🚀OpenAI's Most Powerful Coding Model Yet

AI is no longer a side feature.

OpenAI upgraded Codex to its most powerful coding model yet, built on GPT-5 to handle everything from quick pair programming to multi-hour refactors and code reviews.

Figma’s Prompt-to-Edit is entering alpha — a new feature announced on X that lets you edit designs by simply typing what you want, turning prompts directly into changes.

At Made on YouTube 2025, YouTube unveiled a wave of AI tools across Shorts and Studio, from generative video and Ask Studio to upgraded dubbing and likeness protection. And Google released AP2, an open protocol that lets AI agents make purchases on your behalf a major step toward real agent-driven commerce.

Let’s get into it.

📈 5 Must-Know AI Tools

Notion AI – Organize your work and life. From brainstorming to summarizing, Notion’s AI turns messy notes into structured plans.

Grammarly – Write with confidence. Its AI checks grammar, tone, and clarity in real time, so everything you send feels polished.

Wonderplan – Plan trips instantly. Enter your destination and Wonderplan builds a personalized itinerary with activities, food, and lodging.

Suno AI – Make music from text. Type a vibe or lyric and Suno generates full songs with vocals and instrumentation.

Harvey AI – Your AI legal partner. Harvey drafts contracts, reviews documents, and answers legal questions fast.

OpenAI

Codex Levels Up: OpenAI’s Answer to Copilot and Cursor

OpenAI just relaunched its coding agent with a major brain upgrade — GPT-5-Codex. Unlike the old Codex, which mostly autocompleted lines of code, this new version can stick with a problem for hours, review entire projects, and even set up its own environment. For developers, it’s less “autocomplete” and more like handing a junior teammate a task and letting them run with it.

⚡ The Big Upgrades

• Dynamic problem solving → adapts to the task: seconds for a quick bug fix, or up to 7 hours for a full refactor.

• Smarter reviews → fewer noisy comments, more high-impact feedback that catches real bugs before they ship.

• Everywhere you build → works in the terminal, VS Code, Cursor, GitHub, the cloud, and even the ChatGPT mobile app.

• Seamless context → move between local and cloud without losing your place

• Visual coding → drop in screenshots or wireframes, and Codex can generate front-end scaffolds that actually match the design.

• Auto-setup → installs dependencies and spins up environments without you babysitting configs.

🖥️ What You Can Use It For

• Students & learners → debug assignments or explore projects with an always-on tutor.

• Entrepreneurs & builders → prototype apps faster and cut through bottlenecks.

• Teams → offload code reviews and catch critical bugs earlier.

• Creators → sketch an idea and let Codex turn it into real, working code.

💡 Why It Matters: AI coding tools are no longer novelties. They’re infrastructure. Cursor just blew past $500M ARR. Copilot dominates GitHub. Claude Code and Windsurf are fighting for mindshare. OpenAI needed Codex to stand out, and GPT-5-Codex is their answer: an AI that doesn’t just autocomplete, but actually builds, reviews, and maintains software at scale. For anyone with an idea, from a student hacking a side project to an enterprise team managing thousands of repos, this means less friction, faster builds, and one step closer to AI as a true engineering partner.

👉 Try GPT-5-Codex → OpenAI announcement

ALPHA DROP

(Where we spotlight one powerful tool or feature to help you stay ahead.)

Figma’s Prompt-to-Edit Feature

Figma just unveiled Prompt-to-Edit, a new alpha feature that lets you make changes to your designs simply by writing what you want. Swap text, adjust layouts, or bulk-edit elements with plain language. It’s early, exclusive, and rolling out only to paid teams, but sign-ups are open now.

🎨 What You Can Do

• Edit designs with natural language prompts: “Replace all headlines with…” or “Move this button down.”

• Bulk changes and layout variations in seconds.

• Lower barrier for non-designers to contribute directly on the canvas.

