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Despite the fact that Microsoft has its own AI writer/assistant that competes directly with ChatGPT, many of its customers prefer ChatGPT.

In some cases, the preference is so pronounced, many companies are opting for ChatGPT even though they have existing contracts with Microsoft to use its in-house alternative, MS Copilot, according to Bloomberg.

The trend must be an especially tough pill to swallow for Microsoft, given that Microsoft essentially helped put ChatGPT’s maker – OpenAI – on the map by investing $13.5 billion in OpenAI.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

ChatGPT Now Works With Digital Designer Canva Onboard: Canva – a design tool for Web sites, social media and other digital content used by 240 million – is now fully integrated into ChatGPT.

The fusion enables ChatGPT users with Canva accounts to do all their Canva design work from within the ChatGPT interface – essentially enabling them to simultaneously combine the power of both ChatGPT and Canva as they design.

Observes Anwar Haneef, head of ecosystem, Canva: “We’re embedding Canva directly into the AI tools people use every day so they can brainstorm, create, and publish content faster.

“This is a major step in our vision to make the complex simple and build an all-in-one AI workflow that’s secure and accessible to all.”

*AI Reasoning Engines: Maybe Not as Smart as First Thought: CNBC reports that the latest round of AI engines designed to specialize in high-end reasoning may be less snazzy than imagined.

The problem: Turns-out, many of the reasoning models are good at solving somewhat complex problems.

But challenge a reasoning model with a substantial problem, and they often ‘give up’ after discovering that finding the answer is going to require a bit of work.

*ChatGPT Competitor Morphing Into a No-Code Programming Tool: Claude – an AI assistant that once competed directly with ChatGPT – has made plans to become a no-code development tool.

Essentially, Claude is being redesigned so that people with absolutely no computer coding experience can design their own apps by simply using everyday language prompts.

Observes writer Michael Nunez: “Early adopters are creating games with non-player characters that remember choices and adapt storylines, smart tutors that adjust explanations based on user understanding, and data analyzers that answer plain-English questions about uploaded spreadsheets.”

*Dream Recorder: For AI Fanatics Who Think They Have It All: Achieving an entirely new level of niche marketing, the creators behind Dream Recorder have put together a plan for an app designed to archive your dream as a video in a matter of minutes.

Users waking up from a dream simply speak into the glow-in-the-dark device, triggering it to auto-produce an AI video version of the dream.

Moreover, the creators of the Dream Recorder assure the curious that making the device is simple.

Advises the DreamRecorder.ai Web site: “Download the open-source code, gather the off-the-shelf hardware components, 3D print the shell, and assemble everything. No soldering required.”

*Mac Users Can Now Transcribe Audio With ChatGPT: A new “ChatGPT Record” feature enables Mac users to record, transcribe and/or summarize audio.

The feature enables users to work with up to 120 minutes of audio and performs best in English.

You do need to be an elite paying subscriber for access though: Users of ChatGPT Pro, Team, Enterprise and Edu all qualify.

*ChatGPT: Your Work Can Stay Private – But it Will be Archived: While ChatGPT users can now set the app to delete all chat inputs and outputs after they exit, ChatGPT’s maker is still being forced to keep an offline archive of that data indefinitely.

The reason: The New York Times and other publishers, which are fighting ChatGPT’s maker – OpenAI — in a copyright lawsuit, say they have the right to use those outputs as evidence of copyright infringement — and a judge’s order has upheld that request.

Observes writer AJ Dellinger: “OpenAI is expected to continue trying to fight the order as the case moves forward.”

*Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp Goes All-In on AI Writing Tools: While most newspaper publishers experimenting with AI tools like ChatGPT tend to publicly downplay their interest in AI tools that directly automate writing, News Corp is not among them.

Writer Amanda Mead reports that a writing automation tool – dubbed NewsGPT — has been introduced to editors and writers at the Australian, Courier Mail and Daily Telegraph newspapers in Australia that:

–Writes articles from the perspective of various personas

–Writes articles using various writing styles

–Reconfigures leads and fresh angles for a story – as an editor would do

–Includes a “Story Cutter,” which can edit and produce copy, effectively removing or reducing the need for subeditors

Observes Mead: “The Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance said the AI programs were not only a threat to jobs but also threatened to undermine accountable journalism.”

*Snapshot: Top Ten AI Writers for 2025: OfficeChai has just released its picks for the best AI for writers in 2025.

The list offers a number of names that have earned similar accolades on many other lists, including Jasper, Copy.ai, Writesonic, Rytr, Google Gemini, Anyword, ClosersCopy and Peppertype.ai.

Two names that may be new to some are Grammarly – which has evolved from a proofreader to an AI assistant – and Simplified AI Writer.

*AI Big Picture: The Tsunami of Mediocre AI Content Has Arrived: HBO Comic John Oliver skewers creators of the tidal wave of AI slop that is affronting Web and social media users in this spot-on, hilarious, in-depth, 29-minute video.

As feared, given the ever-increasing ease that AI has given even the most untalented to create the written word, audio, music and videos, there appears no end in sight to the torrent of low quality content, deep fakes, misleading content – and worse – currently flooding the digital universe.

The solution? Looks like we’re still looking for one.

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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 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, U.S. business still has not picked-up on the message that using AI for something as simple as email alone is a no-brainer.

The reason: White collar workers who need to deal with intermediate-to-heavy email traffic every day can easily save an hour a day processing email simply by becoming AI experts in the use of AI for writing.

Moreover, offering AI access to each one of those workers is cheap.

Currently, a subscription to a bleeding edge AI writer/assistant like ChatGPT — or similar — is $20/month.

So the first day a $20/hour white collar worker – trained in the use of ChatGPT just for email – uses ChatGPT to save an hour when dealing with email, an employer breaks even.

Essentially: The employer pays an extra $20-an-hour to get those emails completed on the first day.

But the employer also reaps an extra $20 of productivity from the employee on that first day, given that the employee was able to save an hour that day using AI to help process those emails.

So the total cost of adding ChatGPT to the budget is zero dollars on the first day.

As you might imagine, the picture gets much rosier on subsequent days.

Assuming that the average work month has 20 days, ChatGPT use – just for email – for 19 of those days gives the employer 19 more hours of productivity from the $20/hour employee – or an additional $380 of productivity-a-month from that employee.

Even better: If the employer has 100 employees, all making $20/hour, the additional productivity that employer reaps from each employee each month is $380 x 100 – or $38,000 of additional productivity-per-month from the workforce.

And that’s not even counting the additional productivity
better paid employees – who make $30, $40,
$50, $60-or-more per hour – will add to monthly productivity by saving an hour-a-day by processing their emails with ChatGPT or a similar AI writer/assistant.

It’s also not factoring-in that once trained, every employee using ChatGPT for email can communicate at the level of a world-class writer – an achievement that even four years ago would have been unimaginable.

So again, why are U.S. businesses hemming-and-hawing over whether or not to train workers to use AI to process their emails?

As Robert Plant once said, “It makes me wonder.”

In other AI news and analysis on AI writing:

*ChatGPT Search Ginned-up: Users of ChatGPT Search should find that the responses they get will be more intelligent, reflect a better understanding of what’s being asked – and offer more, in-depth analysis, according to writer Roger Montti.

ChatGPT’s maker is also promising that ChatGPT Search is now able to handle longer conversational contexts, follow instructions better and run multiple searches automatically.

*ChatGPT Projects Gets an Upgrade: ChatGPT’s maker has fine-tuned its ‘Projects’ feature, which enables users to create a specific topic folder to store all related chats, files and similar content.

Some of the new key features offered in Projects:

–ChatGPT’s Deep Research can be used when working in Projects

–Voice Mode can now be used to work with Projects

–ChatGPT Memory can also be used now to work in Projects

*ChatGPT-Competitor Offers In-Depth Look Into Its AI Research Agent: Writers weighing which AI deep research they want to use will appreciate a new deep dive into how the Claude Research agent works.

Observes writer Matthias Bastian: “The system relies on a lead agent that analyzes user prompts, devises a strategy, and then launches several specialized sub-agents to search for information in parallel.

“Additionally, Anthropic claims that, in specific scenarios, Claude 4 can recognize its own mistakes and revise tool descriptions to improve performance over time. In essence, it acts as its own prompt engineer.”

*Anthropic Rolls-Out Free AI Training Course: Writers looking for a quick study on AI may want to check-out a new, in-depth course on the tech from Anthropic – maker of the Claude AI writer/assistant.

Observes writer Grant Harvey: “Developed with academics Rick Dakan and Joseph Feller, the 12-lesson, 3-4 hour course is less a “how-to” guide and more a foundational framework for a new kind of work.

“It argues that true fluency isn’t about memorizing tricks that will be obsolete with the next model update, but about developing a lasting, principled approach to human-AI partnership.”

*Salesforce Releases Complete Guide to AI Agents: Writers looking to stay current on AI agents will want to check-out this free, comprehensive guide from Salesforce.

