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Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT upgrade coding, images, shopping and chats 🤖
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Summary TL;DR
Google’s Gemini 3 boosts reasoning, agents, and pro-level image creation.
Claude Opus 4.5 improves coding, long tasks, and security safeguards.
ChatGPT adds smarter shopping help, stronger Pro model, group chats.

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AI News
Google’s Gemini 3 ushers in smarter AI, and a powerful new image model 🎨

Google has launched Gemini 3, its most advanced AI model yet, focused on stronger reasoning, long-context understanding and multimodal skills across text, images, video and code. It powers Search, the Gemini app, and new agent-like tools for planning, coding and automation.
Built on Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro brings studio-level image generation and editing, with better text-in-image, consistent characters, and fine-grained creative controls for everyday creators and professionals. Both models are available for free in the gemini app.
Claude Opus 4.5 Pushes AI Coding and Safety Forward 🚀

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.5 is a new flagship model focused on coding, complex reasoning, and long-running “agentic” tasks. It outperforms top human candidates on a tough engineering exam, leads software benchmarks, and introduces an “effort” control so developers can trade speed for depth.
The release also brings stronger defenses against prompt injection attacks and upgrades across Claude Code, Chrome, Excel, and desktop apps for more continuous, hands-on AI assistance. Available to paid plans in the Claude app.
ChatGPT Adds Smarter Shopping, Team Chats, and a New Pro Brain 🛍️

OpenAI is rolling out shopping research in ChatGPT, a guided, conversational way to compare products, find deals, and get personalized buyer’s guides powered by a shopping-tuned GPT‑5 mini.
A new GPT‑5.1 Pro model boosts performance for complex writing, data, and business tasks. ChatGPT also now supports group chats, letting friends, families, and teams collaborate with ChatGPT in shared conversations while keeping personal memories private.
Prompt example for the week
Great prompt for ChatGPT - Level Up Your Learning Routine 📚
Create a personalized learning plan to help me progress in: [insert your target skill, e.g., conversational Spanish, Python basics, or music theory]. Make it flexible over [insert time frame, e.g., 14 days or 6 weeks], with clear daily or weekly goals and specific practice tasks. Include study techniques (e.g., spaced repetition, active recall), strategies to beat procrastination and distractions, simple reward systems, and a short reflection checklist. Recommend free tools or apps suited to my learning style. Ask clarifying questions if needed.
AI tool of the week
Nano banana Pro
This AI chatbot from google can edit or create images like a professional human.
Example: Go to gemini.google.com/app
Sign in with google
Click on ‘Create image’, make sure the model is ‘thinking’ not ’fast’. Prompt “Hey I want to understand this new topic, make an image, info graph vibe in a whiteboard style, with arrows and easy to understand: [copy and paste the text of the topic you want to learn about]“

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