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Reports surfaced this week on social media suggesting that OpenAI is reportedly testing internally a “router” function that automatically selects the best model from their growing stable of options based on what you’re asking for. No more staring at a dropdown menu wondering whether your medical question needs the reasoning power of o3 or if GPT-4o will suffice. Continue Reading →
Both OpenAI and Google DeepMind announced gold-medal performances at the 2025 International Math Olympiad (IMO) this week, correctly answering five out of six questions in one of the world's most challenging high school math competitions. The achievement marks a significant leap from Google's silver-medal performance last year and represents the first time AI systems competed using "informal" methods (processing questions in natural language) rather than requiring human translation into machine-readable code. Continue Reading →
AI Street Fighters
In popular lore, the “street fighter” – the dropout entrepreneur, the scrappy immigrant, the self-taught visionary – gets romanticized for beating the odds through sheer force of will, despite lacking money, power, or formal training. Until now, though, the mantra has been clear: ideas are worthless; execution is everything. That was then. Continue Reading →
Yesterday, OpenAI launched ChatGPT agent, which combines everything OpenAI has learned about autonomous systems. It can click through websites like Operator; synthesize research like Deep Research; and access your Gmail, GitHub, and calendar to complete real tasks. It's available today for Pro, Plus, and Team subscribers through a simple dropdown menu selection. Continue Reading →
Google just launched “featured notebooks” in NotebookLM, and they’ve created something entirely new: eight curated collections from respected experts that come preloaded with interactive AI that can answer questions, generate podcast-style discussions, and create mind maps from the source material. The lineup includes Eric Topol’s longevity advice from “Super Agers,” The Economist’s 2025 predictions, Arthur Continue Reading →
Woman on Smartphone
Instead of buying or earning your way to the top of a SERP, you are now going to do everything you can to help a reasoning engine respond to a prompt with a glowing endorsement of your product and, in a perfect world, a link or a path to a direct transaction. How will you get an "intelligence decoupled from consciousness" to favor your brand? Let's explore. Continue Reading →
Google launched photo-to-video capabilities in Gemini yesterday, allowing users to transform static images into eight-second video clips with AI-generated sound. The feature is available to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in select countries and uses the company's Veo 3 AI video model. The feature was already available in Flow, Google's AI filmmaking tool that launched in May, but bringing it to Gemini expands access to a much wider user base. Photo-to-video generation is rolling out on the web today, with mobile users expected to have access by the weekend. Continue Reading →
The browser wars just got interesting. Reuters reported yesterday that OpenAI is launching an AI-powered web browser in the coming weeks. Three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters that OpenAI will integrate ChatGPT directly into browsing, letting AI agents fill out forms, book reservations, and handle tasks without clicking through to websites. Continue Reading →

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