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🤖 OpenAI publishes its official guide to perfect prompting for ChatGPT 5.1
OpenAI has released a comprehensive manual on how to interact with the new ChatGPT 5.1, a collection of best practices for getting clearer, faster, and more precise results from the model.
🔸 Inside: detailed prompting tips, practical techniques, and ready-made request templates for dozens of everyday and professional tasks.
🔸 The guide helps users unlock the full efficiency of 5.1, reducing the need for rewrites, clarifications, and constant corrections.
For anyone using ChatGPT daily, from coding to research to creative work, this is the fastest way to level up your prompting game.
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🔥 Вы ждали — мы сделали!
Это уже третье событие от Ogon.AI Hackathons, и на этот раз мы готовим конкурс для тех, кто уже запустил свой продукт или собирается запустить его в самое ближайшее время, и готов вывести его на новый уровень!
Что вас ждёт:
🔸 экспертная оценка продукта, UX и технической реализации,
🔸 обратная связь от опытных основателей,
🔸 помощь в масштабировании вашего продукта на глобальный рынок,
🔸 призы и нетворкинг для команд, готовых к росту!
❕Важно:
Продукты должны быть живыми или готовыми к запуску очень скоро. Мы оцениваем качество, ранние показатели и потенциал роста.
🎁 Призы и возможности:
✔️ 1 место — $1,500 USD
✔️ 2 место — $1,000 USD
✔️ 3 место — $500 USD
Победители также получат индивидуальные консультации с экспертами Ogon.AI по масштабированию и выходу на новый рынок!
⏰ Таймлайн (Dubai time):
🔸 Регистрация — уже открыта!
🔸 1–5 декабря — отправка аналитики и ссылок на продукт
🔸 5 декабря, 23:59 — дедлайн подачи заявок
🔸 6–16 декабря — тестирование и оценка жюри
🔸 17 декабря — финальная церемония и объявление победителей
📍Формат: Онлайн
Участвуйте командой (до 10 человек) или индивидуально!
Друзья, в Ogon.AI Hackathon мы создаём будущее продуктов вместе. Это будет масштабно, полезно и по-настоящему круто! 🫂
🤖 A new top-tier presentation generator just dropped Allweone
A fresh AI tool called Allweone is blowing up: it creates full presentations from a single prompt and instantly fills them with visuals.
🔸 Generates slides, images, and charts on any topic automatically.
🔸 Everything is editable right after creation, no rigid templates.
🔸 Completely free to use at launch.
A strong new contender in the race for AI-native presentation tools.
🔎 NextGen Tools launches as a universal search engine for new AI services
A new AI discovery engine called NextGen Tools has been released, promising a single place to track every emerging AI product across the internet.
🔸 The platform aggregates all newly launched AI tools, ranking them by freshness and user rating.
🔸 Users can browse everything from text and image generators to advanced agents, workflow automators, trackers, and parsers.
🔸 The goal: eliminate the chaos of fragmented AI directories and give builders, creators, and researchers one clean feed of what’s new.
As the AI ecosystem explodes, tools like this are becoming essential not just for discovery, but for keeping pace with the speed of innovation.
⚠️ A new “Machine ID reset” hack targets Cursor’s licensing model
Some users have discovered a third-party tool that forcibly resets Cursor’s Machine ID effectively tricking the IDE into granting unlimited Pro mode access.
🔸 The tool claims to support Windows, macOS, and Linux and works with Cursor versions 0.49.x.
🔸 It promises to remove all trial restrictions without creating new accounts.
🔸 Cursor has not commented yet, but such hacks usually violate terms of service and pose malware/security risks for developers.
The spread of these tools shows how explosive demand for AI coding assistants has become and how quickly cracks appear when a product scales faster than its licensing system.
🌍 World Labs makes its 3D world-generation model “Marble” available to everyone
World Labs, the spatial-AI startup co-founded by Fei-Fei Li, has opened access to Marble, a generative model that can create full three-dimensional worlds from text, images, video, or existing 3D layouts.
