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Today’s podcast episode was created from the following stories:
How to talk to ChatGPT for free inside WhatsApp (while you still can)
By David Nield — November 12, 2025
OpenAI’s free ChatGPT access inside WhatsApp ends on January 15, 2026, but for now you can add 1-800-242-8478 (1-800-ChatGPT) as a contact to start chatting. Linking your ChatGPT account syncs history and unlocks higher limits for paid users, while WhatsApp supports core features like web lookups, image analysis, and even image generation. It’s a handy way to keep AI alongside your everyday messages—just note that conversations continued in the official app won’t sync back to WhatsApp.
ElevenLabs makes AI voice deals with Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine
By Mike Pearl — November 12, 2025
ElevenLabs announced that Matthew McConaughey is investing and bringing its tech to a Spanish-language version of his “Lyrics of Livin’,” while Michael Caine’s voice joins the company’s new “Iconic Marketplace” for licensing. The marketplace features digitized voices of cultural figures—many deceased—spotlighting both the commercial momentum and ethical questions around synthetic celebrity voices. It underscores how voice cloning is moving from novelty to mainstream content workflows.
How Gemini for Education accelerates learning for over 1 million Italian university students
By Marco Berardinelli — November 12, 2025
More than half of Italy’s higher education institutions have integrated Gemini for Education, giving over one million students access to AI tools with enterprise-grade data protections. New features like Guided Learning act as a personalized tutor, while universities are applying Gemini to clinical scenario generation (Pavia), AI literacy programs (Ferrara), and accessibility via NotebookLM (Cassino). Google says accredited institutions can access the offering—including Gemini 2.5 Pro—free of charge.
Google Drive’s new AI audio summaries make PDFs effortless
By Jay Bonggolto — November 12, 2025
Google Drive is rolling out “audio overviews” that turn long PDFs into two-to-ten-minute spoken summaries you can play immediately or access later from a dedicated folder. The English-only feature, available on the web for select paid Workspace and Google One tiers, is designed for multitasking and accessibility without replacing full reads. Rollout timing varies by domain, with Scheduled Release starting November 12 and taking up to 15 days.
This startup says it can predict how much lawsuits will settle for — read the pitch deck that it used to raise $3 million
By Melia Russell — November 12, 2025
Theo Ai raised $3 million to build bespoke models that use a client’s own case history to estimate settlement likelihoods and ranges. Initially adopted by litigation funders, the tool is gaining traction with enterprises seeking faster, cheaper decisions on whether to litigate or settle. The company argues its depth on legal outcomes makes it platform-agnostic and harder to replace with general-purpose AI.
Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun to depart and launch AI start-up focused on ‘world models’
By RTTNews Staff Writer — November 11, 2025
Yann LeCun plans to leave Meta to build a startup centered on “world models,” systems that learn from visual and spatial data to better reason about the physical world. The move follows Meta’s pivot toward commercial LLMs and an aggressive push on “superintelligence,” highlighting strategic tensions about AI’s future direction. LeCun’s new venture could become a fresh competitor in the race to more human-like machine reasoning.
Check Point kooperiert mit Nvidia für KI-Sicherheitsplattform
By Vincent Rittner, Arne Bauer — November 12, 2025
Check Point and Nvidia are teaming up on AI Cloud Protect, a security stack for “AI factories” that protects workloads at the network and host levels using BlueField-3 (and future BlueField-4) DPUs. The platform promises centralized security orchestration across thousands of nodes without degrading AI performance, and is already in pilots with financial institutions. It integrates with Check Point’s existing tools, including CloudGuard WAF and GenAI-Protect for application-level safeguards.
OpenAI’s veterans crafted 100 ChatGPT prompts to help people transition out of the armed forces
By Brent D. Griffiths — November 12, 2025
OpenAI employees who are veterans created a curated set of 100 prompts to support service members before, during, and after their transition to civilian life. The company is also offering one year of free ChatGPT Plus to U.S. service members and veterans within 12 months of separation, alongside a tailored onboarding video. With roughly 200,000 transitions annually, the effort aims to turn AI into a practical ally for resumes, job searches, and adapting to civilian workplaces.
