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Meta AIs new Llama 4 app has access to Facebook, Instagram

Meta AIs standalone app has access to your Facebook and Insta, and will let you share prompts with friends. — Meta AIs standalone will also let you share prompts with friends. (Picture: Meta)

Meta’s Llama 4 might just be the largest AI deployment in the world, having rolled out across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Now it’s getting its own standalone app.

Meta’s blog post touts the potential of linking it with your other Meta accounts so it can get to know you better, and says the app will remember things about you that you explicitly ask it to retain — or information you already shared on Facebook, for example.

This is slightly off what ChatGPT offers outside the EU, where the app will add all previous chats to its «memory.» The memory feature in Meta AI is also not available in the EU, limiting this service to the USA and Canada for now.

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ChatGPT debuts shopping and product reviews

Chatgpt’s new shopping panels will look familiar to those who use Google for shopping. (Picture: OpenAI)

As the AI app crosses 1 billion searches per week, they are now making it easier to shop and look for reviews on the platform, in what could be the first steps towards monetization.

The new feature will produce «improved product results» and show product cards with images and prices, pulling product reviews from sites like professional publishers and forums like reddit, and often presenting reviews with star ratings, writes The Verge.

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Microsoft: 81% of SMBs see 2025 as pivotal year for AI at work

Microsoft says AI will upend the workplace, and it will happen sooner than you think. (Picture: Joe McKendry/Microsoft)

People are overworked and under pressure to produce ever more, Microsoft’s new «2025 Work Trend Index» report finds.

Enter AI agents to alleviate the press, they say, and 79 % of leaders concur. Most are now planning to use AI to boost productivity within the next 12 to 18 months.

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No, an AI is not running that radio show in Australia

This person is not real, it’s an ai presenter for an afternoon radio show in Australia. (Picture: www.cada.com.au)

Anyone with even basic understanding about radio production and modern AI capabilities knows that’s simply not true.

The story doing the rounds this week is that an ai «bot» called Thy is running a four hour radio show on Australias CADA channel. It’s hit the mainstream press and is reported by The Verge, The Independent and The Sydney Morning Herald, to name few.

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Google’s Gemini reaches 350 million monthly users

Gemeni's users have skyrocketed from last year. — Gemeni’s users have skyrocketed from last year. (Picture: Google)

Google showed off an internal slide of monthly active users for its Gemini AI models, hitting a strong benchmark as of March 2025.

The same slide showed daily traffic was at 35 million active users.

Impressive growth
That signals an exponential growth from around 10 million monthly active users from late last year, reports Ars Technica.

It also shows the reach that’s been possible by defaulting to Gemini over Assistant on Android phones and the strength of offering 2.5 Pro to free users just a short while ago. Gemini is also the default assistant on Galaxy phones

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OpenAI expects positive cash flow, $125 billion in sales by 2029

OpenAI predicts astronomical revenue by the end of the decade. (Picture: Conceptphoto.info, CC BY 2.0)

ChatGPT use is up to about «something like 10% of the world» said CEO Sam Altman, putting the numbers reached at roughly 800 million people, according to Pymnts.com, but that won’t be the main driver of income in coming years.

The company said in March that it anticipates revenue above $11.6 billion in 2025 – nearly tripling its 2024 numbers. It will then jump from $125B in 2029 to $174B in 2030.

Revenue will rise significantly once it can develop and charge for AI agents, and «free user monetization,» according to Slashdot.

What that «monetization» will entail is unclear so far, but Pymnts.com says they have considered things such as charging affiliate fees on links, giving it a cut of sales generated from the platform.

According to this post on r/singularity, they are not currently considering considering selling traditional advertising, but that references a December FT.com article and may well have changed.

Read more at paywalled The Information, a writeup on Pymnts.com, March 16. report on Reuters and discussion on r/singularity.

Google paying «enormous sums» for Gemini on Samsung phones

Google is using financial muscle to gain market share with Samsung users. (Picture: Google)

As the antitrust remedy trial against Google continues, Google’s vice president of platforms and device partnerships, Peter Fitzgerald said in court on Monday that Googles payments started in January, after Google was found in breach of antitrust laws for paying Apple and others for placements of search products.

The two year deal included monthly payments and a share of ad revenue, writes The Verge.

The aim of the deal is to give Gemini the pride of being the default AI assistant og Galaxy phones, which sell a ton worldwide.

Should Google loose the trial, which is only for remedies after earlier being found guilty of a monopoly in advertising, they would be forbidden from deals like these, will have to sell Chrome, and open search data to licensing deals.

Read more at The Verge, at 9to5Google and a paywalled Bloomberg.

Tariffs could cost Meta $7 billion in advertising loss

Meta stands to lose big on China revenue. (Picture: www.shopcatalog.com, CC BY 2.0)

Analysts at MoffettNathanson have published a new research report that notes Metas total China revenue was $18.35 billion last year — or 11% of its total sales, according to CNBC.

