New features and launches in ChatGPT, Cursor, Perplexity and other AI tools, plus changes to pricing and availability.
Hinge just rolled out an AI-powered feature called Prompt Feedback to save singles from cliché profile answers. Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o mini, it evaluates your prompt responses across three levels—from "Go a Little Deeper" to "Great Answer"—and suggests specific details to add instead of ghostwriting for you. Why it matters: Daters are fatigued by shallow swipe culture, and gentle AI nudges might bring back authentic conversations.
Freepik just launched an AI-powered tool to remove and replace image backgrounds. Beyond simple solid color swaps, you can generate entirely new AI scenes using Relight technology to match the lighting seamlessly. It is live now on Freepik.
OpenAI just rolled out a beta tasks feature to ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Pro subscribers. Users can now ask ChatGPT to fire off push reminders or handle recurring requests like daily news roundups. While it can't run background searches or buy tickets yet, it's OpenAI's first real step toward independent AI agents.
Wyze just launched Cam Unlimited Pro, a new subscription tier that turns vague security notifications into detailed AI summaries. Instead of generic alerts like "pet detected," users now get specific play-by-plays like a small dog playing with a tennis ball, alongside natural-language video search.
Samsung just dropped a teaser video hinting at major AI upgrades for the upcoming Galaxy S25. In the demo, the AI handles a multi-step spoken request—finding a specific restaurant, messaging a contact, and updating the calendar all at once. The "true AI companion" will officially debut at Galaxy Unpacked on January 22.
Adobe just rolled out Firefly Bulk Create in beta, letting users resize or swap backgrounds across up to 10,000 images at once. The web tool packages Firefly developer APIs into simple "Remove Background" and "Resize" features aimed at marketers. It relies on consumption-based credits, with PSD export coming later.
xAI just released a standalone iOS beta app for Grok in the US. The app delivers the same real-time info, answers, and image generation without needing to open X. After going free last month, Elon Musk's chatbot is ready to take on ChatGPT and Claude directly.
VideoLAN just showed off built-in, real-time AI subtitling and translation for VLC at CES 2025. The feature runs entirely locally and offline without cloud services, with plans to support more than 100 languages. There is no official release date yet, but it marks a massive privacy-friendly upgrade for local media playback.
Google just rolled out Daily Listen in Search Labs, an experimental feature that turns your search habits and Discover feed into a customized five-minute AI podcast. It uses the same Audio Overview magic found in NotebookLM, complete with scrubbers and full transcripts. For now, it's strictly an opt-in test for iOS and Android users in the US.
Startup Satellai just unveiled the Satellai Dog Tracker, combining AI and satellite connectivity to track pets in remote areas without cellular coverage. Powered by Qualcomm's 9205S modem and Skylo's NTN network, it lets owners map virtual boundaries even deep off-grid.
NVIDIA just expanded its NIM microservices and AI Blueprints to RTX AI PCs, pairing prepackaged model APIs with RTX 50 Series FP4 compute. By cutting VRAM requirements by more than half, developers can run complex agentic workflows locally without painful optimization. Hardware support arrives next month.
McAfee just unveiled McAfee Scam Detector at CES 2025, an AI-powered tool built to identify scams across text messages, emails, and online video streams in real time. The proactive system flags deceptive and deepfake threats before victims can be duped. It will roll out at no extra cost to McAfee customers starting this spring.
Panasonic just unveiled Umi at CES 2025, a family-focused wellness digital assistant powered by Anthropic’s Claude. The mobile app lets households set health goals, manage routines, and monitor aging parents via voice and group chat. It is scheduled to launch in the U.S. later this year.
Philips Hue just announced an upcoming generative AI lighting assistant arriving in the first quarter of 2025. Users can simply type or speak prompts like "Give me a scene for a garden party" to generate custom color palettes or adjust existing fixtures. The feature will be compatible with all Philips Hue smart lights.
Nvidia just unveiled Project Digits at CES 2025, a $3,000 personal AI supercomputer powered by its new GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip. The compact workstation packs 128GB of memory, letting researchers and developers run models with up to 200 billion parameters right on their desks—or link two together for 405-billion-parameter beasts. It begins shipping in May.
Nvidia just released a new AI Blueprint for video search and summarization, designed to let visual agents ingest surveillance and industrial footage at 30x real-time speed. Powered by Cosmos Nemotron models, the agents pack reasoning and tool-calling skills to flag factory defects or analyze athletic form. Why it matters: it unlocks actionable data from billions of unwatched cameras.
Nvidia just teamed up with orchestration leaders like LangChain and CrewAI to release new enterprise-ready Agentic AI Blueprints. The catalog includes pre-built templates for turning PDFs into conversational podcasts, automating code docs, and orchestrating multi-agent systems, letting developers spin up reasoning workflows in a single click via NVIDIA Launchables.
Google just previewed Gemini AI features for Google TV at CES 2025, turning the living room screen into a conversational hub. The update lets you search via natural conversation, control smart home devices, and generate a daily "News Brief" sourced from the web and YouTube. It is slated to roll out to select devices later in 2025.
Brisk It just unveiled the Zelos 450, a compact $399 smart pellet grill powered by its upgraded Vera 2.0 generative AI platform. Users can snap photos of raw ingredients to generate custom recipes that the grill executes automatically, with the AI even adjusting temperatures to salvage common grilling blunders. It is set to hit shelves in Q1 2025.
Timekettle just rolled out Babel OS, its first operating system built specifically for AI-driven simultaneous interpretation in earbuds. It uses semantic segmentation to predict speech completions with near-zero latency, adds voice cloning to preserve tone, and supports custom lexicons across 40+ languages. The software is rolling out via free OTA updates to products like the W4 Pro and X1 Hub, with offline edge AI on the way.
