Well, this was a pretty busy week in the

world of AI. We have a few updates from

Google including a new flash model and a

small update to Notebook LM that we've

been waiting for for a while now. SpaceX

AI released a new agent called Grok Bot

that is really promising, but most

people talking about it are leaving out

some pretty crucial details about it.

But don't worry, I'll break down

everything that's important in this

week's AI news recap. My name is Paul J.

Lipsky and every week I bring you the AI

news that regular people actually care

about. I want to start by talking about

that little update to Notebook LM, or as

it's now called Gemini Notebook. So now

when you come into any of your notebooks

like this one right here, you'll see

this copy button at the top. This will

make a copy of your notebook. You'll see

whenever you do that, it will

automatically give it a title of copy of

and the name of your notebook, but you

can rename it. So this is really helpful

when you have one notebook that you like

and you want to sort of branch out from

it and create a variation of it. Maybe

add some sources to that one while still

preserving the original notebook. This

makes it a lot easier to do that. The

other thing that it's really good for is

when someone shares a notebook with you,

but there's a little bit of a catch

here. So back here on my dashboard, if I

click right here where it says shared

with me, I can see this notebook that

someone else shared with me, but opening

it up, you'll notice that the copy

button is grayed out. And that's because

the original owner has to allow copying.

So if you do want to share a notebook

with someone and allow them to be able

to copy it, this is how you do it. Come

over to the notebook that you want to

share. So let's say it is this one right

here. And then you'll click on the top

right here where it says share. Now if

you see that this share button is grayed

out, it's probably because you have used

this notebook inside of Gemini and you

have some Gemini chats in there. So for

instance, if we come over to this

notebook right here, you'll see that I

cannot share this because over here in

the sources, I have chats from Gemini.

Unfortunately, that is a limitation with

sharing notebooks. But anyway, let's

come back to the notebook we can share,

which is this one right here.

And I'll click on the share icon, and

then you can enter in the email address

of the person you want to share it with.

You can choose if you want to give them

access just to view the notebook, to

edit the notebook, or if you want to

remove access. And then finally, down

here is a box you can check off that

says allow copies. And if you check this

off, then they can make their own copy

of the notebook just like I showed you.

It does appear that there are some

further limitations with this. Like I

tried this with a workspace account, and

I was unable to allow copies. So, just

be aware that different account types,

it may not be available. And since we

just talked about Gemini notebook, let's

talk about all the updates from Google

this past week. So, first, Google

announced that Gemini is going to get

more connectors to third-party tools, 14

new apps. So, Gemini will now connect

with OpenTable, Ticketmaster, Wix,

iHeartRadio, Fever, Pandora,

GetYourGuide, Angie, what is Angie? Oh,

lawn treatment services. Okay, Otter.ai,

which is for meeting transcripts. We

have Localiza, Thumb Tack, Zocdoc,

Granola, which is also for meeting

transcripts, Zoho. Yeah, so that appears

to be all of them. This is something

that has slowly been happening over the

last couple of months. I've been saying

for a while now, Google really needs to

move on this quicker because this is

something that's holding back a lot of

people from using Gemini and Gemini

Spark because it doesn't work with that

many third-party tools. Now, they are

opening it up and they've even said they

want to work with more third-party

tools. So, this is good to see. We just

need to see more of it and quite

frankly, it needs to move a little bit

faster. Next, Google announced their new

phones, the Pixel 11. And of course,

these are built specifically from the

ground up for AI. So, you're going to

see a lot of AI features throughout the

phone. And one that I thought was

really, really cool that I haven't seen

before is this new American Sign

Language to Text. I just love when AI is

used for purposes like this and we need

more stuff like this in the world. More

people using AI for good things like

this. Now, some of the other AI features

built in this phone, of course, you can

access Gemini from anywhere and it's

really intelligent, really predicting

what it is that you need. And of course,

it works across all of your different

apps, so you can access your maps, your

Gmail for instance, all of those can be

used to help answer your questions.

We'll get to more updates in a moment.

