📚 ChatGPT launches Study Mode for students 📚
Interactive learning replaces instant answers

OpenAI has launched Study Mode for ChatGPT, transforming it from a quick-answer bot into an interactive learning assistant. Instead of providing direct answers, the feature guides students through problems with targeted hints, reflection prompts, and adaptive quizzes built on learning science principles. The tool breaks complex topics into digestible steps and adjusts in real-time to each user's skill level, offering Socratic questioning to encourage deeper understanding. Available now for Free, Plus, Pro, and Team users, Study Mode represents a major shift toward AI as an educational partner rather than a shortcut.

🤝 TIM partners with Perplexity for exclusive AI access 🤝
First Italian operator offers free Pro subscriptions

TIM becomes Italy's first telecom operator to offer its fixed and mobile customers one year of free access to Perplexity Pro, the advanced AI platform worth €20 monthly to regular users. The partnership brings unlimited searches, voice sessions, document analysis, and content creation directly to TIM customers through the company's loyalty program. Perplexity Pro provides access to multiple LLMs offering real-time web search with verified sources. TIM customers can activate the service through TIM Party in just a few steps, marking a significant move toward making enterprise-grade AI accessible to consumer markets.

💼 Meta allows AI assistants in coding interviews 💼
Company breaks industry standard with new policy

Meta is breaking from long-standing industry practice by allowing job candidates to use AI assistants during coding interviews, making it the first major tech company to embrace this approach. The company frames the policy as more representative of real working conditions and, ironically, a way to make "LLM-based cheating less effective". This represents a major shift in how the company evaluates candidates and could potentially emerge as the new industry norm in talent recruitment. The move comes as other tech giants like Amazon recently instructed recruiters to disqualify applicants found using AI tools during interviews.

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📊 Google expands NotebookLM with Video Overviews 📊

Google is ramping up its generative AI portfolio with major updates across Vertex AI, Search, and NotebookLM. The standout feature is NotebookLM's new Video Overviews that transform user notes into narrated slideshows enriched with visuals, charts, and quotes, turning dense research material into accessible, AI-generated video summaries. Meanwhile, Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast are now fully available on Vertex AI, giving enterprises high-definition video generation with native audio and precise lip-sync. In Search, Google's AI Mode now accepts PDFs and images for context-aware answers, while Chrome gains an "Ask Google about this page" shortcut for instant AI insights.

💰 Anthropic eyes $170B valuation in massive funding round 💰

Anthropic is closing in on a $3-5 billion funding round led by Iconiq Capital that would value the AI startup at a staggering $170 billion - nearly tripling its March valuation of $61.5 billion in just four months. The OpenAI competitor has been aggressively scaling its fundraising as investors pour billions into the fastest-growing AI companies. In a notable strategic shift, CEO Dario Amodei is now embracing Middle East sovereign wealth funds after previously refusing Saudi investment due to national security concerns. A leaked memo reveals Amodei admits it's become "substantially harder to stay on the frontier" of AI development without tapping Gulf capital. The move mirrors OpenAI's strategy, which secured a $300 billion valuation while partnering with UAE's G42 for massive data center projects in Abu Dhabi.