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OpenAI Upgrades ChatGPT Images With GPT Image 1.5 and Faster Edits - OpenAI just rolled out a new ChatGPT Images model—and says it’s up to 4× faster with more precise edits that preserve lighting, composition, and people’s appearance. The API version, GPT Image 1.5, also brings improved logo/brand consistency and 20% cheaper image inputs/outputs. If you create marketing visuals or product images, this update is worth a look.
Google Labs Launches CC, an AI Agent That Organizes Your Day Using Gemini - Google Labs has launched CC, an experimental AI productivity agent built with Gemini that delivers a personalized “Your Day Ahead” briefing straight to Gmail. By organizing schedules, tasks, and follow-ups across Google’s core services, CC offers a glimpse into how AI could soon manage attention—not just apps.
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Introducing OpenAI Academy for News Organizations - OpenAI has launched the OpenAI Academy for News Organizations, a tailored learning community offering practical AI trainings, playbooks, and real-world examples to help editorial, business, and tech teams integrate AI tools responsibly and effectively within newsrooms. This initiative aims to accelerate AI literacy across the media industry.
A pay-to-scrape AI licensing standard is now official - A new open specification called Really Simple Licensing (RSL) 1.0 is now official, giving web publishers and creators the ability to define machine-readable licensing and compensation rules for how AI systems access, scrape, and use their content. This could be a turning point in how AI training data is governed across the web.
Introducing Mistral 3 - French AI startup Mistral AI has unveiled Mistral 3, a new family of open-source multimodal, multilingual AI models including the powerful Mistral Large 3 and compact variants (14B, 8B, 3B) under the Apache 2.0 license. With performance and flexibility designed for everyone from edge developers to enterprise use, this release is shaping up to be one of the most significant open AI model launches yet.
Quickly iterate on Sora videos with a simple automation
In this tutorial, learn how to generate bulk Sora videos automatically using a simple Make.com automation that watches your Google Sheet prompts and uploads completed videos to Google Drive.
Step-by-step:
Duplicate this Google Sheet Template, then sign into Make.com and create a new scenario with the Google Sheets ‘Watch Rows’ trigger
Add a Sora module with your API key (create one if needed + verify org), then create a Google Drive folder and add ‘Upload a File’ module
Add a Google Sheets ‘Update a Row’ module that updates the drive link column with the ‘Web View link,’ then write prompts in your sheet with ID numbers and click ‘run once’ in Make
Within a few minutes, your Google Sheet will update with links to completed videos in your Google Drive
Pro tip: Instead of waiting every 15 minutes for the automation to fire, you can set up Google Sheets to fire a webhook straight to Make every time a row is updated.
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Oz: Create social media content, ads, user generated content, testimonials, and brand commercials in minutes.
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AI Santa Claus: Bring Christmas magic to your kids with AI Santa. Send a message to Santa today.
Official NORAD Tracks Santa: As part of the annual NORAD Tracks Santa program, OpenAI worked with NORAD to create three simple holiday tools within ChatGPT that parents and Christmas enthusiasts can use to bring extra joy into their homes. Elf Enrollment that turns a photo into an "official" Santa's helper. Santa's Toy Lab turns a child's toy idea into a printable coloring page. Christmas Story Creator uses a fill-in-the-blank style storytelling tool that lets families plug in names, places, and fun details to create a one-of-a-kind holiday tale to read aloud.
PiXmas: Transform photos into magical Christmas studio portraits instantly.
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