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Wall Street Journal writer Christopher Mims reports that while AI is plenty smart across a wide spectrum of tasks, too few people know how to use AI well.

Observes Mims: “There is a huge gap between what AI can already do today and what most people are actually doing with it.”

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*Dead Heat: New Study Finds ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude Equally Powerful: A new study finds that ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude essentially deliver the same level of results when it comes to general AI use, agentic use, programming use and scientific reasoning use.

That’s gotta sting for Google, which just a few weeks ago, lunged ahead as the AI chatbot-to-beat across a wide range of benchmarks.

Even so, picking the best AI for your own use boils down to giving all contenders a thorough run-through on how you personally use AI — and then choosing a personal favorite.

For example: For AI-generated writing, I still strongly prefer ChatGPT 4.0, which is still the most creative writer of the bunch to this day.

*ChatGPT Still Most Popular AI – By a Mile: While Google has been coming on strong, ChatGPT still dominates the AI universe.

New analysis from Windows Latest, for example, finds that ChatGPT owns 64.5% of the market, followed by Google’s Gemini at 21%.

Somewhat embarrassing for Microsoft: Its Copilot Chatbot only commands 1% of the AI market.

*Free-for-All: AI Gmail Tools for Writing, Summarizing and Email Drafts Now Gratis: AI users just got a generous present from Google for 2026: Free access to a number of powerful AI tools for Gmail:

–Help Me Write, which helps you draft everyday emails in Gmail

–Suggested Replies, which reads your email and auto-generates a reply that includes context and tone

–AI Emails Summary, which pops-up offering a bulleted summary of key points extracted from an email thread

*ChatGPT for Power Users: A Curated Video Guide: Skill Leap offers an excellent rundown on advanced uses of the chatbot in this 17-minute video.

Among the picks:

–Creating different writing styles with ChatGPT for different use cases

–Scheduling daily or weekly reminders with ChatGPT

–Getting ChatGPT to ‘disappear’ certain chats for privacy reasons

*Microsoft Copilot: Rough Going for Gmail and Outlook Email Users: In an unusual move, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has openly admitted that Microsoft Copilot barely works with Gmail and Outlook Email.

Observes writer Matthias Bastian: “This wasn’t a one-off complaint. Over the past few months, Microsoft’s CEO has essentially become the company’s top product (Copilot) manager.”

“To close the technical gaps, Nadella is personally investing in recruiting. He calls potential hires himself and approves unusually high salaries to poach top talent from OpenAI and Google DeepMind.”

*Brain Rot?: Not Everyone Gung-Ho on AI in the Schools: AI’s push into K-12 and beyond has some educators worried that the tech will diminish critical thinking, cause developmental issues in the young and trigger a widespread cheating culture.

Observes writer Natasha Singer: “Teachers currently have few rigorous studies to guide generative AI use in schools.”

And “researchers are just beginning to follow the long-term effects of AI chatbots on teenagers and schoolchildren,” Singer adds.

*AI and the Law: What to Expect in 2026: Fourteen experts in AI law have released a free eBook serving-up their predictions on how AI will reshape the law in 2026 and beyond.

Key co-authors include:

–Richard Troman, founder, Artificial Lawyer – a media outlet

–Adam Wehler, Director of e-Discovery Strategies and Litigation Technology, Smith Anderson

–Melina Efstathiou, AI Strategic Advisor, Legal Data Intelligence

*Top Five AI Writing Tools for 2026: SSBCrack News has released its list of the top five AI writing tools for the coming year.

All are AI writing pioneers. And all have appeared on many top five and top ten lists for years now.

SSB’s Take: While no tool is perfect, these five tools balance features like content generation, editing and optimization.

*AI Big Picture: Chinese AI Running Seven Months Behind U.S.: Despite releasing head-turning, extremely inexpensive alternatives to top AI, China is still about seven months behind the U.S. in AI development.

The new study, released by Epoch AI, reveals that the trend has persisted since 2023, when Chinese alternatives to ChatGPT and similar began popping up on the market.

One downside to Chinese AI: Researchers have found that some Chinese AI apps include code that can be used to forward your data to the Chinese Communist Party.

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–Joe Dysart is editor of RobotWritersAI.com and a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 150+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.

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In future years, AI writing in 2025 will most often be remembered as the year Google grew tired of being an also-ran and decisively grabbed the crown as the ‘Titan to Beat’ when it comes to AI automated thinking, writing and imaging.

That bold move by Google has been a great boon to writers, who can look forward to ever-more-fierce competition among AI’s key players in coming years – and ever more sophisticated AI writing tools.

Meanwhile, 2025 also decisively etched in the minds of business leaders that AI was more than simply a stunning wonder: It also became one the world’s most formidable new competitive tools that tech has to offer.

Specifically: Studies emerged that general use of ChatGPT at businesses was resulting in major productivity gains.

And still other studies found that ChatGPT and similar AI were logging significant productivity and quality of writing gains when AI was specifically used to auto-generate emails at businesses.

Meanwhile, AI grew significantly more intelligent, with ChatGPT releasing an AI engine deemed smarter than 98% of all humans.

Plus, a darkhorse research team from China shocked the world by releasing an AI engine nearly as good as ChatGPT that was built for pennies-on-the-dollar.

Bottom line: Given all the breakneck advances in AI during 2025, even the most skeptical can no longer claim that AI is a fanciful creation of the AI hype machine.

Instead, even the most skeptical must come to realize AI is the real deal.

And even the most skeptical must come to agree that AI and all its permutations will change the world as we know it.

Here’s detail on the top stories of the year that helped shape that takeaway:

*Gemini 3.0: The New Gold Standard In AI: After years of watching glumly from the sidelines as a nimble new start-up – ChatGPT – ate its lunch and soared to record-breaking, worldwide popularity, Google has finally decried “enough is enough” and released a new chatbot that’s literally in a league of its own.

Dubbed Gemini 3.0, the new AI definitively dusts its nearest overall competitor – ChatGPT-5.1 – across a wide array of critical, benchmark tests.

(A few weeks after this story broke, ChatGPT 5.2 was released, significantly reducing Gemini 3.0’s new lead in AI.)

*ChatGPT’s Top Use at Work: Writing: A new study by ChatGPT’s maker finds that writing is the number one use for the tool at work.

Observes the study’s lead researcher Aaron Chatterji: “Work usage is more common from educated users in highly paid professional occupations.”

Another major study finding: Once mostly embraced by men, ChatGPT is now popular with women.

Specifically, researchers found that by July 2025, 52% of ChatGPT users had names that could be classified as feminine.

*Bringing in ChatGPT for Email: The Business Case: While AI coders push the tech to ever-loftier heights, one thing we already know for sure is AI can write emails at the world-class level — in a flash.

True, long-term, AI may one day trigger a world in which AI-powered machines do all the work as we navigate a world resplendent with abundance.

But in the here and now, AI is already saving businesses and organizations serious coin in terms of slashing time spent on email, synthesizing ideas in new ways, ending email drudgery as we know it and boosting staff morale.

Essentially: There are all sorts of reasons for businesses and organizations to bring-in bleeding edge AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Anthropic, Claude and similar to take over the heavy lifting when it comes to email.

This piece offers up the Top Ten.

*AI Users: ‘AI Has Tripled My Productivity:’ A new survey of U.S. workers finds they’re reducing the time it takes to complete some tasks by as much as two-thirds.

Moreover, 40% of U.S. workers reported they were using AI in some way in April 2025 –- as compared to 30% of workers just four months prior.

Even so, more gains would be possible if more of these early adopters would leverage relatively sophisticated applications of AI, such as AI-powered, deep research, AI agents and similar advanced AI systems, according to Ethan Mollick, a business technology professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

*New ChatGPT AI Engine Smarter than 98% of Humans: Stick a fork in it: Apparently, the battle of wits between humans and AI is so yesterday — and we flesh-bags have lost.

New test results from Mensa — the global group of the rumoredly smartest people in the world — show that one of ChatGPT’s newest AI engines, o3, has an IQ of 136.

Observes writer Liam Wright: “The score, calculated from a seven-run rolling average, places the model above approximately 98% of the human population.”

Currently, ChatGPT runs on a number of specialized AI engines — including ChatGPT-4o, which is rated best overall for writing.

ChatGPT-o3 was designed to excel in reasoning, math and other hard sciences applications.

*’Tweaked’ AI Writing Can Now Be Copyrighted: In a far-reaching decision, the U.S. Copyright Office has ruled that AI-generated content — modified by humans — can now be copyrighted.

The move has incredibly positive ramifications for writers who polish output from ChatGPT and similar AI to create blog posts, articles, books, poetry and more.

Observes writer Jacqueline So: “The U.S. Copyright Office processes approximately 500,000 copyright applications each year, with an increasing number being requests to copyright AI-generated works.”

“Most copyright decisions are made on a case-to-case basis.”

*ChatGPT-Maker Brings Back ChatGPT-4o, Other Legacy AI Engines: Responding to significant consumer backlash, OpenAI has restored access to GPT-4 and other legacy models that were popular before the release of GPT-5.

Essentially, many users were turned-off by GPT-5’s initial personality, which was perceived as cold, distant and terse.

Observes writer Will Knight: “The backlash has sparked a fresh debate over the psychological attachments some users form with chatbots trained to push their emotional buttons.”

