Hey friend,

Today, we’ll explore

• How to connect Claude to your tools

• Tutorial: How to automate your content with OpenAI’s new gpt-image-1 API

• An interesting report on software engineering and AI from Anthropic

• China’s Qwen3 model

Let's dive in.

Tutorial:

In this week’s video I show you how to use the new OpenAI image API in your automations. Perfect for content creators or marketing teams.

AI News

Here’s my pick of AI news this week:

1. Claude Integrations Connects Your Tools

Anthropic has released Integrations, allowing Claude to connect directly with popular tools through its Model Context Protocol. This takes Claude from a simple chatbot to a central orchestrator for your entire workflow.

• Claude can now integrate with Atlassian products, Zapier, Square, PayPal, and Cloudflare, gaining deep context about projects, tasks, and organisational knowledge, with Stripe and GitLab integrations coming soon.

• The new integrations enable automated workflows such as generating Confluence pages from chat conversations and pulling data from HubSpot via Zapier connections.

• Currently in beta for Max, Team, and Enterprise tiers with OAuth authentication and compliance with SOC2/ISO27001 standards, Pro plan support is expected later this quarter.

2. OpenAI Image API

OpenAI has released its GPT-Image-1 API, allowing developers to integrate ChatGPT's image generator into third-party applications. Now you can automate the creation of high quality images using tools like Make and N8N.

• The image generation API is priced between $0.02-$0.19 per image depending on quality.

• OpenAI implements tiered moderation filters to block policy-violating content, while offering verified organisations access to lower sensitivity modes for specialised business applications.

• Major platforms have already integrated the technology, including Adobe Firefly, Wix's Wixel, and Figma's design tools, with Airtable reporting over 5 million daily AI images generated for campaign assets.

3. AI’s Impact On Software Development

Based on an analysis of 500,000 real-world coding interactions, Anthropic's latest Economic Index report highlights how AI, particularly specialised agents like Claude Code, is increasingly used for task automation in software development (79% automation rate for Claude Code vs 49% for Claude). The study reveals a strong focus on web and UI development tasks using AI assistance and shows a notable adoption gap, with startups embracing advanced AI coding tools more rapidly than enterprises.

4. Alibaba's Qwen3 Models Toggle Between Thinking And Speed Modes

Alibaba has launched Qwen3, a family of eight open-source AI models ranging from 0.6B to 235B parameters with hybrid reasoning capabilities. Released under Apache 2.0 license, the models feature both dense and MoE architectures claiming to rival OpenAI and Google.

• Qwen 3 introduces a toggleable "thinking mode" for complex tasks and "non-thinking mode" for speed, giving users control over computational resource allocation for different use cases.

• The models were pretrained on 36 trillion tokens across 119 languages, leveraging synthetic data generation from earlier Qwen iterations to improve multilingual performance.

• All models are available via Hugging Face and ModelScope, with enterprise deployment options through private cloud/VPC, as Alibaba plans to expand multimodal capabilities and advance agentic task execution.

AI Tools I’m Using This Week:

• Warp: An AI enabled terminal for software developers

• Claude Code: Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal.

• Gumloop: A no-code AI automation platform

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