Meet ChatGPT Agent: Your AI That Browses, Plans, Analyzes, and Executes
With Mistral's Le Chat Level up and Veo3's Gemini launch in tow
TLDR; In today’s Signal
Google Launches Veo 3 in Gemini API
Anthropic Restricts Claude Code Access Without Warning
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent: The AI That Gets Things Done
Mistral’s Le Chat Levels Up with Deep Research Mode
Slack’s AI Helps Decode Your Company’s Jargon
Amazon Now Requires AI Usage Evidence for Promotions
Perplexity Reaches $18 Billion Valuation After $100M Extension
Banyan Ventures Raises $10M AI Seed Fund
THE AI SIGNAL PICKS
Google Launches Veo 3 in Gemini API
Google has added its capital-V Veo 3 video generation model to the Gemini API, enabling developers to generate 720p, 24fps videos with native audio directly via Google Cloud. Veo 3 is Google’s first model to generate synchronized soundtracks, including dialogue and effects, within the video—unlike Veo 2, which produced silent clips. Developers can now access Veo 3 through Gemini API and Vertex AI, alongside SDK templates and a starter app via Google AI Studio—trial access requires a paid Google Cloud project
Anthropic Restricts Claude Code Access Without Warning
Recently, heavy users of Claude Code, have been unexpectedly hitting stricter usage limits. Without any official announcement, users encountered vague messages like “Claude usage limit reached”, followed by a countdown to reset. However, without clarity on what triggered the caps, many assumed their subscriptions were unfairly downgraded or the tracking system had malfunctioned
Adobe’s Firefly Tool Turns Hummed Noises into Realistic Audio Effects
Adobe's Firefly platform now includes a beta tool called “Generate Sound Effects,” letting creators turn onomatopoeic noises—like “clip clop” or “snap”—into lifelike audio effects. Users can mimic sounds into their mic while lining them up on a video timeline and adding a text description
Citi and Ant International Pilot AI FX Tool to Slash Hedging Costs
Citigroup and Ant International have launched a pilot program that integrates Citi’s Fixed FX Rates solution with Ant International’s Falcon Time‑Series Transformer (TST), an advanced AI forecasting model. The initiative is designed to help clients—starting with aviation companies—better manage foreign exchange risk and substantially reduce hedging costs
THE BIG LEAP
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent: The AI That Gets Things Done
Video source: OpenAI on X
Signal Scoop: OpenAI has officially launched the ChatGPT Agent, a major leap from conversational AI to actionable AI. Powered by a new dedicated model trained with reinforcement learning, the ChatGPT Agent doesn’t just answer questions—it autonomously performs real-world digital tasks on your behalf.
The Full Picture
The ChatGPT Agent can interact with your device or browser to perform multi-step tasks such as: Booking tickets, filling out web forms managing files, documents, and calendar, writing code and running scripts, conducting complex research and generating presentations or reports
It's built on a dedicated reinforcement learning–trained model, tuned specifically to understand instructions, plan tasks, and take actions with minimal intervention.
The agent operates inside a virtual computer environment, simulating real-world use. It can navigate GUIs, read on-screen content, click buttons, type responses, and interact with apps and web tools.
It asks for explicit user approval before sensitive actions (e.g., sending emails, making purchases).
Eventually, OpenAI plans to let developers build their own agents using this framework, opening the door for AI-powered workflows across industries.
What You Can’t Miss
The launch of the ChatGPT Agent is a clear signpost: OpenAI is moving toward autonomous digital workers. This is more than automation—it’s the beginning of AI systems that understand not just what you ask, but what you mean, and can execute your goals across complex digital environments.
