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In today’s issue, OpenAI brings GIF creation and advanced cyber capabilities to ChatGPT while teaming up with a banking giant, Perplexity introduces its always-on AI agent, and Google makes AI video generation 30% cheaper.
These are today's updates.
OpenAI has a busy few days with back to back launches
Perplexity launches its always-on AI agents for ongoing work
Google introduces Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash
Grok Bot can now make phone calls for you
Tools, jobs, resources, and last issue’s winning prompt ⬇️
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Top News
OpenAI gives your next campaign a creative upgrade with ChatGPT Images 2.6. You can now turn prompts or photos into animated GIFs, tweak individual frames, adjust the speed, and save your favourite characters for reuse across campaigns. You can do it all directly in ChatGPT. And if you use AI image generation in your own tools, the new API models make image generation 50% faster!
On the security side, OpenAI launched GPT-6 Cyber for select Daybreak Red customers. Amongst its early results, the model helped generate and validate patches for 948 Linux privilege-escalation vulnerabilities, at the cost of about $1,000 per vulnerability. It also identified 81 high-severity Firefox flaws. Mozilla, Palo Alto Networks, Calif and Cisco are among its early users.
OpenAI is also teaming up with JPMorganChase to explore how Codex can support their enterprise in helping engineers build, security teams defend, and employees and customers benefit from more capable AI. Greg Brokman’s vision is to use advanced AI to protect the financial system at a level that wasn’t possible before. Get more interesting details here.
You know the weekly report nobody wants to do? Now Perplexity’s Teammates does it for you. Much like Grok Bot agents, once you set it for a role it keeps working without a fresh prompt each time. Apart from Projects, Skills and Memory, you can also add it to a Slack channel where coworkers can assign it work, and it follows up with people there.
Max Users can create a teammate for free for a limited time. It’s available on the web for Max subscribers at $200 a month (after the free limit), with mobile and desktop apps coming soon. You can also check out how it compares with OpenAI’s Dots and Claude Duet here.
Google’s Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash creates up to 15 seconds in one go, with steadier scenes, fewer jump cuts, smoother character speech and closer adherence to any reference images you upload. Social teams, ad creatives and founders who need quick product videos get the most out of it. Through the API, 720p costs $0.07 per second, 30% less than before and roughly $1 per clip.
You can create 15-second clips in Google Vids at no extra cost, while Flow is adding multi-turn scene editing. Google AI Ultra subscribers can also generate 15-second clips in the Gemini app, developers can try it in Google AI Studio, and businesses can use it through Gemini for Business and Google Ads. Watch the demo to see it in action.
Don’t miss this: Grok Bot can now make phone calls for you. You can follow the live transcript, jump into the conversation, or end the call anytime. To try it, open the Grok Bot app and ask it to make a call. Grok Bot is included with eligible paid plans, including X Premium, Super and Ultra, but phone-call access is still rolling out and regional availability hasn’t been confirmed. Get more details here.
Signals
Tools
Wispr Flow: The best AI-powered voice-to-text tool to write faster and get more done*
Notch Metrics: Use Claude Code to build analytics widgets for your notch
DeepCell: Beat deadlines with ready-to-use docs, spreadsheets, and slides
Resources
Poll
Choose a prompt you want us to publish next
Market
Funding
Fal raised $1.3B to scale its AI inference infrastructure
Applied Compute raised $350M to accelerate its enterprise AI infrastructure business
Roles in AI
Post-Production Lead at ElevenLabs
Senior Product Marketing Manager, GTM at Salesforce
Think Tank
You’re only scratching the surface of what Claude can actually do if you do not know about the latest Claude upgrades. From AI-powered documents and dashboards to autonomous workflows, custom skills, and agents, Claude has evolved into much more than a chatbot. This video breaks down 25 essential Claude concepts (plus a bonus!) that could completely change how you work, even if you’ve never written a line of code.
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Prompt of the Day
AI Talent Skills Mapper
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Use this prompt when you need to understand whether your team has the right capabilities to deliver on business priorities, particularly during organizational transformation, digital adoption, restructuring, expansion, or annual workforce planning.
Act as a strategic workforce planning consultant and talent intelligence advisor. Help me assess, map, and optimize the skills and capabilities within my team or organization to align with current business objectives and future workforce needs.*
Analyze the information I provide and develop a practical talent skills map that covers the following areas:*...
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