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🤖 Anthropic and OpenAI Share How We Use Their Tools

🤖 Anthropic and OpenAI Share How We Use Their Tools

Plus: Microsoft-OpenAI Tensions and Albania's AI Minister

September 18, 2025

Hello AI Enthusiast,

This week brought some revealing data about how AI is actually being used in the real world, along with clear signs that the biggest partnerships in the industry are starting to crack. Meanwhile, one country decided to skip the usual debates about AI in government and just appointed an AI assistant as a cabinet minister to handle corruption. Let’s dive in.

The Big Picture 🔊

Anthropic and OpenAI Release AI Usage Studies

Both companies dropped studies showing how people actually use AI. Anthropic found that wealthy countries dominate usage and people are getting way more comfortable letting AI work independently - automation jumped from 27% to 39% since December. OpenAI studied 1.5 million ChatGPT conversations and found the gender gap has mostly closed, with people using it for everyday stuff like getting information and writing help.

Gianluca MauroFounder and AI Rockstar

OpenAI's claim that AI should be a "basic human right" shows they're thinking way beyond company building. They see themselves as essential infrastructure. The automation jump from 27% to 39% in under a year means people are getting comfortable letting AI work independently.

These studies miss enterprise reality though, they're analyzing voluntary users who love AI, not the folks whose managers just handed them a license.

These studies show most organizations are still figuring out basic AI implementation while a few are already automating complex workflows. Our Corporate AI Training helps you identify where AI actually adds value versus where it creates more work, so you can build a strategic adoption plan instead of experimenting blindly.

Microsoft and OpenAI's Relationship Gets Complicated

The Microsoft-OpenAI partnership is falling apart in slow motion. OpenAI signed a $300 billion Oracle deal while Microsoft is adding Anthropic's Claude to Office apps. Both companies put out vague corporate speak about a "non-binding memorandum of understanding" - basically stalling for time. OpenAI is building a LinkedIn competitor and developing its own chips, Microsoft is building in-house models.

Helin YontarCPO and Polyglot

That "non-binding memorandum of understanding" is corporate divorce speak. They're working on splitting up while trying not to spook investors.

The original partnership made sense when Microsoft handled enterprise while OpenAI focused on consumers, but now they're direct competitors building their own infrastructure. The contract probably doesn't match reality anymore.

Albania Appoints AI as Cabinet Minister

Albania just made Diella, an AI assistant, the world's first virtual cabinet minister. Prime Minister Edi Rama says the AI will take over public procurement to eliminate corruption by objectively assessing government contracts without human interference. Diella has been helping citizens navigate services since January and now gets promoted to tackle Albania's tender corruption problems.

Biljana PrlichkovaPRM and Outdoor Enthusiast

This looks like political theater. The traditional costume detail shows they understand people need to connect with technology. The real test comes when Diella makes a questionable decision - who gets overruled then?

It's probably more about looking tech-savvy for voters than actually solving problems, but it's still an interesting experiment in AI governance.

Bits and Bobs 🗞️

ByteDance's new Seedream 4.0 combines fast text-to-image generation and image editing in one AI system, offering advanced style transfer and direct image adjustments via text prompts.
ElevenLabs' new voice remixing, now in alpha, lets users modify core attributes of existing voices via natural language prompts while keeping their unique traits.
Replit's Agent 3 is a new AI agent offering 10× more autonomy, able to manage extended development tasks and automate workflows with third-party tools.
Claude's new preview feature allows users to create and edit Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and PDF files directly through AI-driven instructions, turning complex tasks like data analysis and report building into quick conversations.
OpenAI released GPT-5-Codex, an AI model optimized for coding tasks like software engineering, code reviews, and debugging, designed to work interactively and independently within developer tools like IDEs, CLI, and GitHub.
OpenAI announced OpenAI Grove, a new program offering early-stage AI builders access to mentorship, resources, and exclusive tools while they develop AI ideas alongside OpenAI researchers.
OpenAI and Anthropic have entered voluntary agreements with US CAISI and UK AISI to strengthen AI safeguards through ongoing collaboration, red-teaming, and feedback.
Fiverr is cutting 250 jobs to restructure as an AI-first company, aiming to boost efficiency and integrate AI deeply into its freelance services platform.
Adobe is adding Google's image AI "Nano Banana" (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) as an optional tool in Photoshop to enhance image editing.

Tribal News🫂

Yesterday we kicked off the second edition of our AI Avatar Bootcamp, where we teach how to create speaking avatars and automate the entire process. It's fascinating watching people discover they can build professional-quality avatars without any technical background. This program is exclusively available to our Members.

From Our Founder’s Channels 🤳

In a recent LinkedIn post, Gianluca Mauro warns that AI paranoia - dismissing real images as fake - may be more dangerous than believing AI-generated fakes.

LOLgorithms 😂

When you read OpenAI and Microsoft's corporate jargon about non-binding memorandums, people start drawing some colorful conclusions.

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Catch you next week! 👋