Right now, I want to talk about the one

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That matters even more when I'm using

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ChatGPT or Claude more context and

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to the news. The next update is that we

have a new Gemini Flash model. This one

is 3.7 Flash. When I'm recording this,

it's not yet available inside of Gemini,

but it is available inside of Google AI

Studio and is available uh it powers

Google Gemini Spark already. So I have

gotten to use it a little bit, and it

does feel like a little bit of an

improvement over the last model, which

was 3.6 Flash. What's interesting here

is that we still do not have an update

to the Pro model. It is stuck on 3.1

Pro. We were supposed to get an updated

Pro model months ago. It never came. And

the rumor is that Google has given up on

an update to 3.1 Pro and they're just

going to skip to 4 Pro. And look, Flash

is a great, very capable model. If

you're inside the Google ecosystem,

using Google AI in search, inside of

Google Drive, in Gmail, you're going to

be pretty happy with the Flash model. It

works very well for most tasks. But if

you look at what all the other major AI

labs are doing, like Anthropic and

OpenAI, they have been releasing

incredible models over the past couple

of months and making those models the

default inside of Chat GPT. By default,

the model that's used is their best

model. And Google has really fallen

behind here, and the optics of this

aren't great. Now, of course, they are

Google, and I have full confidence they

have all the resources they need to pull

back ahead and to catch up to the

competition. We just have to wait for

that to happen. In the meantime, though,

3.7 Flash, like I said, is a great

model. And they've said that it's

stronger for coding, knowledge work, and

web development. And looking at the

benchmarks, you can see that there are

nice improvements to it. So, you're

going to notice a difference when you're

switching from 3.6 Flash to 3.7 Flash.

And the last update from Google is to

Pexels. So, Pexels is a tool I've

covered a few times on my channel. It

allows you to input your brand's

website, and from that it'll generate

something called business DNA, and using

that, you can automatically generate

assets like an entire website, a brand

book, or do this virtual photo shoot

where you upload one image of your

product, and it'll create all these

other brand images. So, there's just

been a little bit of an update to that.

Now, when you use that product photo

shoot feature, you will, just like

before, choose the image that you want

to then turn into multiple images. So,

here, I'll just select this image of

this hat, and then you get to choose

between these different templates, and

your product will be used in these

templates. But what's new is that you

can now create your own custom style

templates. To do that, you'd click right

here where it says add your own style,

and upload one to three images with a

similar aesthetic, and then from that,

it'll create a template. But that's all

the news from Google this week. So,

let's move on now and talk about

everything that SpaceX AI has been up

to. First, we need to talk about Grok

Bot. This is a new tool that is taking

the internet by storm. Everyone can't

stop talking about it and for good

reason. It is a new way of thinking

about AI agents for most people. So, let

me quickly show you this app. Over here

on the left, you'll notice that I have

what look like chats. But unlike using

something like ChatGPT, where each of

these represent a different thread,

instead each of these represent a

different bot or agent. Or you can think

of it as an AI co-worker. And each of

them have a different role and purpose.

So, for instance, this one right here is

called Ezra the email executor. And its

only job is to draft replies to emails

for me in my inbox. That's it. It

doesn't do anything else. And it does

that on a schedule, of course, for me.

