Innovation Profs - 11/11/2025

Latest Gen AI News

'Vibe coding' named word of the year by Collins Dictionary

The phrase “vibe coding,” not technically a word, nonetheless was deemed Collins Dictionary’s word of the year, beating out “coolcation” and “broligarchy,” among other words. Originally coined by AI researcher Andrej Karpathy in an X post, “vibe coding” is now a staple in the generative AI lexicon, referring to the process of dialoguing with a large language model in natural language to generate computer code in a way that allows one to “forget that the code even exists.” This victory is somewhat of a surprise, given that dictionary.com awarded their word of the year award to “67,” much to the chagrin of parents and teachers everywhere.

Stability AI’s legal win over Getty leaves copyright law in limbo

Stability AI, the company behind AI image generation tool Stable Diffusion, scored a victory in a UK lawsuit brought against it by Getty Images, which was suing for copyright infringement, as Stability AI used certain images owned by Getty to train their AI models. Stability AI was cleared of the claim that they “store or reproduce” copyrighted images, but the judge “did find in Getty’s favor that Stability had infringed its trademark by creating images that feature its watermarks.”

You can now interrupt ChatGPT as it learns to take feedback on the fly

Have you ever fed a prompt to ChatGPT only to find that you forgot to include some important detail or relevant background information? This is particularly problematic if you’re working with Deep Research, where ChatGPT takes its sweet time to produce its answer. Now, this is no longer a problem for reasoning-intensive tasks, as a new “Update” button appears in a sidebar that allows users to update their prompts mid-response without having to start over, a welcome feature that makes ChatGPT more responsive in real time.

TripAdvisor and Peloton are ChatGPT's first built-in apps — Apple and Google should be worried

ChatGPT is starting to integrate external apps directly into its platform, starting with TripAdvisor and Peloton. Now users can directly address either TripAdvisor or Peloton in a conversation, which creates a connection to the corresponding app, which in turn is used to generate a response to the user. For instance, after asking TripAdvisor to help us plan a short overnight trip to Omaha in a few weekends, we received a response with an embedded TripAdvisor map containing pins for all of the recommended hotel options.

Amazon Sues Perplexity As AI Browser War Escalates

Perplexity’s AI browser Comet, capable of making Amazon purchases on behalf of users, has caught the ire of the online retailer, as Amazon has followed up an initial cease and desist letter with a lawsuit against the use of the agentic browser on its site. "Perplexity is not allowed to go where it has been expressly told it cannot; that Perplexity’s trespass involves code rather than a lockpick makes it no less unlawful." The outcome of this lawsuit may be significant for the future of AI browsers, which can autonomously perform tasks on the web for users (posing a risk for ad revenue).

Quick Hits

Tool of the week: Perplexity AI

Perplexity has been in the news quite a bit lately, including signing a deal with the Des Moines Register and another with Snapchat. So what is Perplexity, and why should you consider using this AI tool?

Perplexity AI is considered superior to many other platforms due to its advanced AI-powered search capabilities, real-time contextual understanding, source transparency, and versatile user experience features.

The Discover feature in Perplexity offers a personalized feed of trending news, articles, and stories tailored to your search history and interests.

Spaces allow users to organize their questions and projects into collaborative, topic-based threads. Spaces are ideal for organizing related queries, project research, and ongoing discussions.

Perplexity uses LLMs from different companies, including OpenAI, Google and Anthropic. Perplexity AI automatically selects the most fitting model based on query type, output length, selected mode (Quick, Pro, Deep Research), and user subscription level.

Should you ditch ChatGPT or Gemini for Perplexity? Possibly. Give it a try, and let us know what you think.

AI-generated image of the week

Since we tested out Perplexity above, we decided to see how well it performed at making images as well. Perplexity uses a variety of models for creating images, and it said that Seedream 4.0 was used for this one.

Prompt: A 3D rendered cartoon turkey character wearing a
bright yellow shirt and brown pants, designed with adorable proportions and friendly features. The turkey has oversized round eyes with long eyelashes, a small orange beak, and fluffy feathers in warm brown and tan tones, with its wings positioned at its sides in a cheerful pose. The turkey is positioned against a clean transparent background with soft, even lighting that highlights the vibrant colors and smooth 3D surfaces.

What we found

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