Nov 20, 2025 5 min read Daily Rundown

🛎️ Target Joins OpenAI

Plus: Adobe Buys Semrush, Anthropic Plays Both

Good Morning, AI Enthusiasts!

The balance of power in AI isn’t settling. It’s splitting.

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Target Joins OpenAI’s Orbit as the Entry War Ends

📌 What’s happening: Target, America’s No. 2 general retailer, just linked up with OpenAI to let shoppers plan and buy holiday goods directly through ChatGPT. Type “help me plan a movie night,” and the AI fills your Target cart without ever leaving the chat. It’s a survival play after six straight quarters of falling sales — and a direct echo of Walmart’s recent OpenAI pact. But it’s also part of a larger shift: the end of the “build-your-own-assistant” era. Intuit already spent $100 million embedding TurboTax, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp into ChatGPT instead of building its own bot.

🧠 How this hits reality: The consumer-AI entry war is over. ChatGPT has become the new App Store, the front door to search, shopping, and services. Giants from retail to fintech are surrendering interface control in exchange for guaranteed reach. Owning a chatbot no longer matters — owning a slot inside ChatGPT does.

🛎️ Key takeaway: The next consumer AI boom won’t launch against ChatGPT — it will launch inside it.

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Adobe Buys Semrush to Teach Its Tools What the Internet Actually Likes

👀 What’s the move: Adobe is spending $1.9 billion to buy Semrush, the SEO and digital visibility platform used by millions of marketers to track what content ranks, clicks, and converts. The move folds real-world search intelligence into Adobe’s creative stack — so its users don’t just design what looks good, but what works online.

🧠 How this hits reality: Until now, Adobe’s tools started at creation and ended at export. With Semrush plugged in, that workflow starts earlier — before a pixel is drawn, AI tools like Firefly or Express could tell users which keywords, tones, and visuals are likely to earn SEO lift and which are digital dead weight. That means every Photoshop edit or Premiere clip could be guided by live market feedback, turning Adobe’s creative suite into a self-optimizing marketing engine. More insight equals more lock-in.

🛎️ Key takeaway: Adobe isn’t just selling creativity anymore — it’s selling foresight, and that’s how ecosystems become monopolies.

COMPUTE

Anthropic Courts Microsoft and Nvidia to Break Free from AWS Gravity

📌 What’s happening: Microsoft and Nvidia have committed up to $15 billion to Anthropic, tied to a $30 billion Azure spend by the Claude maker. For Microsoft, it’s a hedge against OpenAI reliance. For Nvidia, another anchor client for its Grace Blackwell chips. But for Anthropic, this move is deeply strategic — a bid to avoid overdependence on AWS and to secure access to the most aggressive compute suppliers in the market.

🧠 How this hits reality: Anthropic has two clear motives. First, to prevent AWS from becoming a single choke point in its compute supply chain. Second, to tap into the faster, more flexible capacity growth that Microsoft and Nvidia are driving through their neocloud partners. AWS’s cautious, centralized expansion model can’t match Anthropic’s breakneck scaling needs. In contrast, Azure and Nvidia-backed neoclouds are racing to deploy capacity wherever it’s needed.

🛎️ Key takeaway: Anthropic isn’t just diversifying clouds; it’s hedging the future of intelligence against whoever controls the GPUs.

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