ChatGPT Now Serving Your Morning News Like It’s Pancakes

Do you wake up groggy, confused, and wondering what day it is—only to find yourself doom-scrolling before coffee? Well, ChatGPT just became your new caffeinated assistant. OpenAI introduced a snazzy new feature called Pulse that delivers personalized morning updates straight to your app. Think of it like a newspaper, but way cooler and without the inky fingers.

This new Pulse update tucks you in at night (not really) and while you snore, it scans:

Your recent chats
Your calendar
Your Gmail
The latest news

to whip up 5-10 smart little update cards. These cards are customized just for you and show up in the morning, polished and ready like a breakfast buffet for your brain.

Right now it’s only available for Pro users (aka the fancy club), but it’ll be rolling out to Plus and free users. Don’t worry, you’re not being left out forever—it’s just coming “soon,” which in AI world could mean next week or when robots start filing taxes.

Meta’s Got That AI TikTok Energy

Meta has created something called "Vibes," and no, it's not a scented candle line. It’s a brand-new AI-powered video feed that lives inside their Meta AI app. Users can watch, remix, or generate mini videos with tools from Midjourney and Black Forest Labs. Think of it like Instagram Reels, but with more robots and less dancing kids.

Want to create a video of a corgi breakdancing on Mars? Sure! How about a smoothie-making wizard? Why not? But be warned—some folks are calling the video results “AI sludge.” Maybe don’t quit your day job for a remix career just yet.

Spotify Drops the Bass... and the Bots

Spotify is now saying, “Hey AI musicians, let’s keep it real.” The music giant just rolled out some big AI protections. Artists must now:

Label anything partially created by AI
Use a music data system called DDEX
Pass through a spam filter strong enough to block vague techno remixes of elevator music

Fake songs that impersonate popular artists? Banned. Misassigned tracks showing up under the wrong name? Yeeted. Spotify is all about keeping the tunes human-approved. Looks like AI Drake is about to get benched.

Can AI Really Steal Your Job? Uh… Kinda, Sorta, Maybe?

OpenAI ran a mega-study called GDPval—basically the Olympics of brain-powered work tasks—to test how close AI really is to doing our jobs. They took 1,320 actual tasks across 44 professions, had humans rate how well AI tools like GPT-5 and Claude 4.1 did them, and guess what? On 40% of those tasks, AI nailed it as well as the pros.

Now don't go packing your desk yet—it turns out, humans still win overall. The AI outputs were fast and cheap, but sometimes made ridiculous mistakes, like turning resumes into PDF art disasters. It’s like hiring an intern that finishes everything in 10 seconds but occasionally glues their homework to a pizza box.

So what’s the takeaway? Use AI like a turbo assistant—it’s great at speeding you up but still needs a brain check before handing its work to your boss.

Bonus: a guy on LinkedIn tricked an AI recruiter into revealing a flan recipe instead of offering him a job. That’s either genius or the plot to the weirdest episode of Black Mirror.

Other Cool Things to Know Today

Elon Musk’s xAI is offering its chatbot Grok to federal agencies—at $0.42/year! It’s either the best deal since $5 footlongs or a typo.
Meta just snatched a top AI researcher from OpenAI to help launch SuperIntelligence Labs. Sounds like a villain origin story, but okay.
Google’s Gemini Robotics 1.5 update helps robots reason better. So now your vacuum could also judge your life choices.

Trending AI Tools to Try

HiClip – Got a 45-minute video you wanna turn into a viral TikTok-style clip? HiClip can do that using AI. Just drop the footage, and boom: instant social media glory (or mild internet embarrassment).
Blabby – Talk your thoughts out loud and let this tool turn them into perfectly-written text. With support for 90+ languages, you can be multilingual and mildly lazy all at once.

In summary: ChatGPT’s Pulse is your new digital weatherman, Meta’s AI Vibes feed is like a blender full of memes, Spotify is cracking down on AI fakers, and AI is getting dangerously good at to-do lists—but not at flan production sabotage. Use wisely, edit relentlessly, and never trust a robot with your cheesecake recipe.