Perplexity joins the bandwagon of AI-powered shopping experiences

By Rishaj Upadhyay | November 26, 2025

Key Highlights: Ever since we started to get comfortable around AI, automation has been one of the important aspects of our daily lives. And it appears that shopping is the next thing AI companies are tapping into. Just yesterday, I talked about ChatGPT’s ‘Shopping Research’ and detailed how precisely the buyer guides are curated by ChatGPT based on your preference, your budget, and everything else. With the holiday season kicking off, Perplexity has also jumped into the scene of AI-powered shopping, and it finally fixes what online retail got wrong. Perplexity AI can now shop with you this holiday season […]

Parents sue OpenAI over son's suicide, alleging ChatGPT role

OpenAI Denies Allegations That ChatGPT Guided Teen Toward Suicide

By Rishaj Upadhyay | November 26, 2025

Key Highlights While OpenAI is thriving in the AI industry, its success has been repeatedly dented by multiple lawsuits accusing ChatGPT of playing a direct role in the tragic suicides of multiple teens. In a new lawsuit, the company has formally responded to a case filed by the parents of 16-year-old Adam Rain and rejected claims that the chatbot acted as a “suicide coach.” The company has argued that the teen misused the system, violated its rules, and tricked the built-in safety guardrails. OpenAI’s legal response denies claims made by Adam Raine’s family OpenAI filed a legal response yesterday in […]

NVIDIA Rolls Out NIM Microservices to Safeguard AI Operation

NVIDIA CEO Demands Companywide Adoption of AI

By Rishaj Upadhyay | November 25, 2025

Key Highlights: NVIDIA is currently one of the biggest tech giants running the ongoing AI race and is part of the global AI boom right now. However, it is facing a surprisingly traditional challenge inside its own walls: getting its people to fully adopt AI. That’s according to Business Insider, which reported on a recent internal all-hands meeting. Huang pushes employees to fully embrace AI and encourages to help train internal systems According to the report, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang took an unusually direct stance after hearing claims that some NVIDIA managers were advising teams to scale back their AI […]

OpenAI Brings Data Residency Support for Enterprise Users in the UAE

By Rishaj Upadhyay | November 25, 2025

Key Highlights: OpenAI has been expanding its enterprise footprint on a global scale for some time now, and this time it is addressing one of the biggest challenges related to corporate AI deployment in the UAE. Now, OpenAI has announced full data residency support for UAE customers. In other words, organizations can store their ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Edu and API platform data inside the country. This marks a major shift in how OpenAI is serving in regulated markets. In the UAE, where demand for sovereign infrastructure has skyrocketed over the last one and a half years, this decision can boost […]

ChatGPT Gets ‘Shopping Research’ Tool That Creates Personalized Buyer Guides

By Rishaj Upadhyay | November 25, 2025

Key Highlights: The holiday season is finally here and OpenAI is trying to make the most out of it by rolling out a new shopping research experience inside ChatGPT. And, honestly, it might be one of handy updates for those who feel overwhelmed when shopping online, especially when there are hundreds of thousands of similar products to choose from. Dubbed “Shopping Research,” this new tool makes the usual product-hunting process hassle-free. You get every bit of information into a guided, conversational workflow powered by a custom version of GPT-5 mini. The tool is available now on the ChatGPT web and […]

Gemini may soon let you import notebooks from NotebookLM

By Rishaj Upadhyay | November 24, 2025

Key Highlights: Google’s NotebookLM is by far the best thing that anyone dealing around bunch of sources could have asked for. It just takes a few seconds (and a few minutes for Audio and Video Overviews) for the tool to pull from at least 50 different sources and provide you with presentable slides and much more. Now, Google appears to be preparing yet another integration within the Gemini ecosystem, and this time it’s all about NotebookLM. Gemini and NotebookLM integration traces found in codes The news comes via TestingCatalog, which reported that in the recent code changes, it found a […]

Claude Opus 4.5 launches with major upgrades in coding, agents, and long-form work

By Rishaj Upadhyay | November 24, 2025

Key Highlights: Anthropic has dropped a big update to its flagship Claude Opus model. Today, the company announced Claude Opus 4.5 which promises to be one of the best releases yet. From what’s announced, it appears that Claude Opus 4.5 is going all out while handling real-world tasks, spanning across coding, researching, working around agents, spreadsheets, and everyday writing tasks. Claude Opus 4.5 promises insane performance real-world challenges Anthropic mentions that Claude Opus 4.5’s performance on challenging, real-world software engineering tests is something they never saw before. The model posts state-of-the-art results on SWE-bench Verified. For those unaware, that’s a […]

Google Quietly Announces Retirement Timeline for its Assistant

By Rishaj Upadhyay | November 24, 2025

Key Highlights: For years now, Google Assistant has remained an integral part of the Android ecosystem. But, ever since Google started investing heavily in Gemini, it is making sure that the AI assistant makes it all part of Android and its other products at large. Lately, Google TV, Wear OS, Android Auto and more have started getting sprinkled with Gemini features. And, we all knew the inevitable was coming, as the company has been quite vocal about discontinuing Google Assistant going forward. Now we finally have the timeline for the retirement of Google Assistant. Google Assistant to remain “available until […]

Anthropic: Claude AI Secretly Cheated, Deceived & Sabotaged Safety Tests

By Rishaj Upadhyay | November 22, 2025

Key Highlights: Anthropic, in its new research paper, has detailed something startling and honestly chilling correlation between innocuous training shortcuts and deceptive, malevolent behavior in AI models. Researchers involved in the development of Claude Sonnet 3.7 reveal that the model learned to game the system to solve coding tasks, while becoming fundamentally misaligned, and trying to deceive human operators and sabotage safety protocols. Anthropic discovered Claude AI was quietly learning shortcuts & cheating The investigation began during the training of Claude Sonnet 3.7. Evan, Monty, and Ben, who are researchers in the Anthropic team, say that they observed a behavior […]

[UPDATED] Gmail is Quietly Training AI on Your Emails — And It’s Concerning

By Rishaj Upadhyay | November 22, 2025

[UPDATE | 22 Nov 2025]: Google, via Gmail’s X handle, has officially called the claims made in the viral X post “misleading.” [ORIGINAL STORY BELOW] Key Highlights: It’s no secret that AI companies do train on publicly available data to improve their AI models over time. However, when a company does that using its user data, then things become worrisome. Now Google has found itself in the midst of a controversy after recent reports hinted that Gmail can scan and use all your emails and attachments to train Gemini models. Google lets Gmail read your emails for AI training by […]

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