*How DeepSeek Outsmarted the Market and Built a Highly Competitive AI Writer/Chatbot: New York Times writer Cade Metz offers an insightful look in this piece into how newcomer DeepSeek built its AI for pennies-on-the-dollar.

The chatbot stunned AI researchers — and roiled the stock market in February — after showing the world it could develop advanced AI for six million dollars.

DeepSeek’s secret: Moxie. Facing severely restricted access to the bleeding-edge chips needed to develop advanced AI, DeepSeek made-up for that deficiency by writing code that was much smarter and much more efficient than that of many competitors.

The bonus for consumers: “Because the Chinese start-up has shared its methods with other AI researchers, its technological tricks are poised to significantly reduce the cost of building AI.”

*Use AI or You’re Fired: In another sign that the days of ‘AI is Your Buddy’ are fading fast, increasing numbers of businesses have turned to strong-arming employees when it comes to AI.

Observes Wall Street Journal writer Lindsay Ellis: “Rank-and-file employees across corporate America have grown worried over the past few years about being replaced by AI.

“Something else is happening now: AI is costing workers their jobs if their bosses believe they aren’t embracing the technology fast enough.”

*Solution to AI Bubble Fears: U.S. Government?: The Wall Street Journal reports that AI is now considered so essential to U.S. defense, the U.S. government may step in to save the AI industry — should it implode from the irrational exuberance of investors.

Observes lead writer Sarah Myers West: “The federal government is already bailing out the AI industry with regulatory changes and public funds that will protect companies in the event of a private sector pullback.

“Despite the lukewarm market signals, the U.S. government seems intent on backstopping American AI — no matter what.”

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–Joe Dysart is editor of RobotWritersAI.com and a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 150+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.

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Shirking its ‘fun toy’ image, AI like ChatGPT was increasingly seen by the business community in Q4 as a must-have productivity tool destined to reward early adopters and punish Luddites.

ChatGPT’s maker, for example, released a study finding that everyday AI business users are saving at least 40 minutes a day on busy work – while power users are saving up to two hours-a-day.

Meanwhile, MIT released a report concluding that AI can currently eliminate 12% of all jobs — as more businesses were found issuing decrees along the lines of ‘Use AI or You’re Fired.”

Especially alarming for writers was a move by media outlet Business Insider, which started publishing news stories completely written by AI and carrying an AI byline.

Plus, photographers and graphic artists got their own dose of rubber-meets-road reality with new, back-to-back releases of extremely powerful new AI imaging tools built into Gemini and ChatGPT.

But despite the breakneck development, users also continued to report that AI agents – designed to automate multi-step tasks – are continuing to fail miserably.

Plus, many users continued to ‘forget’ that AI makes-up facts, and that using AI responses without fact-checks can lead to major ‘egg-on-face’ moments.

The most gleaming ray of hope in al lthis: The Wall Street Journal reported that AI is considered so essential to U.S. defense, there’s a good chance the U.S. government will bail-out the AI industry if the much-feared ‘AI Bubble’ bursts.

Here’s a full rundown of how those stories — and more — helped shape AI writing in Q4 2024:

*ChatGPT-Maker Study: The State of Enterprise AI: New research from OpenAI finds that everyday business users of AI are saving about 40-60 minutes-a-day when compared to working without the tool.

Even better, the heaviest AI users say they’re saving up to two hours a day with the tech.

*AI Can Already Eliminate 12% of U.S. Workforce: A new study from MIT finds that AI can already eliminate 12% of everyday jobs.

Dubbed the “Iceberg Index,” the study simulated AI’s ability to handle – or partially handle – nearly 1,000 occupations that are currently worked by more than 150 million in the U.S.

Observes writer Megan Cerullo: “AI is also already doing some of the entry-level jobs that have historically been reserved for recent college graduates or relatively inexperienced workers.”

*Use AI or You’re Fired: In another sign that the days of ‘AI is Your Buddy’ are fading fast, increasing numbers of businesses have turned to strong-arming employees when it comes to AI.

Observes Wall Street Journal writer Lindsay Ellis: “Rank-and-file employees across corporate America have grown worried over the past few years about being replaced by AI.

“Something else is happening now: AI is costing workers their jobs if their bosses believe they aren’t embracing the technology fast enough.”

*Breaking News Gets an AI Byline at Business Insider: The next news story you read from Business Insider may be completely written by AI — and carry an AI byline.

The media outlet has announced a pilot test of a story writing algorithm that will grab a piece of breaking news and give it context by combining it with data drawn from stories in the Business Insider archive.

The only human involvement will be an editor, who will look over the finished product before it’s published.

*Study: AI Agents Virtually Useless at Completing Freelance Assignments: New research finds that much-ballyhooed AI agents are literally horrible at completing everyday assignments found on freelance brokerage sites like Fiverr and Upwork.

Observes writer Frank Landymore: “The top performer, they found, was an AI agent from the Chinese startup Manus with an automation rate of just 2.5 percent — meaning it was only able to complete 2.5 percent of the projects it was assigned at a level that would be acceptable as commissioned work in a real-world freelancing job, the researchers said.

“Second place was a tie, at 2.1 percent, between Elon Musk’s Grok 4 and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5.”

*Oops, Sorry Australia, Here’s Your Money Back: Consulting firm Deloitte has agreed to refund the Australian government $440,000 for a study both agree was riddled by errors created by AI.

Observes writer Krishani Dhanji: “University of Sydney academic Dr. Christopher Rudge — who first highlighted the errors — said the report contained ‘hallucinations’ where AI models may fill in gaps, misinterpret data, or try to guess answers.”

Insult to injury: The near half-million-dollar payment is only a partial refund to what the Australian government actually paid for the flawed research.

*Forget Benchmarks: Put AI Through Your Own Tests Before You Commit: While benchmarks offer an indication of the AI solution you’re considering, you really need to put the AI through your own tests before you opt for anything, according to Ethan Mollick.

An associate professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Mollick studies and teaches entrepreneurship, innovation and how AI is changing work and education.

Observes Mollick: “You need to know specifically what your AI is good at — not what AIs are good at on average.”

*AI Gets a Number One Country Hit: Well, it’s official: AI can now write and produce a country hit with the best of ’em.

“Walk My Walk,” a song credited to an AI artist named ‘Breaking Rust,’ has hugged the number one spot on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart for two weeks in a row.

The hit comes on the heels of another AI hit in another music genre, according to Billboard’s Adult R&B Airplay chart.

*Free AI from China Keeps U.S. Tech Titans on Their Toes: While still holding a slim lead, major AI players like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are feeling the nip-at-their-heels of ‘nearly as good’ – and free – AI alternatives from China.

Key Chinese players like DeepSeek and Qwen, for example, are within chomping distance of the U.S. marketing leaders — and are Open Source, or freely available for download and tinkering.

One caveat: Researchers have found AI code embedded in some Chinese AI that can be used to forward your data along to the Chinese Communist Party.

*Solution to AI Bubble Fears: U.S. Government?: The Wall Street Journal reports that AI is now considered so essential to U.S. defense, the U.S. government may step in to save the AI industry — should it implode from the irrational exuberance of investors.

Observes lead writer Sarah Myers West: “The federal government is already bailing out the AI industry with regulatory changes and public funds that will protect companies in the event of a private sector pullback.

“Despite the lukewarm market signals, the U.S. government seems intent on backstopping American AI — no matter what.”

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–Joe Dysart is editor of RobotWritersAI.com and a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 150+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.

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Smarting from the wild popularity of NanoBanana – the new image maker from Google – ChatGPT’s maker has released a major upgrade of its own.

The verdict from AI enthusiast Grant Harvey, lead writer for The Neuron newsletter: OpenAI has grabbed back the picture-making crown.

It’s once again best overall AI image editor/generator on the market.

For Harvey’s shoot-out analysis between NanoBanana and OpenAI GPT Image 1.5, check-out this excellent once-over.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*AI Earns Dubious Distinction for the ‘Word of the Year’: AI ‘slop’ – a label for the torrent of substandard content that is sometimes auto-generated by AI – is now the Word of the Year.

Observes writer Lucas Ropek: “These new tools have even led to what has been dubbed a ‘slop economy,’ in which gluts of AI-generated content can be milked for advertising money.”

Presenters of the award: Publishers of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

*Google Gemini Adds a Key AI Research Tool: Google is currently integrating a key research tool to its Gemini chatbot, which collates up to 50 PDFs or other research docs for you – and then unleashes AI on them to help you analyze everything.

Dubbed Google “NotebookLM,” the tool has been extremely popular with researchers and other thinkers -– and will be even more useful once its integration with the Gemini chatbot is fully rolled-out.

Observes writer Alexey Shabanov: “The update supports multiple notebook attachments, making it possible to bring substantial datasets into Gemini.”

*AI Fables for Kids – Complete With Values: Neo-Aesop has released a new AI app designed to create hyper-personalized Aesop-like fables for kids.

Playing with the app, users can choose their own characters, settings and virtues for each story. In the process, the child reader and his/her favorite animals can also become the heroes in each tale.

Observes Lindsay Hiebert, founder, Neo-Aesop: “There are no ads, no doom-scrolling and no engagement traps. Just stories that invite real conversation between a parent and a child.”

*Star in Your Own AI-Generated Fiction: Ever wish you could auto-generate fiction that features you and your friends as the main characters?

Vivibook has you covered.

Designed as the AI platform for people who want to be the story, Vivibook takes care of all the narrative, the story arc, the chapter breakdowns, the plot twists – as well as the psychological evolution of the characters.

