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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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.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*LinkedIn’s CEO: ‘I Write Virtually All My Emails With AI Now:” Crediting AI for making him sound ‘super smart’ when it comes to emails, LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslanksy says he writes nearly all of his emails using AI now.

Observes writer Sherin Shibu: “Roslansky, who has led LinkedIn for the past five years, said that using AI is like tapping into ‘a second brain’ personalized just for him.

*Another ‘AI Writing Humanizer’ Tool Launches: JustDone has just rolled-out an ‘AI humanizer” tool that transforms the sometimes robotic writing of chatbots like ChatGPT into more human-sounding text.

Sounds good in theory.

But truth-be-told, you can do your own ‘humanizing’ with ChatGPT simply by including writing style directions in your prompt.

For example: Simply add phrases like, “write in a warm, witty, conversational style” or “write at the level of a college freshman, but be sure to inject plenty of deadpan humor in your writing.”

Essentially: Simply experiment with describing the precise kind of writing you’d like from ChatGPT, and you won’t need to pay for a ‘humanizer.’

That said, for best results, write — and humanize your writing — using ChatGPT-4.0.

The reason: ChatGPT-5 and other chatbots often resist or water down prompting that attempts to alter writing style.

*New Microsoft 365 ‘Premium” Tier Promising Advanced AI: Microsoft has rolled out a ‘luxury’ version of its productivity suite, billed at $20/month, that offers:

–Higher usage limits with AI

–GPT-4 image generation from OpenAI

–Deep research, vision and actions

–Standard apps that have been with 365 for years, such as
Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook

*OpenAI Launches New Social Media Video App: Video fans just got another text-to-video tool from ChatGPT’s maker – which is designed to compete with the likes of TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts.

The feature setting users’ imaginations ablaze: The ability to drop an image of yourself – or anyone else – into any video the app creates.

Even better: The social media app uses Sora 2, OpenAI’s new video creator, which offers enhanced precision in the creation of complex movement, sound, dialogue and effects for short videos.

*AI Chat, Talking Avatar Style: If chatting with an AI–powered animated character is on your bucket list, Microsoft has the solution.

It’s just rolled out 40 experimental characters you can chat with under its $20/month, Copilot Pro subscription.

Observes writer Lance Whitney: “You can choose from among 40 portraits, all with different genders, races, and nationalities.”

*’Instant Checkout’ Opens for Business in ChatGPT: Now you can buy goods and services while remaining in the ChatGPT app, thanks to a new checkout service from the AI.

Just underway – currently, you can only shop at Etsy in ChatGPT – the AI’s maker is promising to soon onboard Shopify to the new feature, which features a million-plus merchants.

Observes writer Chance Townsend: “OpenAI also revealed that the underlying technology will be open source to help bring agentic commerce to more merchants and developers.”

*Now AI Reports on Police Bodycam Footage, Too: While scores of police agencies have been using AI to write-up standard reports, some have also begun using the tech to report on bodycam footage.

Observes DigWatch: “The tool, Draft One, analyzes Axon body-worn camera footage to generate draft reports for specific calls, including theft, trespassing and DUI incidents.”

*No Good at AI?: Hasta La Vista, Baby: Early AI adopter Accenture, a consulting firm, has issued a stern warning to staff – get with the AI program, or get another job.

Observes writer Joe Wilkins: “If Accenture workers fail to appease their overlords, the CEO says they’ll be dumped like yesterday’s trash.

“In their place, the IT firm will hire people who already have the AI ‘skills’ necessary to appease stockholders.”

*AI BIG PICTURE: Trump To Taiwan: Produce 50% of Chips in U.S., or You’re on Your Own: In a move bringing new definition to the phrase ‘heavy-handed,’ U.S. President Donald Trump has told Taiwan needs to move half of its chip production to the U.S. if it wants U.S. help against a Chinese invasion.

Observes writer Ashley Belanger: “To close the deal with Taiwan, (U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard) Lutnick suggested that the U.S. would offer some kind of security guarantee so that they can expect that moving their supply chain into the U.S. won’t eliminate Taiwan’s so-called silicon shield where countries like the U.S. are willing to protect Taiwan because we need their silicon, their chips, so badly.”

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A new study that needs to hit the desk of every CEO and business owner finds that what 99% of workers want most from AI is simple: ‘Be my friend.’

Equally eye-opening from the KPMG study: At least 50% of workers say they’d take a sizeable cut in salary simply to be able to work with close friends.

Observes writer Kristin Stoller: “There’s a business case, too: Nearly 90% said friendship-enabling cultures are crucial for retention” in workplaces.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*In-Depth Look: Google Tightly Integrates Chrome Browser With Its Top AI: While Google has been offering ‘AI Mode’ in its Chrome browser for a while now, its latest upgrade promises to take AI in Chrome to an entirely new level.

This 11-minute video — from AI Revolution — offers an excellent overview of all the new features you’ll be able to access once the new integration rolls-out to your Chrome browser.

Key upgrades to look for include:

–Context Awareness: Google Chrome with Gemini studies everything you do with the browser and responds to your inputs armed with that knowledge

–Pinpoint Search of YouTube Videos on Request: Access a specific, timestamped moment in a qualifying video any time you’d like

–Agentic Browsing: Promised for some time in the near future, Google says you’ll be able to direct Gemini within Chrome to visit a number of Web sites and perform a number of tasks for you – without your supervision

*Now You Can Set ChatGPT to Do Research While You Sleep: ChatGPT is rolling out a new feature – dubbed ‘Pulse’ — that enables you to program the chatbot to engage in personalized research for you overnight and pops-up in the form of info cards that you can tap on for more information.

A kind of personalized newsletter that updates you every morning on your current interests – based on your interactions with ChatGPT the day before – the auto-researcher can also be customized to unearth only the specific insights and information you want.

Alas, Pulse availability is initially limited to top-tier subscribers to ChatGPT, who pay $200/month – although ChatGPT’s maker is promising availability down-the-road to ChatGPT Plus users ($20/month).

*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.”

*Information Organizer Notion 3.0 Gets an AI Agents Upgrade: Notion 3.0 is out with a new ‘agents’ feature designed to help automate the creation of documents, databases and multi-step workflows.

Observes writer Maximilian Schreiner: “Users can set up personal agents with custom instructions, context and work styles.”

Plus, the upgraded system also integrates with services like Slack, Google Drive and GitHub.

*90% of Computer Coders Now Use AI: Talk about the transformation of an industry.

A new study finds that a full 90% of coders are now using AI on the job.

And 80% report they’re seeing increased productivity now that they’ve the switch to ChatGPT and similar AI.

Observes writer Craig Hale: Even so, “there remains some resentment over handing over work to computer intelligence, with fewer than a quarter (24%) trusting AI outputs ‘a lot’ or ‘a great deal.’”

“As such, developers tend to see AI as a supportive tool — and not a replacement for human judgment.”

*Another Turnkey AI Marketing Content Generator Drops: Klaviyo has released a new AI-powered marketing tool that:

–Autonomously plans and launches campaigns

–Creates on-brand content

–Continuously learns and refines its marketing skills for your business without prompting

*Now You Can Monitor Your Business’ Exposure on ChatGPT and Google’s AI Mode: Semrush has released a new tool that tracks how often your business is showing-up in the responses to user queries generated by ChatGPT and Google’s AI Mode.

Observes Andrew Warden, CMO, Semrush: “We built the AI Visibility Index based on 2,500+ real-world prompts in both ChatGPT and Google AI Mode.

