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Apart from Gemini, Google has released its remarkable Nano Banana image model on X. You can now tag @NanoBanana on X and ask it to generate or edit images for free. With this launch, Google is seeing wider adoption of Gemini and so far, 10 million new users have joined in.
Image-to-video capability in Google Photos is now powered by the state-of-the-art Veo 3 AI model. It's now available to Google Photos users in the US. You can create videos up to four seconds in length with no audio.
Warner Bros. Demands $150,000 per Image from Midjourney over Copyright Violations
Aparna Ukil
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AI is getting smarter every day and that's why Warner Bros. Discovery complained against the AI Powerhouse Midjourney for allowing its users to use their content to create images and videos.
ChatGPT Projects Come to Free Users to Organize Chats and Files in One Place
Arjun Sha
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OpenAI has brought the premium ChatGPT Projects features to all users. Free users can now create Projects inside ChatGPT and upload files, images, and set custom instructions for the particular project. Having said that, free ChatGPT users can only upload five files under each project.
Google Translate Adds AI-Powered Learning Features to Rival Duolingo
Anshuman Jain
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Google Translate is rolling out a new Gemini-powered live translation tool for real-time conversations. The app is also introducing a language practice feature to help you learn new languages with a tailored experience according to your skill level. It also helps you understand spoken words and carry out conversations, tracking your daily progress as well.
Anthropic Launches Claude AI Agent for Chrome to Perform Actions in Your Browser
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Anthropic has introduced Claude for Chrome, a browser extension that can navigate webpages, fill out forms, and perform various actions in your Chrome browser. Initially, Anthropic is only offering Claude for Chrome to 1,000 users who are on the Max plan. Anthropic warns that AI agents are prone to prompt injections and can take harmful actions without your knowledge.
The Mysterious Nano-Banana Image Model is From Google and It’s Rolling Out in Gemini
Arjun Sha
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The mysterious nano-banana image model has been revealed as Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image. Google's new AI model tops LMArena image editing leaderboard with 1,362 ELO points, far ahead of competitors. Google has already integrated it into Gemini, letting users edit and transform images with text prompts with impeccable accuracy over multiple generations.
Elon Musk's xAI company has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI in Texas. The lawsuit says that Apple is unfairly favoring ChatGPT in App Store rankings and both companies are colluding to stifle competition in the AI space. Elon Musk is seeking billions of dollars in damages and urging the court to block this anticompetitive partnership.
Perplexity’s Comet AI Browser Can Be Hijacked Through Malicious Instructions
Arjun Sha
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Perplexity’s Comet AI browser has a prompt injection flaw that lets hidden webpage instructions hijack the assistant and leak data. A malicious Reddit comment tricked Comet into retrieving a Gmail OTP and revealing it to the attacker in the comment box. The flaw remains partly unpatched, which shows ongoing risks in agentic browsers and prompt injection attacks.
xAI has open-sourced Grok 2.5’s weights, but only under a restrictive non-commercial “Community License.” Elon Musk says Grok 3 will also be open-sourced, with weights expected by February 2026. Chinese models like Qwen 3, DeepSeek V3.1, Kimi K2, and GLM-4.5 now lead the open-source race over Llama and Mistral
Google Says a Gemini AI Prompt Costs 9 Seconds of TV Energy and 5 Drops of Water
Arjun Sha
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In a technical paper, Google has revealed the energy bill of Gemini and its impact on the environment. Google says an average Gemini AI prompt consumes only the energy of 9 seconds of TV time and about 5 drops of water. In addition, each AI prompt emits 0.03 grams of carbon dioxide.
Vmake is an all-in-one solution that can simplify video editing with features like auto captions, video enhancement, watermark removal, thumbnail creation, and more.
AI Mode in Google Search is now available in more than 180 countries. Google has also added agentic capabilities to AI Mode which allows the AI agent to perform actions on your behalf. However, this agentic feature is only available to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the US.
OpenAI Drags Zuckerberg to Court, Accuses Him of Funding Musk’s $97B Takeover Bid
Arjun Sha
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OpenAI has accused Meta of backing Elon Musk's $97B takeover attempt through "financing arrangements". OpenAI has subpoenaed Meta for documents or communications between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, in relation to the failed bid. Meta has not issued a formal statement so far.
