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📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?
💧 OpenAI’s text watermark stops at the EU border
📱 Apple invites developers to submit iPhone Duo-ready apps
🛍️ TikTok Launched an AI Shopping Assistant
💡 AI Tutorial:How to Set Up and Use OpenAI Dots
🤯 6 new AI Tools
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U.S.-based Reflection AI, the $25B startup by former DeepMind researchers, just introduced Beam, an open-weight model for coding and agents that the company says competes with Chinese rivals at lower cost and greater efficiency. Reflection claims Beam needs a fraction of the computing power of Chinese lab Z.ai’s GLM-5.2, but achieves similar scores across reasoning, coding, and more.
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Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) just released the 7th edition of its Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps, adding a new 50-app ranking by U.S. card spending alongside fresh takes on the chatbot race, personal agents, and how AI apps are making money. ChatGPT has 3x the U.S. paid subscribers of its rivals, while Claude caught up to Gemini this summer and shows strong high-tier monetization.
OpenAI introduced textGrain, a hidden watermark headed for ChatGPT and Codex output across the EU in the next few weeks to satisfy the AI Act’s labeling rules, with API customers worldwide also free to switch it on for select models. textGrain subtly leaves a pattern in text content that's invisible to readers but readable by a detector, which OAI says does not impact output quality or speed.
Apple is now accepting submissions of iPhone Duo-optimized apps and games. Xcode 27.1 Release Candidate 1 features support for building and testing apps and games for the iPhone Duo. Developers can now submit iPhone Duo-optimized apps and games in App Store Connect. App Store product pages will display a badge to let people know apps are optimized for the iPhone Duo.
TikTok would like you to never leave the For You feed again. The app launched a conversational shopping assistant Monday that remembers your sizing and preferences, plus one-click checkout that buys straight from brands mid-scroll. Salesforce, Shopify, Shoplazza and Stripe are wired in behind it... which is one way to stop shoppers from asking ChatGPT about a product instead.
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The DTC beauty category is crowded. To break through, Jennifer Aniston’s brand LolaVie, worked with Roku Ads Manager to easily set up, test, and optimize CTV ad creatives. The campaign helped drive a big lift in sales and customer growth, helping LolaVie break through in the crowded beauty category.
AI Tutorial
How to Set Up and Use OpenAI Dots
OpenAI Dots lets you create an AI helper that can work with your apps, files, and tasks. Here is how to set one up:
Open ChatGPT on desktop or the desktop app.
Click Dots, create a new Dot, and name it.
Connect apps like Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Slack, or other supported tools.
Choose whether the Dot can access your computer and files.
Set permissions for what it can do automatically and what needs your approval.
Give it a task, such as checking your email and calendar each morning.
Track its work under In Progress, Scheduled, and Completed.
If you don't see Dots, it may not be available for your account or region yet. So, use a VPN
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