📰 Google AI's impact on traditional news

+ Create natural voiceovers in seconds using AI 🎤

Today’s menu 🍽️👇️ 

Length: 5 minutes  

  • Why Google might kill news media 👀 

  • ChatGPT is now your complete AI assistant 💡 

  • This AI can see everything you do 🧠

  • Meta poaches another pair of top OpenAI researchers 🧪

  • Nvidia’s H20 chips flow back to China in trade deal 🌍

  • Create human-like audio with AI 🎧

  • Prompt of the week 💬

  • Top AI tools of the week ⚒️

 

FRESH AI NEWS

Google AI's impact on publisher traffic 📰

Google has officially launched AI-generated news summaries in its Discover feed. This update replaces traditional headlines from individual publishers with aggregated, multi-source AI blurbs. The rollout could significantly reduce traffic to news websites, many of which are already struggling to survive 📢

  • The feature focuses on trending lifestyle content, including sports, entertainment, and wellness. It places an AI-generated summary above a group of publisher logos 📱

  • “Zero-click” searches increased from 56% in May 2024 to nearly 69% by May 2025. During the same time, organic traffic fell from 2.3B to 1.7B visits 📉

  • Google confirmed that this is a full launch, not an experiment. Each AI summary includes a warning: “Generated with AI, which can make mistakes”

Why You Should Care: Worldwide search traffic is down 15% year-over-year, and Google's AI tools are cutting down the reasons to visit news sites. The industry's revenue model is falling apart faster than publishers can respond. This makes Google's recent publisher revenue tools seem like band-aids on a severed artery.

OpenAI launches a general-purpose agent in ChatGPT 🤖

OpenAI has officially launched "Operator," its first general-purpose autonomous AI agent inside ChatGPT. This development fulfils Sam Altman's prediction that "2025 is the year of agents" 🔁

  • The agent can automatically navigate a user's calendar, create editable presentations and slideshows, and run code 📆

  • It will first be available to Pro users in the U.S. before a wider release 🧑‍💻

  • OpenAI CEO Sam Altman started this year with a blog post stating that 2025 will be significant for AI agents. These tools can automate tasks and perform actions for you, marking this as the first major step toward that vision ⚙️

Why You Should Care: Operator represents the industry's first major shift from conversational AI to autonomous action. With OpenAI taking the lead in agentic AI, competitors like Google and Anthropic will need to speed up their own agent development.

Explore Copilot vision for your desktop needs 💻

Microsoft has rolled out Copilot Vision, a new feature for Windows 11 users in the U.S. This tool lets its AI see and interpret everything on your screen, including across all apps 🚀

  • Copilot Vision can summarize PDFs, explain error messages, and help draft replies by analyzing the content of your active windows and apps ✍️

  • It automatically highlights useful information from open apps, documents, and browser tabs, which you can see in a new Copilot interface on the side of your screen 🪟

  • Available only on Windows 11 version 23H2 and requires Copilot+ PCs or compatible hardware, limiting initial access to newer devices ⚙️

Why You Should Care: It brings Microsoft into direct competition with Google's Gemini Live and Apple's upcoming Apple Intelligence suite. Microsoft is pushing hard into the "AI that sees" era as tech giants race to integrate ambient AI into daily workflows.

Meta hires two more high-profile OpenAI researchers 👥

Meta has achieved another significant victory in the AI talent battle by hiring Jason Wei, one of OpenAI’s leading researchers in AI reasoning, for its Superintelligence Lab 🧩

  • Another top researcher from OpenAI, Hyung Won Chung, is also reportedly joining Meta. This suggests a bigger trend in elite talent moving 👤

  • This comes after Meta’s recent purchase of four other OpenAI researchers, bringing the total to at least ten now working in its Superintelligence Lab 📈

  • Meta is reportedly offering compensation packages worth over $100 million per year, making it one of the most aggressive AI hiring sprees ever 💰

Why You Should Care: This action strengthens Zuckerberg’s strong push to compete with OpenAI’s dominance. Meta's focus on attracting OpenAI's best minds is not just about hiring. It's about reducing competition. With each departure, OpenAI loses valuable intellectual resources, while Meta strengthens its position in the next phase of model development.

Nvidia restarts H20 chip sales amid trade talks 🗣️

In a surprising turn of events, Nvidia will restart sales of its H20 AI chips to China. The U.S. government quietly included semiconductor restrictions in rare-earth trade negotiations, using Nvidia’s market access as a high stakes bargaining chip 🤖

  • Secretary Howard Lutnick acknowledged that Nvidia’s H20 sales were part of the discussions about rare earth minerals, despite previous claims that there was no exchange involved 🗣️

  • Nvidia missed $2.5B in Q1 2025 and was expected to lose another $8B in Q2 before announcing its exit from the Chinese market 📊

  • Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent later confirmed that the London trade talks covered both H20 AI chips and rare-earth elements. This contradicted earlier statements that said the topics were unrelated ⚖️

Why You Should Care: By using Nvidia's market access as leverage in rare-earth negotiations, the Trump administration is treating AI chips as strategic assets similar to military hardware. This signals that the semiconductor war is turning into a wider fight for technological supremacy.

NATURAL SOUNDS WITH AI

Create natural voiceovers using Kokoro TTS AI 🎤 

Turn your written scripts into lifelike voiceovers instantly with Kokoro’s cutting-edge text-to-speech technology 🎙️

Here’s how to get started 👇️ 

  1. Search for Kokoro-TTS and open the model interface.

  2. Head over to prompt section.

    Use a prompt like: “Welcome to our channel! Let’s explore the future of AI together.”

  3. Pick a language from the list and select a voice. Then hit generate to generate your natural sounding AI voice.

  4. Optimize the speed to fit your desired delivery and trim any unnecessary parts for a polished final result.

Pro tip: Test multiple voice styles instantly and perfect your audio with Kokoro’s quick turnaround.

PROMPT OF THE WEEK

AI startup go-to-market blueprint 🎯

Simply paste this prompt:

“Create a go-to-market strategy for a startup integrating AI into its core product. Include target customer personas, key differentiators, partnership opportunities, and a phased product roadmap. Benchmark against similar AI startups.”

🔧Pro tip: Add “Include pitch deck outline and investor objections” for extra depth.

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TOOLS OF THE WEEK

These AI tools are going VIRAL 🐝 

Devstral - Mistral's SOTA open model family for agentic coding 💻

Magic Animator - Animate your Figma designs in seconds with AI 🪄

PandaETL - Designed to simplify data extraction and transformation from various document types 🔁

Lumona - AI-enabled search engine featuring insights from social media 🎤

Warm regards,
Leo Grundström / Founder of Daily AI Edge

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