OpenAI Turns ChatGPT into an App Marketplace

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• 🛍️ ChatGPT gets an app store

• 🚀 China's AI unicorn challenges OpenAI

• 🌍 Earth's rotation could power your phone

• 🦀 Crab shells power biodegradable brain chips

• 💼 New Job Opportunities

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Z.ai’s GLM-4.7 Rewrote the Open-Source Leaderboard

China’s open-source AI momentum isn’t slowing down.
This week, Z.ai dropped GLM-4.7 — a coding-first model that now tops open-source benchmarks and goes toe-to-toe with leading Western systems.
And the timing? Just days before its expected Hong Kong IPO.

🔍 What Makes GLM-4.7 Stand Out

• 🧑‍💻 Built specifically for real-world coding tasks

• 📈 Scored 73.8% on SWE-bench — a first for any Chinese AI lab

• 🏆 Crossed the critical 70% threshold on one of the toughest coding benchmarks out there

🧪 Benchmark Reality Check

• ⚡ Beat DeepSeek-V3.2 across agentic, reasoning, and coding tests

• 📊 Outperformed Kimi K2 and Claude Sonnet 4.5

• 🤝 Matches performance from top Western rivals — without being closed-source

🌐 Open, Accessible, and Ready to Use

• 🔓 Model weights fully open-sourced on Hugging Face

• 🧰 Compatible with coding agents like Claude Code

• 🚀 Built for developers, not just demos

💰 The Bigger Picture

Z.ai — backed by Alibaba — just cleared Hong Kong IPO hearings and is expected to raise $300M next month.
More funding. More compute. More pressure on global AI leaders.

🌏 Why It Matters

China is releasing highly competitive open-source models at speed — and now pairing them with capital and potential access to advanced chips.
If this pace continues, 2026 could mark the first Chinese open-source model to rival the very best frontier systems in the West.

Full Story - GLM-4.7: China’s Open-Source Coding Model Breaks the 70% Barrier

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CHATGPT

📱 ChatGPT Becomes an App Hub

OpenAI just opened the doors to developers 🚪

ChatGPT is no longer just a chatbot.
OpenAI has officially expanded its in-app marketplace, letting third-party developers submit apps — and giving users a single place to discover and use them inside conversations.

🧭 What’s New Inside ChatGPT

• 🗂️ A dedicated App Directory with categories like Featured, Lifestyle, and Productivity

• 🔧 Accessible directly from the Tools menu or Apps page

• 🧠 Designed to help users find, connect, and use services without leaving ChatGPT

🛠️ For Developers

• 🚀 Apps can be built using OpenAI’s beta SDK

• 📦 Includes sample code, UI libraries, and step-by-step submission guides

• 🧪 OpenAI is actively encouraging experimentation and early integrations

🔗 Apps Already Live

• 🎨 Photoshop & Canva

• 🎧 Spotify

• 🛍️ DoorDash

• 🏠 Zillow

Users can interact with these tools directly inside ChatGPT chats, blurring the line between AI assistant and app platform.

💰 The Monetization Catch

• 🔗 For now, developers can only link out to external websites

• 💡 OpenAI says it’s exploring digital goods and broader revenue models — but nothing native yet

🤔 Why It Matters

OpenAI is clearly pushing ChatGPT toward becoming an “everything interface”, not just a standalone assistant.
But there’s a catch: as the GPT Store showed, building an app doesn’t guarantee users will actually show up.

Distribution — not development — may be the real challenge.

Full story — ChatGPT Opens Its App Store Era

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• A Princeton-led team has built a tabletop device that generates voltage directly from Earth's rotation through its magnetic field. While the power output is orders of magnitude too small for practical electronics, the breakthrough suggests Earth's spin could someday provide constant, fuel-free energy if the effect scales up.

• Korean Scientists have created a fully biodegradable artificial synapse using chitosan from crab shells, plant fibers, and bean extracts. The device operates at just 0.85 femtojoules per signal, making it more efficient than the human brain while retaining memory for nearly 100 minutes (the longest ever for biodegradable synapses). The breakthrough potentially paves the way for AI hardware that learns, adapts, and dissolves without toxic waste.

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