🔸 Marble can generate persistent, editable 3D environments and export them as meshes, Gaussian splats, or video for use in games, film, and simulation.
🔸 The model accepts multimodal inputs from a single photo to multi-view video and includes an editor called “Chisel” for sketching rough 3D structures before applying style and detail.
🔸 World Labs positions Marble as a step toward richer “spatial intelligence,” enabling designers, creators, and robotics teams to build virtual worlds far faster than traditional workflows allow.
Generative AI is moving beyond text and images into full spatial understanding, turning world-building into a prompt-driven process.
🎙 Fireflies founders faked their AI for a year, now it’s a $1B unicorn
In 2016, the co-founders of Fireflies, now a unicorn meeting intelligence startup, promised clients an AI that could automatically join and transcribe calls. There was just one catch, the AI didn’t exist yet.
🔸 For the first year, the two founders personally joined every client call, manually tracking who spoke and what was said.
🔸 The service cost $100 per month, covering about 100 meetings, while customers believed an autonomous system was behind it.
🔸 A year later, they built the real automation, eventually raising $19M and reaching a $1B valuation.
Today it’s a legendary MVP story, but it raises the timeless startup question: when does “fake it till you make it” cross from hustle to scandal?
🎵 An AI-generated song tops Billboard for the first time ever
For the first time in history, a fully AI-created track has reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard chart. The song, “Walk My Walk” by the fictional artist Breaking Rust, has already surpassed 1 million streams on Spotify.
🔸 The track was entirely generated by AI, with no human performer behind it.
🔸 It spread virally across streaming platforms and social media before users realized it wasn’t real.
🔸 Spotify, now flooded with AI-made tracks, has no plans to curb the influx, signaling a new era for digital music.
If algorithms can now make hits, what happens to the concept of a “musician” itself?
Examples of Nano Banana 2 in action. There are rumors that it is scheduled to be released early this week.
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📰 Bad news: AI now writes more articles than humans
A new analysis shows that, for the first time, AI-generated articles have overtaken human-written ones on the web. The gap is still small but growing fast.
🔸 Researchers sampled 65,000 web articles (2020–2025) from the CommonCrawl dataset and analyzed them with Surfer AI Detector.
🔸 If over half of an article’s text was flagged as AI-written, it counted as machine-made.
🔸 Cross-checks by publication date helped avoid false positives older pre-ChatGPT articles, for example, were assumed to be human.
🔸 The tipping point came in November 2024, when AI-made content first surpassed human output; after a brief dip, AI now dominates again.
Not all “AI-written” pieces are fully automated, many show signs of human editing or partial rewriting and such content still appears less often in top search results.
Still, the web’s content balance has flipped. The internet’s new authors may not be people, just machines that learned to sound like them.
🧠 PewDiePie builds a $20,000 supercomputer to run local AI models
One of the world’s biggest streamers, PewDiePie, has taken a sharp turn from YouTube entertainment to AI independence. After more than a decade of gaming videos and vlogs, he’s now built a personal supercomputer worth around $20,000 to run local large language models (LLMs) entirely offline.
🔸 The setup includes 10 GPUs: 8 custom RTX 4090s (48 GB each) and 2 RTX 4000 Ada cards, powerful enough to handle models like Llama 70B, gpt-oss-120B, and Qwen 245B or up to 64 smaller models simultaneously.
🔸 He even created his own local AI interface and a “council of models” that debate his questions in real time.
🔸 PewDiePie says his goal is simple: keep full control of his data and avoid AI corporations like OpenAI, criticizing them for storing user chats including deleted ones.
From Let’s Plays to local LLMs, PewDiePie’s pivot marks a new era where creators aren’t just using AI, they’re owning it.
