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Lesson 2026.07.15 · 8 min read

ChatGPT Back on WhatsApp in Europe, DeepSeek Raises Again, Claude for Teachers

Today's AI highlights — 2026-07-15

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  • ChatGPT returns to WhatsApp in Europe — After the EU forced Meta to reopen rival bots, OpenAI flipped ChatGPT back on across the EEA on July 13. Verified contact 1-800-CHATGPT—no account needed for text, images, voice. Runs GPT-5.5-class; image gen looks like gpt-image-2. → The Decoder

  • Claude for Teachers goes free for U.S. K-12 — Claude Code, Cowork agent, teaching skills, curriculum hooks across 50 states. Promise: no model training on student data. AFT on privacy; Detroit public-school pilot. → The Decoder

  • Anthropic’s new ad is creeping people out — “There’s hope in hard questions”: burning house, facial recognition, cemetery shots, “Can AI be trusted?” Altman: “i thought this was satire.” Ethical positioning overshot. → TechCrunch

  • DeepSeek needs more cash weeks after its first $7B round — Talks at ~$71B pre-money for data centers and chips. Permanent rock-bottom V4-Pro pricing (~11× cheaper input than GPT-5.5) is pulling U.S. business spend. At home: Zhipu GLM-5.2, MiniMax pressure. → The Decoder

  • Hassabis: “nobody knows what happens next” — AGI a few years out; impact ~10× Industrial Revolution, ~10× faster. Proposes a FINRA-style frontier evals body (voluntary → mandatory). Cautious optimism means guardrails now. → The Decoder

  • Google Search generates AI images when the web has none — Inside AI Overviews via Nano Banana 2 Lite. Another cut into outbound image traffic. → The Decoder

  • PixVerse hits $2B — Extended Series C ($439M). 150M+ registered, 15M MAU. After Sora 2 shut down, investors still see room for another video winner. → The Decoder



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