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Happy Thursday! Hugeee week for most of your AI stack, and the land grab is on.
Claude just moved into your spreadsheets, whiteboards, and meetings. OpenAI opened a storefront inside ChatGPT. Stripe is buying the router your AI bill flows through. And Nvidia’s board is investigating its own CEO.
Everyone is racing to become the layer everything else runs on. So today: who’s building it, and how to run your own thing without going back to the AI every five minutes.
TL;DR
Claude adds Sheets, Whiteboards, Data, and Meetings, and goes after your whole software stack
OpenAI lets businesses claim ChatGPT profiles and launch customer-facing agents
Nvidia’s board investigates CEO Jensen Huang ahead of earnings
Stripe moves to own AI model routing with OpenRouter
Build a store with Claude Code, then run it with no AI at all
Qwen Code 1.0 gives you an open-source coding agent for your terminal
The ice cream shop that makes money when it's cold
28 Wishes sells ice cream in Los Angeles. Below 70°F, sales fall about 20%. The weather is out of their hands. Rent isn't.
So the owners started putting about $20 a day into Kalshi weather markets, taking the cold side. The days that keep customers away now pay something back.
This is hedging. Big companies have done it for decades, buying protection against bad weather, fuel spikes and rising rates. It used to take a broker, a trading desk, and an order size no corner shop could meet.
Kalshi opens it up. Contracts on weather, fuel prices, inflation, tariffs and regulation, starting at a few dollars. Take a position on the outcome that would hurt you. If it hits, the payout softens it. If it doesn't, the contract expires and the good month was the point.
YOUR SOFTWARE STACK JUST GOT A NEW LANDLORD
credit: Anthropic
Anthropic just gave Claude its own seat at the table. On Tuesday it launched Whiteboards and Sheets in beta, made Claude Data generally available, and put Meetings in beta. Here’s the full breakdown.
Sheets are shared spreadsheets Claude builds from a request, like a campaign tracker or a hiring budget, and each change is outlined so you can see what it did. Whiteboards are shared boards where you and Claude build plans live, and they can turn into a doc or a deck. Claude Data, formerly Dashboards, connects to your warehouse and CRM and returns dashboards, written data stories, or narrated videos.
Then there’s Meetings. Claude joins your Google Meet call as a visible participant, drafts plans as you talk, maps timelines on a whiteboard, and answers questions in chat. Afterward, notes and action items are waiting in claude.ai. It’s in beta for Team and Enterprise, and it leaves on its own if an external guest joins.
Sheets and Whiteboards are in beta on paid plans. Full versions of apps like Adobe, Atlassian, and HubSpot can also open inside Claude now.
OUR TAKE
Ask what Claude is competing with here: Excel, Google Sheets, Miro, Tableau, Power BI, Lucidchart, and 14 more.
Tools that own your data, like Salesforce and SAP, will plug in through connectors. Claude fetches the info and you never open the interface. Everything else, the sheets, boards, dashboards, and canvases where decisions get made, loses its reason to exist as a separate app.
Tomorrow, your work is you plus Claude. Everything else disappears.
That’s the bet, anyway. Here’s what everyone else did this week.
QUICK HITS
OpenAI wants your business listed in ChatGPT: ChatGPT now has a yellow pages, and yes, there’s a blue check. Businesses in ChatGPT launched in beta Nov. 10, letting verified companies update their details, see views and clicks, and (for eligible US ecommerce and online service businesses) launch a Business Agent that answers customer questions from their own product info.
Nvidia’s board opens a probe into CEO Jensen Huang: Nvidia is about to report earnings with its own CEO under investigation, which is not how the investor deck usually opens. The board launched an independent probe Nov. 8 after Huang told staff he’d been unfaithful, reportedly with a former Megaspeed executive US officials believe was a Chinese intelligence asset. The board says it has “no reason to believe” national security or company secrets were compromised, and earnings land Nov. 17.
Stripe moves to own your AI model routing: Stripe already handles your payments, and now it wants the thing that decides which AI model you pay for. OpenRouter routes requests across 400+ models from 80+ providers, and reports put the price above $7 billion, more than five times its May valuation. If your AI bill is getting scary, routing cheap tasks to cheap models just went mainstream.
All three are racing to become the layer your work runs on.
Which brings us to this week’s tutorial, where AI builds the whole thing once and then gets out of the way.
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YOUR AI BUILT THE STORE. NOW RUN IT WITHOUT IT.
Build a working online store with Claude Code, then manage it from a console with zero prompts.
⏱️ 30 min | 🔧 Needs: Claude Code, Weegloo, Google account
Why build this?
AI can spin up a store in one request. The hard part starts the day after launch, when a product description is wrong or a teammate needs access. Going back to the agent for every tiny edit gets old fast. Weegloo gives your agent a back end to build on, plus a console where anyone on your team can edit, publish, and manage permissions. You build with AI and run it like a normal business.
Steps:
Prep your accounts and a planning folder. Set up your own Google login and email accounts first (the video description links the guides). Then make an empty folder with your store design inside: homepage, product page, checkout, orders, and shipping.
Connect Claude Code to Weegloo. Open Claude Code in that folder and link it to your Weegloo account. Weegloo doesn’t bundle a model, so you use the subscription you already pay for.
Send one request. Paste this: “Look at the contents of the planning folder and turn them into a service using Weegloo.” Skip the back-end requirements. No payment tool names, no login instructions.
Let the agent work. It creates the space, builds the content types, and connects Google login, Stripe in test mode, and email. When it asks for your account details, give them. You get a live site address at the end.
Buy something as a customer. Sign in with Google, pick a product, check out with Stripe’s test card, and confirm the order email lands in your inbox. Then check your account page for the order.
Switch to the console and edit without AI. Open the space, go to Contents, change the homepage headline, hit publish, and refresh the store. Do the same for a product description and an order’s shipping status.
Lock down who can touch what. Create a “site manager” role that only sees site settings, then invite a teammate with it. They can edit the headline and nothing else. No products, no orders, no payments.
Expected outcome:
You end up with a live store that takes test payments, sends emails, and tracks orders, built from a single request. After that, you and your team can change copy, products, and order statuses from the console without opening Claude Code. Weegloo uses usage-based pricing, so check the current rates on their site before you build on it.
Full tutorial:
TOOL OF THE DAY
An open-source coding agent that works with whatever model you bring.
Qwen Code is a terminal-based agent that understands your codebase, edits it, and verifies its own changes. It works with multiple models, tools, and execution environments, so you’re not tied to one vendor’s pricing. Here’s a simple way to use it: open a repo, tell it a test is failing, and let it find the bug, patch the file, and rerun the test. The same core also runs in automated workflows, so you can drop it into a script and let it handle repetitive fixes while you work on something else. Since the code is open source, you can read it before you trust it.
