Welcome back, fellow AI enthusiast. Economists and researchers are putting numbers on when AI's job shock might hit. Musk and Altman are back at each other's throats after Apple's OpenAI lawsuit. Plus, how to turn ChatGPT into your inbox assistant, and three trendy AI tools worth a look. It's a big one today, let's get into it.
Today In AI:
Economists, researchers weigh in on the timeline for AI's job shock
Musk, Altman trade insults after Apple's OpenAI lawsuit
How to make ChatGPT your inbox assistant
3 trendy AI tools and more
Latest Highlights
AI & THE ECONOMY
Image source: Stanford Digital Economy Lab
Summary: 200+ AI researchers and economists, including 16 Nobel winners, just signed "We Must Act Now," a Stanford-organized statement telling governments to build safety nets and labor policy for an economic shift like the Industrial Revolution.
Details:
The three core points: AI will grow "radically more powerful" within 10 years, the shift could be the biggest and fastest ever, and prep must start now.
Several leaders from top AI labs signed, including Google's Jeff Dean, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, and OpenAI's Sarah Friar.
UVA economist Anton Korinek said, "Steam, electricity, and computers each gave societies decades to adapt; AI may give us only a few years."
Why it matters: The letter is light on specifics but heavy on signatories, with one main theme: change is coming much faster than the world's current structures are built for. But with experts still split on questions like job losses and governments rarely known for moving quickly, getting big names behind the same warning might be the easy part.
ELON MUSK VS SAM ALTMAN
Image source: FoundxStudio
Summary: Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI just gave the Musk-Altman feud a fresh reason to flare up. Musk accused Altman of ripping off "all of Apple's phone technology," while Altman took a shot at SpaceX's space data center plans.
Details:
Musk spent the weekend on X saying Altman "takes scamming to a whole new level" and "might literally love scamming more than any human alive!"
Altman clapped back, telling Musk "homeboy you're the one selling public market investors on short-term space datacenters."
Musk shot back that "we start flying them next year," and added that Altman could "come see them if your parole officer approves."
Altman then joked that the clearest sign OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 Sol is the world's top model is "that Elon is obsessed with me again."
AI Tutorial
How to make ChatGPT your inbox assistant
Head to ChatGPT and switch to the "Work" tab at the top of the screen
Click Plugins > Connect Plugins > browse all plugins > search for "Gmail" > Install
Optionally connect Slack and Google Drive too, so ChatGPT can pull in missing project details, files, decisions, or updates
Once connected, use the prompt below with your plugins
Sample Prompt: Check my @gmail, figure out what I need to respond to, and write drafts in my voice. Use my recent sent replies or @google-drive [writing examples] for tone. Pull from @slack, @google-drive, or other sources where my work lives if the email is missing the latest decision, owner, file, or blocker.
ChatGPT will scan your inbox, flag the important messages, and draft replies for you
Review the drafts and tell ChatGPT which emails to prioritize, skip, or handle differently going forward
Once the drafts are solid, have ChatGPT set up a recurring inbox check at a time that works for you
Quick Hits
📈 Trending AI Tools
OpenCode - An open-source, model-agnostic coding agent that's overtaken Cursor in adoption, with 160K+ GitHub stars and support for 75+ model providers
Higgsfield - An all-in-one creative studio for AI image and video generation, built for production work rather than one-off experiments
Fathom - Records meetings and auto-generates summaries and action items, quietly becoming a staple for teams drowning in calls
📰 Everything else in AI this week
OpenAI launched its first hardware product, the $230 Codex Micro, a macro pad built with Work Louder that gives coding-agent users tactile shortcuts and live RGB status lights for active Codex threads.
OpenAI reportedly offered the US government a 5% stake in the company, worth around $42.6 billion at its current valuation.
Meta unveiled Meta Business Agent and a new cloud arm, Meta Compute, aiming to turn WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram conversations into enterprise AI agents.
The New York Times filed a motion seeking sanctions against OpenAI, alleging the company withheld training-data evidence in its copyright case.
An open-source tool called Colibri can reportedly run a 744-billion-parameter model on a 25GB laptop with no GPU, by activating only a small slice of the model per response.
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