Agent: Go Buy Me Stuff; GPT 4 Teens; Here Come The World Models!
📈 Business & Strategy
Google’s Protocol For AI Agents To Make Purchases
Google introduced the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), an open framework that lets AI agents make purchases with auditable, user-approved “mandates.”
Real-time buys require a signed Intent Mandate (search/selection) and Cart Mandate (checkout). Rails support cards, bank transfers, and stablecoins in partnership with Coinbase. Backers include American Express, Mastercard, PayPal, Salesforce, and Intuit, with specs published openly.
The bigger narrative: autonomous agents finally have payment rails with accountability and revocation built in - less “trust me bro,” more “show me the signature.”
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Workday Buys Sana To Be “The New Front Door For Work”
Workday announced a $1.1B acquisition of Sana to embed AI assistants across HR and finance. The bet: consolidate workflow entry points under one AI layer instead of a sprawl of point tools.
"Sana's team, AI-native approach, and beautiful design perfectly align with our vision to reimagine the future of work," said Gerrit Kazmaier, president, product and technology, Workday. "This will make Workday the new front door for work, delivering a proactive, personalized, and intelligent experience that unlocks unmatched AI capabilities for the workplace."
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💻 Software & Product Advancements
OpenAI Rolls Out Teen Controls For ChatGPT
OpenAI detailed new teen protections for ChatGPT: automatic age estimation that defaults to teen restrictions when unsure, parental controls with account linking and alerts, and blocks on explicit/self-harm content (even in creative contexts).
CEO Sam Altman framed it as balancing freedom, safety, and privacy amid regulatory heat. It won’t end workarounds, but it sets a baseline for consumer safety norms.
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YouTube Ships A Wave Of Creator AI
YouTube dropped 30+ tools, including:
- Edit with AI (turns raw clips into polished first drafts)
- Auto-clipping long videos into Shorts
- Auto-dubbing with lip sync in 20 languages
- Ask Studio analytics chatbot, and free
- Veo 3 Fast for Shorts (prompt → 480p video + matching audio).
This is less a toybox than a conveyor belt from idea to multi-format distribution.
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🧬 Science & Research
Infinite, Persistent 3D Worlds
World Labs (from Fei-Fei Li) previewed a world model that turns a prompt or image into a persistent, editable 3D environment you can revisit and stitch together.
Unlike ephemeral sandboxes (e.g., Google's Genie-style demos), persistence turns worlds into assets - portable across devices and pipelines, and ready for production.
Read more: AI Secret
🎮 Experiments & Culture
Care Bears, But Make Them Adaptive
The Care Bears franchise teased AI companions for 2026 that learn, emote, and adapt over time - part of the broader shift from one-off content to ongoing relationships with characters.
Read more: There’s An AI For That
🎨 Tools & Launches
- HeyGen Video Agent: Prompt-to-video that outputs publish-ready clips; handy for product explainers and rapid ad iterations.
- Gamma 3.0: An AI presentation platform adding agentic workflows for deck structure, narrative polish, and brand consistency at speed.
- Monologue: Fast voice dictation to stay in flow while drafting emails, docs, or code; cleans filler and formats on the fly.
- ChatGPT (Customization): New personality options make the assistant feel consistent across tasks and teams.
- Floot: Chat your way to a shipped web app on one platform - scaffolding, backend and deploy included.
- CodeRabbit CLI: Terminal-native AI code reviews that flag bugs before CI turns red.
- Freepik AI Image Generator: Real-time, multi-model image generation for quick creative iteration.
- Echobase: Converts files into a queryable knowledge base for teams; generate answers and analyses from your own docs.
- Zoer: Describe the app you need; get a fully functioning web app in return.
- Skymel ADK: Builds production-ready AI agents from plain English, with model routing and fallbacks.
- Devento: Turns a conversation into running software by executing code in secure containers and shipping it live.
- VIGI: Converts any URL into a polished marketing video for faster content output.
- Yooz: Trains on top creators to help you write LinkedIn posts that actually travel.
- Yahini: Learns your business from a URL and produces a strategist-level keyword/content map.
⚡ Other Stuff
- OpenAI hires Mike Liberatore (ex-xAI) as business finance chief.
- Microsoft commits $30B to U.K. AI infrastructure; Google adds $6B.
- Disney, Universal, Warner Bros. sue MiniMax over alleged IP misuse (Hailuo).
- Tencent releases Hunyuan3D 3.0 for higher-fidelity 3D generation.
- Fiverr lays off 250 and shifts to an AI-first org model.
Today’s Sources:
The Internet
AI Secret
There’s An AI For That
The Rundown AI