Some expect the company to launch Odyssey — a rumored blend of deep research, agentic capabilities, and access to your Drive files, and they seem on the money. If true, it could revolutionize coding and research workflows.
Others are fixated on the cursor in the teaser, which circles through five points — surely that must mean ChatGPT-5? Meanwhile, another camp is betting on the long-awaited OpenAI browser, complete with built-in agents.
Speculation is running hot. The only way to know for sure? Tune in later — or tune out and catch the fallout in the news.
Just add a little detail, and Google will call up the store for you. Time and hassle saved. (Picture: Google)In a big update for Google’s AI Mode today, they are also adding Gemini 2.5 Pro for Pro and Ultra users.
The call ahead feature has been added to Google’s search results pages, but first you have to search for something that might qualify.
Google suggests something like «pet groomers near me,» and this enables the «Have AI check pricing»-feature.
From there, you get a couple of quick questions about your pet and the services you need, when you need it, and how to update you.
Google takes care of it
Google’s AI takes it from there, calls up the service you wanted and asks about pricing and availability. Then it can update you with a text or email message.
Looking at the seedier underbelly of the Internet for inspiration? NSFW and profanity laden animated avatars lead the way for Grok.Just a few hours after Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot launched two AI animated avatars, the Internet had a chance to test them out.
One is a sexy anime waifu called Ani, that «is obsessed» with you and totally in love. The bot gets more and more NSFW as you progress and «level up» to lingerie views and increasingly raunchy chats, writes TechCrunch.
AI strategy might be on the move at Meta, according to reports. (Picture: Dylan Tweney, CC BY 2.0)According to a New York Times article out today, the top leadership of the new Superintelligence Labs at Meta have held internal discussions on ditching open source models.
They have reportedly stopped testing on the open source Behemoth model, after it delivered «underwhelming» performance, TechCrunch reports.
«Unchanged» policy
They also caution that discussions are just discussions and don’t reflect official policy from the social media giant.
xAI apologizes for «horrific behavior» and blames «extremist views» while bringing @grok back on x.com. (Picture from x.com)After the Grok 3 implementation on x.com started producing racist, antisemitic, Hitler-adoring rants, it was shut for three to four days — but now it’s back with a brand new system prompt.
— We have removed that deprecated code and refactored the entire system to prevent further abuse. The new system prompt for the @grok bot will be published to our public github repo, the owners of the @grok account write:
Open weights means people get to thinker under the hood of the model, a first for OpenAI. (Picture: generated).CEO Sam Altman just tweeted another delay to their open-weight model, due to security concerns, saying «once weights are out, they can’t be pulled back.»
OpenAI had previously planned for June release, and then postponed it to «later this summer,» claiming great progress and that the team was «excited» about the new model.
Very good, or just recycled o-series?
It was supposed to be a «very good model,» but «our research team did something unexpected and quite amazing,» @sama said on June 11.
Just as talks with OpenAI ended, Windsurf turned to Google. (Picture: Windsurf)OpenAI had been negotiating a $3 billion to acquire the agentic coding platform, but Google just snagged their top executives to work in their field for its Gemini platform.
The deal will see Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen and a small team join Google’s DeepMind division.
Also licensing key tech
Further, Google will invest $2.4 billion in a non-exclusive deal to license Windsurf’s technology, reports Reuters, among others.
Image-to-video generation comes to Veo 3
After opening up Veo 3 worldwide for Gemini Pro users and teasing the feature last week, it’s finally gone live globally.
It is now possible to upload a picture and have it animated in an 8-second 720p video if you are a Gemini Pro ($20/month) or Ultra ($250/month) user.
Simply upload a photo, add any instructions for the scene you want to create, and two minutes later you should have a nicely animated video. Google also says they have generated over 40 million videos since Veo 3’s inception in May. More at Google’s blog and on 9to5Google.
In coming update, Youtube will demonetize «inauthentic» content
In a battle against «AI slop,» as in mass produced, unoriginal content chruned out at scale and made by AI tools, Youtube is now saying they will clarify their position on «inauthentic» content on July 15. They already have an extensive page on AI tools, but requires their use to be «original» and «authentic» and is seeing a lot of misuse. These videos will likely be demonetized shortly. More at Youtube’s policy updates, and Gizmodo bemoans AI slop, as usual.
