The voice mode bubble on ChatGPT for iOS now can be dragged to the middle of the screen.

OpenAI prepares major ChatGPT voice upgrade with GPT-Bidi-1

OPENAI 🔥: More details about the upcoming voice mode upgrade for ChatGPT.

> It will be advertised as a "major leap in intelligence". Factoring that current experience is powered by 4o it is quite expected.

> Users will be able to choose between Instant, Medium and High levels.

> It will likely be rolled out gradually and EEA, UK, Switzerland users will get it later as always.

> Bidi stands for "Bi-directional", meaning it can listen and speak at the same time.

Soon? 👀

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XAI 🔥: Grok Imagine 1.5 Fast has been rolled out! It features a better quality and faster generation time.

> 720p videos now render in about 25 seconds, down from 40+ in our previous model.

Google prepares Personalization and AI Editing for NotebookLM

NotebookLM is testing Personal Intelligence to retain context from past notebook activity with user controls, plus AI Editing for notes to revise selected text via chat, signaling a near-term push toward memory and personalized research workflows.

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OpenAI readies ChatGPT for Science subscription plan

OPENAI 🔥: A new ChatGPT plan for Science is being developed, according to the latest additions on the web build.

> OpenAI has been announcing various projects related to "Accelerating scientific progress" over the past year, including an open form for institutions to "Get involved with OpenAI for Science"

> The addition of a dedicated "ChatGPT for Science" plan may enable a broad range of institutions to benefit from OpenAI's offering.

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OPENAI 🔥: Scheduled tasks on ChatGPT got an upgrade along with a new dedicated page.

Additionally, OpenAI is sunsetting the ChatGPT Pulse feature available to Pro users.

> A better way to schedule tasks. Scheduled tasks are faster, more reliable, and easier to manage

> The new scheduled tasks experience is rolling out to Go, Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users on web and mobile.

ANTHROPIC 🔥: Claude Design has been updated with broader design system support, a canvas editor, and Claude Code sync.

> Claude builds with your real components and checks its own output against your design system before you see it.

> New layout controls let you drag, resize, and align elements directly on the canvas.

> Claude Design and Claude Code can now work together in both directions.

Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork globally for Microsoft 365

Microsoft launched Copilot Cowork worldwide for Microsoft 365 Copilot customers, enabling secure, long-running task automation across documents, data, and workflows with multi-model support, plugins, browser actions, and usage-based billing.

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ICYMI: ZAI launches GLM-5.2 open model with 1M context

Z AI launched GLM-5.2, an open-weights coding model for repo-scale work, with 1M-token context, 128K output, stronger long-horizon coding and debugging, and support across coding agents and API-based developer tooling.

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Midjourney announced its first hardware product, a full-body ultrasonic scanner.

Besides that, Midjourney is working on 4 new hardware and 4 new software projects.

Midjourney Medical 👀

Mistral AI to get Code and Apps features on Vibe

MISTRAL AI 🔥: Vibe is being prepared to get a new Code section, likely mirroring functionality of Vibe CLI, and a new Apps section.

> It is still unclear whether we will get a desktop app as well, but it would be really cool. Purely referencing the UI that mirrors the Claude app (Which is about to change soon, btw)

> A new Apps section is marked as "Work in progress" and is likely to be a version of AI-powered artifacts that can be deployed and shared.

Only Le Chaton Fat is remaining 👀

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Exclusive: Microsoft evaluates different open models for Cowork

Microsoft is testing multiple open and open-weight models for Copilot Cowork, with a stable orchestration layer that can swap models by cost, latency, and task fit, while weighing enterprise demands for compliance, safety, and quality.

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