OpenAI's ChatGPT Group Chat, Mozilla's AI Window, and Vine Revival

OpenAI's New ChatGPT Features

• 💬 OpenAI is piloting a group chat feature for ChatGPT, available to free, Plus, and Team users in select regions.
• 🚀 The feature supports up to 20 people, utilizes the GPT 5.1 auto model, and includes search, image generation, and file upload capabilities.
• 🔒 Privacy measures include separate private chats, invitation-only group chats, and content filtering for minors.
• 🤝 This move indicates OpenAI's direction towards becoming a social platform, with new social skills trained into ChatGPT.

User-Controlled AI Browsing and Vine Revival

• 🌐 Mozilla is developing AI Window, a user-controlled AI browsing feature for Firefox, designed as a trusted companion for web navigation.
• 💡 AI Window will be an independent alternative to existing AI experiences, allowing users to select their preferred AI model and is being built openly with user input.
• 🎬 Jack Dorsey is funding Divined, an app to revive Vine's 6-second looping videos, recovering over 100,000 archived clips.
• 🚫 Divined will allow new video creation but will prevent suspected generative AI, aiming for a nostalgic, non-AI social experience.

Disney+, Apple, Google, and Meta Updates

• 🎬 Disney+ is exploring the addition of short-form, user-generated AI video content, with CEO Bob Iger citing productive conversations with AI partners.
• ⚖️ A Berlin court ruled that Google must pay approximately 465 million euros in damages to the German price comparison platform Idealo for market abuse.
• 📲 Meta is rolling out third-party integration for WhatsApp in Europe, mandated by the Digital Markets Act, allowing integration with services like Birdie Chat and Hike while maintaining end-to-end encryption.

Apple, Tesla, and Samsung News

• 💸 Apple has launched the Apple Store mini apps partner program, reducing the commission rate from 30% to 15% for developers on in-app purchases within mini apps.
• 🚗 Tesla is reportedly testing the integration of Apple CarPlay into its vehicles, a significant reversal from its previous stance.
• 📈 Samsung Electronics has drastically raised contract prices for certain memory chips, up to 60%, due to intense global demand for AI data centers and a resulting server chip shortage.