In this newsletter:

• Meta launches AI assistant app with social feed to show how your friends use AI
• Google adds powerful photo editing tools to Gemini, letting users transform any image
• Visa and Mastercard launched AI shopping assistants that can buy products for yo

Plus, you’ll find new AI tools and this week’s top AI news headlines!

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📱 Meta Launches AI Assistant App With Social Feed to Show How Your Friends Use AI

Meta has released a standalone AI assistant app that transforms AI interactions into shareable social experiences, allowing users to see and remix how their friends engage with artificial intelligence.

What's new:

• Dedicated Meta AI app separate from WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook integrations
• Discover feed shows AI interactions from friends and others who choose to share
• Users can like, comment, share, or remix others' AI prompts and results
• Personalizes responses based on existing Facebook/Instagram profile data
• Advanced "full-duplex" voice mode for more natural conversations
• Generates images and provides real-time web search results
• Remembers user preferences like dietary restrictions
• Initially available in the US and Canada with personalization features
• Replaces the View companion app for Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses
• Voice features available in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand

Why it matters:

Meta is treating AI not just as a utility for getting things done, but as another form of social content that can be shared, discussed, and experienced collectively by leveraging its years of social data and adding a shareable feed.

This represents a significant shift in how AI assistants evolve, potentially setting the stage for AI-powered social networks that blur the lines between human and machine-generated content.

👀 Read more about Meta's social approach to AI!

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🖌️ Google Adds Powerful Photo Editing Tools to Gemini, Letting Users Transform Any Image

Google has upgraded its Gemini app with comprehensive image editing capabilities that allow users to modify both AI-generated images and their own photos directly within the app.

What's new:

• Edit any image uploaded from your phone or computer
• Change backgrounds in existing photos
• Replace or add objects to images
• Transform personal appearance (like trying different hair colors)
• Create illustrations to accompany text (like bedtime stories with matching images)
• Uses a "multi-step" editing process for more contextual, refined results
• Includes invisible watermarking on all edited/generated images
• Testing visible watermarks as an additional safeguard
• Rolling out gradually starting today
• Coming to most countries in the coming weeks
• Will support more than 45 languages

Why it matters:

Google's integration of advanced image editing directly into Gemini transforms the chatbot from a text-based assistant into a creative visual tool. By allowing users to modify their own photos with simple prompts rather than complex editing software, Google is making easy image generation accessible to everyone.

The technology builds on capabilities that previously went viral, though Google has implemented safeguards to address potential misuse concerns.

👀 Read more about Gemini's new editing powers!

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💳 Visa and Mastercard Launched AI Shopping Assistants That Can Buy Products For You

Credit card giants Visa and Mastercard have announced new AI-powered shopping features that will allow virtual assistants to make purchases on behalf of consumers based on their preferences.

What's new:

• Visa launches "Intelligent Commerce," enabling AI to find and buy products
• Mastercard introduces "Agent Pay" to integrate payments into AI conversations
• Both systems allow AI to shop and make purchases with user-defined limits
• Visa is partnering with Anthropic, Microsoft, OpenAI, Perplexity, Samsung, and Stripe
• Mastercard is collaborating with Microsoft, IBM, Braintree, and Checkout
• PayPal also announced its own AI commerce offering on the same day
• Similar to Amazon's "Buy for Me" feature, currently in testing
• Designed to provide personalized, secure, and convenient shopping experiences

Why it matters:

This marks a significant shift in how people shop online, moving from manually browsing websites to delegating purchase decisions to AI agents that understand personal preferences.

The entry of major payment processors into AI-powered shopping signals that automated buying is rapidly becoming mainstream, potentially transforming e-commerce by allowing consumers to simply describe what they want and have an AI assistant handle everything from product selection to payment.

👀 Read more about how AI is reshaping shopping!

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This Week's Top AI News Headlines:

• Google Expands AI Mode in Search, Allowing U.S. Users to Ask Complex Questions and Access Visual Product and Place Cards Without a Waitlist (View Article)
• Anthropic's Claude Now Connects to Apps Like Atlassian and PayPal, Offering Deeper Workplace Integration and Advanced Research Capabilities (View Article)
• Pinterest Introduces AI Labels and Filtering Tools to Help Users Identify and Limit AI-Generated Images, Addressing Concerns Over Realism and Practicality in Search Results (View Article)
• Wikipedia Integrates Generative AI to Assist Human Editors with Repetitive Tasks, Emphasizing Transparency and Open-Source Tools While Launching Dataset to Reduce AI Bot Scraping (View Article)
• Google Starts Showing Ads in Third-Party AI Chatbots Like iAsk and Liner to Monetize AI Conversations and Compete with ChatGPT and Claude (View Article)
• Microsoft’s Lightweight Phi-3 Model Matches Larger AI Systems in Key Tasks, Research Shows It Rivals GPT-3.5 in Math, Coding, and Reasoning Despite Its Smaller Size (View Article)
• Amazon Launches Nova Premier, Its Most Advanced AI Model Yet, Capable of Processing Text, Images, and Videos with a 1 Million Token Context Window, Targeting Complex Tasks and Model Training (View Article)
• Google Launches Public Test of AI Mode in Search, Offering AI-Generated Answers, Visual Product Cards, and Saved Search History to Compete with ChatGPT and Perplexity (View Article)
• Mark Zuckerberg Unveils Plan for Fully AI-Driven Ads on Facebook, Automating Creative, Targeting, and Performance Measurement to Disrupt Traditional Advertising Industry (View Article)
• New York MTA to Test AI Surveillance on Subway Platforms That Detect Suspicious Behavior and Alert Police in Real Time to Prevent Crimes (View Article)
• Nvidia Launches AI Blueprint Tool That Transforms Simple 3D Scenes in Blender into Detailed 2D Images, Offering Creators More Control Over Composition Without Relying on Text Prompts (View Article)
• Meta Updates Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Privacy Policy: Enables Always-On AI Camera and Mandates Cloud Storage of Voice Recordings to Enhance AI Training (View Article)

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