Ep 802: ChatGPT’s Task Comeback, Claude’s Design upgrade, Codex Copies your workflow and 7 other Fresh AI features you’ll Want to use Today

crazy week of new AI features that you can use today. So while we were all paying so close attention to what was happening with Anthropic and the US government and Fable Five. Uh well, everyone just released a ton of new AI features that you can start using today. But unless you were spending hours every single day keeping up with it like I do, you probably missed a lot of these new updates.

That's why we have our Friday features show that brings you a bunch of new AI upgrades that you don't have to wait for. No wait lists, no coming soon. Go use them now. So Uh, welcome to everyday AI. But let's talk about what you're gonna learn on today's show. So you're gonna learn why Chat GPT getting rid of one feature was actually a big upgrade.

You're gonna know the simple Claude Code design upgrade that will make an instant difference. And you'll know if one of the biggest name intacks in tech will make a dent in the AI avatar space.

So it starts here with the unedited, unscripted live stream podcast. But make sure to go to our website at your everydayai.com and we're going to give you not just the recap of today's show with all the important links so you can go try all these new features.

Uh, but also we're gonna give you all of the other AI news and updates you need to know to be the smartest person in AI at your company. Let's get straight into it. A ton going on. Let's start with Chat GPT tasks. So uh this is technically something getting taken away. Because this announcement is actually ChatGPT's pulse going away and being replaced by ChatGPT tasks. Let me explain. So before ChatGPT tasks

uh was first, right? And then uh OpenAI kind of demoed uh and slowly rolled out this thing called Pulse, which was this proactive kind of agent that gave you kind of like a nice little web page. Uh, you know, every single day. based on your interests, different things that you were using Chad GPT for, et cetera. Um Personally, I didn't like pulse. I thought it was hard to steer. I didn't find a lot of value. But the thing that I actually disliked.

Was that on my ChatGPT Pro plan at least? I couldn't use Scheduled Tasks anymore because scheduled tasks were the precursor to pull. And then they kind of got rid of task on the pro plan. And I'm like, oh my gosh, I need my task back. And well, now tasks are back, but they're just back because pulse is gone, but now tasks are rolling out to everyone. Confusing. I know.

All right, so here's what it is. So ChatGPT can now perform tasks proactively in the background, including setting reminders, managing recurring work, and monitoring connected apps on the web on a schedule. So uh if you look in the left hand side, there should be a new dedicated scheduled page in the Chat GPT sidebar that lets users view, pause, resume, edit, and delete all active tasks in one place.

So like I said, with this, OpenAI is sunsetting pulse, that personalized daily summary thing. Uh, and instead everything is moving over to tech. So, who has updates? Well, this is starting to roll out now to essentially all paid plans. So, before to get this kind of Power, you had to have that uh pro plan for pulse, but now it is rolling out to all paid plans.

Uh no word yet on when the free tier might get access, but there's uh rumors that this might happen. Uh the cool thing is this is not just on the web, but it's also uh on iOS in Android as well. So uh here's what OpenAI says about it. They said we're making scheduled tasks easier to create and manage in ChatGPT with a dedicated scheduled page, improving task creation and editing flows, more flexible scheduling options, and better notifications.

Users can schedule one off in recurring tasks and also ask ChatGPT to check. For changes and notify them when there's a meaningful update. So that part is new, as far as I know. So you don't even have to tell it. Uh you don't even have to say check every single day at 9 a.m. Let's just say that you're trying to monitor one of your competitors as an example uh because you know that they're gonna be announcing a new product soon and there's a splash page and you want to know when it's up.

As an example, right? You don't even have to say check this page out every single day at 9 a.m. You can just say check it out and tell me when it's updated. So that right there is a new piece. Uh the cool thing and another thing that I like about this is they do have these kind of starter uh tasks that you can go in. So a lot of times I think staring at a blank canvas or a blank prompt box.

is intimidating. That's why I like the rollout of Workspace Agents a couple of months ago because it had a lot of good kind of templates. So same thing here with the schedule task. Uh and then you can also just uh kind of prompt them uh in the normal ChatGPT interface and then it will save there. Um so another thing to keep in mind. uses and can use all of your apps and connectors. So, you know, simple things like triaging your email, calendar, and, you know, Google Drive.

every single morning. So if you have different files floating around a drive, calendar appointments, all these things you need to do some research, you can have this as a scheduled task every single day if you've already connected. You know, in this case, your Gmail calendar and drive, you know, you can have it run every single day, 6 AM, give you a rundown, uh, really cool. And then, you know, you can obviously play around with it in natural language to get it set up. So