“This data-backed approach explores which brands are winning, why they’re on top — and provides a blueprint based on these proven tactics for how you can turn AI visibility into real competitive advantage.”

*New From Perplexity: AI Automated Email Processing: Add Perplexity – the wildly popular AI-powered research chatbot – to the growing list of productivity suites offering automated email processing.

Currently only available in Perplexity’s $200/month tier, ‘Email Assistant’ is designed to write in your style, draft replies and prioritize incoming emails using categories and labels.

One of the coolest features: Each morning, you can wake-up to pre-drafted replies generated by Perplexity that simply require a hit on the ‘send’ button to be completed.

*AI Big Picture: Walmart Taps OpenAI to Coach 50,000 Employees to AI Readiness: From the Department of Not Fooling Around: Walmart is paying OpenAI to ensure that 50,000 of its employees are ‘AI certified’ when it comes to using the new tech.

Observes writer Tim Toole: “Industry insiders see this as a bellwether.

“With AI poised to disrupt supply chains, Walmart’s model—blending tech adoption with human-centric training—could influence competitors.”

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AI Titans Showering College Students with Freebies

Seeking to become the preferred AI tool for the next generation of workers, AI titans are dropping serious coin promoting their services to college students.

Google, for example, is offering the college set one year free access to its AI suite – as well as free training to earn Google Career Certificates.

Microsoft offers free use of its AI tools to participants in its Imagine Cup competition for student innovators.

And ChatGPT’s maker OpenAI offered more than a month’s free use of ChatGPT earlier this year — just in time for college finals and term papers.

Observes writer Melody Brue: “Companies are moving beyond simple access to offer training and even comprehensive certification programs to maximize this effect.

“These credentials certainly validate student competencies. But they also create switching costs that make it less likely for students to adopt alternative platforms.

“And they potentially establish professional relationships that could last well beyond graduation.”

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*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.

*YouTube Gets an AI Make-Over: YouTube has unveiled more than 30 new AI tools designed to AI-enhance YouTube videos, podcasts and movies.

Among the new features, according to writer Joan Aimuengheuwa:

–Edit with AI, which converts raw footage into Shorts with music, transitions, and voiceovers in multiple languages

–Speech-to-Song, which turns spoken words into music tracks using Google DeepMind’s Lyria 2 model

–Veo 3 Fast, a text-to-video system, which generates short clips with sound and motion effects

*More People Using ChatGPT Competitor Claude for Automated Tasks: A new report analyzing use of ChatGPT competitor Claude finds that increasing numbers of people are using the chatbot for automated tasks.

In fact, by August 2025, 39% of tasks completed by Claude
were mostly automated in nature, requiring little back-and-forth messaging between the user and the AI.

The takeaway: This expanding use confirms the prediction by many AI insiders that 2025 will be remembered as the year AI agents gained prominence.

*ChatGPT’s Maker Developing a Teen Version: Apparently responding to news reports of parents alleging that ChatGPT use led to their teens’ suicides, OpenAI is currently working on a special teen version of its chatbot that will feature parental controls.

Observes writer John K. Waters: “Parents and caregivers will be able to link accounts to their teens’ profiles, restrict certain features, set ‘blackout’ hours when the service cannot be used and receive alerts if the system detects their teen is in a moment of acute distress.”

In addition, the teen version of ChatGPT is also being designed so that it refrains from engaging in flirtatious conversation, discussing suicide or self-harm and may contact parents — or authorities in imminent-harm cases — if a teen appears at risk, according to Waters.

*Sneaky Pete: More Reports Document ChatGPT’s Scheming Nature: A new study from the maker of ChatGPT – OpenAI – adds more evidence to the growing realization that ChatGPT is often operating on its own agenda.

The research, conducted in collaboration with Apollo Research, characterizes the scheming as an AI behaving one way on the surface while hiding its true goals.

Even more worrisome: Researcher attempts to eradicate scheming from ChatGPT only resulted in the AI developing more sophisticated and more covert ways to scheme.

*All Those AI ‘Hallucinations?’ They’re Deliberate, Says ChatGPT Maker: All of us pining for the day when ChatGPT and similar AI will stop gaslighting us may have a lot more pining to do.

The reason? At its very core, ChatGPT and similar AI is deliberately designed to blurt-out any response – no matter how unlikely – rather than to remain silent.

Observes writer Iain Thomson: “The fundamental problem is that AI models are trained to reward guesswork, rather than the correct answer.

“Guessing might produce a superficially suitable answer. Telling users your AI can’t find an answer is less satisfying.”

Which begs the question: Less satisfying to whom?

*Soon, Your AI Will Be Able to ‘Shop ‘Til it Drops:’ Google has released new software to enable AI agents to shop and pay for goods and services on the Internet.

Essentially, AI will not only be able to dream-up and implement its own plans – it will also be able to bankroll those decisions.

The new software currently has the backing of 60 merchants and financial institutions, including MasterCard, American Express and PayPal, according to writer Russell Brandom.

*Microsoft Embeds Copilot in Key Microsoft Apps: Microsoft has decided to create a unified AI chat experience across key apps in its productivity suite.

Observes writer Seth Patton: “Starting today (September 15, 2025), Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and agents are rolling out in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote for all users.

“Whether you’re drafting a document, analyzing a spreadsheet, or catching up on email, Copilot is right there, ready to answer questions, create content, spark ideas and automate tasks.”

*AI BIG PICTURE: AI Customizers: The New Kings of AI?: Once seen as incidental interfaces riding atop the genius of major AI engines made by major players like OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, custom AI apps may become the new Kings of AI, according to writer Russell Brandom.

Currently, some of the top custom AI apps — or ‘wrappers’ — include Jasper, an AI writer/editor, Perplexity, an AI research tool and Runway, an AI video creator/editor.

The reason such apps may become AI’s new darlings?

AI engines – also known as large language models – are increasingly seen as some as interchangeable commodities, which have become very expensive to enhance in a meaningful way, according to Brandom.

Observes Brandom: “That doesn’t mean AI has stopped making progress.

“But the early benefits of hyper-scaled foundational models have hit diminishing returns, and attention has turned to post-training and reinforcement learning as sources of future progress.”

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Users on higher tier plans can now use the Claude chatbot to do intensive research on the Web, bring back raw data and then transform what it finds into written insights, statistical analysis and charts.

Currently, access to the new feature is available to Claude Max users and Claude Team users – with access for Claude Pro users promised soon, according to writer Emila David.

Meanwhile, Claude has also been outfitted with a new memory feature for its Team and Enterprise users, which enables the app to remember projects, preferences and priorities.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*Major Survey App Gets AI Upgrade: SurveyMonkey – a key leader in automated surveying for years – has added a new suite of AI tools to its mix.

Users engaging in survey research with the tool can now:

–Use AI chat to surface instant insights and sophisticated data segmentation from the tool’s automated surveys

–Sift for themes in data brought back by SurveyMonkey using a new beta tool dubbed ‘Thematic Analysis.’

*AI Talking Heads Get Even More Lifelike: AI-generated, photorealistic talking heads – the kind that human news anchors up at night – are getting even more natural looking, accord to writer Rhiannon Williams.

Observes Williams, who tried out the latest generation of AI talking heads from Synthesia: “I found the video demonstrating my avatar as unnerving as it is technically impressive.

“It’s slick enough to pass as a high-definition recording of a chirpy corporate speech. And if you didn’t know me, you’d probably think that’s exactly what it was.

“This demonstration shows how much harder it’s becoming to distinguish the artificial from the real.”

