Good Morning! OpenAI just dropped a massive update, turning ChatGPT into a hands-on workspace assistant and rolling out military-grade hardware key security to protect it. Plus, you’ll learn how to turn Perplexity AI into a real-time market research engine.
Codex challenges Claude Cowork
Oracle laid off up to 30,000 employees
Paleolatitude Tracks Your Home 320 Million Years Ago
How to Turn Perplexity AI into a Real-Time Market Research Engine
4 new AI tools worth trying
AI NEWS
OpenAI is making a major push into the enterprise with two key updates: expanding Codex to work directly across your files, and introducing Advanced Account Security to protect against the rising threat of AI account takeovers.
Codex Workspace Updates: Codex now allows you to work directly on documents, spreadsheets, slides, and more, seamlessly integrating into your daily workflows.
Deep App Connectivity: The update connects ChatGPT to popular workplace apps, allowing the AI to pull context and execute tasks across your existing ecosystem rather than acting as a siloed chatbot.
Advanced Account Security: Available to anyone, this new opt-in security tier links your ChatGPT account to a physical hardware security key (through a partnership with Yubico) or passkey.
Closing Vulnerabilities: The new security mode disables easily compromised SMS and email recovery methods, replacing them with strict FIDO2 standard authentication to prevent phishing and account hijacking.
As AI agents like Codex gain the ability to autonomously read, edit, and orchestrate sensitive enterprise documents across multiple platforms, an exploited account is no longer just a leaked chat log, it’s a massive corporate data breach. By pairing deep workspace integrations with un-phishable hardware key security, OpenAI is building the fortress necessary for businesses and individuals to actually trust autonomous AI with their most critical workflows.
AI MODELS
Oracle has initiated a massive round of layoffs, reportedly letting go of up to 30,000 employees across the globe. The cuts are a direct result of the company's aggressive pivot toward building AI infrastructure, including a landmark $300 billion deal to provide cloud capacity to OpenAI.
To fund its AI data center projects, Oracle needs to free up an estimated $8 to $10 billion in cash flow, resulting in massive headcount reductions via a single, abrupt termination email.
Multiple employees reported being forced to document their workflows to train Oracle's internal AI systems just weeks before being let go, effectively training their own replacements.
Internal surveys suggest older, higher-paid workers were heavily targeted right before massive restricted stock units (RSUs) vested, stripping them of hundreds of thousands of dollars in earned compensation overnight.
The cuts severely impacted vulnerable workers, including H-1B visa holders who now face a 60-day grace period to find new employment or face deportation, as well as employees on medical leave.
In response to severance offers that fall far below the tech industry standards set by Meta and Google, over 600 laid-off workers signed a letter demanding better severance, healthcare extensions, and visa support.
This exposes the dark side of the AI infrastructure boom. While tech leaders continue to claim AI will "augment" and empower workers, companies like Oracle are actively treating human employees as disposable assets, cutting jobs explicitly to free up capital for data centers, GPUs, and automated systems. The ruthless nature of these layoffs is now sparking a rare and rapidly growing wave of labor organizing and class consciousness across the Silicon Valley white-collar workforce.
AI NEWS
Scientists have launched Paleolatitude, a free online tool that traces the ancient geological journey of any location on Earth all the way back 320 million years.
Type in your current address, and the tool calculates if your home was once a tropical seabed, a barren desert, or a volcanic wasteland.
The platform uses the Utrecht Paleogeography Model, analyzing magnetic signals locked in ancient rocks to perfectly reconstruct the movement of tectonic plates over millions of years.
Beyond just a cool novelty, the tool is actively solving paleontological mysteries, it recently confirmed that the Netherlands once sat at the exact same tropical latitude as today's Persian Gulf, explaining out-of-place ancient fossil discoveries that had puzzled researchers for years.
For decades, scientists studying ancient fossils and climates struggled with a missing puzzle piece: tectonic plates drift over millions of years, meaning a fossil's modern location isn't where it actually lived and died. By giving researchers a precise tool to track deep time geographically, Paleolatitude perfectly links ancient biology to ancient geography, shifting our understanding of how global ecosystems and climates evolved.
HOW TO AI
🗂️ How to Build a Market Research Report Generator Using Real-Time Data From the Web
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to turn Perplexity AI into a real-time market research engine that pulls live web data, analyzes competitors, identifies trends, and generates a structured, investor-ready report in minutes.
🧰 Who is This For
Researchers who need fast, citation-backed industry insights.
Founders validating startup ideas before building.
Consultants preparing competitive analysis for clients.
Anyone who wants up-to-date market data without manually browsing dozens of websites.
STEP 1: Open Perplexity and Set Your Search Parameters
Go to perplexity.ai in your web browser. (If you don't have an account, click "Sign Up" in the top right corner; a free account works perfectly for this).
Locate the main search bar in the center of the screen that says "Ask anything...".
Look inside the text box at the bottom left for the "Focus" button (it looks like a small slider or target icon). Click it and select "Web". This ensures the AI pulls the most up-to-date information from across the internet.
If you have a Pro account, make sure the "Pro" toggle switch (at the right end of the search bar) is clicked ON (it will turn blue).
STEP 2: Paste Your "Expert Analyst" Prompt
Now click directly on atext box. Copy the following text exactly as it is:
"Act as an expert market analyst. I need a comprehensive, up-to-date market research report on [INSERT YOUR INDUSTRY/PRODUCT HERE]. Please include: 1. Current market size and projected growth, 2. Top 3 competitors and their biggest weaknesses, 3. Emerging consumer trends from the last 6 months, and 4. The biggest barriers to entry."
Paste the prompt and replace the bracketed [INSERT...] section with your specific niche (e.g., the organic dog food market in the US).
Once you’re ready, click on the blue arrow button on the right side of the text box (or hit Enter) to run the search.
STEP 3: Expand the Report with Real-Time Follow-Ups
Wait about 10-15 seconds. Perplexity will scour live websites, news, and reports to generate your custom analysis, complete with footnote citations.
Scroll down to the very bottom of the generated response.
Look for the section titled "Related". Perplexity will automatically suggest 3 to 4 highly specific follow-up questions based on your niche (e.g., "What are the average profit margins for organic dog food?").
Click the plus icon (+) next to the most relevant question. The AI will immediately research that specific question and add the new data to your ongoing report.
STEP 4: Export and Save Your Final Report
Once you have all the data you need, scroll to the bottom of the best response.
Find the "Copy" icon (it looks like two overlapping squares or clipboards). Click it, and a small checkmark will appear to confirm it has been copied.
Then open a blank Google Doc, Microsoft Word document, or Notion page and paste the text (Ctrl+V on Windows or Cmd+V on Mac).
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