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ChatGPT mobile app gets voice-based agentic features
Confirmed
In Short: OpenAI announced on Wednesday that it is bringing voice-based agentic features to its ChatGPT mobile app, allowing users to trigger workflows like drafting documents or summarizing emails. These new features will provide richer text output from voice conversations.
The rollout brings similar capabilities to the mobile app that were previously available to subscribers, who can now build sites, create presentations, use the cloud browser, and access other areas like finances within ChatGPT.
Meanwhile, Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 8 is now available at T-Mobile when you add a new watch line to your mobile plan. The watch can be purchased for $400 upfront, with the cost paid back over 24 months in bill credits.
The Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 features a 40mm sapphire crystal face for exceptional clarity and durability, while the 1.34-inch display provides cleaner text and icons.
ChatGPT is also being used to generate throwback portraits in the style of the 1980s. Users upload their latest picture and request that it be recreated in 80s vibes, retaining only their features and skin color.
The trend has spread to TikTok, with users using Gemini to generate similar portraits. The format involves asking the AI to recreate the user’s image in an 80s style while keeping their facial features and natural skin tone unchanged.
Google’s Gemini Notebook is set to get an audio recorder feature on mobile next week, allowing users to record their thoughts, lectures, and more. The new feature will bring a more personalized and powerful learning experience.
OpenAI is also believed to be working towards creating a superapp that will fold ChatGPT, its coding agent Codex, and possibly its AI browser Atlas into one product.
The A20 Pro also gets a 50% increase in memory bandwidth, which Apple touts will help power everything from demanding games to running large language models directly on the iPhone.
The new voice-based agentic features in ChatGPT's mobile app are designed to enhance user interaction and productivity.
The Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 deal at T-Mobile comes with a stipulation that users must add a new watch line to their mobile plan to qualify for the $400 bill credits over 24 months.
Google’s agentic video understanding feature will be used to power YouTube’s “Ask YouTube” feature, potentially making it easier for creators to analyze their videos with Gemini.
What's confirmed
- The rollout brings similar capabilities to the mobile app that were previously available to subscribers, who can now build sites, create presentations, use the cloud browser, and access other areas like finances within ChatGPT.
- Meanwhile, Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 8 is now available at T-Mobile when you add a new watch line to your mobile plan. The watch can be purchased for $400 upfront, with the cost paid back over 24 months in bill credits.
- The Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 features a 40mm sapphire crystal face for exceptional clarity and durability, while the 1.34-inch display provides cleaner text and icons.
- ChatGPT is also being used to generate throwback portraits in the style of the 1980s. Users upload their latest picture and request that it be recreated in 80s vibes, retaining only their features and skin color.
- The trend has spread to TikTok, with users using Gemini to generate similar portraits. The format involves asking the AI to recreate the user’s image in an 80s style while keeping their facial features and natural skin tone unchanged.
- Google’s Gemini Notebook is set to get an audio recorder feature on mobile next week, allowing users to record their thoughts, lectures, and more. The new feature will bring a more personalized and powerful learning experience.
- OpenAI is also believed to be working towards creating a superapp that will fold ChatGPT, its coding agent Codex, and possibly its AI browser Atlas into one product.
- The A20 Pro also gets a 50% increase in memory bandwidth, which Apple touts will help power everything from demanding games to running large language models directly on the iPhone.
- The new voice-based agentic features in ChatGPT's mobile app are designed to enhance user interaction and productivity.
- The Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 deal at T-Mobile comes with a stipulation that users must add a new watch line to their mobile plan to qualify for the $400 bill credits over 24 months.
- Google’s agentic video understanding feature will be used to power YouTube’s “Ask YouTube” feature, potentially making it easier for creators to analyze their videos with Gemini.
What's still developing
- OpenAI said ChatGPT’s voice conversations will have richer text output.
- The Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 is a great Android-based smartwatch that blends health and fitness features with smartphone connectivity.
- Big hair, disco lighting, grainy film stock, and a wave of AI-generated throwback portraits have taken over Stories and Reels, and almost everyone is using the same tool to make them: ChatGPT.
- “We’re rolling out new features that bring a more personalized and powerful learning experience, including the ability to have real-time conversations with your notebooks and create interactive learning overviews for focused studying,” Google director of product management Trond Wuellner writes.
- “From gathering your trusted information and organizing your thoughts to sparking new ideas in one place, there are new ways to unlock deeper learning at every step.” Real-time conversations on mobile.
- Anthropic PBC said today it’s trying to make life simpler for its customers by merging its regular chatbot Claude with its agentic artificial intelligence tool Claude Cowork.
- So if the newly integrated Claude decides to end up routing simple questions through its agentic, tool-calling machinery, users could find themselves pushing up the compute cost without even realizing it.
- The merger, which went into effect immediately, came as the company introduced two new features in beta.
- This kind of integrated experience will have the effect of creating a more direct relationship with users and help increase the time they spend using a single product, and can potentially make it easier for Anthropic to bundle different premium features into a subscription.
- Those averse to artificial intelligence will still appreciate the other unrelated features, design changes, and performance improvements across the board.
- You get a dedicated app to initiate and store conversations with the chatbot, with support for extensions like ChatGPT.
- Here's a look at what Apple has packed into its latest Pro models: The iPhone 18 Pro gets a refined design with color-matched aluminum in the back glass for a more cohesive look.