New features and launches in ChatGPT, Cursor, Perplexity and other AI tools, plus changes to pricing and availability.
Microsoft just quietly rolled out a dedicated Copilot app on Android via the Google Play Store, dropping the need to go through the Bing mobile app. It delivers a standalone ChatGPT-like interface with DALL-E 3 image generation and free access to OpenAI's GPT-4, which normally requires a paid subscription. An iOS version has yet to arrive.
OpenAI just rolled out a chat archive feature for ChatGPT. Users can now tidy up their sidebar without permanently deleting chats, and view archived conversations anytime in Settings. It's currently live on web and iOS, with Android rolling out soon.
Google just expanded its AI code assistance features to all Colab users, including those on the free tier in eligible regions. Users can generate Python code from plain English prompts and use an AI chatbot to explain and fix runtime errors. Why it matters: Bringing free AI pair programming to over 10 million active Colab users levels the playing field for students and researchers worldwide.
Zoo just launched Text-to-CAD in alpha, generating genuine B-Rep surfaces instead of uneditable mesh blobs. Outputs export directly as STEP files that can be opened and tweaked in any existing CAD program. It brings text prompting into real manufacturing and engineering design workflows, with open-source tools and an API ready to test.
Musician Grimes and toy maker Curio just teamed up with OpenAI to roll out interactive AI plushies for kids, priced at $99. One character is named Grok—though Curio says it has nothing to do with Elon Musk's chatbot. The voice-driven toys converse using language models, aiming to replace excessive screen time with imaginative play.
H&R Block just launched AI Tax Assist, a conversational helper built on OpenAI and Microsoft models to walk DIY filers through deductions and complex tax rules. It only pulls from H&R Block's vetted tax library rather than the open web, and while paid tiers start at $35, users can still escalate tricky questions to a live human expert.
Instagram just launched a generative AI background editor for Stories to U.S. users. People can type custom prompts or pick presets like "Being chased by dinosaurs" to replace their photo backdrops, and viewers get a "Try it" sticker to instantly create their own. It is Meta's latest attempt to turn lightweight AI generation into a viral social loop.
Meta just began rolling out multimodal generative AI features to its second-generation Ray-Ban smart glasses in an early-access beta. Users can say "Hey, Meta, look" to trigger the on-board camera and get voice answers about what they are looking at. Why it matters: It brings voice-activated computer vision right to everyday eyewear, though it currently requires a photo snap and still experiences occasional hallucinations.
ChatGPT Plus subscriptions just reopened after being halted due to heavy compute demand. @sama confirmed that more GPUs have finally been secured, allowing waitlisted users to upgrade to the premium service once again.
Midjourney just launched an alpha version of its website allowing users to generate images directly on the web instead of typing complex Discord slash commands. The clean interface adds visual dials for settings like aspect ratios and keeps a full generation history. The catch? You need to have generated over 10,000 images to get access for now.
Anthropic just launched Claude for Sheets, an official add-on that lets you run Claude directly inside spreadsheet cells using formulas like =CLAUDE(). It allows developers and data analysts to batch-process text, test prompts, and tweak model parameters directly in their rows, though you will need an Anthropic API key to plug it in.
Google just opened its experimental note-taking tool NotebookLM to all U.S. users aged 18 and up, upgrading its engine with Gemini Pro. The update brings over a dozen new features, including a dedicated noteboard, dynamic in-line suggestions for reading and writing, and one-click structured exports to Google Docs. Best of all, your private notes are kept strictly off training sets.
Meta just rolled out a major wave of AI upgrades across its hardware and apps. Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are gaining multimodal AI to understand what you see and fetch real-time info via Bing, while a standalone web image generator launched at imagine.meta.com. Group chats on Messenger and Instagram also gained interactive image remixing.
KREA AI just launched a new feature called Upscale & Enhance, and it's completely free for all users. The tool lets creators upscale and sharpen images with generative detail, making high-res visual enhancement accessible to everyone without a paywall.
ElevenLabs just launched ElevenLabs Grants to give early-stage startups 11 million free text and dubbing characters per month for three months. To qualify, companies must have fewer than 25 employees and detail their AI voice integration plans, with the company distributing over 100 billion characters in the first wave.
AWS just launched Amazon Q, a generative AI assistant specifically tailored to enterprise data, systems, and AWS developer workflows. It handles everything from drafting code to diagnosing EC2 network errors while strictly respecting role-based permissions, and AWS won't use customer data to train underlying models. Why it matters: Cloud giants are finally addressing the enterprise security fears that have kept teams from adopting generative AI at work.
Nvidia just launched its generative AI drug discovery platform, BioNeMo, on AWS via Amazon SageMaker and ParallelCluster. Researchers can scale digital biology models like ESM-2 across up to 512 H100 GPUs, cutting training runs from a month down to just a few days. Why it matters: Biotech teams can now fine-tune foundation models directly on their proprietary lab data using standard AWS cloud infrastructure.
AWS just upgraded its Amazon Transcribe speech-to-text platform with a foundation model trained on millions of hours of unlabeled audio. The update expands coverage from 39 to 100 spoken languages, improves accuracy by 20 to 50 percent, and auto-summarizes customer service calls.
Microsoft just rolled out its DALL-E 3-powered Cocreator feature to all Windows 11 users in the default Paint app. You can now generate images from text prompts by clicking the new Cocreator button on the toolbar, though some users might still hit a short waitlist.
Intuit just announced plans to integrate generative AI across its TurboTax Online and TurboTax Live suites, rolling out on Thursday. The update includes full Spanish translations and revamped expert matching for in-person or virtual help. It means tax prep is getting automated assistance while keeping professional human backup on tap.
