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    The ChatGPT Mac app turns Option + Space into an AI assistant

    OpenAI just rolled out its ChatGPT desktop app for macOS, bringing a system-wide floating prompt right to your fingertips. Tapping Option + Space bar pulls up a text bar over any active window, making it dead simple to look up terms, draft copy, or switch to GPT-4o without opening a browser. It is currently available to Plus subscribers on computers running macOS 14 with Apple Silicon chips, with Windows support coming later this year.

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    Anthropic taps Instagram co-founder as product chief

    Anthropic just hired Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger as its very first Chief Product Officer. Krieger will oversee product engineering, management, and design, tasked with taking Claude beyond the enterprise and deeper into the consumer market. With OpenAI and Google rolling out slicker interfaces by the day, Anthropic is bringing in a veteran builder to sharpen its product chops.

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    Google upgrades Android with homework help and scam detection

    Google just overhauled Android with a suite of new AI capabilities powered by Gemini and Circle to Search. Students can now circle math and physics problems for step-by-step explanations, while Gemini's new overlay can answer questions about YouTube videos. Even better, multimodal Gemini Nano will run on-device to spot phone scams in real time.

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    Google unveils LearnLM: Gemini-tuned models built to teach, not just answer

    Google just introduced LearnLM, a new family of models fine-tuned from Gemini designed to turn AI from an answer generator into an active tutor. Grounded in learning science, it powers features like interactive "raise your hand" prompts on YouTube, step-by-step guidance in Gemini, and simplified Search overviews. Why it matters: generative AI is shifting from an easy cheating shortcut to structured pedagogy.

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    Google Photos gets a Gemini brain with Ask Photos

    Google just unveiled Ask Photos, an experimental Gemini-powered feature that turns your photo library into an intelligent memory bank. You can search your gallery using natural language, ask questions about specific life details hidden in your snapshots, and even have it curate trip highlights with ready-to-post captions. It rolls out in the coming months.

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    Google teases its answer to GPT-4o ahead of I/O

    Google just dropped a teaser for an unreleased multimodal AI interface running on Android, right after OpenAI launched GPT-4o. The video shows the assistant using a phone's camera to understand its surroundings in real time and answer questions about the Google I/O stage setup. OpenAI may have had the spotlight for only 24 hours, though real-world performance remains to be seen at the keynote.

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    OpenAI opens the GPT Store to everyone for free

    OpenAI just opened its custom GPT Store to all free ChatGPT users, unlocking access to millions of tailored bots previously kept behind a paywall. The move massively widens the audience for GPT creators, though you'll still need a paid subscription if you want to build and publish your own.

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    OpenAI launches GPT-4o with real-time audio and vision

    OpenAI just launched GPT-4o, an end-to-end multimodal flagship model that reasons across text, audio, and vision in real time. It cuts speech latency down to human-like speeds, slashes API costs by 50%, and is rolling out to all free ChatGPT users.

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    Google Pixel 8a brings flagship AI down to $499

    Google just unveiled the Pixel 8a, packing its Tensor G3 chip and signature AI features into a $499 device. It brings onboard Gemini, Circle to Search, and camera tools like Best Take and Audio Magic Eraser. Why it matters: Google is democratizing its mobile AI suite without forcing buyers into pricey flagship territory.

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    OpenAI lands licensing deal with People publisher Dotdash Meredith

    OpenAI just inked a content licensing deal with Dotdash Meredith, the media giant behind People and InStyle. ChatGPT will now cite its articles and train on its content library, while the publisher will tap OpenAI's models to upgrade its cookieless ad-targeting tool, D/Cipher. It is OpenAI's latest push to lock down licensed data amid ongoing copyright lawsuits.

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    Microsoft is building its own GPT-4 rival, MAI-1

    Microsoft is reportedly developing an in-house AI language model called MAI-1, packing roughly 500 billion parameters. Headed by recently hired Inflection co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, it marks Microsoft's first massive internal frontier model since investing over $10 billion in OpenAI. Owning its own heavyweight model gives the tech giant crucial leverage and a strong hedge against OpenAI.

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    Stack Overflow and OpenAI join forces to feed ChatGPT vetted code

    OpenAI and Stack Overflow just announced an API partnership to bridge technical knowledge with frontier LLMs. OpenAI will tap OverflowAPI to improve model performance and surface verified answers with attribution directly inside ChatGPT. In return, Stack Overflow will use OpenAI models to power its OverflowAI features, with the first integrations arriving in the first half of 2024.

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    Grok is now summarizing the news on X

    X just rolled out Stories, an AI feature powered by Grok that serves up short summaries of trending topics in the Explore tab. Instead of reading the original news articles, Grok builds its overviews entirely from the posts and conversations happening across the platform. The feature is currently exclusive to paying X Premium subscribers.

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    Apple’s AI playbook for iOS 18 starts coming into focus

    Apple is reportedly preparing a suite of AI features for iOS 18 powered by its Ajax LLM, including text summarization in Messages and Safari. Simple tasks will run on-device with strict privacy warnings, while complex queries could tap server-side power from Google or OpenAI. Details are expected at WWDC on June 10th.

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    OpenAI may be launching a ChatGPT-powered search engine next week

    OpenAI just sparked speculation about a direct challenge to Google after registering the search.chatgpt.com domain. Reports indicate an official announcement could arrive as early as May 9. Rather than relying on clunky Bing add-ons, the new tool aims to deeply integrate real-time web retrieval directly into ChatGPT to rethink the traditional search experience.

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    Claude gets a team plan and an iPhone app

    Anthropic just launched a new Claude Team plan alongside its first official iOS app. The team tier costs $30 per seat per month (with a 5-seat minimum), unlocking higher usage limits, full Claude 3 model access, and a 200K context window. The free mobile app brings seamless chat sync and direct photo analysis to your phone.

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    ChatGPT gives all Plus users a long-term memory

    OpenAI just rolled out its "Memory" feature to all ChatGPT Plus subscribers outside of Europe and Korea. The chatbot can now remember key details, preferences, and context across different conversations. You'll get notified when a memory updates, and you can easily view, delete, or turn off memories in settings whenever you want.

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    OpenAI inks licensing deal with Financial Times

    OpenAI just struck a licensing partnership with the Financial Times to bring FT's journalism into ChatGPT. Users will see attributed summaries, quotes, and links to FT reporting in relevant answers. The FT has also deployed ChatGPT Enterprise to all staff, signaling that major publishers are opting to partner rather than fight.

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    Apple ramps up OpenAI talks for iOS 18 generative AI

    Apple has reopened talks with OpenAI to power new generative AI features on iPhones later this year. The discussions focus on integrating a ChatGPT-like bot into iOS 18 alongside Apple's own models. Apple is still in active talks with Google over Gemini licensing as well, with no final decision made.

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    Moderna goes all-in on ChatGPT Enterprise

    Moderna just rolled out ChatGPT Enterprise across its thousands of employees, with staff building 750 custom GPTs in just two months. Use cases range from Dose ID—which analyzes clinical trial data to optimize vaccine dosages—to legal review bots. Why it matters: Moderna is betting that generative AI can allow a few thousand people to operate like a 100,000-person pharma giant, aiming to launch 15 new treatments in five years.