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🛍️ OpenAI now has an app store for ChatGPT
👀 Everything else OpenAI announced at DevDay 2025
🌱 Renewable power overtakes coal for the first time
🤖 MrBeast warns AI threatens livelihoods of YouTube creators
🔇 California bans loud ads on streaming services
🔄 Circular AI deals are creating bubble fears
🎁 + 18 other news you might like
🔮 + 6 handpicked research papers and tools
🛍️ OpenAI now has an app store for ChatGPT LINK
OpenAI is launching interactive applications from companies like Figma and Spotify directly inside ChatGPT's conversations, letting users call them by name or have them appear automatically when needed.
Developers can build these new experiences using a preview of the Apps SDK and the Model Context Protocol, which allows for fully interactive UIs, actions, and even video playback.
People can log into their existing product accounts within the chat interface, while OpenAI plans to support future monetization for creators through its recently launched Instant Checkout feature.
👀 Everything else OpenAI announced at DevDay 2025 LINK
Aside from the new apps, OpenAI announced AgentKit, a toolkit for developers to build and deploy agentic workflows, which it demonstrated by creating and shipping a live agent during the event.
The company's coding agent, Codex, is also now generally available after leaving its research preview, with a demo showing it controlling a camera and building a voice assistant for lights.
OpenAI also updated its API, giving developers access to new models like the high-accuracy GPT-5 Pro, the fast gpt-realtime-mini, and the recently unveiled Sora 2 text-to-video generator.
🌱 Renewable power overtakes coal for the first time LINK
For the first time on record, renewable energies combined to produce more global electricity than coal, causing total fossil fuel generation to drop slightly during the first half of the year.
The shift was driven by a record 31 percent jump in solar output, with new solar and wind installations adding more energy than the total increase in worldwide electricity demand.
While China and India reduced their fossil fuel generation, output from those sources actually increased in the US and EU because clean power additions failed to keep up with demand.
🤖 MrBeast warns AI threatens livelihoods of YouTube creators LINK
MrBeast expressed worry that new AI-generated videos, like those from OpenAI's Sora 2, could threaten the income of millions of people who currently make content for a living.
Despite his concerns, MrBeast himself faced backlash for releasing a tool that used AI to create video thumbnails on his analytics platform, Viewstats, which he later removed from the service.
The creator's comments come as YouTube adds AI editing features, including its video model Veo, which can animate still photos or apply different styles to creators' existing video clips.
🔇 California bans loud ads on streaming services LINK
A new California law requires streaming services like Netflix and Hulu to make advertisements air at the same volume as the platform’s content, with the rule taking effect in July 2026.
The legislation is modeled on the federal CALM Act for TV broadcasters and was inspired by a complaint from a staffer whose newborn was awakened by blaring streaming commercial breaks.
Given California's influence on the US entertainment industry, this state law could establish a new national standard for ad volume that applies to all streaming providers, not just television.
🔄 Circular AI deals are creating bubble fears LINK
Analysts are concerned that Nvidia is creating "circular revenue" by investing billions in companies like OpenAI, which then use that same money to buy Nvidia's GPUs, artificially inflating sales.
OpenAI's massive infrastructure costs create a $62 billion funding gap for 2026 alone, forcing a reliance on equity and debt financing that questions the sustainability of its hardware spending.
Despite this risk, Goldman Sachs raised its price target, viewing the deals as strategic moves to lock developers into the CUDA software ecosystem and expecting them to remain under 15% of revenue.
Other news you might like
- ChatGPT reaches 800m weekly active usersLINK
- Sam Altman says there are no current plans for ads within ChatGPT Pulse — but he’s not ruling it outLINK
- Jony Ive has 20 ideas for new OpenAI devicesLINK
- Qualcomm is acquiring DIY electronics platform ArduinoLINK
- US Supreme Court rejects Google’s bid to block PlayStore changesLINK
- Instagram introduces new ‘Ring’ award for top creatorsLINK
- Microsoft makes it even harder to install Windows 11 without a Microsoft Account or internetLINK
- NYSE parent invests $2B in Polymarket at $9B valuationLINK
- Jaguar Land Rover to restart production following cyberattackLINK
- SEC is investigating AppLovin over data-collection practicesLINK
- Cerebras CEO explains IPO withdrawal, says it still intends to go publicLINK
- Taylor Swift fans accuse singer of using AI in her Google scavenger hunt videosLINK
- Google's new AI bug bounty program pays up to $30,000 for flawsLINK
- Find My iPhone enabled police to catch gang smuggling 40,000 phones to ChinaLINK
- Nintendo sues ex-Reddit mod for $4.5 million in piracy lawsuitLINK
- Nanotech ‘switch’ reverses Alzheimer’s in mice by restoring brain’s protective barrierLINK
- Apple turned the CrowdStrike BSOD issue into an anti-PC adLINK
- GPT-5-Codex is a better AI researcher than meLINK
Latest research and tools
Devpush: an open-source, self-hostable platform for deploying multi-language applications from Git to your own servers with zero-downtime updates and instant rollbacks.LINK
MacBook Lid Angle Sensor: a utility that displays the angle of a MacBook's lid and can optionally play a creaking sound effect when the lid is moved.LINK
Parallel Disk I/O Stress Test: a tool that heavily uses disk input and output to test file system performance, especially for identifying potential slowdowns on macOS.LINK
OpenZL: a data compression framework that builds specialized compressors from a description of your data to achieve high compression ratios and high speeds.LINK
Pretraining with hierarchical memories separating long-tail and common knowledge: this paper proposes a method to improve an AI's memory by training it with two separate systems, one for common facts and another for rare information.LINK
Mojo: MLIR-Based Performance-Portable HPC Science Kernels on GPUs: this paper presents Mojo, a system using MLIR to enable high-performance scientific code to run efficiently across various GPUs.LINK
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