🧩 ChatGPT Apps Go Portable: Build Once, Run Anywhere

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This issue covers AI that’s now live in the real world: new app standards inside ChatGPT, a $500M funding round for enterprise agents, AI working directly in Slack, FDA-cleared healthcare models, and faster video generation APIs. These are concrete product and platform shifts you can act on today.

🔥Big AI moves

🔹ChatGPT adds support for portable MCP Apps UIs

ChatGPT now supports the MCP Apps open standard, enabling developers to create embedded app UIs that run in ChatGPT and other compatible hosts. MCP Apps use a standard iframe bridge for UI-to-host communication, ensuring cross-platform portability while keeping ChatGPT-specific extensions optional.

🔹ElevenLabs raises $500M at an $11B valuation to scale AI agents

ElevenLabs raised $500M at an $11B valuation to enhance ElevenAgents, its enterprise platform for scalable voice and chat agents. The funds will boost agent performance, integrations, testing, monitoring, and investment in conversational models, dubbing, and audio intelligence.

🔹Claude adds Slack integration for Pro and Max users

Claude now connects directly to Slack, letting users search workspace channels, prepare for meetings, and send messages back without leaving their Claude conversation. The new connector keeps work flowing across chats and tasks, reducing context switching while bringing Slack knowledge and actions into a single AI workspace.

🎙️ Live Podcast: AI & People-First Leadership

AI is changing leadership faster than most teams are ready for. Join us for a live, interactive podcast with Bala Muthiah, Director of Engineering at Lyft, on people-first leadership and AI that scales human judgment.

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🧠 Anthropic confirms Claude will remain ad-free

Anthropic announced that Claude will not feature ads, sponsored links, or paid placements, as they believe ads would compromise its role as a trusted space for deep thinking and complex discussions.

Highlights

• No sponsored links or advertiser-influenced responses in Claude chats

• Designed as a private, focused space for reasoning, coding, and personal topics

• Avoids ad-driven incentives that optimize for engagement over usefulness

• Revenue comes from subscriptions and enterprise contracts, not ads

Why it matters:
Anthropic is distinguishing between search/social models and conversational AI by keeping Claude ad-free, prioritizing trust and user intent over monetization, and setting a new direction for AI product evolution.

🩺 AIHealthTech Insider: Can AI spot cancer risk before it spreads?

This issue features MelanoMAP, an AI model predicting melanoma metastasis risk using pathology-slide signals and clinical factors, suggesting "digital biomarkers" may surpass staging alone.

👉 Read Issue #86 to see where evidence not hype is shaping real decisions in metabolism, brain health, frontline care, wearables, and precision prevention.

🎬 xAI launches Grok Imagine API for video generation and editing

xAI has introduced the Grok Imagine API, a unified set of APIs for high-quality video/audio generation and advanced editing. It supports text-to-video, image-to-video, scene restyling, object control, and cinematic motion, optimized for quality, cost, and low latency.

Highlights

• Native video-audio generation with strong instruction following

• Advanced video editing: restyle scenes, add/remove objects, control motion

• Competitive latency and pricing, ranked highly on Artificial Analysis and LMArena benchmarks

• Flexible formats and aspect ratios for creator, marketing, and enterprise use

• APIs, SDKs, and playgrounds available for rapid integration and iteration

Why it matters:
By pairing high-quality video generation with faster iteration and lower costs, Grok Imagine lowers the barrier for creators and developers to prototype, edit, and ship video content at scale without sacrificing control or performance.

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⚙️ Sunday Special: AI hiring slows — AI skills take over

This week's Sunday Special highlights a key job market shift: hiring is stabilizing, but AI-related roles are rapidly increasing. Job postings mentioning AI are at record highs, AI fluency demand has surged sevenfold in two years, and companies like Yahoo are revamping search with AI.

👉 Read Sunday Special #33 to see how AI is reshaping hiring, skills, and search and what it means for builders, operators, and career-focused professionals right now.