7th October - AI News Updates - ChatGPT Transforms into App Platform as "Agent Era" Acceleration Begins

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TOP HIGHLIGHTS:

• OpenAI and AMD signed a major GPU deal (~6 GW of Instinct GPUs), shifting AI compute dynamics away from NVIDIA's dominance
• ChatGPT evolves into an app platform with new Apps SDK, AgentKit/ChatKit for enhanced agent workflows
• Meta will use AI assistant conversations for targeted advertising (Dec 16, 2025) without opt-out options
• Figure humanoid robots now work full shifts at BMW factories; Amazon advances robot training from human motion
• Google's Gemini 3 positioned to challenge GPT-5 with faster responses and better multimodal capabilities

NEW TOOLS: OpenAI's Apps SDK/AgentKit/ChatKit, Codex GA with Slack/GitHub integration, affordable gpt-realtime-mini for voice AI, Gemini CLI in Kali Linux for security testing, Visual Studio Remote AI Agents, and Opera Neon AI Browser

LLM UPDATES: GLM-4.6 leads open-model leaderboards, IBM's Granite 4.0 H Tiny runs on iPhone 17 Pro, ServiceNow's Apriel-1.5 matches larger models on single GPU, Tencent's Hunyuan Vision 1.5 ranks #3 in vision, speed improvements for GPT-5 Pro/codex, and Google's Gemini 3 challenging GPT-5

RESEARCH: Google's CodeMender autonomously patches security flaws, Anthropic's Petri for auditing model behaviors, AI-mapped antibiotics for Crohn's disease, single-cell discovery tools for precision medicine, Amazon's robot learning from human motion, and IBM's improved training data quality

INDUSTRY: OpenAI-AMD partnership challenges NVIDIA, NVIDIA hits $4T valuation, Meta using AI chat data for ads without opt-out, Pentagon warns of AI weapons risks, OpenAI & Stripe propose agent commerce protocol, and Google's $20K AI bug bounty program

TUTORIALS: OpenAI Evals Cookbook, mixture-of-experts model training, Transformers codebase management, DSPy prompt optimization, AI storage cost reduction, and enterprise AI strategy guide

DEMOS: High-quality Sora+GLM-4.6 video generation, Mattel accelerating product design with Sora 2, Moondream Vision for rescue operations, Figure humanoids at BMW, Pika's script-to-scene video tool, and Synthesia 3.0's interactive avatars

TRENDS: 2025 as the "Agent Era" inflection point, benchmark improvements needed, FP8 training optimization challenges, debate over AI valuations, security concerns with natural-language coding, and growing public skepticism toward major AI products

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