Claude Takes Over Excel, Odyssey Rewrites Video, and GPT-5 Grows a Heart

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If it feels like AI’s sneaking into every app, spreadsheet, and video stream you touch — that’s because it is. Today we’ve got Anthropic turning Excel into a finance nerd’s dream, Odyssey-2 turning AI video into live playgrounds, and GPT-5 getting surprisingly empathetic. Let’s dig in. 🧠⚡

📊 Anthropic Brings Claude to Excel

The spreadsheet just got an AI co-pilot.

Anthropic’s taking the fight to Copilot with Claude for Excel — a new integration that lets you explain, clean, and build spreadsheets directly in Excel’s sidebar.

🧾 The details:

• Claude can fix formulas, populate templates, and build full models from scratch.

• Seven new connectors link it to platforms like LSEG, Aiera, and Moody’s for market data and credit ratings.

• Anthropic also added finance-focused Agent Skills for company analysis and cash flow modeling.

💭 Why it matters: With native Excel access and financial data hookups, Claude could become every analyst’s quiet favorite — and the first serious challenger to Microsoft’s Copilot dominance.

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🎥 Odyssey-2 Turns AI Video Into Real-Time Worlds

The line between prompt and play just got blurry.

Meet Odyssey-2 — a model that generates AI video as you type, streaming at 20 frames per second. Think “AI world-building meets Twitch.”

🎮 The details:

• Each new frame builds instantly on the last — no waiting for rendering.

• Users guide the action mid-video through text prompts in a chat box.

• The model even learns physics to simulate water, light, and motion naturally.

💭 Why it matters: Odyssey-2 isn’t just a video model — it’s an experiment in real-time, interactive storytelling. A glimpse of the future where you don’t watch content, you shape it.

🧠 OpenAI’s GPT-5 Gets Serious About Mental Health

Empathy meets engineering.

After consulting with 170+ mental health pros, OpenAI’s updated GPT-5 to better recognize and handle users in emotional crisis.

🩺 The details:

• Clinicians rated GPT-5 91% compliant with mental health protocols (vs. 77% for GPT-4o).

• The model now expresses empathy without reinforcing delusions.

• OpenAI revealed that ~0.07% of its 800M weekly users show signs of psychosis or mania — that’s millions of critical conversations.

💭 Why it matters: With mental health becoming an unexpected AI frontier, OpenAI’s updates may be the first step toward making LLMs safer — or at least, more human.

🗞️ Other News

🧩 MiniMax released M2, now the strongest open AI model (#4 on Artificial Analysis’ index).
⚙️ Qualcomm unveiled the AI200 data center chip — first customer? Saudi startup Humain.
💰 AMD + U.S. Dept of Energy signed a $1B deal to build two AI-powered supercomputers.
🚀 Mercor raised $350M at a $10B valuation after pivoting to AI data labeling.
💳 Expense-fraud alert: AI-faked receipts now make up 14% of detected frauds — that’s over $1M in fake invoices.
💼 Amazon is laying off up to 30,000 employees amid AI-driven cost cuts.
🏢 Anthropic expects $9B annual revenue run rate — roughly 80% from corporate clients.
🧠 Sam Altman’s Merge Labs may use sound waves (not surgery) for its brain-computer interface.
🔍 Meta tapped Vishal Shah to bridge AI research and its next-gen products.

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• Pixelshot - Turn ordinary photos into sales machines with AI

• Voicetypr - Offline AI voice-to-text app for founders and builders

• Revise - Polish your writing without losing your voice and style

💡What else are we reading and seeing?

• Why IP address truncation fails at anonymization

• More Big Companies Bet They Can Still Grow Without Hiring

• Musk's Wikipedia rival site live after crashing on launch day

• Saudi Arabia, Rich With Oil, Wants to Be Known as the AI Exporter

• Inside the Minds Building the Future: Notes from the Progress Conference 2025

• The renaissance of written coding conventions: Because AI reads manuals, too

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💬 Takeaway:
AI’s moving from hype to habit — from your spreadsheets to your sanity checks.

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