I tried Zen Browser today and was really impressed by how it looked and felt.

It's super exciting to see a Firefox based browser to be this awesome. And you can integrate any AI you prefer into it just by signing in.

Still it's in early stages yet it's gonna be an amazing browser for sure.

In short: Zen is the Arc of Firefox 👌🏼

🔗: https://zen-browser.app/

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Google Chrome now lets users set the Toolbar shortcut for "Listen to this page"

Also Google announced this Listen to this page as a part of Android 15 however, I already announced this feature as a part of Chrome experimental feature. Still users can enable it with a flag.

#Google Photos now lets you choose to 'Show less' or 'Block face' a face when hiding it from memories.

#Google Messages (RCS) widely tests the edit message feature.

The best part is we can also see the original message in the more detaila menu.

Internet Archive lost the lawsuit appeal vs book publishers regarding their digital library 🍃

Now they have to remove 500,000 books from their collection and also should compensate the publishers.

#YouTube started showing AI generated summaries for videos in Feed.

#YouTube Music experimenting with a new feature called "Ask for music" which can create music playlists or radios for you using AI prompts.

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Google Notebook LM can now turn thesis and research papers into podcast 🤯. I tired it with my thesis and it's pretty cool for sure.

🔗: notebooklm.google.com

Threads added a new account setting to manage "Political content".

Users can decide where Threads can suggest political content or not with this.

I heard Gemini Live is now available for free users as well.

Just noticed that #YouTube Music now has a customized Radio called "Radio You" which can be also shared with others if you make it public.

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A new GPT model is here which can "Think" and called o1.

This model shows drastic performance increment compared to GPT-4o especially in coding and solving mathematic problems.

For context in the International Mathematics Olympiad (IMO), GPT-4o correctly solved only 13% of problems, while the reasoning model scored 83%.

(Still it's lower than Google's Model)


Original blog: https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-o1-preview/

#Android 15 getting redesigned settings page with top level settings cards.

Android 15 is also getting a new quick input/keyboard switcher button to let users quickly switch between languages and keyboards. Users can also long press to get the list.

In addition a slightly improved screen recording chip has been which will also let users stop recording instantly.

Android 15 tests a new Charging optimization feature which will let users limit the charging capacity to 80% to extend battery life.

Still the Adaptive Charging feature can be also chosen based on user preference under settings.