📱 ChatGPT’s app store is live

OpenAI has added an in-chat app directory that lets you connect popular tools like Dropbox, Spotify, and Apple Music right inside your conversations. It’s a simple way to do more without leaving the chat, whether you’re working, organizing life, or just having fun. Let’s dive in!

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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

Evolving AI: OpenAI adds an in-chat app directory that lets users connect tools and act.

OpenAI has rolled out an app directory built directly into ChatGPT on iOS, Android, and web. Apps are grouped into Feature, Lifestyle, and Productivity, and connect popular services such as Dropbox, Spotify, and Apple Music. Once authorized, apps can be called with an @ mention inside chats to pull files, manage playlists, or plan shopping. OpenAI opened submissions for developers, sharing guidelines, examples, a UI kit, and a quickstart. Internal payments are still under review, with privacy rules required.

You can try the appstore at https://chatgpt.com/apps →

You can now treat ChatGPT like a mini app platform where you ask and it does, instead of bouncing between screens and logins. With this directory live and tools from things like Spotify and DoorDash popping up right inside conversations, it’s starting to feel like your digital routines, from music to deliveries to files, can happen without flipping between a half dozen apps. For people and builders this means smoother daily flows and a new place to get noticed, because the moment someone asks for something, the right tool can answer right there in the chat.

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Evolving AI: NVIDIA teams up with the U.S. DOE to scale AI across science, energy, and security.

NVIDIA will work with the U.S. Department of Energy under the Genesis Mission, an initiative tied to a recent executive order focused on energy, science, and national security. Through a new MOU, NVIDIA will support open AI science models, advanced supercomputing, digital twins, robotics, and autonomous labs. The partnership builds on existing work at Argonne and Los Alamos, including new large-scale systems designed to speed up research in nuclear energy, manufacturing, materials science, biology, and quantum computing.

If DOE is serious about pairing scientists with “intelligent systems” and scaling compute across national labs, this isn’t a press-cycle partnership, it’s AI getting installed as public R&D infrastructure. Expect quicker turnarounds on things labs already grind on: high-resolution weather and climate runs, safer nuclear modeling before hardware tests, faster materials screening, tighter manufacturing and supply chain planning, plus more autonomous lab work tied to digital twins. The near-term winner is cycle time, fewer weeks waiting for a simulation slot or a lab run, more iterations per project, which is where real output comes from.

Evolving AI: Gemini 3 Flash brings frontier-grade reasoning at Flash speed and low cost.

Google has launched Gemini 3 Flash, a fast and efficient model built on the Gemini 3 foundation. It keeps advanced reasoning, multimodal skills, and agent-style workflows, while running far quicker and cheaper than prior Pro models. Flash uses fewer tokens on everyday tasks, scales to heavy traffic, and performs strongly on coding, vision, and reasoning tests. It is now the default model in the Gemini app, Search AI Mode, and available via APIs, Vertex AI, and enterprise plans.

Fast, capable models are quietly becoming the default layer for how people build and ship things. With Gemini 3 Flash, advanced reasoning is no longer something you reserve for slow, expensive runs. It fits straight into tight loops like coding agents, product experiments, search, and planning, where waiting even a second feels clunky. That lowers the bar for teams to run smarter workflows continuously, and for everyday users to get useful answers without thinking about models at all. When speed and intelligence show up together at scale, AI stops feeling like a special tool and starts behaving like basic infrastructure.

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