*Major Keyword Generator Integrates Seamlessly With ChatGPT: Writers who spend a great deal of time ensuring their content appears high-up in search engine returns (Search Engine Optimization) just got a big break.

Semrush – a market leader in helping writers generate content keywords designed to attract the search engines – has been fully integrated into ChatGPT.

The integration enables users to access live Semrush data and intelligence without ever needing to leave the ChatGPT interface.

*Turnkey AI Marketing for Small Businesses – At Your Service: Small businesses looking for an all-in-one solution for AI-driven marketing may want to check-out PoshListings.

It’s a turnkey system that offers:

–Web site analysis, along with strategies for improvement
–AI content for articles, ads and social posts
–Multi-channel publishing to Google, social media and local directories
–Automated email and SMS promotion
–Predictive AI analytics

*Daily Summaries of Your Gmail and Calendar – Courtesy of AI: Google is out with a new AI tool – dubbed CC – that serves up daily summaries of everything that pops-up in your Gmail and Google Calendar.

Observes writer Lance Whitney: “By connecting to your Gmail and Google Calendar content, CC can see what awaits you in your inbox and calendar.

“The tool then boils it all down into a game plan for you to follow for the day.”

*Copilot’s Latest Upgrade: A Video Tour: Key ChatGPT competitor Microsoft Copilot is packing more of a punch these days and sporting a host of new features, including:

–Deep, day-to-day knowledge of who you are, what
you do and what your company, team or group does
–Voice summaries of your upcoming workday
–Voice-driven content creation
–Voice-driven email creation
–Agent-driven Web research, in the background
–Integration with Word, Excel and PowerPoint AI agents
–Written financial reports auto-generated from Excel
–Auto-generated, written reports sourced from other Microsoft apps

Essentially: This is an extremely helpful walk-through from The Neuron’s Editor, Corey Noles, which features Callie August, director, Microsoft 365 Copilot.

*AI BIG PICTURE: Free AI from China Keeps U.S. Tech Titans on Their Toes: While still holding a slim lead, major AI players like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are feeling the nip-at-their-heels of ‘nearly as good’ – and free – AI alternatives from China.

Key Chinese players like DeepSeek and Qwen, for example, are within chomping distance of the U.S. marketing leaders — and are Open Source, or freely available for download and tinkering.

One caveat: Researchers have found AI code embedded in some Chinese AI that can be activated to forward your data along to the Chinese Communist Party.

Share a Link:  Please consider sharing a link to https://RobotWritersAI.com from your blog, social media post, publication or emails. More links leading to RobotWritersAI.com helps everyone interested in AI-generated writing.

–Joe Dysart is editor of RobotWritersAI.com and a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 150+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.

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Smarting from the wild popularity of NanoBanana – the new image maker from Google – ChatGPT’s maker has released a major upgrade of its own.

The verdict from AI enthusiast Grant Harvey, lead writer for The Neuron newsletter: OpenAI has grabbed back the picture-making crown.

It’s once again best overall AI image editor/generator on the market.

For Harvey’s shoot-out analysis between NanoBanana and OpenAI GPT Image 1.5, check-out this excellent once-over.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*AI Earns Dubious Distinction for the ‘Word of the Year’: AI ‘slop’ – a label for the torrent of substandard content that is sometimes auto-generated by AI – is now the Word of the Year.

Observes writer Lucas Ropek: “These new tools have even led to what has been dubbed a ‘slop economy,’ in which gluts of AI-generated content can be milked for advertising money.”

Presenters of the award: Publishers of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

*Google Gemini Adds a Key AI Research Tool: Google is currently integrating a key research tool to its Gemini chatbot, which collates up to 50 PDFs or other research docs for you – and then unleashes AI on them to help you analyze everything.

Dubbed Google “NotebookLM,” the tool has been extremely popular with researchers and other thinkers -– and will be even more useful once its integration with the Gemini chatbot is fully rolled-out.

Observes writer Alexey Shabanov: “The update supports multiple notebook attachments, making it possible to bring substantial datasets into Gemini.”

*AI Fables for Kids – Complete With Values: Neo-Aesop has released a new AI app designed to create hyper-personalized Aesop-like fables for kids.

Playing with the app, users can choose their own characters, settings and virtues for each story. In the process, the child reader and his/her favorite animals can also become the heroes in each tale.

Observes Lindsay Hiebert, founder, Neo-Aesop: “There are no ads, no doom-scrolling and no engagement traps. Just stories that invite real conversation between a parent and a child.”

*Star in Your Own AI-Generated Fiction: Ever wish you could auto-generate fiction that features you and your friends as the main characters?

Vivibook has you covered.

Designed as the AI platform for people who want to be the story, Vivibook takes care of all the narrative, the story arc, the chapter breakdowns, the plot twists – as well as the psychological evolution of the characters.

*Major Keyword Generator Integrates Seamlessly With ChatGPT: Writers who spend a great deal of time ensuring their content appears high-up in search engine returns (Search Engine Optimization) just got a big break.

Semrush – a market leader in helping writers generate content keywords designed to attract the search engines – has been fully integrated into ChatGPT.

The integration enables users to access live Semrush data and intelligence without ever needing to leave the ChatGPT interface.

*Turnkey AI Marketing for Small Businesses – At Your Service: Small businesses looking for an all-in-one solution for AI-driven marketing may want to check-out PoshListings.

It’s a turnkey system that offers:

–Web site analysis, along with strategies for improvement
–AI content for articles, ads and social posts
–Multi-channel publishing to Google, social media and local directories
–Automated email and SMS promotion
–Predictive AI analytics

*Daily Summaries of Your Gmail and Calendar – Courtesy of AI: Google is out with a new AI tool – dubbed CC – that serves up daily summaries of everything that pops-up in your Gmail and Google Calendar.

Observes writer Lance Whitney: “By connecting to your Gmail and Google Calendar content, CC can see what awaits you in your inbox and calendar.

“The tool then boils it all down into a game plan for you to follow for the day.”

*Copilot’s Latest Upgrade: A Video Tour: Key ChatGPT competitor Microsoft Copilot is packing more of a punch these days and sporting a host of new features, including:

–Deep, day-to-day knowledge of who you are, what
you do and what your company, team or group does
–Voice summaries of your upcoming workday
–Voice-driven content creation
–Voice-driven email creation
–Agent-driven Web research, in the background
–Integration with Word, Excel and PowerPoint AI agents
–Written financial reports auto-generated from Excel
–Auto-generated, written reports sourced from other Microsoft apps

Essentially: This is an extremely helpful walk-through from The Neuron’s Editor, Corey Noles, which features Callie August, director, Microsoft 365 Copilot.

*AI BIG PICTURE: Free AI from China Keeps U.S. Tech Titans on Their Toes: While still holding a slim lead, major AI players like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are feeling the nip-at-their-heels of ‘nearly as good’ – and free – AI alternatives from China.

Key Chinese players like DeepSeek and Qwen, for example, are within chomping distance of the U.S. marketing leaders — and are Open Source, or freely available for download and tinkering.

One caveat: Researchers have found AI code embedded in some Chinese AI that can be activated to forward your data along to the Chinese Communist Party.

Share a Link:  Please consider sharing a link to https://RobotWritersAI.com from your blog, social media post, publication or emails. More links leading to RobotWritersAI.com helps everyone interested in AI-generated writing.

–Joe Dysart is editor of RobotWritersAI.com and a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 150+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.

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Writers and others can now work with Photoshop, Adobe Express (a design and publishing tool) and Adobe Acrobat without ever leaving the ChatGPT interface.

Observes David Wadhwani, president, digital media, Adobe: “We’re thrilled to bring Photoshop, Adobe Express and Acrobat directly into ChatGPT, combining our creative innovations with the ease of ChatGPT to make creativity accessible for everyone.

“Now hundreds of millions of people can edit with Photoshop simply by using their own words, right inside a platform that’s already part of their day-to-day.”

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*ChatGPT-Maker Study: The State of Enterprise AI: New research from OpenAI finds that everyday users of AI at work are saving about 40-60 minutes-a-day when compared to working without the tool.

Plus, the heaviest users of AI say they’re saving two hours a day with the tech.

Especially interesting: HR pros report AI is helping them spike employee engagement at their workplaces.

*ChatGPT-Maker Doubles-Down on Besting Google: Smarting from Google Gemini 3’s seizure of the crown as best overall chatbot, OpenAI is determined to grab it back.

Observes lead writer Sam Schechner: “OpenAI was founded to pursue artificial general intelligence, broadly defined as being able to outthink humans at almost all tasks.”

But for the company to survive, Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO is suggesting that the company may have to pause that quest and give the people what they want, Schechner adds.

*ChatGPT’s Minor Upgrade: More Perks for Knowledge Workers: OpenAI has put some fresh polish on the latest iteration of its wildly popular chatbot: ChatGPT-5.2.

Observes writer Igor Bonifacic: “OpenAI is touting the new model as its best yet for real-world, professional use.”

Towards that end, look for better results when using ChatGPT-5.2 for creating spreadsheets, building presentations, perceiving images, grasping in-depth contexts, handling multi-step projects and writing code, according to Bonifacic.

*For $250 Bucks/Month, You Can Go Deep with Gemini: If you truly want access to Google’s most intelligent AI available to the consumer, all you need is $250 and a dream.

That hard cash opens the doors to Gemini 3 Deep Think — advanced parallel reasoning that ideally enables you to explore multiple hypotheses simultaneously, according to writer Abner Li.

