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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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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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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