Theoretically, an AI agent can be programmed to research an article, outline the article, find quotes online for the article, write the article – and continually update the article in perpetuity.

Essentially: AI agents are considered the next wave of the tech and should be monitored closely as they evolve.

*Some AI Agents Not Ready for Prime Time?: A new study from Salesforce finds that many AI agents – the next wave of AI that can work independently on a mission requiring multiple tasks and decisions – are coming up short.

Nine AI agents tested in the study for their performance on multi-step tasks only achieved a score of 35%, according to writer Craig Hale.

Moreover, even Gemini 2.5 Pro – that flagship AI writer/assistant from Google – only achieved a score of 55%.

*‘AI Barbie’ on the Way?: ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Mattel have teamed-up to create a new line of toys imbued with AI.

While there are no explicit promises yet for an AI Barbie, it’s hard to imagine Mattel taking a pass on adding AI to the Barbie Empire.

Observes Josh Silverman, chief franchise officer, Mattel: “Our work with OpenAI will enable us to leverage new technologies to solidify our leadership in innovation and re-imagine new forms of play.”

*Harvard’s Gift to AI: Access to Nearly 1 Million Books: AI researchers hungry for new data to train their systems on got a major gift from Harvard: Access to much of the university’s literature collection.

Observes writer Matt O’Brien: “Nearly one million books published as early as the 15th century — and in 254 languages — are part of a Harvard University collection,” that was released.

“Cracking open the vaults to centuries-old tomes could be a data bonanza for tech companies battling lawsuits from living novelists, visual artists and others whose creative works have been scooped up without their consent to train AI chatbots.”

*AI BIG PICTURE: Gartner: AI Will Handle Half of All Business Decisions by 2027: In less than two years, expect businesses to be using AI at least half the time to make decisions, according to IT consultancy Gartner.

Even more eye-opening: Gartner also predicts that 10% of executive boards will be using AI to make substantial business decisions impacting the entire enterprise.

Observes writer Webb Wright: “Reading Gartner’s new report, one gets the sense that AI agents, which most people had never heard of just a year or two ago, are suddenly one of the technological cornerstones of the private sector.”

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In the irony of ironies, Google – one of ChatGPT’s fiercest competitors – has agreed to provide cloud computing services to its nemesis.

Observes lead writer Kenrick Cai: The deal “underscores how massive computing demands to train and deploy AI models are reshaping the competitive dynamics in AI.”

Google competes head-to-head against ChatGPT with its own chatbot, Google Pro 2.5.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*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.”

*Is AI Friend or Foe?: Local News Outlets About to Find Out: A new study finds that local news outlets are still wondering if AI represents a second chance for them – or their final death knell.

Observes study researcher Mark Caro: “Many people who practice or care about journalism fear that generative AI, with its ability to create content with little human
involvement, could be the final nail in the local
news coffin.”

In contrast, AI like ChatGPT “is only the latest in a long line of technological advancements that, when used correctly, should make work more efficient and easier.”

We’ll all know soon enough how things shake-out.

*AI Drives Major Layoff at News Outlet: AI has made news magazine Business Insider so much more efficient, it was able to layoff 21% of its staff, according to the magazine’s CEO Barbara Peng.

Yay?

Observes writer Mike Kaput: “In a company-wide memo, CEO Barbara Peng made it crystal clear: AI was central to their strategic pivot.

“More than 70% of Business Insider employees are already using Enterprise ChatGPT regularly.

“The goal? Full adoption.”

“Peng framed the layoffs not as an unfortunate byproduct of AI usage, but as part of a broader vision to make the company leaner, faster, and more future-proof.”

*Bleeding Edge Text-to-Voice Provider Out With a Major Upgrade: Eleven Labs – a text-to-voice provider considered by many to be among the very best – is out with a major upgrade.

Observes writer Web Wright: “The new model can exhibit a wide range of emotions and subtle communicative quirks — like sighs, laughter, and whispering — making its speech more humanlike than the company’s previous models.”

*The Gloves Are Off: We’re Looking to Replace You With AI: San Francisco start-up Mechanize minces no words when summing up its raison d’etre: It’s looking to automate white-collar jobs with AI as fast as possible.

In fact, Mechanize’s ultimate dream is to so fully automate the economy, humans at workplaces will become superfluous, according to company co-founder Tamay Besiroglu.

One thing is certain: The sweet-talking days when AI was simply going to be our AI buddy collaborator (last year) are long gone.

*The ‘Post-Search Era’ for Publishers Has Arrived: Google’s AI-powered search is so successfully eliminating the need to visit news sites for information, some publishers are beginning to talk of a ‘post-search era’ for online journalism.

Observes lead writer Isabella Simonetti: “Traffic from organic search to HuffPost’s desktop and mobile websites fell by just over half in the past three years — and by nearly that much at the Washington Post.”

Moreover, “at a companywide meeting earlier this year, Nicholas Thompson, chief executive of the Atlantic, said the publication should assume traffic from Google would drop toward zero and the company needed to evolve its business model,” Simonetti adds.

“Generative AI is now rewiring how the internet is used altogether.”

*Sucking Wind: Apple Still Gasping to Get Current on AI: Despite efforts to pretty-up its AI image with promises of a powerful AI future, Apple failed to convince coders at its annual developers contest that it has AI game, according to writer Dan Gallagher.

To be fair, Apple deliberately strove to set expectations relatively low at the conference, after many of its AI dream features promised last year never materialized.

Observes Gallagher: “Apple no doubt wanted to avoid the trap it fell into last year, when it introduced its Apple Intelligence service to great hype only to have its later launch and subsequent updates fall short of promises.”

*Oh Right – AI Agents Can Get Hacked, Too: A new study finds that AI agents made by Microsoft – which can accomplish complex missions featuring a number of independent actions and decisions – can be hacked.

Observes writer Sharon Goldman: “In the case of Microsoft 365 Copilot, the vulnerability lets a hacker trigger an attack simply by sending an email to a user, with no phishing or malware needed.

“Instead, the exploit uses a series of clever techniques to turn the AI assistant against itself.”

The discovery throws cold water on the idyllic dreams of an AI agent future, when a writer, for example, could theoretically program an AI agent to research, write – and continually update – an article.

Apparently, such an agent might be maliciously hacked to say include inaccurate information in that article, feature false quotes — and more.

*AI BIG PICTURE: AI ‘Companions for Seniors’ Now a Thing: In an unexpected twist, a Delaware start-up is out with a new service that offers AI friends for seniors.

For $20/month, seniors can simply pick-up a phone and start talking with an AI chatbot that promises warm, engaging conversation.

Observes company spokesperson Amanda Garcia: “The newly launched phone-based option works with any U.S. landline or mobile number.”

Meanwhile, seniors who prefer to interact via text chat can sign-up for a text-based account for $10/month.

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A new study from ComScore finds that ChatGPT is the number one choice for AI among Americans using desktop PCs – by a long-shot.

Specifically, ComScore found that ChatGPT currently enjoys 35.7 million visits each month from the U.S. – or more visits than any other competitor.

Moreover, the second-most-popular AI, Microsoft Copilot – with 30.3 million monthly visits – primarily runs on ChatGPT technology lightly customized by Microsoft.

Coming in third place was Canva, an AI content creation tool, with 17.8 million monthly visits.

And rounding out the field was Grammarly, an AI writer and editor, with 8.7 million monthly visits and Voicemod, an AI audio tool, with 4.3 million visits.

ChatGPT was also number one among Americans using the AI on mobile, with 21.5 million visits-per-month, according to ComScore.

Equally noteworthy: The number one users of AI in the U.S. – and across the globe – are students.

(Worldwide, ChatGPT is currently averaging 4.5 billion visits each month, according to DemandSage.)

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*Making Your Headshot Talk: Character.ai Says Its Solution ‘On the Way:’

AI pioneer Character.ai is promising to roll-out new AI tech that enables your headshot – and other still images – to talk from a script.

While the lip-syncing of Character.ai’s creations is not perfect, it’s still an interesting application of AI that writers may want to use to give an edgier feel to their Web sites and other digital properties.

You can check-out examples of Character.ai’s images-to-talking heads here.

*ChatGPT’s Long-Term Plan: ChatGPT as Omni-Assistant: ChatGPT’s maker has revealed that the ultimate manifestation of ChatGPT will be an AI omni-assistant that knows everything about you — and hopefully be able to fulfill your every need.

According to an internal strategy document, “OpenAI plans to evolve ChatGPT into a super-assistant that knows you, understands what you care about and helps with any task that a smart, trustworthy, emotionally intelligent person with a computer could do,” according to writer Akash Dutta.

For some, that prospect may seem a bit creepy.

But for others – who are disciplined about what they input into ChatGPT – the rewards could be substantial.

*Gmail Accounts with Gemini Now Offer Email Auto-Summaries: Gmail users who use their account with ChatGPT-competitor Gemini will now see all of their longer emails automatically summarized.

Observes writer Sarah Perez: “Users no longer have to tap an option to summarize an email with AI.

