Gemini brings creative AI to Google TV, Perplexity refines search, and ChatGPT explains AI quirks

Gemini now lets you create with AI directly on your Google TV. Perplexity search now smartly picks and lets you control media types.

Gemini

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You can now find more Gemini features on Google TV, making your TV smarter.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5, bringing company one step closer to an AI ‘super app’ Lucas Ropek Google announced on Wednesday a new wave of AI-powered features coming to Google TV, alongside a dedicated short-form video feed that brings YouTube Shorts directly to the home screen. A new "Create" button in the Gemini tab lets you try out AI tools like Nano Banana and Veo to make new things.

These new creative tools are first coming to Gemini-enabled TCL TVs in the U.S.

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Perplexity

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Perplexity can now smartly pick between showing you images, videos, or both, depending on what you ask.

Smart media selection: Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type Configurable control: Enable/disable and override media types as needed New max_tokens parameter: Control the maximum tokens extracted per page in search results. This gives you finer control over response size and costs.

Learn more → You can now choose to turn off or change the types of media (like images or videos) that Perplexity shows you.

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ChatGPT

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OpenAI explained how "goblin outputs" – unexpected or quirky personality traits – appeared in GPT-5.5 and how they are fixing them.

How goblin outputs spread in AI models: timeline, root cause, and fixes behind personality-driven quirks in GPT-5 behavior. The two men believe they are halfway there.

Solving dexterity, they say, is now just a question of scaling up the approach.

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Claude

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OpenAI releases GPT-5.5, bringing company one step closer to an AI ‘super app’ Lucas Ropek

A large portion of that revenue is driven by Anthropic’s AI coding capabilities, specifically through its Claude Code and Cowork platforms.

Original reportingSources: Anthropic could raise a new $50B round at a valuation of $900B | TechCrunchRead original ↗