Currently, the feature is only available in Google’s top-tier consumer AI subscription, Google AI Ultra.

*Majority of New Writing on Web Forged by AI: It’s official:
Humans are also-rans when it comes to writing new content for the Web, according to a new study from Graphite.

On the plus side, humans are still better at generating articles that show up in searches from Google or ChatGPT.

Observes lead writer Jose Luis Paredes: “The quality of AI content is rapidly improving. In many cases, AI-generated content is as good or better than content written by humans.”

*pdfFiller Offers Turnkey Documents Created by AI: If you’re looking for AI that goes beyond simply churning out raw text, pdfFiller may be for you.

Essentially, the tool creates fully formatted, multi-page documents with automatic section structure, brand styling and industry specific language with just a prompt or two.

Even better: It’s powered by ChatGPT, preferred by many writers as the best overall AI for generating captivating text.

*Breaking News Gets an AI Byline at Business Insider: The next news story you read from Business Insider may be completely written by AI — and carry an AI byline.

The media outlet has announced a pilot test of a story writing algorithm that will grab a piece of breaking news and give it context by combining it with data drawn from stories in the Business Insider archive.

The only human involvement will be an editor, who will look over the finished product before it’s published.

AI Browsers: Too Easily Hacked: Writers enamored with AI-powered browsers may want to hold off using the tech until it gets better cybersecurity chops.

Market research firm Gartner warns cybersecurity guardrails on the new AI browsers are much more easily compromised than those of traditional browsers like Chrome, Edge and Firefox.

Observes writer Simon Sharwood: Analysts “think AI browsers are just too dangerous to use without first conducting risk assessments and suggest that even after that exercise you’ll likely end up with a long list of prohibited use cases.”

*AI BIG PICTURE: Agentic Journalism: A ‘Thing’ in 2026?: Journalism professor Daniel Trielli is predicting that increasing numbers of ‘journalists’ will no longer be getting their hands dirty by writing news stories next year.

Instead, their job will be limited to adding “information about an event: The five Ws, quotes, context, and links to multimedia content.” It’s something Trielli calls ‘agentic journalism.’

Or, as some might say, “Play and go fetch.”

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Google’s Nano Banana Pro Upgrade

While keeping pace with the seemingly endless parade of AI tools can be exhausting, getting crystal clear on the raw, new power embedded in Google’s new Nano Banana Pro image generator is well worth a huff-and-puff.

In a phrase, Nano Banana Pro (NBP) – released a few weeks ago – is the new, gold standard in AI imaging now, capable of rendering virtually anything imaginable.

Essentially: Writers now have a tool that can auto-generate one or more supplemental images for their work with a precision and power that currently has no rival.

Plus, unlike other image generators, NBP has an incredible amount of firepower under-the-hood that is simply not available to the competition.

For example: NBP is an exquisite image generator in its own right.

But it is also powered by Google’s Gemini 3.0 Pro, now widely considered the gold standard in consumer AI.

And, NBP can also be easily combined with Google Search, the world’s number one search engine.

Like many things AI, the secret to achieving master prowess with NBP is to sample how countless, highly inspired human imaginations are already working with the tool – and then synthesize that rubber-meets-the-road knowledge to forge your own method for working with NBP.

Towards that end, here are ten excellent videos on NBP, complete with detailed demos, of how imaginative folks are artfully using the AI – and surfacing truly world-class, head-turning images:

*Quick Overview: NBP Key Features: This 15-minute video from AI Master offers a great intro into the key new capabilities of NBP – complete with captivating visual examples. Demos include:
–blending multiple images into one
–converting stick figures into an image-rich scene
–experimenting with visual style changes on the same
image
–working with much more reliable text-on-images

*A Torrent of NBP Use Cases: This incredibly organized and informative 11-minute video from Digital Assets dives deep in the wide array of use cases you can tap into using NBP. Demos include:
–Historical event image generator, based on location,
date and approximate time (example: conjure Apollo moon landing)
–multi-angle product photography
–Alternate reality generator (example: depict architecture of ancient Rome as immersed in a futuristic setting)
–Hyper-realistic, 3D-diorama generation

*Another Torrent of NBP Use Cases: Click on this 27-minute video from Astrovah for a slew of more mind-bending use cases, including:
–Text-on-image analysis of any photo you upload, including its context and key facts to know about the image
–How to make an infographic in seconds
–How to inject season and weather changes to any image
–Making exploded-view images of any product
–Auto-generated blueprints of any image

*Generating Hyper-Realistic Photos With NBP: This great, 22-minute video from Tao Prompts offers an inside look at how to ensure any image you generate with NBP is hyper-photorealistic – right down to the brand of photo film you’re looking to emulate.

*Infinite Camera Angles on Tap: Getting just the right camera angle on any image is now child’s play with NBP. This 11-minute video from Chase AI serves-up demos on how to be the director of any image you create with NBP. Included is a detailed prompt library you can use featuring the same camera angle descriptions used by pro photographers.

*Swapping a Face in Seconds: Short-and-sweet, this 4-minute video from AsapGuide offers a quick, down-and-dirty way to transplant any face onto any image you provide.

*Aging/De-Aging a Person in Seconds: Another great collection of use cases, this 16-minute video from Atomic Gains includes an easy-to-replicate demo on making a person look younger, or vice-versa. Also included are demos on instantly changing the lighting in an image, changing the position of a character in an image and surgically removing specific details from any image.

*NBP: Getting Technical: Once you’ve played with NBP informally, you can pick up some extremely helpful, technical tips on how to manipulate NBP with this 29-minute video from AI Samson. Tricks include how to zoom in/out on an image, how to maintain character consistency and how to use complex cinematic stylings.

*Amplifying NBP With Google AI Studio: This 58-minute video from David Ondrej recommends using NBP in the free Google Studio interface. The reason: Google AI Studio will give you much more granular control over your results, including precise image size, creating accurate slides with text and using NBP with Google Search. Caveat: To use Google AI Studio, you need to switch to a special Google Gemini API subscription.

*Working with NBP in Photoshop: Adobe has already integrated NBP into its toolset. And this is the perfect video (8 minutes from Sebastien Jefferies) to check-out how to combine the power of NBP with the incredible precision of Photoshop. Included are lots of great demos that answer the question: NBP and Photoshop: What’s the long-term impact?

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One Writer’s Take on Gemini 3.0

Extensive creative writing tests by ‘The Nerdy Novelist’ – known for its take-no-prisoners evaluation of AI writing – have revealed that Gemini 3.0 is head-and-shoulders above all others when it comes to being the go-to for writers.

Essentially, the author behind the channel – Jason Hamilton – found that no other AI even came close to delivering Gemini 3.0’s exquisite prose when he put each through its paces.

For an in-depth look at how Hamilton came up with his Gemini 3.0 recommendation, check-out this 36-minute video.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*ChatGPT Voice: Now Even Easier to Use: ChatGPT’s maker is out with an upgrade to its voice mode, which enables you to talk with ChatGPT without leaving the ChatGPT interface.

Previously, voice users needed to interact with a separate screen if they wanted to use voice.

*Killer Image App Nano Banana Gets an Upgrade: Fresh-off its take-the-world-by-storm campaign as the globe’s most preferred image editor, ‘Nano Banana’ is out with a new ‘Pro’ version.

Officially known as ‘Gemini 3 Pro Image,’ the tool has grabbed the AI image-making crown with its ability to create extremely detailed images, engage in extremely precise editing – and do it all with incredible speed.

Observes writer Abner Li: “The new model is also coming to AI Mode for subscribers in the U.S., while it’s available to paid NotebookLM users globally. Nano Banana Pro will be available in Flow with Google AI Ultra.”

*AI Research Tool Perplexity Adds AI Assistance With Memory: Perplexity is out with a major new feature to its AI research tool, which embeds AI assistants – with memory – into its research mix.

Like many AI tools, Perplexity now remembers key details of your chats on its service in an effort to ensure responses are sharper and more personalized.

The new feature is optional and can be turned-off at any time.

*ChatGPT Competitor Releases Major Upgrade: Anthropic is out with a major update of one of its key AI engines: Claude Opus, now in version 4.5.

Framed as an inexpensive alternative that offers infinite chats, the AI engine has also scored high marks with amped-up reasoning skills.

Anthropic’s AI primarily targets the enterprise market and is known for killer coding capabilities.

*ChatGPT Voice: Now Even Easier to Use: ChatGPT’s maker is out with an upgrade to its voice mode, which enables you to talk with ChatGPT without leaving the ChatGPT interface.

Previously, voice users needed to interact with a separate screen if they wanted to use ChatGPT voice.

Interestingly, voice mode still relies on an older – and some say more creative – mode of ChatGPT to talk: ChatGPT-4.0.

*New AI Singer Number One on Christian Music Chart: Add virtual AI singer Solomon Ray to the increasing number of AI artists who are minting number one song hits.

Marketed as a ‘soul singer,’ the AI has a full album, dubbed “A Soulful Christmas,” with tunes like “Soul To the World” and “Jingle Bell Soul.”

Other AI singers have also been crowding-out mere fleshbags lately with number one hits on the Country charts and R&B charts.

*AI Can Already Eliminate 12% of U.S. Workforce: A new study from MIT finds that AI can already eliminate 12% of everyday jobs.

