OpenAI is introducing a significantly upgraded memory system for ChatGPT called Dreaming, starting with Plus and Pro users in the United States. The update enhances how ChatGPT remembers context between conversations, follows user preferences, and updates its memories over time. Free and Go users will gain access over the next few weeks as the rollout…
OpenAI has announced an update that enhances the GPT-5.5 Instant model and retires several older models from ChatGPT, including o3 and GPT-4.5. The company shared this information in an updated release notes document. The update focuses on improving GPT-5.5’s response quality and style, while also phasing out older models to optimize computing resources. GPT-5.5 Instant…
Anthropic has introduced Claude Opus 4.8, an update to Claude Opus 4.7 that the company claims enhances performance for coding, agentic tasks, reasoning, and knowledge work. The model is accessible via claude.ai, Claude Code, and the Claude API, where it is identified as claude-opus-4-8. The release also features new platform controls, including user-adjustable effort settings,…
It’s possible that AI was used to write parts of Pope Leo XIV’s latest encyclical about AI’s impact on humanity. An analysis by Linch Zhang posted on the forum LessWrong found certain paragraphs of Magnifica Humanitas to be between 40 percent and 100 percent written by AI, according to the popular AI detector Pangram. The…
Google’s AI Overviews are running into an interesting problem right now. Earlier on Friday, if you searched for the term “disregard,” the AI Overview section would include a response like what you’d see from a more traditional AI chatbot instead of the typical AI summary, as spotted on X. As you can see in the…
The SpaceX IPO is here, and it’s more than just an historic public offering that could make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. It also reveals more ways in which Elon Musk’s companies interact and overlap with each other, shuffling money around in ways that are often difficult to keep track of. This is evident…
A California jury has unanimously dismissed Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman, and Microsoft. The jury determined that Musk waited too long to bring the claims, resulting in the expiration of the statute of limitations on both the breach of charitable trust and unjust enrichment claims against OpenAI. As a result, Microsoft’s remaining…
Microsoft Edge is adding a new feature that will allow its Copilot AI chatbot to gather information from all of your open tabs. When you start a conversation with Copilot, you can ask the chatbot questions about what’s in your tabs, compare the products you’re looking at, summarize your open articles, and more. In its…
OpenAI is launching Daybreak, an AI initiative focused on detecting and patching vulnerabilities before attackers find them. Daybreak uses the Codex Security AI agent that launched in March to create a threat model based on an organization’s code and focus on possible attack paths, validate likely vulnerabilities, and then automate the detection of the higher…
Whether you are a student or a working professional, NotebookLM can be a really beneficial tool. Based on the sources you provide, you can do a lot with it. Including creating presentations, generating audio and visual summaries, taking quizzes, arranging data graphically, and much more. Since Google owns both, YouTube videos work really well as… Read…
