Core Ai News

ChatGPT Student Offer is back!

Eligible students can get 4 months of ChatGPT Plus for free (up to $80 value)

How to claim:
- Visit the student offer page:
chatgpt.com/students/2026
- Verify your student status through SheerID
- Once approved, activate your 4-month free Plus access

BREAKING: AI-driven electricity demand is projected to reach 315 GW globally by 2033 up more than 1,100% from 2025.

BREAKING: Breaking: Nvidia is reportedly in talks to invest “multiple billions of dollars” in Perplexity at a valuation above $30,000,000,000.00.

Instant ♥️ OpenAI

Instant team is joining OpenAI.

> Instant is a full backend solution with database, auth, permissions, and storage services built to power AI driven applications.

SPACEXAI 🔥: Grok Bot is coming to Grok mobile apps soon!

> There is a new promotion for SuperGrok users offering them to upgrade to Grok Heavy in order to access Grok Bot.
> Besides this, there is a hidden nav bar item from where users will be able to access their custom AI agents.

Looks Heavy! 🤖

DeepSeek 🔥: DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp multimodal model is now available on the DeepSeek API Platform.

> It delivers performance close to Opus 4.8 and matches DeepSeek-V4-Flash on text.

> DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp supports Chat Completions, Messages & Responses, and mixed text + image input.

OpenAI made it possible to generate images with transparent backgrounds for GPT-Image-2 on APIs.

OpenAI is planning to expand its Ads platform for ChatGPT to 31 European countries next week.

> ChatGPT ads are only shown to Free and Go users on ChatGPT as standalone widgets below the answer.

> Advertisers are also expected to get access to the Ads platform as well.

Anthropic is working on a Hub Mode!

The same icon has been seen under the name “Orbit” in the past.

* Speculation - It might be related to an interface where Claude will be operating multiple sub-agents and visualizing the overall progress to the user.

ANTHROPIC 🔥: Claude Code got a new /design command in research preview!

Design in Claude Code adds an artboard workflow from Claude Design to help users build editable UIs.

CCD 👀

NOUS RESEARCH 🔥: Hermes Desktop got a new Bot Mode, allowing users to create various specialized AI Agents.

> "Each Bot has its own role, model, memory, skills, and profile picture; Bots can use any model and even communicate with each other."

This needs a lot of testing time 👀

BREAKING: Meta is facing its biggest social media litigation battle yet as 29 states allege Facebook and Instagram were designed to addict children, with theoretical damages reaching as high as $1,400,000,000,000.00.🐦

JUST IN: Nvidia reveals OpenAI’s planned AI infrastructure could represent roughly $600,000,000,000.00 of Nvidia compute through 2030

AI startup Higgsfield quadruples its valuation to $5,400,000,000.00 in just six months

❗️All Twitch content is now automatically opted in to Amazon generative-AI training by default, if you don't turn it off.

"If it was opt-in, nobody would opt-in," Twitch chief product officer Mike Minton said.

The off switch is web-only, buried under Settings, Security and Privacy. It won't stop your chat being used in streams that stayed opted in.

Opting out only covers your own channel. Chat in someone else's stream, and their setting decides whether your messages get used:
https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/twitch-account-settings?language=en_US#FAQ