Summary TL;DR
ChatGPT adds year recap, pinned chats, image hub, personality controls.
Google rolls out faster, cheaper Gemini 3 Flash across products.
DOE teams with 24 groups to accelerate science using AI.
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ChatGPT adds year-in-review, pins, image hub, and finer personality dials 🎛️
ChatGPT is rolling out several updates: “Your Year with ChatGPT, ” an optional 2025 recap showing conversation themes and usage stats (Free/Plus/Pro; requires Memory + Reference Chat History; English in select countries).
Users can now fine-tune personality traits like warmth, enthusiasm, emoji use, and formatting. Pinned chats are available across web and mobile for faster access. A revamped ChatGPT Images adds better generation/editing and saves creations to a dedicated “My images” page.
Google’s Gemini 3 Flash brings faster frontier AI to more users ⚡
Google is launching Gemini 3 Flash, a new Gemini 3-family model designed to deliver “frontier” reasoning and multimodal performance with much lower latency and cost.
It’s rolling out across the Gemini app (now the default), Search’s AI Mode, and developer/enterprise platforms like the Gemini API, Vertex AI, and Gemini Enterprise. Google says it’s 3× faster than Gemini 2.5 Pro, uses fewer tokens on average, and is priced at $0.50/M input and $3/M output tokens.
DOE lines up 24 partners for “Genesis” AI-for-science push 🤝
The U.S. Department of Energy signed collaboration agreements with 24 organizations to support the Genesis Mission, a national initiative using AI to speed up scientific discovery, bolster national security, and spur energy innovation.
The effort aims to build scalable, architecture-agnostic AI infrastructure through public-private partnerships across labs, universities, nonprofits, and industry. DOE also opened two requests for information, with deadlines in mid- and late-January 2026.
Prompt example for the week
Great prompt for ChatGPT - Design my ideal week.
First, ask me 5 quick questions:
My main goal right now
Work schedule (fixed or flexible)
Energy levels (morning vs night)
Biggest distractions
Non-negotiables (gym, family, rest, hobbies)
If I say “surprise me”, make smart assumptions.
Then give me:
• A Monday–Sunday schedule with time blocks
• Deep work vs shallow work separation
• 3 daily focus rituals
• Where to place breaks for max energy
• A realistic gym / movement plan
• One weekly learning slot
• One weekly reflection slot
End with:
• A one-page weekly checklist
• 5 common mistakes that ruin productivity
• A simple rule to follow when motivation drops
AI tool of the week
Gemini - Make your own game
This AI chatbot from Google can code games from a prompt
Example: Go to gemini.google.com/app
In tools select ‘Canvas’ (Recommended: Choose the Pro model)
Prompt: “Make a game like tetris“
That’s it for this week.
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