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Google’s AI Mode now supports linking and interacting with select apps (e.g., Instacart, Canva, YouTube) to complete tasks, with US rollout and more apps coming, signaling a shift from Q&A to cross-app task execution and stronger competitive positioning versus ChatGPT/Claude.
Three-year ChatGPT anniversary highlights huge market concentration in AI leaders (notably Nvidia), strong index gains since launch, and ongoing OpenAI app platform testing with regulatory/UX implications.
Apple’s enforcement of a long-standing App Store rule against runtime-generated apps is squeezing Replit and similar AI-forward software, while OpenAI’s app-directory model signals a shift up the software-distribution stack with regulatory and antitrust implications.
Public sentiment toward AI is highly skeptical despite widespread usage, backed by poll data, while regulatory and political headwinds (notably opposition to data-center growth) underscore real investment and operating risks; the piece critiques “software brain” as an oversimplified view of reality and warns against forcing life into databases.
Canva is pivoting to an AI-centric enterprise platform (Canva AI 2.0) to automate end-to-end workfl ows, backed by rapid enterprise growth, in-house model development, and multi-vendor AI partnerships, while facing competitive and regulatory/branding headwinds.
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