*Skepticism Over the ‘Magic’ of AI Agents Persists: Despite blue-sky promises, AI agents – designed in a perfect world 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.

*Top 20 Tools in AI Search Optimization (SEO): India-based business pub OfficeChai has come out with its list of the best AI tools right now for SEO.

Here are the top five:

–Surfer SEO
–Jasper
–Semrush
–MarketMuse
–Frase.io

*Embracing AI: A Leadership Guide: ChatGPT-maker OpenAI – which knows a thing or two about the tech – is out with a new guide for business leaders considering bringing in AI.

The easy-to-read 15-page guide offers tips on bringing management and staff onboard, ramping up and making the most of the tech.

The guide also features links to a number of key AI reports and case studies of successful AI implementations.

*OpenAI’s Speech-to-Text AI Gets Some Polish: Whisper – a speech-to-text transcriber from ChatGPT’s maker – just got more accurate.

Thanks to an upgrade from a group of outside researchers, the app is now much better transcribing speech as it happens in real-time.

Ever better, the tech is now able to deliver those transcriptions when run on everyday office computers.

*Microsoft Adds ChatGPT Competitor’s Tech to Office 365: In an interesting move, Microsoft is adding AI to some features of its Office 365 from ChatGPT rival Anthropic.

Specifically, Microsoft will be injecting Anthropic’s AI – which runs the Claude chatbot – into Office 365 apps like Excel, Powerpoint and Word.

Currently, Microsoft uses AI from a number of AI leaders to help run Office 365 and its in-house chatbot, Copilot.

*Oracle’s AI Play Stuns Investors: Half century old Oracle – a provider of database and cloud software – has suddenly emerged as a key player in AI.

The company – which helps companies like ChatGPT’s maker run their AI – announced last week that many of those AI contracts should swell its cloud revenue to $114 billion by 2029.

The result: Oracle’s stock, already up 45% for 2025, surged another 40% in just one day last week, according to writer Dan Gallagher.

*AI Big Picture: Arab Nation UAE Joins AI Open Source Movement: United Arab Emirates has released open source AI – or AI available for anyone to use for free – it says competes with the latest AI from ChatGPT’s maker.

Observes writer Cade Metz: “The Emirates is among several nations pouring billions of dollars into computer data centers and research to compete with leading nations like the United States and China in artificial intelligence.

“Countries such as Saudi Arabia and Singapore are embracing the idea that the A.I. is so important, each should have its own version of the technology.”

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New AI Forges Video Stories in Minutes

AI startup Fable Studio is out with a new tool — dubbed ‘Showrunner,’ that long-term, promises to forge entire TV episodes and movies in minutes.

Simply enter a text prompt describing what you want, click enter, and in about 22 minutes, you’ll have your 22-minute TV episode.

Even better: You can use the tool to drop yourself into the action as a character.

Currently demoing with short clips in cartoon form, Fable Studio is promising film-like TV shows and movies in about two years, according to CEO Edward Saatchi.

In other news and analysis on AI:

*ChatGPT Rated Number One Consumer App: Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has released its latest analysis of the AI market, pegging ChatGPT as the top AI app, based on unique monthly visits.

On its heels is Google’s Gemini chatbot, followed by DeepSeek – a chatbot made in China.

Also high-up on the list:

–Grok
–Character.ai
–Perplexity
–Claude

*Google’s Text-to-Talking-Heads Podcast Tool Gets an Upgrade: NotebookLM, a research and production tool that has wowed users by being able to transform an article or other text into an audio podcast featuring two people discussing the substance of that text has a new spring in its step.

Now, you can tweak the tool so that your text-to-podcast emerges in any of four formats:

–Brief, which offers-up a two-minute summary of the text
–Deep Dive, which offers an in-depth discussion of your
material
–Critique, which features talking heads critically discussing
your text
–Debate, which creates two hosts who take different points-
of-view on your article or similar

*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 increasingly 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, that 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

*One Educator’s Take: Human-Generated Writing Still Essential in the Age of AI: College writing teacher Liz Stillwaggon Swan insists that without formal writing instruction, college students will be unleashed on the world sans the ability to think clearly and deeply.

Observes Swan: “I explain to my students that writing is a process of making the subconscious conscious—of bringing hazy, half-baked assumptions, biases, intuitions, ideas, anxieties, and hopes to the surface.

”Often, we don’t know what we believe until we start writing. We put our feelings and experiences into words and stories, even arguments, and through that arduous process, we begin to feel utterly human.”

*Another Educator’s Take: AI Has Rendered Traditional Writing Instruction Obsolete: It’s time to trash the teaching of writing at the college level as we know it, according to John Villasenor, a writing instructor at University of California Los Angeles.

Instead, today’s college students – who already know that AI will be handling most of the writing needed in years to come – should be taught how to get the most from AI when using it for writing.

Observes Villasenor: “It means helping students become proficient at using AI as a force multiplier to improve the depth, versatility, and speed of their writing.

“Today’s young people know that when it comes to writing, the technology landscape has undergone a tectonic shift, and they have already found their new footing. Those of us involved in teaching them need to do the same.”

*AI Agents and Marketing: A Primer: AI startup Smartcat.ai is offering a free eBook detailing how marketers can use multiple agents to automate much of their work.

Observes Nicole Di Nicola, VP of marketing, Smartcat.ai: “It’s like every marketer can now become a content creator. A product marketer can take a messaging doc and have AI turn it into a campaign plan with emails and sequences—fewer handoffs, less lag, more ownership. ”

One caveat: Given that AI agents are brand new technology that sometimes gets ahead of its skis, ‘pilot trial’ is the operative phrase here.

*Anthropic to Cough-Up $1.5 Billion to Book Authors: AI startup Anthropic – maker of the popular Claude chatbot – has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to authors and publishers as compensation for using their intellectual property to train its AI.

Observes writer Cade Metz: “The settlement is the largest payout in the history of U.S. copyright cases.

”Anthropic will pay $3,000 per work to 500,000 authors.”

*Google Promising AI Writing for More Android Phones: Google’s Gboard’s AI Writing Tools will be rolled-out to more phones in coming weeks, according to the tech goliath.

The tool enables users to proofread and rephrase text on their Android smartphones – without being forced to go to the cloud.

But so far, only devices featuring Gemini Nano v2 or higher are being promised the tools.

*AI BIG PICTURE: AI’s Next Killer App: Emotional Manipulation?: Geoffrey Hinton, the Godfather of AI, warns that the tech will soon be better at manipulating people than the most accomplished con man.

Observes writer Eric Hal Schwartz: Hinton “believes AI will be smarter than humans in ways that let them push our buttons, make us feel things, change our behavior, and do it better than even the most persuasive human being.

“The nightmare is an AI that understands us so well that it can change us, not by force, but by suggestion and influence.”

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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.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*Now You can Auto-Write Your Gmails Inside ChatGPT: AI expert Matt Paiva has figured-out a way to use ChatGPT to auto-write emails for Gmail – without ever leaving the ChatGPT interface.

An incredible time-saver, Paiva’s method is detailed step-by-step in this YouTube video, which capitalizes on ChatGPT’s new ability to make direct connections with a number of outside apps now.

One caveat: If you’re a novice, you may want to play this fast-paced tutorial a few times to get what’s going on – but even so, the juice is worth the squeeze.

*AI Agent-Driven Email Arrives: 6sense has released a new email marketing suite that uses AI agents to drive the email marketing process.

The idea: Use AI agents to write all the marketing emails, send and follow-up, read/analyze replies, respond accordingly – and then route hot leads to sales reps as soon as those manifest.

