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In this newsletter:
- Adobe puts 70 creative tools inside ChatGPT with one plugin
- Google Maps now handles food orders, live transit, and your plans
- OpenAI launches three ChatGPT plugins for teachers and students
Plus, you’ll find new AI tools and this week’s top AI news headlines!
🎨 Adobe Brings All 70 of its Creative Tools into ChatGPT Through One Unified Plugin
Adobe launched a comprehensive ChatGPT plugin that combines tools from over 70 of its creative and productivity apps, including Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, and Express, into one interface.
What's new:
- Available now, start a new ChatGPT chat, type @Adobe, and select Adobe from the menu
- Access as a guest or with full Adobe account login
- Builds on three separate ChatGPT apps Adobe released in December for Photoshop, Express, and Acrobat Pro
- Includes direct access to Firefly, Adobe's copyright-safe AI image service built on public domain and Adobe-owned stock images
- Adobe already integrated across ChatGPT, Claude, and Microsoft Copilot, with Slack and Gemini coming soon
What you can do:
- Batch process photos by typing desired look, tweaking lighting and color, adding or removing elements, resizing or expanding images
- Reformat horizontal videos into vertical format for YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels
- Search Creative Cloud asset libraries using loose descriptions like style or mood
- Further edit output directly in Adobe apps after generating in ChatGPT
Company context:
- Adobe shares dropped from $661 in 2021 to as low as $202 in June after CFO departure and AI disruption fears
- CEO Shantanu Narayen announced plans to step down once a replacement is found
- Company shifting to freemium model similar to competitors
- Adobe has been one of the highest-profile targets of vibe coding tools that many believed could duplicate its software
Why it matters:
Adobe putting its entire creative suite inside ChatGPT is less about adding a feature and more about survival - the company that built its business on software subscriptions is now embedding itself inside the AI tools that threatened to replace it.
Making Photoshop-level editing accessible through a chat prompt rather than years of training is exactly what Jensen Huang predicted would happen, and Adobe is smart enough to be the one who makes it happen rather than watch someone else do it first.
👀 Read more about Adobe’s ChatGPT plugin!
🗺️ Google Maps Now Orders Your Food, Shows Live Transit Delays, and Remembers Your Plans
Google updated Ask Maps with agentic food ordering, real-time transit information, Personal Intelligence that connects to Gmail, and the ability to remember past conversations.
What's new:
- Rolling out in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, and over 150 countries in English
- Food ordering now live in the US with Square and Toast, Uber Eats coming soon
- Hotel and local event discovery with real-time price comparison and availability checks
- Real-time transit widget shows live delays for bus, train, subway, and ferry updated minute by minute
- Personal Intelligence connects Ask Maps to Gmail to factor in upcoming flights and dinner reservations automatically (off by default, opt-in)
- Ask Maps remembers past conversations so you can pick up where you left off
- Suggest edits and share tips conversationally, upload storefront photo and Maps detects new hours from image
What you can do:
- Ask Maps to "order spicy pad kee mao with seafood for me to pick up on my way home" - it finds open restaurants along your route and adds the dish to your cart
- Ask for a hotel near a conference with specific vibe, walking distance to gym and restaurants; Maps compares real-time prices and availability
- Ask "Give me ideas on how to spend a few hours near the hotel before my flight tomorrow" and get suggestions based on your Gmail hotel reservation
- Ask "Is there a ferry to get to Taronga Zoo with views of the Opera House?" and see a real-time departure board with live delay updates
- Share insider tips like "more parking is available behind the building," and Maps surfaces it to others
Why it matters:
Google is turning Maps from a navigation tool into an assistant that handles the entire logistics chain around where you're going - not just how to get there.
The Gmail connection is the piece that makes this genuinely different from competitors: Maps already knowing your plans before you explain them removes the friction that makes every other AI travel assistant feel like extra work rather than less.
👀 Read more about Ask Maps updates!
🎓 OpenAI Launches 3 ChatGPT Plugins for Teachers and Students
OpenAI released three education plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex - one each for K-12 educators, college educators, and college students - available now through ChatGPT Edu and ChatGPT for Teachers district deployments.
