Microsoft and OpenAI Breaking Up?

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Today we have:

🔥 OpenAI vs. Microsoft: AI’s power couple is cracking

🎯 How to Use Guidde to Create a How-To Video in 5 Steps

🤩 TikTok & Reddit Drop New AI Tools for Smarter Ads and Community Intel

🏆 Shifts for the win

🔥 OpenAI vs. Microsoft: AI’s power couple is cracking

OpenAI and Microsoft’s billion-dollar alliance is under major stress, with disputes over IP, compute access, and internal control boiling into potential antitrust action. The once-unbreakable bond between ChatGPT and Azure AI is now spiraling into rivalry.

• Windsurf Sparks a Fight: OpenAI’s $3B acquisition of startup Windsurf triggered tension, as it allegedly plans to withhold its IP to protect against GitHub Copilot, Microsoft’s rival AI tool.

• Antitrust Threats Emerge: Sources say OpenAI may file formal anticompetition complaints, signaling a dramatic shift from partnership to legal warfare. This would invite a federal review of their existing relationship.

• Partnership Renegotiation Underway: Microsoft resisted OpenAI’s structural changes last month, with both sides reportedly entering renegotiations. OpenAI is also moving fast to diversify compute partners, including new cloud deals with Google.

• Control Is the Real Prize: As OpenAI moves toward AGI, its need for independence is clashing with Microsoft’s massive stake and infrastructure. The deeper the ambition, the higher the risk of public legal fallout.

Why it matters: This isn’t just drama, it’s a showdown that could reshape the balance of power in AI. If OpenAI splits from Microsoft, it could spark a gold rush of new alliances, lawsuits, and infrastructure wars across the industry.

🎯 How to Use Guidde to Create a How-To Video in 5 Steps

Want to show your team how to launch a product promo, set up an email campaign, or analyze traffic in GA4, without repeating yourself 20 times?

Guidde makes it dead simple to turn your screen actions into stunning AI-generated video guides in seconds. No editing. No voice recording. Just click and go.

Create a how-to video for “Setting up a Meta Ads campaign from scratch.”

🛠️ How To Use Guidde in 30 Seconds

1. Install Guidde – Add the free Chrome extension

2. Record – Hit “Capture” while to record anything you want

3. Auto-Generate – Guidde turns it into a step-by-step video with voiceover

4. Customize – Edit voice, steps, or add CTAs

5. Share – Embed in docs, Notion, Slack, or email

💡 Pro Tip: Use Guidde for onboarding new teammates, training on new tools (like Klaviyo, GA4, or HubSpot), or showcasing how a promotion was launched once and for all. You can get your free Guidde extension here. Download it now and use it the next time someone asks, “Can you show me how?”

🤩 TikTok & Reddit Drop New AI Tools for Smarter Ads and Community Intel

TikTok and Reddit just rolled out major AI upgrades, making ad creation and consumer research faster, smarter, and more grounded in real conversations.

TikTok Adds AI Video & Avatars: TikTok Symphony now turns text and images into TikTok-native videos, includes AI avatars to demo products, and integrates with Adobe Express and WPP Open for streamlined creative production.

Reddit Supercharges Insights with AI Intelligence: Reddit’s new “Community Intelligence” engine uses AI to process 22 B+ posts and comments into structured insights. It powers tools like Explore, Compare, Cultural Moments, and Purchase Journeys, all driven by AI-generated summaries and topic analysis.

AI-Personalized Ads with Built-In Social Proof: Reddit is testing “Conversation Summary Add-ons,” which use AI to surface positive community posts and feature summaries directly under ad creatives. Early results show a 19% lift in CTR by layering machine-curated credibility into each placement.

Why it matters: This is AI stepping out of the backend and into your creative and media strategy. It’s now table stakes to blend automation with authentic user voice, whether you’re launching ads or decoding buyer intent.

Quick Shifts

😲Google, Scale AI’s biggest customer, is pulling $200M in work after Meta bought nearly half the company. Microsoft, OpenAI, and xAI may follow, fearing data leaks to a rival.

📢 AI expert Geoffrey Hinton says physical jobs like plumbing are safe, but white-collar roles like paralegals and call centers are at high risk as AI replaces routine thinking tasks across industries.

📢 Google’s Gemini AI can now auto-summarize PDFs and Google Forms in Drive, offer smart actions like “draft a proposal,” and even generate Forms from scratch based on your description

📉 Nvidia will no longer include China in its revenue or profit forecasts, citing strict U.S. chip export rules and no expectation of reversal from the Trump administration anytime soon.

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