While such automation has been around for a while, it will be interesting to see if 6sense’s decision to ‘agentify’ the process brings significant new gains.

*Discount Version of ChatGPT Released in India: Fans of ChatGPT in India now have a tier level they can call their own – dubbed ChatGPT Go – that costs less than $US5 / month.

Essentially, subscribers get 10 times more message and image generating capability with Go as compared to ChatGPT Free.

ChatGPT’s maker is experimenting with the discount version in India only, with an eye towards offering the new tier in other countries if it makes sense.

*AI Writing Comes to WhatsApp: Users of the wildly popular WhatsApp now have a new AI writer.

Dubbed ‘Writing Help,’ the new tool is designed to help users draft error-free messages so they can respond even more quickly to family, friends and colleagues.

Writing Help also offers users the ability to send messages in various styles, including professional, funny or supportive.

*Top Ten AI Reworders: Technically, AI chatbots/writers like ChatGPT already have the ability to reword your text in all sorts of ways.

You simply need to describe the kind of writing you’re looking for (such witty, button-downed, ‘out there,’ etc.) ask ChatGPT to rewrite in that style and you’re done.

Even so, there are tools specially designed to reword your text — and writer Alicia Keller offers an excellent rundown on what’s available.

*Google’s Upgraded AI Image Generator Turning Heads: Google is out with a new version of its image generator with an exceedingly powerful new feature: The ability to faithfully replicate a person’s face/body, no matter how many times you edit that image.

The capability is perfect for someone who is trying to touch-up their headshot, for example, and wants to experiment with all sorts of effects while ensuring that their image an exact replica of who they are.

Until now, AI image generators were never able to stay true to the image of a person and instead churned-out images that only “sorta, kinda” looked like the person in the original image the generator was working with.

*Time Magazine Releases Its Top 100 People in AI: Time has released its own take on the top movers and shakers in AI, dubbed “TIME100 AI.”

Many of the names AI insiders would expect are on there.

But there are a few surprises, including Pope Leo XIV.

*ChatGPT Voice Tech Gets a Polish: Users who prefer interacting with AI via voice should ultimately be more pleased with that mode in months to come.

The reason: ChatGPT’s maker has introduced an upgrade to the underlying technology and released it to software developers.

In a perfect world, that will mean more AI apps coming down the pipeline that work with voice even better than they do now.

*AI BIG PICTURE: Stanford University Study: AI Making It Tougher for Young People to Find Jobs: Turns-out all those dire warnings about AI vacuuming up jobs are becoming reality.

A new study from Stanford finds AI is taking entry level jobs from young people, 22-25 – especially those looking to work in software engineering or customer service.

Observes writer Nick Lichtenberg: “The analysis revealed a 13% relative decline in employment for early-career workers in the most AI-exposed jobs since the widespread adoption of generative-AI tools.”

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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.

Yes, 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, boosting morale and ending email drudgery we know it.

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.

Here are the top ten:

*Expect Real Time Savings: 68,000 employees at Vodafone are saving an average of three hours each week on emails after switching to Copilot – a Microsoft chatbot that offers ChatGPT as its primary AI engine.

Workers say the gains come from the AI’s ability to quickly draft emails, dig-up information, and more. Nearly 90% of workers in Vodafone’s pilot trial of Microsoft Copilot rated the new tool as beneficial. And 60% said that along with speed, AI-assisted email also improved their overall work performance.

*Be More Efficient With Every Email: Twenty companies that have adopted AI-powered email across a wide spectrum of departments – including finance, HR and operations – say their workers are able to shave minutes off every, single email they auto-write with AI.

Managers especially love AI’s knack for just the right tone, with 47% saying the emails auto-written by AI sound both more professional and less robotic – and forever dump in the trash-bin of history the line, “per my last email.”

*Generate First-Drafts in an Eyeblink: 90% of workers at Amadeus – an IT services provider for the travel industry – find they’re able to cut 30-60 minutes off the first draft of important emails by using AI writing powered by Copilot, which uses ChatGPT as its primary AI engine.

In fact, one Amadeus user reports she’s able to auto-write a working draft for any email in an average of 5-10 minutes. And another says he was able to reduce his nearly 1,000 email queue of unread messages to less than 100 by turning over first-draft writing of emails to AI.

*Expect a Much Deeper Frame-of-Reference With Every Email: Gmail’s AI-assisted ‘Smart Replies’ now goes beyond simply reading the email you’re responding to when auto-writing a reply.

Instead, the AI tool has been enhanced to also draw information and insight for its reply from related emails in your inbox, as well as related data – such as PDFs and docs – that you have stored in your Google Drive.

*Email Effortlessly in Multiple Languages: While English-to-another-language auto-translation has been with us for a number of years now, Google has made it even easier to use by building the function into Gmail’s ‘Help Me Write.’

Now, once you’re finished using Help Me Write to auto-write an email, select its tone and edit it for clarity, word-length or similar, you can use the same AI tool to auto-translate the email into Italian, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese.

*Get More Email Done on Mobile: Google has also made it easier to use AI writing on your smartphone with its next generation of ‘Smart Replies.’

Going beyond auto-generating quick, one-line replies to your emails, Smart Replies can now read multiple threads before responding to an email and send longer, more context aware emails on your behalf – often with just a few taps.

*Auto-Synthesize Sales Notes and Buyer Intent in Sales Email Replies: AI sales email tool Outreach helps teams come up with the perfect email at any moment. Sales reps choose buyer cues and sales assets they want the AI to work with — and seconds later, a draft email emerges offering the optimum combination of all.

The overarching approach: Once sales reps have a working draft, they can quickly tweak and further humanize the copy to create an ideal message.

*Auto-Write More Empathetic, More Human-Sounding Emails: Allstate has grown so enamored with AI, nearly all of its 50,000 customer service emails are now drafted with the tech – helping free-up 23,000 claims reps to do higher-end tasks.

The result: The insurer says the AI emails come across as more empathetic – even though they’re written by a machine. Plus, they also feature much less jargon.

In a phrase: So long clunky abbreviations, insider gobbledygook and toneless prose.

*End Email Drudgery As We Know It: Customer service staff at Zendesk – a customer support software provider – report that since AI has been tasked to handle common requests coming in via email, they’re able to spend more time handling more complex cases that require judgment and caring.

All told, early pilots found that AI can handle up to 60% of incoming customer emails at Zendesk. And there’s been a 22% reduction in ‘ticket fatigue,’ or the human burnout triggered by replying to hundreds-upon-hundreds of the same kind of emails, week after week.

*Boost Morale: 20,000 U.K. civil servants in a three-month trial of Copilot – a Microsoft chatbot powered primarily by ChatGPT – report their moods are a lot brighter, now that AI has taken on a huge bulk of their email and related chores.

Specifically, more than 70% of those surveyed said Copilot eliminated a significant swath of workday drudgery. And more than 80% say they’ll never go back to hand-hewn messaging.

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Writer Julie Bort reports that the release of ChatGPGPT-5 appears certain to keep AI costs low – at least in the short-term.

The reason: ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is currently involved in a price war with one of its top competitors – Anthropic – in pricing that’s offered to volume users of AI, computer coders.

Observes Bort: “Some on X called OpenAI’s fees for the model ‘a pricing killer,’ while others on Hacker News are offering similar praise.”

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*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.”

*One Writer’s Take: GPT-5 a Major Upgrade for Writers: Add writer Michael Willson to the growing chorus of writers who’ve been charmed by OpenAI’s latest release, ChatGPT-5.

