Natalie Miller

  OpenAI has expanded the availability of its AI agent, Operator, to more countries beyond the U.S. Initially launched in January 2025 for ChatGPT Pro users in the U.S., it is now accessible in Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and the U.K.   OpenAI stated that Operator will be available in most regions where ChatGPT is offered, except for the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein, and Iceland. This expansion advances OpenAI’s goal of developing autonomous AI tools to assist users with everyday tasks. What is OpenAI Operator? OpenAI Operator is an advanced AI agent designed to interact with web pages and perform tasks autonomously. It uses its own browser window to navigate websites by typing, clicking, and scrolling, much like a human user would.  This lets it handle tasks like scheduling meetings, managing emails, booking tickets or reservations, filling out forms, shopping online, and even making memes. It understands natural langu...

Perplexity AI has unveiled the R1 1776, a revamped version of the DeepSeek-R1 language model, now designed to offer unbiased, factual information without any censorship. This new release aims to fix some of the shortcomings of the original DeepSeek-R1, which often avoided sensitive topics or gave responses aligned with certain political agendas. While DeepSeek-R1 was already a powerful language model with strong reasoning skills, it sometimes avoided certain issues or provided responses that leaned toward Chinese Communist Party viewpoints. To address this, Perplexity AI developed R1 1776 to deliver more accurate and unbiased answers while maintaining its reasoning capabilities. The R1 1776 model has been retrained to remove any censorship, allowing it to tackle all kinds of questions directly and without bias. The Perplexity AI team compiled a diverse set of over 1,000 examples from multiple languages, including 40,000 real user questions about previously censored topics. This datas...