Uh I mean why is it useful? Well, I mean, hopefully you can tell, but I think it's the combination of scheduling something, uh, you know, kind of having this work proactively for you and using your connected app. That's the big combination there. So I think for a lot of people that aren't codex pilled yet, um, and you want this kind of taste.

of a proactive agent. This is enormous. It sounds small, right? It's like, okay, well, I could just go in and do this prompt when I need it. Yes, you can, uh, right. But the biggest thing with AI now is you want it working for you. Right. You should be prompting less and less in a prompt box. And you should instead be consuming more that agents are going out and doing on your behalf with your guidance. So who's going to find this valuable? I mean, anyone.

Right. If if you're whether you're marketing and ops professional, business operator, uh, it it doesn't matter. Uh so one other thing to keep in mind is you can right now, I think only create up to 10 tests at a time. So we'll see if that changes.

Uh hopefully it will. I would love to have hundred. All right, let's keep going. Our next one, Claude Design with some huge upgrades. All right. And let me say this. Claude Design, I think, was kind of polarizing when it was released.

uh you know designing powerpoints in claw design you know it was fine but a lot of uh you know the default everything in claw design looked the exact same

Uh right. So I think some of these new features that they announced will hopefully help in that and just make it a lot more useful. All right, so this was part of what Inthropic Claw called the Clawed Design June update. So here's what it is. So this was just announced and it brings in a real WYSIWAG editing. That is the what you see is what you get editing.

Right. So if you've ever used uh you know something like WordPress or Wix or you know, even like Canva is technically a what you see is what you get editor where you can literally go click on something and edit it, right? And you get new options. I mean, that's what you have now in claw design, which is really, really cool and really powerful. This is one I'm Stoked. This is uh, you know, one of the most excited releases that I've seen from Claude, probably since Artifact.

For me personally, I'm more excited to go use this new June update in claw design than I was with Fable. You know, Fable Five was cool and all. But for a lot of my head-to-head use cases, it performed about the same level as GPT-55 Pro. But let's talk a little bit more about the new update in Claude Design. So This has that new, like I said, WYSIWAG editing uh design system import.

two-way integration with Claude Code, which is great and I think was a uh sorely needed uh option from the original Claude design, better export options and deskto desktop support. So the design system you import into Claude Design is now the same component library that Claude Code uses to implement.

Creating a true round trip from prototype to production. And that's like what I said. That was one of those things that I thought was missing before in Claw Design. It just kind of lived there. And it was, you know, it didn't even live inside of. Claude chat. It was just its own kind of interface. You had to click design and it opened up a new tab, but now it is more tightly integrated in Claude Code, which is awesome. Right. So this is as an example, something I've been using a lot.

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Um, so who has access? So right now this is in beta uh on paid claude plans. So including Claude Pro, Max Team, and Enterprise Plans included with your subscription. So uh it is still in that kind of sidebar or at claud.ai slash design and it shares uh usage limits with your other right chat cowork, claude code, all that thing. Uh so here's why it's useful. Well you can bring your own design system into claw design from a GitHub repo, design file, raw upload, and then claude builds.

With your components and checks its output against the system rather than inventing its own buttons and spacing. So it also eliminates the rework loop between design and engineering, prototypes. that can go directly to Claude Code without respecing it, which is huge. And then some of the new export options, which I think are crazy powerful. So you can export.

To PDF and PowerPoint. That is the one small thing. I said, okay, this is gonna be big now. Uh, because, like I said, there were some things. trying to design like decks inside quad design that just didn't work out. But now that you can export PowerPoint. Uh that's huge. Or you can send work directly to third parties uh like Adobe, Base 44, Canva, Gamma, Lovable, Miro, Replit, Vercel, and Wix. That right there.

Enormous, enormous, right? Uh these tight integrations with all of these other uh kind of design or web platforms. I mean, for me personally, I'm gonna be using the Canva one a lot. I'm gonna at least try out the gamma and lovable one as well. All right, so here is what Claude says about the new update.

Um, Claude Design now sticks to your design system across projects, works fluidly with Claude Code, lets you edit directly on the canvas, and connects to more tools you already use. It has a new home in the sidebar. On the Claude Desktop app. You can also find it at Claude.ai/slash design. All right. I I I do want to read a little bit. Uh There we go.

