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If you missed last week’s AI developments, your competition didn’t. Here are 20+ updates that business owners need for a strategic advantage:
1. OpenAI
OpenAI rolls back GPT-4o’s over-flattery update. Hope you didn’t get used to ChatGPT praising you.
2. ChatGPT
ChatGPT Search revamped and now delivers links, reviews, and citations based on your custom prompts. Also adds smart shopping search, trending prompts, and autocomplete. Watch out: ads might sneak in next.
3. Meta
Meta hosts its first LlamaCon, showcasing their latest AI advancements across apps, smart glasses, and large language models.
4. Meta View
Meta View becomes the Meta AI app, featuring Llama 4 chat, image generation via Emu, and AI convo sharing. Ads and product recommendations are coming, but not for another year.
5. Ray-Ban
Ray-Ban Meta Glasses update: Start a conversation on your smart glasses, then pick it up on your phone or web. Total cross-device continuity.
6. Claude AI
Claude AI now uses MCP to integrate easily with 3rd-party apps like Zapier and Cloudflare.
7. Anthropic
According to Anthropic’s research, 79% of coders using Claude Code are handing over entire coding tasks to AI.
8. Microsoft
Microsoft Phi-4 and AI2’s Olmo 2 show that small models can still punch way above their weight.
9. FutureHouse
FutureHouse introduces the world’s first AI scientist, it designs chemistry experiments and reads research so you don’t have to.
10. Recraft
Recraft just made branding easier, mix, weight, and save your own art styles for hyper-consistent visuals at scale.
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11. Midjourney
Midjourney now supports face injection, drop your photo into prompts and become the hero (or Viking) of your own AI masterpiece.
12. krea.ai
krea.ai dropped GPT Paint, just sketch arrows and notes on an image, and it builds exactly what you imagine. Zero prompt engineering needed.
13. Kling AI
Kling AI lets you turn selfies into animated Polaroids, a new kind of personal storytelling.
14. Higsfield
Higsfield transforms your photos into movie-style cinematic scenes with one prompt. Hollywood vibes, no director needed.
15. Suno
Suno 4.5 delivers smarter mashups, smoother vocals, and better genre control. AI music is inching closer to studio-grade.
16. Duolingo
Duolingo goes AI-first in hiring, evaluations, and operations. If your business still runs manual for repeatable tasks… this is your wake-up call.
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