An AI just bought us an extra day of typhoon warning.
Google's storm forecasting bought the world an extra day of warning, an AI wrote working viruses from scratch, and free ChatGPT lost its message limit.
Google's AI sees the storm a day sooner
Google DeepMind showed in the journal Nature that its weather system, WeatherNext, predicts where a typhoon will go and how strong it gets about a full day earlier than the systems national weather agencies use now.
An AI wrote a virus that actually works
Researchers at Stanford had an AI write the full genetic code for viruses that had never existed, built 16 of them in a lab, and watched them kill strains of E. coli that shrug off natural ones.
Free ChatGPT is now unlimited
OpenAI removed the cap on text chats for free accounts, switched them to its newer GPT-5.6 Luna, and added a Think button that makes it work harder on a difficult question.
Marcos is asked for P650M and a task force
The panel of business leaders that advises President Marcos asked him at Malacanang to set up a national AI task force and release P650 million from a higher education fund to pay for AI training in colleges this year.
Google Maps will now order your food
Google Maps can order from a restaurant, book a hotel and buy event tickets inside the app when you ask it to, and it can read your Gmail and calendar to plan around what you already have booked.