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📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?
🤖 The Frontier Labs Lost the Moat
⚖️ OpenAI’s feud with mathematicians is only escalating
🤖 Amazon pilots ad services in ChatGPT
💡 AI Tutorial:Turn any Google Sheets into an app
🤯 6 new AI Tools
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And don’t forget to tell us what you thought about today’s newsletter at the end!
Astra is drawing more demand than OpenAI’s systems can handle. New Pro subscriptions have been paused to provide better access for existing users, while they work to meet the rush. OpenAI paused new $200-a-month Pro signups, with a product lead calling Astra demand "unprecedented"
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Google’s AI assistant now opens over your work with a keyboard shortcut. The Windows app brings chat, tasks, image creation, and video gen together, keeping help close.
The NSA, CISA, and FBI named six Chinese AI firms (DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI) for industrial-scale distillation of Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok since late 2024, likely with Chinese government knowledge. China calls the claims groundless. The reveal sits in the mitigations: the agencies admit detection cannot separate thieves from customers, and advise labs to secretly degrade responses, or quietly route suspects to weaker models, without saying so.
Amazon advertisers will be able to extend their campaigns into conversational experiences on ChatGPT as part of a new partnership between the e-commerce giant and the chatbot’s developer OpenAI, according to news shared with Marketing Dive.
Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work as they seek to one-up each other with solutions to famous math problems. Each signatory has been awarded the Fields Medal, considered the most prestigious prize in mathematics.
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AI Tutorial
Turn any Google Sheets into an app
Open the Google Sheet you want to use.
Click the Gemini icon in the top right.
In the settings, select "Create canvas."
Describe the app you want to create. For example: "Create a dashboard based on this data."
Gemini will generate the app, with the sheet essentially serving as its database.
You'll not only be able to visualize the data but also input new data.
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⚡️Quick AI News Roundup
💼Thinking Machines co-founder Andrew Tulloch is moving from Meta to Anthropic
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