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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Dino is a plush toy from Magical Toys, which comes with an AI chatbot. It can interact with your kids in 37 languages, helping them learn and reduce screen time. It comes with a companion app for parents to monitor, and it is going for $199 with a $19.99/month subscription.
Google has released a new app called Doppl that lets you try out different outfits virtually. You can upload a photo of the desired clothes to see how they'd look on you, save, or share with friends. Doppl is available on Google Play and the Apple App Store in the US.
Anthropic has released a new update to Claude Artifacts that lets you create, host, and share interactive AI apps and games. You can even use Claude inside the app via the API, making it more versatile and interactive.
Google has released its Gemini CLI agent that works inside the terminal. Just like Claude Code, you can use it to plan, iterate, code, and automate tasks in your local terminal. Google is offering Gemini 2.5 Pro for free, with an expanded usage limit.
Google has launched a highly optimized Gemini Robotics On-Device model that can locally run on the robotics device itself. Its performance is nearly on par with the frontier Gemini Robotics model.
ElevenLabs, a popular AI voice generation tool, has released a standalone app for Android and iOS. The app offers up to 10 minutes of free voice generation, and a v3 alpha model offering adjustable emotions with tags. It's free to download and provides a faster, more intuitive experience to generate AI voice clips for mobile users.
In a trademark lawsuit filed by iyO, OpenAI revealed in court that it's not developing an earbud or a wearable. In addition, OpenAI says that the prototype is in development and still a year away from release.
OpenAI Confirms Jony Ive Partnership Intact Amid ‘io’ Trademark Dispute
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OpenAI has removed all promotional materials related to the "io" branding across all its official channels following a court injunction. Jony Ive's io firm was merged with OpenAI last month to create an AI-first hardware device. Despite the legal hurdle, the deal is still on.
A software engineer has created an app that blocks ads in real life using Snapchat Spectacles and Google's Gemini. The app, based on an open-source sample, detects ads in the surroundings and displays a red rectangle with a block sign over them. It's still in early development, but the possibility of a universal ad blocker is exciting.
Deezer, the popular music streaming service, is introducing a system to tag AI music. The platform will tag AI tracks and show a banner warning users that they are listening to AI-generated content. This measure is to help Deezer listeners differentiate between AI and human created music.
Amid growing tensions, Microsoft may walk away from negotiations with OpenAI if the ChatGPT maker doesn't agree to a larger stake, according to the Financial Times. Previously, the WSJ reported that OpenAI considered accusing Microsoft of anticompetitive behavior.
Midjourney has come up with its AI video generation model called V1. It can generate videos from still images, up to 5 seconds in length.
OpenAI reportedly considered accusing Microsoft of antitrust violations and bringing the matter to regulators. OpenAI views Microsoft as a competitor and wants greater independence from the tech giant. Microsoft wants a larger stake in OpenAI's public benefit corporation and wants to access Windsurf's IP; however, OpenAI is resisting.
Many users are unknowingly sharing their private chats and interactions with the Meta AI chatbot on the public Discover feed. Meta has now added a warning message and an extra step to prevent accidental sharing.
Google is bringing Audio Overviews to the search page. You can search for a topic, and Google offers a short, AI-generated audio clip that explains the topic for you. You can enable the feature from Google Labs.
Sam Altman Reveals ChatGPT’s Energy Bill and the Road to Superintelligence
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On his personal blog, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has revealed how much power and water ChatGPT uses, on average, for each query. In addition, Altman says that we are accelerating towards superintelligence.
OpenAI has released its most capable reasoning model called 'o3-pro'. It uses more computing power and extended thinking time to solve complex problems in math, science, and coding. o3-pro is currently available to ChatGPT Pro and Team users.
Apple Intelligence Adds Live FaceTime Translation and ChatGPT-Powered Image Creation
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Apple Intelligence is gaining two new major features: live translation for FaceTime/audio calls and ChatGPT integration in Image Playground. In addition, conversations are automatically translated in the Messages app.
Apple is allowing developers to use its on-device AI model to integrate AI features into their apps. Developers can leverage the Foundation Models Framework to tap the power of Apple Intelligence and build AI-powered features on top of it.