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📰 AI NEWS

• 🛒 OpenAI Unveils Shopping Research Inside ChatGPT

• 🚀 U.S. Unveils Genesis Mission to Turbocharge AI Science

• 🎭 Character AI Shifts Teens to Safer Interactive Stories

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🛒 OpenAI Unveils Shopping Research Inside ChatGPT

OpenAI has introduced Shopping Research, a new built-in assistant inside ChatGPT that helps you find the best products in minutes — without endless Google searches, blogs, or review hunting. 

Here’s what it does:

1. Understands what you’re looking for
   You describe the product (e.g., “a lightweight laptop for travel”), and it asks quick quiz-style questions on budget, style, and preferences.

2. Builds a personalized buying guide
   ChatGPT then scans trusted retail sources — prioritizing real reviews over ads — and creates a clean guide with 10–15 top picks.

3. Runs on a special GPT-5-mini model
   This version is fine-tuned specifically for product discovery, making it better at filtering noise and comparing specs clearly.

4. Great for electronics, beauty, home goods & outdoor gear
   And more categories are on the way.

5. Holiday bonus: nearly unlimited usage
   Available across all ChatGPT tiers.

Instant Checkout coming soon
You’ll soon be able to buy directly from within ChatGPT.

OpenAI is quietly reshaping the shopping journey — from search → comparison → decision → checkout — all inside one AI assistant.
This could become a major challenge to Google’s search-led retail ecosystem.

🚀 U.S. Unveils Genesis Mission to Turbocharge AI Science

The U.S. government has announced Genesis Mission, a sweeping national effort to accelerate scientific breakthroughs using AI. Under a new executive order, President Donald Trump has directed the Department of Energy to build a unified AI platform that can compress discovery timelines — from years to days — across fields like biotechnology, chemistry, energy, and advanced engineering.

The initiative connects 17 federal research labs and their supercomputing power, enabling AI agents to run automated experiments, test hypotheses, and generate predictive scientific models using decades of government data.

The White House says this is the largest coordinated research push since the Apollo moon missions, reflecting the escalating global race to lead in AI-powered science. As the public and private sectors increasingly collaborate on frontier AI, expect major labs and industry players to step into pivotal roles in the months ahead.

🚀 7 AI Tools That Do the Heavy Lifting for You

AI isn’t just ChatGPT anymore—there’s now a tool for almost every task. Whether you're coding faster, creating studio-quality videos, analysing research, or turning text into stunning visuals, these seven AI apps are doing the heavy lifting so you don’t have to. Even better? Several are completely free to start.

Here’s your quick guide to what they do and why they matter:

1. Cursor AI – Your AI-powered coding partner built on top of VS Code. Writes, debugs, refactors, and accelerates development for beginners and pros alike.

2. Midjourney – Industry-favourite AI for generating cinematic visuals, concept art, and marketing assets.

3. Descript – Edit video and audio by editing text. Ideal for podcasts, training videos, and corporate content.

4. Claude AI – Anthropic’s intelligent assistant for writing, analysis, coding, and research.

5. Runway ML – Create videos from text, remove backgrounds, colour grade, or even generate 3D textures—no editing experience needed.

6. Perplexity – The AI search engine researchers swear by. Gives you accurate answers with citations—instantly.

7. Fliki – Turn text into videos with natural AI voiceovers for education, marketing, and internal training. 

The takeaway:
These tools don’t replace your creativity—they amplify it. Start free, upgrade only if you need more power, and let AI streamline everything from daily tasks to enterprise workflows.

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