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Happy Friday. OpenAI just gave ChatGPT a “study mode,” Adobe turned your phone into an art studio, and deepfakes got too good. Meanwhile, your phone isn’t just spying—it’s diagnosing your midlife crisis.

Oh, and Elon swears robots will fold your laundry by 2028. Cool. Maybe they’ll also fix his timelines.

Let’s merge ⚡

What’s Merging Today:
• 🧠 OpenAI launches ChatGPT “Lite”
• 📱 Adobe’s Firefly goes mobile
• 🎭 Deepfakes stir political + parental panic
• 💸 Databricks drops $250M in India
• 🚘 Mobileye crushes earnings

🤯 MERGE MINDBLOWERS

Brunch-ready brain grenades:

🧬 AI designs proteins faster than evolution.
Darwin in shambles.

📱 Your phone knows your mood by how fast you type.
Diagnosis: terminally online.

🤖 Most of the internet? Bots.
That “Steve” in the comments? Literally code.

⚖️ AI aced the bar exam.
Law schools quietly updating brochures to “Netflix & JD”.

🐜 Ants have battlefield medics.
Meanwhile, HR still “processing” your PTO.

📡 SIGNAL, NOT NOISE

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Lite: Research Mode, Minus the Chaos

Meet ChatGPT’s streamlined sibling: faster, cheaper, and hyper-focused on research.

🔍 Deep dives without plugin hell
⚡ Citations + synthesis in seconds
📚 Like Google Scholar—if it chugged a Red Bull

💡 Takeaway: Your all-nighter just got outsourced to AI.

🤖 AI ON THE MOVE

Deepfakes Enter the Danger Zone

New lows: Fake child abuse imagery. Political sabotage. Zero accountability.

👁️ 1-click generation, 0-click traceability
🚨 Reports up 500%—lawmakers scrambling

💡 Takeaway: The “tech vs. ethics” debate? Already lost.

🧰 MERGE TOOLS

5 AI tools to fake competence (or actually gain some):

• 🧠 GPT Research Lite – TL;DR academia’s driest papers

• 💰 Peek – AI that roasts your spending (“Third coffee? Bold.”)

• 📄 DocuWhiz – Turns PDFs into human-readable docs

• 🎬 CapCut – AI auto-edits your rambles into TikTok gold

• 🖼️ Pippit – Makes carousels that don’t look like LinkedIn cringe

🛠️ Pro tip: Deploy before your boss asks, “Why isn’t this automated?”

🧨 MERGE MARKETS

*Stock data as of market close on April 24 2025. Crypto data as of 6:00 PM ET.

📈 Bright Spot: Pony.ai gallops up 39%—turns out ‘autonomous’ doesn’t mean ‘stuck in traffic.’

📉 Rough Ride: Churchill Downs collapses 16%—somehow, the investors hurt more than the jockeys

🔮 Outlook: Tech earnings soar, crypto wobbles, Fed watch begins.

🗞️ WHAT ELSE IS MERGING

• 🗣️ OpenAI clones voices—awkward laughs included.

• 🧹 Elon’s 2028 promise: Robots that maybe won’t break your dishes.

• 📉 ByteDance exits edtech: TikTok tutors, we hardly knew ye.

• 🚓 NYC’s AI 911 triage: “Your emergency is important to us…”

• 🎧 Spotify’s AI DJ goes global—still skips your emo phase.

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