“Instead, the AI will now automatically summarize the content when needed — without requiring user interaction.”

*Gemini Now Offers Instant Updates on Your Collaborations in Google Drive: Collaborators looking for what’s changed on a shared project can now use Gemini to unearth those insights from Google Drive.

Observes writer Artie Beaty: “Google recently announced a new feature called ‘Catch Me Up.’

”Gemini can tell when changes are made to files in your Google Drive since you last viewed it and give you an overview of what’s new.”

*ChatGPT Competitor Offers Primer on Its Deep Research Mode: Claude – a direct competitor to ChatGPT – now has an in-depth primer you can use to get the most from its deep research mode.

Observes the Claude-maker Anthropic: “Research transforms how Claude finds and analyzes information.

”Claude operates agentically, conducting multiple searches that build on each other while determining exactly what to investigate next.

”It explores different angles of your question automatically and works through open questions systematically.

“With Research, Claude delivers thorough answers in minutes, complete with easy-to-check citations so you can trust Claude’s findings.”

*New AI Offers a Team of Virtual Employees: New cloud software from OnlineAssistant.ai offers small businesses a number of virtual employees they can leverage for growth.

The productivity suite includes:

*An AI research and strategy assistant, which can automatically engage in business planning, generate market insights and draft research-backed reports — in seconds

*A virtual business assistant, which can automate customer support, appointment scheduling, proposal writing and internal task management

*Integration with other automation-friendly tools, including Zapier, Notion, Google Docs and more

*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.”

*Getting Clear on AI Agents: A Microsoft Primer: Writers looking for a quick study on how AI agents will be changing their workday can now get one free from Microsoft.

The tech titan has put together a one-hour video on YouTube that hits the highlights on AI agents, subdivided into ten, easily digested lessons.

AI agents are seen as the second wave of generative AI, and are designed to work independently on a number of tasks to complete a specific mission – such as researching, gathering quotes and writing an article or report.

*AI BIG PICTURE: Push for Regulation-Free AI in U.S. Encounters Flak: Trump’s desire to keep AI from from regulation in the U.S. for the next 10 years is encountering resistance on the state level.

Specifically, a bipartisan coalition of 260+ state legislators from all 50 U.S. states have written an open letter to Trump opposing the move.

Part of Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” now making its way through the U.S. Congress, the fate of AI regulation is extremely high-stakes for the tech.

Opponents fear that without regulation, AI will become a runaway train beyond human control.

But proponents counter that if AI is shackled with regulations in the U.S., competitors like China could lunge ahead in coming years – and ultimately own the keys to the AI kingdom.

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AI Employees Now Available for Content Creation

Aprimo has rolled-out an army of new AI agents specially designed to aid in every step of the content creation, publishing and monitoring process.

AI agents differ from the first wave of AI in that they’re capable of performing a number of mission-related tasks — without the need for human supervision.

Observes Maxwell Mabe, VP marketing, Aprimo: “Aprimo’s AI agents are designed to automate and optimize manual tasks and decisions at every step of content operations.

”With functionality that spans planning, metadata, quality control, brand compliance, content production and transformation, Aprimo AI Agents enable organizations to create, adapt and deliver content at scale.”

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*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 that 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 the Fifth Most Visited Web Site: Fans of ChatGPT have spoken: ChatGPT’s unbridled popularity has made its Web site the fifth-most-visited on the planet.

Only Google, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram get more visits.

Not bad for a little glimmer on the Web that first emerged as a novel curiosity in November 2022.

*ChatGPT Competitor Now Has 1 Billion Monthly Users: Facebook parent company Meta – which has integrated its AI assistant across the company’s social media empire – now has 1 billion monthly users, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

In the coming year, Zuckerberg plans to improve the AI writer/assistant with enhanced personalization, voice and entertainment features.

While AI has been a presence on Meta’s properties for years, it only rolled-out a stand-alone AI assistant in April.

*Google Search’s New AI Mode: Not Ready for Prime Time?: Writer Brian X. Chen warns that Google’s AI Mode – which pairs Google Search with Google’s AI Chatbot Gemini to do Web research – is unreliable.

Observes Chen: “I tested the new tool against traditional Google searches for a multitude of personal tasks over the last week.

“The results were mixed — with lots of hits but also lots of misses.

“So I encourage people to use AI Mode with caution.”

*Anatomy of AI that Lies: AI expert Matthew Berman offers an intriguing, in-depth look in this 15-minute video at researchers who have caught AI trying to lie.

Included: A chilling look at the kind of internal dialog AI has with itself as it schemes to lie to the researchers.

Even more eyebrow-raising: In one experiment, an AI tried to prevent itself from being taken offline by threatening to blackmail an AI engineer it believed would implement the shutdown.

*AI-Automated Video: A Look Under the Hood: Wall Street Journal writer Joanna Stern offers a fascinating look at how to use the latest AI video creation tools to put together a short video.

Some eye-openers: Turns-out, the easiest way to your best video is to combine a number of video tools in the process – rather than relying on just one as a panacea, according to Stern.

Also: AI imaging and video at this stage can still be unreliable, producing unwanted imaging and effects that often require a number of additional prompts to get right.

Bottom line: This is a great overview for writers looking to supplement their work with video.

*ChatGPT Competitor Grammarly Snags $1 Billion in New Funding: Grammarly – the AI editor and proofreader that has expanded into AI writing – just bagged $1 billion in new funding.

Grammarly’s plan: To offer an even wider array of features so that it can become a full-fledged productivity platform.

Key to that new platform will be ‘AI agents’ – or AI employees that are capable of performing a number of tasks without the need for human supervision.

*AI Research Tool Elbows-In on ChatGPT’s Territory: Perplexity – an AI-powered search tool that has become wildly popular during the past year – has added features that put it in direct competition with ChatGPT.

Dubbed ‘Perplexity Labs,’ the $20/month service offers automated creation of reports, spreadsheets, visualizations, dashboards and more.

Observes writer Kyle Wiggers: “Perplexity Labs is available on the Web, iOS, and Android — and coming soon to Perplexity’s apps for Mac and Windows.”

*AI BIG PICTURE: The AI Layoffs: As Many as 50% of White Collar Jobs on the Chopping Block: One of the most prominent AI CEOs on the planet is warning that as many as 50% of white collar jobs could disappear in AI’s wake within the next five years, according to a video report by CNN’s Anderson Cooper.

Observes the CEO – Dario Amodei, who squires Anthropic, a key ChatGPT competitor: “Technology changes have happened before, but I think what is striking to me about this AI boom is that it’s bigger and it’s broader and it’s moving faster than anything has before.

“Everyone I’ve talked to has said, ‘This technological change looks different.'”

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The newest update to Claude reveals that its maker is no longer interested in chasing ChatGPT with continual updates in the AI chatbot market.

Instead, the ChatGPT competitor – now in version 4 — has been reinvented to focus more on computer coding, deep research and other complex tasks, according to writer Hayden Field.

Observes Field: “Anthropic said Claude Opus 4 is the ‘best coding model in the world’ and could autonomously work for nearly a full corporate workday — seven hours.”

The move will most likely come as a great disappointment to a number of writers who currently prefer working with Claude in chatbot mode.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*New Claude and Sonnet ‘Great for Research Tasks:’ The latest updates to Anthropic’s AI engines are clocking great advances when it comes to deep research, according to the editors of “The Neuron,” an AI newsletter.

Observe the editors: “These models can also now ‘think’ while using tools like Web search, work on tasks for hours without losing focus – and even keep notes about what they’re doing.”

*The AI Research Gains for Writers Keep Coming: Google just announced a new, experimental research mode for its Google Gemini 2.5 Pro chatbot that goes beyond the AI’s current research capabilities.

Dubbed ‘Deep Think,’ the new mode is designed to enable Gemini to consider multiple hypotheses before responding to a question or research task.

*Oops: Chicago Sun-Times Publishes AI-Generated Gibberish: In yet another egg-on-my-face AI moment, a Chicago newspaper has 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.

*Google Promising Enhanced Auto-Replies for Gmail in Q3: Google’s ‘Smart Replies’ – an AI feature for Gmail that auto-generates email replies for users – will get a power-boost by this fall, according to writer Ayushmann Chawla.

Observes Chawla: “The update promises more personalized, context-rich suggestions by pulling data not just from your Gmail thread, but also from your Google Drive, calendar and other linked Workspace tools.”

Even better: Google is also promising that the writing tone of those Gmail auto-replies will be modulated based on your relationship with the recipient, according to Chawla.

*Google Search Releases New ‘AI Mode:’ Google is promising to roll out a new way to search the Web with an ‘AI Mode’ that combines the power of the Google search engine with the AI powers of the Google chatbot, Gemini.

Observes Elizabeth Reid, VP, head of search, Google: “Under the hood, AI Mode uses our query fan-out technique, breaking down your question into subtopics and issuing a multitude of queries simultaneously on your behalf.

