Good morning, AI enthusiasts. OpenAI just handed developers the reins to its viral image model, opening up SOTA AI creativity to thousands of apps and services overnight.

With cheap pricing and the power to render accurate text, edit images, and create diverse visual styles now embeddable in any app, OpenAI is muscling into workflows once dominated by its creative-focused rivals.

In today’s AI rundown:

• OpenAI unlocks powerful image creation via API

• Microsoft’s new AI agents, workplace AI research

• Prepare for meetings instantly with Claude

• Ex-staff, experts challenge OpenAI’s restructuring

• 4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

OPENAI

🎨 OpenAI unlocks powerful image creation via API

Image source: OpenAI

The Rundown: OpenAI just launched its advanced image generation model, gpt-image-1, to developers via API — bringing the viral success of ChatGPT's image capabilities to third-party applications and platforms.

The details:

• The gpt-image-1 model powers ChatGPT's image generation feature, which produced over 700 million images in just one week after its launch in March.

• The model enables high-quality image creation with varied styles, accurate text rendering, enhanced image editing, and more.

• OpenAI revealed that major platforms, including Adobe, Figma, and Canva, are already integrating the technology for professional design workflows.

• Developers can also control the moderation level to tailor generated content safety, with standard "auto" filtering or less restrictive "low" moderation.

• Pricing is structured per token usage, with text prompts ($5 / 1M), input images ($10 / 1M), and output images ($40 / 1M), or ≈2-19c per image based on quality.

Why it matters: After ChatGPT's image generator went viral last month, OpenAI is positioning itself to power the next wave of AI-enhanced creative tools — and there will be a TON of them. The API release also deepens the broader creative ecosystem’s reliance on OpenAI, a position previously held by other rivals.

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The Rundown: AI tools are reshaping how teams work—but enterprise adoption takes more than innovation. It demands security. WorkOS provides drop-in APIs to help you meet enterprise requirements fast—without months of custom development.

With WorkOS, you'll:

• Quickly integrate SSO, SCIM, audit logs, and more

• Get Enterprise Ready in days, not months

• Join OpenAI, Perplexity, and Cursor in scaling faster

Make your app Enterprise Ready with WorkOS today.

MICROSOFT

🤖 Microsoft’s new AI agents, workplace AI research

Image source: Microsoft

The Rundown: Microsoft just released two new Copilot agents, Researcher and Analyst, alongside its 2025 Work Trend Index report — which maps out the rise of AI-centric, human-led “Frontier Firms” set to reshape the workplace.

The details:

• Researcher and Analyst bring deep reasoning to M365 Copilot for complex research and data science tasks like forecasting.

• The agents are rolling out as part of Copilot’s “Frontier” early access program, alongside updates that let companies build autonomous multi-agent systems.

• Microsoft's research across 31,000 workers shows companies leading in AI adoption are seeing major results:

  • 71% report their company is thriving vs 37% globally

  • 55% say they can handle increased workloads vs 20% globally

  • Workers show higher optimism about career opportunities

• Microsoft also believes that every employee will become an “agent boss,” with all companies becoming AI-human “Frontier Firms” for operations in 2-5 years.

Why it matters: Microsoft’s agent release coincides nicely with how the company views the future of work: one dominated by AI agents, but managed by humans. We’re in the beginning stages of a complete shift in how work gets done — with human-agent teams becoming the norm and companies moving to fully hybrid, AI-infused structures.

AI TRAINING

🤝 Prepare for meetings instantly with Claude

The Rundown: In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Claude's integration with Calendar and Gmail to easily research meeting participants, analyze previous communications, and get detailed company information all in one place.

Step-by-step:

1. Head over to Claude and click the settings menu to toggle Gmail and Calendar search.

2. Ask Claude to check your calendar and research participants by using a prompt like: "Check my calendar for Thursday and provide a brief summary about the participants and company."

3. Review past communications by asking: "Check my email for previous conversations with [name] or someone from [company]."

4. Request to recommend talking points based on the combined insights.

Note: Only connect your accounts if you feel comfortable sharing your information with Claude. Also, you can toggle these features on or off at any time for privacy control.

PRESENTED BY QWIET

🛡️ Revolutionizing AppSec with agentic AI

The Rundown: Qwiet AI’s Multi-AI Agent Approach revolutionizes application security (AppSec) by using multiple AI agents to provide enhanced code security and significantly improve efficiency between security and developer teams.

In this webinar, you’ll discover:

• Why multiple AI agents outperform single-agent solutions

• How Agentic AI corrects code vulnerabilities even when standard AI copilots fail

• The critical partnership between humans and AI in effective AppSec

Learn more and experience smarter AppSec with Qwiet AI.

OPENAI VS. THE INDUSTRY

❌ Ex-staff, experts challenge OpenAI's restructuring

Image source: Not For Private Gain

The Rundown: More than 30 AI experts and ex-OpenAI staffers published an open letter urging the attorneys general of Delaware and California to block OpenAI’s restructuring, warning it would undermine its original mission to benefit humanity.

The details:

• 9 former OpenAI employees joined notable figures like AI ‘godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton in calling to block the startup’s transition from nonprofit to for-profit.

• They argue the move will remove vital nonprofit oversight and safeguards, and redirect AGI development from public benefit to shareholder returns.

• OpenAI needs transition approval from both state AGs by year-end to secure a pending $40B SoftBank investment contingent on the restructuring.

• The letter follows an earlier motion by 12 former employees seeking to weigh in on Elon Musk's lawsuit against the company and CEO Sam Altman.

Why it matters: With billions in investments hanging in the balance and both former employees and AI heavyweights lining up against the AI leader, the opposition continues to mount against OpenAI’s for-profit shift — but we’ve seen little movement to suggest the transition is in jeopardy, despite the red flags being raised.

QUICK HITS

🛠️ Trending AI Tools

• 🗣️ Dia 1.6B - Open-source text-to-speech AI with emotion controls and more

• 🎬 AvatarFX - Create long-form, coherent talking avatars from a reference photo

• 🤖 Kortix Suna - Open-source AI agent built to work like a human

• 📋 ShumerPrompt - Discover and share powerful AI prompts

💼 AI Job Opportunities

• 📱 Pika - Software Engineer

• 🤖 Snorkel - AI Solutions Engineer

• 🧾 Synthesia - Financial Accountant

• 💼 Glean - Strategic Finance Lead

📰 Everything else in AI today

Perplexity released its Perplexity Assistant app on iOS, allowing users to take agentic actions, access web browsing, and more on mobile using voice commands.

ByteDance’s Dreamina launched Seedream 3.0, a new text-to-image model that ranks No. 2 on Artificial Analysis’ Image Arena Leaderboard behind only GPT-4o.

OpenAI is reportedly forecasting sales of $125B in 2029 and $174B in 2030, powered by AI agents, “new products,” and API and user growth.

NVIDIA released its NeMo microservices suite, allowing enterprises to easily build AI agents with optimized company data flywheels for high-quality performance.

BMW announced plans to integrate Chinese startup DeepSeek’s AI models into its new vehicles in the region starting later this year.

Tempus AI is partnering with biotech giants AstraZeneca and Pathos to develop the industry’s largest multimodal foundation model for cancer treatment discovery.

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Rowan, Joey, Zach, Alvaro, and Jason—The Rundown’s editorial team