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OpenAI announced today that ChatGPT's search features are now free for all registered users worldwide, dropping the previous paid-only restriction. The company says it has spent recent months improving search speed and reliability, particularly for mobile users. The update brings several new features, including built-in maps and voice search. Users can also now set ChatGPT as their default browser search engine. To showcase these improvements, OpenAI released several demos highlighting how ChatGPT can help with everyday tasks like finding local events, picking restaurants, and planning vacations. The system pulls current information from across the web and presents results with a mix of text, images, videos, and interactive maps.

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Meta announced Video Seal, a new neural watermarking system that helps identify AI-generated videos even after they've been edited. The watermark remains invisible to viewers but can be detected later to verify a video's origin. The company made the entire system available as open-source software under an MIT license, including the Video Seal Watermarking model, research paper, and both training and inference code. Meta also released an interactive demo that lets users test the technology. Along with Video Seal, Meta introduced two additional tools: Omni Seal Bench, which provides comparative rankings for neural watermarking across different types of media, and Meta Watermark Anything, also released under an MIT license.

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OpenAI has added new project management tools to ChatGPT for its Plus, Pro, and Team subscribers. The new feature allows users to group related chats, files, and custom tutorials into organized collections. Enterprise and education users will get access to Projects in January, with free users getting access later. The feature works similarly to GPTs, which OpenAI released about a year ago, and allows users to combine different elements in one workspace. Users can organize their chats into groups based on topics or contexts, and manage and save files directly within their projects. The system also supports custom instructions that can be applied to an entire project. ChatGPT's search and canvas tools are fully integrated into the Projects system. Users can access these features through both chatgpt.com and the Windows desktop application.

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Google has released a new streaming API for its Gemini 2.0 multimodal model that enables real-time interactions through audio, video, and text. Developer Simon Willison demonstrated the technology in a one-minute iPhone video, showing a live conversation with Gemini about objects it could see through the camera. The API is now available in preview form for developers who want to test it, though some technical setup is required. The release comes as OpenAI introduced a similar capability for ChatGPT that lets the AI discuss smartphone video content in real-time.

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