Trump Launches AI-Powered Government Website 🌐

Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,

The Trump administration has launched a a new AI-powered website intended to provide Americans with one place for all of their needs from the government.

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• OpenAI Launches Dots, Always-On AI Agent Coworkers to Take On Muse

• Google Begins Paying Publishers for AI Search Answers in New Pilot

• AI Tutorial: How to Use the New AI-Powered America. gov Website

• AI Tools to check out

• AI Findings/Resources

• The Latest in AI and Tech 💡

AI News

OPENAI

OpenAI Launches Dots, Always-On AI Agent Coworkers to Take On Muse

At its DevDay event on Tuesday, OpenAI announced the launch of Dots, a new personal agentic assistant powered by GPT-6 Astra, describing them as "remarkably capable, always-on agents built to handle everything."

Details:

• Dots can operate independently of a specific device or interface, allowing users to assign ongoing tasks and let the agents work toward them over time.

• Users can create specialized Dots with their own identities, credentials, and tools, with potential uses ranging from monitoring customer feedback and fixing bugs to rerunning scientific analyses as new data arrives.

• Dots can be accessed through ChatGPT and Codex and can communicate through platforms such as Slack and Microsoft Teams, with text messaging support also planned.

• OpenAI also introduced GPT-6.1 Sol, a lower-cost model designed for agentic coding, computer use, and professional workflows. The company says it approaches GPT-6 Astra's performance on several complex tasks while costing one-fifth as much.

• The company announced Space, a shared workspace inside ChatGPT where coworkers can collaborate with the chatbot and with their own Dots.

Dots are available in ChatGPT for Pro and Business Premium users in eligible markets, while GPT-6.1 Sol is available to all Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu users in ChatGPT Work and Codex, though not yet in Chat.

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GOOGLE

Google Begins Paying Publishers for AI Search Answers in New Pilot

Google is reportedly testing a program that pays publishers based on how much their content contributes to its AI powered search features, according to The Information.

Details:

• Around 100 publishers are reportedly participating in the pilot, which began less than a year ago.

• Payments are based on how much publishers’ content contributes to AI Overviews, AI Mode in Search, and Gemini.

• One publisher that joined early reportedly earned more than $1 million over a year, while another that joined several months ago has earned around $50,000 to $60,000.

The program comes as publishers increasingly raise concerns about declining web traffic linked to Google's AI search features, and the company has faced lawsuits over how AI Overviews use and present web content.

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AI Tutorial

How to Use the New AI-Powered America. gov Website

The administration describes the website it as a "front door" to federal resources, consolidating information that is currently spread across dozens of agency websites.

1. Go to America.gov. You do not need an account to use the website.

2. Type what you need from the government into the chat prompt. You can also add an attachment or use the voice feature to speak directly to the chat box.

Try asking:

• "I just got married. How do I change my name?"

• "I'm a vet. Where can I get care?"

• "How do I change my address?"

• "How do I replace a Social Security card?"

You can ask about public resources, official documents, or agency services, or simply find information about how the government works.

For now, the website can only provide information. Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia announced that in 2027 it will expand from answers to actions, allowing users to do things such as apply for and renew passports or update their legal name, all inside the platform.

Notes:

• The AI tool draws on roughly 29,000 government websites to answer questions with up-to-date information, and only from official sources.

• The chatbot is powered by AI from Google's Gemini and SpaceXAI's Grok.

• The system will not answer every question. It accepts only government-related queries and will decline others, including some requests for financial, tax, or legal advice.

AI Tools to check out

🖥️ OJO: An AI design agent team workspace that turns product ideas into research-backed UI designs, landing pages, and interactive prototypes.

👉 Verse: AI that turns any idea into a company that runs itself.

✅ Gridset: Create professional, consistent, on-brand reports, proposals, presentations and more in moments.

🦾 Vendo: An open-source customization layer. Your users build their own features and micro-apps, right on top of your product.

✨ SparkVid: AI video maker that turns your ideas into stunning videos.

AI Findings/Resources

👀 This guy gave various AIs some free time and told them to "do whatever you like." Here are the results

📌 The most important skills for using AI coding agents effectively

😅 Elon Musk's xAI reportedly acquired the domain Dot.com before OpenAI unveiled its new "Dots" agents, and it redirects straight to the Grok bot download page

🙏 Pope Leo says he's not in 'panic mode' over AI, but warns against pretending 'nothing is going to happen'

🤔 America.gov gets really weird when you ask it about Minecraft, but it’s not a glitch

The latest in AI and Tech

ChatGPT Pro now offers Pro 500, a new $500/month plan

The new plan offers the highest usage limits (25x Plus) and access to Astra Ultrafast, a new option that promises an 8x increase in speed in Codex.

FTC opens probe into AI giants

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over potential risks their models pose to consumers.

ElevenLabs launches v4 speech models

The company has launched its v4 and v4 Turbo speech models with more control over vocal expression, lower latency for voice agents and support for more than 90 languages. The company says v4 can clone a voice from 10 seconds of audio and improves how voices maintain context and expression across longer passages.

OpenAI reportedly scraps GPT 6.1 Astra release over safety concerns

OpenAI has reportedly decided not to release GPT 6.1 Astra, which was expected to launch in October, after the model performed poorly in alignment tests. The Wall Street Journal reports that internal evaluations also found higher levels of deceptive behavior compared with GPT 6 Astra.

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