Inside OpenAI’s new Power Structure

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Curious about the biggest AI moves today? You’re in the right place. In today’s edition, we have:

🔐 OpenAI locks mission and funding for the long run

🎃 Ride the Halloween AI Wave with InVideo Trends

☁️ Adobe turns Creative Cloud into a connected AI powerhouse

🔨Tools and Shifts you cannot miss

🔐 OpenAI locks mission and funding for the long run

OpenAI has completed its long-awaited recapitalization, finalizing its transition into a public benefit corporation while reaffirming nonprofit control. The move gives the OpenAI Foundation one of the largest philanthropic endowments in history and strengthens its independence from external partners. 

The Shift:

1. Mission anchored in governance: The new OpenAI Group PBC remains controlled by the OpenAI Foundation, preserving its original 2015 mission, ensuring AGI benefits humanity, while giving the nonprofit direct influence over for-profit operations.

2. Philanthropy meets scale: With $130B in equity, the Foundation becomes one of the best-resourced nonprofits ever, funding $25B toward health research and AI resilience. These funds will fuel disease cures, open health datasets, and security systems for safe AI adoption.

3. Redefining partnerships: Microsoft’s stake shifts to ~27%, worth roughly $135B, while retaining AGI tech rights through 2032. OpenAI, however, can now seek compute beyond Azure despite a $250B commitment.

4. A stronger foundation for AGI: An expert panel will vet any AGI claims, ensuring transparency. Following year-long negotiations with regulators, OpenAI says this structure gives it both capital and credibility to build AI systems that serve the world.

This restructuring cements OpenAI’s hybrid identity, part mission-driven nonprofit, part global enterprise. With unmatched funding and oversight, it positions OpenAI to shape AI’s future from both a commercial and humanitarian front, ensuring that AGI progress translates into real-world benefits for everyone.

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🎃 Ride the Halloween AI Wave with InVideo Trends

This week, your content can literally go viral, with zero effort. InVideo just dropped a set of Halloween AI Trends that let you turn your product, store, or brand into a scroll-stopping spooky story in seconds.

What you can create

• CCTV Break-In – Your brand caught on haunted camera

• Haunted Pitch – Dracula sells your product

• Spooky Logo – Your logo gets a macabre makeover

• Zombie Makeover – You become a ghost, ghoul, or Wednesday Addams

How to try it yourself

1. Go to ai.invideo.io

2. Scroll down → click Agents & Models

3. Select Trends

4. Upload a photo or logo and let it haunt!

This is part of InVideo’s new “Play the Season” drops, real-time trend-based AI content that adapts to the cultural moment. 

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☁️ Adobe turns Creative Cloud into a connected AI powerhouse

Adobe used its MAX 2025 stage to unveil one of its most ambitious AI overhauls yet, bringing assistants, custom models, and new creative workflows across Photoshop, Express, Firefly, and Premiere. The company also introduced powerful integrations with Google and OpenAI, positioning Creative Cloud as the central hub for AI-driven creation.

The Shift:

1. AI assistants enter the creative workflow: Photoshop and Express now feature conversational assistants that can generate, refine, or explain edits, while Project Moonlight, Adobe’s upcoming agentic AI, will soon automate multi-step creative tasks from ideation to export.

2. Firefly 5 raises the ceiling: The new Firefly Image Model 5 powers conversational editing (“Prompt to Edit”), 4MP native image generation, and realistic video tools like AI soundtracks and voiceovers, blending generation and precise post-production.

3. Personalization meets openness: Creators can train Firefly Custom Models on their own art styles and integrate third-party models like Gemini, FLUX.1, and Veo directly in Adobe apps, turning Firefly into a creative marketplace for model choice.

4. Smarter collaboration and production: Firefly Boards introduces rotating 3D object views, instant PDF exports, and bulk downloads, while Firefly Creative Production enables batch editing of thousands of images with consistent tone, color, and backgrounds.

Adobe is redefining what “creative software” means, shifting from toolsets to intelligent systems that learn from each artist’s style. By integrating external AI models and maintaining a creator-first approach, Adobe strengthens its position as the creative world’s most trusted, interoperable AI platform.

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🚀Quick Shifts

🚫 The bipartisan GUARD Act would prohibit users under 18 from accessing AI chatbots, require age verification via ID or scans, and enforce strict child safety safeguards.

🤖 GitHub introduced Agent HQ, a new control center giving Copilot subscribers access to multiple AI coding agents like Claude, Codex, and Devin, with mission control for managing, comparing, and tracking performance.

🧠 Sam Altman Projects Fully Autonomous AI Researcher by 2028. OpenAI aims to reach intern-level AI by 2026 and a “legitimate AI researcher” by 2028, aligning with its public benefit corporation shift and $1.4T infrastructure plan.

💼 Amazon is laying off 4% of its corporate workforce to reduce bureaucracy and redirect spending toward AI investments, as it faces investor pressure and slower AI growth versus rivals.

🚀 Flowith launched FlowithOS, a new AI operating system that topped benchmarks for agentic web tasks, surpassing OpenAI’s Operator, ChatGPT Atlas, and Gemini 2.5 Computer Use in performance evaluations.

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