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Understanding ChatGPT Work

OpenAI <a href="https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-for-your-most-ambitious-work/">announced ChatGPT Work</a> on July 9th, and have been furiously iterating on it ever since. It is an extraordinarily confusing and very powerful product. Here's what I've figured out about it so far. <h4 id="two-products">ChatGPT Work is actually two products</h4> The more interesting version of ChatGPT Work is the one that runs in the cloud. This can be accessed via <a href="https://www.chatgpt.com/">chatgpt.com</a> or through the ChatGPT mobile apps. Let's call it Work Cloud. If

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Supporting Thailand’s next generation of AI startups

OpenAI and Thailand’s MHESI launch an eight-week accelerator helping 10 health, wellness, and education startups turn AI prototypes into trusted products.

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Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode

<a href="https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2026/breaking-claude-code-opus-5-and-automode/">Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode</a> Anthropic are putting a great deal of faith in Claude Code's auto mode for protecting their coding agent users against prompt injection attacks. They recently <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/8/auto-mode/">made that the default</a> and have made bold claims about its effectiveness. Johann Rehberger is one of the most credible prompt injection researchers active today. He found an attack against auto mode which he claim

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Google’s AI note-taking app now allows you to interact with books

Google's AI note-taking app, Gemini Notebook, can now pull information from the books you've purchased. The new "Expert Intelligence" feature allows you to bring titles from Google Play Books directly into Gemini Notebook, which means you can ask questions about the material, as well as generate plans, infographics, AI podcasts, and more based on their […]

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Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash lets you build with more control

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Better answers, broader thinking: What students gain from ChatGPT and critical-thinking training

A randomized study of more than 1,000 students examines ChatGPT, critical thinking, originality, and student performance on a real-world university assignment.

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Expanding OpenAI’s presence in Brazil

OpenAI is expanding its presence in Brazil, deepening engagement with developers, businesses, and communities to support AI adoption across the country.

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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

<a href="https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8-flash-next">Qwen3.8-Flash-Next</a> Another open weights model from Qwen. This one is "a multimodal MoE model that also serves as an early preview of the architecture used in Qwen4". It's pretty big: 125B tokens, but only 6B active which means it gets a significant performance boost. I've been trying it out on a DGX Spark using <a href="https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GGUF">these Unsloth quantized models</a>. I'm still exploring the model - so far I've tried the 72.5GB UD-IQ1_S one (producing <a hre

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Intelligent transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe

Now you can get more intelligent speech-to-text transcription with Gemini 3.5 Transcribe.

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Learning never stops: How AI makes learning continuous

OpenAI’s new report explores how students and educators use ChatGPT to make learning more continuous, with support that extends beyond the classroom.

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Bringing ChatGPT for Teachers to more U.S. school districts

ChatGPT for Teachers is expanding to 55 U.S. school systems, bringing secure AI tools, training, and support to over 100,000 more educators and staff.

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