🧠 Anthropic reinvents AI agents with code-driven MCP execution
Anthropic has rolled out a major update to how AI agents operate introducing code execution through MCP (Model Context Protocol), a shift that could redefine agent efficiency.
🔸 Traditionally, agents relied on multiple tool calls through MCP, consuming large amounts of compute credits and quickly filling the context window.
🔸 With the new approach, agents now write and execute code that calls the necessary tools directly through MCP, cutting token usage by 98.7%.
🔸 Anthropic’s guide includes code samples, step-by-step implementation details, and integration methods for existing agent frameworks.
🔸 The result: faster, cheaper, and more autonomous AI agents capable of handling multi-step tasks with minimal overhead.
This update isn’t just optimization, it’s a new programming paradigm for building scalable, self-sufficient AI systems.
🧠 The first team of AI scientists is now conducting research on its own
A new breakthrough has arrived: the first publicly available team of AI scientists can now carry out full-scale scientific research from forming a hypothesis to publishing a finished article without any human involvement.
🔸 You can enter any problem or dataset, and the AI autonomously defines the research goal and begins investigation.
🔸 These AI scientists generate hypotheses, verify novelty, plan experiments, run code, and analyze results.
🔸 The system produces a complete, publication-ready scientific paper as its final output.
🔸 Papers have already been released across 13 disciplines, including quantum physics, chemistry, and neuroscience.
🔸 Independent experts reviewed the results and confirmed that the AI’s work matches the quality of real peer-reviewed research.
If this scales, we may be witnessing the start of an era where AI doesn’t just assist science it actively advances it.
📹 REAL Video Enhancer launches, upgrade any video by tens of times
A new tool called REAL Video Enhancer has just dropped, promising professional-grade video restoration and upscaling all processed locally on your device.
🔸 Enhances and sharpens footage by tens of times, improving clarity and resolution.
🔸 Compresses files without any visible quality loss, ideal for large projects.
🔸 Removes noise, distortion, and artifacts from low-quality or old recordings.
🔸 Maintains full detail and texture integrity during enhancement.
🔸 Works entirely offline, keeping all content private.
🔸 And it’s completely free to use.
For creators and editors, REAL Video Enhancer could turn grainy clips into studio-quality footage without needing cloud access or paid software.
🩷 Tinder will soon use AI to read your camera roll and match you better
Tinder is testing a new AI feature called “Chemistry” that analyzes your camera roll with your permission to understand your lifestyle and interests more deeply than profile bios or prompts ever could.
🔸 The system uses computer vision to spot patterns in your photos (like travel, pets, or food) and combines them with short quiz answers to build a personalized match profile.
🔸 The pilot is currently rolling out in New Zealand and Australia, with plans to make it a major feature in Tinder’s 2026 redesign.
🔸 Match Group expects a short-term $14 million revenue dip as it experiments with the rollout, betting that deeper personalization will drive long-term engagement.
If it works, Tinder’s next matchmaker might not be an algorithm guessing from swipes but an AI quietly studying your photo gallery.
🔔 A full NanoBanana cheat sheet: prompting tricks, hidden rules, and a look inside the system prompt
Many people already use NanoBanana confidently, but collecting all the quirks, techniques, and edge-case behaviors in one place is still a challenge. A new deep-dive article finally puts everything together.
🔸 Prompting as engineering: Treating the model like a system with levers, constraints, and failure modes rather than a magic box.
🔸 Visual prompts stress-tested: Kittens with heterochromia, precise hex-color control, rigid composition constraints and how NanoBanana handles them.
🔸 Pure HTML/CSS/JS rendering: Using the model to generate a fully functional webpage layout from scratch.
🔸 Hybrid JSON characters: ultra-detailed spec sheets like “Paladin + Pirate + Starbucks Barista,” and the wonderfully weird results when everything is fused together.
🔸 Mini reverse-engineering of the system prompt: Using the “fridge magnets” trick, the author reconstructs NanoBanana’s internal rules: Markdown structure, uppercase MUST directives, penalties for SD-style prompting and how these constraints steer the model away from classic 2022 AI-art errors.