Um about the editor here. about the uh what you see is what you get editor. All right. So where did that go? Where did that go? All right. I can't find all of the information that I wanted to. Where did it go? We'll just do a search for editor. There we go. Okay. So it says our new editor gives you direct fine-grained control over every element of your designs. New rich layout controls let you drag, resize, and align elements. hundreds of stability fixes make the editor hold up under real use.

So that's the thing that I think is going to be great. And then like I said, all of those export options. So who's going to find this valuable? Well, anyone, right? So if your product design, uh, developers, marketing, right? Anywhere uh also if you're using Canva, gamma, and you're not really happy with the designs. Uh, the overall quality of claw design is stellar if you aren't using the defaults. Because like I said, the defaults are just, you know.

So, so cookie cutter. Uh, so as long as you iterate a little bit in claw design and now the abilities that you have to better import your uh design um system and export to other third parties. Pretty big here. All right, let's keep moving. Uh, next we have a big tech player might be making a bigger splash in the AI Avatars game. So we have new updates. To Google vids. And I think people are gonna actually really like this. So here's what's new.

So reading this from the Google Workspace update, they said with the integration of Gemini 3.1 flash, text to speech, which came out a couple of weeks ago, and the latest capabilities in VO three point one. AI avatars in Google Vids have become more realistic and expressive than ever. We're excited to announce expanded language support, a new collection of avatar defaults, and the ability to direct your custom avatars.

to take action in any generated videos. So yeah, this is essentially uh combining a couple of, you know, more recent updates, specifically the uh Gemini 3.1 flash text to speech. uh in bringing that with VO3.1, Google's AI video model, into Google Vids. So a little bit more on what's new. So that now has different avatar options. Instead of 23, there's 53 default presets spinning from photo realistic, 3D cartoon, and graphic novel style.

Uh and VO video generations now run without duration limits up from the previous eight second cap. That's the thing that is going to make a big difference, I think.

Uh so who has access, anyone with a Google account in the US right now can try the new AI avatars in Google Vids at no additional cost. So the free tier limits to up to 10 VO uh generations a month, and then higher quotas are available on paid workspace plans. So here's why it's useful. I mean the there's also an updated Google Slides integration that lets users convert presentations into more scalable, engaging busy videos with just a few clicks.

Uh that one is gonna be big. Also, the custom avatars can now be directed to walk.

talk and interact with objects simply by typing a text prompt describing their actions, making product demos and tutorials much cheaper to produce. Uh that's another big one because I think a lot of times these avatars You know, it's always they're like they're kind of good, but they're kind of just clunky because they're just kind of you know robotic and not moving or you know, sometimes you'll add these jerky hand movements.

Uh, but now you can actually uh direct them inside Google Bids, you know, pick up a coffee cup, take a sip, you know, move your move your water from one side of the screen to the other, uh, you know, pet the cat on the desk, whatever it may be. Uh so a lot of added direction there. All right, let's keep it going. This one from a name we don't mention a whole lot, uh, but I think this is actually a Pretty big update and you can go use it now.

So this is Open Routers New Fusion. So Open Router Fusion lets you choose a panel of participant models alongside a judge model responsible for fusing the individual results together. So with fusion running your prompt through multiple models in parallel and then synthesizing a single output. So right now the quality preset defaults, uh well.

It did when it was released. So it defaulted to Fable Five plus GPT five point five. So whenever we get Fable Five back, whether that's today, Monday, seems like it might be soon-ish, according to the latest reporting. Uh I'm guessing the quality s uh preset will back Go uh go back to Fable 5 plus GPT 5.5. And then the budget preset runs Gemini 3 Flash and Kim uh Kimmy uh K2.6 and Deep Seek V4 Pro.

So Fusion launched publicly as an experiment a couple of months ago, but now has been fully integrated into OpenRouters API. So who has access? So if you have an open router account. Um, well, you have access. There's also a hundred and twenty-eight K context token window. So there is a way that you can go demo this and try it out here. Uh so I kind of have it on my screen. You can click try fusion now.

Uh and you can try it right here. Um, but I don't think that you can really do a lot of the more advanced Uh features. Um, you will have to have a paid plan for that, but you can at least go uh give it a shot, see if this works for you. Uh so Here's why I think it's useful. Well, because you can synthesize the results of multiple models, and that can significantly outperform what any individual model can produce on its own.

So this is kind of like a mixture of models that I've been talking about for a very long time. We've seen offerings from Perplexity and Microsoft, like uh, you know, the model council. That's this idea, right? Uh having one prompt.