The new DeepSeek V3.1 AI model is finally here, and it's a hybrid reasoning model with Think and Non-Think modes. It performs significantly better than DeepSeek R1, but doesn't outperform GPT-5 Thinking or Claude Opus 4.1. In the SWE-bench Verified benchmark, the new DeepSeek V3.1 model achieved a score of 66%.
X-Design AI Photo Editor Creates Warm and Authentic Product Visuals
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X-Design is a one-stop platform to create engaging visuals for your products. If you run a small business on Etsy or Shopify, you can use X-Design to generate professional-looking product images, blended in natural lighting and environments. From background removal to background generation, image upscaling, object eraser, etc., you all have the tools at your disposal.
OpenAI to Improve ChatGPT 5’s Personality After User Backlash, GPT-4o Makes a Comeback
Anshuman Jain
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OpenAI is improving the personality of ChatGPT-5 which should make the model conversational and more engaging. ChatGPT is also showing three new modes for GPT-5, including "Auto", "Fast", and "Thinking", with the Thinking mode having a limit of 3,000 messages per week. ChatGPT Plus and Pro users can also enable "Show additional models" toggle in ChatGPT web settings to bring back older models like OpenAI o3, GPT-4.5, and more.
Elon Musk Accuses Apple for Favoring ChatGPT in App Store, Sam Altman Hits Back
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Elon Musk is threatening Apple with a lawsuit for allegedly playing favorites with OpenAI. Musk claims OpenAI's ChatGPT sits at the top of the App Store's "Must Have" section, despite Grok ranking 5th among all apps. Musk says that Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company to reach the #1 spot in the App Store.
The Controversial Grok Imagine Video Generator is Now Free for Everyone
Anshuman Jain
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Elon Musk's xAI announced that it's making its Grok Imagine image and video generation tool available for free. Users can try out Grok Imagine through the Grok app on iOS and Android. Grok Imagine was previously available to SuperGrok and Premium Plus subscribers.
OpenAI's most advanced GPT-5 model is now available for free in Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, and Azure AI. This latest model features major advancements in code quality, reasoning, and multimodal conversations. Users can try it out in Copilot's Smart mode, while GitHub developers need a paid plan to access the latest AI model.
GPT-5 is finally official and OpenAI is rolling out its most advanced AI model to all ChatGPT users for free, starting today. Free users can access the GPT-5 model with limited usage; ChatGPT Plus users get GPT-5 with higher limits; and ChatGPT Pro, and Team users can access GPT-5 Pro. GPT-5 delivers strong performance across coding, math, visual perception, writing, health, and more. It also dramatically reduces hallucinations.
Gemini Gets a ‘Guided Learning’ Mode for Students; Here’s How to Use It
Arjun Sha
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Google has added a 'Guided Learning' mode in Gemini to promote deeper understanding of complex topics and concepts. It's available for free to all Gemini users. You can upload your course materials, and Gemini integrates images, diagrams, and videos to explain the concept. Google is also offering one year of free Gemini AI Pro subscription to 18+ students in the US, Japan, Indonesia, Korea and Brazil.
Microsoft has brought OpenAI's smaller gpt‑oss-20b AI model to Windows 11 via Windows AI Foundry. Users can locally run OpenAI's AI model on Windows machines, but currently, it's only supported on Nvidia GPUs with 16GB of VRAM. If you want to try it on other hardware, you can check out LM Studio or Ollama.
Elon Musk's xAI firm released the Grok Imagine AI tool that can generate images and videos from text prompts and images. Shockingly, it features a controversial "Spicy" mode, which allows users to create nude deepfakes of celebrities. In one instance, Grok Imagine generated a completely uncensored video of a Taylor Swift lookalike.
Can’t Come Up With Bedtime Stories? Google’s Gemini is Here to Help
Anshuman Jain
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Google has announced a new Storybook tool in Gemini, which can create a 10-page storybook, featuring illustrations and audio narration. The storybook adds custom art for every page, along with soothing voice narration. This tool is available for everyone, and you can start using it in Gemini for free.
Google’s New Genie 3 AI Lets You Create Interactive Worlds You Can Explore
Arjun Sha
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Genie 3 is the latest world model by Google DeepMind that can generate dynamic worlds and users can navigate in real-time. It can simulate any environment, beyond gaming environments, at 720p and it lasts for minutes. Genie 3 maintains visual consistency over a long horizon, and its visual memory is extended to one minute.