The author also bundled clean testing code and handy utilities into one repo.
If you’re building products on top of NanoBanana/Gemini or doing serious prompt design, this breakdown is gold.
⚠️ Jimmy Wales walks out of interview after a 48-second dispute over being “founder” vs “co-founder”
On the German political podcast Jung & Naiv, Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales lasted just 48 seconds before abruptly leaving all because the host asked whether he is the founder or co-founder of Wikipedia.
🔸 The question hit a 20-year nerve: while Wales introduced himself as the founder, early press and Wikipedia itself list Larry Sanger as co-founder, a point Wales has long rejected.
🔸 In 2005, Wales was caught editing his own Wikipedia page to downplay Sanger’s role, sparking a scandal that cemented the rift between them.
🔸 Host Thilo Jung is known for blunt opening questions; Wales seemingly expected a light interview and instead got the one topic he considers “the dumbest controversy in the world.”
🔸 When Jung insisted co-founder status is a “matter of fact,” Wales called it “a matter of opinion” and walked out.
The clip went viral, and Wales’s insistence that he “doesn’t care” ironically became the clearest sign that he still very much does.
⚙️ OpenAI finally fixes ChatGPT’s notorious em-dash habit
OpenAI has rolled out a small but long-requested update: ChatGPT will now actually stop using em-dashes if you tell it to, addressing one of the model’s most persistent stylistic quirks.
🔸 The fix applies through Custom Instructions, users can now specify “don’t use em-dashes,” and the model will reliably comply.
🔸 Sam Altman called it a “small-but-happy win,” after months of users complaining that ChatGPT ignored explicit requests to avoid the punctuation.
🔸 The em-dash had become a recognizable “AI tell,” appearing even in contexts where human writers rarely used it.
🔸 OpenAI says this is part of a broader push to give users finer control over tone, formatting, and writing style.
A tiny update on paper, but a meaningful one, especially as AI-generated text blends deeper into everyday writing.
🚀 Blue Origin sticks its first New Glenn booster landing
Bezos’s Blue Origin has finally nailed a successful landing of the New Glenn first stage, marking a breakthrough moment for the heavy-lift rocket after more than a decade of development.
🔸 The mission delivered two NASA Mars probes into orbit before the booster touched down on a floating Atlantic platform just 10 minutes after launch.
🔸 New Glenn, in development since 2012, can haul up to 45 tons to orbit, making it one of the most capable commercial rockets ever built.
🔸 This was only the rocket’s second flight: the debut in January ended with the stage being lost during recovery.
🔸 The successful landing moves Blue Origin much closer to routine reusability, a capability long dominated by SpaceX.
Progress cannot be stopped and New Glenn is finally starting to look like the rocket Blue Origin promised.
📉 These professions are projected to face the steepest declines in the next 10 years
According to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics forecasts, several occupations especially routine or easily automated roles are expected to shrink significantly through the coming decade. The pattern will echo in many other countries as well.
🔸 Typists and word processors top the list, with the sharpest projected decline as digital tools and AI fully replace manual text-handling work.
🔸 Office and administrative support roles, clerks, data-entry operators, and similar routine desk jobs are set for sustained contraction as automation boosts productivity.
🔸 Traditional retail workers, especially in brick-and-mortar stores, are expected to steadily decrease as e-commerce and automated checkout systems expand.
🔸 Certain manufacturing and production jobs, particularly repetitive, rules-based tasks, are projected to shrink as advanced robotics continue to penetrate factories.
A clear signal: the next decade will be toughest on occupations built around repetition and routine, while roles rooted in creativity, care, or complex decision-making will remain far more resilient.
⚙️ You can now steer ChatGPT mid-response
OpenAI just added a small but powerful feature, you can now update your prompt while ChatGPT is responding, instead of stopping and starting over.
