ChatGPT Agent Unleashes New Powers. Google Search And Gemini Merge. 60 Second Videos With LTX Studio

AI News - July 17

OpenAI launches "ChatGPT Agent" and even Sam Altman is worried about unleashing it Google Search continues to converge with Gemini LTX Studio breaks barriers with 60 second videos and the robots don't even need you to change their batteries anymore. Here's today's AI news. OpenAI has just announced the launch of ChatGPT Agent, a new AI system that integrates Operators action taking remote browser, Deep Research's web synthesis and ChatGPT's conversational style.

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ChatGPT Agent combines all these tools into an autonomous agent that can take advantage of a visual browser, a text browser, a terminal and direct APIs. This might be the most significant release that we've seen all year It's likely to redefine many of the use cases for agents and unlock potential that nobody has really even thought about.

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This launch is so groundbreaking that it came with a warning from Sam Altman himself. He said, "I would explain this to my own family as cutting edge and experimental. A chance to try the future, but not something I'd yet use for high stakes uses." Want kind of Pandora's box Did OpenAI just open?

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I guess we'll watch and learn Slowly but surely we're seeing Google Search merge with the Gemini suite of tools, starting today The new search AI mode will be able to call upon the Gemini 2.5 Pro model Deep Search capabilities to resolve your most complex queries.

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It will utilise multi step reasoning and issue hundreds of searches in an attempt to return fully cited responses and reports. It will even ask clarifying questions to understand your intentions. Expect the lines between search tools and AI tools to continue to blur. LTX Studio has broken new ground with its LTX V model as it becomes the first generative video tool capable of outputting 60 second long videos.

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Anyone who's worked with generative video tools will likely have become very adept at creating entire movies from clips that are just a few seconds seconds long. But what will we see users create once these restrictions start to fall? And finally, the Chinese company UB-Tech has unveiled their next gen humanoid robot, the Walker S2.

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It might look pretty similar to the competitors at first glance, but it has a unique trick up its sleeve. This is the first humanoid robot that is capable of swapping out its own battery. Thought you were still going to have a job in robot battery management? Think again.