Perplexity 'Busted'; ChatGPT Growth Explosion
🔍 Perplexity Ignores the Rules?
Cloudflare accused Perplexity of violating robots.txt by scraping websites while disguised as Chrome browsers, bypassing detection. This raises concerns about data ethics and sets a potentially dangerous precedent for AI startups.
📖 Source: AI Secret
🧠 OpenAI Enhances ChatGPT Mental Health Detection
OpenAI has implemented significant updates to ChatGPT to better detect when users are experiencing mental or emotional distress. This comes ahead of GPT-5's anticipated release as part of the company's effort to promote "healthy use" of the AI assistant.
In short:
- Enhanced tools to provide evidence-based resources when needed
- Collaboration with physicians and human-computer interaction experts
- New nudges to prevent excessively long chat sessions
- Changes to make ChatGPT less decisive in high-stakes situations
📖 Source: The Rundown AI
🎮 Google Launches Kaggle Game Arena for AI Benchmarking
Google has introduced the Kaggle Game Arena, a new AI benchmarking platform where leading models compete in strategic games to test reasoning, long-term planning, and problem-solving capabilities.
Key Features:
- Chess tournament featuring eight models including Gemini 2.5 Pro and Grok 4
- Plans to expand beyond chess to include Go and Poker
- Individual leaderboards for transparent performance tracking
- Focus on real-time thinking, adaptation, and strategy
📖 Source: The Rundown AI
📈 ChatGPT User Growth Accelerates
ChatGPT is set to hit 700 million weekly active users this week, representing a significant jump from 500 million in March and a 4x increase since last year.
📖 Source: The Rundown AI
💰Lovable's Rapid Growth Story
The no-code app development platform Lovable has scaled from 0 to $30M in just 4 months, demonstrating the explosive growth potential in AI-powered development tools.
📖 Source: AI Secret
📊 Developer Role Transformation Survey
GitHub's survey of 22 heavy AI tool users reveals how software development roles are evolving:
- Developers moving through stages: Skeptic → Explorer → Collaborator → Strategist
- Most expect AI to write 90% of their code within 2-5 years
- Focus shifting to AI orchestration, verification, and management
- "Realistic optimists" see opportunities for career advancement
📖 Source: The Rundown AI
🎬 ICYMI: Meta Hunts for AI Video Gold
Inside Zuckerberg's latest power play as Meta Platforms continues its ambitious push into AI video technology.
📖 Source: AI Secret
🖼️ Ideogram Character Consistency Model
New tutorial available for creating unlimited consistent character variations from a single reference image using Ideogram's character consistency feature.
📖 Source: The Rundown AI
🎯 Alibaba Releases Qwen-Image
Alibaba has released Qwen-Image, an open-source 20B MMDiT model for text-to-image generation featuring:
- State-of-the-art text rendering capabilities
- In-pixel text generation
- Bilingual support
📖 Source: The Rundown AI
💻 The K Prize: Popping the AI Coding Hype Bubble
Analysis of the current state of AI coding capabilities and the reality check provided by the K Prize challenge.
📖 Source: AI Secret
🤝 Perplexity Partners with OpenTable
Perplexity has partnered with OpenTable to enable users to make restaurant reservations directly through its answer engine or Comet browser.
📖 Source: The Rundown AI
📱 Character AI Social Features
Character AI is developing a social feed within its mobile app (previously on the web), letting users to share and discover AI-generated content.
📖 Source: The Rundown AI
🛠️ New AI Tools
- AgentHub - Realistic sandbox for simulation and evaluation of AI agents
- Lindy 3.0 - AI employee with agent builder, auto pilot, and team collaboration
- Grok Imagine - xAI's video AI, available to X Premium and SuperGrok users
- Tasker AI - A team of personal AI agents for everyday to-dos
📖 Source: The Rundown AI