This week on AI news by Future Bytes, host Magnus Oxenwaldt breaks down how OpenAI’s latest moves, Sora 2 and Instant Checkout, signal a shift from apps to AI platforms. TikTok, Google, and even your own website could be next. Welcome to the platform trap.

Top stories:

• Sora 2’s launch turns AI-generated video into social media, reaching the US App Store’s top spot overnight. 
• ChatGPT adds Instant Checkout, enabling shopping, payments, and product search, all without leaving the app. 
• The rise of the “platform trap”. Every major AI company is building its own closed ecosystem for work, commerce, and creativity. 
• Meta’s Business AI connects 700 million consumers with always-on sales agents across all Meta platforms. 
• Microsoft’s Agent Mode boosts Copilot accuracy and brings fully autonomous AI agents into everyday productivity tools. 
• Salesforce’s Agentforce aims for one billion agents by 2025, extending AI into every customer touchpoint. 
• Google fights to protect $273 billion in ad revenue as users turn to AI assistants instead of search. 
• The open web is at risk. Businesses that fail to integrate with AI ecosystems could disappear from the customer journey entirely. 

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