OpenAI Takes Out Another Niche

OpenAI debuted personal finance tools via Plaid for Pro users. AI startups generate ~$80B in annualized revenue, with Anthropic and OpenAI capturing 89%. ArXiv cracks down on AI slop, Apple's Siri relaunch may still be a beta, and SF vibes are frenetic.

• OpenAI debuts personal finance tools for US ChatGPT Pro users, partnering with Plaid to give access to 12K+ financial institutions to analyze spending and more (TechCrunch)
• Analysis: 34 leading AI startups are generating ~$80B in annualized revenue, up 112% from six months ago, with Anthropic and OpenAI capturing 89% of the revenue (The Information)
• ArXiv, the repository of preprint academic research, says it will ban authors for a year if their papers have "incontrovertible evidence" of AI-generated work (404 Media)
• Sources: Apple's revamped Siri may launch in beta, and will have an option to auto-delete chats; Apple plans to add Suggested Genmoji to iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 (Bloomberg)
• A college senior at Stanford describes how AI has changed classes: cheating using AI "has become omnipresent" with students "fudging just about everything" (NYT)
• SF vibes are frenetic over the huge divide in outcomes and career uncertainty for software engineers; over 5 years ~10K people in AI attained retirement wealth (X / @deedydas)

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