Hello and welcome to the Automated, your AI tour guide.

Get ready for the "12 Days of OpenAI"! Enjoy exciting new features, including Sora and festive surprises, as OpenAI transforms your AI experience this holiday season!

Here’s what we have for you today:

• 🎆 OpenAI's festive features!

• 🤩 Google’s new AI video model is now available!

• 👉 Perplexity AI: how to use the ‘answer engine’ that’s taking on Google.

• ✍️ ChatGPT prompts to write LinkedIn posts that get 100 likes every time.

• 🤖 ChatGPT Prompt Of The Day: How to write a cover letter

🎆 OpenAI's Festive Features!

OpenAI is launching its spectacular "12 Days of OpenAI" campaign, and you won't want to miss it!

CEO Sam Altman has teased some incredible new features and tools set to transform your experience this holiday season.

Among the highlights is Sora, a revolutionary text-to-video model that promises to bring your ideas to life like never before.

Plus, a larger o1 reasoning model is on the horizon, possibly stepping out of preview mode very soon.

But that's not all!

Look out for holiday-themed surprises in ChatGPT, like a Santa-inspired voice and whimsical snowflake icons that will spread some cheer. 🎉

There has been talk about the arrival of next-gen models like GPT-5 (Orion), but OpenAI has dismissed those rumors.

They chose instead to focus on exciting innovations like the intriguing Operator, an AI agentic system that could debut during this jolly lineup.

So, stay tuned as OpenAI unwraps 12 days of cutting-edge updates that will elevate your AI interactions to new heights!

Read the full story here.

💃 New Daily Content Series

We're thrilled to announce the launch of our new daily content series, "The Automated Show," which is available as a Podcast and on Instagram.

This is an exciting new way for you to stay up-to-date on the latest news and insights in the world of AI and automation.

For "The Automated Show" Daily Podcast, you can tune in every weekday for a fresh 1-minute episode covering top AI and automation stories, trends, and developments.

With "The Automated Show" Instagram Reels, we'll post one-minute video updates on our Instagram channel @theautomated_media.

Same goes for TikTok account @theautomatedshow?

These short, snackable Reels will complement the podcast by providing a visual overview of the latest AI innovations and applications.

Interested? We sure hope you are!😃

You can find "The Automated Show" podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and other major platforms.

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🤩 Google’s New AI Video Model is Now Available!

Google’s Veo, the much-anticipated generative AI video model, has officially arrived!

And let’s just say it’s living up to the hype —at least for businesses ready to dive into AI-powered content creation, this could be a total game-changer.

Here’s how it works:

You type in a few words or upload an image, and bam—out comes a high-quality 1080p video in whatever cinematic style you desire.

In case you didn’t know, Veo was first teased in May, exactly three months after OpenAI demoed its competing Sora product.

Now, Veo has beaten OpenAI to the punch by launching in a private preview via Google’s Vertex AI platform.

The coolest part? Veo’s AI-generated videos are so polished that you’d need a detective’s eye to figure out a human didn’t craft them.

Don’t believe me? Go check it out. Seriously, it’s uncanny.

But hey, Google’s keeping quiet on video length restrictions for now, but when Veo was first announced, it could churn out clips “beyond a minute.”

So whether you need a short ad or a mini-movie, Veo’s got you covered.

But wait, the surprise doesn’t stop there.

Starting next week, the latest version of Google’s Imagen 3 text-to-image generator will roll out to all Google Cloud customers via Vertex . 🎉

And it isn’t going to be just about creating pretty pictures.

You can now edit images with prompts, integrate your brand’s logo, and create personalized visuals that will feel like they came straight from your design team.

Oh, and Google states that both Veo and Imagen 3 include built-in safeguards designed to prevent the generation of harmful content and ensure compliance with copyright protections — though we’ve found the latter wasn’t exactly too difficult to bypass.

Additionally, all content produced by Veo and Imagen 3 will be embedded with DeepMind’s SynthID technology, which serves as an invisible digital watermark to help reduce misinformation and misattribution.

Meanwhile, over at OpenAI HQ, Sora’s still stuck in the lab, unfortunately. Time’s ticking, and businesses aren’t waiting around.

Coca-Cola is already showing off its AI-generated holiday ads, and Google claims that 86% of companies using generative AI are cashing in on higher revenues.

The message is crystal clear: AI content is the future, and Google just raised the stakes by making the first big move.

That said, OpenAI promised Sora would drop by the end of the year, so maybe they’ll surprise us soon.

One thing’s for sure—the AI race just got a whole lot spicier, and only the best will come out on top.

Ready to dive in? You can find the full report right here.

🧱Around The AI Block

• 👉 Perplexity AI: how to use the ‘answer engine’ that’s taking on Google.

• ✍️ ChatGPT prompts to write LinkedIn posts that get 100 likes every time.

• ☢️ Meta turns to nuclear energy for its AI ambitions.

• 👏 ChatGPT now has over 300 million weekly users.

• 🤖 Google says its new AI model beats traditional weather forecasting.

• 🤩 DeepMind’s Genie 2 can generate interactive worlds that look like video games.

🛠️ Trending Tools

• GraydientAI: Create with fine-tuned image and LLM models.

• Find Your Next Book: Get personalized book recommendations from thousands of titles.

• ComicifyAI: Turn text into captivating comics with ComicifyAI.

• Chatterdocs: Create custom, GPT-powered chatbots in minutes.

• CrystalSound: Ultimate real-time noise canceling & voice changer.

🤖ChatGPT Prompt Of The Day: How to write a cover letter

Writing a clear, concise, and well-structured cover letter that highlights your skills, experiences, and qualifications can help you stand out from other applicants.

This is because effective communication is often a key requirement for many jobs.

Here's a prompt that can help you with that.

Please provide me with some guidance on how to structure my cover letter to make it stand out and grab the reader’s attention. Here is my cover letter: “<your cover letter>”. Here is the job description I’m targeting: “<job description>”. The reader is <details about the reader>.

Source

We've Compiled a List of Over 100 ChatGPT Power Prompts.

This should help streamline your interactions with ChatGPT and get the results you need more efficiently.

Best of all, It's free!

Click here to get it now.

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