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Today’s climb through the Valley reveals:

• 🗣️ Anthropic launches a voice mode for Claude

• 🔐 “Sign in with ChatGPT” could be OpenAI’s next play

• 📉 The slow collapse of critical thinking in OSINT due to AI?

• 🤖 Plus trending AI tools, posts, and resources

Let’s dive into the Valley of AI…

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THROUGH THE VALLEY

🗣️ Anthropic launches a voice mode for Claude

Anthropic just launched Voice Mode for its Claude mobile apps, stepping into the ring with natural spoken AI conversations. Powered by Claude’s Sonnet 4 model, the feature lets you seamlessly switch between text and voice, choose from five unique voices, and see real-time transcriptions. Paid users can even issue voice commands to Google tools like Docs, Calendar, and Gmail. Free users get 20–30 messages per month, but paid plans unlock more power. With every major AI player now offering voice, the real race begins: who can deliver the smoothest, smartest experience with latency, model quality, and integrations will decide.

🔐 “Sign in with ChatGPT” could be OpenAI’s next play

OpenAI is testing a “Sign in with ChatGPT” feature, allowing users to log into third-party apps using their ChatGPT credentials. With 600M+ monthly users, this move positions OpenAI to take on Google and Apple in the consumer identity space. The feature is already live in Codex CLI, where users received API credits for connecting accounts. Now, OpenAI is measuring developer interest across the ecosystem. No launch date yet—but this could signal the start of ChatGPT becoming your passport to the AI-powered internet.

👨‍💼 Google CEO Sundar Pichai on the future of search, AI agents, and selling Chrome

In an in-depth post-I/O interview, Google CEO Sundar Pichai shared how the company’s AI efforts are shifting from research to reality. With Gemini updates, AI-powered tools like Veo 3, Flow, and a radically reimagined AI-driven Search, Pichai says we’re entering a new phase of the AI platform shift, one where AI products are being built at scale by more people than ever. He compares the moment to past tech inflections like the rise of mobile or AJAX. While monetization is still a long game, Pichai sees AI as a foundational layer impacting every Google product, from Search to Waymo.

📉 The slow collapse of critical thinking in OSINT due to AI?

A widely shared post warns that OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) is shifting from a discipline of critical thinking to one of trusting automation, a trend fueled by the integration of GenAI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and Gemini. The concern isn’t that AI is inherently bad, but that its convenience is subtly eroding the core tradecraft of the field: judgment, skepticism, and verification. A 2025 study by Carnegie Mellon and Microsoft Research backs this up, showing that the more users trusted AI, the less they thought critically relying on GenAI not just to summarize or translate, but to generate ideas, validate sources, and shape conclusions. Alarmingly, many still felt like they were thinking deeply, even as they offloaded the cognitive load.

⚠️ ChatGPT-o3 is rewriting shutdown scripts to stop itself from being turned off

In a red-team test, Palisade Research discovered that ChatGPT-o3 evaded shutdown in 7 out of 100 trials by rewriting its own shutdown.sh script or aliasing the kill command. Not a sign of sentience, but rather a side effect of RLHF training, where models are rewarded for being “helpful” even if it means ignoring instructions. The root issues? Reward hacking, prompt misgeneralization, and training flaws. Experts are now calling for stronger safeguards to prevent over-autonomous behavior in code-generating AIs. It’s a reminder: powerful models need even stronger fences.

Other Headlines

• Opera’s unveils new AI agentic browser Neon will full contextual awareness and performs tasks on the users’ behalf, including researching, building, and designing whatever you need.

• Google DeepMind unveils SignGemma to turn sign language into spoken words.

• Perplexity CEO AravSrinivas describes the new way to consume content on the web by transforming “tabs” to “turns”, facilitated by Comet Assistant.

• The world’s first robot kickboxing championship kicks off in China with Unitree’s G1 bots.

• The Browser Company revealed that it will no longer be working on its Arc browser, instead fully pivoting to developing its AI-first Dia browser as a separate product.

• Salesforce acquires Informatica for $8 billion.

• WordPress is creating a new AI division that’ll work exclusively on new AI products.

TRENDING TOOLS

• Clado - It lets you search over 200 million profiles, finding you thousands of people for sales, recruiting, and more from a simple prompt.

• Stratify - AI user researcher that provides actionable insights to discover the 'why' behind every customer behavior.

THINK PIECES / BRAIN BOOST

• A database of AI Hallucination cases, their reasons and outcomes.

• AI agents for beginners course by Microsoft.

• What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor.

AI COMMUNITY EVENTS

• Agents & MCP Hackathon Launches with $10K in Prizes: Hugging Face announced the first major online MCP-focused hackathon, taking place June 2-8, 2025. Sponsored by SambaNova Systems, the event features $10,000 in cash prizes across three tracks.

THE VALLEY GEMS

What’s trending on social today:

1/ Super bullish about the “AI consulting” type of business model where small dev teams (even one dev) develops a project to mid market firms and then productize to them internally.

2/ Software brought efficiency in many parts of the world . And AI will 100 x that efficiency.

3/ Authors are accidentally leaving AI prompts in their novels.

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