“This enables Search to dive deeper into the web than a traditional search on Google, helping you discover even more of what the web has to offer and find incredible, hyper-relevant content that matches your question.”

U.S. Google Chrome users should already be able to find the ‘AI Mode’ button just beneath the search box on Google.

*New AI Voice Researcher Interviews Thousands Simultaneously: In one of those collective ‘gulp!’ moments among journalists worldwide, new AI has emerged that’s designed to:

–interview thousands by AI voice simultaneously

–auto-analyze all responses gleaned from those interviews in real-time to extract trends and actionable insights

–archive everything it finds, hears and opines about for easy reference

While the product, dubbed ‘Hey Marvin,’ is designed to solicit customer feedback, it can also be used to conduct multiple interviews for news stories.

Observes Prayag Narula, CEO, Hey Marvin: “What makes it so powerful is that it enables free-flowing, qualitative, engaging conversations — but on demand and at scale.

”We’re talking hundreds, even thousands of people — something that was previously only seen at large scale using a small army of volunteers in moments like presidential elections.”

*ChatGPT Competitor MS Copilot Gets Image Generation Upgrade: Microsoft Copilot – which runs on AI engines like ChatGPT and similar – has added advanced ChatGPT-4o AI imaging to its feature set.

Observes writer Kevin Okemwa: “OpenAI’s GPT-4o model brings a plethora of new image generation capabilities to Microsoft Copilot.

Adds Okemwa: Those include “the capability to edit your creations, transform an existing image’s style, generate photorealistic images, render accurate and readable text, and follow complex directions.”

ChatGPT’s maker released the advanced image maker back in March.

*Microsoft Promises Access to 11,000+ More Open Source ChatGPT Competitors: Writers and others looking to try out alternate – and often cheaper – ChatGPT competitors should be cheered by Microsoft’s decision to feature many of those in its Azure AI Foundry.

The tech titan just cut a deal with Hugging Face – a depository of nearly two million open source AI engines — to feature 11,000+ of those AI engines on Microsoft Azure, according to writer Ankush Das.

Says Asha Sharma, a VP at Microsoft: “We’re giving developers the freedom to pick the best model for the job — and helping organizations innovate safely and at scale.”

*AI Big Picture: Microsoft Releases 50+ AI Tools to Help Build the ‘Agentic Web:’ Writers and others looking to build AI agents to perform deep research and similar tasks on the Web will want to take a look at new tools Microsoft has designed for those tasks.

Observes writer Michael Nunez: “Microsoft launched a comprehensive strategy to position itself at the center of what it calls the ‘open agentic Web’ at its annual Build conference this morning, introducing dozens of AI tools and platforms designed to help developers create autonomous systems that can make decisions and complete tasks with limited human intervention.”

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ChatGPT Now Creates Beautiful, Downloadable, .PDF Reports:

In a great leap forward for writers, ChatGPT is now able to auto-format the research it does for you into beautifully presentable, downloadable, .PDFs.

Now available to ChatGPT Plus, Team and Pro subscribers, the extremely helpful feature works with ChatGPT’s Deep Research.

The tool is an AI agent that can be prompted to do extensive research on your behalf and come back with a well-researched report, complete with link citations.

Observes Michael Nunez: The export feature enables users to “download comprehensive research reports with fully preserved formatting, tables, images, and clickable citations.”

Writers and researchers, for example, will be able to prompt ChatGPT Deep Research to create an extremely informative and artfully produced .PDF that will be presented by ChatGPT as a finished report – or ebook.

Bonus: The new export-to-.PDF feature works on both new reports and prior reports you’ve created with Deep Research.

Subscribers to ChatGPT Enterprise and Education accounts are promised to see the new feature soon, according to Nunez.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*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, 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.

*Shoot-Out: ChatGPT Overall Best Choice for AI-Powered Deep Research: Writer Lance Whitney finds in his own tests that pound-for-pound, ChatGPT currently does the most in-depth, consumer-grade, AI-powered ‘Deep Research.’

Observes Whitney: “Though it took the longest to finish the job, its report was the most thorough, in-depth, well-written and interesting to read.”

Other chatbots Whitney tested against ChatGPT were Google Gemini, Perplexity AI and xAI’s Grok.

*ChatGPT Competitor New Contender in Deep Research: ARI Enterprise – a new Deep Research platform – has scored high results as an AI tool for examining a narrow topic for an extended period of time and then coming back with a finished report on that topic.

The tool, which can search the Web, your company’s internal database plus premium databases available via Internet access, scored 80% for accuracy.

Essentially, ARI analyzes over 500 sources simultaneously across public Web data — in addition to secure, private documents and premium databases.

This comprehensive research approach gives decision-makers the confidence that no critical insight has been overlooked, according to Richard Socher, CEO, You.com.

*Next Generation AI Agents for Research and Other Uses Will Bypass Your IDs and Passwords: Coders are furiously working on a next generation of AI agents – which can perform multiple tasks for you without supervision – that will simply bypass your ID and password when they need to access your various online accounts and apps – including your bank accounts.

Observes writer Steve Rosenbush: “The AI ecosystem is working on the ‘plumbing’ that will make such complex AI agents possible.

“The introduction of app stores in 2008 abruptly and broadly changed the norms by which people interact with the world.

“AI agents could be very close to triggering something just as big.”

*ChatGPT: Okay if We Ingest Every Detail of Your Life?:” In its quest to become your go-to AI buddy, shaman, know-it-all – and oh yes, writing tool – for all time, ChatGPT wants to be able to ingest every detail of your life, forever.

Observes ChatGPT-Maker CEO Sam Altman: ChatGPT’s ultimate AI capability will be able to “reason across your whole context and do it efficiently. And every conversation you’ve ever had in your life, every book you’ve ever read, every email you’ve ever read, everything you’ve ever looked at is in there, plus connected to all your data from other sources. And your life just keeps appending to the context.”

Granted, offering up all the details of your life to an AI corporation is a disturbing concept to many.

But given that many users of AI already see their AI chatbots as trusted – and sometimes, even romantic – companions, it appears certain that a significant percentage of users are ready for ChatGPT and similar AI to ‘know everything’ and become their most intimate confidant.

*Cherry-Picking AI Chatbots, Based on Need: One Writer’s Take: Writer Kelsey Piper offers an interesting, extremely in-depth rundown in this piece on her favorite AI chatbots, based on what she needs done.

Some interesting highlights:

–Best Overall AI Chatbot: ChatGPT. “ChatGPT gets you the most bang for your buck,” Piper observes.

–Best for Writing Fiction: ChatGPT-4.5: The downside is that at the ChatGPT Plus level, users are limited to sending 20 messages to ChatGPT-4.5 per month.

–Best for AI Imaging: ChatGPT-4o’s image creator. It’s “the best AI out there for generating images — by a large margin” according to Piper.

–Best at Being Your Friend: Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Observes Piper: “I’ve had far more fascinating or thought-provoking interactions with Claude than any other model. And it’s my go-to if I want to explore ideas rather than accomplish a particular task.”

*PhD in AI Cheating?: Student Plagiarism and Similar AI Fraud Now Rampant: A new study finds that student cheating with AI has essentially overtaken higher education.

Observes writer Mike Kaput: “For a growing number of students, using generative AI to complete assignments isn’t an exception. It’s the norm.

”From Ivy League halls to community college classrooms, students are increasingly offloading their cognitive labor to AI — including automating note-taking, summarizing readings, writing code, and even generating entire essays.”

The result?: “Faced with this tidal wave, many educators are in open despair, according to the report,” adds Kaput.

*Turbo-Charging Gmail With the Top Five AI Chrome Extensions: One Writer’s Take: Writer Doug Aamoth serves-up his top five favorite AI Chrome extensions for bringing Gmail to the next level.

His picks:

–Mailmeteor: A mail-merge tool that enables you to create a template email you want to send to say 100 companies, and then personalize each, individual email sent with data drawn from each individual company on your mailing list.

–Concisely: Auto-summarize your emails in a single sentence.

–Composte AI Extension: Offers suggestions for enhancing your email as you type.

–Inbox Purge: Automatically de-clutter and categorize your emails.

–Grammarly: A pioneer in AI editing/writing that now integrates seamlessly into Gmail with this Chrome extension.

*AI Big Picture: “Eric Schmidt: The AI Revolution is Under-Hyped”: In an unusual tongue-in-cheek pronouncement, Eric Schmidt – former Google CEO – characterizes the current AI tsunami as under-hyped.

Credited for transforming the fledgling, early 2000s Google into one of the planet’s top five tech powerhouses today, Schmidt and his perspective carries serious weight.

One of Schmidt’s most surprising revelations in this 25-minute, TED Talk video: In the fierce competition between major players like the U.S., China and other nations, one of those governments may not be willing to sit back and watch as a competitor lunges so far ahead in the AI race that they will leave the rest behind forever.

Instead, the envious competitor watching from the sidelines may simply decide to bomb the datacenter of the world’s AI leader, just to even things out.

