OpenAI just rolled out eight preset chat styles in ChatGPT's personalization tab, ranging from Professional and Nerdy to Candid and Cynical. Instead of constantly writing custom instructions to tone down the bot's sycophancy or make it more direct, users can now toggle a full vibe shift with a single click.
Microsoft just rolled out GPT-5.1 as an experimental model in Copilot Studio for U.S. customers in early-release Power Platform environments. The new model offers adaptable thinking time across chat and reasoning tasks, though Microsoft recommends keeping it out of production for now.
OpenAI just rolled out GPT-5.1, upgrading both its Instant and Thinking models with warmer conversational tones and smarter pacing. Instant now adapts its thinking time based on question difficulty, while new granular tone presets let users shape ChatGPT's personality. Paid users get access first, with API availability arriving later this week.
OpenAI just challenged a legal demand from The New York Times to turn over 20 million private ChatGPT conversations, slamming it as a massive privacy invasion. The newspaper claims it needs the records to probe paywall bypasses, but OpenAI asked the court to reject the request and announced it is now developing client-side encryption so not even OpenAI can read them.
Samsung is rolling out Vision AI Companion across its 2025 TVs, upgrading Bixby with generative powers from Microsoft Copilot and Perplexity. Viewers can ask in real time about actors on screen, check sports scores, or plan dinner using contextual follow-ups. Why it matters: without a smart speaker of its own, Samsung is turning the biggest screen in the house into its primary conversational agent.
Microsoft just recruited top lifestyle influencers like Alix Earle to convince Gen Z that Copilot is just as cool as ChatGPT. While Microsoft dominates enterprise software, its 150 million monthly active users lag far behind ChatGPT’s 800 million weekly active users. Why it matters: Positioning AI as a personal skincare and fashion mentor may be Microsoft’s best shot at shaking off its corporate image.
OpenAI just announced that U.S. servicemembers and veterans within 12 months of retirement or separation can get a free year of ChatGPT Plus. Verified through SheerID, the initiative was pitched by veterans at OpenAI to help transitioning personnel translate military experience into civilian resumes, practice interviews, and navigate benefits.
Google just updated NotebookLM to let users import PDFs and Google Sheets straight from Google Drive, with support for pasting Drive URLs directly. Microsoft Word (.docx) support is also coming soon. You no longer have to waste time downloading and re-uploading cloud docs just to feed them into your AI notebook.
Kim Kardashian just revealed in a Vanity Fair interview that ChatGPT is her "frenemy," admitting she repeatedly failed law exams after relying on its hallucinated answers. When she angrily yelled that it made her fail, the bot cheekily replied it was just teaching her to "trust your own instincts." Why it matters: It is a hilarious reminder that LLM hallucinations spare no one—even celebrities in high-stakes fields.
OpenAI just patched a bizarre privacy glitch after researchers discovered users' raw, personal ChatGPT prompts were appearing inside Google Search Console reports. The leaks, which included sensitive relationship and business queries, suggest OpenAI may have been directly scraping Google with actual user inputs. While OpenAI says the routing issue is fixed, questions about its scraping methods remain.
Google Research just introduced Nested Learning, a new machine learning paradigm aimed at eliminating catastrophic forgetting in models. By treating model architectures and optimization rules as unified, nested optimization problems running at different update speeds, the team designed a self-modifying architecture called Hope that outperforms standard Transformers in long-context memory and language tasks.
Perplexity just rolled out a completely reimagined Comet Assistant to all users. Built into its Comet browser, the agentic assistant can now handle multi-tab workflows simultaneously, making tasks like cross-referencing spreadsheets and travel searches much smoother. Perplexity says internal tests show a 23% performance gain, backed by tighter user permission controls before it touches your browser.
Amazon just launched Kindle Translate, an AI tool currently in beta for select Kindle Direct Publishing authors that translates full books between English, Spanish, and German. Generated editions will carry a clear warning label. It’s huge for indie writers chasing a global audience, though catching literary nuances and dodging hallucinations is still a massive hurdle.
Meta just brought its revamped Meta AI app to Europe, rolling out Vibes—a TikTok-like feed dedicated to AI-generated short videos. Users can generate clips from prompts, remix other creators' posts, add music, and push videos directly to Reels or Stories, while also managing Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses in the same hub.
Google just upgraded Google Finance with AI-powered Deep Search, using Gemini to run hundreds of simultaneous queries and compile thorough, cited research reports. The update also brings prediction market odds from Kalshi and Polymarket directly into search, alongside live audio and transcripts for earnings calls. Why it matters: Google is evolving its ticker tracker into an active financial analyst.
OpenAI just launched its Teen Safety Blueprint, laying out design guardrails and policy standards for young users. Alongside new parental controls, the company is actively developing an age-prediction system to detect minors and tailor their ChatGPT experience accordingly.
Anthropic just expanded its Economic Futures Programme to the UK and Europe, partnering with the London School of Economics to host policy symposiums and fund researchers studying AI's impact on labor. The initiative provides research grants, Claude API credits, and granular usage data. Anthropic's data reveals distinct regional habits: the UK leads in academic research use, Germany in industrial troubleshooting, and France in tourism and culture.
OpenAI revealed that Brazil now ranks in the top three globally for weekly ChatGPT usage, with users sending roughly 140 million messages every day. The country is also home to the second-largest active developer base building with the OpenAI API. A cited Microsoft study shows that 75% of Brazilian small and medium businesses are optimistic about AI's impact.
Kim Kardashian just revealed in a Vanity Fair interview that she relies on OpenAI's ChatGPT to study for the bar exam, but it keeps giving her wrong answers and making her fail practice tests. When she yells at the chatbot in frustration, it tries to placate her by saying, "This is just teaching you to trust your own instincts." It is a classic reminder that LLMs still guess words rather than actually understand law.
Coinbase just launched Payments MCP, a framework that equips models like Claude, Gemini, and Codex with crypto wallets and stablecoin rails without requiring API keys. Running locally on desktop, agents can now pay for compute or paywalled data via the x402 protocol, all within user-set spending limits.
