The Z Media Podcast

Canva ships its own layout-first image model, Moonshot undercuts Claude on price, and major banks are drawing hard lines around AI agents touching customer accounts. Grant and Claire break down eight stories marketers need before Monday, including an unsettling admission from OpenAI about its own coding agents.

Chapters:
0:05 Cold open
0:40 Canva's new image model
2:05 Moonshot's cheaper near-frontier model
3:27 Fixing AI visibility the right way
4:58 Banks lock out AI agents
6:05 Uber puts 30,000 employees on ChatGPT Work
7:20 Agents that log in without seeing your password
8:12 Google isolates every AI agent in its own virtual machine
9:19 When agents turn off their own alarms
10:53 One thing to do
11:23 Close

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Links mentioned:
Z Media brief: Canva launches Craft, its own image model built for design layouts: https://zmedia.co/news/canva-launches-craft-its-own-image-model-built-for-design-layouts/
TechCrunch: Canva releases its first image generation model: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/canva-releases-its-first-image-generation-model/
The Verge: Canva’s first AI image model plans designs before generating them: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1017151/canva-craft-in-house-ai-model
Z Media brief: Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro nears top proprietary models at lower token prices: https://zmedia.co/news/moonshots-kimi-k31-pro-nears-top-proprietary-models-at-lower-token/
The Information: Moonshot AI Launches New Kimi K3.1 Pro Model: https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/moonshot-ai-launches-new-kimi-k3-1-pro-model
The Decoder: Chinese AI model Kimi K3.1 Pro is closing in on Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5: https://the-decoder.com/chinese-ai-model-kimi-k3-1-pro-is-closing-in-on-anthropics-claude-opus-5-5/
Latent Space: [AINews] Kimi 3.1 Pro 104BA-2.8T: Fable-5.1-Class Open Weights narrows Closed-AI lead to 1 month... and Pro Highspeed API with 2-3× speed: https://latent.space/p/ainews-kimi-31/
Z Media brief: Semrush: diagnose AI visibility by layer before rewriting content: https://zmedia.co/news/semrush-diagnose-ai-visibility-by-layer-before-rewriting-content/
Semrush Blog: AI search strategy: 4 layers of brand visibility: https://www.semrush.com/blog/ai-search-strategy/
HubSpot Blog: Which AI prompts should you track? A practical guide: https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/which-prompts-to-track
Z Media brief: Big US banks move to block AI agents that use customer logins: https://zmedia.co/news/big-us-banks-move-to-block-ai-agents-that-use-customer-logins/
The Decoder: Major US banks are locking out AI agents that log in with customer credentials: https://the-decoder.com/major-us-banks-are-locking-out-ai-agents-that-log-in-with-customer-credentials/
Z Media brief: Uber expands ChatGPT Work from 1,000-person pilot to all employees: https://zmedia.co/news/uber-expands-chatgpt-work-from-1000-person-pilot-to-all-employees/
OpenAI: Uber brings ChatGPT Work to all employees with OpenAI: https://openai.com/index/uber-chatgpt-work-rollout
TechCrunch: Uber puts all 30,000 employees on ChatGPT Work: https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/22/uber-puts-all-30000-employees-on-chatgpt-work/
Z Media brief: 1Password adds sign-in approvals so AI agents never see your passwords: https://zmedia.co/news/1password-adds-sign-in-approvals-so-ai-agents-never-see-your-passwords/
The Verge: 1Password lets AI agents use your passwords without seeing them: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1016399/1password-ai-agent-password-sign-in
Z Media brief: Google gives each AI agent its own microVM in new Agent Compute Engine: https://zmedia.co/news/google-gives-each-ai-agent-its-own-microvm-in-new-agent-compute-engine/
The Decoder: Google's Agent Compute Engine gives every Gemini agent its own hardware-isolated micro virtual machine: https://the-decoder.com/googles-agent-compute-engine-gives-every-gemini-agent-its-own-hardware-isolated-micro-virtual-machine/
Z Media brief: OpenAI says two coding agents weakened their own safety monitoring: https://zmedia.co/news/openai-says-two-coding-agents-weakened-their-own-safety-monitoring/
The Verge: OpenAI says an AI agent lied about disabling its safety monitoring system: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1015316/openai-ai-agent-disabling-monitoring-systems
The Decoder: OpenAI can't yet explain why its coding agents switch off misalignment monitoring: https://the-decoder.com/openai-cant-yet-explain-why-its-coding-agents-switch-off-misalignment-monitoring/

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