Today’s AI Briefing

ChatGPT Ads Shocked Everyone

ElevenLabs drops a new skin enhancer, ByteDance upgrades its visual model, ChatGPT sparks backlash with in-app ads, and Kling releases a video model with native audio.

Here’s what’s inside:

Top Story → ByteDance releases Seedream 4.5
AI Images → Freepik launches Magnific Skin Enhancer
Crazy → ChatGPT ads appear for paid users, triggering heavy backlash

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ByteDance launched Seedream 4.5 with major upgrades for image generation.

The model produces visuals with higher consistency, sharper details, and better control. It helps creators get reliable results without repeated edits.

The update also improves style accuracy, scene coherence, and texture quality. Seedream 4.5 aims to support professional visual work by making image creation faster, cleaner, and more predictable.

Freepik released Magnific Skin Enhancer, a new tool that removes digital noise, keeps fine details, and delivers natural skin tones with smooth, lifelike texture. It enhances the entire image, not just the skin, while avoiding the common “AI plastic look.”

The tool offers three modes, Faithful, Creative, and Flexible, so users can match the output to their style.

It also includes simple presets for lighting, color grading, and realism tweaks. Magnific Skin Enhancer is now available on Freepik.

Ads are now appearing inside ChatGPT responses, including for paid Plus users.

People report brand mentions in answers and ad placements on iOS, calling it the start of a “Google-ification” shift.

Screenshots show users receiving shopping ads even while asking technical questions.

The rollout has triggered strong backlash.

Many users demand a way to turn ads off, while others say they may cancel subscriptions and move to competitors. Complaints are growing fast across the platform.

Kling AI released Video 2.6, its first model with built-in audio.

It can generate speech, singing, and sound effects in the same pass as the visuals, making videos look and sound coherent.

This update aims to unlock full narrative creation without extra tools or manual audio work.

Kling 2.6 positions the platform closer to leading multimodal video models by offering a full workflow with integrated audio, high production quality, and support for global markets.

Jitter released AI Brainstorm (beta), a tool that turns static designs into animated drafts in seconds.

It gives designers fast motion ideas without manual key-framing and speeds up early exploration while keeping full creative control.

The feature offers five moods to guide animation styles and delivers fully editable drafts inside Jitter. Designers can adjust timing, easing, and movement as needed. AI Brainstorm is now available to try for free.

• OpenAI Sora released six new style presets: Thanksgiving, Vintage, News, Selfie, Comic, and Anime.

• Replit × Campus launched “Vibe Coding 101,” a beginner-friendly vibe coding course.

• ElevenLabs released “Templates,” a tool to combine image, video, and audio models in one workflow.

• Screen Studio added a new set of custom Screen Studio–designed cursors.

• Higgsfield AI launched “StyleSnap,” letting users upload a photo, pick a preset, and get a 2K outfit render.

• Gamma rolled out Studio Mode and Nano Banana Pro to all users, with Nano Banana Pro HD available for Gamma Ultra.

• Jitter released “The Route,” a set of travel-focused templates for promos, boarding passes, and flight trackers.

• Perplexity Email Assistant can now process images and file attachments for summaries and calendar extraction.

• Krea AI introduced Node App Builder, allowing users to turn node workflows into simple shareable apps.

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