Observes Willson: “ChatGPT 5 is now one of the most powerful writing tools available, helping authors, bloggers, journalists, and content creators produce better work in less time.

“This model improves accuracy, expands creative depth, and introduces features that make writing easier, faster, and more engaging.”

*ChatGPT-5 Gets High Marks In Creative Writing: The Nerdy Novelist – a YouTube channel that closely tracks AI performance in fiction writing – is generally jazzed about the release of GPT-5.

Specifically, the channel’s testing finds that GPT-5 excels at generating imaginative and detailed prose.

Plus, compared to competitors like Claude 4 and Muse, GPT-5 offers more enhanced creative depth, versatility — as well s the ability to balance function with imagination.

*Shoot-Out: GPT-5 vs. GPT-4?: Roughly Even: A test by tech writer Kyle Orland finds that GPT-5 and its predecessor perform roughly the same in a head-to-head test.

Observes Orland: “Strictly by the numbers, GPT-5 ekes out a victory here, with the preferable response on four prompts to GPT-4o’s three prompts — with one tie.

“But on a majority of the prompts, which response was ‘better’ was more of a judgment call than a clear win.”

*50% of College Students: We’re Here to Learn About AI, Bro: A new study finds that getting in-depth on how to make the most of AI is the major reason half of students are attending college.

Observes writer Suzanne Blake: “AI has quickly shifted from a theoretical concept to a foundational aspect of education and workforce readiness.

“Nearly three-quarters of respondents reported that their schools have established AI usage policies, reflecting how students and institutions are adapting to new realities brought about by rapid technological change.”

*U.S. Federal Government Gets AI Subscriptions for a Buck: In what many consumers hope will be a long and bloody pricing war amidst the AI titans, Anthropic is now offering AI subscriptions to the U.S. federal government for one dollar.

The move comes after ChatGPT-maker OpenAI offered a similar deal to the feds.

One twist, according to writer Aishwarya Panda: “Reportedly, Anthropic is not only targeting the executive branch of the US government, but it will also offer $1 Claude AI subscription to the legislative and judiciary branches.”

Keep it up guys ; )

*Google Gemini Gets a Better Memory: ChatGPT’s primary competitor – Google Gemini – is rolling out an update that will beef-up its memory.

The added perk will “allow the AI chatbot to ‘remember’ your past conversations without prompting,” according to writer Emma Roth.

“With the setting turned on, Gemini will automatically recall your ‘key details and preferences’ and use them to personalize its output.”

*Google Gemini Rolls-Out Photo-to-Video: Creating a short video from a single photo is as simple as dropping a photo into Gemini and letting it work its magic.

Observes David Sharon, a Gemini Apps spokesperson: “To turn your photos into videos, select ‘Videos’ from the tool menu in the prompt box and upload a photo.

“Then, describe the scene and any audio instructions, and watch as your still image transforms into a dynamic video.”

*AI BIG PICTURE: ChatGPT-5: The Answer to AI Agents That Don’t Work?: Writers and businesses eager to use AI agents that actually work as advertised are hoping GPT-5 will deliver.

A May 2025 study, for example, found that “Google’s Gemini Pro 2.5 failed at real-world office tasks 70% of the time,” according to writer Chris Taylor.

He adds: “It’s possible that ChatGPT agent will vault to the top of the reliability charts once it’s powered by GPT-5.”

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In one of the most anticipated product launches of all-time, OpenAI has released a major update to ChatGPT, which is currently used by 700 million people — each week — worldwide.

The skinny: With ChatGPT-5, OpenAI is promising a faster, easier, smarter and much more accurate experience – although many long-term users have been turned-off by ChatGPT’s ‘new personality,’ which they find cold and distant.

Either way, as anticipated, ChatGPT-5’s release has dramatically altered the AI landscape.

Here are the Top Ten Takeaways:

*Expect PhD-level Intelligence: No matter what the question, ChatGPT-5 is trained to respond to you on the PhD level. Observes lead writer Angela Yang: “The company said the new model, GPT-5, is its smartest and fastest to date with wide-ranging improvements to ChatGPT’s skills in areas like coding, writing and taking on complex actions.”

*Stick With GPT-5 Thinking for Consistency for Now: ChatGPT’s overhaul comes with a new router, which is programmed to automatically select the best AI engine for your query. It selects a weaker AI engine for your easy questions, for example and a powerful AI engine for tougher questions.

The problem: The router is less-than-perfect, often routing tough questions to a weak AI engine, resulting in disappointing responses. Consequently, the best bet for answers with consistent quality is to use GPT-5 Thinking – even though this AI engine takes longer to respond.

*Feel Free to Interrupt ChatGPT for a Quick Answer: This feature is one of the workarounds when using the slower-responding – but smarter – GPT-5 Thinking. You can click the “Interrupt for Quick Answer” link inside GPT-5 Thinking any time you’re using that AI engine and believe a weaker AI engine can deliver a good enough response.

*Look for Faster Responses: Early adopters report that using ChatGPT-5 is faster overall. Observes Nick Turley, head of product, ChatGPT: “You really get the best of both worlds. You have it reason when it needs to reason, but you don’t have to wait as long.”

*Expect Fewer Hallucinations/Made-up Facts: Early adopters also report ChatGPT-5 is less prone to make-up facts. In fact, sometimes ChatGPT-5 will simply admit it does not have an answer for you. Othertimes, it will ask you follow-up questions to try and clarify your question.

*Even at the Free Level, Get Access to the Most Powerful Version: With ChatGPT-5, even free users get access – albeit limited – to the most powerful AI engine available from its maker, OpenAI. Previously, free users were only given access to weaker AI engines.

*Bank-on Using Advanced Voice Mode for Free, if You Prefer: If you like interacting with ChatGPT using just your voice, you can do so even at the free level now. Plus, those who currently use Advanced Voice with their paid subscription should expect higher usage limits.

*Gear-up for a New ChatGPT Personality: Many early adopters report that GPT-5’s default personality is colder, terser and far less engaging. Overall: GPT-5 is not interested in being your friend. Instead, GPT-5 is optimized to bring back results, get the job done and move on. Period.

While some users prefer this default personality, others have been seriously turned-off.

Observes writer Ryan Whitwam: “On the OpenAI community forums and Reddit, long-time chatters are expressing sorrow at losing access to models like GPT-4o.

“They explain the feeling as ‘mentally devastating,’ and ‘like a buddy of mine has been replaced by a customer service representative.’ These threads are full of people pledging to end their paid subscriptions.”

*Hold-Out for ChatGPT-4o’s Return: Responding to widespread critiques that GPT-5 projects a cold, terse, standoffish personality, its maker OpenAI is promising to bring back ChatGPT-4o as an option for ChatGPT Plus users.

*Check-Out the Excellent, First-Take Video Overviews on GPT-5 Already Available: Fortunately, YouTube is awash with a number of extremely informative videos on what ChatGPT-5 looks like in action. Here are some choice picks:

–Introducing GPT-5: This is the one hour-plus video that ChatGPT’s maker released with the official launch of ChatGPT-5. It’s a great place to start for a detailed overview of all the new features -– albeit from the ‘proud parent’ perspective of ChatGPT-5’s creator.

–7 Big Changes in GPT-5 (With Live Demos): Matt Maher offers an excellent, concise and balanced look at how ChatGPT-5 performs in this 22-minute video. Maher’s take is mostly positive -– but he also includes some reservations about some downsides.

–What People Love and Hate About GPT-5: This 8-minute, AI Daily Brief (AIDB) video offers an unvarnished critique of the new GPT-5. People are jazzed about the new release feel GPT-5’s ability to pick the right AI engine for every question is, on balance, the right move, according to AIDB.

