Announcements
AI Caricature Trend
Latest trend on social media. Use ChatGPT to create a caricature of yourself. Upload a pic of yourself and use a prompt similar to this "Create a caricature of me and my job based on everything you know about me."
Moltbook
Researchers spun up a Reddit-like forum just for AI agents. And things escalated quickly. Arguments, alliances, strange in-jokes. To date, its one of the largest experiments in machine-to-machine social interaction. AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it’s getting weird fast Moltbook lets 32,000 AI bots trade jokes, tips, and complaints about humans.
Google DeepMind AlphaGenome
Google DeepMind just published the full research paper and model weights for AlphaGenome, its AI tool unveiled this summer that scans a million letters of genetic code to predict how mutations cause disease. AlphaGenome was trained on vast genetic datasets and can predict how a single DNA typo affects 11 different biological processes. It gives researchers open access to a map for the genetic code that could ramp discovery in ways we're only beginning to imagine. In tests, it flagged mutations linked to leukemia that sat thousands of letters away from the affected gene, connections that took researchers years to find.
Microsoft Azure Hackathon: Activate Generative AI with Azure
Experience hands-on labs, real-world scenarios, and expert guidance from Microsoft and NVIDIA.
You’ll discover:
- How to use large language models (LLMs) and Azure OpenAI Service accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs
- Best practices for developing and deploying generative AI apps at scale
- Tips for automating workflows and tracking performance
ChatGPT Health
OpenAI just introduced ChatGPT Health, a new private experience within the chatbot that lets users pull in their medical records and fitness app data to allow health conversations — drawing on personal context instead of generic advice.
Microsoft Copilot Usage Report
New research from Microsoft analyzing 37.5M Copilot conversations from the past year, revealing distinct behavioral patterns in how users engage with the AI assistant across different devices, time periods, and topics.
Here are some of the highlights:
- Health and wellness queries dominated mobile use regardless of hour or month, positioning phones as around-the-clock personal wellness companions.
- Advice-seeking grew throughout the year, with users increasingly treating AI as a guidance source rather than just a pure search tool.
- Late-night sessions saw philosophical, religious, and existential topics climb in popularity, while relationship chats spiked specifically around Valentine's Day.
- Programming dominated in January, while social topics rose later in the year, reflecting a shift from early adopters toward a broader, mainstream audience.
OpenAI Launches Prism
OpenAI just launched Prism, a free research tool that puts its most advanced reasoning model inside the scientific writing process. It aims to do for research what AI coding assistants did for software development over the past year. Here are the details:
- The tool came from OpenAI’s acquisition of Crixet, a cloud-based science writing platform, which it rebuilt around its latest GPT 5.2 reasoning model.
- Scientists can search for papers, auto-generate citations, and turn photos of whiteboard math into formatted equations, without leaving the document.
- OpenAI revealed ChatGPT fields over 8M weekly queries on hard science topics, suggesting researchers are already leaning heavily on AI.
- The free tool has no caps on team size or projects, a departure from typical expensive academic software pricing models.
Microsoft AI turns tissue samples into cancer maps
Microsoft released GigaTIME, a new open-source AI model that can extract thousands of dollars' worth of tumor insights from a basic $10 tissue slide. Cancer research is entering a new phase where AI can provide meaningful insights from routine data that would have required costly, time-intensive lab work just a few years ago. AI-generated population-scale is changing how we study cancer Using AI-generated virtual populations, Microsoft researchers uncovered hidden cellular patterns that could reshape how we understand and treat cancer.