New features and launches in ChatGPT, Cursor, Perplexity and other AI tools, plus changes to pricing and availability.
Perplexity just rolled out card-based direct answers for basic factual queries like weather, local time, currency conversion, and simple math. CEO Aravind Srinivas noted these lookups are now much faster, though they conspicuously drop source links. It’s a direct play against Google, aiming to stop users from hopping back to traditional search for routine everyday facts.
TikTok just unveiled Symphony Digital Avatars and AI Dubbing to supercharge marketing content across borders. The tool offers pre-built commercial avatars speaking over 30 languages, custom avatars modeled on real creators, and automatic dubbing into 10+ languages. Why it matters: Brands and creators can now scale localized video campaigns worldwide without reshooting footage.
Adobe just overhauled Acrobat by integrating Firefly Image 3 directly into PDFs, letting users generate and edit visuals inside their documents. The updated Acrobat AI Assistant can also synthesize insights across multiple Word and PowerPoint files with citations, plus pull action items from meeting transcripts. Adobe is offering free, unlimited access to the assistant from June 18 through June 28.
Zeta Labs, founded by former Meta engineers, just launched Jace, an autonomous AI agent capable of executing complex multi-step tasks inside a web browser. Powered by their proprietary AWA-1 model, Jace handles everything from booking hotels to setting up ad campaigns on command, backed by a fresh $2.9M pre-seed round.
Yahoo just launched a revamped Yahoo News app powered by the tech it acquired from Instagram founders' Artifact. The app serves up personalized feeds, bullet-point summaries, and Artifact's signature feature: letting AI rewrite clickbait headlines into plain English. It's available now on iOS and Android alongside an opt-in web redesign.
Spotify just launched Creative Lab, its first in-house creative agency, and started testing generative AI-powered voiceover ads. The streaming giant is building a new tool called Quick Audio inside Spotify Ads Manager, allowing brands to auto-generate scripts and voiceovers with AI. Why it matters: With 615 million listeners, Spotify is lowering the barrier for audio advertising so any brand can spin up a campaign fast.
ElevenLabs just rolled out a text-to-sound model that generates sound effects, short instrumental tracks, and soundscapes from text prompts. Fine-tuned on Shutterstock's licensed audio library, the tool is now available to all users. Creators and game developers can now spin up custom Foley and background audio without scouring stock libraries.
AI search engine You.com just launched Custom Assistants, allowing anyone to build tailored bots powered by GPT-4o, Llama 3, or Claude 3 Opus for free. Instead of typing long instructions every time, users can configure specialized agents for specific needs in a few clicks. Why it matters: It offers free access to competing top-tier frontier models under a single roof.
Perplexity just rolled out Pages, a feature that transforms prompts and search threads into well-formatted, shareable web articles complete with sections and media. Users can customize tone for beginners or pros, and finished pages are indexed by Google. Why it matters: Perplexity is framing this as human-led research curation, turning everyday AI searches into reusable knowledge.
OpenAI just launched ChatGPT Edu, a new offering built specifically for universities looking to responsibly deploy AI across campus. The package brings flagship-level reasoning, custom GPTs, and data analysis to students and researchers with enterprise security, while keeping university data completely private. Why it matters: It gives schools an affordable way to scale campus AI without privacy trade-offs.
OpenAI just opened custom GPTs, data analytics, and vision features to all free ChatGPT users. Anyone can now explore and chat with community-made bots or analyze files from cloud storage, though building your own GPT still requires a paid tier. Once free users hit message caps on GPT-4o, conversations automatically drop back to GPT-3.5.
Microsoft just launched an official Copilot bot inside Telegram, bringing free text chat and web search directly to users on mobile and desktop. It handles quick queries, translations, and coding tasks with a limit of 30 turns per day. The catch: it requires your phone number and can't generate images yet.
Google just rolled out a suite of AI features for its Chromebook Plus lineup, including system-wide writing help, AI-generated wallpapers, and the Magic Editor in Google Photos. Even better: buying a new device gets you a full year of the Google One AI Premium plan for free, unlocking Gemini Advanced.
Google's new search feature AI Overviews is going viral for the wrong reasons. The tool instructed a user to add non-toxic glue to pizza sauce to keep cheese sticking, seemingly falling for an 11-year-old Reddit joke. It also mixed up the Tower of London with Big Ben. Google claims these hallucinations are extremely rare queries, but it highlights how messy search summaries can get.
Canva just unveiled its biggest platform redesign in ten years, transforming into an end-to-end workplace suite with Canva Enterprise and a new training tool called Courses. The platform also upgraded its Magic Studio AI suite with a Text to Graphic feature, allowing users to generate custom icons, stickers, and vector illustrations straight from text prompts.
Near is developing an AI agent designed to help non-coders build entire decentralized applications (DApps) simply by describing what they want. Co-founder Illia Polosukhin said the upcoming tool will generate smart contracts, frontends, and middleware end-to-end, pitching user-owned open-source AI as a counterweight to centralized tech giants.
Microsoft just added an AI-powered Advanced Paste tool to Windows 11 in PowerToys 0.81. The feature can convert clipboard text on the fly into Markdown, JSON, or plain text, and lets you prompt OpenAI to translate, summarize, or rewrite code across languages. The catch is that you need your own OpenAI API key and paid credits.
Microsoft just announced that Edge will soon translate and dub videos on the fly across sites like YouTube, Coursera, and LinkedIn. The AI feature generates live subtitles and spoken audio as you watch, currently supporting translations between English and Spanish, German, Hindi, Italian, and Russian.
Microsoft just introduced Team Copilot at its Build conference, expanding its generative AI tech from personal assistance to full team collaboration. Embedded across Teams, Loop, and Planner, it can take shared meeting notes, summarize chats, assign tasks, and track deadlines. It launches in preview later this year for Copilot for Microsoft 365 subscribers.
GitHub just launched Copilot Extensions, allowing developers to invoke third-party services like Docker, Sentry, and Azure directly inside Copilot Chat using natural language. Organizations can also build private extensions for internal APIs. Why it matters: developers can troubleshoot, manage databases, and deploy without leaving their IDE.