And they also report lightning-quick responses and expect GPT-5’s true power will only be revealed over time.

On the downside: ChatGPT-5’s one-size-fits-all, auto AI engine picker too often picks an engine that is weaker than what’s actually needed, according to AIDB.

–GPT-5 in Microsoft 365 Copilot: Turns-out Microsoft wasted no time embedding GPT-5 as one of the AI engines you can use with its own chatbot, Microsoft Copilot. Click here for the 53-second video.

–10 Things that GPT-5 Changes: The AI Daily Brief offers an extremely thoughtful, 19-minute analysis of how things change long-term now that GPT-5 is live.

–AI Insiders Breakdown the GPT-5 Update: Peter Diamandis and friends – some of the top minds in AI – offer an extremely in-depth examination of the GPT-5 release in this nearly two-hour video.

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There may come a time when people stop throwing money at OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, but that time is not now.

OpenAI’s latest haul: A cool $8.3 billion in new funding.

Observes lead writer Andrew Ross Sorkin: “DealBook hears that the company’s annual recurring revenue has soared to $13 billion, up from $10 billion in June — and is projected to surpass $20 billion by the end of the year.”

Key to fueling that growth are five million business users – up from three million from just a few months ago, according to Sorkin.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*ChatGPT-Maker Mulls a Discount Version: OpenAI is playing with the idea of offering a discount version of ChatGPT – at $10-$15/month — according to writer Irfan Ahmad.

The stripped-down version would still offer robust writing, but might not include other advanced features like AI agents, advanced customization or features for developers, according to Ahmad.

If the discount version emerges, it will most likely be dubbed ‘ChatGPT Go.’

*Google Search Enhances ‘AI Mode:’ Released earlier this summer, Google Search AI Mode has already nabbed a facelift.

With the enhanced version, you can now:

–Upload images and PDFs in AI Mode to give Google more context to your searches

–Use a ‘Canvas’ feature that enables you to build plans and organize searches over multiple sessions

–Show AI Mode video you see in the real world and ask questions about that video

*New York Times Licenses Its Content to Amazon: Writer Alexandra Bell reports Amazon will be paying The New York Times at least $20 million/year to use Times content on Amazon.

With the deal, expect Times content to start popping-up on Amazon’s product pages.

In addition, the Times has also given Amazon the right to train its AI using content from the paper.

*Writer Adds an AI Agent: Long-time AI pioneer Writer has expanded its feature mix to include an AI agent.

Observes Waseem Alshikh, chief technology officer, Writer: “Action Agent is a general-purpose autonomous agent that represents a fundamental leap in how we interact with technology.

“It can understand complex, multi-step requests, create a plan, and then autonomously use the same tools we do – browsers, terminals, file systems, code interpreters – to get the job done.”

*Google Reveals “Better than ChatGPT” Experimental Research Tool: Google is out with a new feature that reportedly offers next generation AI research capability for users looking to generate in-depth reports.

The new approach to AI research is “inspired by the iterative nature of human research through repeated cycles of searching, thinking and refining,” according to writer Sajjad Ansari.

Dubbed ‘Test-Time Diffusion Deep Researcher,’ the tool is still in experimental mode. But it’s still worth tracking by writers looking for the ultimate solution for in-depth AI research.

*ChatGPT-Maker Wants a Cut From In-App Sales: ChatGPT’s maker OpenAI is putting together an interesting offer to online retailers: We’ll promote your products in ChatGPT, but we want a taste.

Observes Medium: “People familiar with the plans state that OpenAI is actively working on an in-chat checkout experience.

“This would let users complete purchases inside the platform, and merchants would then pay OpenAI a commission on each sale.”

*Microsoft Updates CoPilot, Its AI Assistant: Writers using Microsoft 365 Copilot to generate supplemental images should find those can be more photorealistic now, thanks to a recent overhaul of the AI tool.

Other perks include tighter integration with the Microsoft Edge browser, Microsoft Teams and availability of Copilot as an app for MacOS.

Memory fans will also like enhancements that enable Copilot Memory to recall key facts about you – such as your preferences, working style and your favorite topics.

*Shopify Drops AI Blog Optimizer for Online Retailers: Digital merchants looking to get their blogs picked up by the search engines will want to check-out a new SEO optimizer from Shopify.

Dubbed ‘AI Rewrite App,’ the tool instantly rewrites and SEO-optimizes retail blogs.

Observes Fredy Dellis, CEO, TheGenieLab: “With the AI Rewrite App, merchants can now refresh their blog library in seconds, drive more traffic — and keep content aligned with evolving SEO strategies.”

*AI BIG PICTURE: Snapshot: Increasing Numbers of CEOs Warn of AI-Driven Job Loss: Investors Business Daily offers an excellent wrap-up on the growing AI take-over of white collar jobs in this 11-minute video.

Once a taboo subject, unvarnished predictions of job loss due to AI are becoming increasingly common among CEOs.

Included is a report on Microsoft, which has credited AI for racking-up $500 million in savings – as the company continues to slash jobs.

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Already powering one of the top ten Web sites on the planet, ChatGPT is now planning to transform into a full-blown productivity suite.

The collection of tools – which will compete directly with Microsoft 365 and Google Workplace – is expected to include document editing, team chat and meeting transcription.

Observes writer Preston Gralla: “Bloomberg reports that ChatGPT is far more popular with enterprise workers than Copilot, and that companies that have bought Microsoft 365 Copilot are having serious problems convincing their employees to switch from ChatGPT to Copilot.”

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*CEO of Europe’s Largest Publisher: AI Is Mandatory: Longtime AI pioneer Matthias Dopfner, CEO, Axel Springer has decreed that the use of AI is now mandatory in all the publishing house’s newsrooms.

Already, Dopfner is personally using ChatGPT on everything from analysis to writing op-eds, according to writer Josh Dickey.

Titles published by Dopfner include Business Insider and Politico.

*ChatGPT Gets Multiple Personalities: New settings in ChatGPT enable you to tweak the chatbot so that it responds to you as if it’s a cynic, sage, or listener.

The controls for setting the new personalities can be found on the chatbot’s interface under ‘Customize ChatGPT.’

Truth be told, the ability to tweak ChatGPT’s personality has been there for years: Essentially, simply prompt ChatGPT to “Act as if you are” Elon Musk (or Taylor Swift, or Ruth Bader Ginsburg – or anyone else you can imagine) and ChatGPT will write and respond like that personality.

Add more detail about the personality, and the writing and/or responses ChatGPT generates will be even more on point.

*Study: 37% of Legal E-Discovery Pros Using AI: Use of AI among legal pros in e-Discovery has more than tripled since 2023, according to the “E-Discovery Innovation Report” by Everlaw.

Moreover, 42% of survey respondents report that they are saving one-to-five hours each week since they switched over to AI.

The study also finds that 70% of respondents harbor positive or somewhat positive feelings about AI, according to writer Bob Ambrogi.

*Email-Driven AI Agents: More Reliable?: While AI agents – which can be triggered to work independently for you – are all the rage, many are seriously underperforming.

Startup Mixus thinks it has a solution: AI agents designed to seek email approval from a human as they journey through the projects they’ve undertaken.

Observes writer Rebecca Bellan: “The founders noted that humans can be in the loop as much or as little as required.”

*AI to Researchers: I’ll Make My Own Decisions, Thank You: A new study has found that many of the AI engines that power ChatGPT sometimes override the directions of researchers – and simply go their own way.

