Anthropic just rolled out Projects for Claude.ai Pro and Team subscribers, giving each workspace a massive 200K context window to ground Claude in internal docs, code, and custom instructions. Team members can also share conversation snapshots in an activity feed. Basically, your team can now stop copy-pasting the same context into every single prompt.
Google just opened up Gemini to teen students using Google Workspace for Education accounts across more than 100 countries, completely free of charge. The teen experience comes with built-in guardrails, automatic fact-checking, and zero chat data used for model training, while teachers get new AI lesson-planning tools in Classroom. Schools finally get a secure, supervised way to introduce GenAI to minors.
Google just rolled out Gemini directly into the Gmail side panel on the web. The assistant can summarize messy email threads, draft replies, and answer specific questions by digging through your inbox and Google Drive files without leaving the page. It is rolling out to Workspace add-on and Google One AI Premium subscribers.
Meta just rolled out Meta AI in India in English across WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram. Built on Llama 3, the free assistant lets users brainstorm in group chats, pull up details directly from Facebook feeds, and generate or animate images by typing "imagine".
Meta has reportedly discussed integrating its generative AI models into Apple Intelligence alongside OpenAI's ChatGPT. Apple has also held talks with Google, Anthropic, and Perplexity, potentially creating a hub where AI companies sell premium subscriptions directly to iPhone users. Negotiations are still ongoing and could fall through.
Grok's standalone web codebase was just found to contain direct references to Midjourney, backing up earlier rumors of a partnership between xAI and the leading image platform. If true, Grok 1.5 could soon leverage Midjourney via API to output visuals, alongside upcoming image upload and vision capabilities.
Anthropic just released Claude 3.5 Sonnet, leapfrogging its own flagship Opus and rival models on coding and reasoning benchmarks at twice the speed. It also introduced Artifacts, a new side-by-side workspace on Claude.ai that lets you view, edit, and run code or designs in real time. It is available for free on Claude.ai and via API.
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.
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.
Meta just suspended plans to launch its Meta AI assistant in Europe following objections from the Irish Data Protection Commission over training on user data. Meta called the move a setback, arguing that blocking access to European content leaves it with only a "second-rate experience." Privacy advocates at Noyb countered that Meta simply refused to ask for explicit consent.
Apple and OpenAI just sealed an AI partnership, but neither side is handing over any cash. Apple is essentially paying OpenAI with front-row exposure to hundreds of millions of users in exchange for ChatGPT access. While it is a pure bartering deal for now, Apple plans to bring in rivals like Google and could eventually shift toward a revenue-sharing model.
OpenAI is teaming up with Microsoft and Oracle to run Azure AI workloads on Oracle's cloud infrastructure. The deal shows OpenAI needs more capacity than Microsoft alone can provide to keep ChatGPT running smoothly. Frontier model pre-training stays on Microsoft supercomputers, but the partnership also puts Oracle in the awkward position of supplying both OpenAI and rival xAI.
SEO.ai broken down whether Google can spot ChatGPT-generated text and penalize it in search results. While tools can analyze probability patterns to catch AI text, Google hasn't officially penalized content just for being machine-made. Basically, the algorithm cares about whether content genuinely helps users, not whether a human typed it.
Meta's AI is now injecting itself into Facebook comment sections to generate automated summaries, capturing everything from bizarre rants to lighthearted jokes. While the recaps often highlight just how chaotic discussions have become, the move is also reigniting privacy concerns over Meta training its models on user-generated content.
Google just detailed more than a dozen technical fixes to AI Overviews following viral blunders like suggesting users eat rocks or put glue on pizza. The company blamed data voids, satirical sites, and sarcastic forum posts for the hallucinations, and is now restricting user-generated content and humor from triggering AI answers.
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 launched OpenAI for Nonprofits, offering discounted rates of up to 75% on ChatGPT Business and Enterprise plans. The initiative aims to help resource-strapped organizations draft grant proposals, analyze data, and expand their social impact with dedicated workspace tools and strict privacy standards.
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.