🔸 Simply hit “Update” to tweak your query on the fly, add missing details, correct instructions, or shift direction (“Use Java instead of Python,” “Make it less formal,” etc.).
🔸 Works even in Deep Research mode, where responses take longer and restarting would waste time.
🔸 It feels minor, but it transforms how you interact with long-running or complex tasks, making conversations more iterative, flexible, and human-like.
A quiet update, but one that makes ChatGPT feel less like a black box and more like a real-time creative partner.
🚀 OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.1 with “Instant” and “Thinking” modes
OpenAI has released GPT-5.1, a major update introducing two new models designed for different user needs, one for fast, natural conversation and another for deep reasoning.
🔸 GPT-5.1 Instant brings back the warmth and humor users missed from GPT-4o, offering quick, engaging replies that feel more human.
🔸 GPT-5.1 Thinking is optimized for complex reasoning, it adapts its response time to question difficulty, thinking longer on hard problems and speeding through easy ones.
🔸 The update responds directly to user feedback that GPT-5 felt “cold” and overly mechanical, restoring balance between personality and precision.
🔸 Older models remain in the legacy section for three months, while the new lineup rolls out first to paid users.
With GPT-5.1, OpenAI is clearly splitting its path, one branch for warmth and speed, the other for depth and intelligence.
🤖 Russia’s first humanoid robot AIdol collapses during live debut
In Moscow, developers unveiled AIdol, touted as Russia’s first anthropomorphic robot capable of walking, handling objects, and interacting with humans. The event, however, didn’t go as planned.
🔸 The robot entered the stage to the Rocky theme, accompanied by two handlers.
🔸 Moments later, AIdol fell mid-presentation, prompting staff to shield it from the audience while addressing the issue.
🔸 Developers said the incident stemmed from a test configuration error, noting the project remains in its trial stage.
Despite the stumble, the demo highlights how far and how fragile, the push toward humanoid robotics still is.
💻 Learn any IT profession with an AI course generator
Found a cool site called Getinclub that automatically builds personalized learning programs for any tech career.
🔸 Just enter a profession say, Data Analyst or Frontend Developer and the tool creates a full learning roadmap.
🔸 For every step, it gathers free courses, tutorials, articles, and video lessons from across the web.
🔸 Includes intermediate quizzes and tests to reinforce progress.
🔸 No ads, no subscriptions, just structured, open-access learning.
A smart way to turn “I want to learn IT” into an actionable, guided journey.
⚡️ Inside Tesla’s first Optimus production line
Tesla has quietly set up its first pilot production line for the humanoid robot Optimus. It’s a small-scale test run for what the company hopes will evolve into a full manufacturing system by 2026, when a larger line is planned.
🔸 The current line assembles and tests robots directly at Tesla’s factory and R&D labs, where Optimus units are already performing basic tasks.
🔸 The company’s target is ambitious, a $20,000 cost price per robot, putting it in the same range as a compact car.
🔸 This phase remains experimental, aimed at refining motion control, battery integration, and safety routines before ramping up.
🔸 Musk’s bet: mass-producing humanoids could one day be as routine as building cars — though testing them next to car lines raises the question, what could possibly go wrong?
Tesla’s robot factory may be small, but symbolically, it marks the moment the company moved from demo mode to industrial ambition.
🚀 Neural networks that can replace your entire business team
These new AI services can handle nearly everything, from writing and coding to design, scheduling, and client communication, helping founders save hundreds of thousands in operating costs.
🔸 Text & code: advanced models now draft full marketing campaigns, blogs, and even production-ready codebases.
🔸 Design & media: AI tools generate realistic product photos, animations, and promo videos in minutes no studio required.
🔸 Ops & support: smart agents manage calendars, emails, and even chat with customers 24/7 with human-level tone and context.
For entrepreneurs, these neural networks don’t just boost productivity, they’re a direct path to scaling lean, fast, and profitably.