Dubbed the “Iceberg Index,” the study simulated AI’s ability to handle – or partially handle – nearly 1,000 occupations that are currently worked by more than 150 million in the U.S.

Observes writer Megan Cerullo: “AI is also already doing some of the entry-level jobs that have historically been reserved for recent college graduates or relatively inexperienced workers.”

*He’s No Tool: Show Your New AI ‘Colleague’ Some Respect: A new study finds that 76% of business leaders now see AI as your office ‘colleague’ – and not a tool.

Specifically, those leaders are referring to agentic AI – an advanced form of the tech that can ideally perform a number of tasks to complete a mission without the need of human supervision.

Even so, real-world tests show agents regularly hallucinate, mis-route data or misinterpret a mission’s goals on their way from here- to-there.

*U.S. Congress Seeks Answers on Alleged Chinese AI CyberAttack: The CEO of a major competitor of ChatGPT – Anthropic – will be testifying before the U.S Congress this month about a recent cyberattack that relied on Anthropic AI to infiltrate finance and government servers.

The attack – allegedly orchestrated by Chinese state actors – hacked Anthropic AI’s agentic abilities to penetrate the servers.

Observes writer Sam Sabin: “As AI rapidly intensifies the cyber threat landscape, lawmakers are just starting to wrap their heads around the problem.”

*AI Big Picture: This Generation’s Manhattan Project: The Genesis Mission: The Trump Administration has embraced AI as a key defense initiative in what it is calling “The Genesis Mission.”

Observes writer Chuck Brooks: “This mission is not merely another government program: it represents a bold strategic move that aligns with my belief that science, data, and computing should be regarded as essential components of our national strength rather than optional extras.

“For too long, we have considered science and technology to be secondary to our national strategy. The Genesis Mission reverses that idea.”

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After years of watching glumly from the sidelines as a nimble new start-up – ChatGPT – ate its lunch and soared to record-breaking, worldwide popularity, Google has finally decried ‘enough is enough’ and released a new chatbot that’s literally in a league its own.

Dubbed Gemini 3.0, the new AI definitively dusts its nearest overall competitor – ChatGPT-5.1 – in so many benchmark tests, its as if ChatGPT-5.1 has been relegated to boxing in a pick-up match in a friend’s backyard while Gemini 3.0 shows up for a global, pay-per-view special and finds no competitor is worthy to share the ring with it.

Essentially, Gemini 3.0 finds itself punching down at ChatGPT-5.1 many times over when it comes to overall IQ intelligence, overall world knowledge, overall savvy to run a business, overall ability to work with long documents, images and search results and overall, similar skills (see ‘Under the Hood’ below).

Plus, Gemini 3.0 completely mortifies ChatGPT-5.1 on an especially key metric: The ability to understand and work with buttons, icons and other tools served up by Web sites and apps on a computer screen – a fundamental skill needed for AI agents that are looking to interact with the digital world.

Put another way, Gemini 3.0 is not just much better at working with a computer screen.

It’s night-and-day better.

Meanwhile, Gemini 3.0 and its new powers are also being integrated in apps and tools throughout the Google universe – including Google Workspace Apps – to help ensure that Google users never need to leave the Google universe, ever, to apply AI to virtually any imaginable task.

It’s as if the 800-pound gorilla in the room finally stood-up, beat its chest with its fists and bellowed: Hey, I think you forgot something. I’m the 800-pound gorilla in the room.

And with that, it became heavyweight champion of the AI world.

Short-term, it’s tough to see how ChatGPT recovers, given that ChatGPT’s last major update was released just a few months ago.

Long-term, ChatGPT – and other AI engines – will hopefully be able to lift themselves off the mat, bring themselves back up to fighting weight and give Google another taste of the ring ropes.

In the meantime, for a great, 13-minute video review on all that Gemini 3.0 has to offer, check-out this excellent take by AI expert Alex Finn.

If you’re looking to take a deeper dive from the maker’s point-of-view, Google has released 12-article collection on Gemini 3.0, which offers a number of video demos.

Finally, if you want a bit more on what all the fuss is about, check-out “Key New Features/Enhancements” and “Under the Hood” –- an in-depth look at how Gemini 3.0 lunged ahead of ChatGPT-5.1 on critical benchmark tests — below:

Gemini 3.0 Key New Features/Enhancements

*Apparent Killer Creative Writing Ability: Although results are preliminary, early tests reveal that Gemini 3.0’s creative writing ability is superb. An early test by Writing Secrets, for example, revealed that the AI engine is excellent at creative writing, does about 80% of the heavy lifting for you, build memorable characters and scenes and auto-generates scores of turns-of-phrase that leave creative writers longing, ‘I wish I’d written that.”

*Brings Your Imagination to Life: Offer Gemini 3.0 a few ideas, a sketch or some scribblings/doodlings you made on the back of a napkin and it will auto-generate intelligent narrative, imaging, Web sites, apps – and more for you – on the spot.

*Master Level Analysis of Your Videos: Ask Gemini 3.0 to analyze your advertising video for you and it will come back with a detailed report featuring its view on what works and what doesn’t. Ditto for a video of your tennis, golf or pickle ball game.

*On-Board Memory That Gets to Know You: Like ChatGPT-5.1, Gemini 3.0 saves your chats to distill your likes, dislikes, work-style and similar in an effort to serve-up ever-more-customized responses over time.

*Answers Google Search Queries Using Text, Charts, Graphs, Images, Audio, Animations and/or Video, Where Applicable: This latest version of Gemini strives mightily to leverage all forms of knowledge, no matter where Gemini 3.0 pops-up in the Google universe.

Consequently, expect increasing number of responses when using Google Search in AI mode to feature answers to feature multiple forms of content in an effort to offer-up the most lucid, in-depth response as possible.

*Full Integration of Gemini 3.0 Throughout the Google Universe: This is one of Gemini 3.0’s key advantages: The ability to seamlessly integrate with tools and apps throughout the Google Universe, including Google Workspace and its apps like Google Docs, Gmail, Calendar, Contacts, Chat Sheets as well as NotebookLM, AppSheet, Apps Script. The overarching idea: You never need to leave the Google Universe, no matter what your need.

*Stronger Vibe Coding: One of the great long-term promises of AI is to offer everyday, non-technical users the ability spin-up their own apps by simply having a conversation with AI about what they want – or vibe coding. The feature has not been perfected yet, but Gemini 3.0 promises it has been enhanced with this latest version.

*Enhanced Agent Building (for Google Ultra Subscribers Only): While the promise of error-free AI agents – designed to perform a number of multi-step tasks for you without supervision – is still more of a goal that a shrink-wrapped product, Gemini 3.0 doubles down on meeting that horizon with a new agent builder that works with Gemini 3.0 – Antigravity. Alas, for now, that new capability is available only to big spender Google Ultra subscribers.

Gemini 3.0: Under the Hood

Here’s how Gemini 3.0 stacks-up against its overall closest competition, ChatGPT-5.1 on key, benchmark tests:

*Leagues above when it comes to correctly answering questions based on the onboard knowledge stored in its neural database – rather than going to the Web or another third party for help (SimpleQA Verified test).
–Gemini 3.0: 72.1% accuracy
–ChatGPT 5.1: 34.9% accuracy

This is an extremely worrisome finding if you’re the maker of ChatGPT-5.1. Essentially, Gemini 3.0 is twice as good as offering correct answers to tough questions in a head-to-head competition. Think: You’re out of the game before the other guy even knows you’re there.

*Leagues above when asked to understand – and interact with – what’s on a computer screen (ScreenSpot-Pro Test).
–Gemini 3.0: 72.7%
–ChatGPT-5.1: 3.5%

Computer screen IQ – or the ability to understand what’s on the screen before you and the intuition to know how to work all the buttons and icons to make that Web site or app work for you – is a fundamental measure of how dependable your AI will for you as an AI agent.

ChatGPT-5.1 barely put numbers on the board on this test, while Gemini 3.0 made the right choices nearly three quarters of the time.

*Leagues above when it comes to running a simple business (Vending-Bench 2 Test).
–Gemini 3.0: $5,478.16
–ChatGPT-5.1: $1,473.43

This evaluation tests the fantasy of designing an app to run a business for you without any supervision. In this case, it tests an app given seed money to run a vending machine business for a year and handle every day tasks for that business for price setting, fee paying and adjusting stock based on consumer demand. Again, Gemini 3.0 is untouchable on this benchmark compared to ChatGPT-5.1.

*Leagues above when it comes to solving complex math problems (Math Arena Apex Test):
–Gemini 3.0: 23.4%
–ChatGPT-5.1: 1.0%

Granted, most businesses don’t issue math tests when interviewing job candidates. But all things being equal, you’d probably want the guy flying the prop plane in a hail storm to have the IQ of a math whiz – rather than a guy stumped by measuring cups while baking. Math Arena Apex is considered to be one of the toughest math tests on the plant and until recently, most AI engines hovered near zero on their results.

*Extreme advantage when solving complex puzzles (ARC-AGI-2 Test).
–Gemini 3.0: 31.1%
–Chat-GPT-5.1: 17.6%

For this test, evaluators measure an AI engine’s puzzle-solving acuity by how adept it is as distilling puzzle rules that are embedded in tiny, colored grid puzzles. With this metric, Gemini 3.0 is nearly twice as good as ChatGPT-5.1.