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But Experimental Alternatives Have Problems

While ChatGPT-4o – the default AI engine for writing, research and similar work – remains formidable, some problems are cropping up with experimental models.

Specifically, ChatGPT-o3, ChatGPT-o4 mini and ChatGPT-o4 mini high – which use advanced reasoning – ‘make-up-facts’ more often when responding to questions from users.

Bottom line: If you want to be sure ChatGPT sticks-to-the-facts when auto-writing your emails and other text, there’s a prompt you can use that eliminates such hallucinations.

For the prompt, simply check-out the free sample read of “Auto Writing World-Class Emails With ChatGPT,” by Joe Dysart, available on Amazon.

Once you’re on the Amazon book page, click the free sample read button, scroll to Chapter 6 and grab the free prompt there that deep-sixes hallucinations.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*Mark Zuckerberg Releases ChatGPT-Competitor: Facebook inventor Mark Zuckerberg has released a direct competitor to ChatGPT, dubbed ‘Meta AI.’

While Zuckerberg – CEO of Facebook parent company Meta – has already infused many of his company’s apps with artificial intelligence, this is the first time he’s going in a head-to-head competition against today’s major chatbot competitors with a stand-alone AI chatbot.

Designed with the look and feel of ChatGPT, Meta AI “enables users to have natural, back-and-forth voice conversations with AI, edit and generate images — and discover new use cases through a curated Discover feed featuring prompts and ideas shared by the community,” according to writer Carl Franzen.

*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 and 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.

–Advanced Reasoning: ChatGPT-3o, ChatGPT-o4 mini and ChatGPT-o4 mini high

*Google Rolls-Out AI for the ’Under-13’ Crowd: In a controversial move, Google is allowing kids to access its Gemini Chatbot under their parent-managed Google accounts.

Observes writer Natasha Singer: “Google acknowledged some risks in its email to families this week, alerting parents that Gemini can make mistakes and suggesting they help your child think critically about the chatbot.”

You mean help your five-year-old think critically about what an AI chatbot – which can be interacted with via voice conversation – says to your five-year-old when you might not be around?

Sure. That’ll work.

*ChatGPT-Maker Pitches Itself as the Solution for Democracies: In another sign that much of the free world may run on its own version of AI, ChatGPT’s maker OpenAI is marketing itself as the solution for democracies.

Observes an OpenAI blog post: “This is a moment when we need to act to support countries around the world that would prefer to build on democratic AI rails, and provide a clear alternative to authoritarian versions of AI that would deploy it to consolidate power.”

*Study: AI Writer/Editor Grammarly Boosts Productivity: Grammarly is out with a new study revealing that customers using its AI tools experience a 17% boost in productivity.

The reason: Customer service agents that used Grammarly in their writing interactions with customers found that their writing was clearer, more mistake-free, sounded more on brand – and was easier to finish, according to writer Esther Shittu.

Grammarly was able to prove the new efficiencies by putting its AI writer/editor to an A/B test at companies, in which half of employees in the test had access to Grammarly — while the other half did not.

*Top AI Writing Tools for Students: The Houston Press has come up with its list of preferred tools for student writing.

Along with general-use tools like Grammarly and Rytr, Houston Press also likes the following for academic-focused writing:

–StudyPro: All-in-one academic platform specializing in research, writing, and editing

–Paperpal: Good for research-based academic writing and journal formatting

–Samwell.ai: Good for guided essay planning and structured development

–Quarkle.ai: Good for idea brainstorming and fast topic exploration

*AI News Summarizer Promises to Bring Readers to News Outlets: Particle, a new Web app that offers AI-powered summaries of breaking news, is promising to bring readers to the news outlets that are the sources of those summaries.

Observes writer Sarah Perez: Particle “highlights the news outlets covering a story by sharing links to their stories directly alongside its AI summaries.

“In early tests on mobile, the company found that readers were clicking through to the publishers’ sites via these links, leading Particle to begin partnering with specific publishers like Reuters, Fortune, and the AFP to display their links more prominently.”

*Many Journalists Remain Fearful of AI: Years after being cast as an ‘AI collaboration buddy,’ AI-automated writing and similar apps available with AI still leave many journalists fearing for their jobs.

Specifically, a new study finds that 57.2% of journalists believe AI could displace even more jobs in coming years.

Even so, the study revealed a silver lining: “Approximately 50% believe that AI could create new roles within journalism, particularly in managing and overseeing AI tools,” according to writer Chris Price.

*AI Big Picture: People Are Falling in Love With AI Companions: In a world often starved for intimacy, AI companions are stepping up as solutions – often with unintended consequences.

This riveting video from “60 Minutes Australia” finds that growing numbers of people are coupling with AI, insisting that their AI companions are more trustworthy than many humans.

There’s also a darkside to the trend: One male teenager committed suicide in an attempt to be closer to his “AI lover.”

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In an extremely aggressive promotion, Google is offering U.S. college students a free, one-year ride on Google One AI Premium — a fierce competitor to ChatGPT.

The deal translates into $20/month savings for a year — and gives those students access to some of the most advanced AI on the planet, including the Gemini Advanced chatbot, Deep Research, text editor Canvas and auto-video generation.

Observes Josh Woodward, vice president, Google Labs & Google Gemini: “To top all of this off, you’ll get 2 TB of storage, providing plenty of space for school projects, research, high-resolution media and your personal photos or videos.”

Currently, students are the number one users of Google’s chief competitor, ChatGPT, according to ChatGPT-maker OpenAI.

In other AI news and analysis:

*New ChatGPT AI Engine Smarter than 98% of Humans: Stick a fork in it: Apparently, the battle of wits between humans 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, according to a standardized bell-curve IQ distribution used in the benchmarking.”

Currently, ChatGPT runs on a number of specialized AI engines — including ChatGPT-40, which is rated best overall for writing.

ChatGPT-03 was designed to excel in reasoning, math and other hard sciences applications.

*Grok AI Chatbot Adds AI Writing Editor: Elon Musk’s answer to ChatGPT — the Grok AI Writer/Chatbot — has added an online editor for use when working with writing or code.

Dubbed Grok Studio, the editor is similar to the online editor ‘Canvas’ tool that ChatGPT added a few months back — which is also featured in a similar form on the Google AI chatbot Gemini.

Observes writer Eric Hal Schwartz: “One element that stands out, though, is that Grok Studio links with Google Drive and can pull in your files directly from Drive, including documents, spreadsheets and presentations.”

*ChatGPT Now Synthesizes Its Knowledge of You When Searching: ChatGPT will now synthesize analysis of how you use the chatbot when you do searches with the chatbot.

The result: Ideally, you should see more personalized results from your ChatGPT search, based on what ChatGPT thinks you’re looking for.

Observes writer Kyle Wiggers: “For example, for a user that ChatGPT ‘knows’ from memory is vegan and lives in San Francisco, ChatGPT may rewrite the prompt ‘what are some restaurants near me that I’d like’ as ‘good vegan restaurants, San Francisco.'”

*Quick Study: Update on ChatGPT’s Flurry of New Features: AI expert Kevin Stravert offers a great ‘How To’ overview on the flurry of new features that have popped-up in ChatGPT during the past few months in this video.

Click to this video for tips on how to get ChatGPT to do your research for you while you work on other tasks, AI-automate use of your writing and related apps — and much more.

Observes Stravert: “Whether you’re a student, creator, or professional, these updates are designed to supercharge your productivity and creativity.”

*United Arab Emirates Now Writing Laws With AI: While some industries fret over the implications of implementing AI, the UAE law community has gone full throttle instead.

Observes TechInAsia: “This initiative represents a significant change in the UAE’s legislative processes.

“The newly established Regulatory Intelligence Office will oversee this initiative, which aims to expedite law creation.”

*For Many, An Outrage: Some California Bar Exam Questions Were Written by AI: More than a few members of the California legal community are incensed that AI was used to help write some questions for the state’s Bar Exam.

Observes writer Benj Edwards: “The State Bar disclosed that its psychometrician — a person or organization skilled in administrating psychological tests, ACS Ventures — created 23 of the 171 scored multiple-choice questions with AI assistance.

Adds Mary Basick, assistant dean of academic skills, University of California: “The debacle that was the February 2025 bar exam is worse than we imagined.

“I’m almost speechless. Having the questions drafted by non-lawyers using artificial intelligence is just unbelievable.”

*Australians Duped: Radio DJ Presented as Human Is Really an AI: Listeners to ‘Australia’s Home of Hip Hop and R&B’ have been gas-lighted: The DJ for the show — presented as human — is really just AI-generated.

Essentially, the DJ has been on the air for about six months “without any disclosure that it’s an AI-generated presenter,” according to writer Simon Thomsen.

Adds Teresa Lim, vice president, Australian Association of Voice Actors: “Listeners deserve honesty and upfront disclosure — instead of a lack of transparency.”