🎓 Free AI & Python courses with certificates from Google, IBM, and Microsoft
Some of the biggest tech companies are offering free, certified courses to help you build real AI and coding skills no paywall, no subscription.
⚙️ Google — Machine Learning Crash Course
• 40+ hours of hands-on exercises, TensorFlow tutorials, and real-world data projects.
• Includes a verified certificate from Google.
🧠 IBM — AI Engineering Professional Certificate
• Covers NLP, ML, and Deep Learning with practical labs and model-building projects.
• Recognized pathway for IBM’s AI roles.
💻 Microsoft — Python for Beginners
• A full video series made by Microsoft engineers.
• Teaches Python step-by-step perfect for coding newcomers.
🤖 DeepLearning.AI — Generative AI with LLMs
• Learn how to build prompts, use GPT models, and apply LLMs in real scenarios.
• Co-created with top AI researchers.
📊 Kaggle Learn — Python & Machine Learning Tracks
• Short, interactive modules on Python, Pandas, ML, and AI foundations.
• Practice directly in your browser no setup required.
These courses don’t just teach,they certify your skills from the companies shaping the AI revolution.
💎 45 startups poised for breakout exits in the next decade
CB Insights has identified 45 private startups most likely to achieve major exits IPOs or acquisitions within 5–10 years, driven by shifts in AI infrastructure, strategic partnerships, and vertical specialization.
🔸 Infrastructure over applications: As AI agents replace traditional SaaS, infrastructure companies are becoming the real profit centers. Many founders, ex-Google, Stripe, and Robinhood engineers are building the core systems that others depend on.
🔸 Partnerships drive scale: The strongest startups aren’t going solo. They’re integrating with corporations, creating ecosystems where partnerships are as critical as technology itself.
🔸 Vertical AI wins: With foundation models turning into commodities, value is moving toward startups with domain-specific data and expertise in sectors like health, law, and energy.
The biggest exits of the 2030s may come not from AI chat apps, but from the deep infrastructure and vertical players quietly powering the entire AI economy.
🧠 Anthropic launches “Skills”, modular extensions that let Claude learn on the fly
Anthropic has introduced Skills, a new way for users to extend Claude’s capabilities with custom instructions, scripts, data, and templates turning the model into a flexible, task-specific assistant without retraining it.
🔸 A Skill can contain rules (“if X then Y”), datasets, documents, or even company-specific resources like brand guidelines or tone templates.
🔸 Claude can automatically select the right Skill for a task or let users toggle between manual, semi-automatic, or fully automatic activation.
🔸 Anthropic also ships default Skill packs for common tasks like data analysis, summarization, and editing, available to all paid Claude users, including API and Claude Code.
🔸 Unlike OpenAI’s separate user-built GPTs, Skills work as modular layers on top of the main model, meaning multiple can run or switch dynamically in a single session.
By blending flexibility with simplicity, Anthropic’s Skills may redefine how users personalize AI not by building new bots, but by teaching one model to think in many modes.
🤖 Dobot’s affordable robot dog aims to make home robotics mainstream
Dobot has launched the Rover X1, a multi‑purpose robot dog priced around US $1,030, designed to bring advanced robotics into everyday households.
🔸 The Rover X1 combines precise sensors and AI-powered navigation with a consumer-friendly design, handling tasks from item transport and filming to home security and coding education.
🔸 Over 5,000 units were reserved on the first day, showing strong early demand for versatile, affordable home robots.
🔸 Unlike most single-function robots on the market, Rover X1’s multi-purpose capabilities aim to justify its presence in the home and expand the adoption of robotic assistants.
🔸 The launch aligns with China’s push for “home service robots” as a growth sector, signaling both policy support and market potential.
Versatile, accessible, and AI-enabled, the Rover X1 could shift robot dogs from novelty gadgets to practical household helpers if it proves reliable and easy to integrate into daily life.