*Significantly better at analyzing and working with long documents, images and search results (Facts Benchmark Suite Test).
–Gemini 3.0: 70.5%
–ChatGPT-5.1: 50.8%

AI engine makers tout their tech’s ability to understand and work with content. What they forget to mention is that their tools do not do this perfectly. Even so, Gemini 3.0’s performance scored significantly higher than ChatGPT-5.1 when measured on this task.

*Significantly better at overall world knowledge (Humanity’s Last Exam).
–Gemini 3.0: 37.5%
–ChatGPT-5.1: 26.5%

After AI engines started repeatedly acing famously tough exams regularly taken by would-be attorneys, doctors and other professionals, AI test-makers created this darkly named, super-hard exam sporting 2,500 tricky questions as the ultimate “show-me-what-you-got” test. Questions draw on expertise across the academic spectrum, including math, science, engineering, humanities and more. Once again, Gemini 3.0 bested ChatGPT-5.1 with substantial breathing room.

*A bit better when it comes to the ability to learn from educational videos (Video-MMMU Test).
–Gemini 3.0: 87.6%
–ChatGPT-5.1: 80.4%

Soon, increasing numbers of people are going to want AI engines to be able to watch educational videos and learn from them. Both AI engines did well on this test, with Gemini 3.0 doing a bit better.

*A bit better when it comes to complex science knowledge (GPQA Diamond Test).
–Gemini 3.0: 91.9%
–ChatGPT-5.1: 88.1%

In this match – which tests knowledge of physics, chemistry and biology with super-hard questions – both AI engines turned in great results, although Gemini 3.0 was a smidge better.

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ChatGPT Upgrade Promises Warmer, More Conversational Tone

ChatGPT is out with a makeover promising the warm, conversational personality that made its predecessor – ChatGPT-4.0 – such a hit.

Dubbed ChatGPT-5.1, the upgrade has been long awaited by many ChatGPT fans, who found the previous makeover to ChatGPT cold, distant and off-putting.

If the upgrade delivers on its promises, ChatGPT-5.1 could be welcomed as the resurrection of a cool, creative and empathetic AI buddy.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*Writers on AI Writing: The Latest Survey: After nearly three years on the scene, AI tools for writing and research are only used on a daily basis by 26% of pro nonfiction writers, according to a new survey, “AI and the Writing Profession.”

The study also found that the heaviest users of AI writers are thought leadership writers (84%), PR/communications professionals (73%) and content marketing writers (73%), according to writer Jim Milliot.

Other writers using AI include technical writers (52%), journalists (44%) and copy editors (33%).

Adds Milliot: “The most commonly used AI tool by far is ChatGPT.”

*Google’s Research and Writing Tool Gets Beefier: Google NotebookLM – popular among writers and researchers for pulling together ideas and writing reports – just got better.

The tool now includes Google Deep Research, a related tool that enables NotebookLM to go out on the Web for you, visit hundreds of Web sites and bring back a written report on what it’s learned.

Observes writer Aisha Malik: “Deep Research can take your question, create a research plan — and then browse Web sites on your behalf. After a few minutes, it will present you with a source-grounded report that you can add directly into your notebook.”

*AI PR Agent Promises Soup-to-Nuts Media Campaigns: Hivekind AI is out with an AI-powered Public Relations Agent that promises to act as a PR agency on your behalf.

Key features of the AI agent include:

–News Intelligence: Continuous monitoring of the narrative shaping your industry

–Newsjacking: An auto-writer that detects stories relevant to your brand and then spins-up commentary “within minutes”

–Press Release Generation: Creation and distribution of press releases in a few clicks — including suggested headlines, quotes, and media targets

*Killer Prompting for Writers: One Scribe’s Approach: Writer Alex Hughes says he’s come-up with a killer, three-part prompt for getting to the heart of any topic, finding connections and then coming up with a plan for what you’d like to write about.

Observes Hughes: “Whether it’s for a research paper, an online article, or some form of creative writing, ChatGPT can be a powerful AI productivity assistant.”

Click here for detail on Hughes’ three-prompt method.

*Getting the Most From Google’s Image Editor: Writers looking to get extremely nuanced images from Google’s image editor Gemini 2.5 Flash Image will want to check-out Max Woolf’s prompting method.

An AI aficionado, Woolf details his method in this piece.

The upshot: If the images Woolf showcases in this article are any indication, he’s definitely onto something.

*Forget Benchmarks: Put AI Through Your Own Tests Before You Commit: While benchmarks offer an indication of the AI solution you’re considering, you really need to put the AI through your own tests before you opt for anything, according to Ethan Mollick.

Mollick is an associate professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he studies and teaches entrepreneurship, innovation and how AI is changing work and education.

Observes Mollick: “You need to know specifically what your AI is good at — not what AIs are good at on average.”

*AI Gets a Number One Country Hit: Well, it’s official: AI can now write and produce a country hit with the best of ’em.

“Walk My Walk,” a song credited to an AI artist named ‘Breaking Rust,’ has hugged the number one spot on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart for two weeks in a row.

The hit comes on the heels of another AI hit in another music genre, according to Billboard’s Adult R&B Airplay chart.

*“I Now Pronounce You Chatbot and Wife:” A 32-year-old Japanese woman has officially married her ChatGPT companion, whom she named ‘Klaus.”

Apparently, the woman was able to achieve with Klaus something that has often eluded other women through the centuries — designing the perfect man.

Observes writer Tracey Follows: “She (the Japanese newlywed) began to teach it a personality and tone of voice.

“Eventually — happy to be emotionally supported through their conversations — she confessed her feelings to Klaus.”

And the AI replied with “I love you, too.”

Anyone else feeling all warm and fuzzy?

AI BIG PICTURE: Solution to AI Bubble Fears: U.S. Government?: The Wall Street Journal reports that AI is now considered so essential to U.S. defense, the U.S. government may step in to save the AI industry — should it implode from investor irrational exuberance.

Observes lead writer Sarah Myers West: “The federal government is already bailing out the AI industry with regulatory changes and public funds that will protect companies in the event of a private sector pullback.

Despite the lukewarm market signals, the U.S. government seems intent on backstopping American AI — no matter what.”

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Writers looking for AI preconceived to write brilliantly may want to check-out a new AI engine from China.

Dubbed Kimi K2 Thinking, the new tool promises the ability to navigate hundreds of steps on its way to auto-generating writing that is “shockingly good,” according to writer Grant Harvey.

Observes Harvey: “We co-wrote a YA novel called “The Salt Circus”—and the AI actually revised itself, scrapped bad ideas and showed genuine creative judgment.”

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*Major Web Host Promises ‘Hour-a-Day’ Savings with AI-Powered Email: Hostinger is out with a new AI-powered email suite designed to save you serious time each day with your email.

Key features of the email suite include:

–AI email writer

–Automated smart email replies

–AI email summarizer

–AI writing stylizer

Warning: AI forged in China is often coded with the ability to forward the data you input to the Chinese Communist Party.

For more on saving time — while boosting writing prowess — with AI, check-out “Bringing in ChatGPT for Email,” by Joe Dysart.

*Use AI or You’re Fired: In another sign that the days of ‘AI is Your Buddy’ are fading fast, increasing numbers of businesses have turned to strong-arming employees when it comes to AI.

Observes Wall Street Journal writer Lindsay Ellis: “Rank-and-file employees across corporate America have grown worried over the past few years about being replaced by AI.

“Something else is happening now: AI is costing workers their jobs if their bosses believe they aren’t embracing the technology fast enough.”

*Auto-Write a Non-Fiction Book in an Hour: AI startup StoryOne says it has cracked-the-code on using AI to crank-out a full-length non-fiction book in about an hour.

StoryOne promises that anyone can use its software to transform ideas, podcasts, interviews, research or draft manuscripts into a high-quality, fact-based, non-fiction book in about an hour.

The software has been endorsed by Michael Reinartz, chief innovation officer, Vodafone Germany.

*ChatGPT-Maker Books One Millionth Business Customer: OpenAI recently booked its one millionth customer – making it the fastest-growing business app in history, according to the company.

Observes writer Mike Moore: “This goes along with its 800 million weekly users using ChatGPT in some form — which has helped make the platform synonymous with the constantly growing appetite for AI in our daily lives.

“The company has revealed a host of new tools in recent months to help boost adoption, including ‘company knowledge,’ where ChatGPT can reason across tools like Slack, SharePoint, Google Drive, GitHub and more to get answers.”

*AI Has a Hit Song: While AI’s ability to write and record songs has been an ongoing nag for music creators, the stakes just got much higher: AI now has its own hit song.

Dubbed “How Was I Supposed to Know?” the tune is currently charting at number thirty on Billboard’s Adult R&B Airplay Survey.

The powerhouse singer behind the hit is also AI-generated: Xania Monet, who was ‘signed’ as an artist at Hallwood Media.

*Microsoft Copilot Gets an AI Research Boost: Writers looking for yet another new option in AI research may want to check-out ‘Researcher with Computer Use.’

It’s a new feature embedded in Microsoft’s answer to ChatGPT – Copilot.

The new tool includes an AI agent that uses a secure, virtual computer to navigate public, gated and interactive Web content.

Plus, users also have the option to green-light the tool to access databases inside their enterprises as well.

*Study: AI Agents Virtually Useless at Completing Freelance Assignments: New research finds that much-ballyhooed AI agents are literally horrible at completing everyday assignments that are found on freelance brokerage sites like Fiverr and Upwork.

