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AI news flash: OpenAI has officially announced the launch of its Economic Research Exchange, aimed at systematically studying AI’s real-world impact on the job market, productivity, and the broader economy. The program is now open for applications and will select specific research projects to collaborate on. Based on the direction of the announcement, OpenAI wants to use this platform to bring together outside academic researchers and policy analysts…

AI News Brief: Pakistan Notice Helper is a small AI safety tool built specifically for Pakistan’s local scam message problem, created by a developer for the Backyard AI track of the ‘Build Small’ hackathon. Pakistani users constantly get suspicious messages disguised as banks, courier companies, tax authorities, telecoms, or government agencies — spotting the fake isn’t the hard part, knowing what to do next is.

AI News Flash: Microsoft recently announced a major overhaul of GitHub Copilot’s pricing model, shifting from a fixed monthly subscription to pay-per-token usage — a move that’s sparked widespread discussion in tech circles, with Reddit users even dubbing it the ‘Tokenpocalypse.’ TechCrunch’s Equity Podcast points out that this shift…

AI News Flash: The rapid expansion of AI infrastructure is reshaping demand across global metal markets. Analysts predict that over the next five years, tin demand from AI data center servers will grow to three times current levels, putting tin among the key industrial metals directly tied to the AI boom. Tin is widely used in circuit board solder and electronic component connections, and as tech companies keep expanding GPU clusters and inference servers, each large data center…

AI news brief: OpenAI plans to launch a major ChatGPT overhaul in the coming weeks, repositioning it from a pure conversational tool into a ‘super app’ that integrates coding tools and AI agent features. According to the Financial Times, the move aims to boost commercial competitiveness and narrow the path to profitability ahead of an IPO, especially in the enterprise market, putting it in direct competition with Anthropic.

AI News Flash: This weekend, Notion’s integration with Anthropic experienced a brief outage. Sunday morning, Notion officially noted that Anthropic’s Opus 4.7 and 4.8 models suffered performance degradation, leading to higher request failure rates for Notion AI users who had selected these models.

Canva Magic Studio 2026 integrates five brand-aware AI tools into a single design workflow. This article gives solopreneurs without a design background a complete SOP for producing a week of social content in 30 minutes, covering Brand Kit setup, key visual generation, resizing, and copy optimization, paired with 10 copy-paste prompt templates so publishing on social no longer feels like a chore.

AI news brief: OpenAI has officially rolled out ‘Lockdown Mode,’ a feature designed specifically to defend against prompt injection attacks and reduce the risk of sensitive data leaking during interactions with ChatGPT. Prompt injection is an attack technique where malicious content gets planted in model input to trick the AI into leaking private information or executing unintended commands…

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AI News Brief: The ‘Build Small Hackathon’ organized by Gradio and Hugging Face has attracted four major sponsors — OpenBMB, OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Modal. The total prize pool exceeds $48,000 in cash and physical prizes, with each participant receiving personal credits including a $100 OpenAI Codex voucher, $250 Modal compute credits, and $20 Hugging Face credits…