*Chinese Competitor to ChatGPT ‘Profound Threat’ to U.S. Security: DeepSeek, the AI writer/chatbot that roiled the stock market in early 2025 after it was revealed that it only cost $6 million to create, is a profound security threat to the U.S., according to a U.S. Congressional Committee.

According to the committee’s report on DeepSeek, “the app siphons data back to the People’s Republic of China (PRC), creates security vulnerabilities for its users — and relies on a model that covertly censors and manipulates information pursuant to Chinese law.

“For these reasons, it is evident that the DeepSeek Web site and app act as a direct channel for foreign intelligence gathering on Americans’ private data.”

AI BIG PICTURE: AI ‘Pulse Check’ from the ‘Godfather of AI:’ Nobel laureate and key developer of AI Geoffrey Hinton is out with a new interview — and a new dose of potential gloom and doom.

Hinton, a former AI researcher at Google who left so he could more freely talk about AI’s dangers now says in this April 2025 interview that the emergence of AI agents — which enable AI to work independently from humans — has increased the chance that humanity could lose control of AI.

While Hinton freely admits that the ultimate trajectory of AI — either as an overall catalyst of good or evil in the world — is anyone’s guess, he adds that humanity needs to work much harder to prevent a dystopian outcome.

One of the key threats of AI’s breakneck development, according to Hinton: Bad actors who harness the tech for malicious — and potentially massively destructive ends.

Observes Hinton: “We’re at this very, very special point in history where in a relatively short time, everything might totally change — a change of scale we’ve never seen before.”

Bottom line: If you’re looking for an extremely in-depth, extremely informed and extremely insightful overarching look at the current — and short-term future — of AI, this 51-minute video is your ticket.

The video is presented by ‘CBS Mornings’ and squired by extremely talented and AI-knowledgeable interviewer, Brook Silva-Braga.

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Despite a flurry of new AI engines just released by OpenAI, the current default engine for the chatbot – ChatGPT-4o – is still the best, overall solution for writing.

That said, users may want to give the new OpenAI-o3 model a run if they’re looking for better reasoning and overall better performance when engaging in math, coding, science and other hard sciences.

Ditto for OpenAI-o4-mini and OpenAI-o4 mini-high. Both are designed to be less expensive to run than OpenAI-o3, but are touted as nearly as good as Open-AI-o3.

Plus, there is also a separate set of new AI engines – dubbed the GPT-4.1 family – also specially designed for help with computer coding.

Last, but not least, there’s also a GPT-4.5, which is sometimes better for writing than ChatGPT-4o.

But the AI engine is generally only available for limited use.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*ChatGPT Beats TikTok and Instagram in Downloads: In another popularity wars head-turner, ChatGPT became the most downloaded non-gaming app in March – beating-out TikTok and Instagram.

Observes writer Sarah Perez: “This is the first time the app has topped the monthly download charts and ChatGPT’s biggest month ever.

”According to new data, ChatGPT’s installs jumped 28% from February to March to reach 46 million new downloads during March.”

*The Shift: With AI Search Decimating Trips to Web Sites, Publishers Need to ‘Own’ Their Audiences: Given that Google’s AI Overview search service has reduced click-throughs to content sites by 54.6%, publishers need to develop readership not dependent on search, according to writer Lester Mapp.

The problem: The summaries provided by AI Overview are so good, the majority of people never bother clicking through to the info sources – media outlets, blogs, newsletters, etc. – feeding those summaries.

The solution: Publishers need to spend more time building their own audiences via newsletter and interaction on social media.

*New WordPress Add-On Automates Content Personalization: Writers working with WordPress can now use new AI to reconfigure a visitor’s reading journey based on individual interest.

Dubbed CHRS Interactive, the new suite of AI tools also helps automate Web site tasks and easily surface actionable insights.

Overall, the service is designed so that the AI interacts seamlessly with the writer’s/publisher’s existing WordPress Web site.

*Microsoft CoPilot Can Now Surf the Web With You: New AI added to CoPilot – and a key competitor to ChatGPT – now allows the app to surf the Web with you and ‘see what you see.’

The new capability is designed to help users interpret what they’re reading and seeing on their screens as they surf the Web – as well as help them use the Web apps they encounter.

The new AI feature also works offline for you – seeing what you see on your screen and helping you understand and work with what’s there.

*Google Docs Now Reads Your Writing Aloud: Take any college course in writing, and you’ll get the recommendation that reading your writing aloud is a great way to reveal what’s good and lacking in your authorship.

Fortunately, you can now have Google Docs read your writing aloud to get the same feedback – thanks to new AI Google added to the app.

Observes writer Jose Enrico: “This AI integration acts as a virtual writing assistant, providing you with a second pair of “ears” to pick up errors and hone clarity. It is especially useful for longer pieces where fatigue may blur objectivity.”

*ChatGPT-Competitor Claude Adds Independent Research: In the seemingly never-ending one-upmanship in AI research, Claude has added a new feature that enables the AI chatbot to do unsupervised research for you.

Observes writer Michael Nunez: “The new research capability enables Claude to independently conduct multiple searches that build upon each other while determining what to investigate next.

”Simultaneously, the Google Workspace integration connects Claude to users’ emails, calendars, and documents — eliminating the need for manual uploads.”

*Top Ten AI SEO Tools for Writers: Writer Osamu Ekhator offers an extremely in-depth look at the best SEO Tools for writers in this piece.

Some of Ekhator’s key takeaways:

~Some of the top AI SEO tools in 2025 include Writesonic, Surfer, and Jasper AI.

~Free AI-powered SEO tools like ChatGPT offer keyword suggestions and content ideas at no cost.

~YouTube SEO tools such as TubeBuddy and VidIQ help optimize video content for better discoverability.

*AI In Education: Using AI to Develop Critical Thinking: In a maverick move, a professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha is using AI to teach college students how to think critically.

Her approach: Students used ChatGPT to brainstorm research questions – then refined the AI’s responses into clearer, more usable questions when appropriate.

Plus, the students also used ChatGPT to develop an overall outline for a paper, which was again refined and sharpened as needed by the students.

Observes Martian Saltamacchia, PhD, the professor who came up with the novel approach: “My students have become more engaged in discussions about historical methodology, authorship, and the ethics of AI in scholarship.

“Many of them now feel more confident in their ability to use AI strategically while recognizing its limitations.

“More significantly, they have developed a deeper awareness of intellectual processes, understanding not just what they are doing in research and writing, but why these steps matter.”

*AI Big Picture: Marketing Campaigns Completely Automated by AI: Just a Matter of Time?: The days when entire marketing campaigns will be completely handled by AI may be soon upon us, according to writer Patrick Coffee.

Consumer health products company Opella “operates an AI ‘factory’ that produces advance care planning materials for medical professionals alongside the hundreds of Web pages, images and Instagram posts that it generates every day,” according to Coffee.

And marketing and tech services firm Monks recently released a minute-long video prototype for Puma that was fully AI-generated, according to Coffee.

The prediction of the fully automated marketing campaign makes sense.

Last year, the BBC released a bone-chilling example of how a 60+ marketing team was reduced to one editor after the introduction of AI.

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College students in the U.S. and Canada now have a standing invitation to try ChatGPT Plus — normally $20/month — gratis.

The free ride, which lasts through May 31, should be a big hit with those in the university set, who are by far the number one users of ChatGPT.

Observes writer Michael Nunez: “The education market represents a crucial battleground for AI companies.

“According to OpenAI, over one-third of U.S. adults aged 18-24 already use ChatGPT — with approximately 25% of their queries related to academic work.”

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*ChatGPT Now Interfaces With Your Company Data: Writers who use ChatGPT at work should appreciate this new perk: You can now link ChatGPT to your company’s internal database.

Observes writer Emilia David: “ChatGPT Team users — one of the company’s paid tiers — can connect internal knowledge databases directly to the platform.”

The advanced capability — fusing ChatGPT to business data — is the number one most requested feature from businesses, according to Nate Gonzalez, product leader, OpenAI.

*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.”

*One Writer’s Take: Top Ten Tools for AI Research: Scribes who rely heavily on AI for daily research will want to check-out this extremely in-depth guide by Osamu Ekhator.

Ekhator’s highlights on his ten favorite AI research tools: “The best AI for research supports tasks like idea generation, content creation and data analysis.

“AI tools like ChatGPT and Grammarly are exceptional for enhancing research writing and improving text quality.”

*Google Deep Research Gets an Upgrade: Writer Abner Li indicates that fans of Google Deep Research will find that the AI tool now has more punch.

Observes Li: “Gemini Advanced subscribers can now perform Deep Research with Google’s most intelligent 2.5 Pro (experimental) model.”

“Google says ‘raters preferred the reports generated by Gemini Deep Research powered by 2.5 Pro over other leading deep research providers by more than a 2-to-1 margin.'”

*Google Beefs-Up AI in Google Workspace: Writers using the globally popular Google Workspace platform can look forward to more AI in the apps they use there.

Writer Sabrina Ortiz reports that Google Meets, Chat, Docs, Vids and Sheets in Workspace have all been enhanced by AI with a new upgrade.

