Welcome, humans.

Want to see what happens when you ask GPT to “generate the most weird thing you can come up with”? Here ya go.

There’s all kind of weirdness in the thread—we won’t spoil it for ya! 😉

Here’s what you need to know about AI today:

• OpenAI’s ChatGPT Search is now publicly available.
• Meta is also working on its own Google Search competitor.
• Claude now has desktop apps on Windows and Macs.
• Microsoft is once again delaying its Recall AI feature.

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OpenAI’s Google competitor is here!

ChatGPT Search, OpenAI’s AI search engine, is now live for paid ChatGPT users and is set to roll out to the freebie crowd over the next few weeks.

We’re just going to go ahead and say it: ChatGPT Search is the biggest launch since ChatGPT (see our early review from July).

ChatGPT’s Achilles’ heel compared to Google has always been that you couldn’t search for live info (that Bing plugin was a flop...).

Now you can… and it’s really good.

Sam Altman even said that ChatGPT Search has “doubled my usage over the past few weeks”. Biased, yes, but still... wow.

To use SearchGPT, open ChatGPT and click the globe icon labeled “Search the web” in the chat bar. Or, set it as your go-to search engine in Chrome using this extension.

SearchGPT in action

At this point, we can confidently say that ChatGPT Search is a better way to search info than Google: you receive answers faster and lets you dig deeper without endlessly clicking blue links.

This doesn’t mean Google’s out of the AI search game—far from it. They’re just stuck dealing with PR messes and weird hallucination glitches.

We know many of you love Perplexity for AI-based search… and so do we. ChatGPT Search has a similar vibe, with a few notable distinctions:

• ChatGPT Search is faster than Perplexity (both free + Pro), and we’ve found it to be better for quick facts.
• ChatGPT Search is better for currents events—it’s more up to date and has a lot of partnerships with publishers, though it still hallucinates sometimes.
• Perplexity might still be better for in-depth research (ChatGPT Search doesn’t suggest follow-up questions).

Check it out here and let us know your thoughts by filling out “What did you think of today’s email?” at the bottom of the newsletter.

P.S. Meta is working on a search engine too. Innovative or just copying the trend? We’ll let you decide. Just don’t ask the Winklevii their opinion...

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Around the Horn.

• Anthropic released Mac and Windows apps for Claude—download here.
• Sam Altman said in a Reddit Q&A that “we have some very good releases coming later this year”, none of which will be called “gpt-5”.
• Google Maps is getting new AI features that’ll let you ask questions like “things to do with friends tomorrow night.”
• Microsoft is once again delaying “Recall”, it’s conversational AI feature that can see your Windows screen.

Intelligent Insights

AGI Might Be Closer Than We Think

1. A new study found Spanish questions get significantly less accurate election information vs English (52% inaccuracy vs 43% for identical English questions) from top AI models.
2. Meta is making a bold move to get its Llama AI into government systems.
3. The Department of Defense tested Scylla, an AI-powered security system that can instantly spot threats that human guards might miss while actually reducing false alarms.
4. AI writes clearer, more accessible summaries of research papers than scientists do, and readers trust scientists more when their work is explained by AI (though they don't know it's AI doing the explaining).
5. According to Qualcomm's CEO, smartphone apps may gradually be replaced by AI agents that will serve as a unified interface across all devices.
6. This fascinating paper on LLM hallucinations says models actually “know” more than they show—they often internally encode the right answer even while consistently giving wrong ones.

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