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🔍 Yahoo launches Scout, an AI answer engine
🧪 OpenAI launches a free AI workspace for research
🔍 Google makes Gemini 3 the default for AI Overviews
🔄 New social apps surge as creators look for TikTok alternatives
🎬 Apple launches Creator Studio subscription bundle
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🔍 Yahoo launches Scout, an AI answer engine ↗️LINK
Yahoo launched Scout, a new AI answer engine with a standalone site and app, debuting in beta on desktop and mobile in the U.S. and set to roll out across Yahoo properties like Mail, News, Finance, and Sports.
Scout is powered primarily by Anthropic’s Claude, combined with Yahoo’s proprietary data and Microsoft Bing’s grounding API, delivering conversational answers with inline citations designed to send traffic back to publishers.
Yahoo is positioning Scout as a free, ad-supported alternative to rivals like OpenAI and Google, betting that its decades of data, 250 million U.S. monthly users, and publisher-friendly approach can help it compete in the AI-driven search era.
🧪 OpenAI launches a free AI workspace for research ↗️LINK
OpenAI released Prism, a free AI-powered workspace built on GPT-5.2 that focuses on deeper scientific and academic research, with a LaTeX editor at its core.
The tool lets researchers draft papers, manage citations, summarize academic literature, and turn whiteboard photos into formatted equations and diagrams, all inside ChatGPT.
OpenAI says ChatGPT already handles about 8.4 million weekly queries on advanced science and math topics, highlighting strong demand for research-focused AI tools.
🔍 Google makes Gemini 3 the default for AI Overviews ↗️LINK
Google switched AI Overviews worldwide to Gemini 3, the same model used in AI Mode, giving over a billion users smarter reasoning and higher-quality answers directly in search results.
Search now supports seamless follow-up questions, letting users continue conversations straight from an AI Overview and flow naturally into deeper AI Mode chats without losing context.
The system remembers your original query during follow-ups, making search feel more conversational and reducing the need to rephrase or repeat questions.
📱 UpScrolled surges as creators look for TikTok alternatives ↗️LINK
UpScrolled is seeing a major surge in downloads after TikTok’s U.S. ownership change, with about 41,000 installs in two days and rankings climbing to No. 12 overall on Apple’s App Store and No. 2 in social networking.
The app mixes features from Instagram and X and markets itself as politically neutral, promising no shadowbanning and equal visibility for posts while it scales to handle the influx of new users.
Growth is being driven by user concerns over TikTok’s new ownership, privacy policy changes, and alleged content issues, pushing some people toward alternatives like UpScrolled and open-source rival Skylight.
🎬 Apple launches Creator Studio subscription bundle ↗️LINK
Apple unveiled Creator Studio, a new subscription bundle launching January 28 that packages its pro creative apps into one plan, extending Apple’s push into services and professional software.
The bundle includes Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage, with Pixelmator Pro coming to iPad for the first time and several new AI-powered features across video, music, and imaging tools.
Creator Studio costs $12.99 per month or $129 per year (with deep education discounts), keeps one-time purchases available on Mac, but makes key pro apps subscription-only on iPad.
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Today’s Poll:
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Yesterday’s Poll Result:
Do you think that AI poses civilizational-level risks?
A) Yes, the risks are severe - 81% 🏆
B) No, the risks are overstated - 19%
“It's all hype. Chatbots are not sentient!”
“Even before AI, humanity has already led a road to civilizational-level risks. The contingency plan is going to be a new Noah's Ark. It is easy to erase talks of doom when you don't see the current inhumane treatment of the global south as an utter failure. We can already end world hunger, I do not see the road map for AI to change anything other than who and what has the power.”
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Emergent: Emergent lets you turn an idea into a fully deployed web or mobile app in minutes, without needing to write code.
ElevenLabs: Free AI voice generator app designed for content creators, influencers and professionals.
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