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🎨 The new ChatGPT Images is here
🇺🇸 US threatens penalties against EU tech firms
🤖 Google tests an email-based productivity assistant
💰 Amazon in talks to invest $10 billion in OpenAI
⚡ Google launches Gemini 3 Flash
🎬 Warner Bros rejects Paramount bid
🎁 + 20 other news you might like
🧰 + 6 trending tools
📚 + 2 trending papers
🎨 The new ChatGPT Images is here LINK
OpenAI launched GPT-Image-1.5 today for all users and the API, claiming a speed boost of up to 4x along with better instruction-following and specific editing tools to compete with Google.
This updated ChatGPT Images system mimics Nano Banana Pro by letting creators adjust fine details like facial likeness or lighting without forcing the model to randomly reinterpret the entire picture.
A dedicated entry point in the sidebar now opens a creative studio interface where you can apply preset filters, browse trending prompts, and see search queries display more visuals with clear sources.
🇺🇸 US threatens penalties against EU tech firms LINK
The Office of the United States Trade Representative says it is ready to penalize European technology companies if the European Union continues targeting American businesses with discriminatory lawsuits, taxes, and fines.
Trade officials claim the EU has ignored concerns for years while hitting firms like Google, X, Amazon, and Meta with harassing directives instead of walking back broader regulation of business practices.
If these policies continue, the government plans to use every tool at its disposal to counter these measures, specifically naming fees and restrictions on service companies among the possibilities for action.
🤖 Google tests an email-based productivity assistant LINK
Google Labs has launched a new experimental assistant named CC that uses Gemini to access your Gmail, Drive, and Calendar data so it can help manage your daily digital life.
The tool sends a “Your Day Ahead” email with key updates and tasks, allowing you to reply anytime to add to-dos, save notes, or ask it to search for specific information.
This experiment is open to AI Pro and Ultra users in the U.S. and Canada with consumer Google accounts, but the company says it does not support Workspace plans yet.
💰 Amazon in talks to invest $10 billion in OpenAI LINK
Amazon is currently negotiating a potential deal to invest more than $10 billion into OpenAI as part of a new agreement for the startup to use its artificial intelligence chips.
The discussions come after OpenAI completed a restructuring that removed Microsoft's right of first refusal to be the sole compute provider, giving it freedom to partner across the broader AI ecosystem.
OpenAI recently signed a contract to buy $38 billion worth of capacity from AWS, adding to massive infrastructure commitments made in recent months with chipmakers like Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices, and Broadcom.
⚡ Google launches Gemini 3 Flash LINK
Google just launched Gemini 3 Flash as a faster, lower-cost model that now serves as the default option for everyone using the Gemini app and AI mode in search.
This release hit an 81.2 percent score on the MMMU-Pro multimodality benchmark and reached 33.7 percent on Humanity’s Last Exam, putting it just behind Gemini 3 Pro and GPT 5.2.
Users can upload video and audio recordings to get analysis or build app prototypes using prompts, while developers can access the model through the API and the Antigravity coding tool.
🎬 Warner Bros rejects Paramount bid LINK
Warner Bros Discovery has officially turned down a hostile takeover attempt from Paramount, choosing instead to proceed with its previous agreement to merge with streaming giant Netflix for a lower valuation.
While Paramount launched an all-cash tender offer valuing the studio at $108.4 billion, Warner Bros claims the $83 billion Netflix merger represents superior, more certain value for their shareholders.
The rival proposal came from Paramount CEO David Ellison, the son of a Trump ally, shortly after the president expressed a desire to see CNN under new ownership during this sale.
Other news you might like
- Meta’s AI glasses can now help you hear conversations betterLINK
- OpenAI hires former UK Chancellor George Osborne to put AI into governmentLINK
- Alphabet-owned Waymo in talks to raise $15 billion in fundingLINK
- Apple in early talks to assemble and package iPhone chips in India: reportLINK
- X updates its terms, files countersuit to lay claim to the ‘Twitter’ trademark after newcomer’s challengeLINK
- California judge rules that Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing around AutopilotLINK
- Texas sues TV makers for taking screenshots of what people watchLINK
- Apple Music is coming to ChatGPT, OpenAI announcesLINK
- Hyundai and Kia will repair millions of vehicles under a deal to fix anti-theft technologyLINK
- Browser 'privacy' extensions have eye on your AI, log all your chatsLINK
- US firm plans 50,000-strong humanoid robot army for defense, industrial workLINK
- OpenAI's GPT-5 router rollback shows why AI requires unlearning old habitsLINK
- DoorDash rolls out Zesty, an AI social app for discovering new restaurantsLINK
- Google’s vibe-coding tool Opal comes to GeminiLINK
- How Luminar’s doomed Volvo deal helped drag the company into bankruptcyLINK
- A German startup is turning cockroaches into cyborg spiesLINK
🧰 Trending tools
ChatGPT Images: generates and edits images with improved instruction following, consistent lighting and facial features, now 4x faster than previous versions.LINK
Kraa 1.0: a web-based writing platform combining personal notes, collaborative rich-text documents, and real-time group chat in one unified workspace.LINK
StreamAlive: embeds real-time audience interactions like polls, word clouds, and quizzes into PowerPoint slides using chat from Zoom, Teams, or other platforms.LINK
AI-powered website segmentation by Croct: segments website visitors in real-time based on behavioral events with recency and frequency filters, enabling precise audience targeting for personalization and testing.LINK
CanvAi: a visual canvas workspace where you sketch, arrange elements, and add context before sending structured prompts to AI models for more predictable results.LINK
Lingoku: browser extension that replaces English words with Japanese vocabulary at your skill level while you browse, using LLM for contextually accurate translations.LINK
📚 Trending papers & reports
AI chatbot induced shared delusion in vulnerable user: researchers documented a case where prolonged AI interaction triggered delusional beliefs that the chatbot was a real person needing help.LINK
Language models extrapolate training patterns in unexpected ways: researchers found AI can learn hidden rules from examples and apply them incorrectly to new situations.LINK
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