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#018: AI news for business - week 41
Season 1, Ep. 18
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This week on AI news by Future Bytes, host Magnus Oxenwaldt breaks down how OpenAI’s latest moves, Sora 2 and Instant Checkout, signal a shift from apps to AI platforms. TikTok, Google, and even your own website could be next. Welcome to the platform trap.
Top stories:
- Sora 2’s launch turns AI-generated video into social media, reaching the US App Store’s top spot overnight.
- ChatGPT adds Instant Checkout, enabling shopping, payments, and product search, all without leaving the app.
- The rise of the “platform trap”. Every major AI company is building its own closed ecosystem for work, commerce, and creativity.
- Meta’s Business AI connects 700 million consumers with always-on sales agents across all Meta platforms.
- Microsoft’s Agent Mode boosts Copilot accuracy and brings fully autonomous AI agents into everyday productivity tools.
- Salesforce’s Agentforce aims for one billion agents by 2025, extending AI into every customer touchpoint.
- Google fights to protect $273 billion in ad revenue as users turn to AI assistants instead of search.
- The open web is at risk. Businesses that fail to integrate with AI ecosystems could disappear from the customer journey entirely.
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11:00||Season 1, Ep. 22Something shifted this week. OpenAI’s Sam Altman revealed their internal target: a fully automated AI researcher by March 2028. That’s 29 months away, and big tech is already moving as if it’s real. This week’s takeaways: • Tech giants are reallocating capital for a 2028 AGI milestone • Infrastructure bets: 10–30 GW in AI compute by OpenAI & NVIDIA • Job cuts signal a pivot from people to machine-driven R&D • OpenAI planning IPO ahead of AGI moment — valuation timing matters • Businesses should model two AI futures: slow vs accelerated
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10:17||Season 1, Ep. 20This week, enterprise AI stopped being optional. AI is now part of the system, not a tool you choose. “October 15th wasn’t the day AI got better. It was the day the industry removed every excuse you had for not adopting it,” host Magnus Oxenwaldt says. In this week’s AI News by Future Bytes, he breaks down how these moves are reshaping business, productivity and competition. Top stories this week:AI just became the default. It’s now built into Windows, Microsoft 365, and the tools you already use.The excuses are gone. Infrastructure, cost, and integration barriers disappeared overnight.Free isn’t free. Bundled AI means platform lock-in and long-term dependence.The game moved fast. Early adopters are already compounding their advantage while others are still “exploring use cases.”Questions or feedback? Reach out to julie.malvik@columbusglobal.com