Should the China tariffs stay in place, they are likely to influence the ad buying of fast fashion brands like Shein and Temu, which are some of the biggest advertisers on Facebook and Instagram.

— While Meta does not provide a country-level breakdown of revenue within Europe, we logically can presume that China is Meta’s second-largest revenue source after the United States — a remarkable position for a country where Meta has no users or active platforms, say the analysts in the report, according no CNBC.

If a feared recession should also hit this year, it could wipe $23 billion in revenue off balance sheet for Facebook — a 25% decrease.

Advertising is usually the first thing businesses cut in a downturn, hitting consumer facing businesses hard, and especially news and the media.

Read more at CNBC

OpenAI interested in buying Chrome

Google could be forced to sell Chrome, and Openai is interested in buying it. — Google be forced to slll Chrome, and Openai is interested in buying it.

If the the prosecution prevails in the current USA vs Google antitrust case, they could be forced to divest the most popular browser on the planet.

Now OpenAI’s ChatGPT head of product, Nick Turley, said in open court that they «would be interested» in buying it, according to Reuters.

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Anthropic: Virtual employees will arrive next year

Virtual employees are step uup mere agents, say Anthropic. — Virtual employees are a step up mere agents and could be roaming the offces pretty soon. (Picture: Anthropic)

In a recent interview with Axios focusing mostly on security issues, Anthropic said «virtual employees» will be a step up from using mere «agents» on corporate networks.

This will be the next AI innovation, said Jason Clinton, the company’s chief of information security.

Whereas agents can focus on specific, programmable tasks, acts with some autonomy and of course require oversight, a «virtual employee» takes it a step further, with having their own memories and their own corporate accounts and passwords.

This is a major headache for cybersecurity, Clinton further explained, about oversight and hackability of the new employees.

Go read the full story here – at Axios, and check out Anthropics research on agents.

Cluely AI app will let you «cheat on anything»

Cluely AI is a "hidden" window over your browser that gives you the answers you need. — Cluely AI is a “hidden” window over your browser that gives you the answers you need. (Picture: Cluely)

The new AI startup is founded by Chungin “Roy” Lee and Neel Shanmugam, who recently made waves for using AI to cheat at Columbia University and at Amazon. Now they are going pro with a new app, hidden from even screen recorders.

AI cheating is, of course, a huge problem at schools and colleges and even for remote job interviews already, with many returning to in-person, written exams, and now these two are taking it to the next level.

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Netflix CEO says AI can make movies better, not just cheaper

AI puts advanced tools in the hands of low budget creators, says Co-CEO Ted Sarandos. (Picture: Netflix)

James Cameron says we need AI in blockbuster movies to make them 50% cheaper. Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos rebuts this week that we can use it to make them «10% better» instead.

The debate started last week when Cameron took to a podcast to explain his board role at Stability AI, claiming he wanted to «figure out» the technology and how it can help in movies.

— If we want to continue to see the kinds of movies that I’ve always loved and that I like to make and that I will go to see — ‘Dune,’ ‘Dune: Part Two,’ or one of my films or big effects-heavy, CG-heavy films — we’ve got to figure out how to cut the cost of that in half, Cameron said, according to Variety last week.

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ChatGPT o3 and o4-mini are big steps toward AI agents

The models are inching ahead in benchmarks, but multimodality is where they truly shine. (Picture: OpenAI)

OpenAI’s latest model drop hints at a future where agents can do most of our work — and is proving the point with image processing.

The new reasoning models are managing an ever so slight lead in many benchmarks and therefore earns the right to be called state of the art, but of particular note is that they improve on GPT o1 and 03-mini by almost 30% in the coding benchmark SWE-Bench Verified, OpenAI claims in their launch post.

— These are the smartest models we’ve released to date, representing a step change in ChatGPT’s capabilities for everyone from curious users to advanced researchers, says OpenAI.

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New ChatGPT 4.1 coding family drastically reduces costs

The GhatGTP 4.1 are smarter than 4o, but are otherwise bang on average. (Picture: OpenAI9

Sam Altman of OpenAI teased this weekend that we were in for a week of big launches, and chatter was about an open source model that would be better than anything available.

On Monday night, though, the AI company launched ChatGPT 4.1, 4.1-mini and 4.1-nano, which at first seem a bit underwhelming.

While you might be getting tired of ChatGPT’s word salad lineup, these latest models offer mostly cost efficiency and larger input levels for coding tasks. They won’t be available in the app — but are instead rolled out on the API.

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ChatGPT memory now includes all past chats

No more re-entering facts in ChatGPT. It now remembers the past. (Picture: OpenAI)

In a huge move for ChatGPT, all previous chats will be considered something akin to the «memory»-feature in coming updates to the Plus and Pro segments.

The feature is supposed to make ChatGPT more personal and relevant to users, and you wont have to manage the paltry «memories»-storage any more, writes TechCrunch.

Here’s the official announcement from OpenAI:

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