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OpenAI Launches Prism, a Free AI Workspace for Scientific Research 🔬
Gina Acosta
January 28, 2026
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Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,
Reading long books or documents can be slow, especially when you just want answers or clarity. In today’s issue, we show how AI can turn any book or document into an interactive experience, letting you listen to the content, ask questions in real time, and get responses grounded in the actual text.
Let’s jump into it!
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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI
OpenAI Launches Prism, an AI Workspace Built for Scientists
Yahoo Adds Generative AI to Search With Scout
AI Tutorial: Talk to Any Book or Document Using AI
AI Tools to check out
AI Findings/Resources
The Latest in AI and Tech 💡
AI News
OPENAI
OpenAI Launches Prism, an AI Workspace Built for Scientists
OpenAI has introduced Prism, a new scientific workspace for writing and collaboration, powered by GPT-5.2, the startup’s “most advanced model for mathematical and scientific reasoning.”
Details:
Prism functions as an AI-powered research editor that helps assess scientific claims, improve writing, and surface relevant prior research within a single workspace.
It is available for free to anyone with a ChatGPT account.
The tool is designed to support human scientists rather than operate independently, with the goal of accelerating their work.
Prism integrates deeply with scientific standards, offering advanced LaTeX support and visual tools that turn rough sketches into usable diagrams, addressing common pain points in academic writing.
The launch follows a surge in scientific usage of ChatGPT, according to the company, which reports millions of weekly queries on advanced hard-science topics.
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YAHOO
Yahoo Adds Generative AI to Search With Scout
Yahoo has introduced Scout, a new AI-powered answer engine now available in beta, as part of a broader push to integrate generative AI across its products.
Details:
Scout delivers direct answers to natural-language queries by combining information from the open web with Yahoo’s own data, content, and decades of search history.
Results are presented with structured lists, tables, rich media, and clear source links designed to improve trust and make information easier to understand and act on.
Yahoo is also launching the Yahoo Scout Intelligence Platform, which powers AI features across Mail, News, Finance, Sports, and Shopping.
These include email summaries, news takeaways, sports breakdowns, shopping research with product comparisons, and real-time financial analysis.
The company partnered with Anthropic to use Claude as Scout’s primary AI model and is also leveraging Microsoft Bing’s grounding API to ensure answers are supported by authoritative web sources.
Scout is available today in beta for U.S. users at Scout.Yahoo.com and in the Yahoo Search app on iOS and Android.
AI Tutorial
Talk to Any Book or Document Using AI
Download the ElevenReader app and sign in. (This feature is not available in the web version yet.)
Select “Upload your content” and add a book or document by pasting a link, typing text, or uploading a file.
You will find your new content in the library. Click on it and press play to hear your book read aloud by the AI narrator. (You can also change the voice.)
Tap the voice chat button in the bottom-right corner to ask questions about the text.
You can ask your book about characters, themes, plot points, worldbuilding, or even get a full summary of the document.
The narrator remembers context and responds based on the actual text.
AI Tools to check out
📝 SciSpace: AI assistant to automate everyday research tasks
🌎 LanguageTool: AI-based grammar checker.
✍ AudioConvert: Instantly convert your audio into accurate text with AI.
👀 Cekura: Monitor and test voice & chat AI agents.
💡 Mem: AI Thought Partner that captures your ideas, meetings, and research.
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AI in HR? It’s happening now.
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AI Findings/Resources
🚨 The Adolescence of Technology by Dario Amodei, an essay on the risks posed by powerful AI to national security, economies, and democracy and how we can defend against them.
📌 Andrej Karpathy shares a few notes from his experience coding with Claude for a few weeks.
The latest in AI and Tech
Dear Upstairs Neighbors is an animated short created by director and Pixar alum Connie He in collaboration with Google DeepMind researchers. With the film, the company aims to showcase how generative AI can support, rather than replace, human artistry.
The company plans to trial new paid subscriptions across Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp that unlock expanded AI features and additional tools, while keeping core services free.
Features under consideration include paid tiers for AI video creation like Meta AI’s Vibes, integration of the Manus AI agents Meta acquired in December, and advanced Instagram tools such as unlimited audience lists and stealth Story viewing.
The social media company said it will cut less than 15% of its workforce and reduce office space as it reallocates resources toward AI-focused teams and products, with layoffs expected to be completed by the end of the third quarter.
The update would enable Siri to complete tasks by accessing users’ personal data and on-screen content, marking the first major step toward delivering the AI features Apple previewed in June 2024, ahead of a more conversational overhaul planned for WWDC 2026 in June.
The new version of its reasoning-based video model, designed for professional creative workflows, delivers native 1080p output, generation speeds up to 4× faster, and per-second pricing that is 3× cheaper.
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