Then we have another one down here

called Sam the scripter. Sam I use to

help me outline my YouTube videos. And

that's it. So, anytime I need a script

done, I talk to Sam. And it gets better

as time goes on at helping me outline my

videos. I have another one here to look

through LinkedIn. Another one here that

helps me with my travel. So, each one

has a specific purpose. But here, I have

created a bot called Deborah the

delegator. And Deborah's main job is to

delegate tasks to the other bots. So, I

don't even need to talk to the other

bots. I can just jump in here and give

the work to Deborah and it will

outsource the task to the bot that is

best equipped for that job. So, here for

instance, if I ask Deborah if we found

any good flights for my vacation and if

there's any AI news to catch up on,

you'll see that it actually messages the

other agents. You can see that right

here. It's talking to Atlas, which is my

travel bot, and Robbie the researcher,

who is my research bot. So, it's not

doing it itself. It's pretty neat the

way that it works. What most people

aren't telling you about Rockbot though,

is that it is pretty expensive, at least

as of right now. In order to use this,

you have to be on a $200 or more a month

plan. So, it's not going to be

attainable for most people. However,

there are strong indications that that

will change very soon, and it will be

available on the cheaper plans. The

other problem though, is that it uses

your credits very quickly. So, they have

to figure that out. People who are

paying for this and are using it are

reporting that they're burning through

their credits before the entire week

within a day. So, there's definitely a

lot of pricing issues that have to be

worked out. But once those are worked

out, I think this has a ton of potential

because it is one of the simplest ways

to get started with using agents. If you

look at the app, there are very few

settings here. You can come into the

settings and notice there isn't much

here. And even the settings that do

exist are really not necessary.

Everything can be done just by chatting

with one of your bots, including setting

up the bots. If you want to create a new

one, just click on plus up here, click

on create a new bot, and then it'll ask

you a bunch of questions about what you

want to use that bot for, and it will

set itself up. You'll also see that

there are no settings for selecting

files and folders beyond a simple attach

files. But if you wanted it to have

access to folders on your computer, just

tell it, "Hey, go into that folder." And

it will figure out how to do that. If

you wanted it to have access to

third-party plugins, just tell it, "Hey,

go into my Notion account, or go into my

Gmail." And it will just set itself up.

Obviously, you will have to intervene to

enter in passwords and stuff, but it

just figures stuff out on its own. And

all of that can be done just by chatting

with the bot. It is a lot easier, I

think, for regular people to understand

than trying to explain to them what MCPs

are or skills are or things like

markdown files. You don't have to worry

about any of that. I also think that the

idea of each bot having its own

different role will be a lot more

intuitive for the average person than

something like system instructions and

skills. I know I've tried to explain to

family members those concepts and they

don't really understand how they all

relate. Like if we have system

instructions and project instructions

and agent markdown files or how do all

those work together? And honestly, it

can be confusing even to explain. So,

just stripping away all of that and

having these simple AI employees, I

think will make a lot more sense to a

lot more people. While it's definitely

behind other tools like ChatGPT work and

Claude Co-work in terms of some

features, I think it's really the way

you interact with the agents that makes

this unique and where I really see the

potential if they can just figure out

the pricing. All right, a couple other

updates from Grok before we move on to

something else. First, we have a new

model, Grok 4.6. But, I'm not going to

talk about it in this video because if

you come over to Grok right now, it's

not yet available inside of regular

chat. It's only available inside of Grok

Build and Cursor and different tools

like that that are really more for

coders and developers. But, what is

currently available is their new image

generation model. It's called Imagine

Image 2.0.

And you can find it, of course, by

clicking on the left here where it says

imagine. This is where you generate

images inside of Grok. And if you have a

paid plan, this should already be loaded

in with the newest model. I'm not quite

sure if it's available for free accounts

yet. And I've been testing it out and

I'm honestly like a little disappointed

in it. It's supposed to be optimized for

work purposes, so things like editing

images and creating infographics, and I

just am not super impressed with it. So,

here for instance, I asked it to create

an infographic for me that details all

the information about the new Grok bot.

And I will say that the text in this

infographic is a lot better than what

Grok has made for me in the past.

However, I don't think it's a

particularly nice infographic, not as

nice as the ones that are generated by

Chat GPT or Gemini. And also, all the

information in here is inaccurate. I

told it to go out, do research on the

new Grok bot, and then to make an

infographic on it, and it just made the

infographic this None of this

information is about Grok bot. It's just

about Grok. So, it really struggled

there with doing that two-step process.

I then asked it to edit an image for me.

So, this was the original image. And for

some reason, as I'm recording this video

with my screen recording software, I

know that this image for you is going to

look super blown out and bad, but I

promise you the original image that I'm

looking at looks much nicer than it's

showing up in the recording. I'm not

sure what's happening with the screen

recording software there.