K-12 Educator plugin:
- Creates differentiated resources, interactive visuals, and actionable classroom insights
- Works with materials and tools teachers already use
- Integrates with Learning Commons to align materials to local academic standards
- Can create assignment translations, exit ticket briefs, family updates, and practice tests
College Educator plugin:
- Updates syllabi, creates interactive websites and multimedia assessments
- Adapts materials for diverse learners and packages content for learning management systems
- Works across teaching, research, and everyday tasks with connected calendars and documents
College Student plugin:
- Guided tutor that works with your own course materials
- Creates study guides, quizzes, flashcards, and interactive visual explanations
- Draws on learning science to build stronger study habits and deeper understanding
Expanding access:
- OpenAI Student Collective: new student-led community, applications open for Campus Leads
- Partnership with Handshake connects student AI skills to internships and early-career opportunities
- OpenAI Academy bringing free in-person workshops to 1,600 K-12 teachers across eight US cities in partnership with Walton Family Foundation
- ChatGPT for Academic Researchers gives eligible researchers 12 months of free Pro-level access
- Estonia deployment reaches 20,000 students and 4,600 teachers alongside longitudinal research
Why it matters:
OpenAI data shows college-age users leverage ChatGPT roughly 90-99% less than power users, which means most students are barely scratching the surface of what the tool can actually do for their learning.
These plugins close that gap by removing the need to figure out how to prompt the AI correctly and instead giving students and teachers pre-built workflows that connect to the materials they already have, which is a more honest approach to AI in education than simply giving students access and hoping they figure it out.
👀 Read more about OpenAI's education plugins!
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This Week's Top AI News Headlines:
- OpenAI Removes Text Chat Limits for Free ChatGPT Users, Allowing Unlimited Conversations without Hitting Message Caps while Keeping Usage Restrictions for More Compute-Intensive Features (View Article)
- Alibaba Unveils Wan 3.0, its Latest AI Video Generation Model With Videos Twice as Long and Support for a Wider Range of Text, Image, Video, and Audio Inputs to Give Creators More Control Over Generated Content (View Article)
- Google DeepMind Introduces WeatherNext 2, an AI Weather Model that Improves Cyclone Forecasting by Predicting Storm Tracks, Intensity, and Rapid Changes Earlier and More Accurately (View Article)
- Reddit Modernizes its Infrastructure and Moderation Tools with AI-Powered Systems Designed to Help Moderators Detect Harmful Content, Enforce Community Rules, and Manage Large Communities More Efficiently (View Article)
- OpenAI Says Upcoming Astra Model May Have Reached “Critical” Cybersecurity Capabilities, Potentially Enabling Autonomous Discovery of Zero-Day Exploits, Prompting Stricter Security Controls, Expanded Testing, and Collaboration with Government and AI Safety Organizations (View Article)
- Anthropic Strengthens Fable 5’s Biology Safeguards with New Protections Designed to Preserve Legitimate Scientific Assistance while Reducing the Risk of Claude Providing Dangerous Biological Information (View Article)
- OpenAI Shares How Workers and Organizations Around the World are Putting ChatGPT to Work Across Coding, Research, Writing, Data Analysis, and Everyday Business Tasks to Boost Productivity (View Article)
- Perplexity Launches Computer for Builders, Giving Developers an AI-Powered Cloud Computer that can Browse the Web, Run Code, Use Software Tools, and Complete Multi-Step Development Tasks Autonomously (View Article)
- OpenAI is Reportedly Developing a Battery-Powered ChatGPT Smart Speaker, Signaling a Push into Dedicated AI Hardware that Could Let Users Interact with ChatGPT by Voice without a Phone or Computer (View Article)
- ElevenLabs Launches a Dubbing API that Lets Developers Automatically Translate and Dub Audio and Video into Multiple Languages while Preserving the Original Speakers’ Voices and Delivery (View Article)
- Anthropic Lets Developers Run Claude Code Sessions on their Own Computing Infrastructure, Giving Teams More Control Over Where AI Coding Workloads Execute while Keeping Claude Code’s Agentic Development Tools (View Article)
- Cloudflare Introduces Kitesurf, a New Open-Source System Designed to Help AI Agents Browse and Interact with Websites More Reliably by Turning Web Pages into Structured, Agent-Friendly Interfaces (View Article)
- Suno Outlines its Plan to Build AI Music Responsibly, Detailing Efforts to Protect Artists’ Rights, Develop Licensing Partnerships, Improve Transparency, and Create New Ways for Musicians to Participate in and Benefit from AI-Generated Music (View Article)
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