And then having it go through multiple models, kind of back and forth, and then having a judge look at it on the back end. This is something, if I'm being honest, that I do manually all the freaking time. So that's why this one with model fusion, I'm probably gonna be using this uh a little bit uh just because it is so powerful to be able to use multiple models in different uh sequences or in different ways. A lot of times I'll have like an auditor.

uh you know, or you know, using sub agents for this in Claude Code or Codecs is really helpful as well. But this is just an easier way. If you're non-technical, you can go try it out uh at open uh let me just make sure I get this right, open router.ai. Slash fusion. So to run multiple models side by side, run an analysis and fuse into the best result. Uh so Pretty cool here. You have a quality option, a budget option, and then a custom option as well.

Uh, so who's gonna find this valuable? I mean, research and analysts running high-stakes, complex uh queries where output qualif uh where output quality justifies the higher per-call cost. Uh, developer teams that want to test cross-modensus without building their own routing infrastructure, and organizations that need frontier level reasoning without paying frontier level prices on every single call. All right. Uh let's go next. And we have artifacts.

Uh, I I miss Canvas. Bring it back, OpenAI. Just give me, give me my toggle. Uh, anyways, artifacts actually set the stage for all of this, but it was really just available in the claude.ai web interface. Not anymore. Let's talk about what's new in Claude Code artifacts. So Claude Code can now capture work progress as an artifact, turning Claude Code's work into live.

shareable visual pages, including PR walkthroughs, system explainers, dashboards, and release checklists that update themselves as the session works. So Claude Codes build uh Claude Code builds an artifact using the full context of your session, including the code base, connectors, and conversation itself, meaning a single incident. Uh page can bring together failing tests, code monitoring error spikes, and root cause reasoning without wiring up a separate data source.

So every artifact publishes to a persistent URL with version history and an org level gallery for browsing and managing all artifacts created. So who has access to this? Well, you have to be on a team or enterprise plan using Claude Code, and it's accessible from the Claude Code CLI and the desktop. app as well with pages viewable in any browser. So yeah, right now if you're on a normal paid plan or a free plan, you don't have access. It's only team.

Also, uh, this is kind of similar to Codec's site.

uh which is something I have been loving using. I don't, I do have a Claude Max. I'm on the 200 max plan. I don't have a team plan. So this isn't one that I'm going to be using, at least not yet. Um, I do think that this is a little bit more developer focused uh than Kodak's site. uh which is a little bit more for or seemingly marketed toward your everyday knowledge work uh where this uh artifacts feature for clawed code seems to be a little more developer heavy.

Uh here's why it's useful. Well, it kind of replaces the walk you through what the agent found problem. Teammates can see the same live view with the same context in real time. And when Claude Code updates an artifact. the open pages refresh in place and teammates seem and teammates can then see the updates the moment they're published. So yeah, like I said, very similar to what Kodak.

uh what openai just released in Kodak sites uh about two and a half weeks ago. So who's gonna find this valuable? I think ultimately engineering. Uh right. If you are right now a heavy Claude Code shop, uh I think this is gonna be great. Uh right. So any anyone that's on a uh Clawed team or enterprise plan doing a lot of software dev, uh also product managers who want to track what actually shipped without asking engineers. Uh, same thing. I think that'll be helpful for them as well.

All right, two more quick ones. And the first was a sleeper, but actually grabbing a lot of headlines. So a new open weights model from ZAI. Yeah, actually, if you look at artificial analysis, it has a higher intelligence score than Gemini 3.1. Pro. This is the new GLM 5.2 from ZAI. So this is a 753 billion parameter mixture of experts model from the Chinese lab ZAI. So it is text only, so this is not multimodal and it has a 1 million token context window.

Up from 5.1 200k, and it was released uh under an MIT license with weights on Hugging Face. So it is currently ranked as the leading open weights model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Uh so ZAI kind of positioned it specifically to dominate long horizon autonomous coding and engineering tasks. And they said that it beats GPT 5.5 on multiple long horizon coding benchmarks at roughly one-sixth of the cost.