This isn’t just a convenience. It’s the start of design becoming prompt-driven. With Prompt-to-Edit, ideas can move straight from words to visuals, shrinking the gap between concept and creation. For teams, it means fewer bottlenecks, faster experiments, and a future where design is as simple as saying what you want.

👉 Sign Up for the Prompt-to-Edit → click here

Youtube

YouTube’s Next Era: AI in Every Frame

At its Made on YouTube 2025 event, YouTube unveiled a slate of AI features designed to supercharge creation, simplify editing, and protect creators in the age of deepfakes.

✨ Key Highlights

• Generative Shorts → DeepMind’s Veo 3 Fast brings AI-powered backgrounds, motion, and restyling to Shorts. Edit with AI creates instant first-draft videos, while Speech to Song remixes dialogue into music tracks.

• Ask Studio → A conversational AI inside YouTube Studio that suggests titles, content ideas, and analytics insights — with built-in A/B testing for thumbnails and titles.

• Auto-dubbing with lip sync → Seamless multilingual publishing that looks and feels natural.

• Podcast AI → Turn audio-only episodes into video highlights or Shorts automatically; Veo can even generate visuals from audio files.

• Identity Protection → Expanded likeness detection lets creators upload their face data to catch AI deepfakes before they spread.

• Music & Fandom → Artists can now run release countdowns, offer exclusive fan content, and use AI to power stronger fan-to-artist connections.

• Smarter Monetization → AI-assisted product tagging, brand links in Shorts, and new live-stream features to help creators earn more.

YouTube is embedding AI into every stage of creation, from first draft to final upload. Beginners gain easier entry, professionals gain speed and scale, and the platform secures its position as the default home for creators in an era defined by AI.

👉 Explore the Full Feature Drop 

Google

AP2: A New Standard for AI Payments

Google just launched the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) — an open standard that lets AI agents securely make purchases on your behalf. Backed by more than 60 partners including Mastercard, PayPal, and Coinbase, AP2 introduces digitally signed “mandates” so you define exactly what an agent can buy. It works across credit cards, bank transfers, and even stablecoins, with built-in authentication checks and audit trails to make sure every transaction is intentional and traceable.

The goal is simple but ambitious: give AI the ability to not just recommend, but transact, while keeping humans in control. That means safer automated orders, recurring purchases with guardrails, and new opportunities for developers to build commerce-ready agents. If AP2 takes hold, it could mark the start of a new era where your AI doesn’t just shop with you — it shops for you, with trust and accountability built in.

👉 AP2 Protocol on GitHub

🔥 Must-Read Free AI Resources

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• GPT-5 Prompting Guide
  Learn how to write better instructions, structure conversations, and get more reliable outputs for GPT-5. Read the Guide →

• Build AI Agents (OpenAI Practical Guide)
  A step-by-step playbook on designing and deploying AI agents for real-world use. Read the Guide →

• OpenAI Cookbook
  Your go-to resource for code examples, integrations, and best practices when working with OpenAI models. Browse the Cookbook →

• Google’s Prompt Engineering Whitepaper
  Master the art of crafting powerful prompts, from fundamentals to advanced techniques. View the Whitepaper →

Courses:

• Harvard's AI Courses
  Learn the foundations of AI, machine learning, and more — from one of the top universities. Explore Courses →

• Google Cloud’s AI Training
  Learn AI, machine learning, and LLMs from Google’s experts. Earn badges, build real skills, and learn at your own pace. Start Learning →

• OpenAI’s AI Academy
  Learn how to use AI from the source. OpenAI Academy offers free lessons on prompt engineering, large language models, and more — with no signup required. Join the Academy →

• Microsoft’s AI & Tech Courses
  Learn AI, machine learning, and cloud tools with step-by-step training from Microsoft. Browse Courses →

• NVIDIA’s AI Courses
  Access expert-led courses on AI, deep learning, and accelerated computing. Explore the platform →

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