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This Wednesday morning, August fifth, OpenAI is making some significant moves, with both Tom's Guide and Techiexpert.com confirming that ChatGPT can now build a live website from a single prompt. Users simply explain their vision, and Codex creates the site, allowing for changes before deployment. This means a live website can be up and running in under five minutes. In other news, free ChatGPT users are getting a major upgrade. MakeUseOf reports that image creation and file uploads, previously subscription-only features, are now available. Users can describe images for creation or upload documents, spreadsheets, and PDFs for summarization and analysis. However, not all news from OpenAI is positive. PiunikaWeb and Lifehacker both confirm that OpenAI's Atlas browser is shutting down this Sunday, August 9th. Users are urged to export bookmarks and pages as they will not transfer automatically, and continued use after the shutdown poses security risks. Meanwhile, Cursor, a coding AI, is expanding its reach. Techiexpert.com reports new Google Workspace plugins, allowing AI agents to interact directly with Google apps for tasks like managing files and emails. But gbhackers.com also warns of a critical one-click vulnerability in Cursor, VS Code, and Google Antigravity that has now been patched, urging developers to update immediately. Google is also making waves with Gemini Spark. Tech My Money states it can now control your Chrome browser to handle multi-step web tasks like scheduling appointments or researching flights, using your logged-in sites and saved passwords. On the flip side, TechRadar reveals Reddit users are reporting a decline in quality for Google's AI image generator, Nano Banana 2, with images appearing "flat or cartoonish," despite no official update to the generator itself. Finally, the University of Maine System has delayed the launch of ChatGPT Edu until later this month, according to usmfreepress.org. This delay means students and faculty will need to wait a bit longer to access the new, FERPA-compliant AI tool. This rapidly evolving AI landscape means new tools are constantly emerging to streamline your digital tasks, but it also demands vigilance regarding security updates and the lifespan of new platforms.