GPT-5 is Finally Here!💥😱

The AI landscape continues to evolve rapidly. This month brings three major developments that will significantly impact developers, creators, and productivity teams:

• OpenAI released GPT-5, its most advanced model to date, with major improvements in reasoning, factual accuracy, instruction-following, and customization.

• Microsoft launched the Copilot Mobile app, bringing AI-powered summarization, content generation, and file insights directly to iOS and Android devices.

• Anthropic upgraded Claude Code with automatic security scanning tools, allowing developers to detect and resolve vulnerabilities early in their workflow.

Each update marks a step forward in usability, trust, and integration of AI into daily tasks.

OpenAI’s Smartest and Most Versatile AI Model Yet

GPT-5 is OpenAI’s latest and most advanced artificial intelligence model, released in August 2025. It represents a major leap in capability over prior models, offering state-of-the-art performance across coding, math, writing, health, and visual perception. The system integrates smart, efficient default answering with a deeper reasoning subsystem (“GPT-5 thinking”) and a real-time router that dynamically selects the most effective approach for each query. GPT-5 is faster, smarter, and more accurate, showing marked improvements in reducing hallucinations (factual errors), following instructions, handling complex tasks, and minimizing sycophantic behavior. It is available to all ChatGPT users, sets new benchmarks in reasoning, safety, and real-world usefulness, and introduces options to customize personalities and steerability in conversations.

Microsoft 365 Copilot Mobile

The Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app lets you take AI-powered productivity on the go, providing easy access to your AI assistant and favorite Microsoft 365 apps from your mobile device. With Copilot on mobile, you can quickly catch up by synthesizing and summarizing large amounts of information from emails, meetings, and chats into simple summaries. It helps brainstorm ideas and draft new content and provides quick, tailored answers to questions about your files, messages, or general topics. The app supports advanced AI capabilities like deep reasoning agents (Researcher and Analyst) and Copilot Notebooks to gather and organize project-related content, with features like generating stories, infographics, and branded templates. Available on iOS and Android, the app integrates powerful chat and creation experiences to enhance productivity anywhere, anytime.

Claude Code Now Secures Your Code Automatically

Anthropic has introduced automated security reviews integrated into its Claude Code tool to help developers identify and fix vulnerabilities early in the development cycle. With the new /security-review command, developers can scan their codebase for common security issues such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting, authentication flaws, insecure data handling, and dependency vulnerabilities directly from their terminal, receiving detailed explanations and optional fixes. Additionally, a GitHub Action automates security checks on every pull request, filtering false positives and providing inline comments with recommendations, ensuring consistent security review before code is merged. Tested internally, these features have successfully caught real vulnerabilities like remote code execution and SSRF attacks before deployment. The system is customizable to fit team policies and integrates with existing CI/CD workflows, making advanced security accessible and scalable for all development teams as AI-driven coding accelerates software delivery.

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Top AI Products from this week

• Floot - Floot lets non-coders & entrepreneurs build serious web apps that actually work. Designed to be super easy to use & powerful. The entire tech stack (backend, DB, hosting, etc) is built-in so you can finally build what you want without headache.

• Haimeta - From WORD to WORLD — all in one place. Create stunning images, vivid videos, and lifelike 3D assets with 20+ selected top AI models. All your creations seamlessly connect within our high-quality interactive spaces. Just one click, and the world is yours.

• Visionstory - Video Podcast - Upload audio + headshot → Pick a virtual studio → Get AI-generated avatars performing your podcast in professional sets with multi-angle shots. We aim to cut podcast production time from hours to seconds, and make pro content accessible to anyone.

• Nas.io v2 - Nas.io is an AI-first business platform that helps creators, coaches, and entrepreneurs turn ideas into revenue. Launch courses, events, memberships and more as your "AI cofounder" helps you ideate, build, price, plus design and run ads and email marketing.

• xpander.ai - Turn any AI Agent into a Slack teammate → no infrastructure and scaling headaches. Let agents work where your team or customers already chat. Agent memory, tools, auto-engage - all sorted for you by the xpander.ai backend-as-a-service platform.

• Gemini Storybook - Create personalized, illustrated stories with Gemini Storybook. Describe the story you want, and get a unique 10-page book with read-aloud narration.

This week in AI

• Circuit Research in AI - Researchers from Anthropic and others explore AI model internals using attribution graphs, revealing insights on reasoning, planning, and representation mechanisms.

• Self-Adaptive AI for Science - Microsoft’s CLIO enhances AI reasoning in science with self-reflection, boosting accuracy and control without extra training, enabling trustworthy discoveries.

• Midjourney HD Video Mode - Midjourney launched HD Video mode for Pro and Mega subscribers offering ~4x higher pixel resolution and 3.2x costlier than SD, targeting professionals needing top-quality footage.

• Jules Async Coding Agent - Google’s Jules is an autonomous coding agent that works asynchronously in the cloud, managing real codebases, running multiple tasks, and integrating smoothly with GitHub workflows.

• Persona Vectors in LLMs - Persona vectors track and control traits like evil, sycophancy, and hallucinations in language models, enabling monitoring and steering to ensure desired behaviors.

Paper of The Day

The paper titled "Persona Vectors: Monitoring and Controlling Character Traits in Language Models" (arXiv:2508.05622) presents a method to identify and manipulate directions in a large language model's activation space, called persona vectors, which correspond to specific personality traits like evil, sycophancy, and hallucination tendencies. These persona vectors can be used to monitor how the model's "personality" fluctuates in real time during usage and training, predict personality shifts after fine-tuning, and control or prevent undesired traits through interventions. The approach allows for automated detection of problematic training data at both dataset and individual sample levels, and enables safer, more aligned model behavior. It is an automated, generalizable technique applicable to any trait defined by natural language descriptions.

To read the whole paper, go to here.