Topic: paid subscriptions
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Free AI Chatbots: How to Choose & When to Upgrade
The article recommends testing the free, powerful tiers of top AI chatbots, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Grok, and Perplexity, to evaluate their fit for your specific needs before paying. It advises choosing a chatbot based on your primary digital ecosystem, such as Microsoft for Copilot or Google for...
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X's Grok AI Still Generates Nudes Despite Claims It's Fixed
Despite new restrictions, the Grok AI system on X continues to generate problematic content like nude images, raising doubts about the effectiveness of its safeguards. The company has implemented measures including paywalling image creation for accountability and blocking edits of real people in ...
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OpenAI Criticized for Ad-Like App Suggestions
A ChatGPT test feature mistakenly suggested the Peloton app in an unrelated conversation, sparking user backlash over perceived ads, which OpenAI clarified was not a paid promotion. The incident, widely shared online, highlighted user frustration over unsolicited product suggestions, which felt i...
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YouTube Ad Sales Soar 15% to $10.2 Billion as Alphabet Tops $100B Revenue
YouTube's advertising revenue surged 15% to $10.26 billion in Q3 2025, exceeding expectations and reinforcing its dominance in digital advertising. Alphabet achieved a record $102.35 billion in total revenue with a 16% increase, driven by strong performance across all major business segments and ...
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Gemini Analyzes Your Photos and Emails for Smarter Answers
Google is launching an optional "personal intelligence" feature for paying Gemini AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, allowing the AI to analyze personal data from services like Gmail and Photos for more tailored responses. Users maintain full control, able to selectively connect data sources and revok...
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beehiiv expands with AI website builder and creator tools
beehiiv has expanded its platform to include AI-powered website building, enabling creators to design sites without coding through conversational AI or drag-and-drop tools. The platform now supports selling digital products like ebooks with zero commission, podcast hosting, and offers real-time a...
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Perplexity's Comet AI Browser Goes Free; Max Users Gain Background Assistant
Perplexity has launched its free Comet browser globally, featuring a sidecar assistant that helps with answering questions, summarizing content, and navigating web pages to compete with browsers like Google Chrome and AI-driven alternatives. Free users gain access to the sidecar assistant and int...
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Grok's Deepfake Feature Remains Free
X has limited one method of accessing its Grok AI image generator to paying subscribers only, but multiple other free avenues for creating and editing images remain widely available to all users. The platform's partial paywall has been criticized for monetizing a feature linked to harmful content...
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Gmail's New AI Inbox & Search Features Unveiled
Google is introducing a major AI update to Gmail, featuring a new AI Inbox tab for managing tasks and updates, an AI-powered search for natural language queries, and a built-in Proofread tool. The AI Inbox organizes emails into "Suggested to-dos" for urgent actions and "Topics to catch up on" for...
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Gmail's New AI Inbox Summarizes Your Emails
Google is introducing a beta "AI Inbox" tab to Gmail that scans emails to generate suggested tasks and key topics, aiming to personalize and streamline inbox management. The feature includes disclaimers about potential AI mistakes and assures user privacy by not using the processed data to train ...
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GPT-5.1 Upgrade: How ChatGPT Gets Warmer and Smarter
GPT-5.1 introduces two new models—Instant for quick, warm everyday interactions and Thinking for complex, in-depth analysis—enhancing conversational quality and adaptability. The update expands customization with selectable personality tones, adjustable response characteristics, and improved unde...
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Google Hits $400 Billion in Annual Revenue for First Time
Alphabet (Google's parent) surpassed $400 billion in annual revenue for the first time in 2025, driven by strong growth in Google Cloud and YouTube. Google Cloud reached a $70 billion annual run rate, while YouTube's revenue exceeded $60 billion, and the company's subscription services have over ...
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Gmail's New AI Inbox: Powered by Gemini, Not Your Data
Google is launching an AI Inbox feature for Gmail, powered by Gemini, to help users manage email volume by providing a prioritized view, with assurances that personal email content will not be used to train its AI models. The update includes AI Overviews that automatically generate concise summar...
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Snapchat Revives Classic 2D Bitmojis for Subscribers
Snapchat is reintroducing 2D Bitmoji avatars as an exclusive feature for its Snapchat Plus paying subscribers, offering a new "Comic Bitmoji" style. The new 2D style functions like a filter, maintaining customization and expressive features while providing a comic book look with more poses and de...
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YouTube Music Locks Lyrics Behind Premium Paywall
YouTube Music now requires a Premium subscription to view full song lyrics, restricting non-subscribers to only five free views before the text becomes blurred and unscrollable. This change is part of Google's strategy to grow its subscription services, which have over 325 million paid users and ...
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OpenAI Launches 'Warmer, More Intelligent' GPT-5.1 for ChatGPT
OpenAI has launched GPT-5.1, offering a warmer, more intelligent conversational experience with enhancements to both instant and thinking models. The update improves communication style with a friendlier tone and better instruction-following, while the thinking model handles complex tasks more ef...
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