OpenAI Plans GPT-5 Launch😱☠️

This week, we’re witnessing a tectonic shift in the AI landscape — with tech giants, governments, and innovators all racing to shape the future.

🔹 OpenAI is readying its most powerful model yet — GPT-5 — for an August launch, promising a major leap in multimodal reasoning, memory, and real-time intelligence. From “mini” to “nano” variants, this release is set to redefine how developers, creators, and enterprises build with AI.

🔹 Google is giving shopping a futuristic upgrade, blending AI-powered try-ons, real-time price alerts, and AI Mode for interior and fashion inspiration — backed by over 50 billion products. Style, now searchable and shoppable like never before.

🔹 And on the global stage, the Trump Administration’s 2025 AI Action Plan lays out an aggressive blueprint for American dominance, targeting innovation, infrastructure, and international leadership in the next great tech race.

Let’s unpack the key highlights driving this new chapter. 👇

OpenAI’s GPT-5 Set to Revolutionize AI This August!

OpenAI is preparing to launch its highly anticipated GPT-5 model as soon as August 2025. The new model is expected to integrate multiple technologies, including its o3 model, unifying various AI capabilities such as multimodal understanding, memory, and advanced reasoning into a single system, rather than a combination of separate models. OpenAI plans to release not only the core GPT-5 but also mini and nano variants to give developers and enterprises flexible API access options. CEO Sam Altman has confirmed the impending release, describing GPT-5 as significantly more capable, including improved coding and reasoning skills. However, OpenAI's release schedules can shift due to development challenges or other factors. GPT-5 aims to simplify and enhance AI functionalities across a broad range of tasks, maintaining OpenAI's edge in the competitive AI landscape.

Try These AI-Powered Shopping Hacks for Style and Savings!

Google’s latest shopping tools leverage AI to enhance your shopping experience by allowing you to virtually try on clothes using a photo of yourself, helping you explore styles from billions of apparel options across Google Search, Shopping, and Images. Additionally, upgraded price alerts let you track your preferred size, color, and price for products, so you’re notified as soon as items match your budget. Starting this fall in the U.S., AI Mode will also offer shoppable outfit and room design inspiration by generating visual matches from 50 billion products in the Shopping Graph, making it easier to find style and decor ideas tailored to your preferences.

Trump 2025 AI Plan: Innovation, Infrastructure & Leadership

The Trump Administration's July 2025 AI Action Plan outlines an ambitious strategy to secure American dominance in artificial intelligence through three core pillars. Pillar I focuses on accelerating AI innovation by removing regulatory barriers, promoting free speech in AI systems, and rapidly adopting AI across government and defense while empowering American workers. Pillar II emphasizes building robust AI infrastructure by streamlining permitting for data centers, modernizing the electrical grid, and restoring semiconductor manufacturing. Pillar III centers on international AI diplomacy and security by exporting American AI technology to allies and strengthening export controls on AI compute. The plan positions AI as driving "an industrial revolution, an information revolution, and a renaissance—all at once," emphasizing that winning this technological race is essential for America's global leadership.RetryClaude can make mistakes. Please double-check responses.

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Top AI Products from this week

• Ash - We all might need some help with our mental health. I used Ash and was blown away by how helpful it was at 2 AM. It remembered our conversations, and even challenged me, providing valuable insights. Isn't it crazy how AI can make us feel more human?

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• Bee - Bee is a $49 AI-powered wearable that listens, summarizes your conversations, builds daily insights & reminders, and supports 40 languages. With 7-day battery life and strong privacy controls, it’s like a second brain right on your wrist or clip.

This week in AI

• Higgs Audio v2: AI Audio Power - Higgs Audio v2: AI-driven audio generation excels in voice cloning, multi-speaker dialogue, and emotion-rich speech. Open-source, GPU-optimized, with easy install & usage guides.

• Qwen3-Coder-480B - Advanced AI code model with 480B parameters, supports 256K tokens, excels in agentic coding with reinforcement learning and large-scale deployments. Open source CLI tool available.

• AI Clinical Copilot Boosts Care Quality - AI Consult, an OpenAI clinical copilot used at Penda Health, cut diagnostic errors by 16% and treatment errors by 13%, enhancing care with real-time, clinician-controlled AI support.

• Aeneas AI for Ancient Inscriptions - Aeneas AI contextualizes ancient Latin inscriptions by analyzing text and images, restoring gaps, dating texts, and finding parallels to aid historians in fast, accurate interpretations.

• Amazon Shuts Shanghai AI Lab - Amazon shuts Shanghai AI lab amid US-China tensions, cutting AI roles in cloud unit. Focus was on NLP and graph learning. Reflects broader US tech pullback from China.

Paper of The Day

SafeWork-R1 is a cutting-edge multimodal reasoning model developed by Shanghai AI Lab that demonstrates how AI safety and general capabilities can coevolve rather than compete. Built using the novel "SafeLadder" training framework, it achieves state-of-the-art safety performance while maintaining strong reasoning abilities.

To read the whole paper, go to here.