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💬 OpenAI Releases GPT-5.5

The new model tops the benchmarks against its main rivals, Claude Opus 4.7 and Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro, even outperforming GPT-5.4 Pro in some areas.

The model is built for agentic tasks and ease of use: GPT-5.5 figures out what you're trying to do and handles most of the work on its own.

💰 Paid ChatGPT subscribers are already getting access, but the API price is twice that of GPT-5.4: $5/$30 per 1M input/output tokens.

Is the price worth it?

❤️ — Yes, the best always costs more
🔥 — No, it's too much

🦖 Dobot Shows Ultra-Realistic Robotic Dino

Chinese company Dobot has unveiled the third version of its Sinornithosaurus robot, a dinosaur that lived around 120 million years ago.

The new version breathes, has realistic artificial muscles and synthetic skin, and can respond to human commands and even touch.

Does it look like a real dinosaur?

❤️ — Yes!
👎 — No, just a plastic toy...

🐢 Turtle on a Skateboard

An owner put a small skateboard under his pet turtle to help it move faster. The video shows how active and playful turtles can be when they are not slowed down by the floor.

⚡️ GPT Image 2: The Next Level of AI Image Generation by OpenAI

A new AI creates ultra-realistic images, leaving behind previous GPT Image 1.5 and Google's Nano Banana.

What makes it special?

✅ Carefully preserves details and faces during editing;
✅ Renders long texts and draws infographics without distortions;
✅ Generates app interfaces and screenshots with unprecedented accuracy;
✅ Improved aesthetics: skin and faces look strikingly lifelike, with no uncanny valley effect;
✅ Lighting, proportions, and perspective, just like professional photos, without that yellow "AI filter."

🔴 You can already try it in our @GPT4Telegrambot.

How to Try?

1️⃣ Go to @GPT4Telegrambot
2️⃣ Select Image Generation → GPT Images in the menu.
3️⃣ Type your prompt.

💡 25 generations per week for free.

Do you still trust pictures on the internet?

❤️ — Yes, I can spot AI-generated images
👀 — No, it's impossible to tell anymore...

📹 Cook Steps Down As Apple CEO

Apple has announced that Tim Cook, who has run the company for the past 15 years, will assume the role of Executive Chairman starting September 1.

Cook, 65, will be replaced as CEO by John Ternus, 50, who currently leads Apple's Hardware Engineering team. During Cook's time in charge, Apple's market value grew from $350 billion to $4 trillion.

Rumors about Ternus taking over as Apple's next CEO have been circulating since last year.

Who is the best Apple CEO?

❤️ — Tim Cook
🔥 — Steve Jobs

🏃‍♀️ Tiny and Cute Participants in the Beijing Robotic Half-Marathon

The android "Lightning," developed by Honor, took first place in the race, finishing in just 50 minutes and 26 seconds. It bested all 12,000 human competitors and even surpassed the current human world record for a half-marathon.

While many smaller robots also participated, they clearly had no chance of winning; however, their presence helped alleviate common human fears of being overtaken by super-fast, malevolent robots.

💬 OpenAI Is Looking to Replace Sam Altman Before IPO

Sources told the WSJ that some shareholders are questioning whether Sam Altman should remain at the helm of the company and are floating board chairman Bret Taylor as a potential replacement.

OpenAI's board is concerned about possible conflicts of interest on Altman's part, as well as his being spread too thin ahead of the company's planned public offering, which is preliminarily valued at $850 billion.

Altman has been pushing OpenAI investments into Helion, a nuclear fusion startup, Stoke Space, and Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface lab—all companies in which he has personal stakes. Meanwhile, OpenAI has publicly stated it's stepping back from side projects to stay focused on its core AI products.

On top of that, Altman said back in December that he has "zero percent" interest in being a CEO of a public company.

"Am I excited to be a public company CEO? 0%," he explained. "Am I excited for OpenAI to be a public company? In some ways, I am, and in some ways I think it'd be really annoying."

So, do you think Altman will step down as CEO?

❤️ — Yes, most likely
🤔 — Not sure
🔥 — Don't care, just drop GPT-6

🤖 Stanford Report Finds Robots Fail 88% of Household Tasks

Stanford University's 2026 AI Index Report, released this week, reveals that humanoid robots succeed in only 12% of real household tasks—an 88% failure rate that underscores the vast distance between polished lab demonstrations and practical home deployment.

🌥 Claude Opus 4.7 Is Out

The new Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 outperforms competitors like GPT-5.4 and Gemini 3.1 Pro on almost every benchmark (though it still falls well short of the unreleased Mythos Preview).

It follows instructions more reliably, handles complex coding and UI design tasks better, and does a noticeably improved job recognizing high-resolution images and reading charts.

➡️ Already available on claude.ai for paid subscribers.

🍏 Apple May Launch Ultra-Cheap Mac Mini

Apple is reportedly preparing a Mac mini powered by an iPhone chip, following the success of the MacBook Neo.

The rumored Mac Neo could feature 12 GB of RAM and an A19 Pro chip from the iPhone 17 Pro, all in a compact form factor.

Expected price: just $299. This is how Apple may try to capture the entry-level home computer market for casual users.

Would you buy a Mac like this?

❤️ — Absolutely!
🔥 — No, sticking with Windows

💀 Physics Techer Goes Viral Using "One Piece" to Explain Science

Physics teacher Oliver Castro Jiménez has gone viral for using One Piece to help students better understand his lessons.

He draws Luffy and the Straw Hat crew to explain force, motion, and the laws of physics—turning complex concepts into engaging visual examples.

📱 Reimagining the iPhone Home Screen With AI

Skye is an agentic AI built directly into your iPhone's home screen. It functions as a real-time assistant, continuously analyzing your calendar, to-do lists, fitness data, emails, and more to surface the most relevant, actionable insights exactly when you need them.

Whether it's drafting email replies, flagging suspicious bank charges, or providing one-tap intelligence about your current surroundings (like nearby restaurants or local history), Skye keeps everything you need front and center.

➡️ You can sign up for the beta here. A full App Store release is coming soon.

Bringing AI to your home screen?

❤️ — Yes, this is exactly what I need!
🔥 — No, it's just visual trash