual knowledge" doesn't become a guessing game.
AI News
🔒 OpenAI launched Lockdown Mode for ChatGPT: An optional security setting that disables web browsing, deep research, and agent mode to protect people handling sensitive data from prompt-injection attacks. FULL STORY
🚀 Google agreed to rent $30B of AI compute from SpaceX: Roughly $920M a month for about 110,000 Nvidia GPUs from October 2026 through June 2029 -- to meet surging demand for its Gemini models. FULL STORY
🗄️ Supabase raised a $500M Series F at a $10.5B valuation: Led by GIC, with Stripe and Salesforce Ventures, doubling its value in eight months as AI agents now spin up the majority of new databases on the platform. FULL STORY
🎵 Suno raised a $400M Series D at a $5.4B valuation: More than double the $2.45B it hit in November -- on $300M in annual recurring revenue and 2M+ paying subscribers. FULL STORY
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The Money: This week's biggest AI checks bet against the chatbot
Two of the week's biggest AI hardware bets went to robotics and brain-inspired compute, not bigger language models. As LLM performance plateaus and energy costs mount, investors are betting the next wave of AI value sits at the hardware-software boundary.
Deals to know:
Generalist AI ($400M) -- Embodied robotics intelligence with GEN-1 foundation model for adaptive physical tasks. $2B valuation. Investors: Radical Ventures, NVentures, Bezos Expeditions, 8VC
Flourish ($500M) -- Brain-inspired AI models built to run on far less power than today's LLMs; the company notes a server-grade GPU burns about 30x more energy than the human brain, and is chasing a cut of more than an order of magnitude. $2.5B valuation. Investors: Jeff Bezos, GV, Lux Capital, Catalio
Signal: Smart money is shifting from model training to model deployment. Robotics and neuromorphic compute are emerging as the efficiency plays that bypass the GPU power ceiling.
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