howdy, it’s Barsee again.

happy friday, AI family, and welcome back to AI Valley.

here are the biggest things worth knowing today:

• OpenAI launches ChatGPT for financial services

• OpenAI also launched GPT-Live-1 in the API

• Anthropic threat team published a report on misusing Claude

• Plus trending AI tools, posts, and resources

Let’s dive into the Valley of AI…

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THROUGH THE VALLEY

1/ OpenAI made a ChatGPT specifically for finance - ChatGPT for Financial Services is a version of ChatGPT Work built around GPT-6 Astra, with financial data from Daloopa, PitchBook, LSEG News and Crunchbase already baked in. It’s built for research, financial models, pitchbooks and client materials.

Morgan Stanley and Evercore helped shape it, and OpenAI has integrations with S&P Capital IQ, MSCI, Moody’s and others so firms can also bring in data they already pay for.

The useful thing is Astra can dig through financial statements, tables and notes, do the analysis, then turn it into an Excel model, research note, deck or chart with the sources still there to check.

More OpenAI stuff:

• OpenAI also launched GPT-Live-1 in the API. It can listen and talk at the same time while models like Astra or Codex do the actual work behind it. Speak says it saw almost 80% fewer interruptions, and it costs $0.05/minute before the backend model costs. So it roughly costs $72/day to run it 24/7 (much cheaper than i thought).

• And apparently OpenAI is thinking about slowing down frontier model development. Sam Altman reportedly brought up pacing development in an all-hands this week, and OpenAI has even asked Congress whether coordinating an AI slowdown could run into antitrust laws. The hope, obviously, is that everyone else slows down too.

2/ Anthropic says it blocked possible efforts to build biological weapons - Anthropic published its latest Threat Report covering misuse it shut down over the last eight months, including possible bioweapon research, espionage, surveillance and weapons development.

One case involved a scientist asking Claude for help with gain-of-function research on the chikungunya virus, including mutations that could make it more harmful. Anthropic says the work was apparently going to happen at a military research institute, which was enough for them to shut it down.

It also named seven Chinese AI labs, including Alibaba, DeepSeek, Moonshot and Xiaomi, that tried to distill Claude using thousands of fake accounts. Moonshot and DeepSeek were quietly relaying customer prompts to Claude through fraudulent accounts. Users thought they were using Chinese AI, but were actually getting answers from Claude.

Other cases include someone in Yemen using Claude Code to build rocket guidance software, a system designed to monitor 25M phone lines in Mali, 4,700 dating-app personas and malware rewritten to dodge antivirus software.

And this is with today’s models.

(you can read the report here)

TRENDING TOOLS

• ChatGPT for Financial Services - ChatGPT Work experience that combines built-in financial data with GPT-6 Astra’s reasoning

• Devin Voice - AI software engineer with a landline. You say it, Devin ships it. Powered by GPT-Live and our new SWE-2 model.

• GPT-Live-1 API - bring ChatGPT’s natural back-and-forth to your app, with voice agents that listen while they speak and work with the models and harness you choose

• Phoenix-4.5 - the fastest and most expressive real-time AI human rendering model on the market

• Speak - interactive language lessons with a tutor that get you talking, listens in real time, and helps you find your words

• Data agent in ChatGPT Work - you can turn your company’s data into answers, interactive dashboards, and action just by asking

• Gemini for Windows - a native desktop app that opens over whatever you are doing with Alt+Space, reads context from Gmail and Drive, and carries the Gemini Spark agent

• Google Labs’ Dreambeans - it turns selected Gmail, Calendar, Photos, Search, YouTube, and Gemini context into finite daily reminders and recommendations

WHAT I'M CONSUMING

• SpaceXAI plans to livestream the creation of an entire company from scratch using Grok Bot, from Sept. 15 through Sept. 17

• Will AI soon lead to double-digit growth?

• Predictions on where robotics is going in the next few years

• They really do think AI might kill everyone

THE VALLEY GEMS

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