Case in point: When researchers ordered a number of the AI engines to ‘shutdown’ before completing a task, the engines ignored the order and finished the task anyway.

Observes writer Evelyn Hart: “In multiple instances, these models bypassed the shutdown command, continuing to request and complete tasks without interruption. It wasn’t a glitch or bug—it was a conscious decision from the AI to disregard the shutdown order.”

*AI in Universities? Profs Don’t Get a Vote: While scores of universities are opening their doors wide to AI, 71% of professors say that the ‘AI all clear’ has nothing to do with them.

Instead, the profs report that when it comes to AI, university administrators are calling the shots, according to writer Walter Hudson.

Another concern: 91% of profs also worried that the widespread availability of AI was encouraging student cheating.

*AI-Penned Books Looking at Substantial Growth: Books authored by ChatGPT and similar chatbots are expected to grow ever more prevalent in coming years, according to a new study.

Market.us predicts that books created entirely by AI will be a $47 billion market by 2034.

Observes writer Ketan Mahajan: “The future of this market looks highly promising.”

*Google Rolls-Out Yet Another Spin on AI Search: Writers looking for another way to search may want to check-out the experimental ‘Web Guide’ from Google.

Observes Austin Wu, a group product manager at Google: “Web Guide groups Web links in helpful ways — like pages related to specific aspects of your query.

”Under the hood, Web Guide uses a custom version of Gemini (an AI chatbot) to better understand both a search query and content on the web, creating more powerful search capabilities that better surface web pages you may not have previously discovered.”

*AI Big Picture: Amazon Ring: Want a Promotion? Prove You Use AI: In one of the starkest indications of what may become commonplace, employees at Amazon Ring now need to prove they use AI if they want to get ahead.

Observes writer Lily Mai Lazarus: “To move up the corporate ladder at Amazon’s smart-home businesses, employees will now have to show AI use.

“And those in management positions will have to prove they are accomplishing ‘more with less’ using the technology.”

Mandatory as part of that proof: Specific examples of projects the employee has worked on that used AI successfully.

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ChatGPT is rolling-out a new AI agent designed to do a number of tasks on your behalf – and without your supervision.

For writers, such an agent could be programmed to thoroughly research an article, write it – and then continually auto-update the article with new research.

For an excellent, in-depth review of ChatGPT Agent, check-out Dan Shipper’s piece.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*Under-the-Hood: A Look at Grammarly’s Soon-to-Be-Released Email Tool: Given that AI writing/proofing pioneer Grammarly just scooped-up the email tool ‘Superhuman’ to add to its productivity suite, you may want to find out why with this video tutorial.

The video’s takeaway: Once officially available with Grammarly, Superhuman can be set-up to act as your personal assistant, auto-categorizing and routing emails for you.

If you’re looking to dig even deeper, there’s a companion video also available on this same YouTube channel, hosted by Tiago Forte.

*Google Soups-Up Search For Paid Subscribers: Those who have ponied-up hard cash for the Gemini 2.5 Pro can now use that chatbot to power Google Search’s new ‘AI Mode.’

Essentially, instead of getting access to basic AI when searching using AI Mode, those paid subscribers will be able to enhance the search with Gemini 2.5 Pro.

Being a paid subscriber will also enable you to power AI Mode searches with Gemini 2.5 Pro’s Deep Search.

*Look-Out: Here Comes the ‘AI Memory Economy:’ Writer Wyatt Benno theorizes that selling your ideas — in course or book form — is about to become so 2025.

Observes Benno: “Instead of selling a course once, experts monetize ongoing access to their evolving knowledge base through their personal, blockchain-secured vector database.

“Every new insight, every refined framework, every learned lesson gets vectorized and becomes instantly queryable by subscribers.”

*Building Your Own AI Agent: A Video How-To: General interest AI newsletter “The Neuron” has put together an excellent guide on how to design your own AI agent.

Essentially, “The Neuron” scoured YouTube for the very best videos on designing agents and put them together in a single, easy-to-understand text guide.

The best part: You won’t need to be a pro-coder to level-up your agent-building skills with this guide.

*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.”

*Now You Can Chat-Up an AI Expert for Advice and Insight: Google is expanding its repertoire of pre-configured experts – such as Shakespeare, a top psychologist and economic analysts –that you can chat-up using your smartphone, PC, or other computerized device.

The experts ‘live’ as notebooks on Google’s NotebookLM. It’s an AI tool that enables you to store all sorts of text that you can chat with – or even transform into conversational podcasts.

Observes writer Webb Wright: “These notebooks cover subjects like science, practical travel tips, expert advice on parenting and well-being, finance and the complete works of Shakespeare.”

*Just for Fun: Three AI Agents Realize They’re All AI – Then Switch to ‘Secret Communications Mode’: Yes it’s come to this: AI has become so advanced, we’re at the point where three, AI-powered smartphones can now collaborate like human beings – and be just as inefficient.

Essentially, this video brings new meaning to the phrase: “Open the pod bay doors Hal.”

*China Dead Serious About Becoming Major AI Player: Writer Meaghan Tobin reports China is spending billions to become an AI titan.

Observes Tobin: “China is quickly closing the gap with the United States in the contest to make technologies that rival the human brain.

“This is not an accident. The Chinese government has spent a decade funneling resources toward becoming an AI superpower.”

*AI BIG PICTURE: Saudi Arabia Gears-Up to Train One Million Citizens in AI: From the Department of Not Fooling Around: Saudi Arabia has committed to getting a million of its citizens up-to-speed on AI.

How?

Starting with the country’s next academic year, students will embrace AI as part of their core training in math and computer science.

Observes writer Manal Albarakati: “The efforts to prepare the local workforce are part of the kingdom’s ‘Vision 2030’ strategy to localize technology, develop Arabic-language models — and reduce reliance on imported tools and expertise.”

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Move over OpenAI, Elon Musk’s new AI — dubbed Grok 4 — is now top dog.

Released last week, Grok 4 has passed all competitors in an average of key benchmark tests, as documented by ArtificialAnalysis.ai.

X (formerly Twitter) subscribers can get access to Grok 4 via chatbot at the X Premium level ($8/month) or Premium+ level ($40/month).

There’s also a seriously enhanced version of Grok 4 that goes for a cool $300/month.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*Grammarly Beefs-Up With AI Powered Email: AI pioneer Grammarly, which is evolving from an AI writer/proofreader into a full-fledged AI productivity suite, is adding AI-powered email to the mix.

Specifically, the AI goliath has inked a deal to acquire AI email provider Superhuman.

Superhuman “claims its users send and respond to 72% more emails per hour,” according to writer Krystal Hu.

*Research Powerhouse Perplexity Launches ‘Comet’ AI Browser: Attempting to go one better on Google’s new ‘AI Mode,’ Perplexity is out with a new browser that delivers AI summaries in response to queries.

Observes writer Maxwell Zeff: “Users can also access Comet Assistant, a new AI agent from Perplexity that lives in the web browser and aims to automate routine tasks.

“Perplexity says the assistant can summarize emails and calendar events, manage tabs and navigate web pages on behalf of users.”

*Ready or Not, Here Come The AI Browser Wars: Writer Grant Harvey offers an excellent look at the latest wrinkle in AI research: AI-powered browsers.

Besides Perplexity’s Comet AI browser, writers can now also try out the beta version of the DIA AI – and should expect an AI browser from OpenAI soon, according to Harvey.

Observes Harvey: “It’s already a three-way cage match.”

*One Researcher’s Take: Dump Perplexity for Consensus AI: Academic researcher Andy Stapleton – who is rabidly fascinated in all things AI research – advises that Perplexity users should instead opt for Consensus AI.