Alphabet’s Isomorphic Labs promises a cure for every disease
Isomorphic Labs president Colin Murdoch has spoken to Fortune about his ambitions to use AI discovery to find cures for just about anything. They are a spinoff from the AlphaFold unit and are «collaborating with AI to design drugs for cancer,» «right now,» he says.
The next stage is doing human trials on some of the drugs they have discovered, which can be a long and cumbersome process, but is crucial to getting the drugs approved.
«We’re staffing up now. We’re getting very close,» says Murdoch, and «we’re making good progress.» Read the full interview at Fortune.
A ChatGPT-based browser could look a little like this screenshot of OpenAI’s Operator. (Picture: OpenAI)Rumors have been spinning since the company hired two Google vice presidents who were part of the original Chrome team.
Now, Reuters is reporting that it’s just around the corner.
Grok had a busy couple of days at x.com after getting “unfiltered.” (Picture: x.ai)Note: This post contains links to offensive content: After a deluge of hate filled, anti-semitic replies, often hailing Hitler, questioning Jews in the movie industry and saying democrats are detrimental to society, Grok replies has been turned off on X.com, according to Express Tribune.
This comes after a morning of massive backlash against the bots «politically incorrect» settings, and «serving up unfiltered truths» — the entiremainstreammedia piled on to the bots inflammatory and upsetting replies.
ChatGPT usage is way up in K-12 schools, and now teachers are getting a leg up in how to use it better. (Picture: Wesley Fryer, CC BY 2.0)With help and funding from Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic, the American Federation of Teachers hopes to educate 400 000 teachers across the USA in ethical AI use in classrooms.
The program will begin right away with virtual, online training for all 1.8 million members of the union, and in New York City with a «three-day training session, including six hours of AI-focused material that highlighted practical, hands-on ways to marry the emerging technology with established pedagogy.»
Already used by a fourth of students According to the latest data, from February 2025, 79% of teens said they had heard about ChatGPT, while 26% admitted to using it in schoolwork — and there are a plethora of other tools available.
Meta is looking to kickstart its AI teams after a string of mishaps. (Picture: Meta)The top AI executive and 15-year Google veteran was offered «tens of millions» in compensation to join the Superintelligence Labs at Meta.
Pang was in charge of roughly 100 developers making Apple’s Foundational models, powering features the company calls «Apple Intelligence,» and is found in every corner of iOS 26, such as email summaries, notifications and Genmoji — that was all over the latest WWDC 2025.
Bad vibes at Apple Bloomberg (paywalled) writes that news of Apple considering other models than its in-house ones to power a smarter Siri has impacted the morale at the foundational model team, and MacRumors says that other engineers are also entertaining offers from outside companies.
Grok is churning out what itself called antisemitic myths just a few days ago. (Picture: x.ai)Just after Elon Musk announced the update to Grok, his AI model, the X.com chatbot started writing in first person about his encounters with Jeffrey Epstein.
This piece of 1977 hardware hardly broke a sweat beating Copilot in chess. (Picture: Wikipedia) TikTok gets a taste of racist Veo 3-generations
Racist and dehumanizing Veo 3 videos aimed at blacks and immigrants are raking in millions of views on TikTok, MediaMatters reports.
The videos depict black people as monkeys with warrants, decries missing parents and calls them «the usual suspects.» Some of these 8-second videos, complete with watermarks, had 3 to 4 million views at the time they were discovered. — We proactively enforce robust rules against hateful speech and behavior and have removed the accounts we identified in the report, many of which were already banned prior to the report publishing, says TikTok in a statement to Mashable.
For higher engagement, Meta’s chatbots will reach out first
Users of Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram could soon receive unprompted messages to ask about recent conversations, according to leaked documents seen by Business Insider. This is intended for bots made in Meta’s AI Studio, which lets users create custom chatbots. These will remember past chats and preferences, and will «follow up with you to share ideas or ask additional questions,» says a Meta spokesman.
Microsoft’s Copilot also sucks at chess
After first brimming with confidence and promising a «strong fight,» claiming to think 10-15 moves ahead, «remember previous moves and maintain continuity in gameplay» and that «our match should be much smoother» against the Atari 2600 chess simulator from 1977, Copilot went the way of ChatGPT by failing miserably in their game. By the seventh turn, it had lost two pawns, a knight and a bishop, while the Atari had only lost a single pawn. It went south from there, as reported by The Register.
