Innovation Profs - 4/29/2025

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April 29, 2025

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Latest Gen AI News

Microsoft 365 Copilot redesigned with new search, image, and notebook features

A newly redesigned version of the Microsoft 365 Copilot app will soon be released. New features include AI-powered search with the ability to connect to third-party tools, Notebooks, which are project-based notebooks that allow you to organize information around a set of data in the Office Graph,” and Copilot Create, a section of the app that allows users to create images, videos, and other content. Finally, the app will include a new agent store, which is the analogue of ChatGPT’s GPT store, allowing users to access various Microsoft and third-party agents.

ChatGPT Now Offers a ‘Lightweight’ Version of Deep Research to All Users

A lightweight version of deep research, powered by the recently released reasoning model o4-mini, is now available to all ChatGPT users. According to a series of posts on X, OpenAI reported, “Responses will typically be shorter while maintaining the depth and quality you’ve come to expect.” Paid users of ChatGPT also have increased usage limits for the standard version of deep research (for instance, ChatGPT Plus users can now use the tool 25 times per month instead of 10). “Once limits for the original version of deep research are reached, queries automatically default to the lightweight version.”

ChatGPT goes shopping with new product-browsing feature

ChatGPT Search now comes equipped with a new shopping feature that “allows users to search for products and purchase them through merchant websites after being redirected from the ChatGPT interface.” The tool also includes product reviews that are aggregated from various online sources.

OpenAI just gave ChatGPT Plus a massive boost with generous new usage limits

Pay $20 per month for ChatGPT Plus? If so, then you can spend more time with your favorite reasoning models, to the tune of 100 messages per week with o3, 300 messages per day with o4-mini, and 100 messages per day o4-mini-high (for more coding intensive tasks).

Google adds more AI tools to its Workspace productivity apps

Several new AI-powered features have been added to Google Workspace, including audio overviews, which can provide audio files that summarize uploaded documents (similar to Google’s NotebookLM), a tool called Canvas that allows users to create drafts and write code with Gemini (eerily similar to ChatGPT’s Canvas tool), and AI-powered enhancements for creating and tracking meetings with Google calendar.

Quick Hits

Anthropic just analyzed 700,000 Claude conversations — and found its AI has a moral code of its own

Anthropic's groundbreaking study analyzes 700,000 conversations to reveal how AI assistant Claude expresses 3,307 unique values in real-world interactions, providing new insights into AI alignment and safety.

venturebeat.com/ai/anthropic-just-analyzed-700000-claude-conversations-and-found-its-ai-has-a-moral-code-of-its-own

ChatGPT releases Memory with Search

ChatGPT search can now rewrite your prompts based on the memories you have saved and insights from your past chat history.

searchengineland.com/chatgpt-releases-memory-with-search-454465

OpenAI's GPT-4.1 may be less aligned than the company's previous AI models | TechCrunch

In mid-April, OpenAI launched a powerful new AI model, GPT-4.1, which it claimed "excelled" at following instructions. But the results of several

techcrunch.com/2025/04/23/openais-gpt-4-1-may-be-less-aligned-than-the-companys-previous-ai-models

Vibe code or retire

Vibe coding is how we will all write code in the future. Start learning it now, or your career as a software developer will end.

www.infoworld.com/article/3960574/vibe-code-or-retire.html

Microsoft made an ad with generative AI and nobody noticed

Can you spot the AI shots?

www.theverge.com/news/656104/microsoft-surface-ad-generative-ai-copilot-intel

Researchers Find Easy Way to Jailbreak Every Major AI, From ChatGPT to Claude

Security researchers have discovered a highly effective new jailbreak that can dupe nearly every major large language model.

futurism.com/easy-jailbreak-every-major-ai-chatgpt

Adobe releases ‘created without generative AI’ tag to label human-generated art

Just as it’s introducing the option to use GenAI models like OpenAI, Runway, and Google, Adobe is letting creators draw a new line in the sand between their work and AI.

www.fastcompany.com/91321495/adobe-created-without-generative-ai-label

The AI-generated movie What’s Next opens a fresh debate over AI filmmaking

Director Cao Yiwen says AI opened a door that sexism and cronyism shut — but she shrugs off the ethical questions her movie raises.

www.polygon.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/563883/whats-next-ai-generated-movie-interview-ethics

Liquid AI is revolutionizing LLMs to work on edge devices like smartphones with new ‘Hyena Edge’ model

Hyena Edge’s success positions Liquid AI as one of the emerging players to watch in the evolving AI model landscape.

venturebeat.com/ai/liquid-ai-is-revolutionizing-llms-to-work-on-edge-devices-like-smartphones-with-new-hyena-edge-model

Tool of the week: Kling AI

One of our favorite AI video models, Kling, recently released version 2.0. This update introduced a new video model and an upgraded image model. These improvements offer enhanced prompt adherence, improved dynamic quality, and better visual aesthetics, resulting in more cinematic and accurate AI-generated videos. Kling AI 2.0 also introduced multimodal features that allow users to add, swap, or delete elements in videos using natural language, as well as inpainting and outpainting. You can test out the new model for free.

AI-generated image of the week

No windmills? 

Prompt: photo of spring in iowa

What we found

Alibaba released Qwen3, a new family of language models including a hybrid thinking system and agentic capabilities. Its benchmarks rival top offerings from OpenAI and xAI.