But anyway, these are the two edits that

it made. And again, these edits are

probably going to look better to you,

but I promise you on my screen, these

look worse. Like this original one to me

looks very crisp, very clean, good

details, the lighting is nice and bright

because I'm outside. And these two are

just over darkened, and everything looks

just a little bit too soft. So, then I

tried something a little bit different.

I gave it this image and told it to

remove the background and put me in a

cozy living room by a fireplace. And

this is what it created for me. So, it,

of course, accurately changed the

background, but I don't think it's very

compelling, particularly because of the

lighting. Now that lighting is changed,

so I would expect, because there's a

fireplace back here, for that to reflect

on my face, but instead we have the

original shadow on this side of the

face, and it's clearly lighted from

above, which doesn't really work with

this image. It doesn't look like I'm in

a cozy living room. It looks like an

image of me taken outside that was

photoshopped into a living room. And I

don't know why there's a dog here. I

have no idea why they added a dog to

this image. Another thing that's really

strange is that I had Grok generate two

images for me. This is the first one,

and this was the second one. And I have

no idea why it generated this image of

this woman. So, that feels, I don't

know, a little random. Yeah, so all that

to say, I don't love the image

generation inside of Grok. I much prefer

to use ChatGPT or Gemini. And then

finally, if you use Grok live voice or

voice mode, there have been a couple of

enhancements to that. So, first of all,

there are more choices here in terms of

the voices that you can choose between.

And also, voice mode now has access to

all of your existing connectors. So, you

could open up voice mode and ask it

something like, "What emails do I have

in my inbox, and help me draft replies

to them?" The other big story from this

past week involves watermarks in text

that are generated by AI. And this all

came to light because Anthropic

announced that going forward, all of

their models will put an imperceptible

watermark in any text that they

generate. So, this is a watermark that

you cannot see, but it is there woven

throughout the text. It doesn't change

the meaning or quality or readability of

it, but it is there. And even if you

copy the text and paste it somewhere

else, it will still exist. Anyone will

be able to copy the text and put it

through a scanner of sorts, and it will

indicate whether it is likely that

Claude wrote it or not. The problem is

that the watermark can exist not only

when text is generated by Claude, but

also even if you just ask Claude to

translate text for you, summarize text

for you, or proofread text for you. And

once again, it is not a visual

watermark. It is part of the generation

process itself. So, it's basically a

pattern in the text that we can't

detect, but a model would be able to

detect to verify if it was generated by

AI. They said that even if you make

small changes to the output, the AI

watermark could still exist. Obviously,

this has raised a lot of concerns. What

if you're a company that uses AI in your

writing process or proofreading process,

and one of your clients checks the text

and sees there is a watermark. They may

feel like they're getting ripped off,

even if you just used it to proofread.

Or what if you're in an industry where

the general consensus is that everyone

hates AI, they don't want anyone using

it, and they don't want to support

people that use it, and there's a false

positive on your work, or you're a

student, and there's a false positive on

a paper that you submit. And other

companies have said that they will sign

up for this as well. So, what if one of

your employees just uses AI to help them

clean up an email that they've sent, and

then the client sees that, and they

decide, "Hey, I don't want to work with

a company that uses AI," and they cancel

the contract with you, all because of

one proofread email that was done by AI.

This whole thing sort of has this whole

surveillance type vibe to it, where you

can't opt into it, it's just done in the

background for you, which makes a lot of

people feel pretty uncomfortable with

it. Overall, I think this is pretty bad.

I actually would be open to the idea of

having invisible watermarks for some

AI-generated content, like images and

videos, but for text, it really doesn't

make sense. And the bigger problem is

enforceability. If we create watermark

rules for companies, that would only be

enforced probably on US and European

models, and we'd just drive consumers to

use Chinese models more. So, I think

ultimately, it wouldn't even work.

Fortunately, I'm in an industry where no

one cares if I use AI, but I think this

could be really harmful for a lot of

other people. We also have to talk about

this wild story from Australia.

Apparently, this guy wanted to get into

a class at his local gym, but he didn't

do it himself. He just asked his Open

Claw agent to sign him up for a class.

