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5 updates · 5 appsJuly 30, 2026

ChatGPT offers free advanced AI access to academic researchers

ChatGPT launched a new program to support academic research.

ChatGPT

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OpenAI is giving 100,000 academic researchers free access to its most advanced ChatGPT models.

This program aims to speed up scientific research and collaboration. If you are an academic researcher, you can apply to get access to these powerful tools for free.

OpenAI is giving 100,000 academic researchers free access to ChatGPT's most advanced AI models to accelerate scientific research, collaboration, and discovery.

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Gemini

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What: We’re introducing a new way to work with Gemini using just your voice, right where you are.

Press and hold the Fn key to dictate into your active window and have Gemini transcribe your spoken words into clean, polished text directly…

What: We’re introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash, an upgraded version of our Flash model, to help you tackle everyday tasks.

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Claude

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AI Scammers Are Better at Building Trust Than Humans

The notion that scammers can use AI to sharpen their deceptions, polish their language, and lubrica…

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Grok

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In Minnesota, the state legislature passed a law targeting “nudification” technology, prohibiting site owners from allowing people to “access, download, or use” such software.

Back in January, Grok flooded the internet with millions of sexually explicit deepfakes , including…

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Claude Code

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The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it.

The Making of Claude Code

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