Latest updates

ChatGPT will now make you animated GIFs

ChatGPT can now create GIFs using a prompt or a photo uploaded to the AI chatbot

v2.1.318

What's changed Added a record of your answer when Claude Code asks to turn on the mods it writes in a session Added assume_role on mantle upstreams of the Claude apps gateway

Introducing Images 2.6

Images 2.6 brings faster image generation, GIF creation, more precise editing, and new API controls across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API.

Building ultra-low-latency voice AI applications on AWS

Learn how Cartesia, an AWS Partner, uses purpose-built State Space Models and AWS infrastructure to deliver sub-100ms text-to-speech and speech-to-text at global scale

Apple starts giving Siri AI access to third-party apps

Apple will now let Siri AI perform actions across third-party apps

Apple Watch’s AI features for rewinding and recapping conversations begin beta testing

Now in beta: Apple's new Audio Intelligence features can help you remember what someone said or take notes on conversations.

Anthropic clamps down on Claude’s AI video game clones

Anthropic has updated Claude Code's system prompt to prevent the AI tool from being used to re-create existing video games, as reported by Tom's Hardware

Smart glasses and the billboard's golden age: a production problem, not a prediction problem

Creative Bloq's conditional prediction that smart glasses could give billboards a new golden age reads, on the evidence

Adobe is testing how well AI agents can use editing tools like a Photoshop professional would

Adobe Research and UC San Diego built EditAgent, an AI system that edits images more like a Photoshop pro

Google prepares new AI agent for Antigravity with Voice Mode

Google's latest Antigravity build points to a Chief of Staff agent with live voice chat, voice controls and a dashboard for managing tasks.

Chinese AI models are politically complex, not just government mouthpieces, study finds

A study by Vals AI tested 25 AI models for alignment with Chinese government positions and found surprising results

OpenAI's upcoming chat-and-work merger in ChatGPT signals the end of all-you-can-prompt pricing

OpenAI combines the Chat and Work modes into a single interface. Starting in December, Plus, Pro, and Business plans will share a common, token-based quota for ChatGPT and Codex

The séance as a design tool inside the Purple Garden rebrand

Mother Design opened the Purple Garden rebrand with a séance, a chakra reading and an automatic drawing workshop

Agents Prompt People: Using Agents for Long-Horizon Financial Work

Arca's head of AI discusses persistent memory, the benefits of a custom harness, and agentic workflows that span days.

v2.1.316

What's changed Added CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_ULTRATHINK , which turns the ultrathink keyword off Added pooled group budgets to the Claude apps gateway: one monthly budget that a

Google’s satellite AI server transmits its first response to Earth

Google's AI chip-equipped satellite has generated its first response from space

Spotify reportedly targets Q1 2027 launch for AI remix add-on, considering $4-5 a month on Premium

A Financial Times report says Spotify is aiming to launch its AI remix feature in Q1 2027 and considering an extra $4-5 a month for Premium subscribers

v2.1.314

What's changed Added permissions.blockWritesOutsideWorkingDirectories : Write

Meta quietly launches an AI fashion app called Style Sketch

The app connects to Instagram to build a virtual closet from photos you’ve already shared, or lets you add items manually by snapping a photo, recording a quick video

Granola crunches up a dictation feature to compete with Wispr

Uno reverse! After Wispr added meeting notes to its dictation app, Granola is adding dictation to its meeting notetaker. The voice AI wars are getting interesting.

Accelerate agentic AI with NVIDIA Nemotron models on Amazon EKS and SageMaker HyperPod EKS

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is a 120B-parameter mixture-of-experts model that pairs reasoning and tool use with multimodal understanding

Deepgram acquires Pipecat-maker Daily to bolster its voice AI infrastructure

With Pipecat, Deepgram will likely gain a deeper understanding of real-time voice and video infrastructure.

ICYMI: Google DeepMind previews Genie 4 with native audio

Google DeepMind previews Genie 4, a real-time world model with native audio, live scene steering and Gemini-guided simulations.

Introducing Praxis-1

Voice AI in vogue: Nvidia releases new open transcription model

Nvidia just released a free speech-to-text model that can transcribe up to 40 languages, but it only works on recordings, not live audio

v2.1.312

What's changed Added oidc.user_id_claim to the Claude apps gateway, to identify people by an id_token claim other than sub

Disruptive raises $10B fund to make big bets on at least 10 companies

Disruptive has made headlines in recent years for pouring money into companies like chip startup Groq and the AI voice-generation startup ElevenLabs.

From spot fixes to measured gains: improving document extraction accuracy with ai_extract and MLflow Prompt Registry

Document extraction often starts with a simple loop: spot an incorrect field, adjust...

Announcing SOCI-indexed images for faster SageMaker AI jobs

Seekable OCI (SOCI) indexing for Amazon SageMaker AI training and processing jobs takes full container image download off the critical path

Fix evaluation bias to unlock better models on Amazon Bedrock

Property Finder found that 96.8% of their vision-AI evaluation labels were inherited from the incumbent model, hiding its true accuracy