🥯 Today on Bagel Bots:

• 🤯 GPT-4o Image Generation Is Here – and It’s Actually Useful

• ⚡️ Fresh tech of the day - 1X Wants to Put Humanoid Robots in Your Home by 2025

• 📰 The latest AI and tech news

• 🤖 Cool new apps for you to check out

• 🧠 Today’s Free Prompt: This ChatGPT Tool Just Replaced My Designer

• 🤔 Can you guess which image is real and which one is AI? Go vote!

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One Big Story: GPT-4o Image Generation Is Here – and It’s Actually Useful

OpenAI just dropped native image generation inside GPT-4o, and it’s not just another pretty-picture tool. This new upgrade makes it possible to generate highly detailed, photorealistic, and useful images directly in a ChatGPT conversation—meaning you can go from “I need a logo with these hex codes” to a refined image without jumping between tools.

The big leap here isn’t just in quality—it’s in practicality. GPT-4o now understands visual context better than ever. It can stick to your prompt, keep characters consistent across versions (like your video game character or product design), and even analyze uploaded images to riff off them.

❗️ Scroll down to our ‘tip of the day’ to learn how to use this!

What’s New and Cool:

• GPT-4o’s image generation handles up to 20 objects at once—a lot more than previous models—without losing visual accuracy.

• It can blend text and visuals, generating diagrams, infographics, or even mockups that communicate something.

• You can iterate on designs naturally in chat—change colors, layout, style—just like having a designer on call.

Image quality and style:

Photorealistic outputs are now in the toolkit, alongside creative styles and precise rendering of things like logos or posters. Want Karl Marx sneaking out of a mall with luxury bags? Yeah, it can do that too (and convincingly).

Safety & Transparency:

All generated images come with embedded metadata for provenance, and OpenAI uses a reasoning model for moderation. It’s designed to balance creativity and safety, with ongoing improvements planned post-launch.

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Cool Tech: 1X Wants to Put Humanoid Robots in Your Home by 2025

Norwegian startup 1X is getting ready to test its humanoid robot, Neo Gamma, in a few hundred to a few thousand homes by the end of 2025. The goal? Let the robot “live and learn” alongside humans so it can get smarter through real-world experience. Early testers will be part of that learning loop, helping train 1X’s in-house AI systems through daily interactions and feedback.

Neo Gamma isn’t fully autonomous yet—think more robot intern than robot butler. It can walk and balance using AI, but still relies on human teleoperators who can control its limbs remotely when needed. During a live demo, it vacuumed and watered plants with partial human assistance, but also… collapsed from shaky Wi-Fi and a low battery. So yeah, still early days.

1X says privacy is a priority, and users will control when human operators can view the robot’s camera feeds. But with AI models trained on in-home audio and video, there are definitely big questions ahead.

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Interesting News

🔍️ Google is rolling out new AI features for Gemini Live, allowing it to interpret your smartphone screen and camera feed in real-time, providing immediate answers to your questions.

💰️ Manny Medina, founder of Outreach, has launched a new startup called Paid, which provides a platform to help AI agent companies determine profitable pricing models and ensure their bots are compensated appropriately.

🧠 Google has unveiled Gemini 2.5, its most advanced AI model to date, designed to tackle complex problems with enhanced reasoning and coding capabilities, and featuring a 1 million token context window to process vast datasets across multiple modalities.

🍎 Apple is entering the AI data center arena by ordering approximately $1 billion worth of Nvidia GB300 NVL72 systems—about 250 servers at $3.7 million to $4 million each—and collaborating with Dell Technologies and Super Micro Computer to develop a large server cluster for generative AI applications.

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Fresh Apps

Are you looking to automate your work or life? Want to play with excellent new AI tools? Every post has five new AI apps for you to try for yourself. You can also use our favorite apps here.

🔗 Hiver - Unify all service channels, apps, and customer context in one easy-to-use platform. Then, leverage AI and workflows to deliver stellar service

🔗 Riffo - AI auto-names your files and sorts them into the right folders

🔗 Viggle - Use AI to animate your picture and make your character move

🔗 Knowt - #1 Free Quizlet Alternative with AI Study Tools

🔗 Soona - soona is your all-in-one platform to make, manage, and optimize photo + video content for all your ecommerce channels

Today’s Free Tip: This ChatGPT Tool Just Replaced My Designer

Most people think you need a full design team to make scroll-stopping ads or stunning social posts. You don’t. You just need an idea, a vibe, and the right prompt.

The new ChatGPT image tools are absolutely insane. You can feed it a product image and ask for a Mad Men–style print ad… and it will deliver a vintage-looking masterpiece. Or take a basic product shot and tell it to recreate an Apple-style launch campaign—with angles, branding, and all.

It’s not just design. It’s strategy, aesthetics, and copy—all generated from a single line of text.

So if you’ve ever struggled to bring your creative vision to life… this is your sign. Go play with it.👇

First, upload a photo and ask for it to be remade in any style you choose. Something simple like, “Make a cartoon version of this image.”

Here are some incredible use-cases for this tech:

I’m so excited to see what you create!

🤔 Which image is real?

One of these images is real, and one was created with AI. Vote for which one you think is real, and tell us why you voted that way. My only goal is to choose such good photos that the majority of votes are wrong.

The last edition’s results—57% were wrong!

Did you vote in the poll from March 26th? The top image was real! Go back and see the photos here. So what do you think? Are you getting better at spotting AI vs. not?

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