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ChatGPT Pulse

“I asked ChatGPT—” Okay! But what did ChatGPT ask you?

Instead of waiting for you, ChatGPT Pulse now starts the conversation. It’s available first to Pro users on mobile.

Pulse proactively researches and delivers personalized daily updates in the form of visual cards you can scan or expand for more detail.

Each night, ChatGPT reviews your chat history, feedback, and (if you choose) connected apps like Gmail or Google Calendar, then curates a set of updates tailored to your goals and interests.

How proactive!

ChatGPT Pulse

“I asked ChatGPT—” Okay! But what did ChatGPT ask you?

Instead of waiting for you, ChatGPT Pulse now starts the conversation. It’s available first to Pro users on mobile.

Pulse proactively researches and delivers personalized daily updates in the form of visual cards you can scan or expand for more detail.

Each night, ChatGPT reviews your chat history, feedback, and (if you choose) connected apps like Gmail or Google Calendar, then curates a set of updates tailored to your goals and interests.

How proactive!

Sora 2

Sora 2 is OpenAI’s next-gen video and audio generation model, now available in the new Sora app.

It delivers more physically accurate and realistic video, capable of simulating complex actions while obeying the laws of physics.

The model also excels at controllability, maintaining consistent world states across multiple shots, and can generate synchronized dialogue, sound effects, and cinematic backgrounds.

“Cameos” allow you to insert yourself, friends, or objects into any Sora-generated scene. (Yikes TBD).

DeArrow

DeArrow is an open-source browser extension that takes aim at YouTube’s never-ending cycle of clickbait.

Basically, it lets the community (100k+) crowdsource more accurate titles and thumbnails for videos.

Users can submit and vote on clean, context-driven alternatives, which helps restore some sanity to the YouTube experience. What a relief.

Linkie

Linkie is like Linktree, but way more flexible.

Basically, it lets you showcase everything you do without the “powered by” branding.

Drag, drop, and resize cards to feature links, embeds, posts, products, or offers. Build your subscriber list directly from your page. Use your own domain. Get real-time analytics.

It’s also free forever, with a one-time lifetime upgrade option.

K:AI Marketing Agent

Klaviyo is the latest to debut its own Marketing Agent, designed to automate campaign planning and execution for B2C brands.

The agent can generate a full marketing strategy from a single URL, create on-brand content, and launch campaigns in minutes with marketer-approved guardrails.

It can also suggest campaign ideas, analyze trends, and optimize performance over time.

K:AI Marketing Agent

Klaviyo is the latest to debut its own Marketing Agent, designed to automate campaign planning and execution for B2C brands.

The agent can generate a full marketing strategy from a single URL, create on-brand content, and launch campaigns in minutes with marketer-approved guardrails.

It can also suggest campaign ideas, analyze trends, and optimize performance over time.

WebTrafficWatch

WebTrafficWatch generates weekly insights from your GA4 and Google Search Console data.

It automatically flags unusual activity by building custom linear models for each metric, comparing the last 7 days to expected trends. It accounts for weekday vs. weekend patterns, removes outliers like viral traffic spikes, and highlights anomalies in plain English.

Each week, you get an email report on anomalies, trends, and patterns, plus optional technical details like regression equations and confidence intervals for data enthusiasts.

Envelope

Envelope is the first AI assistant for event planning.

It automates repetitive tasks and lets you manage every aspect of an event in one unified platform.

You can manage contacts, tag VIPs, collaborate in real-time, build event pages, create agendas and speaker bios, manage ticketing, handle registrations and payments, and automate personal email invites and reminders.

Plus, AI-generated reports help you monitor signups, attendance, engagement, and email performance.

There are free and paid plans available.