What he didn't realize was that the

class was already full. And instead of

the Open Claw coming back and saying the

class was full, the Open Claw actually,

on its own, hacked the gym's website,

kicked someone else out of the class

using a vulnerability in the gym's API,

and then put him on the roster for that

gym class. And all of that happened

without him even knowing it. So, pretty

wild. And it sparked this debate, who is

responsible when AI agents autonomously

go out and do actions like this? And I'm

not sure there's a good answer for this,

but by default, I think it has to be the

user who set up the Open Claw or

whatever agent it is. So, pretty wild.

You know, I don't use Open Claw. There's

a lot of security vulnerabilities I'm

not super comfortable with, and there's

so many good consumer tools out there. I

don't think you need to make that

compromise. You can easily use safer

tools like ChatGPT work, Claude co-work,

or Grok bot now, and avoid the issues

that come with something like Open Claw.

And I can't imagine that that would

happen with one of those more consumer

tools. But, always just be careful, keep

an eye on what your agents are doing. To

wrap this up, let's do a few rapid-fire

news updates. So, first some news from

OpenAI. If you are a college student,

good news. It looks like yet again,

OpenAI is going to offer ChatGPT Plus to

all college students for free for the

year. It's not out yet, but it should be

coming out in September. So, just keep

an eye on that if you are a college

student and you want access to ChatGPT

Plus for free. Next, if you use multiple

tools for a project, like let's say

you're using both the ChatGPT desktop

app and the Claude desktop app, there's

some good news from OpenAI. If you come

into the ChatGPT desktop app and come

into the settings and click on import on

the left here, there is an auto sync

feature. That will automatically keep in

sync projects, chats, skills, and

plugins, making it easier to work with

multiple tools. While we're in the

ChatGPT desktop app, let me also show

you this. A lot of you probably know

this, but if you click on the toggle

side panel on the top right here, you

can use a browser directly inside of

ChatGPT.

And the reason I'm showing you this,

this isn't new, but previously OpenAI

had a browser, a dedicated browser

called Atlas, and that has now

officially been sunsetted. And this is

the reason why, because the browser

inside of the ChatGPT app pretty much

replaced that. It is really, really

good. In fact, I have a whole video

coming out on that very soon, within the

next couple of days. So, if you don't

want to miss out on that, make sure to

subscribe. And the other update is to

the live voice mode inside of ChatGPT.

Now, if you come into any of your

projects and open it up, you can start

live from within that project, which you

couldn't do before. In addition to that,

if you click on the plus icon while you

have live open, you can now attach

files, which you couldn't do in the past

as well. So, little improvements, the

live voice continues to get better and

better inside of ChatGPT.

We also have one bit of news from

Anthropic. So, as I'm sure you know,

there is a Chrome extension for Claude

that allows it to take over your

browser, answer questions about what's

in the browser, things like that. Well,

now when you use that, your sessions now

carry over to your desktop app, to the

web app, and mobile. Previously, if you

started any chats from within the Chrome

extension, you could only access them in

the Chrome extension. But now those

chats will be available everywhere.

Honestly, I'm a little surprised this

wasn't available before, but glad they

finally kind of closed that gap for us.

And finally, if any of you are a user of

Manis, there's some important

information you need to know about. If

you're not familiar with Manis, it's a

very powerful AI agent. I'm actually

going to do a full video on Manis pretty

soon because I've been hearing a lot of

great things about it and I want to test

it out thoroughly for myself. But if you

didn't know this already, Manis was

supposed to be purchased by Meta, but

that deal essentially fell apart. So

because of that, there's sort of some

issues with user data. And now during

the separation, what you have to do is

if you've used Manis or you're using it,

you have to back up your data before the

end of the month. If you don't, then

your data's going to be deleted forever.

After that deletion happens, you can

then use your backup to restore your

account. So if you're a user of Manis or

if you've ever used it and want to save

your data, make sure to log in and click

up here where it says backup now. And

that's it. That's all the AI news from

the past week that I think regular

people will actually care about. If you

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much for watching and I'll see you next

week for the next weekly AI news recap.

Bye for now.