Monday’s AI Report
• 1. 🔮 OpenAI and Ive’s secret device revealed?
• 2. 🔁 Reshape your AI strategy with IBM
• 3. 🌍 How AI increased productivity by 70%
• 4. 💼 Build a 6-figure AI consulting career with Innovating with AI
• 5. 💡 Partner Perspectives
• 6. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 7. ⚠️ ChatGPT flaw exposed Gmail accounts
• 8. 🏆 Huawei set to replace NVIDIA
• 9. 📑 Recommended resources
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❓Monday’s Partner Perspective: Are you pioneering for impact, or just chasing shiny objects? Scroll to see what Orbit Flows co-founder, Louis Shulman, thinks ⬇️
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OpenAI and Ive’s secret device revealed?
🚨 Our Report
According to people “with direct knowledge of the matter,” the first secret device that OpenAI and Apple’s former Chief Design Officer, Jonny Ive (who designed iconic Apple products, including the iPod, iPhone, and Apple Watch) is developing, “resembles a smart speaker without a display.”
🔓 Key Points
In May, OpenAI announced that the partnership with Ives would produce a “family of devices,” with the first being pocket-sized, contextually aware, and screenless, which appears to align with these new rumors.
Plus, despite denying that the new device wouldn’t be glasses, these rumors also suggest that OpenAI and Ives are developing smart eyewear, a digital voice recorder, and a wearable pin, for launch in 2026/27.
The wearable pin is a surprising addition, as Ives previously slated Humane’s AI Pin and hinted that they could be developing an in-ear device, instead. But this is noticeably absent from the rumored product line-up.
🔐 Relevance
OpenAI has been busy securing contracts with Apple’s major Chinese suppliers to help build these devices. It's already signed a contract with Luxshare (which assembles Apple iPhones and AirPods), and has approached Goertak (which assembles Apple HomePods and Apple Watches). And, they’ve been poaching Apple employees, including Apple’s former product design lead, Tang Tan, who is reportedly encouraging other Apple employees to jump ship by promising them they will “encounter less bureaucracy and more collaboration at OpenAI.”
Six Shifts To Help Reshape Your AI Strategy
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Don’t Let AI Innovation Kill Your Business
By Louis Shulman · Co-Founder of Orbit Flows
The AI Report Partner Perspectives Column
“Your business exists to deliver customer value, not showcase technology.”
AI is powerful, but it’s easy to get seduced by novelty. The only two equations that matter are sales and fulfillment. AI only matters if it directly unlocks your real bottleneck.
How AI increased productivity by 70%
Drip Capital, a fintech start-up, was spending hours on repetitive, manual tasks like reviewing documents, verifying invoices, and client communication.
As they grew, they found that scaling these manual workflows was expensive and risked errors that might hurt customer trust.
They integrated AI tools to automate tasks like extracting key information from documents and surfacing discrepancies or missing information.
As a result, they found that employees working with these AI tools were 70% more productive.
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Researchers at cybersecurity firm Radware uncovered a major security flaw within ChatGPT’s Deep Research agent (which launched in February to help users analyze vast amounts of information).
According to the researchers, users who connected their Gmail accounts to the Deep Research agent may have unknowingly exposed sensitive data and information from their corporate Gmail accounts to hackers.
Although OpenAI confirmed it had fixed the issue and that there was no evidence that any user information had been exploited, Radware did say that if an account was compromised, “the company wouldn’t know.”
After the Chinese government stopped Chinese tech companies from buying NVIDIA chips, Huawei has now revealed a new three-year AI chip and infrastructure roadmap, as it steps up to compete with NVIDIA.
It announced, at its annual Huawei Connect conference, a new technology (SuperPoD Interconnect) that can link up to 15,000 AI chips together, to increase compute power, rivalling NVIDIA’s NVLink infrastructure.
Huawei’s AI chips are less powerful than NVIDIA’s, but, according to Huawei, this new technology will deliver “6.7 times more computing power than NVIDIA” to help users build, train, and scale AI products.
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