Embracing its past roots, OpenAI has released two new open-weight AI models called gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b. The larger gpt-oss-120b model is comparable to o4-mini and the smaller gpt-oss-20b is closer to o3-mini in performance. Both AI models are released under the Apache 2.0 license and can be downloaded from Hugging Face, Ollama, LM Studio, and more.
‘Name, Shame, and Hard Block Them’: Cloudflare Blasts Perplexity Over AI Website Scraping
Anshuman Jain
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Cloudflare has caught Perplexity scraping websites that explicitly block AI crawlers. Perplexity's AI crawlers concealed their identity and even used undisclosed IP addresses. The AI startup was caught doing so across tens of thousands of domains, making millions of requests per day.
OpenAI’s VP and head of the ChatGPT app, Nick Turley, announced that ChatGPT is on track to reach 700 million weekly active users. OpenAI is also seeing huge revenue growth, surging from $10 billion in June to $13 billion in July in annual recurring revenue. Apart from that, OpenAI has introduced break reminders in ChatGPT to encourage shorter chat sessions.
Character.AI Adds a Social Feed for AI-Generated Content to Its App
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Character.AI has added a social feed to its mobile app. This allows users to share AI-generated content, and interact with others' avatars. Users can even create videos using text prompts and images with Character.AI's AvatarFX model to share on the feed.
Google's most capable Gemini 2.5 Deep Think AI model is finally available for public users. It's a faster version of the AI model that achieved the Gold medal at IMO 2025. It's rolling out to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the Gemini app.
Google’s NotebookLM Can Turn Documents into Narrated Video Slideshows
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Google has upgraded its AI-powered learning tool, NotebookLM, with the addition of Video Overviews and it's available for free. This feature allows users to create visual slideshows featuring images, diagrams, quotes, and data to help understand complex topics. The upgrade also includes a redesigned Studio panel for creating Audio Overviews, Mind Maps, and Reports.
ChatGPT's new Study Mode is aimed at fostering real learning instead of generating the final answer in one go. It explains the problem step-by-step, guides the student to think deeply about the question, and offers real-life examples to promote genuine learning. ChatGPT Study Mode is now rolling out to all users, and it doesn't require a subscription.
OpenAI's new ChatGPT agent can perform a variety of complex, multi-turn tasks for you. It can reserve a table at a restaurant, do shopping, access your Gmail and Drive files, generate visual slides and spreadsheets as well. OpenAI has fused its Operator and Deep Research AI agents to create a unified ChatGPT agent.
Elon Musk's xAI firm has released two new AI models called Grok 4 and Grok 4 Heavy. Both models have recorded groundbreaking benchmark results, outpacing OpenAI o3, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Claude Opus 4.
OpenAI is planning to release its own web browser in the coming weeks. The browser will be based on the open-source Chromium codebase. It will answer user queries using ChatGPT and feature the Operator AI agent.
Perplexity has finally launched its Comet AI browser, and it comes with an AI agent. Initially, the browser is rolling out to Max subscribers, those who pay $200 per month. If you are on the high-tier plan, you can download the Comet browser on Windows and macOS right away.
Boost Your Workflow with iMyFone: PDFacademy, TopMediai, DreamVid, and ChatArt
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iMyFone, a popular recovery utility, has launched four AI apps such as PDFacademy, TopMediai, DreamVid, and ChatArt that offer a range of features and services. You can use these AI tools to edit PDF files, generate AI videos, images, and text, produce music, and much more.
OpenAI is building a new feature called "Study Together" for ChatGPT. It's starting to appear for some ChatGPT subscribers under the Tools drop-down menu.
X is pilot-testing Community Notes written by AI chatbots on its platform. The AI-generated notes will be vetted by humans and will be subject to X's scoring mechanism. This pilot program aims to increase the number of notes and improve the quality of context added to posts.
Apple is reportedly in talks with OpenAI and Anthropic to help power its new Siri voice assistant. The company is struggling to develop its LLM-based Siri, which will be more conversational and better at understanding information. This will help Apple catch up in the AI race where it has been falling behind to the competition.