{{first_name | Leader}}, welcome back.
AI had a “grown-up” day. New ways to build inside ChatGPT, big capital conversations, and a clear signal that real businesses are already scaling. These are today’s updates.
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ChatGPT opens in-app AI app store
OpenAI and Amazon discuss $10B+ investment
Manus reaches $125M revenue run rate
Tools, resources, and a prompt to see what needs a clean reset in January. ⬇️
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OpenAI just turned ChatGPT into more than a chatbot. There’s now an in-chat app store where developers can plug apps directly into conversations. You can book travel, make decks, search listings, or pull data without leaving the chat. Early partners include Expedia, Spotify, Zillow, and Canva, which tells you OpenAI is serious about distribution.
What’s interesting here is the direction. ChatGPT is starting to look like an operating system where work actually happens. Attention is shifting into chat, and execution is following it.
OpenAI is reportedly in talks with Amazon for a massive investment, possibly north of ten billion dollars. The discussions include deeper collaboration around Amazon’s custom AI chips and cloud infrastructure. If this goes through, OpenAI’s valuation could cross five hundred billion dollars and its multi-cloud strategy would expand well beyond Microsoft.
Capital, compute, and cloud are becoming inseparable in AI. It’s a reminder that vendor choices are increasingly shaped by infrastructure alliances, not just model quality.
Manus, an AI agent startup out of Singapore, says it has reached a $125 million dollar revenue run rate in under a year. Growth reportedly accelerated after its Manus 1.5 release, with over 20 percent month-over-month expansion driven by agent-based task execution.
This shows how fast agent platforms can scale when they actually execute work end-to-end. Global agent-first companies are moving quickly, and enterprises will feel that pressure sooner than expected.
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New apps are popping up across the ChatGPT and Anthropic ecosystems.
You can now design full presentations inside ChatGPT using Canva.
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Tebra raised $250M to expand AI-driven platforms for healthcare practice growth.
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What Needs a Clean Reset in January
When to use this? When you want to start the new year without carrying hidden mess, unclear ownership, or half-working systems into Q1.
You are my Chief of Staff preparing us for a clean January reset.
Based on the update below, identify:
Processes that need a reset (not optimization)
Decisions that must be re-made in January with fresh data
Ownership gaps that need to be clarified
One reset action per function (Marketing, Sales, AI/Tech)
Keep it practical, decisive, and under 180 words.
Update: [paste year-end realities, friction points, or what felt “off” this year]Correct Input Style:
Update: Campaign reporting feels heavy and slow.
Sales handoffs between SDRs and AEs are inconsistent.
AI tools exist but adoption is uneven.
Too many approvals slowed execution this year.
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Q. When should you build internal AI tools instead of buying off-the-shelf?
Stay curious, {{first_name | leaders}}
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