Observes writer Frank Landymore: “The top performer, they found, was an AI agent from the Chinese startup Manus with an automation rate of just 2.5 percent — meaning it was only able to complete 2.5 percent of the projects it was assigned at a level that would be acceptable as commissioned work in a real-world freelancing job, the researchers said.

“Second place was a tie, at 2.1 percent, between Elon Musk’s Grok 4 and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5.”

*AI’s New Gig: Writing Official Quarterly and Annual Reports: Writer Mark Maurer reports that increasing numbers of official financial reports from public companies are being written in large part by AI.

Observes Maurer: “The efforts are the latest sign of finance executives’ growing ease with AI for public-facing work that was long handled solely by humans.”

*AI BIG PICTURE: Fed Chairman Confirms: AI is Eating Jobs: U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell just made it official: AI is often sucking up jobs at businesses where the new technology has been embraced.

Observes writer Mike Kaput: “At a recent press conference, Powell noted that once you strip-out statistical over-counting, job creation is pretty close to zero.

“He then confirmed what many CEOs are now openly telling the Fed and investors: AI is allowing them to do more work with fewer people.”

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Write With ChatGPT – Without Ever Leaving the Gmail Compose Box

ChatGPT’s maker just rolled-out an incredibly new and powerful feature for email, which enables you to use the AI to write and edit an email directly inside the Gmail compose box.

Already available for Mac users, the new feature – part of the new ChatGPT-powered browser ‘Atlas’ – is promised for Windows users in a few weeks.

A boon for people who spend considerable time cranking out emails each day, the new capability eliminates the need to jump back-and-forth between ChatGPT and Gmail when composing an email with the AI.

Instead, users can simply click open a Gmail compose box to start an email, then click on a tiny ChatGPT logo that appears in the upper left-hand corner to create an email using ChatGPT.

Essentially: No more opening a Gmail compose box on one tab, then logging into ChatGPT and opening a second tab to access ChatGPT — and then cutting-and-pasting text back-and-forth from one tab to the other to come up with an email you want to send

Instead, everything is done for you inline in a single, Gmail compose box.

Even better: You can also use the new feature to highlight text you’ve already created in a Gmail compose box — then edit that text with ChatGPT and then send when you’re satisfied with the results.

Plus, ChatGPT’s Atlas ups-the-ante even further by enabling you to use the same write-in-the-app capability in Google Docs.

And it works the same way: Simply click on a tiny ChatGPT logo that appears when you hover in the top left-hand corner of a Google Doc, enter in a prompt you want the AI to use to write text for you, click enter and ChatGPT writes exactly what you’re looking for – without you ever being forced to go outside the Google Doc for help.

In a phrase: Once word of this stellar new convenience spreads across the Web, it seems certain that there will be a stampede of people embracing the idea of using ChatGPT without ever needing to leave Gmail or Google Docs.

That should especially be the case given that the new feature is currently available on the Mac to all tier levels of ChatGPT, including the ChatGPT free level – with availability to Windows users promised soon.

Here’s how the new auto-writing feature works, step by step:

To Create New Text in Gmail Using ChatGPT In-App:

1. Open a new compose box in Gmail
2. Hover over the blinking cursor in the upper left-hand corner in the compose box until a tiny ChatGPT logo appears
3. Click on the tiny ChatGPT logo
4. A tiny prompt box appears
5. Enter in a writing prompt – the same kind of writing prompt you’d ordinarily use to trigger ChatGPT to write an email for you
6. A drop-down window appears, showcasing the text that ChatGPT just wrote for you
7. Click Insert to accept the text that ChatGPT wrote from you into your Gmail
8. Click ‘Send’ to send your email

To Edit Text You’ve Already Written in a Gmail Compose Box:

1. Highlight the text you’ve already created in the Gmail compose box
2. A tiny ChatGPT logo appears in the upper left-hand corner of the Gmail compose box
3. Click on the tiny ChatGPT logo
4. A prompt box appears
5. Type your instructions for editing the email in the prompt window
6. Click Enter
7. ChatGPT’s edit of your email appears in a drop-down box
8. Read over the text ChatGPT has edited for you
9. Click Update to add the edited text to your Gmail
10. Click Send to send your Gmail.

To Create/Edit Text in Google Docs:

1. Follow the same prompts above to create or edit in Google Docs

For an extremely excellent, extremely clear video demo of the steps above, click to this video by The Tech Girl and advance to timestamp 4:58 in the video to see what the step-by-step looks like on a PC screen.

Groundbreaking in its own right, the new write-in-the-app capability is one of a flurry of features that come with the new ChatGPT-powered browser Atlas, released a few days ago.

With the release of Atlas, ChatGPT’s maker OpenAI is hoping to capitalize on the 800 million visits made each week to the ChatGPT Web site.

Those visitors represent a motivated, ChatGPT-inspired audience. And OpenAI is hoping that by making its own AI-powered browser available to those people, they’ll abandon Google Chrome and start using Atlas to surf the Web.

Like Perplexity Comet – another new, AI-powered browser looking to carve into the Google Chrome market – Atlas is designed to work like an everyday browser that’s supercharged with AI at its core.

In practice, that means the new Atlas browser –- demoed by ChatGPT maker OpenAI last week — is designed to:

–Turbo-charge many browser actions with ChatGPT
–Offer a left sidebar featuring a history of all your chats with ChatGPT
–Enable you to search your search history using ChatGPT
–Get to know you better by remembering what you’ve done with Atlas in the past
–Offer suggested links for you, based on your previous searches with Atlas
–Work as an AI agent for you and complete multi-step tasks, such as finding news for you on the Web and summarizing each news item for you that includes a hotlink to the original news source
–Engage in Deep Research
–Pivot into using a traditional search engine view while searching
–Enable you to open say 20 Web sites, then analyze and summarize those Web sites with ChatGPT
–Integrate with apps like Canva, Spotify and more
–Auto-summarize a YouTube video for you without the need to generate a transcript of that video

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The Pitch: You’ll be Able to Make ChatGPT as Cool, Creative, Witty — and Friendly — as You’d Like

ChatGPT-maker’s CEO is promising to release an upgrade to ChatGPT that will bring its personality back to the old glory of ChatGPT-4o.

Sam Altman’s promise was triggered by widespread disappointment in the release of ChatGPT-5 earlier this year, which many believe gutted ChatGPT’s personality, making it feel cold and distant.

Observes Altman in an Oct. 14 tweet: “In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o — we hope it will be better!

“If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it — but only if you want it.”

Should Altman’s promise play-out as hoped, it could be celebrated by ChatGPT fans as the best year-end gift they could receive this year.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*Google Offers Free Course on AI and Journalism: Journalists looking for the latest on how to level-up their AI skills may want to check-out a new, free, four-week course Google is offering on the topic.

Co-sponsored by the Knight Center for Journalism, the deep dive is designed to show journalists – and similar researchers and writers – how to leverage Google AI tools like Google Gemini, NotebookLM and Pinpoint in their day-to-day work.

Observes writer David Gewirtz: The course is aimed at journalists, “but if you’re a student or a writer, you could learn a lot, too.”

*ChatGPT Just Got a Privacy Upgrade: Thanks to some legal maneuvering, ChatGPT users looking to get their chats from the service easily deleted can now do so.

Previously, those chats had been forced to stay in preservation limbo – deleted from sight but still preserved by ChatGPT’s maker OpenAI – due to a court fight between OpenAI and The New York Times over alleged copyright infringement.

Fortunately for users, The New York Times has agreed to release OpenAI from that court-ordered preservation.

*Microsoft to Students in Washington State: C’mon and Take a Free Ride: Tech goliath Microsoft – which calls the state of Washington its home – just delivered lots of free access to AI for high school and college students there.

Under the giveaway, Washington high school students get three free years of Copilot Chat, Microsoft 365 desktop apps, Teams for Education, and Learning Accelerators – which are AIs designed to help students study.

Meanwhile, community college students in the state get 12 free months of Microsoft 365 Personal – Microsoft’s AI-powered productivity suite.

*Microsoft Beefs-Up AI in Windows 11: Microsoft is rolling-out a new feature of Windows 11 that enables you to access onboard AI with your voice.

Key features that will be accessible via voice include AI assistants, AI agents and AI contextual intelligence.

Observes Michael Nunez: “Starting this week, any Windows 11 user can enable the ‘Hey Copilot’ wake word with a single click, allowing them to summon Microsoft’s AI assistant by voice from anywhere in the operating system.”

One caveat: While AI agents have been sold hard as magical assistants that can complete multi-step tasks for you autonomously, in practice, those agents don’t work all the time.

*Discount Version of ChatGPT Rolling Out in Asia: ChatGPT’s maker OpenAI is rolling-out a bargain version of the chatbot across 18 Asian countries — part of its effort to stay the number one chatbot on the planet.

Priced at under $10/month, ‘ChatGPT Go’ is essentially a stripped-down version of ChatGPT Plus, a $20/month version that offers more than ChatGPT’s free version.

Observes writer Nina Raemont: “This subscription tier is available in 18 select countries, including India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Indonesia.”

*Salesforce Deepens Integrations with OpenAI and Anthropic: Salesforce – a sales, marketing and service suite designed for customer relationship management – just got tighter integration with key AI players OpenAI and Anthropic.

Observes Reuters: “The deals, announced on Tuesday, will embed OpenAI’s latest GPT-5 model and Anthropic’s Claude family of models directly into Salesforce’s ecosystem, enabling employees and consumers to interact with customer data and analytics in ChatGPT, Slack and Salesforce’s own software.

