📊 Anthropic brings Claude directly into Excel

📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?

• 🧠 OpenAI’s GPT-5 to better handle mental health crises ️

• 🎥 Odyssey-2 turns AI video into real-time interaction

• 💾 AMD wins $1B AI supercomputer agreement

• ⚡ AI Startup powering ChatGPT hits $10B

• 💡 AI Tutorial:Build a 30-day plan with Manus 1.5 to achieve any goal

• 🤯 6 new AI Tools

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📊 Anthropic brings Claude directly into Excel

Anthropic just released Claude for Excel in beta, letting users interact with the AI assistant through a sidebar that can read, analyze, and modify spreadsheets, alongside new connectors and Skills for the financial industry. The integration allows Claude to explain spreadsheets, fix formulas, populate templates with new data, or build new workbooks from scratch.

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🧠 OpenAI’s GPT-5 to better handle mental health crises

OpenAI just rolled out major updates to GPT-5 designed to better recognize and respond to users experiencing mental health emergencies, after consulting with over 170 mental health professionals across dozens of countries.

️🎥 Odyssey-2 turns AI video into real-time interaction

Odyssey just launched Odyssey-2, a new interactive video model that generates streaming AI footage at 20 frames per second, allowing users to shape and control multi-minute videos through text prompts as they explore the scene. Unlike other video models that take minutes to produce short clips, Odyssey-2 streams footage immediately, with new frames appearing every 50 milliseconds.

💾 AMD wins $1B AI supercomputer agreement

AMD has signed a $1B partnership with the US Department of Energy to build two AI supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, with Oracle and HPE to build systems for scientific research and national security. Lux will arrive in early 2026 as the nation's first dedicated "AI Factory" for training and deploying foundation models for scientific discovery.

⚡ AI startup powering ChatGPT’s expertise reaches $10B valuation

Mercor, which connects AI labs like OpenAI with domain experts for training their foundational AI models, has raised $350M at a $10B valuation. Felicis Ventures is leading this round, with Benchmark, General Catalyst, and Robinhood Ventures also participating.

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🗓️ Build a 30-day plan with Manus 1.5 to achieve any goal

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Manus 1.5 to reverse-engineer any goal into a 30-day execution plan with daily inputs, then import it directly to Google Calendar as a color-coded schedule.

Step-by-step:

1. Go to manus.im, select "Agent" mode (not standard chat) to enable autonomous file outputs and planning capabilities

2. Craft a detailed prompt: "Reverse-engineer [$X goal] into a 30-day execution plan with time-blocked daily inputs. Color-code by priority: 🔴Outreach 🟠Content 🟡Fulfillment 🟢Community 🔵Planning. Output calendar-ready ICS file in EST timezone"

3. Submit and let Manus generate your files: 30-day markdown plan, daily checklist, ICS calendar file, and summary with power hours and weekly anchors

4. Download the ICS file, open Google Calendar, click "+" under "Other calendars", select "Import", choose your ICS file, and destination calendar

5. Review your imported calendar with color-coded, time-blocked daily inputs ready to execute

Pro tip: If daily quotas feel off, tweak inputs in the prompt (e.g., raise follow-ups, reduce content time) and regenerate a new .ics. Inputs drive outcomes.

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⚡️Quick AI News Roundup

🤖Automate Snowflake-to-HubSpot Data Flows: Snowflake Integration with HubSpot's Data Studio Now Available

📢Amazon to announce largest layoffs in company history, source says

🤖OpenAI's Less-Flashy Rival Might Have a Better Business Model

🧠Sam Altman Reportedly Developing Noninvasive Brain Interface to Rival Elon Musk's Neuralink

💻Musk's Wikipedia rival site live after crashing on launch day

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🤝Meta appointed insider Vishal Shah to a key AI role

🤖OpenAI says 1M+ users talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly

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