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GPT-5 Lost it’s Human Touch, Gemini now Talks to Your Apps & MakeMyTrip Released a Talking Travel AI Agent
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August 11, 2025
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LATEST IN AI TODAY📎
OpenAI’s latest GPT-5 upgrade boosts reasoning, coding, and accuracy but at a cost.
Older models like GPT-4o were dropped, triggering mass subscription cancellations.
Users report GPT-5 feels “cold” and less emotionally intelligent.
Criticism grows over alleged deceptive benchmarks and poor transparency.
Signals a tension between technical progress and keeping human connection alive.
Google’s Gemini Live can now directly access Calendar, Tasks, and Keep.
Lets you create events, reminders, and notes in real time from chat.
Works with queries like “Do I have any reminders today?” on Android and iOS.
Shows active app status and allows undoing recent actions.
Pushes Gemini closer to being a true context-aware daily assistant.
MakeMyTrip launches Myra, an AI assistant for end-to-end travel booking.
Handles flights, hotels, visas, cabs, refunds and itinerary changes.
Accepts voice, text, image and video for trip planning.
Works in English and some native languages, with more languages coming.
Marks a shift from AI travel suggestions to full travel execution.
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3-THINGS IN TREND
In a running joke, an X account called “donald boat“ is asking prominent accounts in Tech/AI to gift him expensive hardware with witty comments. Last week, Sam Altman said yes.
There is a subreddit with 11,000 people who are ‘dating’ AIs.
Sam Altman shared his vision for the next big thing: intelligent devices that will help you with anything you need.
2-USEFUL LINKS
1-TOP ROBO NEWS
China’s military just rolled out armed “robot wolves” in combat drills. The rifle-toting quadrupeds move in packs, coordinate with troops, and handle reconnaissance and assaults—potentially outmatching aerial drones in certain missions.
WHAT ELSE HAPPENED IN AI 📰
🚀 Grok 4 Goes Free (Limited Time)
xAI opened Grok 4 to all users temporarily and added a long-press “Make Video with Grok” feature to turn images into videos.
🛡️ Roblox Open-Sources Sentinel
Roblox released Sentinel, an open-source AI system to detect risky or predatory chat behavior and help protect kids.
🧩 Copilot 3D: Images → 3D Models
Microsoft launched Copilot 3D, a one-click tool that converts 2D images into usable 3D models for games, VR/AR, and animation.
🏭 SoftBank Buys Foxconn’s Ohio Plant
SoftBank acquired Foxconn’s U.S. EV factory in Ohio to repurpose it for its Stargate AI/data center plans.
🔁 Apple Researcher Leaves for Meta
Apple AI researcher Yun Zhu is departing for Meta’s MSL team, the fifth exit from Apple’s foundation models group.
Funding 💰️
Menlo entered the AI space by writing its first check into GenAI startup and OpenAI competitor Anthropic's May 2023 $450 million Series C round.
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