Welcome back! The assistant war has officially entered your inbox. One tech giant is betting you will trade your private data for a perfect morning briefing, while a competitor is trying to prove its models can survive a PhD program. But the users might be ahead of the labs. New data suggests people are done using AI for digital chores and are quietly moving to heavy cognitive lifting. The novelty is fading, and the real work is beginning.
In today’s Generative AI Newsletter:
Google launches a morning agent built on your personal files.
OpenAI creates a benchmark to see if AI can replace scientists.
Perplexity finds users want thinking partners, not travel agents.
Meta SAM Audio isolates specific sounds just by describing them.