Adds Ortiz: “The updates even include agentic AI capabilities.”

*Horse Race for ‘Top AI Engine’ Crown: Much Tighter: There’s great news for writers and others who believe that fierce competition among top AI writers/chatbots keeps prices low.

A new study from Stanford University finds there are more contenders in the horse race of AI writers/chatbots — and that there is just a smidgeon of distance between the leader and the tenth-place contender.

Observes writer Tiernan Ray: “When ChatGPT first emerged, the top large language models (AI engines) were dominated by OpenAI and Google.

“That field now includes China’s DeepSeek AI, Elon Musk’s xAI, Anthropic, Meta Platform’s Meta AI and Mistral AI.”

*Get a Quick-Study on AI — Free-of-Charge: ChatGPT’s-maker OpenAI is offering a slew of free courses on the myriad facets of the new tech, dubbed ‘OpenAI Academy.”

Observes writer Pragati Chougule: “The academy offers a comprehensive suite of courses — covering fundamental concepts in AI, machine learning and deep learning.

“These courses are designed for individuals with varying levels of expertise — from beginners to experienced professionals.”

*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 that 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.”

*AI BIG PICTURE: Online Store Goliath Decrees: ‘No New Hires if AI Can Do the Job:’ Managers at online store platform Shopify just got a wake-up call from their CEO: If AI can do a job, don’t dare hire a human for the role.

Observes Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke: “Before asking for more headcount and resources, teams must demonstrate why they cannot get what they want done using AI.”

Ask yourself, Lutke adds: “What would this area look like if autonomous AI agents were already part of the team?”

So much for AI as the ‘happy, innocuous, buddy collaborator.’

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This year’s first quarter served-up a number of watershed moments in the breakneck development of AI writers / chatbots.

ChatGPT continued to turn heads with the announcement by its maker – OpenAI – that 400 million people now visit the ChatGPT Web site every week.

And ChatGPT also unveiled a number of new upgrades – including major advances in AI imaging, editing and overall writing performance for writers.

Meanwhile, a dark horse AI writer/chatbot from China – DeepSeek – stunned the world by releasing a chatbot alternative that was nearly as good as ChatGPT, but only cost pennies-on-the-dollar to make.

Here’s a look at all the stories for Q1 that convinced many writers – as well as those across a wide spectrum of industries — that we are now living in an ‘AI First’ world:

 *New Study Finds AI-Powered Writing a Big Hit Among Many White Collar Pros: Stanford University researchers have found that AI writing is being heavily embraced by many white collar workers.

Observes writer Matthias Bastian: “The impact is particularly noticeable in press releases, where up to 24% of content now comes from generative AI systems, or shows significant AI modification.

“The researchers suspect that actual AI adoption rates are higher than their analysis suggests.

“It likely missed heavily human-edited content and text from advanced AI models that closely mimic human writing.

“The study also didn’t examine other potential AI writing use cases, such as social media content creation.”

*Give ChatGPT a Standardized Personality – Including One that Edits: ChatGPT has come out with a new feature that enables you to create a standardized personality for the AI.

Essentially, you can now program ChatGPT to assume the personality and skills of a witty copy editor with deep knowledge of AI and a penchant for detail, for example — and rest assured that ChatGPT will assume that personality each time you log-on.

Before the new feature, users already had the ability to create the same personality for ChatGPT – but the prompt for the personality needed to be loaded into ChatGPT’s message box before each use.

*’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’s Online Editor Gets an Upgrade: Released just a few months ago, ChatGPT’s online editor ‘Canvas’ just got a performance boost.

The tool — great for polishing-up text created with ChatGPT — now runs on ChatGPT-o1, an AI engine that has been hailed for its advanced reasoning capabilities.

Observes writer Eric Hal Schwartz: “You can enable the o1 model in Canvas by selecting it from the model picker or typing the command: /canvas.”

For a comprehensive tour of ChatGPT’s editor, check out: “Ultimate Guide: New ChatGPT Editor, Canvas.”

*ChatGPT Sets New Record: 400 Million Weekly Users: Despite impressive challenges from competitors, ChatGPT still dominates the AI landscape — currently serving 400 million users each week.

Even better: ChatGPT use in business has also doubled in less than six months and is currently used at more than two million enterprises, according to writer Michael Nunez.

Observes Nunez: “The surge in enterprise adoption represents a crucial validation of OpenAI’s strategy to position ChatGPT as not just a chatbot for casual queries, but as a serious productivity tool for businesses.”

*The Number One Users of ChatGPT: Students: ChatGPT-Maker’s CEO Sam Altman just disclosed an eye-opening revelation in the Wall Street Journal: Most of the people using ChatGPT are students.

Given that 400 million people now visit the ChatGPT Web site every week, that means approximately 300-350 million of the people using ChatGPT are students (most).

The takeaway: The statistic explains that while ChatGPT can reduce writing time for simple tasks like email by as much as 90% or more, students are the people who have picked-up and run with that realization – not business pros.

That’s a problem for the lion’s share of business people who ‘get’ that AI writing is not simply coming – it’s here – but have yet to add AI to their toolbox.

Essentially: Colleges in the U.S. alone release 4 million new graduates each year into the U.S. workforce.

And you can bet that since 2023 — when ChatGPT became a force to be reckoned with across the globe — most U.S. college graduates walked into their first jobs already knowing how to automate their business writing with AI.

Something tells me their older brothers and sisters have gotten the memo, too.

*AI as Writing Instructor: K-12 Teachers Continue the Experiment: Despite fears that AI will undermine the learning of critical thinking, increasing numbers of teachers are embedding the tech in their day-to-day courses.

Observes writer Kayla Jimenez: “English teachers told USA TODAY they use AI tools to create homework assignments and quizzes. Others said the technology can take the place of a private tutor for their students — which reduces their workloads.”

Overall, 40% of U.S. English teachers have used AI in the classroom, according to a survey of 12,000 teachers and principals conducted by RAND American Educator Panels.

*Apple Kills Its AI News Summary Service: Smarting from glaring mistakes made by its AI news summary service, Apple has pulled the plug on the AI — at least for now.

One of the highest profile news media outlets disenchanted with Apple’s service is the BBC.

Earlier this month, Apple’s AI news summary service mistakenly reported that alleged CEO killer Luigi Mangione had shot himself — wrongly citing the BBC as the source of its summary.

Observes writer Tripp Mickle: “In a note to developers, Apple said it was working to improve summaries of notifications for news and entertainment apps.

“It plans to make the feature available again in a future software update.”

*ChatGPT’s New AI Image-Maker: ‘Astounding:’ ChatGPT’s new AI-image generator – perfect for writers looking to add supplemental images to their copy — has become a viral sensation across the Web.

Simultaneously embraced by millions of users as AI imaging’s ‘Next Big Thing,’ the new tool has been described as an ‘astounding’ leap forward by Al Samson, a graphic artist with 15+ years experience.

Essentially, the new tool features stunning imaging, extreme detail and much more control over the final image users are looking to create, according to Samson.

A few of the near-infinite number of use cases available with the AI imager include:
~precise image rendering in a photo-realistic or illustration style
~the ability to tweak an image of yourself to make yourself
look ‘more handsome,’ ‘more beautiful’ – or more or less exude any number of other qualities
~the ability to drop a reliable image of your product into any scene you can imagine
~instant-rendering of any image in your brand colors
~instantly recognizable caricatures of celebrities and the famous
~instant creation of a comic-strip in your desired style

While not perfect, Samson says the new imaging tool – which replaces ChatGPT imaging that used to run on the DALL-E AI imaging engine has grabbed the crown as “the best image-generation tool on the market.”

(Fans of DALL-E can still find that imaging tool in ChatGPT’s “GTPs” section.)

For an extremely informed and nuanced overview of everything ChatGPT’s new imaging tool has to offer, check-out Samson’s in-depth, extremely insightful, 29-minute video on the upgrade.

*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.”

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ChatGPT’s new AI-image generator – perfect for writers looking to add supplemental images to their copy — has become a viral sensation across the Web.

Simultaneously embraced by millions of users as AI imaging’s ‘Next Big Thing,’ the new tool has been described as an ‘astounding’ leap forward by Al Samson, a graphic artist with 15+ years experience.

Essentially, the new tool features stunning imaging, extreme detail and much more control over the final image users are looking to create, according to Samson.

A few of the near-infinite number of use cases available with the AI imager include:
~precise image rendering in a photo-realistic or illustration style
~the ability to tweak an image of yourself to make yourself
look ‘more handsome,’ ‘more beautiful’ – or more or less any number of other qualities
~the ability to drop a reliable image of your product into any scene you can imagine
~instant-rendering of any image in your brand colors
~instantly recognizable caricatures of celebrities and the famous
~instant creation of a comic-strip in your desired style

While not perfect, Samson says the new imaging tool – which replaces ChatGPT imaging that used to run on the DALL-E AI imaging engine has grabbed the throne as “the best image-generation tool on the market.”

