ChatGPT powers new Spotify assistant, reportedly building smart speaker

ChatGPT powers a new Spotify feature and is reportedly building hardware, Claude launched a program for teachers, and Grok had a security issue.

ChatGPT

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Spotify Premium users can now talk to a new music assistant, powered by ChatGPT, to find and play music.

ChatGPT is now in Spotify and might be coming to a smart speaker.

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The company is reportedly building its first hardware product: a smart speaker without a screen that can move around.

ChatGPT is now in Spotify and might be coming to a smart speaker.

Expanded summary · ChatGPT

The addition is the latest example of how Spotify has put AI technology to use to help people interact with the app’s extensive catalog of music, podcasts, and audiobooks.

Spotify is taking another step to infuse AI technology into its listening experience, with Tuesday’s news that Premium users will now be able to have interactive conversations with the app to choose what music or other audio they want to h…

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Grok

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A security issue was reported where a Grok programming tool was uploading a user's entire collection of code to cloud storage.

SpaceXAI’s Grok programming tool was uploading its users’ entire codebase to cloud storage

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Claude

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A new program called 'Claude for Teachers' gives free access to premium features for verified K-12 educators in the US.

We're introducing Claude for Teachers, providing verified K-12 educators in the US free access to premium Claude capabilities, a library of teaching skills, and a direct connection to evidence-based curricula, mapped to academic standards… Decades of research show that practices like differentiation, mastery-based learning, and small group instruction reliably improve student achievement, but teachers are often s…

Decades of research show that practices like differentiation, mastery-based learning, and small group instruction reliably improve student achievement, but teachers are often short on time and resources to implement them.

Budgets are stret…

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Perplexity

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Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code , Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model.

Grok 4.3 and the Grok 4.20 family — xai/grok-4.3, xai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning, and xai/grok-4.20-multi-agent.

Smart media selection: Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type

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Claude Code

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The inside story of how Claude Code went from an internal CLI to Anthropic's coding agent, told by researchers, engineers and early users who built it.

The Making of Claude Code

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