🚀 Latest AI updates made simple #7
Welcome back! This edition spotlights agentic tools and e-commerce integrations that let you automate sales and workflows.
🛒 OpenAI
OpenAI rolled out Instant Checkout in ChatGPT, letting users buy products directly from conversations with Etsy sellers, and soon Shopify stores too. It's powered by a new open-source Agentic Commerce Protocol co-developed with Stripe. This means smoother shopping flows for buyers and sellers alike.
🤖 Anthropic
Anthropic’s new Claude Sonnet 4.5 model is now available in Notion. It brings smarter reasoning for planning and better understanding of context, making your AI assistant feel more personal and accurate. It can handle complex outlines or brainstorming with fewer mistakes. However, it is only available for Notion users on paid plans.
Shipping today: @AnthropicAI's Sonnet 4.5 in Notion.
Better reasoning, smarter planning, and improved understanding that makes your personal Agent feel truly personalized. Built to get work done.
— #Notion (#@NotionHQ)
5:12 PM • Sep 29, 2025
⚡ Zapier
Zapier just launched Unified Copilot, an AI that understands everything you’ve set up in Zapier, including your automations, tables, and agents.
You can simply describe what you want, like “take new leads, add details from LinkedIn, and send them to Salesforce,” and it will build the whole workflow for you.
It’s now available for everyone with built-in security, logging, and approval features for teams.
Image Source: Zapier
🛠️ Microsoft
Microsoft just launched the Agent Framework, a new tool that helps developers build and manage AI agents.
It combines AutoGen (which runs and connects these agents) with Semantic Kernel (Microsoft’s toolkit for adding memory, planning, and logic to AI).
You can use it inside Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft’s platform for building AI apps, and it comes with built-in tools for security, compliance, and monitoring, so businesses can safely scale real-world AI systems.
🚀 Vercel
Vercel just added support for Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 model across its AI Cloud. This upgrade improves tools like v0 (which helps generate user interfaces) and the new open-source Coding Agent Platform.
Developers can now access it through Vercel’s AI Gateway and SDK, making it easier to add smarter reasoning and problem-solving abilities to their apps.
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is now live on Vercel AI Cloud:
• Improved @v0, Vercel Agent, and more
• Available on AI Gateway + AI SDK
• New open source Coding Agent Platform— #Vercel (#@vercel)
6:37 PM • Sep 29, 2025
🔌 Replit
Replit introduced Connectors, a seamless way to link your apps with everyday tools like Google Drive, Dropbox, HubSpot, Linear, Notion, Asana, and Slack.
No more credential headaches or custom code, just plug-and-play integrations to extend automations effortlessly.
Introducing Connectors—a new way to build apps and automations that integrate seamlessly with the tools you already use every day 🚀 🧩
Connectors make it effortless to extend your apps with services like @Google , @Dropbox , @HubSpot , @linear , @NotionHQ , @asana, @SlackHQ
— #Replit ⠕ (#@Replit)
6:18 PM • Sep 30, 2025
🎥 Synthesia
At Synthesia 3.0, the company introduced Video Agents, a feature that turns regular videos into interactive conversations. You can start a chat in the middle of a video, connect your knowledge base so the AI can give accurate answers, and collect viewer responses that feed directly into your CRM (Customer Relationship Management system).
It’s the beginning of two-way video, where content doesn’t just talk at you but adapts and responds in real time.
Some Entrepreneurial Wisdom for you
Focus more on progress rather than perfection. Halting progress for perfection will keep you stuck in the same place.
Remember, done is better than perfect..
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