🏙️Toyota's AI City at Mt. Fuji

The AI race is moving into daily life.

Toyota officially launches Woven City, a 175-acre experiment at the base of Mt. Fuji wired to collect data and stress-test new tech in daily life. Residents will experience autonomous shuttles, connected homes with robotics and sensors, and hydrogen-powered infrastructure.

OpenAI released GDPval, a benchmark that measures AI on real-world jobs instead of academic exams, spanning 44 occupations across nine industries.

ChatGPT is rolling out Pulse, a daily check-in that delivers personalized insights and reminders built from your chats, feedback, and connected apps. And Meta introduced Vibes, a new page of short-form videos where every clip is AI-generated.

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Toyota

Toyota's AI City at Mt. Fuji

Toyota is no longer just building cars — it’s building a city. Woven City, opening its first phase at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan, is designed as a real-world testbed for AI, robotics, and mobility. Picture a 175-acre urban experiment where the city’s roads, homes, and infrastructure work together to collect data and trial new technology in daily life.

🌐 What Woven City Is

• AI-powered city-as-lab: Built by Toyota at Mt. Fuji, to begin testing where AI, robotics, and mobility systems run in real life, not just in labs.

• Phase 1 residents: ~300 people (mostly Toyota employees and families) already living there; long-term target is ~2,000.

• Inventors program: Startups, researchers, and even artists co-create new AI services directly alongside residents.

• Layered streets: Designed for autonomy — fast lanes, mixed low-speed mobility, pedestrian promenades, plus underground delivery routes.

• AI-driven homes: Homes are being built with sensors and robotics to monitor health, energy use, and daily activity.

• Hydrogen backbone: Energy comes from hydrogen fuel cells and renewables to support always-on data and systems.

• What’s being tested: Autonomous shuttles, delivery robots, shared vehicle summons, plus early pilots like pollen-free indoor air and AI-guided food environments.

• Open calls: Competitions like Hack the Mobility invite outsiders to launch experiments; public access begins in 2026.

💡 Why It Matters: Woven City is Toyota's attempt to rethink how a city actually works. Every part of it is wired around AI, robotics, and sustainable energy, making daily life the experiment. That’s a massive leap from building cars to building an ecosystem. If it succeeds, it could reshape how future cities are designed. If it fails, it’ll expose the cracks in trying to weave tech too deeply into infrastructure.

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OpenAI

GDPval: The Benchmark for Real Work

OpenAI just introduced GDPval, a new benchmark built to measure how AI performs on real jobs, not trivia tests. Unlike academic exams or coding challenges, GDPval is designed around the tasks professionals actually do every day such as drafting legal briefs, designing blueprints, writing nursing care plans, or building financial models.

🧩 What GDPval Is

• Occupational coverage: 44 roles across 9 industries, including healthcare, finance, law, engineering, media, retail, and government.

• Real tasks: 1,320 assignments crafted and vetted by professionals averaging 14 years of experience. Deliverables include documents, spreadsheets, diagrams, and multimedia.

• Open dataset slice: 220 of those tasks are released in a public “gold set” for research, while the rest remain in the full internal set.

• Expert grading: Industry peers blindly compared AI outputs with human experts, rating them as better, equal, or worse.

• Limitation: The current version is one-shot only, meaning it doesn’t capture multi-step workflows or tasks with ambiguity (like revising after client feedback).

📈 What the Results Show

• Top performers: Claude Opus 4.1 excelled at polish and presentation; GPT-5 led on accuracy and depth.

• Rapid progress: Performance has more than tripled since GPT-4o just a year ago.

• Efficiency edge: On some tasks, models finished work ~100× faster and cheaper than professionals — though still needing oversight in practice.

GDPval reframes the way we measure AI. Instead of “can a model ace a test?”, the question becomes: can it do work that contributes to the real world? That’s a sharper lens for understanding where AI might complement or replace human labor and where it still falls short. By tying progress to real-world value, GDPval sets a new baseline for how seriously we track the impact of frontier models.

👉 Dive into the full GDPval study

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ChatGPT Pulse: One Daily Update, Just for You.

OpenAI just introduced ChatGPT Pulse, a new feature that flips the usual ChatGPT experience. Instead of waiting for you to ask, Pulse delivers a daily feed of updates built from your chats, feedback, and connected apps. Think of it as a personalized AI briefing to start your day.

🔔 How ChatGPT Pulse Works

• A daily feed of research, reminders, and ideas to help with projects, plans, and goals.

• Brings updates automatically instead of waiting for your questions.

• Learns from your chats, feedback, and memory to stay relevant.

• Can connect to Gmail and Calendar for agendas, reminders, and trip tips.

🛠️ Where It Helps

• Meeting prep: Auto-drafted agendas and reminders tied to your calendar.

• Follow-ups: Updates linked to yesterday’s chats or projects.

• Life tips: Quick ideas for recipes, workouts, or travel.

• Goals: Progress reminders on things you’re working toward.

Pulse shows the shift from ChatGPT as a tool you have to ask, to an assistant that brings you something useful every day. It’s the first step toward AI that actually helps you make progress without needing a prompt.

👉 Check on ChatGPT → https://chatgpt.com/

Meta

Meta Vibes: A New Page of Only AI-Generated Videos

eta just rolled out Vibes, a new section in the Meta AI app and at meta.ai where every video you see is AI-generated. Instead of static prompts, users now scroll through short AI clips, each tagged with the prompt that made it. You can remix any video — swap visuals, change music, tweak the style — and instantly share it back into Vibes, or post it to Instagram and Facebook. Meta says the goal is to turn AI video into something playful and viral, while giving people a hands-on way to explore generative tools.

The launch is bold but divisive. Supporters see it as a low-friction way to get millions experimenting with AI video, while critics warn it could flood social apps with low-quality content. For Meta, the upside is huge: if Vibes takes off, it doubles as both a viral playground and a real-world testbed to train and refine its video models. Success would make AI video a mainstream format; failure could make it just another gimmick in the endless scroll.

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