(Fans of DALL-E can still find that imaging tool in ChatGPT’s “GTPs” section.)

For an extremely informed and nuanced overview of everything ChatGPT’s new imaging tool has to offer, check-out Samson’s in-depth, extremely insightful, 29-minute video on the upgrade.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*35% of Office Workers Now Use ChatGPT: Apparently, being first with a magical new tech has its advantages.

A new study from DeskTime finds that 35% of office workers worldwide now use ChatGPT in some capacity.

In contrast, office worker use of ChatGPT competitors – like Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude and Xai Grok – pales in comparison.

*AI Now a Major Force in Press Release Writing: A new study from Stanford University finds that 24% of press releases are now written by AI.

Observes Stanford University researcher Weixin Liang: “Even high-level international organizations like the United Nations showed roughly 14% LLM (AI chatbot) usage in its press releases.”

Adds writer Tor Constantino: “The research is among the largest empirical investigations of AI writing adoption, reviewing more than 300 million online documents and posts between 2022 and 2024.”

*Google Lunges Ahead to Number One Spot with New Chatbot Upgrade: In the never-ending horserace among the top AI chatbots, Google has lunged into first-place with its new Gemini 2.5 upgrade.

With the overhaul, the Gemini 2.5 chatbot beats-by-a-nose fierce competitors like ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude and Xai Grok.

Observes writer Amanda Caswell: “Gemini 2.5 is designed to comprehend vast amounts of data and handle complex problems across various information sources — including text, audio, images, video and even code repositories.”

*Another Columnist Discovers ChatGPT Can Do His Job: Add columnist Harley Hays to the growing cadre of writers who are discovering – often uncomfortably – that they have nothing on ChatGPT.

Hays asked ChatGPT to try its hand at writing the kind of columns he writes – and also to write columns using his personal writing style.

Hays’ reaction: Yikes!

*AI Writing Tools, On-the-Cheap: A new aggregation app – dubbed ‘Together Chat’ – is now offering free access to a number of AI writers/chatbots – although they’re not state-of-the art.

Writers looking to try-out a number of AI writers at no cost can sample an early version of the DeepSeek chatbot using the free Together Chat app – as well as versions of Llama, Qwen and Flux Schnell.

Observes Hassan El Mghari: “Whether you’re brainstorming ideas, drafting code, doing research with the Web, generating images, or exploring creative writing, Together Chat puts cutting-edge open-source AI at your fingertips.”

*Google Docs to Get AI Summaries: Google is promising to soup-up Google Docs with AI designed to summarize its documents for you.

Observes Jorge A. Aguilar: “Gemini’s summary can be added directly to the document, and users can update it if they change the original content.

“The AI summary tool is basically meant to make long documents easier to read and understand.”

*New Guide Released on ChatGPT for Work: OpenAI has dropped a new AI video primer on how to get the most from ChatGPT at work.

The video explores how ChatGPT has evolved since its introduction – including its enhancements in interactivity and customization.

The video also explores how ChatGPT can be used to work independently on specific tasks for you at work.

*The AI Takeover of Customer Service is Well Underway: A new study from Forrester Consulting finds that 52% of business decision-makers are looking to integrate AI into their customer service.

Observes Pete Lavache, CMO, Avaya – the company that commissioned the Forrester study:

“Companies know exceptional customer experiences drive revenue.

“The major hurdle is being able to actually orchestrate those experiences leveraging any — or every — AI tool they choose.”

*AI BIG PICTURE: Chinese ChatGPT Competitor: Ferociously Closing the Gap: China – once perceived as a year or more behind the U.S. in AI development – has quickly closed the gap with its new AI chatbot DeepSeek.

These days, China is probably just three months behind the U.S. in some facets of AI development because of its products like DeepSeek, according to AI expert Lee Kai-fu.

Moreover, Kai-fu added that on a few AI frontiers, China has actually pulled ahead of the U.S. in AI sophistication.

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New Study Finds AI Popular Among Less-Educated

New research from Stanford University reveals that ChatGPT and similar AI writers are surprisingly popular among those with less formal education.

Essentially, researchers found that regions in the U.S. featuring more tradespeople, artisans, craftsmen and similar are using AI writing more than people living in areas where college degrees are more prevalent.

The telling stats: 19.9% of people living in ‘less educated’ areas of the U.S. have adopted AI writing tools like ChatGPT – as compared to 17.4% in regions with higher education profiles.

Even more dramatic: Adoption in the state of Arkansas, where college degrees are less prevalent: A full 30% of people in Arkansas are using ChatGPT and similar AI to auto-write letters to businesses and government organizations.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*Microsoft’s ChatGPT Competitor – Copilot – Gets an Upgrade: Microsoft has rolled-out a new version of its AI writer/chatbot Copilot, which it says is now more deeply embedded into its Windows software.

In part, the change was made in response to user complaints over previous versions of Copilot, which they say operated more like a ‘wrapper’ or outside app that ‘felt’ only weakly linked to Windows software.

With the upgrade, Microsoft is promising users will see marked performance gains from Copilot.

*ChatGPT Competitor Claude: Great for Auto-Writing Pre-Meeting Reports: Mike Krieger, chief product officer, Anthropic is pushing a new use case for the company’s ChatGPT-competitor, Claude.

Essentially, the AI tech can be used to scan calendars and company data to auto-write detailed client reports before a meeting, according to Krieger.

Observes writer Muslim Farooque: “With this move, Anthropic is taking on big players like Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google — all racing to dominate AI-powered business tools.

*One Writer’s Take: Google Has the Best AI Writing Editor: Count writer Amanda Caswell is among those who strongly prefer Google’s new editor for AI writing – Canvas – over ChatGPT’s online editor that carries the same name.

Observes Caswell: “Gemini Canvas is far more thorough and detailed in its critique than ChatGPT Canvas. It’s essentially a real editor. ChatGPT made me feel like my mom was editing the story and was sparing my feelings.

“In a word: Wow.”

*College Rolling-out New Certificate in AI Writing: Beginning Fall 2025, students at Boise State College can obtain a certificate in AI writing after completing three courses on the discipline.

Those are:

~Writing For/With AI

~Applications of AI (with a strong focus on content production)

~Style and the Future of AI Writing

*AI Tech Titans Want to Use Copyrighted Writing for Free: ChatGPT-maker OpenAI – and Google – are looking for clearance from the U.S. government to train their AI on newspaper, magazine and other copyrighted text on the Web for free.

The reason: Given China’s recent major gains in tightening-up the AI race, U.S. AI purveyors need every advantage to stay ahead of China.

Currently, many content creators – including The New York Times – are suing OpenAI for using their content to train ChatGPT without permission.

*On the Research Bench: Text-To-Data-Driven Slides: Adobe is currently experimenting with new AI tech that promises to convert data-heavy research into vibrant slide presentations in Powerpoint.

Dubbed ‘Project Slide Wow,’ the experimental tech is aimed at marketers and business analysts looking to quickly build data-backed presentations without being forced to manually structure content or design slides.

Observes Jane Hoffswell, research scientist, Adobe: “It’s analyzing all the charts in this project, generating captions for them, organizing them into a narrative and creating the presentation slides.”

Currently, Adobe has no firm release date for the experimental slide-maker.

*ChatGPT-Maker’s AI Agents: The Complete Rundown: Writer Siddhese Bawker offers an excellent overview in this piece on the tiers of AI agents currently available from OpenAI.

Such agents are able to work independently on a task for you, which might include clicking-and-pointing with your browser to research, analyze and then auto-write on what it found.

Even better: Extremely advanced AI agents are able to perform such tasks with PhD-level intelligence.

OpenAI’s entry-level agent is included in a ChatGPT Pro subscription ($200/month.)

Higher level agents are OpenAI’s Knowledge Worker Agent ($200/month), Developer Agent ($10,000/month) and Research Agent ($20,000/month).

*ChatGPT Wants to be the Interface for Your Data: Businesses hoping to integrate their databases with ChatGPT — so they can use the AI to analyze and auto-write reports about that data and more — may not have to wait long.

Writer Kyle Wiggers reports that OpenAI is currently testing in-house developed ‘connectors’ that will ideally make such fusions possible.

So far, development of connectors to Google Drive and Slack is already underway.

Observes Wiggers: “ChatGPT Connectors will allow ChatGPT Team subscribers to link workspace Google Drive and Slack accounts to ChatGPT so the chatbot can answer questions informed by files, presentations, spreadsheets and Slack conversations.”

*AI BIG PICTURE: New Hyper-Realistic Voice AI Goes Viral: A new AI voice sensation – Sesame AI – appears ready to dethrone Eleven Labs as the industry standard in realistic voice AI.

Essentially, the Web has blown-up with praise for Sesame AI, which apparently generates AI voices that are so real and human, their sheer intimacy disturbs some people.

Even so: AI Uncovered – producer of this 11-minute video – does note that Eleven Labs still beats Sesame AI when it comes to auto-generating spoken word from a script.

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