Mistral’s Le Chat Levels Up with Deep Research Mode
Signal Scoop: Mistral AI has significantly upgraded its conversational assistant, Le Chat, by introducing a powerful new Deep Research mode aimed at boosting productivity. Alongside this, the chatbot now supports voice interaction, multilingual reasoning, project organization, and image editing—all designed to transform Le Chat into a full-fledged assistant for both enterprise and consumer use
The Full Picture
Acts like a coordinated research assistant: it plans, clarifies user intent, searches credible sources, and synthesizes structured, reference-backed reports with lightning-fast results
Powered by Mistral’s own Voxtral model, users can now speak to Le Chat naturally ideal for meetings, brainstorming, or on-the-go queries
Supports reasoning in multiple languages (e.g., French, Spanish, Japanese), with seamless code-switching mid-conversation
Lets users group related chats, files, and settings into context-rich workspaces for better continuity and long-term tasks
Integrated with Black Forest Labs: make visual edits like “remove this object” or “place me in another city,” preserving consistent details across images
Le Chat can integrate with on-prem and virtual private cloud systems, allowing secure access to internal data—key for regulated sectors like banking, defense, and government
What You Can’t Miss
With Deep Research, voice mode, image editing, and multilingual support, Le Chat stands toe-to-toe with ChatGPT and Gemini—while offering many features on its free tier. By enabling on-prem connectors and local data usage, Mistral delivers a unique value proposition in privacy-conscious industries compared to cloud-native rivals.
ON THE AI EDGE
Slack’s AI Helps Decode Your Company’s Jargon
Slack is rolling out an AI-powered message context feature that instantly clarifies internal jargon, acronyms, project names, or team-by-team shorthand. When users hover over unfamiliar terms, Slack displays explanations drawn from the conversation history and workspace-specific vocabulary—streamlining onboarding and communication across the organization.
Amazon Now Requires AI Usage Evidence for Promotions at Ring and Related Units
Amazon has rolled out a new internal policy within its RBKS organization—which includes Ring, Blink, Key in-home delivery, and the Sidewalk wireless network, requiring employees to demonstrate real-world AI usage to be eligible for promotion.
AI Firms ‘Unprepared’ for Dangers of Human-Level Systems, New Report Warns
A new safety index issued by the Future of Life Institute (FLI) delivered a stark verdict: key AI companies including OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta, xAI, Anthropic, China’s Zhipu AI, and DeepSeek are “fundamentally unprepared” to manage the risks associated with achieving human-level artificial intelligence (AGI).
AI START-UP NEWS
Perplexity Reaches $18 Billion Valuation After $100M Extension
Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine that launched in 2022, has secured $100 million in fresh funding—bringing its valuation up to $18 billion, just two months after a prior round valued it at $14 billion.
Banyan Ventures Raises $10M AI Seed Fund
Sam Awrabi has closed a $10 million seed fund under Banyan Ventures, targeting AI infrastructure and software startups. The fund will back early-stage teams (seed/pre-seed) working on inference chips, server cooling, workflow optimization, and domain-specific data applications
Confident Security, “The Signal for AI” Goes Public with $4.2M Seed Funding
Confident Security, a San Francisco–based startup, today exited stealth mode with $4.2 million in seed funding. The company positions itself as “the Signal for AI”—offering provably private AI infrastructure that shields enterprise data from being accessed, stored, or used for training by cloud providers or third parties
NEW TOOLS, NEW POSSIBILITIES
Let's Enhance: Use AI to upscale small or pixelated images
Viggle: Convert images of people into any animation you'd like
Maze: Discord-based generative art platform
Touchbase: A tool for relationship management to track interactions
Kaiber: Video generation engine, using your own images or text
AI CAREER HORIZON
SmarterDx: Senior Machine Learning Research Scientist (Remote, U.S)
Splunk: Senior Principal Machine Learning Engineer-AI (Remote, U.S)
AlphaSense: Senior AI Engineer - Expert Research (Remote, U.S)
Airbnb: Senior Software Engineer, ML Infrastructure (Remote, U.S)
Upstart: Staff Research Scientist - Growth (Remote, U.S)
Elevate your experience. Join our community
Please help us get better and suggest new ideas at ceo@theaisignal.com