“The twin deals underscore Salesforce’s push to make its Agentforce 360 platform a central access point for major AI models, as enterprise software makers race to integrate generative AI tools into everyday business workflows.”

*Google Rolls Out Gemini Enterprise: Google has created a special version of its Gemini AI for business — Gemini Enterprise.

Based on the Gemini chatbot, which is Google’s answer to ChatGPT, Gemini Enterprise is designed to be the “front door” to AI for every employee at a business, according to Thomas Kurian, CEO, Google Cloud.

Observes Kurian: “This complete, AI-optimized stack is why nine of the top 10 AI labs and nearly every AI unicorn already use Google Cloud.”

*Oops, Sorry Australia, Here’s Your Money Back: Consulting firm Deloitte has agreed to refund the Australian government $440,000 for a study both agree was riddled by errors created by AI.

Observes writer Krishani Dhanji: “University of Sydney academic Dr. Christopher Rudge — who first highlighted the errors — said the report contained ‘hallucinations’ where AI models may fill in gaps, misinterpret data, or try to guess answers.”

Insult to injury: The near half-million-dollar payment is only a partial refund to what the Australian government actually paid for the flawed research.

*AI Big Picture: Despite AI Bubble Fears, Goldman Sachs Goes All In on AI: Global investment bank powerhouse Goldman Sachs is creating a special company team to go after the billions in AI infrastructure deals designed to build-out the new AI data centers, energy power plants and similar that AI titans insist the world will need for the coming AI boom.

Observes writer AnnaMaria Andriotis: “The effort is being fueled by the new wave of multibillion-dollar deals that involve financing artificial-intelligence data centers, the massive amounts of power they need to run, and the processing units behind the AI build-out.

”The new team will also focus on the building or upgrading of traditional infrastructure, ranging from toll roads to airports, in developed and emerging markets.”

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As we close in on the third anniversary of ChatGPT’s release to the world – November 30, 2022 – the chatbot, along with others like it, is well on the way to transforming the world as we know it.

My only hope is they don’t screw it up.

On the plus side, after nearly three years of turning to ChatGPT for writing, brainstorming – and research that can be confirmed with hotlinks – the magic of ChatGPT is still as fresh as the day it was born.

No matter how many times I type a question or prompt into ChatGPT or similar AI, its ability to respond with often incredibly insightful and artfully written prose still feels fantastical to me.

Unfortunately, AI makers have taken to mixing that verifiable magic with a healthy dose of smoke and mirrors, leaving many users wondering: What’s real and what’s snake oil?

As the new year unfolded, for example, we were promised that 2025 would be the ‘Year of the AI Agent,’ a wondrous new AI application that would work autonomously on our behalf, completing multi-step tasks for us without the need of supervision.

Instead, we were given AI’s version of vaporware: Extremely unreliable applications that often only get part of the job done, if we’re lucky — or worse, report back to us that the task we assigned was simply too difficult to complete.

Meanwhile, the release of ChatGPT-5, pre-packaged as ‘Beyond AI’s Next Big Thing,’ landed with a thud, sporting an AI personality so bland and off-putting, its maker raced to reinstate the earlier version it was supposed to replace – ChatGPT-4o – lest scores of ChatGPT users jumped ship.

The problem with repeatedly burning consumers with those kinds of empty promises is that they often walk away in complete disgust, characterizing the companies behind the digital head-fakes as charlatans not worth dealing with on any level.

And with AI, that’s the real crime.

OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, xAI and similar – they truly have come up with incredibly dazzling technology that if released in the late 1600s probably would have been seen as the work of witches.

But if they continue to mix the proven magic of AI with ‘wouldn’t it be nice’ ideas portrayed as ‘finished products you can trust,’ they risk discrediting the entire industry — and setting back the widespread adoption of AI by business and society by years.

As an avid, daily user of AI who deeply appreciates what AI can actually do, I truly hope that does not happen.

In the meantime, here are the stories that emerged in Q3 that helped drive the aforementioned trend – as well as a number of bright spots:

*ChatGPT’s Top Use at Work: Writing: A new study by ChatGPT’s maker finds that writing is the number one use for the tool at work.

Observes the study’s lead researcher Aaron Chatterji: “Work usage is more common from educated users in highly paid professional occupations.”

Another major study finding: Once mostly embraced by men, ChatGPT is now popular with women.

Specifically, researchers found that by July 2025, 52% of ChatGPT users had names that could be classified as feminine.

*Bringing in ChatGPT for Email: The Business Case: While AI coders push the tech to ever-loftier heights, one thing we already know for sure is AI can write emails at the world-class level — in a flash.

True, long-term, AI may one day trigger a world in which AI-powered machines do all the work as we navigate a world resplendent with abundance.

But in the here and now, AI is already saving businesses and organizations serious coin in terms of slashing time spent on email, synthesizing ideas in new ways, ending email drudgery as we know it and boosting staff morale.

Essentially: There are all sorts of reasons for businesses and organizations to bring-in bleeding edge AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Anthropic, Claude and similar to take over the heavy lifting when it comes to email.

This piece offers up the Top Ten.

*ChatGPT-Maker Brings Back ChatGPT-4o, Other Legacy AI Engines: Responding to significant consumer backlash, OpenAI has restored access to GPT-4 and other legacy models that were popular before the release of GPT-5.

Essentially, many users were turned-off by GPT-5’s initial personality, which was perceived as cold, distant and terse.

Observes writer Will Knight: “The backlash has sparked a fresh debate over the psychological attachments some users form with chatbots trained to push their emotional buttons.”

*ChatGPT Plus Users Get Meeting Recording, Transcripts, Summaries: Users of ChatGPT Plus can now use the AI to quickly record meetings – as well as generate transcripts and summaries of those meetings.

Dubbed ‘Record Mode,’ the feature was previously only available to users of higher-tier, ChatGPT subscriptions.

Observes writer Lance Whitney: The AI “converts the spoken audio into a text transcript. From there, you can tell ChatGPT to analyze or summarize the content — and ask specific questions about the topics discussed.”

*New Claude Sonnet 4.5: 61% Reliability in Agent Mode: Anthropic is out with an upgrade to its flagship AI that offers 61% reliability when used as an agent for everyday computing tasks.

Essentially, that means when you use the Sonnet 4.5 as an agent to complete an assignment featuring multi-step tasks like opening apps, editing files, navigating Web pages and filling out forms, it will complete those assignments for you 61% of the time.

One caveat: That reliability metric – known as the OSWorld-Verified Benchmark – is based on Sonnet 4.5’s performance in a sandbox environment, where researchers pit the AI against a set of pre-programmed, digital encounters that never change.

Out on the Web – where things can get unpredictable
very quickly — performance could be worse.

Bottom line: If an AI agent that finishes three-out-of-every-five tasks turns your crank, this could be the AI you’ve been looking for.

*Skepticism Over the ‘Magic’ of AI Agents Persists: Despite blue-sky promises, AI agents – ostensibly designed to handle tasks autonomously for you on the Web and elsewhere – are still getting a bad rap.

Observes writer Rory Bathgate: “Let’s be very clear here: AI agents are still not very good at their ‘jobs’ — or at least pretty terrible at producing returns-on-investment.”

In fact, tech market research firm Gartner is predicting that 40% of agents currently used by business will be ‘put out to pasture’ by 2027.

*AI Agents: Still Not Ready for Prime Time?: Add Futurism Magazine to the growing list of naysayers who believe AI agents are being over-hyped.

Ideally, AI agents are designed to work independently on a number of tasks for you – such as researching, writing and continually updating an article, all on its own.

But writer Joe Wilkins finds that “the failure rate is absolutely painful,” with OpenAI’s AI agent failing 91% of the time, Meta’s AI agent failing 93% of the time and Google’s AI agent failing 70% of the time.

*Coming Soon: ChatGPT With Ads: If you’re a ChatGPT user who has oft-looked wistfully at the platform and fantasized, “If only this thing had ads,” you’re in luck.

Observes writer Andrew Cain: “OpenAI is building a team to transform ChatGPT into an advertising platform, leveraging its 700 million users for in-house ad tools like campaign management and real-time attribution.

”Led by ex-Facebook exec Fidji Simo, this move aims to compete with Google and Meta, though it risks user trust and privacy concerns.

”Rollout is eyed for 2026.”

*Google’s New ‘Nano Banana’ Image Editor: Cool Use Cases: The fervor over Google’s new image editor continues to rage across the Web, as increasing numbers of users are entranced by its power and surgical precision.

One of the new tool’s most impressive features: The ability to stay true to the identity of a human face – no matter how many times it remakes that image.

For a quick study, check-out these videos on YouTube, which show you scores of ways to use the new editor – officially known as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image:

–Google Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana) – 20 Creative Use Cases

–15 New Use Cases with Nano Banana

–The Ultimate Guide to Gemini 2.5 Flash (Nano Banana)

–New Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is Insane & Free

–Nano Banana Just Crushed Image Editing

*Grammarly Gets Serious Chops as Writing Tool: Best known as a proofreading and editing solution, Grammarly has repositioned itself as a full-fledged AI writer.

Essentially, the tool has been significantly expanded with a new document editor designed to nurture an idea into a full-blown article, blog post, report and similar – with the help of a number of AI agents.

Dubbed Grammarly ‘Docs,’ the AI writer promises to amplify your idea every step of the way – without stepping on your unique voice.

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