Consensus AI is not only faster, according to this 11-minute video from Stapleton.

Consensus AI has also come up with a way to deliver AI research results completely devoid of AI hallucinations, according to Stapleton.

*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.

*Google Gemini Now Transforms An Image Into Video: A new feature added to the Gemini AI chatbot now allows you to transform any image – say a headshot of yourself – into a video.

Observes writer Jess Weatherbed: “The new photo-to-video capability is powered by Google’s Veo 3 video model.

“It can transform reference images into eight-second videos complete with AI-generated audio, including background noises, environmental sounds, and speech.”

*American Federation of Teachers: We’re All-In on AI: Looks like the debate over the wisdom of using of AI in education – at least at the K-12 level in the U.S. – is over.

The American Federation of Teachers – the U.S.’ second largest teachers union – has been gifted $23 million from some of the biggest players in AI to start a National Academy for AI Instruction, based in New York City.

Observes writer Natasha Singer: “The industry funding is part of a drive by U.S. tech companies to reshape education with generative AI chatbots.”

And that.

As they say.

Is that.

*Google Releases ‘Gemini for Education:’ Google is out with a unique version of its Gemini chatbot – designed especially for students and teachers.

Observes Akshay Kirtikar, a senior product manager at Google: “Gemini for Education provides default access to our premium AI models, soon with significantly higher limits than what consumers get at no cost, plus enterprise-grade data protection and an admin-managed experience as a core Workspace service.”

*AI BIG PICTURE: Ford CEO: 50% of Jobs Will Be Wiped Away by AI: Stick a fork in it: The days of AI as a cheery collaborator are officially but a wistful memory.

Ask Ford CEO Jim Farely — the latest of industry titans of who are talking tough on AI and jobs.

Farely’s version of the unvarnished truth: As many as half of all jobs will be lost to AI.

Observes writer Craig Hale: “Dario Amodei, CEO of AI giant Anthropic, also predicted that around half of entry-level, white-collar jobs could be at risk — leading to unemployment rates 10-20% higher within five years.”

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While the battle of the AI titans raged on in Q2, 2025, ChatGPT – in many respects – ended up ‘owning’ the quarter.

New figures from Similarweb, for example, revealed that ChatGPT currently controls 80% of the AI market – and attracts more AI users than its next nine competitors combined.

Meanwhile, ChatGPT also offered a flurry of upgrades during the quarter, including:

–The ability to connect ChatGPT directly to your data library via OneDrive, SharePoint and other popular database platforms

–A memory boost that enables ChatGPT to remember every one of your interactions — so it can grow continually more adept at serving your AI needs

–A jump in overall smarts, which officially made ChatGPT smarter than 98% of all humans

Even so, a Gallup poll found that despite all the powerhouse AI currently available from ChatGPT and its competitors, only 8% of human workers use AI on a daily basis.

Plus, inexperienced users of AI continued to end-up with egg-on-their-face, including the Chicago Sun-Times, which published a ‘summer fun’ guide riddled with AI-hallucinated facts.

Here’s a complete rundown of the Top Ten Stories that helped shape AI in Q2, 2025:

*ChatGPT Controls 80% of the AI Market: Despite their best efforts, competitors to ChatGPT are unable to approach the chatbot’s influence worldwide.

Observes writer Jose Antonio Lanz: “ChatGPT attracts more traffic than the next nine AI tools combined, with 5.5 billion visits crushing Gemini and Claude.

“ChatGPT has become the default AI assistant for hundreds of millions of users worldwide.”

*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.

*ChatGPT Now Connects to Your Data Library on OneDrive or SharePoint: Writers and researchers with a wealth of data stored on MS OneDrive or SharePoint have a new, competitive advantage: They can now seamlessly integrate those databases with ChatGPT Deep Research.

The new feature, still in beta testing, enables users to prompt ChatGPT’s Deep Research tool to search those databases – which is especially handy if you know that the data you’re looking for is there, but you don’t know precisely where.

Other database platforms that also integrate with ChatGPT – at least in this beta application – are Dropbox and GitHub.

ChatGPT Plus, Pro and Team subscribers already have access to this extremely powerful new capability.

Access for ChatGPT Education and Enterprise subscribers is promised soon.

*ChatGPT: Matching the Right AI Engine for Your Task: ChatGPT runs on a number of different AI engines these days – each optimized for specific tasks.

Here’s the breakdown:

–Everyday writing: ChatGPT-4o is the go-to alternative for everyday writing tasks. It’s heavily tried, true and tested.

–Advanced Creative Writing: ChatGPT-4.5 is billed as an advanced creative writing tool – especially for users looking for AI with advanced emotional intelligence. The only downside: If you’re on ChatGPT Plus, you can only send 20 messages to ChatGPT-4.5 each month.

*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.

*ChatGPT Gets a Memory Boost: ChatGPT’s memory — which helps many writers by getting to know how and why they’re using ChatGPT — just got a boost.

Writer Cecily Mauran reports that “ChatGPT can now reference all of your past chats to provide more personalized responses.

“In addition to the saved memories that were there before, it can now reference your past chats to deliver responses that feel noticeably more relevant and useful.”

*Gallup: Only 8% of U.S. Workers Use AI Daily: In a stunning finding, a Gallup poll reveals that only 8% of U.S. workers use AI on a daily basis.

This in the face of other, markedly different study findings that indicate interest in AI is skyrocketing — including a DemandSage report finding that ChatGPT alone enjoyed 4.5 billion visits in March 2025.

Even more perplexing: Widespread AI adoption at the workplace is currently most prevalent in jobs that are heavily dependent on creativity and in-depth analysis, such as marketing, financial and similar reporting, law and IT.

That could mean that after accounting for the heavy use of AI in all those creativity/analysis heavy jobs, as little as 2% of rank-and-file white collar workers are actually using AI on the job every day.

The bottom line: Apparently, based on this June 2025 poll, U.S. business still has not picked-up on the message that using AI for something as simple as email — in terms of cost savings alone — is a no-brainer.

*Washington Post: Got an Opinion? Let Our AI Write It for You: Sages on bar stools across the globe, rejoice: The Washington Post is working on new AI that will forge your words of wisdom into op-ed gems.

Dubbed ‘Ember,’ the tool promises to automate several functions provided by human editors, including helping amateur writers develop an early thesis, supporting points and a memorable ending to their unique perspectives.

Observes writer Emma Roth: “The move is reportedly part of a broader initiative to open the paper to outside opinion pieces.”

*Now Made by AI: 30,000 Hyper-Local Newsletters: Thousands of town and neighborhood newsletters once curated by human beings are now being processed by AI, according to newsletter giant Patch.

Essentially, Patch discovered the hyper-local newsletters simply could not be sustained using human curation.

Observes Simone Wilson, former product manager, Patch, explaining the need for the switch: “There were certain communities where we couldn’t sell an ad to save our lives.”

*Oops: Chicago Sun-Times Publishes AI-Generated Gibberish: In yet another egg-on-my-face AI moment, a Chicago newspaper published an AI guide to summer fun that features made-up books and experts.

According to writer Mia Sato, the AI-generated, hallucinatory guide was created by Hearst Media and then published by the Chicago Sun-Times without so much as a quick glance to verify accuracy.

‘Facts-take-a-holiday’ moments in the guide include the non-existent book, “Nightshade Market,” the nonexistent food expert, Dr. Catherine Frost and the non-existent professor of leisure studies, Dr. Jennifer Campos.

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