🩸 Google's Blood is Dripping Red

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Google keeps Chrome, but now has to share its search data with AI rivals like ChatGPT and Perplexity. This is the kind of shift that could break the monopoly on default search

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• 🤖 Google Dodged a Breakup… and Gifted AI Search Rivals a Turbo Boost

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AI INSIGHTS

🤖 Google Dodged a Breakup… and Gifted AI Search Rivals a Turbo Boost

For a minute, it looked like Google might have to sell Chrome. But nah, a federal judge just said “you can keep it”… with a twist.

Now, it has to share some of its deepest search data and stop locking out rivals. And that’s exactly what AI players like OpenAI, Perplexity, and Claude have been waiting for:

• Google can keep Chrome and Android. No forced sell-off.

• But… it can’t be the only option anymore on default search slots (like Safari or Android phones).

• Google must share a one-time “snapshot” of its search index with qualified rivals.

• Also required: licensing parts of its search results for 5 years.

That “snapshot” of Google’s search index? It’s years of crawling, ranking, and indexing compressed into one download. That’s like giving Perplexity, ChatGPT, or Claude a head start of a decade in search quality.

→ Phone makers and browsers can now preload AI search alternatives. That opens the door for deals with Samsung, Xiaomi, even Apple (👀). And timing couldn’t be better. One in four internet users already use AI chat for search. Google still dominates, but now it has to fight to stay there.

Why It Matters: Even with the data, building a full search engine with consumer trust + UI polish is expensive. But OpenAI, Microsoft, and Apple have the money to try. The real fight begins now: Chrome vs. ChatGPT Browser vs. Comet vs. Claude… And for the first time, it might actually be a fair one.

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AI HIGHLIGHTS

🪐 PayPal & Venmo users now get free Comet browser invites + 1 year of Perplexity Pro (normally $200). It's limited to 1 invite per PayPal account. Skip the waitlist here.

🙅 ChatGPT is auto-redirecting us to suicide helplines when it detects anything that deems potentially concerning, even in normal chats. Here’re some situations found.

🍌 Google's Banana can clean up visuals for your document guys, and the results here are impressive. Though some commenters are concerned about less noble ends.

📼 Once you learn advanced prompting, ChatGPT/Grok/Gemini feel like completely different AIs. Here are 10 pro-level techniques (with templates) you can steal today.

📁 OpenAI is letting all Free users try ChatGPT Projects. Now, everyone can upload up to 5 files and enjoy smart workspaces. If you’re in Free tier, try using this feature here.

🤝 Both OpenAI & xAI have shown interest in AI coding assistant Cursor’s data. But so far, its owner Anysphere isn’t selling. Cause it faces near-direct competition from all.

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AI CHEAT SHEET

AI QUICK HITS

1. 🔍 Apple is crafting an AI web search tool for Siri to rival OpenAI

2. 🛑 ChatGPT faced a global outage on Sep 3rd, affecting thousands

3. ⚖ OpenAI sued Elon Musk while backing federal AI regulations

4. 😶 xAI’s CFO is the latest executive to leave Elon Musk’s AI firm

5. 📊 OpenAI announced a $1.1B all-stock acquisition of platform Statsig

AI CHART

🌎 Tencent’s Voyager Transforms a Single Photo Into a Full 3D Universe

Tencent just open-sourced HunyuanWorld-Voyager, a new AI system that transforms a single image into a fully explorable 3D environment.

It’s a world model, you can walk through the space, pan the camera with your keyboard or joystick, revisit past areas, and even export the entire 3D environment.

Smart Scene Memory ("World Cache")

• Voyager remembers areas you’ve already explored

• Revisited zones look exactly the same

• This caching ensures spatial consistency even across long distances

Benchmark Results

• Ranked #1 on Stanford’s WorldScore for spatial coherence

• Outperformed other open-source models like Genie 3 and Mirage

World models are one of the most exciting frontiers in AI right now. Labs are racing to build AI systems that understand and generate physical spaces, not just 2D images or text.

Until now, most “image to 3D” systems struggled with long-range exploration or keeping scenes consistent. Voyager solves both, and gives users direct control to move around in the world they generated.

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