So who has access to this right now? Well, anyone. All right. So yeah, you can actually download it and start using it, but you're gonna have to have like a supercomputer uh unless you want to run a very quantized version. Uh, but it's also available on their website at ZAI or the API if you're using it on the back end.

uh which is much more affordable, like I said, than some of the proprietary uh closed options. And it is fully commercial MIT licensed, which means it can be downloaded, self-hosted, fine-tuned, and deployed air gap. So uh for larger enterprises that are, you know, shifting away from their token maxing to token efficiency, a model like this is

Huge. Also, it scored pretty off the charts on uh front-end design, front-end coding. Uh actually even better than uh Fable uh on front-end coding, which is kind of bonkers. So yes, it is on the front end code on Arena. Uh so because Fable 5 is not technically available, uh, so GLM 5.2 is actually the best front end coding model in the world. And it's open weights. So uh here's why it's useful and who will find it value, uh who will find it valuable.

So I mean it's useful because it's a frontier class coding in reasoning model under a permissive MIT license that can run entirely inside your own boundary with no Per token meter and no dependency on a single vendor. Uh, the one million token context window, pretty big as well. So uh here's the other thing uh to know. You also have the uh Enterprises that can run it.

hosted as well. Yeah. I love I love doing the uh the live stream version sometimes, y'all, because my mouse just literally died. So I'm gonna go ahead here, uh plug my mouse in and I'm gonna start talking. Uh, about our last one here, which is the Open AI Codex Record and Replay. All right. This one we are back on track with OpenAI's kind of Codex Thursday releases. And this one is. Very simple, but extremely powerful. So this was actually a feature that Google

didn't roll out to everyone. They rolled it out to trusted testers. I think it was part of their project Mercury that just never hit the mainstreams and didn't really hit at all. So open AIs. Codex record and replay is exactly what it sounds like. It's a new feature in Codex uh where you uh click a button, you do your work, whatever a certain task or a series of tasks is. Codex watches, it learns exactly what you're doing. And then you can set that up as a skill or an automation that can run at

Any time. Uh, this is huge, right? A big step forward uh in what we can actually do now that I have uh 1% battery left on my mouse. Let's go ahead and uh uh read from Kodak. uh from openai what they say in their announcement posts. They say record and replay lets you demonstrate a workflow on your Mac and turn it into a reusable skill. Use it when the workflow is repetitive, depends on your preferences, or is easy to show than to describe in a prompt.

For example, you might record how you file an expense, book a parking space, create a correctly configured issue, publish a video, or download a recurring report. Codex can package the pattern into a skill that you can use again with computer use, browser actions, connected plugins, or a combination of them. Uh so then it says pick a workflow that you already know how to complete. Record and replay works best when the steps are stable and the success criteria are clear. Uh so

This one, again, it just just came out uh, you know, hours ago. So I haven't had too much of a chance to play with it, but so far, really cool. Um and they did uh the codex team did allude to actually in one of my comments on Twitter. That they might also, which would be great, bring the ability eventually to record uh your voice dictating what you're doing as well, which I think would be really helpful. So ultimately, what this does is it creates a

Skill. So you can always go and modify it. So if you go and run it one time and it doesn't work exactly how you want it, uh, that's okay because you can still uh go in and update it. So who has access? Well, It's right now only for Mac OS users and it's not. available in every single country. So like a lot of these, right? So if you're in the uh the EU, uh the UK, Switzerland, you don't have access to this just yet.

Um, otherwise, it just requires a uh paid codecs plan, which if you have a paid ChatGPT plan, then that's the same thing. uh because you can use your paid chat gbt plan in codecs as it shares usage. So why is this useful? I mean it removes the biggest friction in enterprise automation having to describe a workflow in words when it's just much easier to do it. And then it converts that uh that institutional knowledge, right? How, you know, as an example, Sarah processes expense reports.

into a shareable, repeatable a uh AI skill without IT involvement. So the cool thing is, I mean, this is already directly going to compete with RPA, uh Robotic uh Robotic robotics process automation tools like UiPath and automation anywhere on the recorder workflow and automated use case, but with a much lower setup bar. And it just works with all of your existing context.

inside of Codex, right? That's the biggest thing. If you already have existing projects, uh if you already have, you know, certain skills, certain workflows, your apps are all connected in there. This one for me. Big. All right. So that is a wrap. Those are the seven AI features that you should start using today. So as a quick recap. OpenAI bringing back and unleashing more schedule uh schedule tasks to more users. Uh the big claw design June update, which I am going to be using a lot.

Uh the new Google Vids AI Avatars update that's out now. Uh open routers model fusion, pretty cool. Clawed code artifacts rolling out to uh clawed code, not just on the web anymore. The new powerful open weights GLM 5.2 from ZAI. Uh and last but definitely not least, Open AI's codecs record and replay. I hope this was helpful. If so, please let me know by signing up.

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