Insiders React: New ChatGPT Dev Tools Threaten App Store + Sora 2 Launch, Apple Removes ICE Block

Oct 9, 2025

Explore the transformative shift as AI evolves from product to platform with OpenAI’s new developer tools. Discover how the ChatGPT SDK enables a rich ecosystem for third-party apps. Delve into the contrasting strategies of OpenAI and Anthropic in navigating platform risks. Unpack the launch of Sora, an AI video social network, and its impact on social media dynamics. Conclude with a heated debate on Apple's controversial removal of IceBlock, raising questions about censorship and responsibility in curated app stores.

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INSIGHT

ChatGPT As A Developer Platform

OpenAI is turning ChatGPT into a full developer platform combining build, distribution, and monetization.
This platform model is a power move that leverages their consumer distribution to attract third-party apps.

INSIGHT

Expect Platform Risk And Plan For It

Platform risk is inevitable: owners will eventually tilt rules and monetization toward themselves.
Founders must treat platform access as a trade and plan to siphon users back to their own channels.

ADVICE

Mitigate Platform Dependency

If you build on a new platform, create ways to siphon users back to your own product and home base.
For platform owners, telegraph changes and leave space for developers to win so ecosystems stay healthy.

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What happens when AI stops being a product and starts being a platform?

With OpenAI’s latest Dev Day changing the game, we might find out sooner rather than later.

In this episode, Chris and Yaniv explore OpenAI’s Dev Day and the huge announcements made (including the Sora 2 launch), as well as their apparent transformation from product to platform.

In other tech news, the guys dive into Anthropic’s open-source counterpunch with Claude’s Agent SDK, along with Apple’s controversial censorship call - all while analyzing what all of this means for startup founders building in the AI era.

In this episode, you will:

Understand how SDK, OpenAI’s new ChatGPT App, turns AI into a full developer ecosystem
Learn about “platform risk”,and how founders can avoid being crushed by it
Compare OpenAI’s walled-garden strategy to Anthropic’s open, Unix-inspired approach
Examine the launch of Sora, OpenAI’s new AI video social network, and why it matters
Debate whether large tech companies can ever succeed in building new social platforms
Analyze Apple’s ICE Block takedown and what it says about censorship in curated ecosystems

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