The Monday AI Update ·
What happened in AI this week
The AI news, translated for hot girls.
Happy Tuesday, gorgeous.
The robots had a busy week. Here's what actually matters for your business — minus the keynote buzzwords.
Chips
Jensen Huang is in the headlines for all the wrong reasons — and Nvidia still isn’t going anywhere
Nvidia’s board opened an investigation on Sunday after the New York Times reported that CEO Jensen Huang had a relationship with a businesswoman US intelligence says was a Chinese intelligence asset. Huang told employees he was unfaithful to his wife and apologized; he stays CEO while the board investigates, and the board says it has no reason to believe any secrets were compromised — the stock still wobbled about 4% on Monday. Our take: Nvidia isn’t going anywhere, and certainly not without him. there’s no obvious successor, and the business is still printing money (revenue up 106% last quarter). The leather jacket stays.
Images
ChatGPT can make GIFs now — and it’s on every plan
OpenAI launched Images 2.6 on November 4: your stills can now become animated GIFs, you can save reference images so your brand character stays consistent, and generation is 50% faster. It’s live in ChatGPT across all subscription tiers — yes, including free. The practical read: your product shots and posts can finally move, no design tool and no upgrade required.
Agents
Perplexity hired you a teammate that never clocks out
Perplexity’s new Teammates, announced November 4, are AI agents that own an ongoing job — tracking competitors, triaging the inbox, drafting support replies — instead of waiting for your next prompt. They remember the project, coordinate with each other, and bring finished work back for your review. The catch: it’s a research preview for Max subscribers only, at $200 a month. Steal the pattern even if you don’t pay for it: stop asking AI for one-off favors and start giving it a job description.
Video
Google’s video model got longer, cheaper, and chattier
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, out November 5, makes 15-second video clips (up from 10), edits them through plain conversation — just describe the change — and costs 30% less than before. For anyone making short-form content, that’s faster iterations on every reel and ad: describe it, watch it, tweak it, done.
Money
Claude can read your bank account now (but it can’t touch it)
Anthropic launched Personal Finance in Claude on November 5, a US beta for Pro, Max, and Ultra subscribers: link your bank and card accounts through Plaid and ask where your money went, in plain English. Access is read-only — Claude can’t move, manage, or invest a dollar. For the founder who would rather do literally anything than open a spreadsheet, this is your “where did it all go” button — just double-check any big number with your bank, because Claude can still get the math wrong.
See you in the room,
Courtney